St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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,. ......, , .... , .',ff.I.,, ,,.,, 1 ,Y ,,,, ,,,,, 7 The Rt, Rev. I. Turnbull Spicknall is a curi- ous combination of religion and cheer leader. As head of the Y. M. C. A. he has put that organ- ization in a thriving condition: as cheer leader he has 'em all skinned a mile, and as preacher we expect him to hold their multitudinous sins up to multitudes of sinning humanity afraid of going where Spicknall must inevitably go. llecoming a triile more serious, Nineteen Seven- teen has produced one of the best all-around men of them all in Carey Jarman, a man who passes all his work as it comes, is class president for three years, captains baseball and basketball, is as brainy a quarterback as one would wish to see, is ranking cadet officer and' cool as ice under all conditions, and is a man of whom St. Johns is justly proud. i Old St. john's has given us learning, made men of us and has imbued us with her never-say-die spirit. VVe, i11 turn, promise to put her gifts to the best possible use, to make ourselves a credit to our country and her name, and to stand ready to lend her a helping hand when she needs us, as she lent us a helping hand when we neded her. , H1sTo1uAN. l 76

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s i if da ,,,, L .,,, 4 C Swninr lgrnphvrg 3 RO,Pl:lE'l S NOTE-lt is cus- yfif-' 6 'f . . -, l siijf , , tomar in Jro Jl'lCClCS forthe Class L. Q .J M Y l I V ? ' Prophet either to chance upon some Oriental seer, who suddenly appears from a haze, and who 9' - 4' ' gives his prophecy and fades away into a cloud, or else for the Class Prophet to fall into a swoon, and while in a transient state to go through the most marvelous adventures. By all my force of imagination T am unable to do so. It does not seem natural to me. And, besides, swoons are out of style for men in IQI7. So I am giving my prophecy-just a plain, bare statement of the facts as they will be, and I am always right. p ln exactly twenty-five years, six months, two weeks, three days, eighteen hours, Hfteen minutes and thirty-one seconds there will rise from a crowded table of officers in the United States Marine Corps a man whose form and feat- ures would seem familiar to all present St. johnis men. He will propose a toast, l'lere's.to the man that is truly good. May he at some future time be born. This toast is typical of cynical, witty Houston Noble. From one corner of the table will come a voice, lf you had proposed a toast to a man who is truly great, his birthday would have been minef, It will be the powerful voice of little Bill Price, and this is a type of his wit Both of them will have entered the Marine Corps, and success will have been the re- ward of each. lProphet's Note.-After writing one paragraph I find it very inconvenient to use the term 'lwill and will have, so in the remainder of this article the past tense will be used.l The army life has claimed others from the ranks of the Class of I917. Marion Cox and Carey Jarman both entered the service shortly after graduation, and both were very successful. Marion Cox is now a colonel, and is in line for 78