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

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Alumni Association Officers ROBERT H. CROZIER, '93 . . . President WILLIAM ll'lATHER LEWIS, 'oo . Yice-Prcsiclent RENIX OEERNE, 'Q4 .... . . . Secretary DR. B. IXICPI-IERSON LINNELL, '89 . University Trustee Twenty-First Annual Reunion Annual Banquet, Lois Durand Hall, june 23, 1903 Toasts The Province and Ambition ofthe Alumni . . . XYII,I.I.xM Rl. LEWIS In Behalf of the Alumnae The Decennial Class . The Qldest Member . A Message to the Alumni Lake Forests Today . ALMA MATER. Z.: Miss .AL'Gl'S'l',X G. STUART FREIIERIUR C. SHARON. EDWIN S. XVELLS. IR., PRoIfEssoR joux J. HAI MIss HORTENSE l'SI'TI.ERq

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Grad. It's not the same, the old grad. sighs, As what it used to be, Why e'en the sky above the trees is not So blue to me. Your football team! Oh, well enough, perhaps, for boys like youg You should have seen it in the days VVhen my gang bucked it through. Dope tHe played upon the second team, To gain he'd always fail. He lost his nerve in awful shape But that's another tale.j U The funnel game ! Your prospects for baseball, eh? Well, for a bunch that's line, Give me my team that cleaned them all, 'Way back in humpty-nine. tHe carried water for that nine, And, added to this glory, They sometimes let him tend the gate But that's another story.j Oh, that's a cinch. Why, back in humpty-one, I held off half the freshman class For hours with a gun. QThe catalogue of humpty-two Shows u Was made s that that same class up of two fair co-ed 5- But then, we'll let it pass.l Oh, how we bluffed the faculty Vtlhy, even ' Little john ' Thought we were working night and day, And no one put him on. 1 Oh I Yes, that class, smiles 'L Good fellows all, and meek, We let them through by charity, Their work was mighty weak. ittle john,' J And so the gay grad. chatters on, While freshmen stand aghast And think, How poor and tame Beside those that are past. The senior truclging on his way But mutters All I hope Is that when I get out of school I'll find his brand of dope. WILLIAM MATHER these days Lrawls, 'oo

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Chicago Lake Forest Alumni Club Officers 1903-1904 WILLIAM MATHER LEWIS, 'oo President VVILLIAM G. XYISE, '88 . Vice-President ANDREW O. JACKSON, '96 Secretary Annual Banquet Hamilton Club, Chicago, March 17, 1904 Toasts Whose words all ears took caplive. Toastmaster . . . . . .... WM. MA'l'HER LEWIS The most important part in every affair is to know what is to he done. Traditions of Lake Forest Men . . . . . . . R. H. CROZIER Ah, happy years! Once Inore, who would not be a boy? The Alumnm . . . . . . . . RENA OIIERNE II See only that thou beginnesl: eloquent words will flow spontaneously. The Influence of the Alumni .... . PROF. W. R. BRIIIGMAN Men, while they teach, learn.' Sentiment vs. Business .... . . . H. L. BIRD Perhaps it may turn out a song, perhaps turn out a sermon The Lake Forest of Today . . . . . . W. B. Ross Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in today already walks tomorroxx The College Man in Public Life . . . . . JOHN lVlAYNARD HARLAN After I have named the man I need say no more. The Lake Forest of Tomorrow . . . . . . . PRESIDENT HARLAN I attempt a ditlicult mask, hut there IS nothing noble that is not arduous Former Presidents of Chicago Lake Forest Club A. C. WENHAN, '85 EDWIN S. XVELLS, JR., '88 DR. B. M. LINNELL, '89 H. L. BIRD, '94 FREI1 A. HAX'NER, ,QS AURREY NVARREN, ,QI D. S. WENTWORTH, ,QQ E. F. DODGE, ,QI 34