George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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G. W. U. The 1911 Cherry Tree G. W. U. College Seniors Hilda Beale District of Columbia II B I . First University Scholarship Miss Beale is the joy of her fellow students and the torment of her professors. Chough a born aristocrat, she is intensely democratic; her wit is no respecter of persons. Charles Edward Hiatt North Carolina He came all the way from the University of North Carolina to join us. and we appreciate it. of course. While there he played class football, and was a member of the Dialetic Literary Society. Edwin Henry Ingersoll. . District of Columbia Vice-President of the Chemical Society This Beau Brummel of the Agricultural De- partment upholds the dignity of the meat in- spection law in the chemical laboratories of the Biochemic Division. His fondest dream is of rural life on a chicken ranch or to win at duck pins. Robert Johnson Missouri A E Candidate for A. B. degree Mr. Johnson vibrates between the college building and the College of Political Sciences I lie ladies all say he is a dear, but don’t forget he is from Missouri. William Firey Maupin Virginia Chemical Society lie started in at the University of North Carolina, but being broad-minded lie came to George Washington to complete his studies in chemistry. Here lie has distinguished himself as star slab artist for the chemical laborators baseball bunch. 21

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I asa T was upon a bright, sunny day in September. 1907, that first we entered the doors of the old University with the distinct and heart-felt assurance that we were by far the brightest class that George Washington University had ever matriculated (we had now added that word to our youthful vocabularies and were already using it glibly and frequently). Were there not some Seniors in our history class? Was there not a graduate taking the same mathematics as ourselves? Was not a sedate, beglassed, gray-whiskered married man in our chemistry lecture course? Surely no class had ever been admitted to the University with such honors. These very facts were undoubtedly in full recognition of our phenomenal brilliancy and ability. By the time, however, that the Sophomore days had come the novelty had worn off. We no longer stood in awe of the dignified Seniors, but we were beginning to admire and respect them for the difficult road which they had traveled, and of which we our- selves were now obtaining a bird’s-eye view. We were becoming used to the gray- haired married man. the graduate, and the serious minister. We were no longer afraid to exchange notes and express differences of opinion with the professor upon the impressing and momentous subject of the weather. And then came the Junior year. Many of the brave and brilliant soldier students who had so bravely fought with those legions of books for the past two years had by this time sutcumed as they were wearily climbing the last heights to knowledge. We had left the pleasure seekers, the wanderers, and the dreamers behind and had welcomed into our midst those unfortunates who had failed to meet the requirements of the University for the preceding year. And now we have just completed our Senior year — the doorway to the future. For that we have nothing but eagerness and confidence. Some student with an innate desire for knowledge or a deep-rooted sense of pleasant associations may tell you that it is with regret that he closes the college chapter of his life; that it is with a sad heart that he leaves the old University. But make him think once more upon the situation. I fear that if the diploma now so near his grasp were withdrawn, if the degree, labored for during the past four or five years, as the case may be. were suddenly refused him, that same good student would feel a pang of disappointment go through his heart. He may not acknowledge it even to himself, but the feeling is there just the same. We have had our sorrows and our worries, we have had our pleasures and our joys, but we would not ore of us omit our college course if our lives could be lived over again. Now. we look back with a frown of worry upon our mistakes and our hardships, but when Father Time has passed his ray screen over the picture the high lights, which are the harsh ones, will disappear and we will look back over the worries at some future time — and smile. 20

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G. W. U. The 1911 Cherry Tree G. W. U. College Seniors Kenneth Fuller Maxcy. . District of Columbia (.) A X. Class President, 1907-8. 1008-9. iqio.-ii We honor Mr. Maxcy from force of habit. For three years he had administered our class organization. Observe the class as a result of this executive ability and you must confess his claim to greatness is established. Helen Sellman Nicholson . District of Columbia II B l . Kendall Scholarship; ( ' lass Editor, 1910-11 “She was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.” We could not pass by the baby of our class without paying her a tribute in the words of Shakespeare, for if she excelled in any one class it was Shakespeare. James Pierson Smith North Carolina Here is another of our adopted sons from the University of North Carolina and the Dialectic Literary Society, li e doesn’t talk much, and hence has a reputation for prodigious learning. Laura Winfield Steevek Maryland Miss Steever has managed to lind time to earn a heavy college course and support the Forest Service at the same time and still retain her good humor Her favorite pastime is chem- istry. and she is a member of the (•. W. U. Chemical Society. HELEN Summy District of Columbia X i . Class Vice-President 1907-8. 1908-9, 1910-11 Class Secretary. 1909-10 Secretary Y. W. C. . 1907-9 Sorority Editor The 1911 Cherry I rek It i needless to say after such a list of honors that Miss Summy in one of the most popular and active students of the class in all college interests. 22