Austin College - Chromascope Yearbook (Sherman, TX)

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Men.bSkf , Vice-President Building Commit President Glee C - Vice-Presid n Literary Society; Dutch C “Babe” in name but not in nature. Though very sweet and innocent look- ing, curly black hair and guileless blue eyes, he is the worst confidence man in North Texas and spends most of his time in taking pennies away from the preps. In him also we find the white hope and he is in training now —to meet Jack Johnson on the field of battle at an early date. Even now he is trying to sell front seats to his friends at a big reduction, so he says. But they are selling slow as his friends are so tender-hearted they do not wish to see him punched. His one redeem- ing feature is that he delights in giving banquets to the Class at the Binkley. He is also somewhat of the type of a hopeless lover without a sad counte- RAOUL PEDRO GUITART, A. B. Cardenas, Cuba “Cuby” claims that he comes from Cuba, but we privately believe that he is an escaped Mexican rebel. He has all the characteristics. Of late he has become a lecturer on Spanish and weekly discourses to vast assemblies on the beauties and charms of his native tongue. He has “heart trouble” and fre- quently is laid up by this organ becom- ing dislocated. He at one time had a very fine voice and seriously considered opening up a studio across the street from Caruso, but he spoiled it all by singing in the damp evening air of Sherman. For long he labored with Math., but he was finally conquered and has now become a great chemist and soon intends to place before the scientific world some wonderful discov- eries that will open their eyes in horror.

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ALBERT EDWIN GERLACH. Livingston, Texas Athenaeum “Ed” is from the sticks but he is far from green. He came up here with a few cockle burrs in his hair—and it looks like they are still there at first sight—but constant combing has gotten practically all of them out, but left some of the awfulest kinks one ever saw on a whiteman’s bean. He has a strong affinity for feminine virtues and at- tracts girls with an irresistible force. Once he was caught in the act of put- ting his arm around a visiting girl, but he didn’t even blush then. Therefore he is an old hand at the game. He was a hard student, but his health failed him in his Senior year and he was forced to go to the bottoms to recuper- ate. We trust that vigorous fighting with the mosquitoes has brought strength and health back to him. He was also an eloquent dispenser of in- decent epithets, acquired along with the rest of the class while taking the Chemistry course. ' 38 Track Team ’11-T2: Captain Basket Ball team. Manager’ll: Assistant Manager Football [•earn ’13; Business Manager Glee Club ’12. Dutch :iub Treasurer ’14: Delegate Y. M. C. A. Con- ention at Austin T2- Y. M. C. A. Cabinet ’12-’13; enior Bowling Team ’14: Sergeant-at-Arms, Re- ecretary. Corresponding Secretary. Yice-Presi- “Gns” is very good natured, bqt he has a figure like a drink of water. We don’t let him go out alone unless he is weighted down for fear that the wind will pick him up and never bring him back. Even then there is danger that he may slip through, a crack in the ground and be lost forever. With, a few other Seniors Gus has an unexplaina- ble passion for chemistry and has pur- sued the elusive Organic through'ihcuiy years. He comes at present from Aus- tin, but he may moye—because he has to. His fame comes from the unsightly pictures he has drawn for the Chroma- scope. The way he loves classes is a sin. In his Senior year he boasts of 28 happy hours under thje guidance of pa- tient professors each week. He often tries to ‘ ‘spark’ ’ among the women by means of a cheap line of wit, which is far from the sparkling kind.

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ARTHUR GORMAN HOPKINS, A. B. Dallas, Texas “Sis” we call him because his feet are like a girl’s. (?). In some other respects he has the qualities of a man. He thinks he is the handsomest man in the Class and we can’t find it in our hearts to set him right. Really he is so ugly that he has to slip up on the water to wash his face. Consequently he seldom washes it. Oratory is his strong point. So proficient has he be- come in this art that he is often able to totally conceal the absence of thought in his compositions by a superfluity of words. He is somewhat of a lover but hasn’t had any luck so far. He is eas- ier strung by a girl than any other fel- low in the Class, but so long as he is ignorant we will leave him alone and let him be happy. His wit is punk, his ambition low, but with his big heart and “push” qualities he may make a success in the world. We dare not say for certain. 4Q HAROLD WESLEY HUNTER. San Antonio, Texas Athenaeum Manager Track Team ’13: Football Squad ’12- ’13: Class BasebaM Team ’13: Professional Hoot- Owl. Define him? “An animal that sleeps by day and prowls by night.” This insectivore was never known to go to a class and stay through it. If he ever went he always excused himself before it was over. He constantly wore moc- casins so he could sneak in and out without disturbing the rest of theclass. He also knew not when the day began and ended for ordinary humans. His chief delight was in cutting classes while he slept, and then keeping every- body awake at night. There is a re- port running around among the student body that he could not stand the day- light because it hurt his eyes, conse- quently anyone venturing into his room about dusk, or a little liter, would find Hal rising from his slumbers that he might carouse about during the night. As soon as the sun began to peep in over the horizon, he betook himself at once to his bed and never rose until it had gone down behind a. golden west. He had more friends among the tom cats than he did in the student body, and that is saying a whole lot.