Austin College - Chromascope Yearbook (Sherman, TX)

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EDWARD EUGENE DIGGS, JR., A. B, Childress, Texas Athenaeum Behold the pinch hitter!—Who be- comes frightened at the sound of the pill against the stick. A comical species of the Arehaezoic, who aspires to expound scripture and quote Shakes- peare until the congregation is landed in dreamland. He was a ladies’ man until Holmes stepped in and showed him a thing or two. Then he came down from his high perch and is an avowed woman hater, yet holds for the fair sex a sad attitude in the form of a suffragette. His greatest delight is in smoking cigars—that other fellows buy. He acts just like a white man would in bearing and calls the world to his attention and points himself out as a good-looking man. Is perfectly harm- less when under the influence of alco- holic beverages and never gives any one trouble except the Faculty. ROBERT MALCOLM DONNELL, A. B. Sherman, Texas Seargent-at-Arms, Thompson Literary S6- ciety: Supervisor, Recording Secretary. Vice- President, President, Critic, Athenaeum Liter- - erary Society; Recording Secretary Y. M. C. A., Class Historian. ’14: Winner Inter-Society Ora- torical Contest; Representative to State Oirator- “Possum” is a fine, large creature with features strongly resembling the animal for which he was named. He wears his bristly hair pompadoured in such a way as would make any por- cupine jealous. Coming from the coun- try as he does he is a fine example of that locality. Well may it be said of him that “you can take a man out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the man.’’ His favorite recreation (unless we except eating) is ’possum hunting, naturally holding a fondness for his ancestors. Donnell is not much of a society man, but he has stalwart qualities. We might call him a diamond in the rough, with the ac- cent on the rough. ' He makes an excellent jack-ass on most all occasions 34 °f public gatherings.