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

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S OMEWHERE back in the dim and distant past we remember or choose to , forget the trials and tribulations of our Freshman year. It was in the fall of 1908 that we entered the portals of the dear old college building at Fifteenth and H streets. We had thought that the worst would be over when that much-dreaded entrance on matriculation day was an accomplished fact, but alas! — never was there a greener bunch of “Freshies.” We had not counted on what the Sophomores had in store foi us. They did their best to make our lives miserable for those first few weeks and to prevent our class elections. They succeeded fairly well in the former, but thanks to Dean Wilbur and an officer of Uncle Sam, they failed miserably in the latter under- taking. Another achievement of which we Freshmen were justly proud was our success in preventing that haughty band of upper-class men from touching our goal in the inter- class football game. It was the first time in the history of th e college that the “meek” little Freshmen had ever done such a thing. So you see we were no ordinary class to begin with. I he one consolation in being a Freshman, however, is the comforting knowledge that you will not always have to be one. Hence, the most important event in our collective career was the assumption in the title of Sophomore. Now a Sophomore is especially distinguished for two reasons — he has joyful prospects of becoming a Senior and he is not a Freshman. This is the cause of his deep-seated respect for the Senior and his lack of mercy toward the Freshman. To us fell the unpleasant duty of training the erring Freshmen in the way they should go. We did it conscientiously, but very unwillingly. And what did those who did their duty most conscientiously get for their pains? A free ride to the police stations as well as several hours enforced leisure in that hated place. Never again! We began our college career with an enrollment of 160. the largest the college bad had in the Freshman class up to that time. Many have fallen by the wayside, however. Some have dropped back to swell the ranks of the class of 1913. Others have gotten so entangled in the social whirl that they have stopped their college career. When we came back last fall the faithful numbered about sixty. We have the “quality” if not the quantity, however, and you may still expect to see us accomplish great and wondeilul things. We expect to have the best Senior class George Washington University ever graduated. Just wait until next year and see if we don’t! Katherine Summy. , 27 -

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G. W. U. The 1911 Cherry Tree G. W. U. Senior Engineering v Dana McGuffey Lasley Ohio Candidate B. S. in M. L i X Fraternity Dana, from Columbus, has never taken part in athletics nr class politics, because be bad to devote bis time to carrying on the business a junior partner of the firm of ‘‘Howard Lasley. Fussers.” Ask him what he has the next hour and he will reply. “She’s a queen. Theodore Lyman Moody Maryland Class Editor Tin: ton Cherry Trek Candidate for If S. in C. E. degree. “Gabby Moody. the frenzied financier. Gabby’s long suit is collecting money. We hardly say that Gabln is a grafter, bar be it from us! Cabby painstakingly separated all of us from our cash for the Cherry Price pictures, while be was conscientiously forgetting to come through with bis own. Augustin Mitchell Prentiss. .South Carolina Candidate If S. in C. E. Sterrctt Prize in Physics, tqn Secretary Engineering Society, igii Class Treasurer. 1911 I bis child wonder lir t saw daylight in Chapel Hill, X. C.. and has never groped in darkness since. Prentiss made a record in completing the night course in four years. Because of bis ten- dency to burst into song at the least provocation be has earned the soubriquet, “Caruso. Henry Frank Wiegand. . ..District of Columbia Candidate If S. in E. E. Columbian Scholarship Wie gehts W iegand. Wiggy positively denies that he is of French extraction. “ Rudolph V time is mostly occupied in whistling. Displays great ingenuity in setting up a broken chair to spill an unsuspecting stride You ought to hear him render Casey Jones w ith Pop Craig carry- ing both tenor and lriss. l o owns a pipe. 26

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