take leave as pupil, to greet you as fellow-workers in that wide sphere—the world. May our paths be directed close together, and may our work in the future preserve and increase the warm friend ship that has been developed by our life here. We bid you all a fond farewell. President Atherton : It is to you perhaps more than to any other that we are in debted for the many advantages and benefits that we have en joyed at this college. The best years of your life you have spent in building up this institution. Under your administration State College has leaped forth with almost increditable vigor. Her fu ture teems with promfse. We honor and respect you as our Pres ident, but the feeling which we have for you as a friend and benefactor is far more deep and lasting. We came here as strang ers; you received us as nearest friend. Ever have you made our interest yours, our troubles, your own. You have, shown us a character whose influence will be felt forever in our lives ; a firm ness that will make us firm ; a tenderness that will make us tender. May many years of usefulness still await you. In parting we breathe forth a prayer that your coming years may be fraught with the blessings you so richly deserve. We bid you farewell. Fellow-Students of State College : We part from you. Our associations have been the pleasantest. Many delightful hours have we spent iii the closest fellowship. Upon all of us devolves the duty to uphold the fame and honor of State. The character of our college Will from year to year de pend largely upon you. Our lives have been lived before you ; our example has been set. There is no turning back. We have made mistakes. Do not follow them. If perchance we have left anything well clone, make it better. With heartfelt feelings, as at the separations of truest friends, we bid you all an affectionate farewell. FellowLMembers of the Class of 1902 : For four years we have worked together beneath the shadows of these walls, acquiring that knowledge and training which is to fit us for life, until now we are adjudged prepared to step from the
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