Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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Q. if A . . s....n-s.,'. JAMES HENRY BROOKS jake Philomathean A man of cheerful yesterdays ana' confident to-nwrrowsf' Born in the year of l895. Ujakieii has spent most of his life in Due West, at least we found him here when we came. After finishing the prescribed courses in the Due West High School, Jake entered Erskine, and as luck would have it, he entered with the good old class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen. His special character- istic is found in his hard work. He is generally known as the hardest worker in our class, and it doesnit make any difference whether he is on the l athletic ground, in an oratorical contest, or in the class room, Jake can be depended on to work and Work hard. Living in Due West, of course Jake immediately allied himself with the Y. M. C. A. on entering college. He also immediately joined the Philomathean Literary Society and has been working hard for her ever since. He has represented her in semi-annual celebrations as Sophomore declaimer, Junior debater and Senior orator. And she has honored him by making him her hrst president his Senior year, this of course gave him the privilege of delivering the graduating class of Fourteen their diplomas. His oration for the occasion was splendid. He was chosen to speak in the preliminary contest for Rock- hill, both his Junior and Senior years. In athletics, while not being a varsity man, he has had quite a share in holding up the banner of our class, having played class baseball three years and football two years. In baseball he is a fast fielder, but is a little weak when it comes to hitting. This keeps him off of varsity but he makes a good scrub. A diligent student, a college debater and orator, a hne all round fellow, Jake is an honor to his class and will make a success of life. ' mi 'iff' , ...M i ,rf-' --'ll + ' WY, -L'

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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.

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. 3, I F ,gg r . ,V ',,,. .g' ,X -. L ,sl'..l. I I J 1 LIDIE ELIZABETH BRYSON Liclie Calliopean What she wills io do or say seems Ivisesl, virtuouresi, discreetesi, beslf' Four years ago Mississippi gave to the class of Nineteen and Fifteen this girl, whom she will this year take back unchanged by the fashions and fads of college life. This does not mean that she has failed to have her share of fun or that she has made all of her college course work. She likes pleasure and sports as much as anyone but whether at work or at play she is the same good-natured, quiet, and constant Lidie. Basket- ball is her favorite game and she was one of the strong players on the Erskine Co-Ed team. Simplicity and reserve stand out as her chief characteristics. It is these very characteristics which have cemented friend after friend to her during her college days. Though the college days have changed her none in many ways they have not failed to leave their mark on her life. Her Sophomore year an Essayist, her Senior year a debater in the Semi-Annual Celebration of the Calliopean Literary Society. As a result of her fine work in the class room she will graduate with fourth honor in June. Always a dutiful student and a faithful worker in the Y. W. C. A. In all these things she has developed her character and will this year go back to her Mississippi home an able woman. She was more bold in College to the pro- m fessors than to the young men. What her later career will be we can not tell. If it is like her college days, we know that she will be seen more rarer than others but always doing something worth while and content with it. It will always be a pleasure for her 'LTO chase the clouds of l..ife's tempestuous hours, To strew its short but weary way with flow'rs, New hopes to raise, new feelings to impart, And pour celestial balm on the heart: For this, to man was lovely woman giv'n, The last best work, the noblest gift of Heav'n.