Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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History of Class of Nineteen=Five ADIES and Gentlemen!” announced the sonorous voice of Mrs. Jarley’s new manager; this exhibition is calm, classical, inspir- ing. It is the life history of a typical college class, that of 1905, in the splendid institution of Adelphi College; which we have chosen to represent in the world-renowned waxworks of Mrs. Jarley, kindly lent us for that purpose. Please step this way, to the first gallery. Observe the word upon the threshold: ‘Freshmen!’ a truly magic Open Sesame!” The manager, a dignified young woman in cap and gown, with the tassel over the left eyebrow, withdrew the purple velvet curtain disclosing the immortal collection of “divers sprightly effigies, singly and in groups, with their eyes very wide open and their nostrils very much inflated, and all their countenances expressing great surprise.” This first magnificent group to the right,” she continued, pointing to one where half the figures were ornamented with enormous bows which the rest were struggling vainly to secure, portrays the first event of col- lege life for 1905—the 'War of the Ribbons’ resulting from the unwar- ranted prohibition of such decorations imposed by the Sophomores. Ob- serve the disconsolate young lady in the background weeping over a broken bag. That is R. N., and she has early discovered what it means to come in conflict with ’05. This bag contained trophies of her con- quests, triumphantly retaken by the Freshmen. “The chubby, bewitching figure next in line, in baby dress, bib, and bonnet, with all the charms of infant grace, is C. M., who captivated all hearts at the celebrated Baby Party given ’05 bv her considerate sister, ’04. Coy little B. B., by her side, distinguished herself by making ’way with the greatest amount of bread and milk on that occasion, and the orator on the chair is A. W., whose success as a deelaimer of ‘Mother Goose’ prophe- sied her dramatic future. “The scene of stirring action here represented is called the ‘Snowball Battle.’ The heroic defenders in the sleigh are Freshmen, their cruel foes the Sophomores; the lady in the distance is the deserted Miss F., and the smiling gentleman is Dr. L., whose friendliness is deceptive, as he per- fidiously betrayed them the next day.

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Senior Class Members OFFICERS President..... Vice-President Secretary..... Treasurer...... Historian..... .Katherine F. Tobin .. . Grace S. Ramsay .. .Stella M. Tomlin .......Ethel R. Flail Mary FI. Livermore Ruth Benson........... Ida Briggs............ Elizabeth M. Brown... Emily G. Chapman Florence C. Davenport Katherine Diffenderfer Joseph G. Dunn........ Frances F'orshew..... Louise M. Fulda. Ethel R. Flail....... Pauline P. Hathaway. Mary H. Livermore.. . Alice Nearing........ Helen M. O’Brien.... Marie D. Perozo....... Grace S. Ramsay...... Mark S. Reardon...... Edith M. Sands........ Helen E. Schradieck.. Alicia V. Smith wick.. Jean W. Swan.......... Katherine F. Tobin... Stella M. Tomlin...... Anna K. Van Vranken Agnes V. Wilding.. .. . . .76 St. James Place ... .215 Lincoln Place .......19 Pulaski St. . . .316 Lafayette Ave. .. 373 Tompkins Ave. .... 782 DeKalb Ave. .....734 E. Third St. 269 Eighty-second St. ..........107 Kent St. .....6 Lefferts Place .... 162 Clifton Place .. Red Springs, N. C. .... 674 Putnam Ave. .....247 Marcy Ave. .. .254 Jefferson Ave. .... 198 Lincoln Ave. .........209 Keep St. ... .498 Putnam Ave. 535 Washington Ave. ......374 Macon St. . . .. River Edge, N. J. . .. .62 Van Buren St. ......386 Lewis Ave. .. . .Plempstead, L. I. .....1099 Bergen St.

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 ‘The Victory of 1905’ is the name of this beautiful athletic figure, poised on a basketball, and pointing to an imaginary score of 12 to 3. “We will now pass into the second gallery. Observe the superb car- riage of the head, the increase in majesty and stateliness. This, my friends, is the Sophomore gailery. The intense excitement of this first group at once reveals its subject. This is the class election. You will observe several groups conferring together. The most serene-looking girl in the crowd becomes the new President, £. C, who has done much to make the history of 1905 so creditable. This second is not a Brooklyn Bridge crush, but the great reception. Note the happy faces, and the miraculous manner in which the frappe is being distributed without serious accident. Ladies and Gentlemen, here is one of the most touching pieces of waxwork in our collection. This beautiful maiden is absorbed in weigh- ing a diploma and a wedding ring, while the young man in the background is slyly endeavoring to tip the scale in favor of the latter. Alas! I. E. succeeded only too well! and did the limits of our time permit we might reveal the interesting tale, but we must leave it to your imagination. “Lay aside frivolities, my friends, as we enter the third gallery. This is the Junior collection; and the great book swung from the ceiling is placed there to show that it entirely dominates the situation. This is the illustrious Oracle! Here you will find a series of statuettes which may remind you vaguely of the Twelve Labors of Hercules. This ink-stained scribbler, with the wild eye and gloomy brow, is the joke manufacturer. Here we see a luckless individual called upon suddenly for class recita- tion while dreaming a Pindaric ode for the Oracle, and the blank dismay of her face prefigures the terrible catastrophe about to overtake her. These people grouped around a table piled with manuscript, tearing their hair while the editor-in-chief, K. T., pounds for order, are sculptured from life,—an Oracle Board meeting, where all arc anything but bored. The commanding figure in the corner is S. T. demanding ‘ads.’ These twelve girls swinging on a rope arc a chef-doeuvre; as also the one doing the Statue of Liberty on a post by the mad sea waves; both serving to revive other memories of the Board. You will all admire the Gibson effect of this Belle of the Prom. “This last figure might be a reproduction of its forerunner in the second gallery; but the artist has shown his versatility by another repre- sentation. This cluster of college girls, with their hows falling off in sur-