Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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unior Class Officers GEORGE T. ROGERS . . . . President KA'rHP:R1N1H: Romxsox . Secretary and Treasurer FRANK RIAYR .... Sergeant-at-Arms Class Colors Antwerp Blue and Yellow Yell Rah, Rah! Rah, Rah! Rah, Rah! Rah, Roo! Rah, for the class of of 1902! History q,gp,qI5eg5g .gif NE beautiful, serene, cloudless, antumn day three years ago, when the portals of old L. F. were X i hw raised to welcome the incoming freshman class, A- there advanced to the treasurer's office to be :W separated from their hard-earned coin, a race of giants, the class of 1902. Their whole bearing was different from any of their predecessors, their foreheads higher, their eyes brighter, their step more alert, and in every way they seemed superior beings. That's usf' Great was our beginning, but greater is our present, and we expect more in the future. VVe hope to surmount the very pinnacle of success-to command five dollars per week, and when we have made this earth a paradise, to ascend in chariots of fire.H NVQ expect to have St. 'ga QF, DAPOZZP I eter say to us, Take seats reserved for 65 951495, OP 03. you in the orchestra circle, next to the f bass drum. Here also are opera glasses L Ti with 'liich 'ou ma see the class of I OI f? 'q if-1' '-a c . W 3 Y 9 ji 5 in the top row of the gallery. The other J f C - , ic, V-. -,:'1'ifj classes are not worthy to be admitted. ' 2 Q SF I 5 ' W 5 ' ' ' Every day since we entered we have X, X increased in wisdom and popularity, un- X' Mfr ' til now several of the professors take pri- bIS ?:-c lyxxtxxx J ,L BEALB L ,fam I . - A 1 ., . Q , W 'X 'M 1. Q. -1' 20 C Q ,s N, E if f W n.rfr,II1'? Jr if

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vate lessons under members of our class. In athletics we are the whole thing. We furnished eight players and a manager for last year's football team. XVe won the class pennant last fall in the track meet from the haughty freshmen, and now we wish for more worlds to conquer. Our heroic fight for the Chicken and our final victory against terrible odds will go down in history as a striking illustration of what science and ability can accomplish against brute force. Socially we are -hot stuff. Our class parties and sleigh-rides have been copied but never equalled. We have successfully given the only Junior Prom. ever given in the history of the College. All the editors of the Stentor are juniors. Our orators are the pride of the school, and two of the three men who represented L. F. in the debate with Illinois College were members of 'o2. But we have many other members who have marked ability along other lines-john Biggs, the strong man with the porcupine feathers on his lip, who can break a chain or a maiden's heart with perfect ease 3 Banta, who puts the names of all his young lady acquaintances in a hat, shakes well, picks the winner and calls upon herg Mayr, who took the indoor baseball team through Ghio and Iowa, and who also sells Ferry Hall Calen- dars 3 Ramsey, the Aledo representative of the empty dinner pail g Mallory, the wizard of the quill and shears 3 Rotroif, the burglar, who sits surrounded by his hair and considers the profundity of the universe. Our girls are our pride, but their chief characteristics are shyness and timidity and for this reason we refrain from eulo- gizing upon their virtues. We have, however, the permission from Miss Talbot to use her name in connection with jimmy Smith. jake Spoolman's golf - But hush! Hear the stately tread of the approaching monarch! Behold his magnificence I W'here can we hide? For in his presence only kings, queens and aces dare stand. He comes nearer and nearer! After thirty minutes of silence he softly murmers: Gal, Bryan was right in '96. 24