Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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I2 TIIE AMHICRST COLLEGE OLIO. The Shakespeare Club, The Beethoven Club, The Class Glee Clubs, The Amherst Navy, and The Chess and Whist Clubs. The only' one of these which attained a world-wide fame was the Amherst Navyf' The sad decadence of the Beethoven and Class Glee Clubs renders possible the ignorance of, and lack of appreciation for, classic music at Amherst to-clay. Worst of all, the death ofthe Chess and Whist Clubs has resulted in a deplorable indifference to the mathematical studies of the College curriculum. if jlvvtf 1 ,Q I lv,4 ' ?f5'fS',.-.9 f'-:VW .742 -:-1' 'T , f X . .1-Af X ., ,.? ,lx fmfjff Fm. 8. r N

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THE AMIIERST COLLEGE OLIO. II the luckless undergraduates. The Freshman, deprived of the kind counsel of parent and pastor, enters upon his course in fear and trembling, dangling helplessly from the tail of the Collevfe charffer. o o , The Sophomore in the second quarter has obtained H1 lfifjgm lo . . . . NJ' 771 ' . a precarious position on the posterior edge of the Clam Hl.N0rz.eY ' ffl- ':?' . . . . ' 1 ' animal and is constantly apprehensive of gettlng 1-,V34 Ohm. fllf gk .. , : dropped. , . ,fig T The suggestive humor of the two remaining illustrations ,, must be seen to be appreciated. We therefore submit them to the reader's attention. fFigs. 8 and 9.5 the general reader. Some few, however, may perhaps be cited. We invite the at- - , .H,.?zf 41. .s ' V' 'Q-fu' ' C: M s 1 l f ' Q 4, in , ,te Q 423 5? Q. 'lil' Q' fi vf f 0 X :lx I X , . 21 fi xlib ae' ' Wit '!',w,,, .ai 1 1 .-ea., 'Ui-.elif itll ' .. 'i'Ntil6'l: l In this brief account of the 01.10 we have purposely omitted mention of the organizations and statistics, because of their lack of interest to The Oqgnniza iious amz' S!1zlz'.rz'z'e.r. '11 I am gahlg' to be tough and have a big' flllllf. lim not going lo worry abuul keefing' ug' eaulrnri, nm! lY'.r 11 eolzt' :lay when the College 7'L'IIl01lL'IfV1IJII we am!! mn't chars il 1Ijl mn! ealrh 17. Thnllx lhe kim! qflz hflllf-fly! I nm, nm! fz'vu'l you j1r1g'e.l H! Brave up, Satan, and dmfl gel behiuri me . ' Fm. 6. Perhaps we may also devote a few lines to a re- view of the defunct organieations. Alexandria, Athenac, and the Social Union Societies have naturally died away ' f as the Secret Societies have become more numerous. But we sincerely mourn the decadence of the fol- lowing:- '73 OL1o:- tention of the base-ball cranki to a pe- rusal of the following statistics from the Amherst 'zfersus Williston, zo S Amherst versus NVilliston, 8 21 Amherst 1fer.m.v Old Elms of Pittsfield, 25 7 Amherst versus Mutuals of Springfield, 24 7 77 43 ' Totals, 1 350 FN , x-,1 S Q X X .V 'igkgfe Wt' , .1 lZClnl::'.. .sffligf . h r . 'R 'i ,.. 'ii 12' , ' f a, X y ' lv if fiiiav . X! . '4 - iffy ff' f, ff, I X ff i ff I am j, 0IVl-Q' lo lu' rr guna' boy, Ifrllfll 1101 lessazlx well, mul' 011111: 1101 dem' frfgkssarr low me, nr ummum lah! me to. FIG. 7. 'lf To our great discomfiture a reprehensible pun has here lowered the tone of the history. The devil was so pleased with it that hc maliciously refuses to make any alteration. XVe can only beg the indulgence of our rcaclcrs. T This slang term has been so generally used of late years to indicate a kincl of hcnighletl mono- maniac that we do not hesitate to employ it here.

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A-llfhflr N TIIIS AMHILRST COLLEGE 01.10. I3 In pursuance of our commission, we, the historians of the Board, have noted with .increasing delight the extraordinary progress of the publication from decade to decade. Its philanthropic efforts in reforming the college world by the correction of individual eccentricities S '3' has had a marked influence on civilization. In the darkest n I A'ej!eclz'om'. period of the past it presented the only ray of hope to the undergraduates amid the despotism of an irresponsible Faculty. To-day it sup- plements with its keen satire and bold invective, the weak and inefficient eHorts of the College Senate against a Facility which has laid aside the straightforward policy of an Agamemnon only to assume the crafty wilcs of a Ulysses. Xt . . xi ,F X X. .XA X tfzfx - sg Fic. 9. amz' C01lL'f?ldl'll.g'