Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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Senior Prophecy Secretnri of Mill. saps Colletje, Jacksun, Miss. June 5, 1924. Dkar Sir : I received your letter asking for inforniation of my class — tliat of 191 i. I must confess that it was hard to find out much about the class. I searched in the New York World, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the Jackson Daily News — but in vain. I have sought diligently in all the cross-road papers, and by various other means J Iiave ascertained the salient facts of their haunts, liabitats, and occupations. Some of the records were somewhat surprising, but most of them have continued, more or less, in the habits and characterist ics they displayed at college. Brumfield, it seems, is establishing a very fine record in law. He is getting along very well in almost every resjject, even financially, in spite of the fact that he has been married some two or three years. Presumably Ott can out-argue his wife. A very interesting career is that of J. B. Cain, formerlv recognized at Millsaps as some social-stunter. He is known very widely as the autlior of Social-.Stunting and How To Do It. In the preface to the book, he states that he regrets tliat he ever iield that there w;is no sucli thing as love. Kid is fast catching on and has almost learned Iiow to take a hint. ,Iolin ' right Chisholm is an evangelist in the country-districts. Bearing a ))onderous dignity, he is making a great success. They say that money can ' t help but come his way, and some of his collections would make Billy Sunday look like tiiirty cents. Eventually, I think he will succeed in bringing cosmos out of chaos. T. jM. Cooper has made tours all over the known world in quest of geological specimens. On one trip he went into the Crater of Vesuvius. Wliile there, an eruption started in the Archeozoic region and came up through the Proterozoic, P.ileozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoie. S])ri)ut w.is blown two miles, six hundred seventy-two feet, four and five-sevenths inches above liase level. He insists, how- ever, that he has not yet experienced anything hotter than the fire at the Main Building in 1911. S. L. Crockett has recently been exiielled from the Senate Chamber in Wash- ington for hollering and disturbing the peace on Pennsylvania Avenue at night. He is back home now. making n hot race for Notary Public, with the aid of his wife and all the other suflragettes. We feel sure that etc will eome out victorious in this, so great a race. Nolan Harmon has charge of a work in Louisiana. The people on his charge seem to like him well, having all faith in everything he says, and believing that he knows everything. From this blindness may they be speedily delivered. Hathorn is pros])ering as a lawyer in Wanilla. He has succeeded in running almost all the other cheap lawyers out of bis conununity. Perhaps it is his senti- mentality that enables him to clear negroes, as fast as they steal, for half tlie sum of what they steal. Donald Howe, better known as Doc, has discovered some important steps in connection with wireless telegraphy and telephony. We were sorry to learn that he accidentally killed his wife by the explosion of chemicals in his laboratory, which was directly underneath the kitchen. After having buried all of her that he could find, Old Frau is doing his best to overcome the catastrophe. 23

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ammti m sama fiX99 WBOB SHELfMS . , BttMBtt naaan Robert Elvin Selby, A.B. Russellville, Miss. Pi Kappa Alpha, L. L. S., Y. M. C. A. President Mid-Session Debate, 1911-12; Secretary Honor Council, 1911-12; A. M. Debater, 1912-13; Assistant Business Manager Bobashela, 1912-13; Pres- ident Y. M. C. A., 1913-14; President Athle+ic Associa- tion, 1913-14; President L. L. S., 1913-14; Anniversary Orator, 1913-14; Treasurer Science Club, 1913-14; Delegate to Y. M. C. A. Convention, Starkville, Miss., 1913; Class Football, 1913-14; Assistant in Mathemat- ics, 1913-14. We know not what his greatness is For that, for all, we love him more. James Walter Ward, A.B. Edwards, Miss. Kappa Sigma, Y. M. C. A. President Senior Class; President Science Club, 1913-14; Athletic Editor Bobashela, 1913-14; Varsity Baseball, 1910-11-12-13-14; Captain Varsity Baseball, 1913-14; Assistant in Mathematics, 1912-13-14; Special Reporter Commencement Courier, 1914. And ever honored for his worthiness. 22

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»«aasBB»HttNtt»stt»Btta«B«ttft«ll»ttSBaBBBa Miss Stella !McGehee lias already been recognized as a poetic genius b v the literary public. Her best poem is Working the Faculty for a Pass, a sociological poiiii in blank verse. Her only trouble is a prosaic husband who doesn ' t know an lanil ic meter from a meter-stick. Mitchell has sprung into prominence since the publication of his treatise A Svni))osium on the Study of Greek and Latin at Millsa))s College. ' The central tluiuglit of his very wordy theme seems to be Pass or J3ust. It is affectionately dtdicated. of course, to Dr. Swartz. Waldo W. ]Moore, Jr., practiced law a few years at Bay Springs, after leaving college. His social stunting ceased when he eloped with a Xorth Jackson girl and settled down in lexico. Here ' s hoping that the revolutionists won ' t be any rougher than the shack fellows were. John Phillijis has done more or less resting since he finished school. He has followed astronomical work and has succeeded in establishing wireless couununi- eatiou witli Mars. Among other things, lie reports that the boll weevil has struck there and that just now politics are hot. So far he hasn ' t learned their latest dances nor how the girls wear their hair. D. J. Savage is the teacher of a little country school and a candidate for beat ciinstalile. He has been turned out of Church twice — once for telling the things that he did in chemical laboratory, and the otlier time for trying to elect delegates to District Conference by secret caucus. Duroc Jersey always would politic. I{. K. Selby is, of course, making good in his work. He expects soon to be ad anced to an eight hundred dollar work and, besides, not to have more than eight cluirclies in his charge. Miss Steen went as a missionary to China. There she was very popular — so miuli so that she became attached to the Chinese Ciovernment. Since then, liowever, she has been dismissed for asking so many (]uestions. Strange how habits will stick to a person ! ,1. . ' ard is a jiitcher in one of the minor leagues. Once in his life he has a te im that will suijjiort him. Once on a recent tri]) to Africa with his team he knocked several natives senseless with his fast spit ball, and struck out the umjiire and three bystanders. Ploughboy always was some pitcher. I am sorry to inform you that as yet I have done nothing worthy of mention. True, I have gotten some literary ability through writing twenty page letters to the girls, hut if my present plans are successful I shall soon cease even from that, for my wife will com]iel me to do so. Trusting that I have given you the desired information, I desire to subscribe myself Once the Prophet of the Future But Now the Historian of the Past. 24