Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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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

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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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Maw nf !97. 5' 9 EDEN. CLASS YELL :-Ninety-Seven, 'Rah, 'Rahl Ninety-Seven, 'Rah, 'Rahl I-Iobble, Gobble! Razzle Dazzle! Sis! Boom! Bah! Colby, Ninety-Seven! 'Rahi 'Rah!! 'Rah!!! CLASS COLORS: OAANGE AND BLACK. I ivbffrnera. WATSON, Pzfesiziezzf. WM. HART HORN, Hz'5i01'iafz. L. E. VVALDRON, Vice-Pzfesideni, ' H. S. PHILBRICK, Awarfiezf 0fP1'z'zes. A. G. VVRIGJ-IT,Sec1fez'zz1g1. H. H. CHAPMAN, Tozzsi-Zlffzsfer. W. F. TITCOMB, Tzfezzsmfezf. E. E. NOBLE, Illzzrshal. H. S. CROSS, Ozfcziozf. ' C. L. SNONV, Clzaplrzzbz C. H. VVHITMAN, Poef. Qixnutiiina lllU11I11IfffPB. F. A. ROBERTS. A. R. KEITH. P. E. WILLIAMS. I Qlnmmiifize un 993211. W. H. HOLMES, IR. G. K. BASSETT. C. L. CLEMENT. 30