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

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N. N. Fleming Woodleaf, N. C. A.B., Phi. Age, 22; height. 5 ft. 10 in.; weight, 160. Honor Roll, 4 years; Class Monitor; Physics Instructor, 2 years; First Superintendent Society; Vice-President Society; Critic and President Society; Debating Council; First Alternate 2 years; Class Football; Class Baseball. This boy is forest born, and hath been tutored in the rudiments of many desperate studies Here is a lar heel for you. A progidy when it comes to learning; a court plaster for sticking to it; a failure for loafing; a wonder as an economizer, yet not a tightwad; a sponge for absorbing formulae; and withal the pride of the Phi Society. Ncely has horse sense mixed in with book sense. He believes in 98 per cent, perspiration and 2 per cent, sweat, as the secret of getting to the top. He got into the hftbil ol making honor marks as a freshman and rannot shake it off. John Witherson Frierson Columbia, Tenn. B.S., Eu., B. ©. II. Age. 20; height 5 ft. 7 in.; weight. 115. He hath an oar in every man ' s boat, a finger in every pie. He is from Tennessee, and he ' s proud of it. Constitutionally opposed to the strenuous life, he is continually showing that it isn ' t necessary by making good grades with an incredible amount of work. He is said to be a confirmed cigarette fiend who smokes once every week without fail. You will find him a perfect store house of advice with which he is as generous as he is with every- thing else. What Frierson hasn ' t tried is not worth trying, and his exploits vary from catlleship excursions to spieling for socialism.

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Edward Smith Currie Fayetteville, N. C. Phi., A.B.. K.A. Age, 23; height, 5 ft. 8 in.; weight. 155. Vice-President Class; Representative Sopho- more Banquet; Gymnasium Team 4 years; Cap- lain Gymnasium Team; Class Football Team; Scrub Football Team; ' Varsity Football Team; Wearers of the D ; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet; Vice-President Y. M. C. A.; Second Supervisor Phi.; Secretary Phi.; Debating Council; Mar- shal; Vice-President Phi.; Junior Representative; President Phi.; Vice-President Student Body; Student Council; Executive Committee Athletic Association; Vice-President Athletic Association; President Athletic Association. Courtliness and the desire of fame, And love of truth and all that makes a man. The above lines explain Ed. as a man and they are not over-drawn. He has all the ingred- ients of a manly man; his tale of woe contains two main headings; the cuticle on his face and the conservative workings of his mental machinery, not exactly a bonehead, but books do bother Ed. His eulogy contains all the epigrams of the college catalogue, a fine physique, a fearless disposition , and a lover of ladies, an orator of some fame, it needs only the discovery of a perfect beauty Stacy C. Farrior RoseHill. N. C. Phi., A.B. Age 23; height, 5 ft. 8 1-2 in.; weight. 138. Treasurer Phi. Society; Vice-President Stu- dent Volumteer Band; Editor Magazine; Presi- dent Student Volunteer Band; Y. M. C. A. Cabinet. Amen; and malfe me die a good old man. Who said that? Crab said it. Crab is the pride of Rose Hill, N. C . He delighted the hearts of his parents when on his fifth birthday, March 28, 1888, he broke a three year silence and said one word, aviation. When Stacy was eighteen he cleared the mists by adding that aviation called for sky pilots, and that he intended entering Davidson for a primary course in pilotry. Crab is a combination of determination, solemnity and honesty, genius Salt of the Earth. His greatest difficulties in college have been getting singers for the Y. M. C. A. choir, and recovering his equil- ibrium after being jibed by Big Chink at Barnes ' . Respected by all, except moral lepers, he has meandered through to an A.B. degree. He likes the flossies too. but keeps it to himself. lotion to bring to Ed ' s feet a score of the fair ones during the year 1912.

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S. C. Hart Mt. Ulla, N. C. A.B.. Phi. Age, 21; height, 5 ft. 10 in.; weight, 181. Class Football Team; Scrub Football Team Avuf(c him not. Surely he ta es his fill Of Jeep and liquid rest, forgetful of all ill. Sam l 1 one of the original seven sleepers; combs his hair regularly every Sunday morning; gets boxes of home-made candy from girls; was a tower of strength in clars football as long as he remained awake, and sho ok off Morpheus long enough to make the second team last fall. He could make all sorts of marks if they would hitch a dynamo to him from seven till ten p. m., Sam ' s greatest troubles are: his feet, his blushing cheeks, and his wastline. He has a philosophic turn of mind and blushes so badly when his poetry is made public that he has desisted as a writer. He likes his zip and his ease, and will represent Mt. Ulla in the State legislature some of these days — Socrates too, was fat. Walter Slagle Henderson Davidson, N. C. B.S., Phi. Age, 24; height, 5 ft. 10 in.; weight. 155. We grant that though he had much n it. He T»as very shy of using it. Behold the monstrous monitor. For two years he has lyranized over us at chapel and church, but his days are numbered. We have decided to raise our insurrection about June 1st, 1912, and never go to chapel again unless it is of our own free will and accord. For any one who could escape his vigilance, Sing Sing should hold no terrors. We greatly fear that since Walter has been engaged in the jewelry business in Dav:dson he has corrupted the natives and marred their simple tastes by the display of his glittering wares.