Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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from your prudent control, and that was when we stole your toastmaster. But long disuse had weakened your powers and your rage resulted only in impotent threats and bitter tears. 1904, we bear you no ill-will and seek not to reproach you for your faults. For three years you have formed a part of our college life, sometimes a ridiculous part, it is true, but there are many pleasant memories arising from our connection. Soon you are to go out from among us, and your going reminds us that we, too, have but a little while to linger here. Good luck and good-bye. 28

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Ibistot of 1904 T is with some hesitation that we assume the responsibility of writing your Class history, 1904. We would fain record your deeds of honor, since this must be the last time that your names will ever appear in print. But we are much perplexed. An exhaustive search through the intellectual, athletic, and social records of the College for the past four years has failed to reveal the name of 1904, except among the also rans. We can understand now why you did not attempt to chronicle your doings in your own Halcyon, and we are sure that you will appreciate the difficulty that we are laboring under. But sound the trumpets and bring the laurel wreath, for the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Four has to its credit one class championship. In the spring of our Freshman year, by some strange idiosyncrasy of fate, this collection of nature ' s mistakes actually fell heir to the inter-class base-ball pennant, the single sheaf of wheat in their harvest of tares and thistles. Ah, 1904, does this soften the remembrance of your defeat in foot-ball in 1903, and 3 ' our inability to get up a team to play 1905? Is it balm to the thought of your annual humiliation in hockey, lacrosse, basket-ball, and track? Perhaps you do not desire to be known by heroic endeavors? Perhaps it has been your aim to suffer that others might become famous? This certainly might explain the passive part you played in our Freshman year. Why, only once did the naughty little passions break loose 27

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Ipersonalia of the Class of 1904 Elva Lulu Ash, 11 B0, Coatesville, Pa., Philosophy. Tlie fair, the chaste, and wicxpressive she. Prepared at Coatesville High School; Member of Somerville; Secretary of Sigma Chapter of Somerville (II — 2); Corre- sponding Secretary of Somerville (III — 2, IV — l) ; Member of A A S; Eligible for Andrew C. Pearson Prize in Declamation; Secretary of Class (IV — 2). Louise Bartlett, K K F, Baltimore, Md., . French. High flights she had, and ivit at will, And so her tongue lay seldom still. Prepared at Girls ' Latin School, Baltimore ; Member of Somerville Literary Society ; Member of Y. W. A. A. ; Member of ' Joseph Leidy Scientific Society; Member of 1904 Basket-ball Team (I); Member of Athletic Council (IV); Member of Executive Board (IV — i) ; Class Statistician (III); Eligible for Andrew C. Pearson Prize (IV). Frederick Guiiby Bell, K I, Salisbury, Md., Engineering. Ecce homo. Prepared at Maryland Agricultural College; Member of Foot-bill Teams, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1903; Member of Class Teams. Thomas C. Bell, K I, Bayside, N. Y., Engineering. He would not in a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his oivn. Prepared at Chappaqua Mountain Institute ; Member of Class Base-ball, Lacrosse, and Hockey Teams ; Vice-President of Delphic (III — i); Treasurer of Class (III — 2). 29