Franklin and Marshall College - Oriflamme Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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Senior Dietory. BY A. B. KUHN. - I-IDN we were Freshmen it was confidently predicted of us, and not ' I without reason, that we would not be able, when the time came, to ri assume that shining garment known as Senior dignity. It was but a roundabout grouchy way of admitting that we, as a class, had a very great deal of life and spirit-such an abundance of it, in fact, that the sedate upper- ' classmen of that time looked at us askance and very lt 5 4 , N 'iff much doubted the possibility of there ever any good 6 l coming out of us. But,--and I suppose the worthy ' X President of these institutions yet marvels atthe trans- ' ' . 1 formation-we have duly settled down and taken on '- J our Senior dignity, and that, be it observed, in exact P 'Ya l n I l l 1 gl X .1 . , 4 4, i, proportion to the intensity of our Freshman zeal for fb i , , M racket and mischief. If we had life and enthusiasm jf, then, we have it yetg only its force is now directed M If I BW -. - is - f into channels of industry in class-room work and the ' ' ' soberer activities of college leadership. In short, we have proved ourselves worthy of the mantle which was thrown over our shoulders last Commencement, and the college honor and reputation have been secure in our hands. f ff ff f . But, to own the truth, those twb first years of our course were little short of terrific. We were the first Freshmen to enter a cane-rush, and,-well, the word agony is the only fit word to embody the one im- I pression of that barbaric event which will never be ' eradicated from our souls. We were not beaten, and on the strength of thisfact, celebrated,-and incidentally made a little more history than we had anticipated! 4' ' Those of us who saw Sammy Leinbach daub 1903 in X great red figures all over the side and end of a covered market wagon, while the whole city was snoring tran- xfx AX -' ee J l N4 if 0 , ef. M-

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ELAM JACOB SNVDER, Limekiln, Pa. Goetheaug Exchange Edit:-r College Sludcnl 135, junior German Dramatic Club 135. Pre- pared at Keytone S. N. S. Profession-Ministry. HENRY Moviia SNYDER, Limekiln, Pa. Goetheang Reviewer G. L. S. 135. Prepared at Keystone S. N. S. Profession-Teaching. EDGAR JOSEPH STEIN, ll' K Alf, Kutztown, Pa. 'Varsity Foot BallTeam 125, 135, 145, Captain Class Foot Ball Team 1255 Class Base Ball Team 125, President Board of Directors F. and M. A. A. 1353 Sub. 'Varsity Base Ball Team 135. Prepared at Keystone S. N. S. Profession-Medicine. CLAUDE URBAN S'ro'r'1'Lr:MEvER, Wolfsville, Md. Diagnothiang Recording Secretary D. L. S. 125g Critic D. L. S. 145: Eulogist D. L. S. Anni- versary 135. Prepared at Hagerstown High School. Profession-Teaching. OLIVER RUTLEDGE STRUNCK, Schuylkill Haven, Pa Goetheang Tennis Manager 135, Captain Class Basket Ball Team 135: Class Secretary 115: Class Basket Ball Team 115, 135, Manager Basket Ball Team 1453 'Varsity Basket Ball Team 1455 Assistant Base Ball Manager 135, Oriflannne Staff135. Prepared at F. and M. Academy. Profession-Business. JOHN STANLEY ULSH, Nevonia Club, Lancaster, Pa. Diagnothiang Corresponding Secretary D. L. S. 1255 Class Basket Ball Team 125, 1355 Vice- President D. L. S. 135. Prepared at Bloomfield Academy. Profession--Chemistry. HARIQY BOMBERGER WHI'1'E, Landisville, Pa. Goethean. Prepared at F. and M. Academy. Profession-Medicine. LEVI N1-:VIN NVILSON, Fairview, Kansas. Goetheang Green Room Club 115, 125, 135,145g Class Historian fI5Q Orillannne Staff 135, YY M. C. A. ffamz'-Book 1253 Gcethean Poet 1453 Presentation Orator, Class Day Exercises 145. Prepared at Hiawatha Academy. Profession-Ministry. CALVIN ARTHUR ZHQGLER, Herndon, Pa. Class Base Ball Team 1255 Scrub Base Ball Team 135. Prepared at F. and M. Academy. Profession-Ministry. S UW' 1,0 1 . W .ar - NT iw. 2 Q1 C' l .23--

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quilly away, will not forget the sight while we live. And the speeches that were let drive in those stormy class-meetings, when the sentence of scholastic excommunication was hovering over our heads, if they could now be reproduced, would make the fortune of the present Oriiiamme staff. The faculty, with the loss of much sleep, brought us to terms. Uncle Sam speedily fetched us to our senses,--without the loss of sleep. It's a way he has. But the whole matter was simply the peculiar way we took, as the Rev. Mr. Haupt expressed it at our Arbor Day celebration, of keeping the memory of the class of 1903 green in the minds of Lancaster residents. This was the year, too, in which we ruflied the hair and the temper of the esteemed occupant of the chair of modern languages, with German note-books, from a distance of fifteen feet. VVe crowned the year iw! X by being the first Freshman class to venture abroad for a banquet at Reading. 0 if f In our Sophomore year we sang,-and right lustily. If it wasn't The Dutch Com- lf M7 '37, Haan? K pany it was There's a Hole in the Bottom I X of the Sea, the latter being once most har- moniously rendered by Strunck and Wilsoii, through a keyhole. It is not recorded that the . - A ' j faculty encored any of our concerts. We have Kam, W the honor of being the only Sophomore class ' If f url . X . la, X , I . vw, p' ' rl i l f M ., if X .. l li 2 ,A w ii 1' W ft f if that our eminent Professor of Biology ever deemed it worth while to designate by any more endearing title than shackazzesf' XVe were liars and hypocrites. It was in keeping with our Sophomorical sense of the impropriety of things that we adopted the farmer's live-cent straw hat for spring wear. The wonder is that we didn't wear it all winter. VVhen, as juniors, we attained to the envied position of upper-classmen, our spirit found vent in a little less obstreperous jollity. At this point many of our number developed tendencies of a down-town character, with a view to supplying the want of that home infiuence which is so essential to the rounded culture of a young man's nature. VVe fully upheld our reputation as the introducers of innovations by presenting, with quite unlooked-for success, the first German play given by students of the college, and later by securing, for entertainment at our banquet, an itinerant Dutch Band. As Seniors, we planted two oaks on the campus, thought of petitioning for the revival of Senior orations, cast the moral weight of an unanimous vote in support of the adoption of the honor system, and in all departments creditably bore the burden of responsibility which devolved upon us. . .25--