Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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K Class of '96 A f X' X LADIES. 'CLASS YELL: 'Rab, 'Rabi 'Rab, 'Rab, 'Rab! Colby! Colby! 'Rab, 'Rab, 'Rabi Hiyi 1 Hiyi ! Hiyi 1 Hix ! 'Rab, ,Rabi 'Rab, 'Rabi Ninety-six. Class Colors: Golden Brown and Light Blue. OFFICERS. CARO L. HOXIE, Presz'ziwzz'. OLIVE L. ROBBINS, Puff. ETHEL M. PRATT, VE're-Pfeszkiefzf. GERTRUDE L. ILSLEY, Prophef. GERTRUDE L. ILSLEY, Serrez'a1j'af11z' Y?'c'rz5zzrer. IESSIE E. PEPPER, Hz's!arz'an. SARA B. MATHEWS, Orzzfar. ETHEL M. PRATT, T0a.vz'-I1hlvz're.v5 Executive Committee. ETHEL E. FARR. EVELYN M. WHITMAN. LUTIE M. FRENCH Committee on Odes. FLORENCE E. DUNN, ETHEL E. FARR. EVELYN M. WHITMAN 22

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I-listorg. gg Z I fl. Ls' J 411 0 , - t s awww N jf Q, - MEM? P! I- aft : - 'I ' - ' 1 +4 -1 ' 5 -i ' 1 M N' 525' . ' p fc... -:SH Z Z l gffqllf .. f '65 I - ' IW .Lil J . - ,f - . 2 1- W , 4f15 'fa C 5 19 , b 5, X . last spring, and that several members of the class of '96 .ge obsequies. . THE fame of Ninety-six has become spread abroad to so great an extent that the Boston Globe sent a re- porter down to Waterville, not long ago, to investigate the matter. The following is taken from the letter which was published in the Globe: It is said that there is only one person who ever got the better of the class of '96, We have not yet learned the particulars, but we believe the man's name was AndrewQ?j Saxon, and we think he is a certain pugna- cious looking fellow with eye-glasses and a moustache, whom we have seen several times walking proudly about the campus. But we have had some difficulty in reconciling this with another rumor that Mr. Saxon died some time nerously laid aside all hard feelings and attended the There is one thing which puzzles your reporter considerably. He was invited the other day to join in a pleasant ride to the ,neighboring village of East Vassalbord, ending with a supper at a place they call Bradley's. East Vassalboro' is a very pretty village, but a little dark on account of the scarcity of street lights. Now when your re- porter happened to mention his present mission to some of the good people of East Vassalboro', the remark was re- ceived very strangely, and it seemed to him that he was trea ted with marked coldness for the rest of the evening. You would almost have thought that the class of '96 was not admired in East Vassalborol We understand that the faculty of Colby have had considerable difficulty in properly arranging the college course and that they have several times had to call on the class of '96 for assistance. According to a prominent member of the class, it has been suggested that Ninety-six di It is sad that any calamity should fall upon such an are becoming blind. Dr. Holt is making strenuous efforts smiss the faculty altogether, and run the college themselves. aggregation as this, but it is now greatly feared that they to avert the danger, giving up most of his time to the work, and he may possibly succeed. If not, we can only hope that blindness will have the same effect on Ninety- six that it had upon Milton. Ninety-six, with one exception, has no daughters of its own to dictate to, as Milton had, and that may be the reason why the class shows such a tendency to connect tendency is most marked in the case of those who have the itself with other people's daughters. At any rate, this greatest trouble with their eyes. Your reporter will endeavor to clear up SOHIC of these matters in his next letter. 21

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I I-listorg. ... i 4W ,M X HE Hrst duty of a freshman class is to cast about for something by which it may be distinguished from .every preceding freshman class. For some years the stock vaunt of the freshwomen at Colby has been We 're the largest class that ever entered Colby l Ninety-six, as by intuition, saw that anything on the curriculum was not the thing for her, so while the men of Ninety-six could boast f'We come with the new Presidentf' the women of Ninety-six could claim The President's little girl comes with us. When they began to plan to receive the men of N inety-six, they found one of the pleasantest homes in Water- ville was at their disposal. This reception was the tirst of many pleasant gatherings of the two classes. Perhaps it was because they hrst met us under such favorable circumstances that they asked to wear our colors, so the united Ninety-six wave the blue and brown to the music of the same yell. We found that the sweetest singer in Colby was in our ranks, and she organized the Ladies' Quartette of Ninety- six, which sang first at our freshman exit and afterwards won a reputation for itself at socials. Before the end of our Hrst year, one girl had gone home. Six others have left us, but our greatest sorrow came Hrst, for -she is the only one who cannot come back to us. In our second year, came a long, fierce struggle with the Leontine Georgias, only relieved by skirmishes with our Elocution teacher. Early in the spring it became apparent that Ninety-six would do her duty by the Stream and Botany excursions. What is the full result of that spring term, only time will tell. With song and laughter, and only a few tears, we did exeunt from the sophomore class by a banquet at Pratt farm and a ride home in the early, early morning. i E At the beginning of our junior year, each new comer was greeted by this announcement: H President Whitman is going abroad next year and we've got to take his work this- year. That means we can have only one election, and which one are you going to dropm? The curriculum had been adjusted anew for Ninety-six. We have worked hard and have been happy this year, and what's more, we have two professors now, one who was born so, and one who, at our last class meeting, kindly consented to be made so. 23