are bound to have swamps before you 

 reach the mountain top." He told of 

 the various troubles he had experienced 

 when starting out in an experiment sta- 

 tion, and of some of those of the Ser- 

 vice, which really "have faded away 

 now." "The fellow who wins," he said, 

 "is the man who has his troubles, but 

 through them all keeps his perspective." 



"Lastly," he concluded, "though you 

 get a poor start, stick to a thing! We 

 can not all be on top. As in the class 

 room, some will have the high grades, 

 the eighties and nineties, but about fifty 

 percent of the class will average between 

 seventy and eighty for a mark, 'the fair 

 success class.' If you cannot get in 

 the eighty or ninety class, get in the 

 seventy or eighty class; if not there, 

 stick to it and get sixty or seventy, or 

 make up your mind to be a good failure. 

 Be able to recover after a poor start. 

 And be the best high grade man, or the 

 best mediocre man, or the best failure 

 that it's in you to be." 



Carnot Valiton acted as toastmaster, 

 and next introduced John Taylor, who, 

 speaking for the Post Graduate class, 

 advised the underclassmen foresters in 

 school to get in and mix with the upper- 



classmen in the department more, and 

 to absorb as much as possible the spirit 

 of the department and the profession. 

 "Michigan men have the reputation of 

 sticking together," he said, "and they 

 ought to cultivate that habit as much 

 as possible while in school." 



Professor Lovejoy talked briefly of 

 the time when Mulford was at Michigan, 

 and spoke humorously of his 'silviculture 

 excursions' of those days. Walter Bond 

 spoke for the Senior class and exposed 

 some of the faculty plans for the future, 

 though the faculty refuse to verify 

 the plans as outlined. 



The Club Quartette, composed of 

 Trigg, Kraebel, Weitknecht and Carey, 

 gave a couple of selections, and Profes- 

 sor Roth read greetings from Shaller 

 and Knoch, those from the latter taking 

 the form of two boxes of cigars from 

 Manilla. 



The banquet was by far the most suc- 

 cessful ever held by the Club and about 

 eighty were in attendance. The pro- 

 grams and the "feed" arranged by the 

 committee in charge, Mills, Hornby and 

 Ives, were the "best possible," and they 

 were highly responsible for the success 

 of the affair. 



OUR BIG SOCIAL EVENT. 



Last year the Club made its first dip 

 into the social whirl of the Campus by 

 staging a Club dance, an event which 

 was thereby established as an annual 

 one. To keep up a good custom and 

 follow a popular lead, the second annual 

 dance was held this year at the Packard 

 Academy on the evening of Friday, Feb- 

 ruary 27th. About fifty couples attend- 

 ed, and the way in which the men of the 

 calipers and compass executed the very 

 latest One-steps and Hesitations, with 

 all of their Broadway cabaret frills, 

 made all the rest of the Campus green 

 with envy, green as the decorations on 

 the walls of the hall. 



Professor and Mrs. Roth and Mr. and 

 Mrs. Young acted as chaperones. The 

 arrangements for the dance were the 

 work of Pottinger's group, and every- 

 thing from the tasty decorations to the 

 punch which was served as refreshment, 

 and the snappy programs distinctive of 

 the Club, with a small cut of a woodlot 

 decorating the cover, went off in fine 

 shape. Everyone seemed to have a good 

 time, and the underclassmen headed for 

 home, after the last strains of Ike Fish- 

 er's orchestra had died away into the re- 

 mote corners of the hall, formulating 

 plans for the big social affair of 1915. 



