St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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junior History ,ii Time has flown so quickly since the class of 1905 first assembled within the walls of old Pinkney, it hardly seems possible that we should have a history. But as I sit back, with my pipe in my mouth, thinking over the events that have occurred in that time, I realize that there is a history, and that many things have happened which have since al- most passed from our memory. ' Former historians of this class have pictured the midnight raids of our Freshman and Sophomore years, in one case with us as the raiders, in the other as the raidees, of the scrap with the Juniors in our Freshman year, and that with the Preps. last year, for which eleven of our number were suspended, so it remains for me to portray the events of om' Junior year. We have always been an original class. Although it is not an understood thing among us, we seem to do everything in just the opposite way from that in which all other classes have done it. V With most classes, it seems to be the custom to study hard during the Freshman year, perhaps to let up a little in the Sophomore and to take life easier through the Junior and Senior years. But we have this just reversed. In our Freshman year there were only four in the class, Foxy Quiller Pop Willing, Sis Hopkins, and Valk who studied at all, and they did not suffer from brain fever. In June of that year, Fox and Willing got star second grade certificates, and Valk and Hopkins got second grades. There was not a man in the class without demerits. Last year the class took a decided brace and in June, eight certificates including three first grades and one .star second were captured by 1905 men. That, however, was due mostly to a crowd of new fellows who entered the class in the Sophomore year. This year we are all overloaded with work. In addition to our Junior studies, which are about the hardest in college, we have to follow in the footsteps of all other Junior classes and publish, or try to publish, a Rat-Tat. Pop Willing, our Editor-in-Chief, seems to have given up studying for this year, to do Rat-Tat work. In February he flunked three exams, including English. Just think of it, the Editor-in-Chief of the Rat-Tat fiunking English. ' . . , Many members of the class have fallen by the wayside, some left at the end of our Freshman year, and more at the end of last year. In our Freshman year we had twenty six members 9 a jolly crowd of romping, fun-loving boys, who had assembled from all parts of Maryland, and even from from Nebraska and New York. At the end of that year, Brogden, Graham, Lilly, and G. F. Smith, for various reasons, left college. The next fall upon returning to college, we found another crowd of hayseeds here who expected to join our class, and who did finally make it.' They were Sporting Life Ferrell, Pimp 70. N

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Gladden, Lightning Harris, Cork Kemp, Mac McBride, Rat Trail, and Webster Wells. It took some time to get these fellows used to the ways of 1905, for Rat, Cork and Mac would not skip classes for some time after their arrival, and sometimes in the warm days of Spring, it is essential to our well-being that we take a day off. Webster Wells was among the number that were shipped for hazin g preps., and he was the only one that did not come back. He is now studying law at the University of Mar land. H h ' ' - y C e s ould have studied it before, so he would-have been better able to plead his cause before the facultyj. This fall we received bad news when we arrived, for nearly half the class had deserted us Bill Aske J B' . y, ay 1rd, Parson Bowen, Dal Cronin, Sporting Life Ferrell, Pimp Gladden, Uncle Phil Merryman, Rat Trail Eugene Valkand Dutchey Vey failed to come back, and great were the lamentations f th J ' o e unior class over our loss. The fourth floor misses Dal, who used to sit in the hall every night until o t ' l ' ' ' ' ne or wo o c ook, telling Jokes. The third floor has the greatest loss in Uncle Phil HD 7? ll 77 ll ' I! ll ' utchey, Rat, and Pimp. Uncle Phil was the champion water thr if I ower o the college, and he and Smitty used to have water battles every night. Our disappointment was somewhatabated by .the addition of Parson Jackson and Ch b . . . . ,, . . am ers, but even as the historian writes this, Parson is on his way to Chicago. 'Tis said that he is married, and that is why he left college. 9 In athletics we have always done well. In our Freshman year, although buttwo of our men l d f b p aye oot all, we had four men on the baseball team. Last year we had four men on the regular football team and three subs while this year 1905 men filled five laces 1 1 4 p on the regular team and one was a substitute. In baseball last year we had three men and two subs. on the re ula t ' g r eam, and out of six men who won track team monograms, three were '05 men. In our Freshman year, in the class baseball games, we won from the Juniors, 24 to 5, b I . . . ut lost to the Sophomores 9 to 1. Last spring after winning from the Sen' 17 t 11 , g iors o , we went into the Junior game with the determination to do or die. Never did Ned itch so ll p we , never did the team bat so well, and the result was that we won the game, 14 to 8, and thus took the championship of the college from 1904, who had held it ever since their Freshman year. ' We have not a very musical class, although to hear Smith sing, or to listen for hours at a time to the deli htful st ' f g rains o McBride's cornet, one would imagine that we are all musicians. Mac Basin must think he can sing, for he goes through the hall at all hours of the day, wearing his heart away for some one, we know not whom and ' , wearing our patience away at the same time. Cut it out, Mac, or you will be assassinated. Wonderful to say, we have two men who are regular attendants of the Y. M. C. A., Fox and McBride. We always supposed Fox would be president but we could not imagine h W ere the vice-president would come from until McBride arrived This l l , f . c ass ras never been very religious, and I do not believe the whole class has ever been to church together but once C S I D . n unday, hovember 13, of our Freshman year, the movement was agitated for every one to go to church, simply because it was the 13th of the month. No doubt the minister thought thirteen was quite 1 luclw' number u hen he saw tl 1 f , . . ri. ' . ' ie C ass o 1905 file in one by one on that auspicious occasion, but I don't know what he thought when he saw T1