Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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The rush at first required our attention, and, although the Freshmen were nearly twice our number, we defeated them in a hard fought struggle. We were now required to give our attention to the fatherly supervision of the Freshmen, and under our careful guidance they rapidly became acquainted with the duties of College life, and soon threw aside that freshness and that habit of instructing the Professors and upper class men for which, at first, they were so conspicuous. Considering the extraordinarily raw material in the Class, we were fairly successful, and undoubtedly deserve much credit for what we did accomplish in such an apparently hopeless undertaking. We still kept up our fine work in the class room and attended to all our duties with a will, bewildering the mathematics Professor by actually under- standing one or two propositions in Analytic Geometry. The remainder of our Sophomore year was uneventful. The Class base ball team was still successful, and the remainder of the year passed quickly away. Now we stand before you as Juniors, still the pride of the Faculty, the idols of Harcourt. and the admiration of Freshmen. -------9------- Noth—History is a narrative of events. The facts in the above history are undoubtedly true, and the historian stands personally responsible for their authenticity. History is neither a eulogy nor a boast, and the historian has endeavored to present facts in as interesting a way as | ossible.

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patron saint of Freshmen, whose acquaintance we have cultivated occasionally since. However, we were not satisfied with this rush; we had not succeeded in showing how good a Class we were, but had only shown how easily 93 could he defeated, a thing which had been satisfactorily illustrated several times before. As there was nothing else to do we had to restrain our martial spirit and wait patiently until we should again have a chance to display that heroic courage, which is the boast of the even classes. We now turned our attention to our College duties, fairly dazzling the Professors by our ability to master the intricacies of l-itin prose and the other studies, which arc the trials of a Freshman's life. We made various attempts during the first term to drown in buckets of red paint that verdancy which will occasionally show itself in all Freshmen; whether we succeeded or not is a question on which there is room for discus- sion. We purchased large quantities of fire works and endeavored to amuse the ladies of Ilarcourt. who took an interest in the proceedings, far greater than we, even in our fondest expectations, had ever hoped for, as our display of pyrotechnics took place uncomfortably near some barrels of gasoline which were stored behind the buildings. The success of our Freshmen base ball team at once made theClass prom- inent in athletics, easily defeating every team we met. and finishing the sea- son with a record unsullied by defeat. At the end of the year came the Class Supper, which was attended by the same success that had thus far characterized all our undertakings. The Sopho- mores, having profited bv their experience, wisely decided not to prevent our supper, and having been relieved of our fear(?) of them, our “joy was uncon fined.” We feasted until a late hour, and on our way to the depot got into a discussion with some guardians of the peace, in which we got decidedly the worst of the argument. Such were the experiences of our Freshman year, and we had thoroughly enjoyed them, and had profited much during our first year of College life. At the loginning of our Sophomore, some of the old familiar faces were absent, and new faces appeared in our ranks, but as a Class we remained the 24 same.

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 ® ® Class of ’95. ® ® % o«u Ai-va Uf 'Eoriv. OIOOIO COLORS. • Peacock Blue and Old Gold. YELL. Hobble Gobble, Razzlc Dazzle, Zip, B«x m, Ah! Kenyon, Ninety-Five! Hah! Rah! Rah! Officers. FRANK W. ALDEN . President. ALBERT J. BELL, Vice President. WALTER D. BRADDOCK Secntari . ASA R. WILLIAMS, LOU A. SANFORD Prophet. EDWARD B. BRADDOCK DICK CLIPPINGER Jtase Jtall Captain. GEORGE P. ATWATER, 28 HERBERT F. WILLIAMS, Senator.