St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

Page 79 text:

FRESHMAN CLASS

Page 78 text:

President, Glass of 7907. Motto- ACI' WELL YOUR PART. THERE ALL THE HONOR LIES. C0l0fS-CRIMSON AND CREAM. Vice-President, .... Secretary, . HARRY S. ALHONY. CHARLES H. DENISON. GEORGE F. FISH. E. CLARKE FONTAINE. HENRY P. HILL. IRVING D. IRELAND. PHILIP J. KEARNEY. YELLI Century ! Century 1 Just begun ! S. J.! S. J.! Nineteen One I Ufficera. . G. F. WISNER. Treasurer, . . members. 92 H. P. HILL. ANDREW H. KRUG. GEORGE H. LEHMUTH. HENRY G. RETZ. HARRY G. RULLMAN. EDWARD C. SCHNEIDER. WILLARD J. WILEY. G. FRANKLIN WISNER. FONTAINE. . . . A. H. KRUG

Page 80 text:

.Q greshman Glass .76'story. 4-'H-'l ! l ! I'-le HE initial class of the coming century, in which it is destined that the New Woman shall play such an important part, gathered-many for the first time -within college walls, on September 15, 1897. ' In a short while they were generally conceded by upper classmen - not by themselves -to have the requisite amount of greenness which a college Freshie is supposed to possess, and for this reason, we suppose, we have furnished unlimited pleasure to that ancient and respected order, the G. O. H. Leaving for the time being the subject of the great, grand and glorious order of G. O. H. and the Freshman greenness, we will come to the natural order of events. Owing to the fact that we are looked upon by our elders as an insignificant and brainless set of mortals, and not being permitted - or, rather, not being given - any opportunity to figure in anything of any importance, the history of a Freshman class is almost a blank 3 so in Goldsmith's words : Good people all of every sort Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short It cannot keep you long. In our opinion, it is a more difficult task to write a ,wax history of any interest under such circumstances as I have mentioned than to compose the history of one of the upper classes, when they have accomplished so many things of universal interest- that is, in their estimation. And then for them to say, A ' Freshie ' has no brains, we think is carrying things a little too far. We will admit we are green. In our greenness we have found that all that is green is not grass, and all that glitters is not gold. Notwithstanding these facts, from the start we have been regarded by our professors as a rather intelligent and courageous assemblage of youths. Although we have not as yet made any display of our talents, we hope in a short time to spring forth from the obscurity in which we have been placed and show that we at least possess the moral courage, if not the intellect, of a Soph. Ah l well, some day we'll be Sophs, too. One thing of which our class is proud is the fact that it has from the beginning taken an interest in everything that tends to the advancement and betterment of our College. We were not long to see that duty not only demanded that we should properly prepare our studies and keep from getting demerits, but also that we should lend our support to the College armies- football, baseball, etc. During its short existence the Class of Nineteen One