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

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Cl if £risr Company A 84 Company B So Band .......... 86 Student Council S7 (llee Club 8S-89 Orchestra 90 Engineering Society 91 Agricultural Club 92 Science Club ........ 93 Dramatic Club 94 Debating Club 95 Rifle Club 96 Lecture Association 97 V. M. C. A 98 Y. W. C. U 99 Literary Society ........ 100 Chepuxet Boat and Canoe Club 101 Woonsocket Club ....... 102 The Beacon . . . . . . . . 103 Day Student Organization 104 The Year 105 118 Junior Prom 106 Commencement Week ....... 107 Baccalaureate Service 108 Reading of Kingston Prize Essays .... 109 Class Day 110 111 Commencement 112 Commencement Ball . 113 Social Room Reception . 114 Sophomore flop . . . 115 Military Ball 116 Scholastic Honors ....... 117 Year’s Review 118 Chaff 119-134 Calendar 120127 Cartoons ........ 128 (Binds 129-134 History of R. I. S. C. 135-180 Advertisements 181-200 6

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Ctic i rist Table of Contents Title Page Previous Grists .... Grist Board .... Table of Contents Editorial Corporation .... The Faculty .... College Calendar Alumni Association The Classes .... Senior Junior .... Sophomore .... Short Course and Specials . Poultry Students Athletic Field .... Athletics Athletic Association Men Entitled to Wear R. I. Baseball .... Track .... Football .... Basketball .... Tennis .... Girls’ Basketball Yells Fraternities .... Rho Iota Kappa . Sigma Delta Beta Phi .... Theta Rho .... Organizations .... Battalion .... Officers .... S 1 2 3 4 7-9 10 11-19 20 21 22 24-25 42-43 44 45 46 47-71 48 49 50-53 54-59 60-65 70 71 72 73-80 7475 76-77 78-79 80 81-104 82 83

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£hc £ ri8t EDITORIAL E class of Nineteen Hundred and Twelve has always held as its motto the word “Initiative.” All that we have attempted during our three years of college life here, we have tried to do originally, and we hope, well. Therefore, it was but natural that when it be- came our duty to publish the Grist, we should ponder for an original treatment of this also. We believe that we have suc- ceeded. This is the twentieth year of our incorporation as a college, and this book the fifteenth volume of the Grist, published by the students. What, therefore, we thought, would be more appropri- ate than to make our volume a historical number? Hence we set about its preparation with this in view, utilizing the last quarter of the book for this purpose, in a brief “His- tory of Rhode Island State College,” which we hope will be ap- preciated both by the alumni who made the events recorded, and by the present undergraduates, who may find in it additional reasons for applying themselves with all diligence to adding to the honorable record of our beloved Alma Mater. Page two is a tribute to the publishers of the previous volumes of the annual. The last few Grist Boards have recognized the fact that the general get-up of the book was no longer in keeping with the evolution of the college, but have hesitated to depart from the ac- customed style. The Nineteen Twelve spirit rebeled here, sc we have cut lose from all customs and launched ourselves boldly into a wholesale revision, which, altho involving much extra labor, we hope has been worth the effort. Our purpose has been not only to give a history of Rhode Island State College from its charter- 7