Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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DECEMBER 1. Peter ' s cold is attributed to draughts in the room, 2. Howard McCleery skips society for obvious reasons. 3. Nan Turnbull goes skating with Kilpatrick. 4. A serious collision in Kirkwood. 5. Helen goes home from prayer meeting alone. 6. Bible reading- contest. 7. Everybody who is short of change goes through the red tape of registering. 8. Several students removed to Watertown. 9. Arnoldson distinguishes himself in his rendition of the Spectre Pig. ' ' 10. Kathryn falls down stairs. 11. Traffic resumed. 12. Bess leads prayer meeting. Jim is there. 13. Redpath Grand Concert Company, Carrithers and Tinning out with girls. 14. Carrithers announces that he is going to play first mandolin in the club. 15. Prof. Graham begins to grade on sneezes. 16. Ape Wilson has nothing to say for three minutes ! ! ! ! 17. Mrs. Lyons receives the college girls in a delightful manner. IS. Guy Morrison is in town. Where is he going? 19. Joe, Clinton and Wirt study in the gallery. 20. Some dignified seniors try to intercede for Joe and get squelched for their pains. 21. Clarke club burns out. Peter appears in the role of a hero. 22. June saves her best dress by heroic efforts. 23. Ralph and Augusta, Joe, Fred and John go to Hanover. 24. Hugh is much shocked and surprised at receiving ' a sofa pillow, in- stead of the ebony military brushes. 25. Sabbath : Lucy decides that Will Robinson is all right. 26. Mable feels lonesome. Sam gone. 27. Ralph returns with his Speer. Moral: Advertise in the Ravel- ings ' ' for lost articles. 28. Arthur goes to Paxton to ask papa. 29. Monmouth College Quartette starts out. 30. Elma Lorimer is seen in a terrible rag ' e. 31. Quartette returns with twenty-seven cents apiece.

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NOVEMBER 1. Peanut night. MeCreery: Sister Philos and fellow ladies. 2. Everybody looks sleepy, feels bum, and flunks. Exhibition basket ball game. 3. Freshmen social. Main masquerades without success. 4. Andrew and Mina go to court house and then to the minister ' s. 5. F Sharp: ' ' Sadie, My Lady. (i. Fulton studies his Latin by mistake. 7. French clinches his ' ' stand in with Prof. Swan by asking more ques- tions. 8. Bobbie Morris comes to town. 9. Carrie flunks in physchology. 10. Mr. Graham comes to Monmouth. 11. Tinning calls. 12. Freshmen- Sophomore game. Several fatally injured. 13. Irvine takes charge of the singing at the mission and Myrtle takes a class of boys. 14. Temple Quartette. 15. Advent of colored collars. Carrie: ' ' Isn ' t it the style for things to match any more? Hamilton: ' ' Nothing- but boys and girls. 16. Chicago Record : Colored collars and cigaretts are inseparable. IT. Dr. B.: Mr. Wallace, it is ten o ' clock. 18. Aletheorian spread. Deacon McBride helps himself to grapes. 19. Foot ball game : Monmouth vs. Burlington A. A., score 33 to in favor of Monmouth. 20. Carrithers wears his dress suit to church. 21. Hugh (Pete) takes Callie home from prayer meeting. 22. Callie looks as if she had lost sleep. 23. Callie appears in her best Sunday-g ' o-to-meetin ' hat. 24. Foot ball game : Monmouth vs. Iowa Wesley an ; score 43 to 6 in our favor. 25. Weed takes his girl home to see the folks. 26. Free breaks the ice and gets a cool reception. 27. Mel puts a penny into the collection box. 28. Everybody comes back, Weed and his girl included. 29. Aitken calls on another girl. 30. Peter comes home rather ( ? ) late to find his room soaked in asafoetida and onion juice.

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JANUARY 1. Will Robinson is happy. Lucy will be back in two days. 2. Will is still happier. Only twenty-four hours longer to wait. 3. Conflagration at Mrs. Hunter ' s. Ceiling falls on Roy and Kenneth. Their clothes were fatally injured. 4. More red tape. 5. It is rumoi-ed that Fred has lost his Pearl. 6. McMicken had a private conference with Prof. Maxwell. 7. Cupid gets ahead of the railroad and comes in on the last train. 8. Everybody puts their New Year ' s resolutions into practice by going- to church. 9. Wars and rumors of wars. Seniors buckle on their armor. 10. Ochiltree gets on lire. Fire supposed to have started from matches in his pocket. 11. Another fire. Free the victim — same cause. 12. Result: No more matches stolen from the chemical laboratory. 13. The little boys in the sociology class are informed that they will have to take front seats if they can ' t behave. 14. Terrible scandal. A keg of lager beer left at Dr. Campbell ' s. 15. French doffs his sweater and dons a biled shirt. Hi. McClelland and Irvine go to the cake walk. 17. McClelland expresses his sentiments on the cake walk question. IS. D. Sharpe recites without asking more than half a dozen questions. 19. Eleanor thinks she has the murnps. Tries vineg-ar. 20. Jo goes skating with another boy. 21. Jo is ill. Attributed to too much skating. 22. After many weeks of arduous labor, Prof. Swan secures his catechism diploma. 2. ' !. Wright goes to chapel. 24. Aunt Eva and Aunt Anna say they don ' t feel a(u)ntiquated. 25. Uncle Howard goes calling. 2 i. Junior social. Senior colors burned. Indian war dance and other exciting events. 27. The seniors get out an extra on some little social held the night before. 28. Sam and Mabel study ( ? ) physics. 29. Tom goes to church to hear music. 30. Bertha and Dick go to the concert. 31. Sociology class : Chicag - o is an agricultural center. ' ' Miss Chal- fant: ' Taint either.