Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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. Class of 1905 WOMEN Class Yell:-Braxy, Co-ax, Co-ax, Co-ax! D Braxy, Co-ax, Co-ive! Undeviginti Centum Quinque, zrciifrwv -reifewu bfpurrot. For old Colby we will strive, Vive-la, Vive-la, Nineteen-ive! OFFICERS ' Blanche Louise Lamb, President Rose Mary Richardson, Vice President ' Alice Jane Buzzell, Secretary and Treasurer May Lucille Harvey, Poet Ethel Lenora Howard, Historian Ida Phoebe Keen, Address to Undergraduates Elizabeth Pierce Blaisdell, Prophet Ida Phoebe Keen, Statistician EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE berton Alice Jennie Pinkhani Ethel Gertrude Pem Ethel May Knight ODE COMMITTEE . Effie May. Lowe Addie May Lakin Mary Lowe Moor 19

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are no more-for the Readings at which bedlam reigned supreme, and rollicksome fun furnished an innocent outlet for youthful spirits-and incidentally gave huge delight to our friends and townspeople. During our junior year we conducted ourselves with all the dignity and decorum befitting upper-class men, enjoying as some old grad might the gentle pranks of the lower classes. And now the final year has come, and before we are well aware of its presence, it too is gone, and we must leave the fostering care of the old college. Whatevei' the future may have in store for us, whether fame or obscurity, riches or poverty, let us all ever remember in kind- ness old Colby, and endeavor to do our duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call us as well as our dear old college has done her duty by us. 18

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Senior History MEN . N passing through four years of active college life, the class of '05 has experienced all the ordinary vicissitudes and blessings which com- monly fall to the lot of Colby classes, and in addition has won lasting renown as the last Sophomore class privileged to disturb a Freshman Reading. As Freshmen we received the fatherly corrections of the over- solicitous Sophs with due meekness and patience, until at length the spirit of independence arose strong and mighty in the class-then shortly the reign of terror inaugurated by '04 was over. Our Sophomore year opened as quietly as any ordinary college year might, but the future was to reveal it as marking one of the great epochs of Colby's history. Fora time all went like the proverbial marriage belle-the class conscientiously endeavoring to whip the raw recruits of '06 into the semblance of something a little more creditable to Colby than the aggregation of yaps which confronted us that Sep- tember morning. That '05 succeeded well is amply manifested by the magnificent class which next year will follow in her footsteps. And so, humbly following the light that was given us, and endeavoring to do our duty by the class succeeding us, we of '05 approached the night of nightsg the night in which events were destined to occur which would move all the college, from Prex on his throne to the maids of the Palmer Houseg from the lowly Freshman to the mighty trustee. Dire were the punishments promised us, terrible were the threats against us, should we dare break the solemn hush that should properly attend the debut of the Freshman orators. Rightly or wrongly, however, the class was agreed to a man that 'o 5 must rally to the defense of the time-honored traditions of Colby, at whatever personal cost. And so, with an enthusiasm and ingenuity worthy of a better cause, the class labored to make the Freshman Reading the usual huge success it had been in the past-and what followed is still fresh in the memories of all. Happily those troublous times are past-the ruler and the ruled understand each other better now, and the whole college is advancing along the paths of peace. Still, sometimes a sigh is yet heard for the good old customs which 17