Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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wlaaff nf 596. il? I QEUUIBII. CLASS YELLZ-,RZLI1 ! . 'Rah l 'Rah I 'Rah ! 'Rah I Colby! Colby! 'Rahl 'Rah l 'Rah! Hiyi! I-Iiyi! I-Iiyi! I-Iixl 'Rahl 'Rahl ,Rahl 'Rahl Ninety-Six. CLASS COLORS: GOLDEN BROWN AND LIGHT BLUE. flbffrrrrs. EVELYN M. WHITMAN, P1fesz'dem'. EDNA S. MOFFATT, Hz'sz'o1fz'an. GERTRUDE L. ILSLEY, Wfe-P1fesz'a'e7zz'. OLIVE L. ROBBINS, Pafoplzet. ADA E. EDGECOMB, Sec7'e2'zz1j1 and Pfeasureff. FLORENCE E. DUNN, Poef. CARO L. HOXIE, S!a!z's!iaz'zm. IESSIE E. PEPPER, Address Zo Undergffzzdzmfes MARY S. CROSVVELL, Tons!-jlhsfafess. ADA E. EDGECOMB, Pmfling Address. . fQNB121Iff5LTB Qluutxuiiixemz. MARY S. CROSWELL. OLIVE L. ROBBINS. CARO L. HOXIE. Cfiunznliihzxa un 191125. FLORENCE E. DUNN. ETI-IEL E. FARR. SARA B. MATHEWS. 28

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N 'Q i 'x 5 'Aff 'i ' fi XQ w e re . - ' 4 V., i n gig? , . 4 , i ,r zhratnmig, 1 N Y ' i f U . Kiw i yi -1 X ' 1' i , ' ' lu The class of 96 bases its claim to renown on the genuine services I f it has rendered to the college. While naturally modest, like all class historians, the present writer feels it a duty not only to the class, but Q, f -. to posterity, to record a few achievements as an example to coming .1 'F l :ln classes. hi' Sli if ' l In the first nlace, we brought to the colle e amon our number an g l is E 8 article of considerable value, which Colby happened to be out of just then,-a President. Under our guidance, the gentleman in question advanced the interests of the college in- a marked degree. His own progress was so remarkable that he was allowed to take his senior work to us in his third year, at the end of which he graduated with high honors and went to the University. We had some feeling that the rest of us might justly have been allowed to do the same, but the trustees pointed out that we were not all as good scholars as Dr. Whitman, and thought it best for us to linger around another year. We realized ourselves that the Faculty would need our help. Assisted by Dr. Pepper, who entered with us, but had dropped back into the Faculty, we managed the affairs of the college very smoothly, until the arrival of Dr. Butler, who has since relieved us a good deal by attending to all the minor matters himself. The college had been troubled for some time previous to our arrival, by a ferocious and unmannerly dragon called Phi Chi, With rare courage we attacked this creature. We did not kill it, but, rejecting the barbarous and inhuman policy of capital punishment, we reformed it and reduced it to a very harmless and' commendable beast, which is now a credit to the college. Nor have we neglected our social duties. In the words of the famous Sawtelle, we have cared for the beautiful with sedulous attention. We have been guided in this work by the classic motto, f'VVhole hog or none, in accordance with which we have allowed no flirtation to continue over three months unless the parties would sign a matrimonial agreement. By this policy we have husbanded Qand wifedj our resources to a remark- able extent, and still there is more to follow. YVe have altered the curriculum at the expense of great labor and personal discomfort, of which succeeding classes reap the benefit. We have also made sweeping and needed changes in the management of athletics. I-laving thus established all departments of the college on a new and sound basis, and broken in four or hve new professors and two presidents, we feel that we can safely leave the college in the hands of the Faculty, assuring them that whenever they are in trouble in the future, we shall be glad to give them the benefit of our advice. Meanwhile we feel that we are needed elsewhere. Sawtelle has already refused two invitations to the Cabinet, and Congress is anxiously awaiting the publication of the Settlement of the Silver Question by Cole, Collins and Dunn. With a clear conscience, then, we leave for fresh fields and pastures new. 27

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Qisinrg. 5' 5' . ', f 4 E ARE taught that the ultimate sources of historical knowledge are of two kinds, relics and traditions. Of these there are many varieties: calendars, biographies, memoirs and all WV --'t4 4Q1f . . . . . , . . . . V such things. If this 1S true, The History of the Girls of 96 is entirely orthodox, for it is Q found in the form of relics and traditions, Our relics are in our Memorabilias. As 51' W . . . ' im , for the traditions, just ask the other classes. Then consult our calendars-any '96 calendar-they're full of blue-and-brownletter days 5 go to our chronicles and annals, you'll find such items as this: At the Dean's house, fifteen girls dressed a doll and ate Welsh Rarebit till midnight. This is the only record ever known of Senior girls who played with dolls, yet their dignity remains unimpeached. Then investigate our biographies, just far enough to learn that we have wise, witty and Winsome girls, pretty, practical and musical girls, girls who like to study, and girls who don'tg girls who can write poetry, and girls who can'tg girls who wear diamond rings on certain lingers, and girls who don't. If you want any further light on our past, look into the memoirs. Here is the booty carefully preserved from our intellectual adventures. Here the- groaning Senior article lies side by side with the sigh-covered German story, while the mournful Greek notes plaintively rise over the spires and turrets of johns Hopkins University. Last of all you must refer to the most reliable source of information for college girls' history-Ladies' Hall, Ask her if the times when her old floors trembled the hardest weren't the times when '96 girls were cele- brating? Ask her if in her old walls there aren't stored up the merriest laughs that came from '96 girls? Ask her, too, if somewhere she hasn't traces of secret tears shed by these same girls? No, '96 girls have nothing extraordinary to record. There are no book-worms, no blue-stockings, among us : we are only fifteen girls who have had our share of work and honors as college-life goes, but who lay claim to little else except the fact that we have lived happily andloved each other. , 29