Norwich University - War Whoop Yearbook (Northfield, VT)

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THE CLASS OF 1909

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Senior Class History. President, Captain W. L. Clark, Secretary, Major Guy I. Rowe, Vice President. lst Lieut. G. E. Ames, Jr., Treasurer, lst Lieut. H. W. Patterson, Marshal, Colors: Pearl Grey and Crimson. Again the year rolls around and with it must come a history of the class of nineteen nine. It must be a repetition of that of last year with but few exceptions, naturally, but as this is the last year of the life of the class at Norwich it may be well to enumerate some of the things that it has accomplished. Four years of good conscientious work has led us to the door of graduation. Some of us are glad to go while others would linger longer if they might. It is the hey-day of life and critical point, for now comes the choosing of a profession. Some are to seek glory amid the ranks of Uncle Sam's army and other in his Civil Service. Still others take up the profession of teaching and an- other contingent takes up the line of Civil Engineering. When the class of ninteen nine entered the portals of old N. U. it was the largest in numbers up to that time 119055 but since then it has been outdone by all three later classes and this we are glad to see as it adds to the popularity of N. U. and increases her sons. We were then fifty-six. A year of toil led some to get cold feet as it were and seek education and recognition elsewhere. This was repeated the third year till upon the opening of college last fall there were but twenty-six of us left. Of course there is something to be said in favor of small numbers, as to their being more select etc., but we all wish we might have had tifty- six diplomas handed down by the governor this June rather than twenty-six. Since last fall another of our number has left us and Dame Rumor has been anxious to get rid of three others who took the examinations for the United States Coast Artillery. How far she has been successful we will leave for the records to show, and the government re- ports. In the life of the college we have been most prominent as we as a class have given the best Junior Prom that it has been the lot of the college to witness. In our freshman year we established the characteristic of stick-to-it-tiveness as can be seen by the smoke- stack incident that year. One of our number carried 0E the first prize and another the third of the Sheldon Prize Contest. This too was considered well done for rooks. When the Glee Club was established it was natural that the manager and reader should be chosen from our ranks. A little later on came the orchestra which may have been said to have originated with us. Here too one of our members took the initiative to relinquish it when the band became an assured thing. However he had an able assis- tant who took up the reins of the orchestra and he being from the class of '09 brought 17 2