Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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Histor of Ninety'-three. -f9'S'v'Sc1f- COLORS: Crfnzsou and Blue. CHEER : Hz'z'o-gm, Hiro-gre, Excicr, Exuler, '93. EPT EMBICR ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, was a dark, gloomy day, and the local forecasters in the town of Exeter predicted a disastrous storm. This storm was of an unprece- dented nature, worse than a cloud-burst,-for damage from such a source lasts for a comparatively short timeg but this gathering from all parts of the country was doomed to the fated little County of Rockingham. It raged all that memorable day, and when it cleared, specks of personified freshness were noticed moving about our' dignified little town, chattering like monkeys let out of a box, and generally disturbing the peace. Horrible to relate, we found that they had come to stay, and this fact was engraved on our minds never to be erased. This was the new Prep. class, and as such was bound to make itself known. They were to do wonders, the little fellowsg but when anything was to be done, the absence of these miniature giants was conspicuous. Thus their first year in Phillips Exeter passed, and their remarkable feats ended in talk, but we have forgotten to mention that in the Indoor Meeting of '90 they took two first prizes and two second. In their junior year they put a class football team into the field destined 'to win for them the class championship, greatly to their own C205

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detriment and to the delight of the local hatters, whose sales in the next two days amounted to nearly one hundred hats. This vain little rooster crowed very much over the class victory, which was very easily accounted for by the fact that the upper classes furnished the material for the Academy eleven, and, besides, put class teams into the Held that gave them a pretty hard push. This victory was all that they cared for, and when the baseball season arrived, '93 sat on the grand stancl with a very serene and self-satisfied look. In this their middle year, ,93 has taken more of a brace. On the football team they were represented by two men, and in the Indoor Meeting they were second only to '92,-taking five first prizes and four seconds. This year also they won the class football championship, greatly to their satisfaction. Nearly half of the men on the baseball team are from '93, so that it is evident that there was room for improvement, what- ever might have been the lofty opinion they had of themselves. In the Spring meeting and the Exeter-Andover meeting 193 did her share. Let the good work go on, '93! Next year you will be Seniors, and will have general supervision over Athletics, and you have no small burden to carry. You cannot see where your football and baseball teams are coming from, and the football outlook is especially gloomy. You have always had a very high idea of your own merit. Self-esteem is a good thing, but do not carry it too farg and in your Seniority do not forget that, not very long ago, you were Preps. And now, Farewell! cm