Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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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

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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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Senior History 4 vvoMEN OUR years have almost nnished their course since the class of 1905 entered Colby's open door, four years since those twenty- one girls entered the chapel the first morning, and tremblingly yet cautiously traversed that long distance to the Freshmen seats and later made their way about the various recitation buildings. We were a wise class, for during the nrst week we elected class officers and made plans for the peanut drunk, which was successfully carried out in Fairfield while the wise and wily Sophomores in vain hunted for some trace of us. Trained by Professors and Sophomores we were made ready for the next stage in college life, and we ended a short and happy year with our Freshman exit. The next fall we were back with 'eighteen in our class. We had imbibed from the Sophomores their arrogance and independence, and with this spirit we tried to fulhl our duties to all. This year, although bringing unpleasant things and ending in real sorrow, brought also pleasures, and contributed its share to our development. The third year we settled down soberly to diligent work. The so called junior Ease was but a dream to us. History, Chemistry, English and German together with other studies, required more than all our time, and there were also social duties. We must prepare our- selves to step into the places of our elders, the Seniors, in the fall. This year thirteen of us have tried to take these responsible places with a propriety and dignity worthy of Seniors, and now after having passed through the successive stages which the four years of college bring, we are about to leave this life at Colby. We are glad that we can look back over such happy years, glad that we have so many pleasant' memories to carry away with us. lfVe see that our class has perhaps not shone with so great a brilliancy as some others, yet it has been a never-failing light, and such will the members of the class of 1905 be when they go to hll their places in the broad world. 20