Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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Vol. 69 l1UXX'lDO'lN BUG LE 1915 1914 VIQRY morning as the chapel bell sounds its last notes, between the rows of men, would-be men, and hopelessly confirmed babes tcounting from the ,lunior forms toward the doorj a few ligures creep furtively down the aisle with shy glances to the right and left and snuggle under the protecting wing of the faculty member conducting chapel. lf you are accompanied by a sub- freshman whom you have tried to keep from noticing these human tragedies, he is sure to ask with more rhetoric than compassion, XVhence come these palsierl forms and what their names ? And in an embarrassed whisper you say 1914f' He wonders if this is a license number or a cell number, whether they have always been that way or not, and you perforce must answer. lf a member of IQIO or 1917, you have probably allowed wonder on this subject to make one groove on the unserried plains of your embryonic brain with no other result than the afore- said groove. lYe of IQ15 have kept the sad truth locked in our hearts since the day we discovered that the class which was to have been an arc-light unto our path was in reality a smoky kerosene lamp. During our Freshman year we used them gently but firmly, offering ourselves as willing subjects for expression of Sophomorely manhood, which, three Alasses! was found utterly lacking. XX'e were compelled to take the proverbial candy from them in the shape of a football victory, much as we hated thus publicly to proclaim their incompetence. Since that year we have allowed the glory of IQIS to come between the occasionally star-specked dimness of 1914 and the wide-eyed questioning gaze oi the other two classes, so that ideals of Bowdoin manhood may still be presented for their guidance. lN'hat can we do for them? X'Vhat can they do for themselves? Dear reader, with sobs we answer, trying to conceal the harsh facts in mathematical complexity. XfVe can do twice as much for them as they can do for themselves. and twice nothing is inevitably nothing. And President Hyde can only shake from his coat-tails in June, placarding them by way of warning with a combina- tion of the AB. and B. S. degrees, to wit: A.'B.S., which is to say being inter- preted: Attetition, Benevolent Societies! 31

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CLASS OF 1914

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Vol.69 BGNNTDQIN BUGLE 1915 Senior Class, 1 9 14 Clasx Colors: Blue and XVhite Liam Yell: Cne! Nine! Une! Four! Zip! Bang! Boomerang! Roar! Rik-ki-ti-ki-ki ! Kalaniazine ! Y-e-e-oi! Fourteen! OFFICERS P7'L'Sld6'1HL, Robert Thomas llfeatherill Vice-P1'e5idem, Robert Devore Leigh S6C7'CfCI7'-Y and T1'ec1.r'Lm'1', Alfred Everett Gray Class Day Parts flfarshal, lilroy Osborne Laffasee Chczplam., Arthur Stowers Merrill Orcztor, lilwyn Collins Gage Opening Address, George Franklin Eaton Hisioriczn, Louis Augustin Donahue Closing Address, Ralph Lewin Buell Pon, Kenneth Allan Robinson Class Day Committee Edgar Robinson Payson, jr., C1lCII'I'Jl'ZfU1'L Xllilliam Henry Cunliffe, jr. Lewis Turner Brown Earle Spaulding Thompson Neal Dow Tuttle 32