Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Janie Bradley, A. B. ‘Why did my parents send me to schools, That I with knowledge might enrich my mind, Since the desire to learn first made men fools. And did corrupt the root of all mankind? ' She poses as the fondest of Wesleyan’s fair daugh- ters, and spends her time singing its jiraises. Her mother says that, like the children who cry for Castoria, Janie cries for Wesleyan when she is away, and feels so attached to her old room that she has reserved it for next year, cherishing the hope that perhaps she can return for a post-graduate course. She is a skilled mandolin player, and often serenades rats, much to the delight of her neighbors; generally she favors them with her original composition, ‘ Oh, How I Love Wesleyan,” which always has the desired effect. She keeps all of her pin-money to put in a monument which she is going to erect in memory of Wesleyan College, with the letters R. I. P. engraved thereon in life size. Wilsoo, Macon. Janie Bradley.

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WilscD, Macon. Argent Effhea. Argent Bethea, A. B. A A ! . Imp, Freshman MeMist 1003, Exchange Editor of the Wesleyan, Member of Senior Basket-ball Team, “Averse to wisdom, seeking but to know The quickest way to captivate a beau.” Desires to join a inatriinoiiial bureau instead of a teachers’ agency, if compelled to make the choice. She entrenches herself within her Exchange Depart- ment ami fearlessly attacks the enemy, ’though she says there is danger of her adjectives giving out. Wears a red notebook tied around her neck con- stantly, in which she enters all strange adjectives that, by hook or crook, may be applied to college magazines. Her dreams are not of her lessons, but of Cupid bearing a diamond ring, “solitary,” of course. She never tells why this is her favorite dream, nor what she will do with the ring or the giver, as all minor details are left to the imagination of others. Think what you please, she “doesn’t care.” 1

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Wilson. Macon. Nellie Bkyan. Nellie Bryan, A. B. A A 4 . Correspondh i Secretary of Missionary Society, Senior Reader. “By 8i orts like these are all her cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child. First of all, she is nothing hut a child; her joys are simple and her wants are few; she is jnite modest and of less suniinors than most (»f ns, hnt of no mean mental capacity. Her greatest acconiplishinent is laughing, ami she is so gracious about it that she will do it if you look at her. To win her heart, give her a doll and a piece of red stick candy, and it has been found necessary for an older person to always accom- pany her to town to keep her from stopping before all the shop windows, which is her delight. She could he vain if she were not too young to think of such things, but her childish heart is so filled with its innocent pleasures that the thought has not entered her head, which she ‘tucks ’ at the mention of such ideas.