Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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. THE BOMB. 17 When Field Day came our class got only three points. Afterwards I heard a Soph- omore say that that number was characteristic of Freshmen, anyway. One day a fellow that I didn't know, came into my room, and after looking at my lights awhile, asked me why I did not get some bigger ones that would give morelight. I wanted to know where to get them, and he told me that probably they would not give them to Freshmen, but that if I would lethim take mine he would go around to the steward's office and exchange them for some bigger ones. He took them and went away, and he never came back, and I had to go and pay seventy-five cents apiece for some new ones. I think that was a mean trick, anyway. Once we played a game of base-ball with the Sophomores. I wished then that I had learned to play ball, for the girls always cheer a fellow so, and think hels a real hero. Of course we got beaten, for our nine couldn't do anything with the ball, while the Sophs. would drive it way over beyond the motor track and then chase their whole nine home, while our' long-stop was trying to find it. One night just after supper, a Senior, who was always talking about rules of order, came up to me and asked if I knew how to lay a motion on the table, The fellows in our society do that sometimes, but I didn't know how, so he told me to come into the west parlor and he would show me. There was a little round table with a marble top, smooth as glass, so I asked where the motion was, when just then three fellows grabbedpme, put me up onthe table and began to spin me around so fast that I couldnlt see anything but a big blue and yellow circle, with comets and meteors and rainbows floating all around me. I think I understand the motion pretty well. ,Next morning I didn't feel very well, so I inquired where the doctor was. They told me in Moirill Hall, turn to the right, first door to the left. A He was writing when I came 'in and said, I don't feel very wellf' That's too bad,', says he looking up. Alter a while I said again, 'Tm not feeling very wellf' I'm very sorry,', said he. getting up and going into a room full of boxes and bottles. He didn't bring me anything, though, so I went up to him and said again, I don't feel very well.'l My dear boy, said he, I am very sorry.'l I went off. Next day I found. that he wasnlt the doctor at all, but was the geology Prof. Everybody seems to look upon a Freshman as a stupendous joke in embryo, though I don'at: see why, for if there never were any Freshmen where would t-he. Seniors come from? . Anyway, we are alarmed by no such Dyer calamities as threaten the Sophomores. We don't work the Profs. like the juniorsg and we don't try to conceal a pleasant lack of pass marks under a brilliant display of mental gymnastics, like the Seniors. ' We may not be worth very much, but I notice that between Prexy and the Senior boys we all get looked after quite carefully.

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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.

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THE BOMB. G ...wi- FRESHNAN STUDENTS. NAME. COURSE. PosToFF1cE. . Adamson, R. K..--. .- Sc.-. Adamson, Arnott A, .. ....... Sc Adamson, M. C. ..-- . .--4- .Sc.- Ady, james Frank --- .... - . Aldrich, james C. ...... ---Sc. Allen, A. c----- .... ------C. Anderson, Raymond C - .--M. sc-ii ffl '1if.f'f11 E..--- . Arbuthnot, Katharene . .... . Sp.-- Austin, Jessie.---.--. ..----.Sp. Baker, J. C ...-.... ---- . --- Baker, Lora .... --.---....-Sp sc-ff if Barclay, Ralph W- ,--- .---Agw- Bassett, Mabel - -.---- Beatty, Esther .... . Dana - ..... .--- Newton.-..- Dana----. ---- Odebolt .-- Schaller .- Nevada-- - -- -- Ames.---.--- .. -- Des Moines -..- Clarion .... Lucas ----- .- Lucas . .--- ..-. -- .- West Liberty------ Sioux City- .... -..-- -----L. --- ..--. L. --.-- --- Bisbee, Marion E --- Bishop, E. T.--. .- Bissell, Percy -..- - Blanche, Lillie --..- -- - ...-- E..--.-. -.--Sc.--. Sp SP Boardman, Homer, ---- .- .. C. Boardman, Frank M . Bonwell, Mary Lora .... . . . --E. Bonnell. john N .--. . .-.. --E. Boyd, O. S ---. ---. - Boyd, Alice.. ..-. . - Bozarth, Harvey- .. . .. Bradley, Velva.--.. Bristol, Cyrus I...-. ---- .-.Sc. -----Sp E E Sc. ..-.-- . -- E --M. E. . L...-- .- M. E Brock, Herbert E .. . --.-. C. E. Brown, Olive Zephimah Brown, Grace .--- --. . . . Sc.-.- ..... . ---L. Brown, S. C ..-.. ..- --..-M. E Brown, Harry F..-- - .Sc.- llrown, J. Clarence- .--- -. E. E liryan, XV. Emmet- --. --.Ag.-- Burley, Herbert Loring E. E Burnham, Ena Mable .----- L..- Bush, W. R ..... .... .... - - Ag,- Carter, E. A-------. .-----. ' Chestek, Lillian A - SP Sc Clark, Glen C. ----- . - .... .- Cohn, Joseph B --. . Corderman, David- . Cornell, Harry F -... - Craig, Robert A ..-. -- ..- Crane, Orin E- ..-- . Min. E, .---BE Sc..- .-..--. .--- Ag. Vet. Sc.- ..-. .. .- Crosbie, Robert .un --- .. M. Curtis, G. W- --. -- Curtiss, Guy C- -- .. Davies, Autumn Davies, Wm. G De Peel, Irena - .. --Sc.- -. E. E. --L. Sc.-. L..--- -..-. Newton----H ---- Ames.--- .- ---- Hartland ---- . --- Ames .--- .-.- - Conrad Grove- .---.. Nevada --.-. ---. Nevada --.-. -- Viola Center- . COUNTY - Boone. jasper. Boone. Sac. Sac. Story. Story. Polk. Wright. Lucas. Lucas. Muscatine. Woodbury. , jasper. Story. Marshall. Story. Grundy. Story. Story. . . --Audubon. Davenport ...- .. .-Scott., Roland. .-- - . . --S'tory. Paullina - .. .-- -. O'Brien. Cedar Falls --. Black Hawk. Ames-- ---- . --. Story. Shaller - Sac. . --Mason City .--- Cerro Gordo. Council Bluffs.. -- --Pottawattamie . .---- Garden Grove -----. Decatur. Eddyville .. ...--Wapuello. Ames - . ..-. Story. Dexter . ..--- .--. --Dallas. New Sharon . -- .Mahaska. Tama.-- . .--. . ..-. Tama. Aplington - -- . --Butler St Louis-... . .--- Mz'ss01zrz'. Des Moines -. Polk. Bassett --. .. Chickasaw. - Belmond . -..- .. --VV right. Knoxville -. ----Marion. A Lake View. ..- Sac. Mitchell . --. . . Mitchell. VVaterville- .. . . Kkmsas. Central City -- Linn. Paullina -.--. . --O'Brien. Redfield --- A . .-.Dallas. Nevada --. . Story. De Smet -- --.- De Smet --. - Ames .--- . .- So. Dakofa. So. Dukoizz. Story. -