Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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The Pygmies. CLASS OFFICERS. President, - - - - -' HARVEY BOZARTH. Vice-President, - - - MAX'-BELLE F. DOOLITTLE. ' Secretary - - ENA BUKNHAM. Treasurer' . - A. P. VVHITMORE. Assistant Treasurer, ' ESTHER BEATTY- Historian, - MAX'-BELLE F. DOOLITTLE. Sergeant at Arms, ' - - - W- L' IWZEAVER- Ass't.'Sergeant-at-Arms, - - - - IOE BUSH- ' ILIOTTO:- PVz'!h Faith and Coiumgef' V COLOR-CRIMSON AND WHITE. NAME- THE PYGMIESI' CLASS YELL: V R1P! KI! YI! Pygmiesby fate! RAH! RAH! RAH! Ninety-eight. HISTORY OF NINETY-EIGHT. I ' ELL, I got there all right and didnlt lose my overshoes or copy- Icame pretty near having to walk a long ways, though, for 5 the train went right along by the town, but I told the brakeman that I wanted to get off at Ames because I was going out to the College. I-Iefsaid he would see'what they could do for me and, sure enough, pretty soon the train stopped and began to back up ' f .L 4- ' E on a side track till it got to the, depot. f V il I got off the car and looked around, and just then a little fel- low with a big yellow ribbon on his coat came up and asked me if I wanted to go out to the College. I told him I did, and he asked me i.fI wanted to take the motor out there. I remembered what you told me, so I said No. thank you, I want to take the agricultural course. . He laughed and said if I would come out and see the motor I might want to take that. too, so I Went with himg and there was a little steam engine, about as big as a hand-car, with a cow-catcher on each end and a glass case all around it. It was hitched to a little car. I tried to open the door but it wouldn't push or pull, till the conductor came out and slid it sideways and let me in. After the thing had stopped to whistle awhile, we pulled out for the College. p '

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Verses to the Class . To you, O Pygmieg, ciaggmen irue, Webdedicale lhese iinegg We oongecraie and we imbue - Wiih ihem lhe kindegl ihoughls for you Thai Foriuqe fair assigns. Through darkegi yisiag of ihe brain Where hope hag neyer been, There comes a brighi ailuriqg irain, Heralding knowledge man may gain And power he may win. Qaiohing ihese giimpseg luring fair Thai Foriune deigns io show, filxan ciares for ihem aii man may -ciareg And Pygnqies corqe lo oiaim a share T Of all lhal nqan nqay know. Vifas ihig ihe ionis faiuus lhen Thai lured you from your honfleg- ' The hope lo do lhe deeds of men- Wiih power, brain, and wealoon. pen, . i To conquer mighiy iomes? you iake ihe sludies Freghrnen iake, ' Vifho enler i. I you duplicalre each Freshman break, Al eyeryihirlg you lake ihe cake, Vifhen any cake lrhere be. Though ihis your fale, yei weii we know your obljeol is a wige one. Lei Seniors boasl' and Sopirmoreg crow, The Freshmen ioiling on below For yaior haye lhe prize won.

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THE BOMB. I5 The first thing we came in sight of was a long, two-story building with HI. A. C. in big letters on one end. I was just going to ask if that was the College when I saw the words Experiment Barn on it, so I didn't say anything. ' Well, we finally got to the depot and got off. There was another fellow with a yellow ribbon on his coat and he asked me if I wanted to go over to the stewardis office. I told him that you had Written to the President and I guessed he was waiting for meg but the fellow said I had better go over to the office and register or they wouldn't get any dinner for me, so I went. f K -The steward did not seem very glad to see me, for when I asked him how he was he just said '-O Shawn and began talking to a little fellow on a high-chair. ThenI Went down to the President's office to see him. There was such an awful crowd in the office that when pI, tried to go up and shake hands with the President I tripped over another fellow's foot and fell against the table. The President looked at me so sharp that I forgot all about shaking hands, and just hid behind ia Senior and kept quiet. - When my turn came. the President gave me a little card which told me Where to go for examination I asked one boy where the Freshman Roomf' was and he said it was at the corner of Music Hall, but when I Went there all I could find was a green- house. ' The first examination I had was in algebra, but I couldn't remember very much of that, so I didn't get a pass-mark till after I had studied awhile. I got along all right in the rest except in physiology. I said that the epidermis was the lining of the stomachg and when we were asked to locate the heart, I said 'mine was in my mouth, for I just know it was. It wasnft very long before the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. gave a reception to us and asked all the other classes to come to it. They had some speaking and singing in the chapel. One fellow talked a long time about how 'they had been working to get ready for us and how disappointed they would have been if we hadn't come, and how, if we were all good and studied hard, we might get to be juniors or even sub-Profs. some day. After that they gave us each a little slip of paper with our name and class on it, and We just walked around and got acquainted with each other. There was one of the girls thatI wanted to talk tog but she kept on talking to a little fellow with glasses, so I went up and said to him, '-I know two very nice boys I will introduce you to if you will come over to the other side of the room, Qthen I was going back and talk to that girlj but he wouldnlt come. Afterwards, I found out that he was a sub-Prof. A - Not long after this I proposed to some of our class that we ask the President if we could have a class-meeting to organize ourselves. He said we could, so on the appointed evening we all went down to Ag. Hall, where the meeting was to be held. While we were Waiting for the rest' to come, a lot of Sophs. and juniors and Seni- ors came in and sat down. I called the meeting to order and asked them to please go away because we had important business on hand. and didn't want to be interrupted, but they none of them Went. ,