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

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G. W. U. The 1912 Cherry Tree G. W. U. Senior College Hans Wilhelm Ferd. Anderson ... .Germany Chancellor of l he German Embassy Mr. Anderson Came to America 10 show the German Ambassador how to hold down his job and to pray for mercy for the Kaiser at the hands of Uncle Sam. In his spare moments lie has attended G. W. U. and given scholarly topics in Shakespeare class, Roger S. G. Boutell Mr. Boutell. after wandering all over the globe, came hack to Washington and decided to lead a quiet, domestic life. His Harvard career has taught him to take things as they come, so lie is now trying to earn a living baffling the juries and judges of Washington. Minnie Hulda Brackhagen. .Dist of Columbia Yes. Minna is Dutch. And that is one of the reasons why she is such a shining light in German class. Minna hopes to teach her mother-tongue in some high school. Edith Catherine Cash. , , .District of Columbia Second l hi i versify Scholarship “Her voice was ever soft and low; An excellent thing in woman. ' We can say a rare thing about Edith. She is one of our brightest and most conscientious students, and, withal, a modest woman. Mabel Louise Chapin, s k , . District of Columbia Behold the Zoologist and Vivjsectionisl I Mabel spends most of her time in cutting up bugs, oysters and star fishes; but, in spite of all this T she is a splendid girl. 22

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r pjVERY year it becomes more difficult to write the history of the Senior Class, for L“j J all the pleasant things which might be said have already been said about PRgSjffif previous years. We do not boast that we are the best class that has ever gone out from the old school. We only ask that you judge of our merit not by what vve have done when the curtain falls behind us in 1912, but by what Old Father Time will indite about us in his record in 1950. Our college years have been but years of preparation for the future that is to come You will behold the fruition of our labors, when some of us, not excluding the fair coeds, shall be members of the international arbitration board, compute the income tax and the minimum wage scale and operate the trans-Atlantic air steamers. As for a few details of our history, we started m bouyant and conceited as most Freshmen On the night of our first class meeting, however, the upper classmen saw that we were reduced to the proper state of humility. Together, we toiled through the diffi- culties of Horace and Levy and were initiated into the perplexities of college mathe- matics, We took a peep into the mysteries of the Middle Ages and began to learn to appreciate the beauties of literature. We were also taught the art of expressing our newly-awakened souls through the medium of language. Our Sophomore and Junior years were very uneventful During this period many of our number fell by the wayside, and the rest of us took such entirely different courses that we lost that close feeling of kinship. At last our Senior year has come, though its two most important events, the graduation exercises and the class banquet, are stiff to be We know that both of these will be brilliant affairs. At our banquet we hope to renew old ties and form many new ones, so that we can depart with courage high and spirits joyful as the Class of 191 2 . 2 !

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G. W. U. The 1912 Cherry Tree a w. u. Senior College ❖ Ralph McNeal Dunbar Maryland Second University Scholarship, Junior Class Poem A truly great man, but don ' t ask him about it — there arc too few unspoiled men. Dunbar is endowed with a knowledge of books that is ail klcx to his capacity. Carnegie did not en- dow the above library. Walter S, Eatherly L. I 1904, University of Nashville Mr. Eatherly is a born mathematician. He learned to count on his toes before he learned to talk, and the first combination he ever made with bis letter blocks ua Q, L. D. Later, how- ever, he found girls of powder and curls 10 be more bewitching than the Witch of Agnesi. John Paten Fleming, a b i . . Dist. of Columbia ‘Varsity Track Team ' o8- ' og; Captain io- ii-b2 Y. A I. C A. Brotherhood of St. Andrew Treasurer Senior Class Pyramid Honor Society Here is a man who turned out and ran, but in the right direction. Long distances never faze him ; no matter what the race is for, he sticks and wins. The long-distance record for talking he never attempts. Ralph Wylie Frey, District of Columbia We could elicit no information from Mr, Frey concerning himself except that fact that he is a member of the G. W. U. Chemical Society, Jeanette Geschickter, K. .Dist, of Columbia Class Secretary 1908-1909 Class Editor The Chf.kky Tmz (1912) No one offered to write the editor’s biography, and it is not seemly that she should enumerate her own virtues. 23