Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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brief hour of existence. Two of our noble classmates scaled that lofty tower and bore the Hag away. Nineteen Hundreds wild-goose chase and their fruitless search are all familiar parts of history. Then came a mo-ve Worthy of a Napoleon. Nineteen Hundred was sent up the path by a clever ruse. and right in front of Qld Kenyon, amid the applause of upper classmen, and before the very eyes of Nineteen Hundred, their wretched Hag was burned to ashes. Its short life was ended: its mission done. Let us turn another page and read about our Sophomore year. The re- nown we had gained for Kenyon brought forty Freshmen that fall. Mean- while, ill-fortune had reduced our ranks to fifteen. Fifteen against forty in the cane rush !-but reader, hear the facts. In a solid mass they came at us. Two volleys of Hour and fresh QFD country eggs we let them lhave, and then our valiant warriors fell upon them and the cane did not advance an inch! After fifteen minutes bloody fighting, hands were countedg and the class numbering fifteen had five hands, while the class numbering forty had eight. Ask Doctor Shaw if fifteen is to forty as five is to eightg and then ask yourself, gentle reader, 'Wdfhoi were the real victors? Then We Colne once more to St. Patricks day. Another Hag is raised, and another victory added to our glory. The Freshmen were sold. Wfhile they valiantly guarded their flag against the sarcastic smiles of upper classmen, eight dol- lars worth of good paint was added to our treasury. The Freshman scheme was spoiled! During the rest of the year one could see marks of green paint on every Freshman's door, and the recollection of a torn flag before the chapel steps is still fresh in our minds. Lastly, we come to ,our ,Tunior year. This is modern history, and modesty forbids my writing to any great extent. Wfe can boast, however, the most successful and most enjoyable junior Prom. ever given in Kenyon. Wie had the honor to be the first class to give it in the new Rosse Hall gym- nasium. This very Reveille is a Herculean task, which has been avoided for years, so that it was left to us to re-commence its publication. I have sketched briefiy what we have accornplisihed. May the future historian be obliged to record ten times as much renown, and ten times as many laurels. May the name of Nineteen One live in the memory of the college for years to come. -Historian. 29

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History of nineteen One. The year nineteen hundred and one will ever mark two great events in the world's history. One is the opening of the twentieth century, which is destined to be the greatest of all centuries and monumental in the world's lhisto-ry, the other is the graduation of the class of Nineteen Une. There is something singularly happy in this coincidence. For, are we not be- ginning a new era when we enter the world, and is not the entrance into that era destined to be monumental in our lives? VVe do not claim to- trace our ancestry back to the landing of the Pil- grims, nor do we claim that any of our forefathers were killed by the In- dians. Our authentic' history begins when, bright and fresh one September morning in ninety-seven, we knocked at the doors of Ken- yon College, and were ushered into our Freshman year. Soon after college opened that fall, our historian disappeared, and since then the class has been making its own history. The battle of college life has waged nerce since our entrance, and Nineteen One has always been noted for the clean and complete way in which she has always vanquished her enemies. The battle waged Hercest in the first term of our Freshman year. Our casualties were heavy, I regret to say, but 'he who would conquer must dare. NN ho has not read of our world-renowned Freshman banquet? Xfvllilf Kenyon man does not know that the success of our red painting has become a proverb in the college? To be sure, we have not won all the laurels in base-ball and foot-ball, but we take a just pride in class spirit and class activity. To cola lect anid record the deeds of the three years of our class life were far too long and difficult a task to be undertaken for these pages. A few instances must answer. In the second term of our Freshman year came the most brilliant and most complete victory ever won by one class over another. It was on St. Patrick's day, the day which has come to be known as a green- letter day in our class. At eight o'clock in the morning Nineteen Hundred's Hag was seen waving defiantly from Ascensions tower, but it had only one 28

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lr ll ll yi Junior Class. Class Colors-Old Gold and Olive Green. Class Yell-Tin Marin Le Dos Tin Quan, Moolcara, Makara, Nineteen Une. Class Officers. C. F. Magee, President. VV. E. Vlfriglit, Vice-President. A. R. VVilliams, Secretary. M. M. Gunlefinger, Treasurer. R. C. Harper, Toastmaster. B G. Burt, Poet. A. V. Spinosa, Historian. 30 X