Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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1RinetQsS9ne's Glass Day Ciommittees JELCCIIUVC COIIIIIIUCYCC. JOHN HIAZNIQX' CHASI-1, Excier, Al fl. I'IORA'l'IO HICNRX' HAYNER, Z9-ry, Ai If ISAAC GILES j.-xmlis, Srrazllan, Pa. flBClI'lOlIiiIl COIIIIIIUCYCC. ROBERT FRANKLIN P1Q:NNm,r,, JR., Exam-, N. H. CHARLES 1-FWIGIVI' FULSOM, Exefer, IV. 11. EDWARD WILLIAM BEA'1'1'm, JR., Iiehvm, Altlllf. 25

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1HinetQ:Qne's Glass Ebay Mficers nbresibcuxt of the Dag, GEORUE MANASSICS L1-:v1nN'1'R1'1T, New York, N K wvator, HENRY CA'1'To MINTON, Ph1'fzzf1'eQJh1'a, Hz. Tbtstorian, CI'IARLl'ZS ADAMS IQIMBALL, Lllfffffllll, IMIJJ. ID VOD IJ C ff CHr:s'1'14:R JAMES VVILCOMH, Chcxler, N 11. BUUYC55 to UIIUCFQPRDIIHYCE, Gxftolzclc JAco1zUs, ASy7l'l'7lgf.6'f1I , Jllaxs. jffl.'5f !ll58l't3b2lI, JAMES PETER PHIQLAN, Lynn, Mzxs. Seconb marshal, THOMAS PURVRAR STUART, Eafonlown, N f 24

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istorig of ilslinetgs wo. Cl'lI'llCRZ-I'Illll2l-lJ2l.ll1, Hulla-balu, Exeter, Exeter, '9J. t'nmRs :-Black and White. N September 12, 1888, the citizens of Exeter and the students of 19, A. beheld a steady stream of humanity amble its way into Exeter Remarks of Farmers' Alliance Convention, Meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Crops, were wonderingly given forth. Alas, The saddest words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ' it might have been.' And it wasn't. Ninety- two, with all that milk-your-cow, churn-your-butter air, that caused Exeter farmers to tremble for their livelihood, was sprung upon us. Oh, that this had never been l Oh, that a misplaced switch, manipulated by a switchman or their mothers. had not permitted them to enter here ! The hayseeds that composed that crew were more than a marker to the green Irish girl who saw hanging- out over a grocery store the sign Families Supplied, and went into the place, asking for a husband and seven children. And these, ye gods, are to succeed us as Seniors! Ah, unworthy the thought, hapless the time ! Adage has it, A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Perhaps,-and yes, but would an onion? Verily we think not. Ninety-one's only regret on leaving your classic portals, Fair Exeter, is that Ninety-two, divested of garments that she has rendered far from immac- ulate, will lord it over our late and ever-to-be-cherished domains. Had we the choosing, ,93, '94, or even the unborn champions of '95 would fill our lot and mission in P. li. A. ,But Fate, frivolous and merciless, divines and acts in all. Someone hath deposed and said. Man is tractable, but the combined wisdom and influence of all P. E. A. has been exerted on the sovereign ver- dancy of '92, and has exhumed naught but vacuity-and an appetite for beer. Moral suasion has long since become a soup suicide as far as concerns the guiding of the wily ,92 into the delightful yet rugged path of righteous- .26