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

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football game in which H. S. was beaten 2-1 to G. lVe ask who that boy is hurrying toward Memorial Hall with a batch of loose manuscripts which he is cramming for his Senior speech, and learn that he is the star Greek student, Maxcy Latimer, who expects to go to the Seminary next year. What an illustration of that principle of heredity by which a child has his grandfather's traits, his son his own father's, etc. Now, Maxcy's son will probably be a fine pitcher, though he himself holds all such in high contempt. The rest of this interesting visit will have to remain untold owing to those immanent categories-time and space. I would merely remark that Trinkle complained because his hopeful had no trouble collecting money, as all the organizations were so prosperous. He was getting no business or kicking experience and had better go elsewhere. I suggested that he be persuaded to run for some oflice in the Y. M. C. A., but we learned that even that once impecunious corporation had not one delinquent subscriber or unpaid debt. He then grumbled because the new baths, which we had hoped to try, would not be ready for a Week yet. HISTORIAN OF '96, f? If - . 1 A 1 ,xi V 4 l 0 25

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that we are not organized into a political ring to aggrandize the pink and gray, it is doubtless true. But I am sure that we are not deficient in the essence that welds together genuine friendships. And now, having dilated on my difficulties, I find myself grateful to them for having furnished me with so much material. This brings out a beautiful point in morals, one which a certain poet, read and admired by all of us Qin Junior Englishj, has expressed in the following familiar lines: Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Holds yet a precious jewel in its head. Our class has had heavy losses every year, among them none more felt than the member Washington and Lee robbed us of. Nor can we refrain from lamenting over the departed Fowler, or the fresher bereavement experienced in Doc's cessation of collegiate toils. On the other hand, we have been burdened by the ponderous intellects of two extra A. M's. I must here confess myself a very imperfect historian, for I can think of no other events to be chronicled. Wait, let us try some vaticination-a hazardous experiment, 'tis true, but none the less agreeable. It is 19-, and at the invitation of my old friend to accompany him to Hampden-Sidney in his sumptuous private car and visit our sons, I am just alighting. Yes, the car is side-tracked back of Hugh Hart 's store, and is an object of much interest to the local population. We walk together down Main street, he wobbling along with his arm over my shoulder, tagging at my ear in a familiar way. The stores all have a lively air-probably due to increased advertis- ing-otherwise we see no changes till reaching the campus. Here there are some new buildings and numerous groups of boys. Young Lee is pointing out various ones in a patronizing sort of tone. That one is named Ficklen. He has just been sent over from Africa and, chimes in my own pride sententiously, finds undergraduate macaronis more to his taste than Zulus, preferring likewise certain questionable pastimes among the civilized to mosquitoes and tracts for the aboriginals. A hand- some little fellow is trying to inveigle him into attending on a Y. M. C. A. service in the new quarters equipped with all modern appliances, as the latest catalogue has it. We regret that little Price ffor it is none otherj doesn't succeed. At this juncture, we are introduced by our youthful escorts to two rather pedantic Seniors, who are said to be prominent on the Magazine staff and very assiduous students of Belles-Lettres. Their names, by the way, are Bull and Mauzy. A jauntily attired young fellow, whom we guess to be a leading voice in college politics, is decrying in a noisy manner Jones, the football manager, for not wiring the score of a recent 24

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'HZ Molto .'-Palma, non sine pulvere. Cblors :-Royal Purple and Old Gold. YELI. Hizzle-Dizzle! Razzle-Dazzle Y Sis-Boom-Bah Y Ninety-seven Y Ninety-seven Y Rah Y Rah I Rah I OFFICERS First Term. Second Tevm Presicleni, F. M. CUNNINGI-IAM, President, H. M. DAVIS, Vice-President, T. R. TORIAX, Vice-President, C. YV. MASON, Secretary and Treasurer, H. H. SH ELTON, Secretary and Treasurer, R. K. BROCK Sergeafnt-at-Ar7n.9, J. H. EARHART, Ne1'geant-al-Arms, C. R IRVING Hislorian, S. M. MASON. ' ' H1Sl0I1U7lf,S. M. MASON. ' 36