College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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li. SAML ' I ' .L IIILDKI ' TII IHr.r.AkD, Jk.. I ' lirest Deput, ' iri;inia. Candida Ti ' ; I ' Ok A. I ' .. Ukgree. K i: Phoenix: Spotswood : German Club. It is not often thai the scribe can shove the tracery of his art upun so noted a soul. A iniiihty emotion wells in one ' s breast at the opportimitv to do justice to a being so un- touched by cruel experience, and so plastic to tile nKiulding hands of the sculptoress. The dreamy clouds of high Ida are none too lofty to surmount the pink and fawn colored brown of Samlio, il;e individual who has playetl so well on the three major A ' arsity teams, wlio lias been Editor-in-Chiefing the William and Mary Literary Maga yinc. adorning tl;e Arnual stati ' . presideiiting the Phoenix, managing the basketball team, debaf ' ng at finals, creating chaos in classes, and winning sr.iles from girls for, m.ercy me! no one can tell hov.- long! Apart from his many offices, for lie is like imto a Democrat of 1913, Sambo aspires to be the main velocipede with the fluffy sex, and to perpetuate everv bloomin ' set of eyebrows, whether pink, ver- milli :)n or pistache. in the throbbing metre cf his own jjeculiar sonnets. Akn are hoping great things for him, and here in ' illiamsburg. far out in the wilds of Dublin, ' irginia, and up in the stony streets of Staunton, there are young maidens with lustrous orbs, who but await his whispered words. Sail on. O .Sambo, Ijoy, and ride well the coming- seas! After this the ushers will distribute favors, and the audience will pr.ss on to the next page. [ 22 ]

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LEMUEL ERAXCIS CAMES. Xc.irfulk, ' iri. ' iiiia. Caxdidatk for B. S. Di:(;kek. i il ' K: Spotswood : ( lernian Club. Tn common with that other sterling pro- duct of the city of Norfolk, namel} ' , those mi.sln- girls, Puddin ' is hcautiful and hois- tcrmis. ( )nlv the gentle lowing of a rhinnc- eriis hull as he plunges his head dnwn intu the mirky mire and charges the prey, is com- parable to the sad serenades of this sweet singer. Endowed with all the endiwmen s which, in our observation, every graduate of the Brass Band City ' s High School imagines himself blessed with, I ' uddin ' startled the world and also Williamsburg, in the first spring of his lingerings here, by a most gifted rendition of the ballad, Playing Third Base as it Should be Played. Till the day when he shall enrich the undertaker, I- iddin ' will lie remembered as the hero who conviTtcil a twn- base hit into a duuble play and the cliampinnshi]) for W illiam and . l;ir . And old women shall tell, with br. .ken sobs, of how, single handed and abinc. he held back the enemy from our goal line, until, nn longer able to distin- guish dust from tooth ])astc, he masticated the Imly cha])let of victory. As a student, he is a high mark man. Me has playe l U.r three years on the diam.jnd, captaining the nine in kjij, and also shin- ing, until injuries handicajiped him, as a half back- Puddin is a member of the .Spotswood t ' lul). and a most popular pet. ' -i — • i [ - ' I f

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iMiM| % i ARTHL ' R WILSOX JA.MliS. Bedford City, Xirginia. Caxdioate r k a. C. Decree. K :i ; riiilomathean : Spotswood. The best Brass, says our old college c ' i;niii. Xoali Webster, is made by cementa- tion of calamine. This iiappy discovery clears up the mysterv of what lil Artha is composed, and renders clear to the ignorant reader what stuff heroes are made of. When one reads that he has starred for the Philo- mathean as a Final Orator, Intersociety speaker, as the winner in the State Oratorical Contest, and that he played a leading role in The Rivals. as given by the 1912 Elizabethans, it is easy to understand that the Petersburg prodigy has bellowed his way to success. Add to this the managership of the football team and positions on the Flat Hat and IViUiain and Mary Literary Magazine staffs, and still more impressive is the con- ception formed of this man ' s mental make-up. Perhaps the principal complaint registered against him is by the parents of some young buds of the earlier periods of history, the aforesaid parents finding it hard to realize that they, too, were once young and foolish, when thev perceive that perfectly good and highly e.xpensive gas burning away in the best parlor at the weird hour of 3 A. yi. There is no doubt of his success, for just as surely as all things come to him who waits, that much more surely do thev fall to him who goes to them. [ - ' 3 1