St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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is prominent on account of his height, which is about 8 ft. 6 in. When.he puts on his little No. 62 straw hat you can recognize him wherever you see him, but you must not laugh, although he does look very comical. Then there is H. Padgett, who is, without a doubt, the best musician in the class. He spends the most of his time dreaming and talking of springtime and of playing his guitar and singing in the evenings on the campus. If you hear anyone in the hall say, Won't it be line when spring comes, so that we can sit out on the campus, You must learn all the popular songs and we will sing them when we can sit out on the campus, and similar expressions, you may be sure that it is Padgett. lf you want to learn anything about the fair sex of Annapolis go to Rat Jones. He spends the most of his time with them and knows much about them. Then another thing he is noted for is the art of pretending sickness when he has a difficult recitation. Collins has been voted upon as being the greatest eater in the class. He well deserves the honor. He is an excellent writer and an authority on eating. His most famous books are, Wliat to Fat, Physical Trainingu and a pamphlet on N ever Be Afraid of Eating Too Much. He is better known as Toothpick or VVilkie. Providence has been kind to us in giving us one of the wonders of the world. This is a Human jumping-Jacki' by the name of Magruder. His manner of walking is likely to impress one that he has springs in his heels. We often quake with fear that sometimes those springs will raise him beyond the limits of gravitation. Then our number would be one less. The baseball season has now opened, and we expect to be well represented on the team. Some of our men for whom there is a good opening are Wilmer, Halbert, and Stick, Collins, Mudd, and Jones. They are all good players and will make the other candidates hustle. Qur class team expects to administer another bitter defeat to the Seniors. In field and track sports we will hold up our end, as we will undoudtedly have three men on the relay team-Cronin, Hal- bert and Tarbert. t Now, with a few words regarding our relation with the Freshmen, this history will be closed. Since hazing was abolished here several years ago, it was not the desire of our class to revive it. Yet, we all believe that when a young fellow first leaves the restraint of parental influence, he is apt to regard himself as being the only one. Hence, in order to banish all such ideas from the brilliant C?j minds of the Freshmen we deemed it necessary to resort to something that would furnish us a littleiamusement, and at the same time teacli them the lesson intended. I think everyone, with possibly the exception of the Freshmen, enjoyed the concerts given by them. As it is the custom, we had to electla new vice- president for the Pinkney Hall Glee Club, and to do this we had to test the voices of the Freshmen. The singing was very much like that heard at a grand opera C Pj. 78

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--r-an-ir?--73 . Mudd, catcher 3 Stick, pitcher g Wilmer, Ist base, Halbert, 2nd base 3 Cooper, 3rd basezg jones, short stop, Cf. Wilson, right field, Scarborough, center field, and Murphy, left held. Tarbert and Burwell wer substitutes. Powell and Burwell represented the college in the tennis meet in Baltimore with johns Hopkins Univer- sity and Western Maryland College. , The time for our June exams. was now fastf approaching, and we saw the necessity of doing some hard work. Consequently we set to work, and after using much midnight electricity and impressing on our minds many of those irregular French verbs and the theories of mathematics, we passed through our exams. verysuccessfully. Therefore, everyone will now admit that the class of 1904 should rightfully be called The Banner Class of St. Iohn's. At one of our class meetings it was decided to have ai banquet in commemoration of our athletic victories. Accordingly, the money was appropriated out of the class treasury, and we had the banquet. Addresses were made by many members on the different things in which our class was interested. The speech by our Presi- dent, Mudd, on. The Class of IQO4,H was very interesting to us, and when he talked of the Hrst accomplishments and the future prospects of the class, the greatest enthusiasm manifested itself among the members of the class. Thus ended our first year, during which we established such a reputation as very few other Freshmen classes has ever yet had. After enjoying our long summer vacation, we returned to St. johns, resolved to begin hard, earnest work again. In a few days after the opening of the college a class meeting was called for the election of new class officers. The following men were elected: I. Wirt Wilmer, president, G. WV1lson, viee-presi- dent, H. Padgett, secretary, and P. C. Jones, treasurer. Three new men, Beachley, Collins and E. Padgett, joined our class at the opening of the session, and have proved themselves to be good men. As athletics form one of the most interesting parts of college life, we were not long in answering to the call for football players. Halbert and Cooper, two regulars, played a fine game during the whole season. Cooper is to be praised for his great work at left tackle. Mudd, Burwell and Scarborough were sub- stitutes. As soon as the football season was over, we settled down to hard studying. According to the exam. marks of all the classes, our class passed the most creditably of any class in college. I do not mean to say that no one in our class Hunked, for that would hardly be true. I cannot do justice to the class by simply stating a few facts concerning it as a whole. Therefore, I will attempt to give the characteristics of some of our worthy classmen. One of the most prominent members is Ben. Hoogan. He 77

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Mr. Bird was finally elected to the office of Vice-president. As he did not feel competent to expresshis thanks in a speech, he was asked to give us another song, and he readily complied. There was no end to the fun in watching some of the poor fellows rooting pennies out of bowls of water. Cf course the usual reading of rules and posting up of bills on which the rules were printed was soon done by us. After these few proceedings the Freshmen were allowed to rest in peace. I sincerely hope that I have exactly portrayed the virtues of this grand old class, and that it may yet rise higher in its power and bring more -glory and honor both to itself and to old Stg Iohn's. ' HAROLD B. SCARBDROUGH. ff Ab, Raid. l vgooaogv ave 79