. Bowdoin Orient . the same spirit of joy with which that old motherwill welcome her boy on his return home, so we themembers of the class of 1911, welcome our gueststo-day,—you who have made possible the privilegeswe have enjoyed; you who have guided our stepswhile we have been here; and you who by yourinterest in us have spurred us on. To all of youwe extend a hearty and joyous welcome. BOWDOIN ORIENT 79 > Extract of Class History Mr. Clifford said in part: History repeats itself and class histories in par-ticular must be to some extent repetitions of the pre-ceding ones, even that of our
. Bowdoin Orient . the same spirit of joy with which that old motherwill welcome her boy on his return home, so we themembers of the class of 1911, welcome our gueststo-day,—you who have made possible the privilegeswe have enjoyed; you who have guided our stepswhile we have been here; and you who by yourinterest in us have spurred us on. To all of youwe extend a hearty and joyous welcome. BOWDOIN ORIENT 79 > Extract of Class History Mr. Clifford said in part: History repeats itself and class histories in par-ticular must be to some extent repetitions of the pre-ceding ones, even that of our illustrious class. Itwould be an easy task to thrust fame upon everymember of this class but the necessity of an expur-gated edition was quickly perceived. An effort hasbeen made here to have our personal anecdotes bothinteresting and intelligible to our assembled guests. Freshman year seems to have been the mosteventful of the four, perhaps because of the largenumber in the class then, but more probably because. W. H. Clifford. Historian a large majority were green and fresh in those daysand prone to do the sort of thing for which fresh-men are noted. The freshman class, being thelargest in the history of the college, attracted muchattention the first morning we marched into the chapel rush this attention turned to deeprespect. In about a week we began to appear in largestraw hats of various colors and shapes. The base-ball series with the sophomores came along soonand we were defeated, but later managed to tie ourheavy opponents of 1910 in the football game. The most important events of the rest of thisyear were the numerous razoos on which we weretaken by our friends of 1910. The year closed witha very successful banquet in the Lafayette in Port-land. _ Sophomore year we established a precedent byraising the freshman class without the use of task could not have been assigned tomore competent hands. The year closed with ourSophomore banquet in Le
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