College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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'b 3 JH' ' v reparat r . .Z QfffN Y MY DEAR MOTHER: I'm a Prep, isn't that glorious, a Junior Prep. atthe great U. of W. After you left me on the train I got on ine, I bought some chew- ing gum, and had lots of fun. At last we reached Wooster, and my, but it's a big place, most as big as New York I guess, it haslnt any street-ears, but some fine tally hos instead. Well, some awfully nice men met me at the station and all of them wanted me to ride in their cabs, wasn't that kind of them? I spose they knew I had left all of my folks behind. I just got into the nearest one, and when I got to the U. the horrid driver asked me for a quarter! As soon as I could see straight, I climbed up the marble steps, and my me but I felt big! A whole lot of folks were going into a big room and I went along too. A fellow met me at the door, and asked if I came from Holmes Co., as I looked sort as if I belonged there. I said HNo Sir., but my home is at Honeybrookf' and he said it was all the same. A big man, whom this fellow said was Professor Dickason, was writing at the table, and my new friend, who told me his name was Sleinmons, said Id have to wait awhile. This Slemnions didn't have any culfs or collars on, sort of bother anyhow-but was real nice and told all about everybody. He said there was felow called Rickerts who laughed at everything, they 37

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GRACE FLORENCE YVARNIER, .... GRACE MARGUARITE LUCAS,... CORA MAUDE MCARTHUR, ........ ...... W ooster, O. CHARLES SAMUEL MCCLOSKY, T WALTER CHARLES MCCLURE,9' I ......WOOster, O. New Waterford O ...... Wooster, O. LOGAN, O. BERTHA MCMANIGAL,iI ................ ...... HUGH CULBERTSON MITCHELL, JAMES WALTER MORGAN, .......... ..... ESTA ELLA MUNIAKV, .......... RICHARD VARNUM NOYES, .... LUCY PATTERSON, ................. ......Hanii1torI, O. Jackson, O. ....WOoster, O. ......WOOStC1', O. ....PigrIa, O. Wooster, O. NIYRTLE PINKERTON, ................. ...... EUPIIEMIA YVEIR POMIEROXQE ..... JOSEPH NELSON PUGH, ......... GEORGE HARDIE ROSE, ...... . LEXVI5 FREDERICK SMEAD, ROBERT HERRON SMITI-I,.... EDGAR WILLIS SNYDER, GEORGE SO'WASH,'E ................... JAMES REA STOCKTON,:2Z ............. WALTER NEWTON STOCKTONQZ.. EDWARD ESMOND STREETER, ..... JOSEPHINE IVIATILDA TAYLOR,1l.. LUTHER WOODSON THOMAS, ...... JESSIE SMYSER THOMAS. ......... . VVALTER ELERBERT XVARRENE EDXVARD BURGETT WELSH CLEMENS LAIRD WILD, ..... RACHEL CHARLOTTE WILHELM.ll. ..,. .... . . HELIEN SOPHIA WELD,. ..... Mill Hall, Pa Newark, O. Wellsville, O. Savannah, O. ......WOoster, O. Wooster, O. Irwin, Pa. Me1'cer, Pa. Mercer, Pa. Wooster, O. Wooster, O. Wooster, O. Lisbon, O. Wooster, O. Wooster, O. Wooster. O. Akron, O. Wooster. O. Marysville, O Phi Gamma Delta. 1'Bela TI ela Pi iAlpha Tau Omega. II Kappa Alpha Tlleta. SKagp'1 kwppw G'Imm'I 0 Mu Alpha Phi. Phi Delta Theta, H' Beta Delta. Beta. ii Theta Nu Epsilon. 7- J ll Thx? GRAN All - AIAA hm R 25

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called him Cheshire Cat, I wonder why not 'fTabby. Then there's one called I-Iulf. He is as bald as Grandpa, I wonder why he comes to school. A girl came in next, and my but her hair was fixed funny, it looked like that little waterfall back of our house. Her name's Abbiloni Haliotus. Then came a boy and girl together, and Slemmons guessed they were Hervey and Marilla. They looked as if they sort of belonged to each other. An awful slow boy called Benny came in, then another one reglar city dude you told me about, and he had a girl with him,real nice one. He called her Adah. .I wonder if they're brother and sister. I saw another boy, right good look- ing, but awfully solomncholy, guess his name is Hills. His friend's got a grand sounding name Horatis Alford, most as good as George Washington. Then there was Gebhart, the mighty crater, looked as if he Were awfully stuck-up, McConnell the beautiful scribe, Gold-medalledv Gravatt, Neptune the Hseaemonsterff and a whole lot of others, I haven't time to write about. Then Slemmons told me about the tablet the Preps. got playing base ball. They had a grand blow-out over it, and lots of things to eat afterwards. I saw the Dutch professor next, Slemmens said his pipes almost burst once, and he was seven minutes late, cause he had to wash his hands. .He hates cuts like poison. . I forgot to ask my friend what cuts were, but expect I'll know before long. Then I looked out of the window, and saw the grandest sort of black stairs. Slemmons said they called them ire-escapes. Some boys and girls got out on it one day and got a moral blot on their characters that can never be effacedf' Is'nt that a fine sentence. I remembered it word for word. By and by Professor Dicka- son called me over, and was real nice to me. He has the cutest curl on his forehead, just like Baby Ruth's. He said I could be a Prep. Please send me some doughnuts right soon. I'm not a bit homesick. Wish I could see you all though. Good-by, Your loving son.