Lafayette College - Melange Yearbook (Easton, PA)

Page 314 text:

f Barker 5 Humorist i Totten 2 l 5 Moffat 53 1' Barker 5 First man to get married Q Mccorkle 22 Salmon 43 5 Knight I5 ' Barker 5 Worst fusser 4 Carhart 33 Paul I3 L Lawall 34 ' Barker 5 Politician f Fcglcy 20 3 Carhart I4 N Smith 46 Carhart 20 With 2 exceptions Moffat gets every vote except Barker's live and Carhart's niachine, which votes straight but lies dormant. Machine begins to stir. Look out! Salmon gets majority of one on first ballot. Barker raves. Machine going better. No majority. Carhart comes up on second ballot by 8 votes from Paul. Paul gets soreg Barker is jealous of Carhart and both unite and elect Lawall 44-41. Smith elected, Carhart weeps. Barker snorts in disgust. Cleaver now arises and begs permission to speak. Everyone looking for his usual line of qualified eloquence agreesg and he makes a strong appeal for connnon sense in voting for the last office, begs all to throw off all affiliations to lossesg all egotismg urges conscience to save the honor of the class. Barker shows signs of yielding. Prosser returns a cigar to Carhart. Reiser less scrupulous lights his. Carhart sees he is done and magnanimously decides to cast his vote for the right man. The ballot: Killough o Carhart o Worst bluffcr Trcmbath 85 Barker o Cleaver prevails. Trembath's vote shows l1e is conscious of himself. JUSTICE IS DONE. Trembath has his due. 307

Page 313 text:

After a long wrangle, live sufficiently honest men were found for tellers, whose names we refrain from mentioning for fear of insulting them, and the balloting was on. Eighty men were present, not counting our honorablef?j President, who counted for we didn't know how many. The results follow: Handsomest man Most popular man Most popular professor Most promising man Barker Carhart Bergen Hiestand Barker Totten Mitchell Moore Rankin Barker Cleaver Kilo Hiestand Reiser makes an impassioned plea and cries for justice. Barker reminds Best student Most hopeless student Worst knocker Best athlete Barker DeWees Morgan Taggart Barker Robbin Peck Mason Barker Cai-hart 5 Young Barker Carhart Knight Segal 5 25 Hiestand elected on first ballot. Carhart rounds ro up his men. 45 5 H :Z ,A walk-away for Moore. Barker gets uneasy. 60 Unanimous. 5 40 Cleaver wins hands down. zo Barker still gets his 5 votes. zo for the future mayor of Chinatown. Hiestand is disgusted all that he is a candidate. 5 8 5 Morgan runs away with honors. 50 Barker yells for common sense. 22 5 O . 45 L Robbin barely elected on first ballot. Barker 5 fails to vote for himself and Peek gets his 5 votes. 35 . 60 ll Barker has walk-over. Hiestand declares justice zo 9 is done. Holbert says common sense prevails. 5 1 Barker happy. 5 f, 20 5 Segal elected by 1 vote. Politicians perplexed, I7 but fail to discover the cause of defeat. 43 . 306

Page 315 text:

At the Tr ot and Pony S h0VV .1 Q FU 10 gi bfi '?x.aMQ W., , .pd l,1r ' X X , r, f 'W ' .9-L5 All , MXN? ,, , ,n.fXv Ww Q .1--,v X? 4 pfff' WLM XZ N ,, ,, iw ., x f, ' 1li,ki,'2,fgf ff J, .n I ' - 'LA M5 Q f .127 1 N , WWA, Um XL K' NN , N .yXll!,,A X X, X ,+f,f' WW A 'ff M llllrlu L LMA 2-nv , X N' ' E Huln-M Q - W' R X , X H ' ' 1 x X f'. 5 N. 1 W ,A Q I .-+A ? 4 if ik , 'A ' M, - 1 X my