Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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kldfalillsl .llf l WILLIAM THOMAS BETTS G f tY 1 l Euphemian Hfheerful at noon, lie Ivalges from short repose, Breathes the keen air and carols as he goes. There have been Williams, there have been goats, there have also been William goats CI guessl, but there has been and positively will be not another William Goat Betts. This one was born and raised in that center for curiosities, l Lessliels, S. C. As his nickname implies, Goat l has been rambling round taking care of himself for a good many years. A chance of luck l threw him into our midst, as a fresh, and all of us, but especially one of our Senior Co-Edls, thank that fate, Of a scrappy nature if bothered H i too much, yet Goat is the best of friends when one knows him, and is willing to let him tend to his own business. Since he entered school he has had many experiences, and has come out of all, so far, with colors Hying. He has accomplished much outside of the regular course. He made the baseball team his Fresh year, and again his Soph year, being the leading outfielder and one of the leading base runners on the team both years. A spell of pneumonia kept him out his Junior year. Goat was the best quarter back in class football for two years and played on the basket- ball squad for two seasons. His society work has been good, and he has held the offices of vice-president and chief marshal, besides other minor positions. 1 The wit and hard common'sense of Goat are well famed in Erskine, and his happy nature, and all-round -,gt solidness make him one of the best liked fellows in college. He is popular wherever he goes, with both sexes. He seems always able to do as Rome does and is at home in any environment. He goes over obstacles and not around them, works with energy and determination and seldom shirks his duty. For these reasons we can only prophesy for Goat a bright future.

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- H--V-'N - AH -4- --V - g.. s, '.Z .Mr F I 1 ll VX1 IQ. -.l.l5, EARLE PARTLQW BARRON Babei' Philomathean mTis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. The good town of Rock Hill lays claim to the production of Earle. There he was born on the 9th day of November, l895. He grew there a little in stature, and much in the sight and affections of the girls. After finishing the high school at home, winning a meclal, Earle came to us at the tender age of' fifteen. His youth and smallness were the reasons for his nickname of Babe,,' which has stuck to him much more steadfastly than any of his many girls. Babe has increased in size and knowledge since he entered college, until he is now a full- rounded man in many phases of college life. He is a math sharkf, and is good in other branches of the course. Babe is a loyal Philomathean and has given his society four years' faithful service. He has served in almost every capacity, being president, vice-president and secretary. Having attained to over six feet of man and muscle, Babe is one of our best all-round athletes in college, playing Varsity baseball his Junior and Senior years as one of the best fielding first basemen in the state. He represented Erskine at the state tennis tournament and is also tennis manager for this year. share of his time, too. He is also a good business man. If there is any money to be gotten up in the class, Babe is always the man to do it. He never fails to show his Qlass or College spirit, and always bears his part in everything. His business ability got him a position as assistant business manager of the Erskiniana. Last, but most important of the many accomplishments and acquirements of Babe is his ability to get a new girl at least once in two weeks. This is something he has done, on an average, for his whole college course. Basket-ball comes in for a Al!Lf.s...-

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X his gil fs' l l 1 J , -.T,,. t MARY BIC-HAM li ry,, Calliopean Ye Gods! Here is a woman who thinks. The smallest article among the members of the class of Nineteen-Fifteen was contributed by Mr. and Mrs. T. Bigham, of Chester, S. C. She Y has been theirs since September the twenty-fourth, Eighteen-Ninety-Three, when she was quite a little thing and she is still little. She has how- ever, since she came to college, counterbalanced some of the smallness of her stature by the large- ness of her achievements. She has been President of the Young Woman's Christian Association, Vice-President of her class, and Exchange Editor of the Erskinian. In the semi-annual celebra- l i tions of the Calliopean Literary Society she was essayist in her Freshman year, successful debater in her Junior year, and President in her Senior year. Though a girl and a little one, she has held a place among the grade makers of her class and has at times even made the men who made highest grades work hard to keep from having to suffer the humiliation of being surpassed by a woman, and in June she will graduate with third honor. She is a musician of some talent and has rendered valiant and much appreciated service to the Young lVlen's Christian Association as organist. She represented her Young Woman's Christian Association at the Blue Ridge Conference in the summer of Nineteen-Fourteen. As she is a thorough believer in Woman's Rights, it will take a level-headed handsome man to keep her out of the Suffrage Movement. She likes a good joke and can tell one, a big man and can boss one, and a fine house and can keep one. Unlike most girls she is never silly. She thinks of things worth while and when she speaks she is listened to. Those who know her have seen: A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller betwixt life and death, The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill.