Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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History of nineteen Two. Being neither Ridpath nor Guizot, I quail before the task of writing a history-the greatest of the age. But, if you will bear with me, I will make brevity my virtue, and with my classmates' pardon, will endeavor to tell you what is worthy of a far better pen. Wlieii we arrived in Gambier, it rained. But that is very o-rdinary, for it always rains here, and I have made my first mistake by recounting the commonplace, a thing history should not do. VVe were not greener than any preceding class, and surely not so green as the present one, but, I must confess, we were a very ordinary-looking lot. Qur first desire upion ar- riving was, I believe, to see the President, not from curiosity, understand, but for an explanation of his numerous unfulfilled promises. There, how- ever, we were informed that drinking was forbidden in Kenygon, and were referred to the college Treasurer. On Contact with the latter, we were filled 'with enough fear to last us through our entire college course, anfd came away holding in our hand a list of fees, with big words before them, the meaning of which we have never learned, and which nobody seems to understand, but which, in lieu of a better term, are called rake-off. For several days we doffed our caps to Seniors, mistaking them for professors, and to Sophs because-we had to. We were duly and severely hazed, and 'fmade night hideousl' with our songs, speeches and imprfomptu dramatics, until some of us thought we had missed our calling, and serio-usly considered organizing ourselves in vaudeville. Of course, we won the rush, we were forty to the Sofphiomore fifteen. Burt the greatest result of our victory was, that by it, we bro-ke the Sopho- more bluff. This was the first great event in our course, but, I will not tire you with the list Iof our other victories and successes, for the list is endless. Suffice it to say that we secured twelve places on the foot-ball eleven and ten on the base-ball nineg the track had to be widened to accommodate those of us who wished to participate in field day events. VVe treated Gambier to its annual co-at bf red paint, spread about in beautiful inscriptions and de- signs, proving thereby that our stock of talent and wit was equal to our stock of muscle. Our adventures were various, some of us going even so far as to get themselves enrolled on the criminal docket of the Common 35

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'former members. Samuel D. Blake, ATA .... William H. Brown, AAQD .... Walter C. Curtis, 'PY .... Samuel I. Cole, . ........... . Alfred E. Fillmore, AKE, ENE .... Frederick H. Fowler, BGJH. . . Herbert R. Goshorn ...... Uohn W. Harvey. .. john L. Headington.. . . . Ro-y H. Hoskins, BGJII .... George D. Arnold ...... George H. Hurst, BGDH .... Ephriam F, johnson, KIIY ..... Edward J. McCutcheon, ATA. George D. K. Mithoff ........ Charles A. Pfau. ....... . Thaddeus H. Quick. ..... . VVi1liam Rattle, AAKIU, QNE. . . Albert M. Robinson, WY ..... Stewart T. Wemyss-Smith .... VVillian1 F. Vlfelslhymer .... Lawrence R. Wright ....... john C. Zimmerman, AKE .... George Abernethy. ....... . ttDeeeased. ...Shadesville . . . . .Pittsburg Pa. . . . .ML Vernon. ......Akron . . . .Columbus . . . .Spencer, Ind .. . .lola, Kas . . . . .Zanesville . . . . .Mt. Vernon . . . . .Zanesville . . . .Bellevue ...........Elyria. . . .St. Elmo, Tenn. . . . . . .Lancaster . . . . .Lancaster . . . .Cincinnati . . . . . .Zanesville . . .Cuyahoga Falls . . .Fremont, Mich. Fort VVorth, Texas . . . . . .Mt Vernon . . . .Gambier . . . .WVooster. . . . .Canton.

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Pleas court for horse-stealing. By mid-term, we had used up half the entire damage deposit by our midnight raid through the south end of Ascension, which suspended recitations for a day, and by 'our various bonfire celebra- tions, for which we used no-thing but college cord-wood. Such things as barricadinig the Presidentls house, the breaking up of Al. G. Fields' min- strels, and other minor occurrences incident toicollege life, we consider scarcely worthy of mention. Vlfe tried to paint the town on St. Pa1trick's day, a.nd to vary the programme, bought green paint instead of re-d, but we were obliged to give up the project for numero-us and divers reasons. ln all probability we threw the paint away, and the Sophs fo-und it and thought they had discovered America. ln short, before we had been ion the hill a term, we had made several bitter enemies in the faculty, college and towng half the class was on probation, and a few on perpetual vacation. In studies, a few of us shone, some glimmered, others spluttered and went out, to light up again next year. Yet, after all, wefare not such a had lot. Now, we have put aside our kilt skirts and childish ways, and freely indulge in those formerly-forbidden cigarettes and canes, grip our pipes firmly and confidently between o-ur teeth, and tell the younger generation how it was done in our day. We are contributing liberally to the education of the Freshmen in the ways and wiles of college life, and no-ne can say we have neglected our duty toward them, or that we have treated them but in accordance with their just deserts: and we have had a task, for they are a very green class of Freshmen. ' The conclusion of our history, and the crowning success of all our undertakings, is the Sophomore banquet. Far from the eye and ear of piiowling Prof and mewling Fresh, we spoiled the looks of a festive board. heaped high with all that our appetites could crave, and through the 'twee snia' hoursl' we sang and toasted and blessed the day that brought us first to Kenyon. Although our pranks 'have been numerous, our example bad, and though we incline ltoward the convivial and tfhe devilish, the w-ords of our song shall ever ring out from loyal hearts, the sentiment of Nineteen Two: VVe are thy true sons, Kenyon, O Mother dear, -Historianl 36