Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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C1335 955259 LADIES. CLASS YELL: l- -- Class Colors: Pink and Gray. OFFICERS. ALICE L. COLE, Prc'.vz'1ie1zz'. LAURA H. SMITH, Orcziar. MARY C. EVANS, Wce-Pre.vz'1z'm!. ADA M. SNOWDEAL, Paei. EDNA H. STEPHENS, Sc'c7'e!cz1jf. 'Q MYRA C. MARVELL, Praplzef. LENORA BESSEY, Tffeaszufer. IANET C. STEPHENS, Hz's!07'z'an - HELEN G. SULLIVAN, Z-'0Q.S'Z'-fI0'5l'7'6.S'.S'. Executive Committee. HELEN G. SULLIVAN. MABEL A. HUMPHREY. ELSIE G. REID. Committee on Odes. f MARY C. EVANS. ALICE L. COLE. ' C. BLANCI-IE WALKER. 30

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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.

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I-listorg. liebe- Xe OW it came to pass, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, that there assembled at CUZAZQKIZSZIJ U11z'z1e11vz'!rzx, 4 which is, being interpreted, Colby University,-a multitude of youths and maidens who numbered three score and eighteen. Now the number of youths exceeded that of the maidens. But is it not written in the book of the wise ones of Colby that quality is better than quantity? And again, it came to pass that they assembled in the temple, and when the tutor lifted up his eyes and beheld them, he was sore afraid, and would have fallen had not one of the sons of Belial caught him. Now the faculty spake, and said unto them, H Thou shalt study with all thy mind and with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and thou wilt surely receive a sheepskin at the end of thy course. So the maidens hearkened unto the voice of the faculty, and plugged, saying, Our reward will come in due season, if we Hunk not. A Now one day the maidens reasoned among themselves, saying, f'What hindereth us from having a Peanut Drunk, even as our brethren at the bricksu? And it came to pass, when they had said these words, that they did even as they had said. Moreover, in the twelfth month, which is the month December, the maidens gave a feast unto their brethren, and many were hidden, but three remained in outer darkness, inasmuch as the sons of Belial had taken away their wedding garments. And the maidens grew and waxed strong in knowledge, so that the people marvelled, saying, Whereunto shall we liken this class of '98? Verily, it cannot be equalled. Now the rest of their history, and all that they did, and the mighty works that they wrought for the college, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the freshmen? J SI