Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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CLASS HISTGRY. A. B. FAUST. There is a history in all men's lives. -Slzakespeare. C!ass11zaies.' We are nearly ready to be hurled upon the world in an exploding bomb. While the preparations for the shot are being made, a few moments are yet left to us to join once more in friendship before our final parting, and while we are thus gathered together, let us try to live over again the three years so quickly passed and so filled with pleasant recollections. Let us have a hearty laugh, at times, let us be of good cheer, while one by one the familiar incidents of our college career pass quickly before our view, and may the Muses guide the train of recollections and order and embellish them ! When we were first received into the fostering arms of our Alma Mater, we were a motley company of about fifty freshmen. From those terrible examinations that were hurled upon our heads a num- ber escaped scot free-some of them, to their own surprise, even laden with the ever-exacting burden of scholarships, while others, less fortunate, but possessing the advantage of numbers, dragged behind them instead irksome conditions, that every day became heavier and more alarming, until their kind Mamma, pity-stricken, took away the wearisome burdens. As a class we were, of course, not as fresh as they make them now. We did not take possession of the tennis-court, nor build our fire there during the winter months, nor did we bowl in the gymnasium. But take a word of warning, young neophytes, next year when Tom reappears from over the waters, the mice will have to behave themselves, as we pretended to do. It is a peculiarity of our Alma Mater to put the freshman through various toils, whereby, if he survive, he may render him- self proof against all misdirected enthusiasm. For the indulgence of this peculiarity she initiated us into the mysterious P. H E. Such an amount of interest was developed for this famous triad, that not one of us would ever think of cutting, unless perhaps he 17

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MEMBERS. GROUP. STATE. Charles Carroll Marden, VI. Jfarylafzd. XVilliam VVatson McCulloh, VI. .Ilarylauaf Philip Randle Moale, A. fb. . IV. Jlarylazzd. NValdo Newcomer, B. 9. H. V. -Ifa1'y!a1za'. Leonard Magruder Passano, . II. Jlafjflaud. Arthur jackson Patek, . III. Wisconsin. XVilliam Peters Reeves, . VII. Indiana. Legh XVilber Reid. . . IV. Virginia. Ralph Robinson, fit K. XP. . VI. Jlaryland. Brantz Mayer Roszel, B. 9. II. . II. Jlarylafzd. john George Sadtler, B. 9. ll. . . VII. Jhuyflafzd. Benjamin Bittinger Shreeves, B. 9. H. VI. Jlafjflafzd. Robert Tunstall Taylor, A. CP. . . III. gllarylaud. XValter Herron Taylor, . VI. Viffgirzia. VVinfield Scott Thomas, . I. Delaware. Harry Ullmann, . . IV. lllissoziri. I-Ioratio Alanson WVarren, . . V. Cozzucciicui. PRELIMINARY MEDICAL: Isaac Arthur Abt, ..... III. Illinois. Mark Millikin, . . . . III. Ohio. SPECIAL STUDENTS: Horace Burrough, Chemislfjf. . . . . . fIffl7j'fllIld. james Armitage Emery, A. QD. Clzemisiry. . Disirifi of Columbia. HONDRARY MEMBERS: Samuel Guy Snowden, B. 9. II. . . . I. Jlarylaud. XVilliam Topping XVatson, B. 9. Il. . III. . illaryland. RECAPITULATIDN: XVhole number, 43. Maryland, 27, District of Columbia, 3, Illinois, 2, Ohio, 23 Virginia, 2g XVisconsin, 2g Connecticut, IQ Delaware, 1, Indiana, IQ Missouri, I, New York, 1. H Group I QClassicalp, 4g Group II CMathematical-Physical5, 23 Group III CChemical-Biologicaly, 17, Group IV CPhysical-Chemicaly, 45 Group V KLatin-Mathematicaly, 3, Group VI lHistorical-Politicall, 7, Group VII Qlodern Languagesy, 4. 16

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was suffering from a malady that could strike the professor's im- agination, or unless irremediable circumstances demanded his presence elsewhere, when nothing more important was going on in class than a written recitation in history, or some searching ques- tions on the Second Book of Herodotus, or a quiz on the by-gone woods of Kent, or the sunken islands of the Pacific, or a lesson in Chaucer, or, or, ik 1' if aa' iff, and even in such cases our model boy felt himself constrained to show his face in the class-room, though circumstances did compel him to disappear immediately after roll-call. After such experiences, upon the high road of our early career we were stripped and searched, but received no bodily injury, except that in some cases our personal vanity was not alto- gether pleased by some cautions against the neglect of a certain article of toilet. A course of lectures on Hygiene, attendance compulsory, followed thereon and the attendance was so good, that on several occasions at roll-call, three other men besides the owner answered to his name. Again we were taken into a mysterious room, whose note of welcome was a peculiar sound, spelt Beeyzmo. After we had learned how to breathe and to say ik, it, ip, and lost sheep, we were initiated into the mysteries of passion and of madness especially, we were told where to go to get our clothes made 5 we were shown how to pick up a lady's handkerchief gracefully 5 how to sit, stand, bow,-in short, everything, until, to borrow a favorite figure of our professor's, until we could do like the frog, who, as you all know, jumps when he runs and stands up when he sits down. The breathing exercises brought up the old story of the student who tried to improve his breathing by laying three immense lexi- cons on his lower respiratory organs. Poor soul, he is now breath- ing unobstructedly in the land of shades. There is a story of a similarkind floating around somewhere in the Chemistry Minor about another bright lad who took home, in his pocket, a large piece of phosphorus from the Laboratory in order to exhibit its funny properties before mamma and the girls. When all are gathered round the genial Hreside, the hero suddenly recollects the treasured article, by the sudden commotion in his pocket and calmly grasps it in his hands, where the phosphorus begins to show certainly very wonderful properties, alike surprising to the family and to the ex- perimenter himself. But let us not wander from our subject. 18