Roanoke College - Rawenoch Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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trunks and other valuables of students, who happened to be sporting, from their rooms to the front porch of their best girl. 6 We have attempted herein to set forth in glaring light, both the Small and great of our number-omitting none from the moss-backed Prep. to the grave and sedate cap and gowned Senior, and including the Sophs., who know all and feel more as well as the juniorg Wljose place in College life able mathematicians have in vain attempted to hnd. We have also included the janitor as well as that great and august assembly of learned Professors, who are the exponents of wisdom and whose faces make bright the pages of this book. We would say by way of parenthesis, for the benefit of the ladies, that all these Professors are married except two, and as this is leap year they are already spoken for. XfVe would, therefore, advise that they look for matrimonial timber among the charming and handsome students of which the Board of Editors is composed, and with refer- ence to which it was specially selected. We have also endeavored to place before you the students who have made themselves famous in College life, whether as Grinders, Orators, Conversationalists, or Lady Killers, all according to their sev- eral talents. NNe have attempted to show some of the merits and demerits of the individual as others see them, to remind him that although he zlv, there are ofhers. We wish to thank the Professors who have aided us in this work, and especially our President, whose interest we gratefully appreciate. To all into whose hands Roi-:N'rc:EN Riws may come, we would express the hcpe that it will help them to pass some pleasant hours, forgetting for the time at least, the pressing reality of their own trials and tasks while they are thinking of oursg and if they have never experienced the pleasure and work, success and defeat, advantages and aims of a College life, we trust they will seriously think on them and soon join the students of QLD Roiwokli. V THE EDITORS.

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PREFACE. Xe O Alumni, Ex-students and Friends of an Institution which has half a century of noble life and useful' work securely in the past, we believe this little volume will prove interesting and pleasant. Wfith another consecrated and enthusiastic man as director of the best interests of Roanoke College, it enters upon a new era in its history. It is but natural, with these changed conditions, that ROENTGEN Rays should awaken from its Rip Van VVinkle slumber and breathe the air of a new life. To some, Ro15N'1'cs15N Rays, after a Eve years silence, will come as a familiar and welcomed friend. To others who have not had the pleasure or misfortune of making its acquaintance, we would say, that it is a College publication, gotten up by the students, but which dares not make its appearance before the public until it has passed under the searching but very lenient eyes of College Professors. Primarily this little volume is intended for the hnancial saving of our dear professors who otherwise would have to spend great sums of money for individual photographs of all the students to keep con- stantly before them, because they were all such faithful workers that the professors look with keen anticipation to the time when each shall be a power in the world and do great honor to his professor. Another and no less important purpose of this volume is to show the world that here at Roanoke we are growing more Miltons, Shake- speares, Napoleans and XVashingtons, and that those whose faces appear oftenest are the strongest candidates for these honors. Again, we wish to remind those who have gone forth from OLD Roaxokii that other students are now here going through the training which prepared them for the battles of life, and that as soon as we have mastered the Campus, Greek roots, Latin verbs, Sophomore Mathe- matics, and learned well how to can cows, grease black-boards, make love to the innocent Salem girls and receive our lamb fleeces at com- mencement, we will join them in singing the praises of our Alma Mater. To many who have tasted of the Pierian waters of Roanoke, we Hatter ourselves that this little volume will come as a welcomed friend, helping them to live over again their College days, and to feel once again that bouyant force of youth when aspirations were limited only by the infinite realm of space, and stores of potential energy found vent by making nights hideous for weary slumbers or transferring KQ'l'l7fIlT the

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Board of trustees. HoN. HENRY' E. BLAIR, President ...... RoRER'1' W. IQIME, A.'M., Secretary.. VVILLIAM H. RU'r11RAUE1f, Treasurer... D. B. STROUSE ............. ........ ....... XV11-1.mM MCCAU1.EY, A. M ........... REV. ALEXANDER P1u1.L1P1'I, D. D.. . A. lVl:ORIiIIEAD, A. M., D. D ........ . J HON. HENIQX' S. TROUT ........... TI-IEO1'I'IILLIS l. SIIICREI.. HoN. A. M. BOWMAN ........... REV. L. G. M. M11.1.ER, D. D.. . HoN. GEORGE XV. IQOINICR, A. M. ..... . GliOI2CiE P. CR.x1on11.1. ...... REV. Lv'rnER L. Smrn, A. M .......... REV. CARL E. GIQEXNINIEIQ, S. T. D Ax11:RosE L. HENIQIEI. .... JOSEPH D. Lomax .... ..... FRANR H. C11.u.MERs, A. M. .... l. E. COOPER, A. M ...... ..... JUDGE XV. VV. NIOI-'I-'I2'1 l'. .... .. EDGAR L. GREEYER, A. M ..... .... .. .- .. .- ..... Salem, Va. Salem Va. Salem, Va. Salem, Va. Salem, Va. NVytl1eville, Va .Salem, Va. Roanoke, Va. .Salem, Va. .Sale1n, Va. Roanoke, Va. Richmond, Va. Lynchburg, Va .StraslJurg, Va. Norfolk, Va, New Market, Va .Union, XV. Va. .Salem, Va. .XYinchester,Va .Salem, Va. fllazewell, Va.