Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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gqistnrg nf '93, All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. Yes, 'twas four years ago that the elements of the class of '93 were scraped together. But those were different times. Aleck hadn't grown so pious, nor Billy grown a beard, and Chippy had the goslings when we were Freshmen. XVe were -. X slightly thinned by Soph. math., but ' ' . ' as upper classmen in the Junior year, pg held our own surprisingly well, so that ' My -I' v 1-2559 at the opening ofthe session, seventeen ,Q ,ox ofthe old class increased to eighteen 3 ' A - M, XVl1SI'l'iCl1lCliHXV0Olj0l116Cl11S,gI1lCl16I'Ed ff i lg at H. S. as Seniors. XVe assem- igi 'Q ,'2l.f - ,,l,iii-im 1 bled in the old Society Halls, crowded l f, . with memories of the first Friday ii',V,'Lff -A I night we gathered there. How hot 'QQ li! I-bw and close they were, and how ineflably X 'V ' if . Lg -A high, and beyond us seemed tl1e :ZZ X Temple oflinowledge. The portraits of , 7' 'N' 'J 5 E such men as Samuel Stanhope Smith, if 5 Q, ', HJ, V511 23:3 Archibald Alexander, and Dr. Moses i i- Lili. Eff Hoge stared at us with unsympathetic if i I f ' 2: gaze. XVe felt the inspiration of his- ' EAXQ toricalsurroundings,forwewerewithin 'Shias the walls of the old College, whose Centennial had been passed by nearly a score of years. But the Freshman, Sophomore, then the junior year slipped by, and now as Seniors we return 22

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eminurg i13BlZtL'l1'1I. gfaczxltg. TBENJAMIN M. SMITH, D. D., LL. D., IVICCORMICK PROF. EMERITUS OF ORIENTAL LITERATURE. THOMAS E. PECK, D. D., LL. D. CWCLERK OIf FACULTY3, PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATIC THEoI.Om'. WALTER W. MOORE, D. D., LL. D., PROFESSOR OF THE HEBREXV LANGUAGE ANII LITERATURE, CHARLES C. HERSMAN, D. D., LL. D. ICI-IAIRMANI, HENRX' YOUNG PROFESSOR OF BIBLIC.-XI, LITERATURE AND INTERPRETATION OF TI-IE NEW TESTAAIENT. THOMAS CARY JOHNSON, D. D., PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAI. HISTORX' AND POLITY. T. R. ENGLISH, D. D., STUART ROBINSON PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE AND PASTOR.-XL THEOLOGY. gwrietg nf Zntquirg. HENRY AUSTIN, JR., PRESIDENT, C. R. MORTON, VICE-PRESIDENT, H. W. WHITE, TREASURER, L. C. ALTFATHER, SECRETARY Lilwtnrical. D. C. LILLY, PRES. C. L. ALTFATHER,V1CE-PRES. M. C. TAYLOR, SEc'x' Hlagagizu' Qtaff. P. HAWES, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. REVIEW EDITORS. R. A. WHITE, W. W. MOORE, D. D., LL. D., G. G. SYDNOR. C. C. HERSMAN, D. D., LL. D MISSIONARV EDITORS. J. V. MCCALL, H. W. WHITE. 'Deceased. F. G. HARTMAN, BUSINESS MANAGER. 21

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with all of Seniors' prerogatives. We sit on the front row of seats in chapel, We wear caps and gowns, and we are an unusally fine class in Physics. As a member of the class I speak with authority on this latter point, and it is only from our marked achievements in this special department, and my regard for the class, that I have perhaps been induced to go beyond the strict bounds of modesty. We have had some iierce fights together and have come through victorious, but we're yet to meet our VVaterloo -so we're told. In fact it is the special pride of our class that of those trying for a diploma, the number with back examinations stands at an unprecedented minimum. Not distinguished as some others by a few towering, brilliant men, who by hard work and the goal of a first honor before them have lent a creditable reputation to their class, a large element of which is perhaps of much inferior stuff, the azwzqgrr scholarship of our own is equal to any. If the class of '93 has one boast, it is that her men have almost universally done thorough, honest zvork. In her younger days caring little for athletics, it is not surprising that in maturer years she should not indulge any special interest or marked efficiency in base ball. We did, however, play the Freshmen, and as they do nothing else, they of course did well their part, and the Senior returned to his books, convinced more than ever that he was highly intellectual, and not failing to acknowledge that he was not at all athletical. Vanquished in the field of brawn and muscle we admit, but we leave behind as a tribute to our Alma Mater, volume one, ofthe Kaleidoscope, wrought with no less loving pride in her progress, than the athlete i11 her reputation on the field. As the initiators too of caps and gowns-an attempt to make Senorial di gnitystill more dignihed-We congratulate ourselves upon the assurance of historic renown. The first term passed rapidly, our eighteenth man covered himself with honors, and got the Senior orator's medal, in the Union Hall: while Mc Danald took the Philanthropic. At its close we bade farewell to active society Work, and with a faint realization that It is not the goal, but the course that makes us happy, issued forth to lose our identity in the great unknown mass of honorary members. At the Intermediate Celebration, on the twenty-second of February, NVhite and Spotswood, as Senior orators did the class honor, and McLaughlin has been chosen from among other Seniors and some oratorical juniors, to represent Hampden-Sidney at the Inter! Collegiate Oratorical Contest, to be held at our State University. 23