Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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- • ’90 + Mr. f T inuncer: KkXY0X CoLLB6B Dkak Old Hov Ii lists Ik c‘ii Rome time since I have written to l.nt, .ilinosl .i ear, and I thought that perhaps you would like tInn ; .ihoiit tlie illustrious class which you yourself once shouted so lustily lor-before the day that the Faculty applied the .ti e hoiimtr to ou. As Sophomores we art», you know, quite dif- froni Irishmen. Our crop of hayseed has, in a measure, r l,ll s no entirely), and we have come to look upon college 1 ol sell than as a holiday during which we are bom nia mas apron strings. Of course, you remember all •» H „t our many deeds of prowess in the lirst half of our Freshman Non (ir sti|| among the fresh and verdant. How the r ,U U‘,rr,°rs «I SS) fell l efore our mighty hands in the 1,1 slr|,,,F|li; how we decorated old Kosse with the sign To7M °f M): hOW 1,10 K M »• several times amused by .. °ming forth Iroin many throats; how Hubbard f. .. ' to er (,or s long eyesore to us); and how we ««I ™»»’ pH . ........ Ailrr ihei. “ ' “ -PM W inspired to to, belevH V I» llirir l.nnsinp Hie Ft..... into such active play, ire some devil,rilTwiLT w r 'r I f iie now content with numerous hits (a , i - l',UJl1 ,lu‘ ' I ' the Sophomores; for example, Uh Sl OVha. would ;i Freshman do without ns

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 Class of ’90 ©fficcrs President, . . . . G. II. IIAHBIS Vick President, . L. K. ST RICKER Secretary, . W. B. BO DINK, Jk. Treasurer, . I. F. WILSON Poet, .... . W. K. RAM BO Historian, . L. II. YOUNG Prophet, .... . II. l McClelland Toast Master, . F. II. GINN Base Ball Captain, . H. A. LOZIKR, .Ik. Senator, C. A. KEARNS 38

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paint') And so we passed on to our Sopoinore year, and perhaps you saw in the papers the aeeount of our rush with the class of 91. By way of explanation, I would have you understand, old boy. that we were supposed to be dead aln»ut that time. We did not play ball with the Freshmen last fall, having understood that Philip Best had raised his prices, and we did not care to see a second time the college pros- trated at the shrine of Bacchus (at our expense). Such is a partial account of the trials, failures, and conquests which your old class has made, to say nothing of those tempests about which only the partici- pants are to know. On the whole, it has been a line life, hut I some- times think existence is not all roses, especially when his Satanic Majesty (of course you catch) announces • ■six pages for to morrow. Some of our best men have “fallen by ihe wayside, but we still have a goodly number, and hope to go on so until the end of our course. And now, liavimr given you an account of your old “companions in the Hunk. I would desist ere 1 weary you, for you know that lull many a man fails for not embracing his golden opportunities. I have an opportunity to stop. See me grab it. I am, your classmate, L. H. V., Wstnrimt of W . zn