coming year. The All-Emory athletic idea is gaining ground, and our system of
class athletics, because it tends to bring the greatest number in a competitive par¬
ticipation in all forms of athletic activity.
From our Sophomore year, the members of the Class of 1911 have held first
place in the literary societies. On last Champion Debate we were represented by-
three members, while this year we shall have four, thus showing that in forensic
skill we are able to hold our own. This has been of great value time and time
again, but up to this writing it has failed to serve members of the Analyt Club
to convince Madam that they were due an honorable dismissal from the afore¬
said organization. While we shall not have any "summa's," yet the classroom
work as a whole has been above the average, and in the awarding of medals we
have received a very liberal number. All this goes to prove that diligent work
and constant application will surely bring its reward and, indeed, the Class of
1911 stands to testify to the fact.
The true test of a college man is whether he has acquired that broadness of
vision which enables him to realize that there is more than one side to a question.
The Senior Class, representing each year the dominant thought and largely shaping
the opinion of the student body, shows how much this test applies directly to
Seniors. Accepting this as a standard of leadership, the Class of 1911, not boasting
of being exceptional, yet with no small degree of pride, boasts of the fact that it
has ever stood for Emory in toto and that it has brought about conditions that
are well wrorth emulation. It took a favorable stand on the Honor Syrstem pro¬
posed some time ago, it proposed the Student Government Scheme, which purposes
to unite the student body more closely than ever before and bring the real Emory-
spirit to its highest level, it has actively supported the Greater Emory Club since
its organization, and it furnished one of the two traveling representatives for the
College last year. All this speaks in the highest terms of its members: it shows
that the way has not been in vain and that the members are bound together by
ties of friendship and devotion, and that they have a strong and enduring love
for our nourishing mother. We hope that the love for Emory that has charac¬
terized Emory men in the past will not fail to find expression, during the years
to come, among the Class of 1911 and if, perchance, in the life that lies before us,
we can aid in contributing to the welfare of the Church or State, it will be because
we have heard the call of duty and have been trained in duty's path by an Insti¬
tution that is yet young in making men of thought and action,
The men of the Class will enter the various avenues of life, and they go to
demonstrate to the world the practical value of a college education. The world
needs us. Every line of activity is calling us to come and join its ranks, to bring
new ideals and aspirations and to imbue the various activities with a new enthu¬
siasm. We have golden opportunities to impart to those with whom we come in
contact those principles, those ideals and those truths which we have received
here at Emory, and as we go about our work here and there let us be as true and
faithful to them as our Alma Mater has been to us. May every member go out
and fight a valiant fight for self, for country and for God, and may each so act
and so do as to reflect honor and glory on our old College.
Hugh Howell, Historian
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