Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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class of '98, J 7 GENTLEMEN. CLASS YELL:-dkakd! dkakafl dkakfil VKK77 Ecru To o'1fvt9'qlua ! Colby, Ninety-eight l 'Rah ! 'Rah l 'Rah E Boamerate ! Baoffzerate l Chi I XI! Gamma! Alpha! Colby ! Ninety-:Eight l Class Colors: Pink and Gray. OFFICERS. F. A. KING, Presz'fz'.em'. H. S. ALLEN, f17z'.fz'0rz'zzlf. J. O. WELLMAN, Wm-P1'eJz'fimz'. C. E. GURNEY, Pmplzef. D. TOLMAN, Se'c1'ez'czry. A. E. LINSCOTT, Pod. A. H. PAGE, fZ'1'ea5w'er. E. NELSON, Ybaf!-Masfer Executive Committee. - W. L. MCFADDEN. B. C. RICHARDSON. H. M. BROWN. 28

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I-listorg. ITI-I glad hearts we gathered for our exit, but with sad hearts we parted, for reluctantly did we go out from our first college year. We had been such happy freshmen, we feared that no other year of our college course could equal the lirst. We opened this new year with an In-it, which has proved to have been the jolly beginning of a jolly year. Our freshman life has been far surpassed by our sophomore life, with its greater variety of work, when Grammar lessons have been forgotten and construction seldom thought of 5 when we have had English in which not even Genung has proved formidable, and we have made the acquaintance of Shakespeare, Kit Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Beaument, and Fletcher, and have had many interesting things read to us, for children like stories. We have developed a fondness for German songs, and once our sweet singing received a sweet reward. Cuts have not been so numerous this year, and we have wished our professors would forget us oftener, and more frequently come to recitation just in time to meet us going away. The new curriculum has gone into good working order, under us, our class being the first to-take French in its first year, and to begin German in its second. Experience has taught us to look fearlessly forward, and 'to anticipate more pleasurevand profit from the two years that await us. 27

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I-listorg. K ff Q gj xjr f VVATERVILLE, May 6, '95. ,,,.... , , I 7 MY DEAR PASTOR: 'et-, '25 2Z,,. 4.0 ..,, , J 'Q' Info, -' . . ff 0 jim I When I left home I promised to write to you as fl ' avr! I , h wvl1J f' . . . soon as I arrived, but this is the first chance I've had. pe X L , Q x ,D The day after you were down to see me, I packed all my I2 X A A XX no things, except my marbles and toy pistol, in grandpa's ' .,,-,...,,..1 old hair cloth trunk. Pa carried me over to the depot Wx X--'W'-err:-t-r I , in the old wagon, and soon I was on the cars for .- 5 f' lk Waterville. .JU ff '-it -, . - . . WZQM ai 1 ' il -L 5.1! 1 2,5 When I got to Colby, I wanted to play marbles with - ' ' ' . M73 ai 5 HW, ,some of the boys, but a fellow they called Pat, said that ' ' X JS' gp, o gpaw X after supper we would go down to leddyls and play there. It was the queerest game of marbles I ever saw W 1 . - I I . . . e p ayed on a big green cos ered table, and the marbles were big white ivory ones. We pushed them around with long sticks for awhile, and then Pat said that I had lost. I have joined the Y. M. C. A. here. I find th d l I am going to write to father for tive more. e ues pretty ieavy. I have already paid hfteen dollars, and to-morrow Some of the Sophornores are real nice fellows. A lot of them came around to see me and I sand and spoke for 7 ' 'O them, and then they sang a song that sounded like ff Marching thro' Georgia. But they would n't let me sing it, and one time when a couple of our fellows did sing it, they came round and wet them in bed. I wonder why? I am getting along hnely in my studies. I have n't got below M, and last term I got a G. I think I am doing Hrst rate. Let me hear from you soon. 29 W ILLY.