Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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4' 6 vfgratnlsg. ZHl1i1bwfn in H52 Ulruiuniug J9irtxu:. 33' THis has always been the motto of '97, If in any way she has failed to live up to the spirit of her motto, let no man,-or girl, either,-presume to criticise her for it. For what girl, what college girl, hath' attained perfection ? But even as we ask the question, forth from the echoing caverns of the Past, whither the college years have gone with hurrying feet, comes the answer, ' borne to us by the breezes of praise, ,Q7 girls. Perhaps in some cases there is less need of modesty than in others. In our four years here at Colby, we girls of ,Q7 have done much as all other Colby girls have done. We have worked and we have played, and all our days, our work-days and our play-days, have been very, very happy ones. We were meek and docile Freshmen, obeyed the Sophomores and did the bidding of upper-class girls as all well-conducted Freshmen should. To be sure, we did have our Peanut Drunk during that Freshman year, and that was in a Sophomore's room, The wrath of the powers that were came down on our defenseless heads for some of the deeds that were done that night, but those are things of which no loyal JQ7 girl will tell you. We also ducked a lawn-party of Sophomore boys and girls from the windows of Ladies, Hall once in our Freshman spring, but it was a clandestine lawn party, and they deserved it. VVe continued as we had begun. As Sophomores we did our best to train up in the way they should go, the amiable Freshmen committed to our care. Ask them if we didnlt ! Our junior year was very gay and full of all manner of good times, with now and then a touch of some- thing deeper and more lasting. This was, perhaps, our happiest year, and it passed the most swiftly of them all. Almost before we knew it, we were back in the old places as Seniors. Here we have found the truth of that old saying, Be good and you will be happy, but you won't have half as much fun. We have been good, better than any year before. Our Senior year shows a record of hard, faithful work, such as we may well be proud to look back upon. We have been happy, too, but truly we have not had half as much fun as we used to have. No, we have been sedate and quiet and have set a most excellent example, one that the lower classes, alas, do not seem much inclined to follow. VVe have gone to few sociables, to fewer receptions, to very few lectures and exhibitions, and as for the Messalonskee, it is forgotten land to most of us. We have stayed at home and studied. Can it be that we girls are really what a heartless Junior recently called us, grass widows ? Be that as it may, we are fifteen happy, joyous girls, and we are ready, now to go out from our Alma Mater, to fill whatever places may be waiting in the world for us. The mistakes that we have made-and they have been all too many-let those who come after us avoid, and what little of good there has been in our acts, let them strive to copy. However others may regard it, '97 will always be to us fifteen girls the symbol of four hard but happy years, and the bond which shall bind us closer than aught else. . . 29

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Maas nf ,975 9 9 MDUIIIBIT. CLASS YELL : . I' 'ggifi J QI -mv -A ' an P -jg If-41-if-A-L '1 ld?-1-T-T iLij'I gr: -7 r 6 If in-E: Of all the nme-tles ev - er seen, Nme - ty - seven - 75 -1.3 --1 - . - : Vg? 3T?'?'fH 51761 ' F ' +L J: 11 1 - a 0- 1 0 - is the queen. Colby, Colby, Nine - ty - seven. CLASS COLORS: ORANGE AND BLACK. Illbfiirersf. NINA GERTRUDE VOSE, Pffeszdefzt. ALICE LOUISE NYE, Prophei. EDITH MAUD LARRABEE, Woe-Presidefzf. HARRIET FLORENCE HOLMES, Poel. ANNIE LEE KNIGHT, Sef1'ez'ary. I-IATTIE BEATTY VIGUE, Address io Undergradzzafes EDITH BRAGG HANSON, Wfeaszcrer, MARTHA DUNLAP TRACY, S!az'z'sz'z'cz'zz1z. HELEN MACGREGOR HANSCOM, HE'sf0rz'a7z. Qixnruiihe C'LIT11I11IiffBI3. ' EDITH BRAGG HANSON. TENA PATTERSON MCCALLUM. ELMIRA STARR NELSON. Ilbhe QllUI1I11IiffB1?. HARRIET FLORENCE HOLMES. MERCY AGNES BRANN. ANNIE HUTCHINSON PEPPER 28

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Mass nf ,98. 3' 3' ' - TBQBII. CLASS YELL:-'AAaAd! fixayail dmmi! vfmy 50-1-2 T5 o'f:v917p.a ! 1 Colby, Ninety-Eight! 'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah! Boomerate! Boomerate! Chi! Xi! Gamma! Alpha! Colby, Ninety-eight. CLASS COLORS x PINK AND GRAY. Hbfhrzra. JOHN E. NELSON, Presideni. HARRISON S. ALLEN, Oralor. NORMAN K. FULLER, Wse-President. HENRY H. PRATT, Poei. FRED. G. GETCHELL, Secreiamf. JUSTIN O, WELLMAN, Hisiarian. CHARLES M. NVOODMAN, Treasurer. BERTRAM C. RICHARDSON, Awarder of Prizes RAYMOND H. COOK, Toast-Masier. EUGENE S. PHILBROOK, Chaplain. ELMER E. HALL, Marshal. Cixzrlrfiim Qllnmmiiimz. HERBERT M. BROVVNE, BERTRAM C. RICHARDSON. JOHN E. NELSON. Uumntiihez nn illbhes. ARTHUR H. PAGE. ARAD E. LINSCOTT. JONATHAN L. DYER. 30