Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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-EXW CALVIN EDXVARD MCCAW. CALVIN EDWARD McCAW- Caw Kind alt was coizscimzcc and tclzdrc lzrerz'e,'! Calvin Edward McGaw became acquainted with his father and mother March 2, 1887, at Rives, Tennesse. Learning to play ball in the schools of that place, he brought this knowl- edge to Erskine with him in 1905. Catching on the State championship team of ,O7, he batted 463, CaW is president of the Athletic Association and assistant manager of the track team. Along literary lines he has held every oftice in the Euphemian Literary Society, ex- cept that of chaplain and doorkeeper. Caw is assistant literary editor of the ERSKINIAN. and a member of the Erskine Quartette. JAMES ERSKINE IVICDANIEL- Mac E'z'e1' dI'I'ffI.lIg, a'1'1'fz'1'1zg,, d1'1'ff1'11g, Ever driffilig 011.11 James Erskine McDaniel sidled into the affairs of this World September I7, 1889. From his native hills in an adjoining county his father brought him to Due West, and started the lad into the graded school. ln clue time lie became a college boy. As a hard lesson frequently makes him sick, Mac is a won- derful illustration of the power of niinil over nizutter. Notwithstanding his fceblcncss in this one direction, he is much to be found on the athletic liclcl, both as a spectator and as a participant. llcforc thc ilcath nf football was ilccrccrl by thc faculty, Mac was a valiant star on thc gridiron. llis nainc is found written on Iffiuwlicniizfs roll. lb ' i 1 . . .Inu-,s lgicsiclxi-, Nh l Mxlhli.

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R.x1,P1-1 N1s1:E'r I-IUNTEIQ. RALPH NISBET HUNTER- Possn nLU'I'L Hlt' Ilul fill' rrflllvly gl'llr't'. lxlll' lllj' f ll'tI5llI.Q U-VU 111' f1It'1'.H Another one of lXleeklenlnurg'Q honored -11 ik Ralph Niabel' llunter, horn near Sflffllw Church, on December 7, 1884. Ralph attended the XVaxhaw lnstitute in 1904, and entered Erskine in the fall of IQOS. a green Fresh like the rest of us. After four year, of hard work. and after many touelulowns on the grid- iron of Math. Ralph will no doulit he rewarfled with a live-dollar Sheepskin in ,Tune 'Besfdes his enthusiastic interest in all phases of col- lege life. Pom has paid especial attention to Y. M. C. A. work, having been a delegate to the National Student Volunteer Convention at Nashville in 1906, and to State Bible Insti- tutes at Greenville and at Clemson. On ae- count of his cheery smile, Ralph has, Nince he- coming an Erskine student. borne the happy and suggestive cognomen of Poss. ROBERT TORRENTINE. KERR Little Cubs Full well they lazrglzrd ieiflz roizzzicfdfca' glee Az' all his jokes, for wzmzy iz joke had 11427, This loudly-shouting, rustic-mannered eoun- tryman, Robert Torrentine Kerr, hrst gazed upon the hills and the valleys of lredell County, N. C,. on All Fools Day, in the year I883. Wlieii he had plodded through the Academy at Coddle Creek, and won a medal there for cleclamation. his parents, in IQO4. packed him off to Erskine. Allying him- self with the Philomathean Society. he has served it as secretary, and as semi-annual de- elaimer in both his Freshman and his Sopho- more years. After staying in North Carolina a year to teach school, Kerr hutted into the Iunior class in IQO7, and hecame one of the N.'xUt:H'rx' NINERS. He is vice-president of the Y. M. C. A. and has represented it at Clem- son, '07, and at Nontreat. '08 R1lllF:li'll ,lllllQRlfX'l'lNlf lflflik. I7 i ' ' :,i 'J' - ' Ile

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50113121-W Xfl011A11 WICGILL ANDREW MOFFATT MCCILL CC D! Duck Thu 1111111 'zul11,1.v1' cyv is F'Z't'l' Illl l11'111.wIf. There entered this world August 6. 18556, at Bethany, S. C., a concentrated bunch of squall. afterwards called Andrew Moffatt McGill, to distinguish it from the thousands of such bless- ings that daily arrive. Duck having gradu- ated f1'OlH the Bethany High School, where he won a clebater's and a declaimer's medal, came to Erskine in IQO5. In the Euphemian Society. of which he is a member. Duck, at regular intervals, fondly informs the others, You call me chief, and you do well to call me chief, much t0 their edilication. Duck is generally admitted to be a pretty good fellow, as far as he goes-he is live feet. six inches. WILLIAM CAMPBELL lVlcLAlN Cam 'But cz .S'lIlfO0f1Z and .ffuidftzst 111i11d with tlzozzglzts and calm a'cs1'1'ts.' The president of the class of 1909 Xfvllllillll Campbell McLain, became a resident of this tcirestrial orb January 7 1889 taking up his abode in Alexander County. N. C. In his biief span of years he has seen thc interior of sex eral 'educational institutions: Statesville Graded School Statesville Academy Oak Ridge Institute and the University of N. C. Since his entrance into the Sophomore class at iscine am ms Jun uusy forging dis! tinctions. In IQOB hc xx as assistant lII'llI'lgLl' of httn assistant manager of tht base ball tcfun. lIe has been presidtnt of the Phil0in'1tht-an ociety 'ti 'ell 'ts of tis c 'm is Poetry and Short Story Editor of the l'lsSNlN- iw and Philomathean editor of the l1ts141N- 1xN.x. ie imin'1ry ct tst t was ciosen to represent thc solltgc thi: yen' at tht South Carolina Intercolltghte Uratorical Lonttst 'it breenwood. . A . , ,, If U! G. , Y , 1' . 3- V Q c 1 .. c 3 -I' V x. 1 ,V C E11 , C l. In l 1 l l l I, J V L L l 3 the track team, and for the past two years has g . L . K S' . . s w 1 . l lass Ca , , 4 . L. . In tl pi cl 1 int 1 h A .1 , , . L ,Q . N .K A L A C L 1 s I9 - 1 XXlI.l.l.XKl L.xx11-1:1211 Ilcl..x1N. Y