Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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History of 1906 THE historian, however much he may be moved to a fine display of sentiment, must remain impartial. This fact makes our duty doubly thankless and onerous, for we have here to record a class chapter where barren wastes of the insignificant and commonplace are relieved only by melodramatic failure. From the time that you tried to haze us, up to now — 1906 — we have pitied you; yes, pitied you with our whole heart, because, in spite of all your little ambitions and jealousies you have succeeded at last in achieving the title well meaning. In scholarship you have played but a poor part, making us all reflect on the good old days, before you, making us hope for the future but despair of the present. Think of it, you have made Swarthmore discard the present tense ! Your hand at the helm steered the Phoenix into a treacherous five-month coma, which was well nigh the death of it. You did not even fulfil your early promise. You orated, but where were your loyal numbers when the judges made a choice of whipped cream instead of skimmed milk? Oh 1906, igo6 try again, while there is yet time, and then we may more confidently wish you good luck and God-speed in the big world where failures are not spectacular. 27

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Class of 1906 First Semester Second Semester President, HERBERT S. KILLE WILLIAM C. WALKER Vice-President. JAMES P. SEAMAN S. BLAIR LUCKIE JANE H. LIPPINCOTT ' ' LOIS FORNANCE Treasnrer, PHILIP LAMB LAWRENCE WATTERS CIass=Day Officers Presenter, WALTER E. ROBERTS- Poetess, MARY T. JANNEY. Prophetess ALICE KEIM. Ivy Poetess RACHEL ROBINSON. Ivy Orator, THOMAS HODGES. Historian GERTRUDE BRICKER Commencement Spealu -, CAROLINE HADLEY. Commencement Spcal;er, R. LESLIE RYDER. 26

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Personalia of the Class of 1906 Gertrude Mason Adams, K A ®, Camden, N. J., History. ■■ Iwve found you an aiguuicnt ; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Prepared at Swarthmore Preparatory School: Class Poet (I) ; Second Place Young Woman ' s Gymnasium Contest (I) ; Mem ber of Phoenix Staff (III — 4) ; Member Junior Reception Committee. Walter Trainer Baker, $ K ' I ' , Lansdowne, Pa., Engineering. am pleased with my ozvn work; Jove was not more. Prepared at Friends ' Central School; Member of Class Teams: Scrub Football Team (III and IV); Scrub Lacrosse Team (III); Assistant Business Manager Phoenix, Vol. XXIV.; Business Manager Phoenix, Vol. XXV.; Business Manager Swarth- MOREAN, Vol. I. ; Tutor at Farm School, Member ® N E, Member of T H D. Margery Beddoes, Charlotte, N. C, Biology. She would have stuffed an alligator, or pickled a Heard with any apothecary ' s rvife in the kingdom. Prepared at Prospect Hill School, Greenfield, Mass. ; Member of Somerville Literary Society : Member of Joseph Leidy Scien- tific; Member of Y. W. A. A., Vice-President (IV) ; Member of . thletic Council (IV); Member of E.xecutive Board Student Gov. (IV) ; Member of Class Basket Ball Team (I— 3, 4) ; Captain (IV) ; Member of ' Varsity Basket Ball Team (III) ; Member of Class Hockey Team (HI— 4), Captain (IV); Member of ' Varsity Hockey Team (III— 4). Anna Dripps Bramble, Ro.xborough, Pa., Biology. Tints to reliez ' e the wretched ivas her pride. Prepared at Philadelphia High School for Girls ; Member of Somerville Literary Society ; President of Sigma Chapter (III — 2); Member of Joseph Leidy, Secretary; Member of College Settlement Association, Secretary (III — i and 2), President (IV — I and 2); Member of Executive Board of Student Government (IV — l). 28