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

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ELBERT LEE TRINKLE, ill, ........ Wytheville, Va. Freshman Prize Scholarshipg Freshman Declaimer's Medal, Philanthropic Societyg Corresponding Secretary of Class, First Term, Freshman Yearg President of Class, Second Term, Freshman Yearg Representative of Freshman Class in Sophomore-Freshman Contest: Representative of Fresh- man Class at Class of '94 Banquetg Sophomore Debater's Medal, Philanthropic Societyg Representative of Class at Geneva Reception, 18935 Manager Sophomore Baseball Teamg Final Junior Oratorg President of General Athletic Association Junior Yearg Manager Junior Class Baseball Teamg '95 KALEIDOSCOPE Boardg Chairman Intermediate Invitation Committee, Junior Yearg Toast Class '96 Banquetg Senior Orator's Medal, Philanthropic Societyg Manager College Foot-ball Team 18955 Manager College Baseball Team 18965 Business Manager Magazine, Senior Yearg '96 KALEIDOSCOPE Board: Intersociety Oratorical Contest 1896. I CHARLES BASKERVILLE WATKINS, AW, 67.l'L', . . Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va. Class Baseball Team, 189-1-95-965 Class Foot-ball Team 1893-94-95. Q W l N1 P t 22

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JOHN MAXNX'ELL ROBESON, ........ Farmville, Va. Grand Keeper of the Portals, Class Meetings, Freshman, Sophomore and Junior Years: Corresponding Secretary of Class, Junior Year, Class Baseball Team, 1895, Intermediate Orator, Philanthropic Society, Senior Year. HOIDOMBE MCGAVOCK ROBERTSON, XX, .... Max Meadows, Ya. Class President, Second Term, Junior Year, Member Junior Banquet Com- mittee. JOHN PRFs1'oN SHEFFEY, Jn., lil, l-I.YL', ...... Marion, Va. President of Class, Second Term, Senior Year, Delivered Sophomore Essayist Medal, Final Celebration Sophomore Year, Junior Intermediate and Final Orator , Junior Debater's Medal, Vice-president of Athletic Association, Junior Year, Associate Editor of '95 KALEIDOSCOPE, Class Baseball and Foot- ball Teams, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior Years, President of Class, Second Term, Senior Year , Final Senior Orator. RICHARD CLARKE SoMMEnv1LLr:, HHH, HXIJ, . . Front Royal, Va. ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD, 11I'.l, HXE, C C C, ..,. Petersburg, Va. KALEIDOSCOPE Staff 1893-94, Junior Intermediate Orator, Associate Editor Magazine Junior and Senior Years, Senior Intermediate Orator , KALEIDOSCOPE Staff 1895-96. Secretary Hampden-Sidney Historical Society. JOHN LEIGHTON STUART, l'.l', ........ Mobile, Ala. Sophomore Prize Scholarship, President Y. M. C. A. Sessions 1894-95-96, Business Manager KALEIDOSCOPE, Junior Year, Local Editor Magazine, Two Terms, Junior Year, Marshall Senior Celebration, Junior Year, Junior Essayist Medal, Philanthropic Society, Chairman Junior Banquet Invitation Committee, Corresponding Secretary of Class, and Vice-president of same Junior Year , Editor Student's Hand Book, Junior Year, Class Representative to Geneva Reception, Junior Year, '96 KALEIDOSCOPE Board, Exchange Editor Magazine, One Month, Senior Year, Review Editor, Eight Months, Senior Year, Historian of Class Senior Year. 21

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History of 'g6. In the writing of any article it is always a neat introduction, and one which does much to enhance the opinion of the author's abilities, to mention some of the peculiar difficulties of its composition. So I may as well start my literary shuttle through its loom. Firstly, our class somewhat resembles one of De Musset's heroines, who declared herself too old for dolls and not old enough to look back sentimentally on her youth. I take it that those for whom these lines are written have outgrown their fondness for lecture-room squibs, ducking, gloryings over the relative merits of our class teams and banquets. Even Robeson and his hilarious room-mate are mellowing into becoming gravity, like a belated crop of green peas. Reciprocally, I am quite sure that we have not progressed far enough into our dotage as yet to chatter together in fond retrospect over our joyous college days. Probably we will all have a slight twinge of this malady as we are jolted down to Farmville on the last trip. Similarly some of us have already winced slightly at presages of the rheumatism or indigestion which, it is pleasant to ruminate, will latterly wrack us along with the sentiment. A second obstacle that the writer encounters is a conscientious regard for the claims of the valedictorian-thatjiamen mazimus of Horid insincerity. It is his and his alone to divulge the analogous nature of our graduation to the launching of frail barks on life's billowy sea, to delineate the real battles we will have to engage in after a rose-strewn undergraduate course, and then to stimulate us to rush into the front ranks of the fray-and get besmirched for our folly. Thirdly, in this issue we suffer from the not unusual hindrance of having a commonplace class that has run its round very much after the manner of other classes. We have a fair proportion of grinds who have studied unobtrusively and will doubtless soon get their meed. Nor are we without the lackadaisical element, mingling with a fair proportion of the athletic and with a sprinkling of the sportive. Still, we all of us move in orbits that are not conspicuous for eccentricity, and little influenced by any marked perturbations from the great world. We think normal thoughts and do normal actions-except Sommerville the Solitary, for of course nobody knows what fantastic dances are going on in the cerebrum of that great lonely man. We have experienced the ordinary evolution of views and beards from the time when, with our Bellum Givile tucked under our arms, we regarded its author and the Seniors around for abovej us as individuals equally to be envied, until we attained our present faultless state. True, I might discuss the various jokes peculiar to our class-the untasted viands of our Junior year, or the canes. But I will not. It is said that we are not as abounding in class spirit as we might be. If this means 23