Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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Another vacation passed, September came, as it always doesg and on the eleventh we assembled in chapel as Juniors. But not as joyful as we would have been had not so many of our members been absent. There were twelve who failed to answer here when the roll was called. We welcomed Ruth Todd with pleasure to our class. Une of those absent was Bessie Lee Wliiteliead, who left us to become soon the bride of a Seminary student. She was with us Commencement of our junior year as Mrs. C. H. Nabers. In the following September our hearts were saddened by the news of her death. And we wondered why one so young and happy should be taken. S She was good and fair in youthg And her mind was seen to soar, And her heart was wed to truth. She had done her bidding here, Angels dear! Bore her perfect soul above, Seraph of the skies,-sweet love l As two of the class officers were absent, the first thing we did was to reor- ganize with the folowing officers: C. A. Fleming, presidentg WV. C. Vtfhite, vice-presidentg E. B. Kerns, secretary and treasurer, and Lillian Killingworth, historian. Although fewer in number than the years before, we could not let that year pass without doing something to make it as eventful as the others. Hence we Went to work to get back our Junior-Senior banquet. After many efforts and much pleadings. the Faculty allowed us to have it. That pleasant occasion will linger long in our memories and will brighten the thoughts of our junior year. September the thirteenth, IQI35 and we had reached our goal,-Seniors! Yet when we answered,to the call of the old college bell, it was tinged with a feeling kin to sadness: for soon we were to disband as a class. XVe were glad to have M. B. Hanna of the class of 1913 to join us, also glad that D. F. XYade decided to come back to us after spending his junior year at another college. He had declared that his heart was with us all the time. Realizing our responsibility as Seniors, we resolved to make our last years in college count for more than any other year. Our first step was to adopt the honor system in our class and to determine in as much as we were able to abolish cheating in Erskine C'ollege. Then we entered upon a task that very few classes from Erskine have been able to accomplish, getting out an Annual. At first, we met with difficulties and more than once our efforts seemed that they would be in vain. Knowing that an Annual would advertise our Alma Mater as nothing else would. we never gave up until this feat was accomplished. In athletics, as in every other phase of college life, we have done our part. 17

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Senior Class History 54.-4-f'ti,Ne N September the thirteenth, IQIO, when a band of forty boys the mountain range of knowledge, the date nineteen hundred and fourteen was one that extended into illimitable expanse. lilut alas it is here, and each day we realize that the golden 255421555 college days are coming fast to a close. Whether these days have been spent profitably can be answered only by retrac- and eleven girls arrived in Due West and began to ascend ing our steps. None of us can ever forget those first days of college life. Vividly im- pressed upon our minds are the first chapel exercises, where the Sophomores greeted us each time with the yells fresh, 'ffreshf' And we can never forget when we met the Professors to be classified. Often when we presented our High school certificates, feeling sure that they would admit us to the Sophomore class, they were rejected and we were examined to see if we were even ready for the Freshman class. Never before in our lives did we appear so ignorant. It would not be fair to give our first impression of Due VVest. At that time hazing was very popular, and we had to contend with that. How helpless we were! However much one was suffering from homesickness he had the opportunity of practicing singing, dancing, and even jumping from second story windows of the Dormitory. But despite the fact that we encountered many obstacles, we were deter- mined to succeed, and soon were considered a remarkable class by the Faculty. We organized as a class with the following officers: A. T. Henry, president, C. A. Fleming, vice-president. E. B. Kerns, secretary and treasurer, and Mary Keener, historian. Time glided by quickly and ere long we were a class of rising Sophomores. Bidding farewell to the Freshman class, leaving its burdens to future Freshman, we left for our homes to spend the long looked for vacation. The three months of vacation seemed as a dream and on September the twelfth IQII, the college bell summoned a band of forty-four lordly Sophomores to duty. We were sorry to find some of our number missing, but were glad to welcome to our class lllanehe lrwin, llessie Lee Wfhitehead, XV. Crymes, S. H. White and Harold Lumley. These had never enjoyed the experiences of an Erskine Freshman. Wfe were also glad to welcome from the class of IQI3, Francis -leter, L. H. Spencer, NV. C. Wfhite, and John T Moore. VVe as Sopliomores, that class usually dreaded by the Freshmen, had the honor of abolishing hazing, and instead of being the Freshmen's terror we were their friends. lint we would not have you to believe for one moment that we lacked class or college spirit. The pennant of TQT4. was the first to float from the college dome. Wfe can also boast that the class of 1914 was the first class to get out a Sophomore edition of the lfrskinian. And needless to say that edition, to our minds was the best of that year. 16 ' I ' ' i

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Each year we gave some of the best players to the baseball team. Since our Sophomore year, one of the players in the Tennis Tournament has been from the class of 1914. In class Foot-ball the Seniors were the champions. And now as we leave our dear old Alma Mater let us look onward not back- ward, upward not downward. With such a history as ours, she will certainly watch us, she will expect us to live up to her high ideals and be worthy sons and daughters. So may no act of ours bring shame, To one heart that loves thy name, May our lives but swell thy fame, Dear old Erskine ! ZX 18 '