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Page 33 text:
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GUiU ' OED lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllW Mentor Class J tstorp And lo Dr. Hobbs looked out over the green hills of Guilford on September 8, 1914, and heaving a great sigh said, Behold, how they arc increased that trouble me! |]HIS remark was indeed apropos. For had not forty- four young hope- fuls cast in their lot at this honored seat of learning on the above date. And truth compels us to admit that this bunch was perhaps more than ordinarily forlorn and friendless in appearance, and a lost or strayed sign might well have been appended to any one of us. With feelings of mingled wonder and awe did we become initiated into the mysteries of our first opening reception and receive formal introduction to those higher up. And that first class meeting! How far away and hazy that evening seems in retrospect. Rut by some process which James could doubtless have explained satisfactorily we can even at this range reproduce slightly that thrill which crept down our spines when we found that we in class meeting as- sembled were actually voting for class officers. An older chronicle assures us that this ancient election was a wise one, ami be it far from your present scribe to dispute such an authority. Suffice it to say that we duly became an organized class and took upon ourselves the role of Guilford College citizens. Doubtless we received the prescribed amount of advice and admonition from the members of the class just above, and mayhaps a few of our number even suffered physical violence ( ?) during some of the snowstorms of that year. Rumor has it that some ' 18-ers actually camped out on certain nights during that first year. Re that as it may, it must be said that we remained thoroughly good-natured all the while and were always willing to be shown. In the spring term of this first year we met the Sophomores in forensic combat and made them fight to the last ditch for the two-to-one decision ren- dered in their favor. Even in our earliest days we possessed orators of note and Roger Kiser succeeded in bearing off the Clay oratorical medal — an unusual honor for a first year man. ( )ur Freshman athletic record while in no way brilliant is one upon which we look backward with satisfaction. We put down our erstwhile moral advisors in interclass basketball, and made the Juniors look well to their laurels for the class championship. And now it becomes my duty to chronicle the saddest event connected with our initial year at Guilford. Of the valiant host who bravely enlisted in the ranks of College Algebra, few alas ! survived to tell the tale. Lest our readers should dwell too long on this sad picture, we shall hasten to sing the story of our second year at Guilford. Rack again we came twenty- eight strong. This was to be sure a slight decrease in numbers, but our short- 28
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GUILFORD ened roll call was amply made up for by our superabundant confidence and cocksureness. Firmly convinced that we held in our possession the one and only remedy for all the errors of humanity, and that Guilford was our oyster to be opened at pleasure, we proceeded to make ourselves seen and heard within these college walls. Perhaps our chief claim to glory for this year lies in our athletic record. We furnished men for each of the varsity athletic teams, and we took tenderly unto ourselves the interclass baseball championship for the year. In attest of this fact, witness the glowing ' 18 which shines out like a beacon from the Pharos at the ' rack of Founders — a fitting memorial to the prowess of our acro- bats as well as to our athletes ! But — we must on with our story. September. 1916, found even a smaller number than the preceding year back at our posts of duty. This group although fully justifying the epitaph Jolly ]uniors were nevertheless taking on a new se- riousness and thought fulness as new occasions taught new duties. We fast began to realize that wiser heads than ours had grown gray in pondering the difference between what is and what should he, and relinquishing our Sophomoric plans of w : orld reformation, we set ourselves earnestly to the tasks which three years of college life enjoin. If it be true that we live in deeds. then it follows that we of ' IS lived rather intensively in the good year 1917. For upon us as Juniors de- scended that year the interclass basketball championship. Having had two rep- resentatives on the team, we feel also that ' 18-ers may claim a share in the honor which belongs to Guilford as State champion in the field of collegiate baseball. A history of this Junior year would be sadly incomplete should we omit to mention that with rare diplomacy and tact we secured the gracious consent and presence of Miss Osborne on a Junior picnic — an event hitherto unheard of. A custom was thus established for which all Juniors who come after us should be eternally grateful. It also became our pleasure to entertain the Class of ' 17 during the spring of this year, and their visit to us will always be a red letter day in the memory of ' 18. ' Can it really be possible that I have arrived at the final year of my chron- icle? It seems only yesterday since a certain one of our number went into the library, and timidly removed a newspaper from its hanger, experiencing untold anguish and embarrassment when it was discovered that this had not been at all necessary ! On September 6, I ' M 7. sixteen of ' 18 made known their intention to carry on and see the thing through to a finish. One of our number had decided to secure this last year of training at our State University ; another having heard Uncle Sam ' s ringing call to the colors had responded instantly. Several others, feeling perhaps that three years of college life are almost as good as four, re- solved to direct their activities along other lines. It is yet early to chronicle the story of our Senior year. But even now the singing of Blest Be the Tie That Binds gives us a throaty, choky feeling and everywhere in the various organizations as successors take our places we are reminded that Guilford campus will soon know us no more. 28
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