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

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The hereditary hatred The ancestral thirst for hazing. Bunyan Shearer, great and mighty Looked upon them with compassion, Gazed upon the timid Freshmen, For their plight had roused his pity; Sadly looked upon the Sophomores. (Just one year removed from Freshmen) Called to mind the Fall preceding; Then reminded them of pledges; But they only howled and hooted, Only sang their war songs louder. Only vvaited until nightfall For the Freshmen to be sleeping, To be soundly, sweetly sleeping: Then upon the Fresh descending Came a deluge from the heavens, Came the water and the blacking Come the H2 S and cat tails. Come the many various tortures All devised by cunning Sophmores. They knew how to tilt a bucket They knew where to find the cat-tails They knew how to pull the big-toes Of the unsuspecting Freshmen. Thus the Freshmen came to college This their coming and reception.

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The white vapor of the Peace Pipe. And the fathers of the Freshmen Said, Behold it, the peace signal By this signal thus descending Bending like a flying riband Waving thus — like it would beckon; Bunyan Shearer, great and mighty Calls the tribes of men together Calls the Freshmen to his Campus. On the Railways, through the counties Came the Freshmen of the people, Came the many Smiths and Turners, Came McConnell and McFadyen, Came McLaughlin and Jack Farries, Came a Matheson and Haney, Came McAllister and Murphy, Came a Douglas and Tom Plunket, Came Sam Robinson and Royster, Came the long, lank Abernethy, Came Bunch Stokes, likewise Stokes Munroe And Johnny Ward, the mighty speaker, Came McKoenigen and Harrison Came Bob Lafferty and Morrison. All the Freshmen drawn together B3 ' the signal of the peace-pipe To the levels of the campus To the great, gray granite hill-top. And they stood there on the campus With their Horace and their Ponies Then the Sophmores rose before them With their water and their paint-brush Wildly glaring at the Freshmen On their faces looks of triumph In their hearts the feuds of ages

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF ' 99. The subject of evolution has for sometime occupied the thought and attention of mankind. But it is not the his- tory of man and his development that we wish to trace, we only ask you to follow with us, as we wind in and out along the devious path of college life, by which, a class is formed, a life is shaped, a destiny determined. Historians write of great men, of great achievements, of epoch making events. We wish to record the peaceful life of a peaceful class. In the early fall of ' 95 was gathered together, at David- son, the largest class of Freshmen that had assembled for several years. They came from all sections of our sunny southland. Some were young and gay, some of sober thought — it is needless to say that all were sober for a time. A common purpose had called them hither and fellow feel- ing soon arose in each breast. We found the campus fresh and green and the showers never lacking. The boys welcomed us as only boys know how to welcome. It seemed as if we wept in vain, for tears of sympathy fell from unexpected places when none but Fresh were nigh. Persecution unites more quickly than anything else, and soon even the greenest of the green know friend from foe. Ambition even then was swelling in the breasts of some and the desire to be quickly organ- ized took possession of us. Although closely watched we bided our time and were successful. It was decided that, after the Y. 1. C. A. reception on Monday night, following our arrival on Thursday, we should meet and organize. It is not the part of a brave man to leave home ; but that night we left the campus — future events fully justifying our cause. By the fitful light of the declining moon, under the gloomy shade of the railroad tank, a few hurried whispers, a spasmodic speech or two, an informal ballot and the class of ' 99 stepped into the arena of college life, an organized unit. Class spirit immediately arose and we decided to show to the college our unitv. This was done