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THE CARDINAL VOL. I PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., JUNE 26, 1906 No. 6 Class Day SALUTATORY Friends, Members of the Faculty and Felloio Students: The class of 1906 bid you a most cordial welcome. We, as a class, are together almost for the last time and altho' that cannot fail to cast a shadow of sadness upon us, still, we are not here to mourn, but to rejoice. The years of Normal life, that in our Freshman days, stretched in- terminably before us and made Class Day seem a far distant and almost unattainable star in a sky beset with obstacles, have passed away, we have built our ladders to the star. The barriers that seemed so im- passable have gradually been burned, the paths thai seemed so rugged have led us at last to our goal. True, many of us grew weary of the journey and rested by the wayside while repeating a subject or two, but to-day we can look back on the years fought with numberless perplexities and dark days, and with numberless pleasures too, and view them with the mind's eye as memories only, but memories that their life will possess a deep and secret significance. Tomorrow, the diplomas which we will receive, will be as passports into a world, figuratively speaking, of quick-sand, where we must constantly be on the alert to main- tain a foothold. From irresponsible school days we enter upon responsible life, each one to take up his share of \The White Man's Burden.\ Our equipment is good, our aims are serious, and we must constant- ly keep in mind that our country looks to its teachers for the unplanting and matur- ing the germs of true citizenship and loyal- ty, and helping to build the ideals of a great nation. Let to-day be the brightest and happiest of all our Normal Course, and altho' 1906 has but a few more hours to live, let us be of good cheer and enjoy these last few hours while we have them with us. During the exercises of this afternoon, I bid you listen to our chosen representatives as they place before us various pictures and phases of our Normal life, as they prophesy into the far distant future, as they read our individual histories, as they advise the tender graduates. And this afternoon, as we are gathered here to be entertained with joke and satire, to chide one another, you must remember that good friendship and kindly feeling are the only motives. To this, our long looked for Class Day, we bid you welcome. ETHEL VIRGINIA ANGELL.
