Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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SGPHGMORE l-IISTGRY. GD We'd like to call the Muses, To help us sing in verse The glories of the class of Ninety-three. But prose too has its uses, And this historian has no choice- He never could indite in poetry, N the month of September, 1889, the largest class of verdant Freshmen that has ever entered Pennsylvania College, started in upon its four years oftraining. We numbered 61 then, and there has been no time since when our head has not been well above the 50 mark. Anxiously did '94 count her incoming men a year later, with the hope of going above our number, but they were doomed to disappointment-a foretaste of much they have had to suffer since at our hands. Nearly one-half of our college course is over, and all that could be related of ourdoings in that time would indicate that the chief characteristic of the class is growth Qparticularly of mustachesb. But let us begin at the beginning. Hardly were we settled in our rooms, when the rivalry between Sophomores and Freshmen began. Terrible were the battles we fought, class-feeling ran high, the echoes of the '93 meas- ured cry were lost in the yell of ,Q2, only to be again heard from a repetition, until voices were little more than whispers. Rush after rush took place with no determinate result. Then ,Q2 placed their class number, inscribed upon a sheet, high up on the college tower, only to see it burn, while our cheers made the welkin ring. Then they shamefully defaced the new building by painting their number upon its walls, and let all credit be given to the members of ,Q3, who attempted to remove the dishguring marks. That ,Q2 may still be dimly seen on the college tower, a disgrace to the class that put it there. They claim to have gained a decided victory over us, but we would refer them to the remark below, of Dr. Stahley, to see in what imperishable characters he places '93 H high above the college tower. Methinks their victory has no place among the decisive battles ofthe world. During the remainder of our Freshman year, nothing worthy of note occurred until Commencement Week, when Mr. M. L. Barshinger carried offthe first prize for us on Field Day, and Mr. F. G. Turner shared with a member of 192 the victory in the Tennis Doubles, Mr. H. L. Wilhelm stood at the head of the class in the yearls studies, and took the Freshman prize, the following students receiving honorable mention: E. Sutherland, C. E. Allison, M. Kline, W. H. Deardorfh 35