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

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:COLOMI qL ' ' TOlg ECHO C)i.i i;r Walter Frey Sigma Phi Epsilon; Phoenix; Assistant Business Mgr. Colonial Echo and Flat Hiil. 1912-13; Track Manager, 1913-13, 13-14: Business Mgr. Flat Hat. 1913-14; Editor-in- Chief, 1914-15; Secretary Southern College Press Association, 1913-14; President Phoenix Literary Society and Final Debater, 1914; As- sociate Editor Colonial Echo, 1914-15; Mem- ber of Student Council; Secretary and Treas- urer Athletic Association, 1914-15; Vice-Presi- dent Class of 1915. Oliver Fre -, tlie biggest little iiiaii in College I Not, however, in his own opin- ion, but in everyone ' s else. He has more real ability concealed in that little two b four corporositN of his than most of his ' fellow-countrymen have sauer-kraut in theirs, for There ' s a reason why his nick- name is Dutchy . Editing is his forte, and as the editor of a Williamsburg weekly, it must be. Despite the fact that there was never any news, the Flat Hat was, under his editorship, always full of it. Also. despite his disadvantage in altitude, Olixer is some tangoist, and at the same time. boasts mifogynistic tendencies. These last he forgot once, when mathematics was pressing him hard, but that is another story. ' To get a thing done well, let Frey do it. is a campus proverb, and it is the general opinion here that the road to success is going to be a ery smooth thoroughfare for our diminuitive, smiling, clever, lucky and loved classmate, 01i er V. Frev. 25

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:coLOMi qL- rgig ' e c h o Victor Ewart Gladstone Emery Sigma Upsilon; Scholarship Holder, 1912, 1913, 1914; Associate Editor of Flat Hat, 1912-1915; Editor-in-Chief of Colonial Echo, 1914; Charter member of Gordon-Hope Lit- erary Club; Associate Editor Colonial Echo, 1915. Victor swooped down upon us four years ago from the wilds north of Mason and Dixon ' s line, and in that brief time we ]ia e almost civilized him into a real ' ir- ginian with an accent. He didn ' t arrive with any blowing of horns, but it didn ' t take the Faculty long to realize that a mighty curler was among them, and in ses- sion extra ordinary they solemnly decreed that A was to be his regu ' ar mark, and no deviation from that standard has ever been noted. Nor has all of his time been taken up with a s stematic conquest of faulty French verbs or an unfaltering pursuit of undersized bacteria in the Science Hall ; he has found time to annex various and sundry college honors. Didn ' t he once tell original jokes to that humorless aggrega- tion, the Spottswood Club? Wasn ' t he one of the founders of the Gordon-Hope? And who but he edited the Colonial Echo of 1914 for us? The;e are only a few of the honors that he wears so modestly ; he is responsible for the production of a great many atrocities which appear unsigned in the college pub- lications, and other things known to the proper parties, unknown to the rest. But when you stand at finals, Victor, with a degree in each hand and that twitch- ing little smile on your face, we ' re all going to take of¥ our hats to you and be mighty proud that we can do it. .And we ' d like to see you back next year, for we need men like von. 24

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c6mNYmr- w ssw E cwo Herman Lee Harris Philomathean ; Sigma Upsilon ; German Club; Chancellor Scholarship, 1912; Excel- lency Medal in Oratory, 1912; Associate Editor of the Flat Hat, 1912 and 1913; Presi- dent of the Philomathean, 1913; Literary Editor Colonial Echo, 1914; Associate Editor of the Magazine 1914-15; Representative in Va. State Oratorical Contest, 1914; Associate Editor Colonial Echo, 191 5; and Senior Class Prophet, 1915. Here we have a real literary cuss , a chap who can write both prose and poetry ; in fact, Robert W. Chambers and Ella Wheeler Wilcox put together haven ' t got a thing on Harris. Besides being a master of form, Herman Lee teems with ideas, and whenever there is anything to be writ- ten H. L. is the man for the job. Since his first year in College he has been a con- stant contributor to the Lit , he has been on the Staff of both the Literary L gazine and the Flat Hat for seve ral years, and this vear he was elected prophet of the class of 191 5, which in intself is all that need be said as to his literary ability. However, notwithstanding the fact that the literary bug has stung Harris rather severely, he is not all temperament, but is an all-round good-fellow , who can handle a problem in calculus or buy a cake of soap as well as the next inan. Bejng something of an Adonis, and a good dancer, Harris is quite a favorite among the ladies. He is none the less a man ' s man, and we feel sure that his literary temperament will in no way interfere with the accomplishment of big thintrs after he leaves college. 26