Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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7:9 , ,lx Q ft sql L Qf-A Melvin. T. Copeland, 1906, Foreman, Robie Reed Stevens, XII Y, Secreiafjf, Robert John Hodgson, jr., A A rib, Robert Alexander Cony, A K E, Charles Luff Favinger, Z MII, Henry Phillips Boody, K 2, Currier Carleton Holman, A Y, William Shepard Linnell, 1907, Leon Vasco Parker, B C9 H, Thaddeus Blaine Roberts, Non-Society, Harold Grant Tobey, C9 A X, Roscoe Henderson Hupper, IQO8, jasper jacob Stahl, 1909. I 26

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The Jerzzors. : QCCVQS: ITH such an inspiring title, your editor is half inclined to essay Q Q the heroic meter, but remembering the warning to such per- 6 A Q V 5 formers who swayed about on a rocking-horse and thought it x' I Pegasus, we will stick to the prose. Only we sometimes A 'X wonder if the pedestal of fame does not sway in a manner some- what suspicious even to those lordly Seniors who think it Pegasus. Here in truth is something for the hair of the immortal H Cunner to throw light upon. Yet in vain will we seek if we try to hndfwhen first the ungainly steed began his hellish career with IQO6 perched upon his back. For from the very start they had their ups and downs IQO5 had an overfondness for golf links parties and other little attentions which, if they did not appreciate, the then Freshmen condescended to attend, as C. I. I. Hicks will even now take oath. But Freshman year was a joy and a delight compared to Sophomore year. Spud Clark's melodious voice, which had survived the rigors of Freshman oratory, sounded the call in vain on that first morning at chapel. There was simply nothing doing after the first rush, and 1907 was left master of the field. But how we Freshmen were overawed by the doughty forms of Edward Super- fiuous Hale and Holman. Not the inane smiles of Myrtie', Edwards, the society acquisition from Bates, nor our benevolent assimilation into the Y. M. C. A. at the hands of Charles Bluffl' Favinger could quite reassure us against such wild and woolly Sophomores as Gov. Powers, Leon Vasco di Gama Par- ker, Blossom', Skofield and Dick Shaw. Even the Circean wiles of t'Sporterl' Fox could not win us to a calm consideration of the awful countenance of Thad- deus U Plain Roberts. It was not so much what Thad did as his mere presence stalking across the campus, the personification of r9o6, terrible to look upon. Then there was Jim Sewalland his bacchanalian crew. What a Silenus he would have made in those days if he had had a beard like Cough-drop Lewis of happy memory. It was at the opening of junior year that 1906 made its last feeble effort to quell the spirit of I9o7. There is but one incident of that little affair on the steps of Appleton which we, in justice to r9o6, think should be noticed here. I refer to that fearless sally into the ranks of the enemy by the redoutable Leon Vasco di Gama Parker. Alone and unaided he rushed into the arms of the foe, shouted encouragement to his wavering followers and then expired for want of gas in the arms of Kingsley. junior year also saw .an influx of theologs into this all-suffering class: Peterson the Persuader and that curious anomaly, a football minister, Charley Hawkesworth. And then came Ivy Day, what a per- 28