Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Chicago are present: Eisendrath, Patek and Abt, the last in his time has made violent attempts at conciliating policemen, and blow ing out electric lights. The two Taylors, the one a possible artist, the other a possible lawyer, are both prominent men of our class. Marden next year is going to teach the Patagonians and cannibals of Terra del Fuego some Old French and Political Economy. McCulloh is now getting off a yarn, and is trying to make Hull un- derstand him, but is evidently not succeeding, although Hull can understand Dr. Ely tolerably well. Sadtler is smiling at Mack, but now he turns his head and listens to the business of the meeting, and will presently give us some wise counsel. Alfred Mann, who, as a freshman, used to have a collection of snakes, tadpoles, lizards, and other marine insects, at all stages of development, in his tooth- mug and wash-basin,-takes an active interest in the class, and his enthusiasm carries him into too broad a Held of work, he is the only man in the Johns Hopkins who can get up a University dance. And there sits Barnum's Culver, the class prophet, who has his head full of Greek and Latin and his mouth full of puns. His modesty will probably not allow him to predict events for himself, so with his permission let us try to prophesy for him. When the circle of seasons shall have revolved to the number of live and ten, lo!-one day he will be a famous man, and lo!-he will occupy the chair of Professor Gildersleeve and lecture in Greek to a body of students from all nations, and lo! once in a while there will be perceptible on the right side of the Professor's cheek, a slight nervous twitch, which thoseiwho knew him wellwould immediately interpret, if they were present, as the harbinger of a terrible pun 3 and lo I-the English member, seeing no further alteration in the Professor's face, will take down the pun in his note-book as serious fact, while the other members of the seminary will excuse them- selves for the rest of the day, and will explode forthwith outside. Now, since the curious have been introduced, from one aspect, at least, to some of the sparkling genius of our class, the narrative may now take a smoother course. At the meeting just spoken of, we voted unanimously to have a class banquet, and thereby estab- lished a precedent which will probably be followed by other classes. The liquor question came up, and a struggle ensued, one of the most memorable in class history. Our famous teetotaller, hurling all his weapons and seeing his foes falling one by one, elated by 21

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The year came quickly to a close with spring sports and Fi- nals following hard upon, a constant source of terror to freshmen. We were greatly reduced in numbers, upon entering our second year, many a good fellow had disappeared from our ranks, and the vacancies were only partially filled by some valuable contribu- tions from other classes. In this year the class was scattered in small sections for special work, and there was no P. H. E. or L. E. P. to bring a large number together, we therefore had recourse to frequent class meetings. Classmates ! it would probably be well to allow an ignorant outsider, who wishes it, to be introduced into one of these class-meetings, to show him what wonderful fellows we really are, let him imagine himself suspended in mid-air, as it were, taking a bird's-eye view of the situation. He will see first Il Signor Emilio Parlato from fair Sicily, who has just risen and with stentorian voice demands a point of information. Next to him, Will Hilles, buried in his chair, his upper lips lightly curled by a complacent smile, half betraying an abundant store of dry wit, which only on account of an aversion to exertion, is prevented from seeking expression. There sits Horatio Warren, our class poet, sunk deep in the gulf of meditation and anchored there, his hands in his pockets, his long beard resting heavy upon his bosom, his legs stretching far under the chairs in front of him, like the widespreading roots of some mighty oak. Near him sit Reeves, Bernhardt, and other eminent philosophers of ours. There are the two tramps, Harrison N Edes, chumsg the for- mer is our treasurer, and is so honest that he has never attempted to tramp to Canada with our funds, though he has made the dis- tance thrice over in Baltimore county. Probably he has never been sufficiently tempted, for our funds only amount to three coppers which our treasurer himself donated to get his office. Edes is the venerable recorder of our minutes for '88-'89, and helps to run the tramp club, which means running yourselfto death, and he thinks that spending the night in a barn or hay-loft thirty miles from town is the most enjoyable recreation imaginable, his chum agrees with him. In the farthest end of the room are Roszel, Lazear and Cooke, all men of muscle. Passano is not among these. Billings had. a special clause in the constitution made for him against smoking in class meetings, he stayed away after it was passed. Thomas and Keidel are here to-day as a special favor. The three doctors from 20

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victory, formally declared that he would one day rout liquor out of this country just as he had done in our class. Gur class banquet was held at the St. james Hotel on the 21st of February, 1888, and everybody who was there knows it was a grand success. After the first course, a smiling darky set before our toast-master a huge pigeon-patty, when it was opened there fiew out a pretty white pigeon that wore about its neck an old-gold- and-marroon ribbon, to which a sealed envelope was attached, bear- ing a greeting to '89. During the evening we Marylanders offered the Wild Westerner some famed Maryland terrapin, but those beefy palates would not acknowledge it the best thing they had ever tasted. After the dishes were removed, our toast-master with some others disappeared downstairs for something to drink, and they came up with spirits so improved that we were sorry we couldn't believe that they had taken lemonade as they told us. Our toast-master then set rolling the ball of speech-making and it continued to roll till the next morning. The Faculty were toasted, and probably they would like to know what was said about them 5 the ff Girls were toasted, and it is likely that their curiosity is also somewhat roused 5 the ff Landlady was toasted, and possibly it would please her, too, to hear a word about herself, but since detail so minute would occupy more space that is at our disposal, and might, in the first case, conflict with getting our degrees, it is therefore inexpedi- ent to climb the dizzy heights to which our speechifiers ascended. The class of '89 holds the championship in Football. Although we do not boast of prowess in athletics, the following indestructi- ble fact was found written on Clio's tablets: 'f In the fall of 1887 a well-fought game was played between '89 and 790, which resulted in favor of '89, score,5 to o. '89 then challenged '88, but the latter would not play fbecause they had no teamj The coming spring was marked by the usual spring sports in which also '89 took part. The standing high jump was virtually a contest, forthe championship of '89, since Keidel and McDougall were the only contestants. Keidel's figure and dress won the jump as well as the attention and sympathy of everybody on the fair campus at Clifton. We soon saw the class of '88 set out upon its voyage on the sea of life, and then we shook hands and parted for the summer vacation. Some, no doubt, entered a fair, sunshine land of idle- 22