Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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snail' :fl . f Lfr.. avr, qfc 5. '1 C - :xmas 3 Q4 was--..1-Taxa 'ffl iii ' ll- if . ,. ,gg 55515 TSPZU f- work and harder play we passed through a very happy year as freshmen and began to realize that we were now accepted as real Brown men. It would be needless to go into de- tail over our accomplishments as Sopho- mores. We came back fewer in num- bers but still possessed of the same old will to do spirit. There was a fresh- man class to acclimate, and we obliged with a vengeance. When the call for candidates for the University football team went forth, 1929 responded with great gusto, and soon had three men playing on the most famous football team that Brown has had for many years. This was the well known Iron Man team of 1926, which was a claimant for the mythical Eastern Championship. Al Cornsweet at full- back and Ed Kevorkian and Lew Far- ber in the line, played splendid football and received no little recognition. And so on throughout the year. We had men on every team representing the University, including the undefeated wrestling and tennis teams. Quite an FRESHMEN-SOPHOMORE FIGHT achievement, and one of which we are justly proud. Our Junior year was but a repetition of the success of the two preceding years. There is little use of recounting our continuous athletic and scholastic triumphs. Success was ours for the asking, and from our records one would gather that we asked quite a bit, for we surely were successful. Our Junior week program was resplendent with innovations and surprises. As the close of this wonderful year drew near, many of us looked with re- gret on the thought that we were to have but one more year on the Hill. However, we all had a determined desire to make that last year the best that any class in the history of the University has ever experienced. And then at last we were Seniors. We had reached the goal for which we had been striving with so much effort, and were prepared to take advantage of every opportunity that was open to us. The various campus publications and organizations seemed to ex- perience a Renaissance when placed under our control. Vigorous new policies and reforms were instituted by the Managing Boards of the Daily Herald and Brown Jug and those fine periodicals had truly successful years. Our Cammarian Club startled the rest of the University by abolishing the Freshman Cap and the Vigilance Committee at one stroke. Truly a far-sighted innovation, and one which augurs well for the maturing of college men. No longer were Brown freshmen to be considered and treated as babies. Our Senior Frolic Committee gave us a very nice affair and our class day and spring day committees dld equally well. The last of our college days were absolutely the finest days that we had eVeY' '?XDer1enced. Long afternoons of well-deserved leisure were our reward for the hard- working afternoons that we had spent during the three previous years. Pleasant associa- tions with many of our fellows whohad been too busy in the past to become real friends, gave us a real insight into the worth of those whom we are pleased to call classmates. As we look back over our college career of four pleasurable years, we have no regrets and can see nosorrows. Truly all of us have had disappointments and set-backs, but they have been trivial when compared with the great amount of satisfaction that we have had while at Brown. There are none of us who, if given the chance, would not enter Brown willingly again as freshmen and we can justly say that- We are ever true to Brown . . . 24

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sh-,vl ,lf .fare wr, afxff. f . f u q:5m-' N was-.w : rw .v s-.1 isa- 61 lf Il. L e af is .ii 1- ' ' QJ1 K 'xii History of the Class of l929 O our way of thinking, no other class in the history of Brown University can, with any degree of success, point to a record of achievement such as that set up by the class of 1929. Ours is a record to which we point with pardonable pride, for it is one replete with honors and glory in both the scholastic and the athletic worlds. We number among ourselves men famed nationally and internationally for outstanding ac- complishments, and we believe that we are thoroughly justified in heaping praise upon them and upon ourselves. Our career at Brown has been one of supreme happiness and has at no time caused us to regret our choice of an institution of higher learning. We take from our Alma Mater an indescribable feeling of satisfaction and contentment, which we gathered therein, and we feel that Brown has benefited from our having been num- bered among her students. Realizing full well the debt that we owe our Alma Mater, we are attempting to relate at this point a few of the services thatwe have rendered for the further glory of Brown. The 400 men who assembled in Sayles Hall for a psychological examination in the fall of 1925, were looked upon by the majority of upperclassmen as decidedly queer. The reason for this was that there had been a general tightening-up of the requirements for admission to the University during the preceding spring and summer, and current opinion had it that our class would be all wet, and that Brown prestige and athletic fame would suffer accordingly. As the result of stricter entrance requirements, the class of 1929 did turn in a higher psychological standing than preceding classes, but did not suffer any lack of physical perfection in so doing. In fact, when the results of the 'physical examinations had been tabulated, we were found to be above par, and the belief that we would turn out to be a puny bunch of grinds was shattered. I Our first days on the campus were busy and happy ones. We met the Sophomores in the usual class skirmishes and easily defeated them in the fiag rush. We were not too strict on them however and gracefully allowed them to win the wrestling bouts. This last act seems to be traditional in the University, and it was not our intention to break with tradition while still so young in the ways of Brown men. With the start of classes there came a call for men for the freshman athletic teams. 1929 fielded an excellent football team, under the leadership of Captain Farber, and many men whose names were later to be famous as University players of note learned to play Brown football with this unit. The team went through the season with but one defeat, and Kevorkian and the Cornsweet Brothers performed brilliantly. The cross country team had an equally Sue- cessful season. Those of us who were not gifted athletically managed to busy ourselves among the various non-athletic activities on the Campus, and many of us became elected and appointed to responsible positions. - . As the year wore on and we became more at home in our new world, we became con- scious of a great love for Brown and its institutions. Truly we were loyal sons, al- though only freshmen. The monotony of the first semester's duties was well broken up by fraternity. rushing and pledging and the winter sports' seasons. Our wrestling, swim- 2 ming, and basketball teams all enjoyed fairly successful seasons, and unearthed many more real athletes from among our ranks. The second semester found us thinner in numbers, due to the ruthless mid-year exams, but those of us who survived still formed one compact, energetic group. In the spring our track and baseball teams were excellent. The baseball team with Haskell Billings Cof Detroit famej on the mound, won most of its games, and our track team, numbering among its personnel such stars as John Collier and Bill Carney, was also very successful. Thus through hard BRUNQ 2N,, .1 23

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