University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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VICTOR WELLS DOW. V. W. Dow first tried his vocal powers in the town of St. Albans, Maine, a trial that evidently was most satisfactory, as he is no slouch of a conversationalist at the present writing — never less so than when he is jollying some susceptible “co-ed” out of a pound of fudge. Dow attended district school and afterward high school in his home town, and then essayed to teach school. Wearying of the monotony of this, he began weaving wool- ens. While listening to the song of the loom, he became imbued with the desire for a higher education, and not daring to give any Maine institution the privilege of teaching his young ideas how to shoot, in the month of Septem- ber, 1901, he hied himself to “Little Rhody, ” and since then his history is interwoven with that of the class of 1905 and the Rhode Island College. “Vic” has a cheerful disposition and studious habits, and has left a clean record behind him, although he is not wholly averse to running a blufi ' . As a Sophomore, Military Science was his hobby; this year his stable is empty, and we strongly suspect that he intends to get an automobile to carry his Senior dignity about the campus.

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Sarah Elizabeth Champlin alighted upon this mundane sphere in the little town of Kingston, Rhode Island, and liked her first stopping-place so well, that, except for an extremely short sojourn in Stonington, Connecticut, she has resided there ever since. That she has done so speaks volumes to the credit of Kingston; but it is doubtful if even the natural attractions of that pleasant little hamlet would have sufficed to keep her but for the founding there of the R. I. C. Miss Champlin gained the first requisites of an education at the village school, supplemented this with two years in the college preparatory school and now as a J unior feels that her student days here are drawing to a close. She is already looking with longing eyes upon the halls of Brown University, where she fondly expects to pursue a post-graduate course, even hoping, we suspect, to capture a Ph.D. SARAH ELIZABETH CHAMPLIN “Elizabeth” has an affectionate and lively disposition; in society she is prominent, is active in Y. W. C. U. work, is the life of many a Grange meeting, and but for a fondness for Freshman sleighrides and class suppers, together with a weakness for ornaments, i e., ’07 Class Pins, might well be held up as a pattern of all that her class could wish in one of its members. 31

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JEAN GILMAN. Shirley, Maine, is responsible for it. He lived in that embryonic metropolis, breathing the genius-produc- ing air of that good old state until he was seven years of age. The next nine years of his life were spent in New Jersey, where he came into active contact with the female Jersey mosquito. The knowledge of feminine traits thus acquired nearly made him a confirmed woman hater, but he escaped this sad fate by returning to Maine. After tasting the indigestible courses on the educational menu of country schools, he came to Kingston in 1900 to imbibe the concentrated essence of preparatory education for which Mr. Tyler’s department is justly famous. Leaving the security of the “Prep” school the next year, he took passage on the good ship ’05 for a through trip. He is still drinking milk with the mathematical class, but he thinks that some one must have winked when the milk was poured out, and wonders how his milk teeth are going to chew the beef-steak which Dr. Hewes has promised us. At present his favorite occupation is dis-“cussing” calculus. 23