Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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formance for the trailing footed gait of the Homeric Blossom I Other incidents of that nerve-racking day we will forbear to relate, but we all breathed a sigh of relief when it was over. Now as Seniors we survey you, 1906, our elder brother. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul! should have been good advice to you, but what have we to chronicle? Your paragons are no more paragons, your little gods have been knocked quite off their pedestals, yea, even the saintly forms of Robie the Rover and that youthful prodigy of the surname Shaw. Your idols are destroyed and you must bow down before the false gods of Prex and the graven images of him of the nine hundred and ninety-nine volumes of Rules and Regulations. 0 femjmra ! O mares ! that such things should be. K Seniors, and we would better call you martyrs, for assuredly you are such stuff martyrs are made of, the college will be better for your having been here, if it is only for the fact that you have drawn the ire of old jupiter on his Olympian Height, and the horrible punishments visited on you have calloused our minds and hearts in expectation of what is to come. But now let us dip our pen in the ink of kindness. It suits but ill to assume always a critical attitude. As your younger brother we may have seen many things in your conduct to poke fun at, but we would be lacking in a sense of humor if we did not see that such might well be true of us. So if in a cool moment you find your rocking-horse is not a Pegasus, do not be discouraged, but only sway the harder and some day, my dears, after you have quaffed at the Pierian spring, you may soar to heights yet unknown. Ave affine vale .f 29

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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

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Jenior Class, 1906. Class Colors : Blue and Wliite. Raxico, Braxico, Vive-la Phi! Allala, Allala, Rickerty Chi! The W'hite and thc Blue Foreve Bowdoin, Bowdoin, 1906! , Yell: Officers. President, Henry Philip Chapman, r Rex! Vice President, Harry Leslie Childs. Treasurer, Lewis Hewett Fox Marshal, George Ulmer Hatch. Crator, Charles Vllesley Hawkesworth. Poet, james Wiiigate Sewall, Ir Opening Address, Charles Lurf Favinger. Closing Address, Harvey Philip 'Wiiisloxix Historian, Rohie Reed Stevens. Chaplain, Harold George Booth C'0mmz'z'lc'e of A 7'7'!Z7Zg'E77Z67ZZ4S. Ralph Grant W'ebber, Williani Haines Stone, Fred Edgecomb Richards Piper C0m11zz'lz'ee on Pz'fz'u7'es. Raymond Blinn Williaiiis, Currier Carleton Holman, 30 Edward Russell Hale