College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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Despite the ravages of war which have claimed so many of our heroes, eleven of our little championship squad were juniors and seven of these were regulars. Almost half of the basketball squad pays homage to the Nineteen banner, while in baseball and track we bear our full share of the burden. In debate our boys were again inthe limelight, Winning the freshman- sophomore clash both years. On the Varsity team there were two of our men last year and this year it was an entire Junior team which vanquished Ohio on a hostile floor. But not alone in these has Nineteen excelled. The tie-up contest will long dwell in the memory of the much bruised and battered men of the class of Eighteen, while the ride to which the tug-of-war team of Nineteen Twenty was treated was a sight not soon to be forgotten. The History of the Booster Class of Wooster would not be complete without mention of the hearty good times and fellowship that has accompanied all our career. No part of our college days will be remembered with keener joy than the social affairs that have refreshed our upward journey from the verdent cap to the classic gown. To much of it we may congratulate ourselves on the wisdom and forethought exhibited as freshmen in the choice of our honorary member. This wisdom has been more than justiiied by the friendly interest and co-operation shown toward the class and each member of the class by Professor and Mrs. Knight. There are many things in the annals of Nineteen of which We may justly be proud. Our records in oratory, athletics, debate and other interclass activ- ities are such as any class might envy. We are proud of our history, of our honorary member, of our May Queen, and of our men who have responded to the call to arms in a fashion which shall never bring anything but fame to the class and to the college. Our girls also are serving in whatever capacity they may in war work with the same spirit of unseliish self-sacrifice which we have all come to admire in their college duties. - This above all. However depleted may be our numbers, whatever the tide of our victories or defeats, let come what may, we shall enter our senior year with the same enthusiasm which has marked our life here and leave behind us this motto, For God, for Country, and for WOOSt61'.,7 ' Page Tlzzrty-six

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fgsiz . . ....-..,,,,g 1 ..-,X - - .-,. rw- Y. Nineteen Nineteen Gllneia I-Iiatnrg O the Class of Nineteen Hundred Nineteen appropriately belongs the title of The Rejuvenators of NVooster. Our history began Sep- tember 13, 1915. VVe came to begin a new era, to leave behind us at greater and a better Woostei' than we found. For this work we were admirably fitted. We came with a new administrat- tion, with no prejudices to combat, no fault to find, and the complete co- operation of class and faculty assured. Our freshman class was numerically the largest in the history of the institution. On our class roll were found the names of the finest orators, the leading athletes, the best men and women in the state. That we have accomplished our work successfully in the three years that we have been here, it will take but a glance to prove. We found Wooster divided, today she is unified. We found her athletically weak, our freshman team defeated the Varsity with ease in football. Our basketball team de feated the crack Nineteen seventeen quintet for the inter-class championship Our track squad battled them almost to a tie. As sophomores we contributed five regulars to the Varsity which turned in the best record in Wooster foot ball history up to that time. At the cage game, our entire class team was taken on the Varsity squad in mid-season and six wearers of the Maroon and Black were awarded their W s. In track and baseball we were not found wanting but so many left for war or farm service before earning their letters that accurate figures are not available for the spring sports. Page Thirty ffve

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a. ,Q ,I ,V K r I, I rx in 1. , ,1 'A 1. 1, M Q 'I - 3 ee r -lfl'3,lLnl-'l 'i .fii,QQ:,,.-. ,ii P ,MM ff. ti A . I 1' F, I' l H L' Pi ,1 W QE? M 3 it 12 i fi Y M ia l wi Y E if it - if . i: M .., 1, 1 I-1 l i L1 , i J 1 I l i' ,, ,y 1 W i I iw ' 'N in il iq F' il 11 rw A 1 N! E? fl I fl it It at 5 2 -i N1 si E? EJ in 1. 2' li? T1 , , , , w U 1, PROFESSOR L. C. KNIGHT-Honorary Member The class of '19 showed remarkable wisdom and unusual foresiffht when va 2 , it chose Professor Knight as honorary member. The very mention of Pro- ii r . , . . . . . . P 4 iessor Ixn1ght's name suggests gracious hospitality, real Wooster spirit, and gg good coinradeslupg not even to mention his well known pep as faculty manager of athletics. NVheu a Wiener roast or a Htaffy pull is mentioned 51, every member of the Junior Class knows that it means a royal good time with a man, who on social occasions lays aside all the cares of the day and gf shows his willingness to become one of us. 'F' ii 1, ml f ee Tuff W 4fIiS'Zgs.--ififi'iiiT' 'a':1fllTLifQl? 1 ':ii L?fr'f'-'-'P Page Thirty-seven