Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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Faculty. CHARLES EVERETT FISH, A.M., PRINCIPAL, Professor of Latin. Elected june, x89o. BRADBURV LONGFELLOW CILLEY, A.M., Professor of Ancient Languages. Elected December, 1858. JAM ES ARTHUR TUFTS, A.B., SECRICTARV, Odin Professor of English. Elected October, 1878, ALBERTUS TRUE DUDLEV, A.B., Director of the Gymnasium. Elected june, 1387. WILLIAM ALLEN FRANCIS, A.M., Professor of Mathematics Elected September, 1887. WILLIAM ABBOTT STONE, A.B., Instructor in Physics. Elected july, 1888. GEORGE RANTOUL WHITE, A.M., Instructor in Chemistry. Elected October, z88g. WALTER RANDALL MARSH, A.B., Instructor in Mathematics. Elected june, 1892. ALVAN EMILE DUERR, A.B., Instructor in Latin and German. Elected June, 1894. JOSEPH SHERMAN FORD, A.B., Instructor in French and History Elected june, 1894.

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The History of Ninety-Five. O herald forth the glory in this poem I will strive Of that paragon of classes, the class of Ninety-tive. So aid me, gentle Muses, with all thy skill divine, For ne'er was there a subject as great as this of mine. The day was dark and dreary, down drove the drenching rain, As gaily we alighted from the crowded Boston train, And yet from those who came here on that all important day, Fifteen in the Academy to their Senior year did stay. Soon our prowess and our glory made the juniors blush with shame, They seemed weak when placed beside us, insignificant and tame. They boasted and they swaggered, as if they owned it all, But at baseball in the springtime their pride received its fall. Only one thing in our first year, we must with grief remember, How Andover defeated us in football in November. And so the sun of Ninety-five rose o'er the hill-tops brown And gave proofs of future greatness to the dull New Hamp- shire town. To Exeter, in Ninety-two, again we turned our steps, And lorded it with haughty micn o'er the few and sickly Preps. Adams was our president, as he was the year before, And it was his great good fortune to rule for two years more. Three of us were on the football team, tive more were on the nine, While on the track and on the field in glory we did shine. VVe won the indoor tournament, were second in the spring- liefore we came no junior class e'er thought of such a thing. But what we gloried over most, and loved the best of all, Was that we saw proud Andover defeated in football. Vile came down from Qld Exeter to Ant'lover's own ground Their team then saw how brave we were, they saw it, and they frowned. We heard them yell their boastful cheers, they waved their ban- ners blue, Our answering shouts were louder still, and pierced the heavens through. We conquered in the sturdy strife, their flags hung sadly down, Right joyfully we came straight home and painted red the town. They dared not face us in the spring, for they all knew toe well That, in baseball as in all else, our strength was sure to tell. In the class room, for the lirst term, we upheld our former fame, But we lost our dear professor, Mr. Fowler was his name. For the next two terms our Latin class was a place for jest and lark, And though we flanked our Latin, indeed we made our mark. Our mark was our professor for chalk from all the room- One day we put out all the lights and left him there in gloom. But soon the year was over, with all its play and toil, And gladly we departed for another better soil.