Wofford College - Bohemian Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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LARKIN AUGUSTUS CARTER Lancaster, S. C. Be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech. College Marshal, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, First Censor, Second Critic, Vice- President, and President Carlisle Society. One of the Faculty once told us that our class was lacking in dignity, but he was wrong, howev er. The larger part of the dignity of the class is embodied in the person of Larkin. Watch him stalk across the campus some day, and deny it if you will. But his dignity is chiefly in his bodily person, and those in close touch with him find him genial, imaffected by flattery or censure, and unfailing in his appre- ciation of humor. The class could ill aft ' ord to do without this second Gus. FIIRAM SPEER BURDETTE Lanford Station, S. C. Fat paunches make quite lean the zvits. Second Censor, First Critic, and Vice-Presi- dent Preston Society; Class Basket-ball, ' 09- •lO. ' W- ' U. Hiram Speeram is not like other men ; in a world of strife and blatant noise he moves as one apart. When you talk with him he replies in a low, carefully modulated voice, having in it the assurance of high authority. You are irresistibly reminded of the murmur- ing of the pines, which at times conies to your ears, among whose tops he habitually moves, and whose music he has caught in its full meaning. He loves his brother man, and r woman — he adores her. 18

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BENJAMIN MOOD BADGER Dillon, S, C. Oil zvitli the dance, Let joy be iiiicoiifined. Corresponding- Secretary, Recording Secre- tary ' , Second Censor, and Second Critic Cal- houn Society; Inter-Societv Committee, ' 09- •10; Class Football, ' 09- ' 10. ' 10- ' 11, ' 11 - ' 12; Glee Club, ' 11- ' 12. Here he is, girls, champion heart-smasher of our class. His victories are many, his defeats few, and his heart is still his own. Some day it is to be hoped that this young Adonis will meet a Venus so fair, so bewitch- ing and altogether so adorable, that she will conquer the heart of the conqueror and bring the invincible one to her feet. ,. We suspect that this goddess will come from the old North State. For further information along this line, see Ben. FRITZ CHESTER BEACH Rock Hill, S. C. care not for adversity so long as I may drink her sweet milk, philosophy. Entered ' 06, dropped out ' 08, reentered ' 10; President Preston Society ; Executive Com- mittee, S. C. I. O. A. ; Recording Secretary College C ouncil; Class Flistorian, ' 11- ' 12; Man- ager Baseball Team, ' 11- ' 12; Inter-Collegiate Tennis Team, ' 07- ' 08, ' lO- ' ll, ' 11- ' 12; Winner Marshall Moore Tennis Trophy, ' 07- ' 08, ' lO- ' ll. Fritz is a philosopher of the modern school. He thinks along the right line and then lets you know what he thinks ; and what he says usually has the right ring. He is no idle dreamer though, for he can figure with you on any proposition, and when you have finished you end up by handing him a check, and he says, We are square. 17

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1 ROBERT LEIGHTON COX DOTHAN, N. C. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CROMLEY Saluda, S. C. Give fools their silks, and kiiaz ' es their iviiie — a man ' s a man- for a ' that. Second Censor, First Censor, Second Critic, First Critic, and Vice-President Carlisle Societ} ' . Behold the pedagogue, the terror of small boys ! Nature has made him to sit behind a desk and dictate policies. In the school-room we behold him king, monarch of all he sur- veys. When he speaks : Look a ' here, young- man, sit up and behave yourself, there is obedience. The wielder of hickory switches is respected, honored, revered. What really lurks under that quiet face is hard to tell, but this we know: it lurks, for it has never yet shown itself. The first test of a really great man is his humility. Second Censor, Recording Secretary, First Censor, ' Second Critic, First Critic, and Presi-- dent Carlisle Society ; Freshman Marshal ; Speaker Freshman Exhibition; Speaker Sopho- more Exhibition ; Constitutional Revision Com- mittee ; Junior Debater; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, ' 11- ' 12; Speaker Preliminary Wofford-David- son Debate, ' 11- ' 12; Speaker Oratorical Con- test, ' 11- ' 12; Senior Speaker. • Here we behold a philosopher from the Tar Heel State. He prides himself on the double fjict that while in college he has learned to talk fairly well, and assumed a dignitied appearance. With such endowments, we predict a brilliant career in his native country. He expects to be President of N. C. in a few years. 19