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

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fc g ) ] T y , r, J. Harper Brady Statesville, N. C. A.B., Phi. Age. 21; height, 6 ft.; weight, 170. Class Basketball; Class Football; Class Base- ball; Class Track; Scrub Basketball; ' Varsity Basketball; Captain Class Basketball; Second Superintendent Society; Second Critic Society; Declaimers Rep. ; Vice-President Society; Valedictorian Socieay; Chief Marshal. A mind at peace with all belov . A heart lu iose love is innocent. ' Harper distinguished himself in his Sophomore year by backing hastily away when a shrill fal- setto from a train window piped Hello Harper ; willing hands seized him and forced him to meas- ure up to the Davidson adage: Never say no to a lady. and Harper had to shake. Harper ' s greatest end is his complexion, and his room looks like a barber ' s advertisement — massage cream, cold cream, and powders galore being in evidence. He wiggles when you congratulate him, contorting his countenance in an unbelievable way. He is steady, true to his principles, and has a good word for all. Don ' t try to connect him with Harper ' s seven year old, if appearances are against him. -W. B. Brockington Kingstree, S- C. A.B., Eu. Age. 20; height. 5 ft. 10 in.; we.ght, 137. Secretary Eu. Society ; Editor Hand-book ; Ass:lant Manager Magazine; Declaimers Rep. ; Secretary Debating Council; Y. M. C. A, Cabi- net ; Manager Magazine ; Library Committee. With just enough of learning to mis-quote. Broc. the luxurious, tumbled through his first year to the tune, Sweetheart can never die. Bros has a brogue and a terrible time deciding whether to yield to bashfulness or a kindling fond- ness for calico. He pronounces job as we pronounce the name of the patient old prophet Job, he says dawler for ' dollar, and fug for fig ; he ambles along like a coon from the swamps of the Edisto, and enunciates like the African article. He is a Lynchesque orator, and a martyr to the cause of dead languages, a good manager of the Magazine, and a faithful, inde- scribable performer in the gymnasium, a singer of some pretention, a dresser, and a gentle gentleman.

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Joseph Alston Boyd Townesville, N. C- A.B., Phi.. K.A. Age, 21; height, 5 ft. 10 in.; weight, 155. Student Council; President Senior Class; Marshal; Vice-President Society; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet; Class Football; Class Track; Class Basketball; ' Varsity Football Team; Gymnasium Team 3 years; ' Varsity Track Team. We have met the enemy antl they are ours. Though he claims the same cognomen as his next-door neighbor, J. L. R- , he is as widely different from him as night from day. Popular among his classmates as an all-round good fellow, he astonished everyone by hts rapid budding-forth in his Senior year. A football hero and a gym. stud. he is not very brave when he meets the fairer sex, for he and his room mate take turns in claiming a single lady as my girl. I lis nick- name, Molly, speaks for itself but lei BO one think that it has been clipped from Molly- coddle. J. L. R. Boyd Brundidge, Ala. A.B., Eu., Gryphon. Age, 20; height, 5 ft. 10 in.; weight, 155. Captain Class Football; Captain Scrub Foot- ball; Class Basketball; ' Vamty Track Team; President F.u. Society; Declaimer ' s Medal; Rayhill Medal; Junior Orator; President Junior Class; Secretary and Treasurer Athletic Asso- ciation; Member Student Council 2 years; Wear- ers of D Club. How Worthy he is I will leave to appear here- after, rather than j ory him in his own hearing. Crumble, grumble, little bull, how I love your tail to pull, just to hear that language hum, putting freshmen on the bum. Sign that parchment . What ' s all that racket? Just Alphabet declaim- ing on moral atmosphere, chapel, the powers that he, freshmen, or something. Alphahct poses as a pessimist, hut is really as optimistic as the hig- hest power among those that be. Faithful, original, and liked for his very cussedness, he is a philanthropic, loving Greek. The sound of his own voice. Senoir privileges and the correct lime, ask him about the Greek wal. h. As true as 1912 can boast. J. L. has never been Calling, never been ki-vd. and never dodged an issue or a flying t.i kle. Watch the moral atmosphere of Brun- didge when Alphabet hits that town to stay.

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James W. Brown Chester, S. C. A.B., Eu. Age. 21 ; height, 5 ft. 8 in.; weight, 131. Secretary and Treasurer Class; Secretary Society; Marshal; Class Baseball; Class Foot- ball. oft have heard defended — little said is soon ' est mended. Jimmy has the honor of being the littlest man in the class of 1912, as well as one of the most popular. He escaped calamity in his fresh, year by rooming at Lafferty ' s, but came to 27 Chambers to spend the rest of his college life; quiet, unas- suming, gentle, is Jimmy, His latest development is general merchandise in partnership with Swinrt Smith. You can look at Jim and see that his ancestry settled in Virginia, but he has not yet learned after thai explosive old school manner; he learned to smoke, ihought better and quit; he an l e found either at 27 Chambers or al the Barne ' s Club any time. James J. Chandler Sumter, S. C. A.B., Eu. Age, 21 ; height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 145. Executive Committee Athletic Association; Damage Committee ; President Sumter Club ; Class Baseball. The gravity and stillness of your youth, the l»hole Vorld hath noted. Jim is conservative in all things. He spent his fresh, year consoling Pa Reaves, who was the victim of the diabolic imaginations of the Sumter trio; in hir second year Jim made strenuous efforts lo reform D.F. , but gave it up, got another old lady and prospered. Steady, reliable, and honorable, he has pursued the even tenor of his way. winning a place for himself in the estima- tion of liis males. 1 1 in is not one of the gilded bricks ornamenting the eaves, but one of the solidly cemented foundation bricks, as true a brick U ever deserved the title. Shake his hand and you know ' tis a man ' s hand.