Erskine College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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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.

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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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VF f gfsrueg .-- f w i i L-. 1 . INA MYRTLE BRYSON Myrtle Calliopean lf to her share some female errors fall, Loolg on her face and you'll forget it all. Four years ago the gentle Western breezes, blowing across the Piedmont Section, blew Miss Myrtle Bryson into Erskine College from her home in Guntown, Mississippi, where she has been the daughter of Mr. W. Bryson since an eventful clay in January, Eighteen-Ninety-Six. Guntown High School sent her to Erskine quiet, diffident, retiring, and studious, but a course of Due West soirees has developed her into one of the most engaging talkers that ever entertained at a Wylie Home reception. Her stucliousness, however, she has never lost. She is a faithful and efficient student, an ardent Calliopean, and a zealous Young Woman's Christian Association worker. She has served as Vice-President and as Secretary of the Castalian Literary Society, and as Marshal at the Castalian Semi-Annual Celebration. She is the youngest member of her class and like the youngest in all instances is badly spoiled. ln- clepenclence is her most conspicuous characteristic and curiosity her most predominant peculiarity, though perhaps not much more peculiar to her than to all womankind. Yet this peculiarity of hers is peculiarly fortunate in that it is supported by persuasive soft brown eyes and a voice equally as soft and persuasive. Having always had her way, as the youngest always do, she bids fair to continue to have it for she does not lack equipment: and it will not be bad, if she does, for her ways are pretty ways. She is forever cheerful and always carries a smile. She will always be remembered by her associates as one altogether lovely. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies: And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.