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

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DeWitt Duncan Clark Clarkton, N. C. B.S., Phi. Age, 21 ; height, 6 ft. 1 in.; we ight, 155. Class Baseball 3 year ; Class Football 3 years Member Chemical Society. A very gentle bcas , and of a good con Don ' t be misled by seeing Clark, D.D. in print, for you are apt to get a wrong impression. Every year the class football team counts on Skinny as the old reliable, for he always comes out and never aspires lo a D.C. He has also starred in class baseball, and on the wrestling mat is a dangerous man. Ordinarily he is safe and perfectly harmless, but woe to the man who trifles with him. The chemical laboratory knows him well, and possibly the German laboratory has made his acquaintance. Skinny has so many accomplishments that we wouldn ' t know what to do without him. Whitfield Spencer Clary Greensboro, N. C. B.S., Phi. Age, 20; height, 6 ft.; weight, 160. 3 years; Captain Gym- Football; Scrub Football; years; Scrub Basketball; Manager Class Basketball :k Team; ' Varsity Track; Punctuality Roll 1 year; First Critic Society; Com- Gymnasium Team nasium Team; Class Class Basketball 2 ' Varsity Basketball; 2 years; Class Trac Captain Class Track; Second Critic Society; mittee Marshal. Our youth n»e can have hut today, We may always find time to groiv old Whit can crack more round jokes in five minutes than you can appreciate in fifteen. He should have been a fashion model — perhaps he is. In the gymnasium he is a worthy performer, in basketball he is graceful, and in his sporadic efforts at football he has been called Ted Coy. In his Senior year he is using his supreme grace to manipulate the gold-headed cane up and down the historic aisles of Shearer and Commence- ment Halls. We couldn ' t stop him if we wanted to.

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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.

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James Orr Cobb Durham, N. C. B.S., Phi.. Gryphon, S. A. E. Age. 19; height, 5 ft. M in.; weight, 142. Class Baseball 2 years; Class Football; Ger- man Club; Vice-President Geiman Club; Junior Commencement Orator; Senior Representative Sophomore Banquet; Business Manager Quips and C ranks ' ' ; Pan Hellenic Council. Whose little body lodged a might)) mirnl. le is the best business man that ever hit David- son. He makes a success of every deal and always comes out bearing the title of Gentleman. As to his social side he stands unmatched — genial, bright, tactful and good looking — in fact the best company for a well man. for a sick man, for a child or for an adult. In his book: he always stands on the sure side. On the football field he calls signals that always go. But he can ' t go to chapel, not that he doesn ' t wake up, but that he doesn ' t like to hear the chapel choir. Mortimer Cosby Danville, Va. B.S., Gryphon, K.A. Age. 20; height. 5 ft. I I in.; weight. 170. Class Historian; Manager Track Team; Gym- nasium Team; Scrub Football Team; President German Club; Magazine Staff; Staff Quips and Cranks . An able, strong, laborious man is he This modern Sampson inslead of carrying away the gates of Gaza on his back, plays football and builds pyramids in the gymnasium exhibit at com- mencement. Morty picks his roses at Junior Speaking and Commencement, and doesn ' t mind a thorn as long as it is a Sweet Briar. One of the social lions of die class, he upholds it ' s repu- tation well for he is an artist In his line.