Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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15. S.; Phi; A. .; Secretary Class ' 94- ' 95 ; First Supervisor Society ; Manager Class Foot-ball Team ' 95 ! Vice President Class ' 95- ' 96 ; Secretary Society ; Commencement Orator ' 97 ; First Critic Society; Captain Class Foot-ball Team ' 97 ; 1 1 lege Base Ball and Foot-ball Team two years ; Marshall ' 95 ; Class Dramatic Club. Witherspoon, J vmes II kvk , Yorkville, S. C. ; 1 S years ; 6 ft.; i 50 lbs. ; Course A. B. ; Eu , l viewer Society ; Treasurer Society ; Class Foot-ball Team; Class Historian ' 97-98; Vice Monitor Class Fall term, Junior year: Editor Magasitu : Vice President Class ' 97- ' 9tf Commencement Marshall ' 98. Woodside, Joei David, Greenville, S. C; 25 years; 5 ft. 9 ins.; 14S lbs. ; Course B. S, and A. M.; Eu. -Y. . . ' . ; President Class ' j.|- ' ;5 ; Secretary Society; Captain Class Foot-ball Team ' 95 Manager Class Base Ball Team 95 96; Marshall ' 96; Business Manager Magazim ' 91 ' 97, ' -■ ' ) ; member of College Foot-ball Team ' ■ - ' ■ j 7 ; Secre- tary and Treasurer Athletic Association 9,6 Stage Manager College Dramatic Club ' 96-97 ; Manager College Base Ball Team ' 96- ' 97 ; Vice President Eu. Society ; President Society ' 97-98 ; President Athletii Association; Business Manager Qi ips and Cranks 29

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McSwain, Jno. McAllister, Wade, N. C; 21 years; 5 ft. 10 ins.; 168 lbs.; Course A. B. ; Phi; Critic Society ; Second Supervisor Society ; Marshall ' 98 ; Class Foot-ball Team three years ; Class Dramatic Club ; Editor Quips and Cranks ' 98; Manager Glee and Mandolin Clubs ; member Glee and Mandolin Clubs three years ; Instructor in Chemistry. Perry, William Gilmer, Charlotte, N. C; 20 years ; 5 ft. 1 I ins.; 130 lbs. ; Course A. B. ; Eu. A. . ; Marshal ' 96 ; Reviewer Society ' 98 ; President Society ' 9S ; Commencement Orator ' 97 ; Editor Magazine ' 96- ' ' 97; Editor-in-Chief Magazine ' 97- ' ■ 18; Alumni Editor Magazine ' 98 ; Toast Master Class Banquet ' 96 ; President Class ' 97- ' 98 ; Chairman Class Dramatic Club: Editor Quips and Cranks ' 97; Editor-in-Chief Quips and Cranks ' 98; member of Library Committee ; member of Execu- tive Committee of Historical .Association ; Vice President Student Body ' 96- ' 97 ; Vice Monitor Class Spring ' 96 and Spring ' 98 ; Monitor Class Fall ' 96, Spring ' 97 and Fall ' 97. Ross, Joseph Russell, Charlotte, N. C. ; 20 years; 5 ft. 10 ins.; 154 lbs. ; Course A. B. and A. M . ; Phi; A ' . 2 ' .; Marshall ' 96; Class Foot-ball Team; Mandolin and Guitar Club. Sanford Rufus Brown, Mocksville, N. C; 21 years; 5 ft. 11 ins.; 140 lbs.; Course A. B.; Eu. A. . ; Marshall ' 96; Leader Mandolin and Guitar Club ' 96- ' 98.; member Glee Club ' 96- ' 98.; Class Foot-ball Team. Sherfesse, Robert Augustus, Charleston, S. C. ; 20 years ; 5 ft. ), ins., 140 lbs.; Course A. B. ; Eu. Valedictorian Society. Shoaf, Alston, Mill Bridge, N. C; 20 yea rs ; 5 ft. 834 ins.; 135 lbs.; Course A. B.; Monitor Class Spring of Fresh, year ; Vice Monitor Fall of Soph, year; Class Foot-ball Team. Steele, James Archibald, Mooresville, X. C 24 years ; 5 ft. 11 ins.; 165 lbs.; Course A. B Eu. ; Secretary Society; Vice President Society President Society ; Secretary Class 96- ' 97 ; member College Foot-ball Team four years; Captain Foot- ball Team ' 97 ; Vice President Historical Associa- tion ; Vice President Athletic Association. Steele, Robert Saunders, LaFayette, Ga. 22 years; 5 ft. io ' 2 ins.; 150 lbs.; Course B. S. Eu. ; Marshall ' 95 ; member Class Foot-ball Team College Foot-ball Team ' 97 ; Class Dramatic Club Captain Senior Relay Team. Watkins, Thomas Henry, Henderson, N. C. ; 22 years ; 5 ft. 8 ins.; 160 lbs.; Course A. B. ; Phi ; President Society ; member Class Foot-ball Team. Wilson, Hamilton Witherspoon, Charlotte, X. C. ; 21 years; 5 ft. 3 ' ins.; 130 lbs.; Course 2S

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CHRONICLES OF THE CLASS OF ' 98 ff lZ ' o it came to pass in the year eighteen- red-and-ninety-four, in tlie reign of John Bunyan the son of Shearer, that it was summer, and there was a great dearth of students at Davidson. For a great host had gone up out of the land laden with the trophies of battle, and had established the mselves in new abodes. Then did John Bunyan, the magnificent, summon his chiefs and mighty men of valor, and gathering the folds of his red dressing gown about him, did sit in the midst of the assembly. And he arose and spake, It is not good that the college lands be without Freshmen, come, let us go forth into the world, and gather them unto us. Then quickly one arose, and answered, Precisely, and it was so. And the bodies of this assembly moved upon the face of the country, and out of the cities and the towns and the fields they did gather together a great multitude, and did establish them upon the campus. And the Sophomores named every living one of them, and that was his name. When they had waxed strong, they desired ex- ceedingly a leader, who should go before them in their battles with the three tribes tha t dwelt close at hand. So they chose Joel David the Son of oodside, who was a head lower than the majority of the class. And when they sought to find him to make him their leader, lo ! he was not hid under some college property ; but was right there. Now when they had dwelt but a short time on the campus, their leader said, Go to, let us arise up to-morrow evening, put on our base ball suits and take our mits in our hands, and overthrow our enemies. They began early in the evening and contended even to the going down of the sun. In the end the Sophomores were defeated, and got them to their rooms in a hurry, for fear of the guy- ing of the other two tribes. Many and grievous were their battles during the first year, and on the last Saturday before com- me ncement, there was a very sore conflict. But in the end there was peace, and they did rest from their labours. 3°