Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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26 THE AD YTUM. Senior History. Colors — Cardinal red and pumpkin yellow. Motto — Non est gigni, sed pug?iare, vita. ' At the dose of a career to be excelled by none and equalled by- few, in interest and greatness of exploits, ' 88 draws about her the mantle of her own goodness, before stepping out into the cold and pitiless world. Some unkind person may predict, that we shall be frozen to death very soon, if we venture out in so scanty garments, but all such calumniators we shall treat with cold disdain. As we have said, our deeds have been many and exciting, and our influence on the tide of events has been great ; it was we who paid $4.50 for mortar-boards when we were Senior Preps and never wore them; who broke up the custom of having Freshman banquets, through lack of unanimity and cash ; who almost got plug hats when

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THE AD YTUM. 25 CLASS OF ' 88. OFFICERS. J. H. Davis, - - President. G. A . R. Wood, - - , Vice President. E. H. Castle, - - Secretary. Ira Crawford, Jr., - Treasurer. W. L. Thickstun, - - Historian. H. B. CuRTiN, - - Serg ' t-at-Arms. G. A. DoRSEY, - - Crier. C. L. Payne, - - Chorister. J. SiNSEL, - - - Street- Walker. Members. E. H. Castle, E. S. Clark, Ira Crawford, H. B. CURTIN, J. H. Davis, Jr. J. SiNSEL, D. Shepardson, Jr., R. P. Smith, H. C. Stilwell, W. L. Thickstun, J. Williams, G. A. R. Wood. J. L. Deming, G. A. DORSEY, P. W. Longfellow, C. L. Payne, E. J. Price,

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THE ADYTUM. 27 we were Juniors and only failed because some members would not agree to wear silver bands around them. We have all had minds of our own, and have never been afraid to use them, except in study. Accordingly, when it was reported that we, who had never united on anything before, had combined unani- mously (with the exception of one or two of the Faculty ' s right bow- ers) in opposition to the eight-man honor system, it caused a ripple of excitement, which was followed by a larger one when, at last, it transpired t ' nat we had won our point. We did not oppose ihe sys- tem through fear, for there is not a man in the class who could not have been valedictorian, if he had chosen ; we opposed it on principle. The versatility of our members is very great; we have men emi- nent in every walk of college life. Davis is the greatest expounder of constitutions that ever lived. Wood upholds the reputation of the class among the girls — in fact, they are his hobby. He is never with- out one— a girl, that is — except on special occasions, such as Senior Receptions. Williams is a notable example of patient endurance amid suffering ; his health has always been poor, but he has heroically fought dread disease, and nov comes to the end of his course with not more than a hundred and forty-six absences from recitations in any one term. Smith is our poet, and we think he is a good deal like Shakespeare. In some things, however, he goes far ahead of that gentleman ; for instance, Shakespeare seldom used any word which was not used by at least one other person. But Smith looks over Webster ' s Unabridged, and if he doesn ' t find the word he wants, sim- ply makes up one, which is a great improvement over Mr. Shakes- peare ' s slavish and laborious way. Castle is our funny man. He isn ' t remarkable for the variety of his jokes, but when he does get hold of a joke, he kncnvs how to get the most out of it. We are proud of our married men, of whom we have three. Curtin is the other one. He isn ' t married yet, but it is only a matter of time. Deming, by a stroke of mysterious Providence, is prevented from graduating with us, but we still claim him as our own. Though Faculty, family, fem- ininity forsake him, yet we will not. His specialties are science — nat- ural and domestic. It is really quite remarkable in how many directions our talents extend. As we stand on the threshold of our soon to be Alma Mater, we look with some regrets upon the past and some forebodings upon the