St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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them file out, one by one, before he commenced his sermon. We have had, at various times, three preachers in our class. Parson Bowen was the first one and this year there are two, Jackson and Chambers. They help to keep up the reputation of the class in religious matters, although they never go to Y. M. C. A. It was a sight to see the whole' class go to the reception given by the Y. M. C. A., the first part 'of the year. There are strongindications that they went to get the ice cream and cake glven away at that time, for very few have been seen at a meeting since. Although the individual members of the class have been more fully described in an- other part of this book, a few words on their peculiar characteristics would not be amiss. John M. Green was elected vice-president, probably because he is so handsome that he had to have some position, and that of vice-president is purely ornamental, so we decided it was the best place for him. , Cork Kemp is a good specimen-of Eastern Shore humanity-or inhumanity. He is a great pest and-well, that is about all that can be said of him. Clarence A. McBride has but one prominent peculiarity, and this has already been treated so fully in another part of this book, that no more 'need be said about it. Of course, you all know what this is. You would if you lived within five miles of him, for he blows on his cornet from morning till night, under the delusion that he is making music. This history would not be complete without Armine Smith's name in it. He expects to be major next year, but we are not so sure of this. - ' The Editor-in-Chief of the Rat-Tat should, in the natural course of events, come in for a good sound berating, but, poor fellow, he has enough trouble, so we will let him go this time. . If the mumps do not prevent it, next year at least half of us will be Seniors. Ah! Can this be possible? Yes. Every day, every week, carries us nearer to the much-sought- for and long-awaited goal, that of High Muckety Mucks and Chief Cooks and Bottle Washers of St. John's. Imagine the delight 'of having no haughty and supercilious upper-classman ready to yell at you in ranks 3 in fact, no one but yourself to order you about. Such joy, such exhilaration as we will experience-next September, when we come back with the feeling that we can do almost as we please. And now, with many thanks for your kind attention, and apologies for this everlasting bore of a. history, I will close, with best wishes for the future welfare of St. J ohn's and the Class of 1905. E g' f Qf ,13 ' Slum , fl N mm' , . 'N I ' 72

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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

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To the .Yons of Old 1905 who Have Gone From Our .Midst we Gratefully ,QW Dedicate this Space i.l-1. WILLIAM ASKEY, JACOB W. BIRD, RALPH C. BOWEN, W. STEVENSON BROGDEN RANDALL C. CRONIN CULLOM H. FERRELL LEON B. GLADDEN HENRY P. GRAHAM FRANK LILLY, JOHN MERRYMAN, GEORGE F. SMITH THOMAS S. TRAIL, EUGENE VALK, EDGAR A. VEY, WEBSTER WELLS.