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

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Paul Steere Burgess Randolph Haywood Carpenter Robert Winthrop Cummings Harold Arnold Easterbrooks Clarence Bland Edwards Ralph Waldo Goodale John Ira Hardy Bertha May Heath Warren Henry Amos Harris Kenyon Helen Scott Lamond Alfred Rogers Lee Leroy Leidman Mounce George Abbott Peabody John Leland Sherman Hiram Jameson Smith Walter Gray Taylor Harriet Taber Tucker Albert Frederic Wagner David Elbridge Worrall

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THE GRIST TjStstnrg nf Hip (Elaaa nf 1909 When the class of ' 09 first assembled on Kingston Hill, we were just as green as any other bunch of Freshmen. Now, after four years, we can look back and judge of our acts good, bad, and indifferent, if not with entire impartiality, still with more fairness than at the time when they occurred. As a whole we are proud of our record. In our Freshman year we traded flags with the Sophomores and trimmed them in a rush on the top stairs of the dormitory. Three of our men made their R. I. in football that year, and when the basketball season opened, ’09 was easy winner in all the class games. The first outside game was won for the college by the class team. Since then we have furnished the basketball captain for the college team. In other branches of athletics we have always been well represented. For a week during the fall term of our Sophomore year we assisted the Freshmen in finding the spice of life, variety. There were moving pictures, changed on the average twice a day. Even the president took a hand at entertaining. The result was that ’09 was victorious in the second and last, as well as in the first real class rush that Rhode Island College has ever known. Something else which we did in our Sophomore year, and which it gives us more pride to recall was the inaugu- ration of a new social event, the Sophomore Hop. The other classes have kept up with our lead until it has now become one of the regular events of the year. When we became Juniors and upper classmen, work began to claim more attention than anything else. We were willing to leave the fooling to the young ones. One member of the class found time to conceive, and bring to successful completion, a prep, school track meet under the auspices of the college athletic association. Days full of work soon brought us into the Senior class, where more work was waiting. Commencement is now but a short time off. This year it means the Class of ’09; and when we go, we shall leave a record of which we are not ashamed. With us we shall carry a true, deep love for Rhode Island College. 21

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THE GRIST history nf the (Elasa nf lilUT Three years have passed since the band of Freshmen who styled themselves the Class of 1910 first took up their abode on Kingston Hill. These years have brought us pleasures, and they have brought us troubles; they have wrought changes in our class, and changes in our Alma Mater as well. It is interesting at this point to look back- ward over three short years of our history and note the signs of growth. As Freshmen we lacked neither the verdancy nor the other traditional attributes of this class. An overcharge of energy, superfluous steam perhaps, impelled us to many pranks which, no matter what else may be said of them, at least served to indicate that there were Freshmen at the College. When we met the Sophomores, we were some- what handicapped for lack or organization and leadership, but the events of an exciting fall term showed how vigor and energy will make up for such a deficiency. However, as we grew older we enlarged a trifle mentally; and, although as Sophomores we felt obliged to give the new comers a little instruction, yet by the end of the year we were in fairly stable equilibrium. Some of us may have been slower in the enlarging process than others, Miss George could supply further information on this point. However that may be, our Junior year has been a period of tranquility and hard work. Most of us have remained merry bachelors, in spite of Freshmen escapades, but a few celebrated their Junior year by blundering in the way of Cupid’s darts. There are also those incorrigible fussers whom we know not whether to put in the married or single class. Such in brief has been our evolution. Looking backward again, we realize that there has been a growth in the institution as well as in ourselves. We have seen the College lifted out of the prep, school class in athletics and placed firmly on a collegiate basis; and some of our members have done much to attain this success. We have witnessed the continual enlargement of courses and raising of standards, also the addition of a third branch to the curriculum, the Home Economics course. The greenhouses and the new boiler plant have been constructed, while the fight for recognition in the state, and the struggle to obtain a new dormitory were exciting incidents of our stay here. It is likely that we have seen the end of the Junior reception, and its attendant hostilities. Our class abolished it this year, and it appears probable that our example will be followed, and some other function be held instead of the traditional incentive to a “scrap. ” We are now beginning to realize how short a time remains for us at our Alma Mater. Our ranks have suffered some loss, yet we still have a goodly number who are looking forward to caps and gowns, the bachelor’s degree, and farewell to old Kingston Hill. 23