Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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cising the f'Exonian and the Lit, We managed to do little else in our Prep. year, but as Sir juniors we were truly immense. With increased num- bers, with carrying off the honors in the class foot-ball contest, we became the joy and pride of our own hearts. In other branches of athletics we were de- plorably weak and could well be likened to twenty-four letters of the alphabet, Not in IT. But speaking about the increase in crime, you should have seen how we as juniors regretted the fact that Dr. Scott was to leave us as Principal, and that as Middlers we should be consigned to some one else's tender mercies. Ah i never again shall we have the Reign of Terror that characterized the year's rule of Professor Wentworth. Never had the West been so sorely in need of book-keepers, bank cashiers, and coal heavers as at this time. Horace Greeley's words, Young man, go West, were given forth in a number of in- stances from the mouth of Professor Wentworth, after a tempestuous Faculty meeting. But there is always a calm after a raging sea. Although the ranks of our class had been greatly reduced by the Ere ofthe Faculty, we re- turned to Exeter in September, 1890, austere, reverend and well beloved Qby ourselvesjjSeniors. What does not that title signify? All the pompous and hiding-behind-your-own-dignity air that we could command was made an agent to our glorious desire of imbuing the recent additions to the Academy with our importance. This was the year that we first came in contact with Mr. Fish, and the more we became acquainted with him, the more we admired the conscientious efforts that he was making for the resuscitation of the Acad- emy's reputation. Our defeat in class foot-ball was as deserved as it was un- expected, although the shirking of duty of one man materially brought it about. Ninety-one, a solemn and serious task falls to your lot. You are about to bid farewell to the numerous kind friends with whom you have been associ- ated during the past years of your school life at Exeter, you are about to go forth into the world where by your accomplishments and attainments you are to bring fame and reputation to your Aiwa Maier. You are about to connect yourselves with other institutions of learning, and if you follow precedent, you will lose nearly all interest in dear old P. E. A. See that the old estab- lished rule is broken, see that the maintenance of an alumnus' interest after a year or so at college is not an iridescent dream. The seed that is sown is due as much to the reaper as to the soil. Remember the advantages that have come your way through your connection with the Academy, and always be grateful therefor. If every one of you on whom P. E. A. has bestowed a benent should speak one word of eulogy, our old Academy would flourish 'neath a wilderness of praise. We have done. 18

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Tbistorg of Tlqirlettgsdbne. CHICER :-I-Ioorah ray, Iloorah ray, NiN1:'l'x'-ONE of P.-Ii.-A. Coroksz-Crimson and Black. - -i T is something, after all, to be a Senior, to be one of fha people of the Acad- emy, to be able to tell the guileless Preps. about terrible things they have never experienced, nor we for that matter, and to be able to do all manner of wonderful things, and have the underclassmen look upon us with wonder- ing and jealous eyes. But then we look far back to the times when we, too, were Preps.gand how we used to look tremblingly and awestrickenly upon those lordly and pompous upperclassmen, and what dreams we used to have in our couches of what deeds we would do, and how lordly and pompous we would be when we became Middlers and Seniors. But then, the expectation is al- ways, etc. As we have passed through the ordeals of Preps., juniors, and Middlers, we have been permitted to see the Academy under many conditions. We have had chances to lift our voices most insanely upon the occasions of victory over our friend, the enemy, Andover, and we have had chances also, sad to relate, to weep upon occasions of defeat by Andover, and then we have had chances to neither weep nor rejoice, but merely to grumble and grouch. We do not forget, nor do we ever intend to, the class foot-ball contests of 1888- 89, and 1889-go, when we were able to show that we were possessed of other virtues than that of being a band of highly intellectual gentlemen. That we should be a highly intellectual collection was not doubted for one moment since the day of the birth of the class, September 14, 1887. It is worth while that that date should be well and distinctly remembered, since it was a day of great rejoicing in Phillips Exeter Academy. Much speculation had been indulged in by our cruel elders as to what sort of conglomeration would be brought forth as the Class of Ninety-One. It is indeed true that we were not a crowd wherein beauty and maturity dwelt most conspicuously. But in spite of our verdancy and extreme freshness, athletic and literary ability could be seen. We were trained by skilled minds through foot-ball and base-ball, not to men- tion the manner in which we displayed our literary abilities by skilfully criti- I7

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Average Age, Senior lass Statistics. Average I-leight, . 5 feet, 7X lnCl'CS- Average Weight, . 20 years, S months, I49M pounds. Oldest Man, . 25 YCHYS, 3 mflmllsa Youngest Man, 16 years, 6 months, Tallest Man, . 6 feet, 65 inches. Shortest Man, Heaviest Man, Lightest Man, Numher Number Number Number Episcopal, . Congregational, None, . Unitarian, Presbyterian, . Baptist, Methodist, Republican, Democrat, None, . Harvard, Yale, Nowhere, M. I. T., Undecided, Williams, Undecided, Lawyers, . Engineers, Business, . Doctors, . Teachers, Ministers, journalists, entered entered entered entered 5 feet, 3 inches. . . . 190 pounds. . . . . 110 pounds. Preparatory year, . . . in Junior year, . . . Middle year, . Senior year, 1ReIigion. . 24 Lutheran, . 24 Universalist, . S Orthodox, 8 Liberal, 7 Atheist, 7 Christian, 3 IDOUUC5. . 57 Mugxvump, . . I7 Independent, . . . 6 Farmers' Alliance, . 1flltlll'C Gollege. . 4I Princeton, . 20 Dartmouth, 9 Columbia, . 6 U. of P., . . 4 N. Y. Dental College, - 3 iflllfllre WCCllDt'tflOll. . . 28 Manufacturers, . I5 Bankers, . . 9 Railroad Magnates, 7 Chemist, . . 7 Druggist, . . 3 Dentist, . . 3 Coal Operator, . 2 Social Elevator, I9 18 days. IO days. 6 days. 24 15 29 .zo 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 1