Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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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. ,

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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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D ,6 THE BOMB. . '- Then a little Senior with a cork nose jumped upon a table and began to talk so fast that I was afraid he would hurt himself, so I appointed two fellows to clear the room of everybody but Freshmen, but they did not seem tolwant to do it, -in fact, they told me if I wanted it done I had better do it myself. The fellow on the table was still chattering along in a way that would have made the fortune of Prof. Garner if that philologist could have caught him. just then some one came in and yelled that Prexy was coming, the fellow on the table ran out of Wind and blew up, and the rest begun to skip out the doors and Windows. In twenty seconds I was left alone with my vanished hopes, for I really think they were going to elect me class president, and when we did have a meeting I w'asn't even nominated for anything. ' Our class hadn't yet got settled before we heard every one remarking about our size, or lack of it. How cute these little Freshmen are, the girls would say, and the boys, They're little, but--O my! Perhaps we were small individually, but what of that? Nature always puts up her most precious products in the smallest packages, they say, and we only proved the rule. One day, I asked a Senior what made them poke fun at us because We were small. He said he guessed they were jealous of us because we would make more delicate pedal depressions in the hydrated aluminium silicate granules of time. Iwonder if that's it? One dark, cloudy night in April, a couple of fellows-one junior and one Soph.-- came to my room and asked me if I had ever caught any snipe. I said I had not, so they told me it was just the best kind of weather for snipe and the woods would surely be full of them. They said if I would go along I could have all I Wanted. I Went. Since then I found out it was an old trick and often played on fresh men. One Saturday I Went out to walk with another boy. . Down on the east side of the campus we came to a building with lots of windows and a high peaked roof. I asked a short fellow who was standing in the door, if that was the creamery. i This,,' said he, dropping his underijaw and speaking quite rapidly, is that mag- nificent edifice whose least elevated stratum is dedicated to the memory of Io and her faithful attendant, the pestiferous ancestor of our beloved friend, musca domesticusi On the horizontal plane above are numerous rectangular compartments, utilized for the hibernation of certain species of genera, Homo and Accmtlivfaffi He stopped and we went around behind the building and asked Who he Was. They told us that he was chickfl Maybe he was, but he isn't any spring chick, I know. 1 I , 1 The next week the Sophomores gave us a reception. Iiwas going to ask a girl to go with me to that, but I heard a Soph. say that there would be some toasts. Now I don't like toast a bit, so I waited to see one of the programs. ,Yes, there it was, sol I staid away. ' 2 Afterwards I was awful sorry I didnlt go, for I found out that toast was only a kind of a speech, and they had an awful good supper, and that girl was there with a Soph. who helped stack my room one night and afterwards called me a bifurcated tooth- pick with a filiform antenna and inverted optical orbs. ' Iwas going to train for the hurdle race this year, but the first day made me so lame that I could not keep step in drill, so the general put me out in a battalion by my- self.