Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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Ejistorg. ELL, at length we are upper classmen! With what feelings of anticipation have ID we looked forward to our Junior year! We may now exercise our prerogative in college meeting or elsewhere, in helping to maintain the dignity of the college at home or abroad in the land. There is a certain feeling of abandon and self-superiority which belongs peculiarly to us. ln Junior year. we sing our glees, We smoke our pipes, and take our ease. And somehow or other, when a Junior leans back in an easy chair with in pipe in his mouth, and his feet mixed up with a lot of books, papers and ink-bottles on the table-the quantity of which incongruous mixture on a collegianls table usually depending on the length of the owner's sojourn in College-behind clouds of smoke, he is sure to smile to himself at the recollection of some event of the preceding two years, which have so quickly flown by. His experiences and successes in the class-room, on the gridiron, the di:unond, and the track, or in the social world, all come vividly back to him, filling him with either pleasure or regret. Perhaps he will feel pleasure that he has covered half the road leading to the goal, for the attainment of which he came to College. On the other hand, he may regret that he cannot live them over again, or he may be the possessor of that indefinable mental consciousness, which assures him that he is so popular with the faculty, that in all probabilities those august gentlemen will feel an unspeakable yearning at the idea of his graduating, and request his further presence. He 'will surely think of the day when he struck the old Dorp and incidentally became a unit in the college world. He will remember his first appearance on the Campus, and the cordial greeting he received from everybody, and most especially from the Sophs, whom he soon learned to know very well indeed. When undergoing the setting-up process, what vows of future revenge he pledged himself to, and with what zest he later fulfilled his oaths! We nrst distinguished ourselves and brought fair fame to our class of looz by displaying unexampled eagerness to have our names on the list of foot-ball subscribers, and in responding to Johnnyls fervid appeals. We then put to shame our rivals and sworn enemies and were second only to the revered Seniors in the amount of our contributions to the support of gridiron athletics. This same characteristic of supporting college activities, manifested so early in our career, has constantly been in evidence. We lost our cane-rush, though by a very close margin, and in the football game, the Sophomores were again victorious. But having by this time become organized, looz distinguished itself by winning the snow-ball scrap and by repeatedly gaining the advantage in Chapel rushes. 30

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The date of our Freshman Banquet was well known for some time previous, but so timorous were our friends that, with the exception of one or two men not renowned for their gigantic stature, whom the Sophomores mustered up courage to capture, each and every one of us was on hand to pal'take of the good things prepared by t' Mine Host Brown of the Edison and also to entertain one of our friends of IQOI, who had accepted our invitation to be present. But let us not consume too much time in description of these by-gone days. Suffice to say that when we returned to College, one step higher in the gradus leading to the goal of our ambitions, we found ourselves sadly depleted in number. ln spite of our thinned ranks, we more than held our own against the horde of barbarians known as Frosh. Though we again failed to come out victorious in the cane-rush, we addecl glory to loo: by running away with IQOS in the foot ball game and snow-ball scrap. and in having the Round Building Scrap declared a draw, even though we were so greatly outnumbered. How we missed many of the faces so familiar to us when freshmen! Pub our knight of the pig-skin, was no longer of our number, nor El Cubano, who refreshed us with his tales of foreign travel and mighty deeds performed, nor yet Billy, whose fault was a too liberal application of '4Whitey's grapes. These and several others had left us, some never more to be seen by us or among us. For these we shall ever have regretful memories in future reminiscence. The chief event of importance in our Sophomore year was the Freshman Banquet. Then were the highly proper and staid Dutch burghers of the old Dorp mightily shocked by our doins'. Such cuttins' up, one old lady declared, we ain't never seed before, for as much as ten or twelve years. The Freshmen had to appoint a Toast Nlaster pro tempore, sad to relate. To be sure, Bill Nye escaped us, but we had the poor Frosh comin' for fair. They hardly knew whether any of them were sure to be at the Edison on that eventful Monday night or not. But now all this childish frivolity is laid aside. We have forgotten, as faras possible, our boyish pranks, and are reminded that the affairs of college and university demand somewhat of our attention and care. We have made a good record in college thus far. ln foot ball, we have been repre- sented during the past three years by our lusty Finny, Shaw, and jovial, good-natured Fenny Thebo. Fub Gulnac was also of our Freshman delegation on the gridiron. Well and conscientiously have all filled their positions. Our representation was further strengthened last fall by Chick Mallery, who had returned after a year's absence from College, and Andy Anderson, who had re-entered College for the engineering course. Pat Carver has also decided to join our number, so that now our delegation comprises over half the 'Varsity. On the track and in the Gym we have been almost as successful as on the gridiron. Dick Gritiith, the best point-winner in College, we proudly claim as our own. Finegan, the mighty wielder of the hammer, and Don Hawkes and Bob Hoadley, both lleet middle-distance men, are of our number. ln basket ball, we have a very good record. lt was 1902, who, in our Freshman year, aroused interest in this sport. Penny 'l'hebo has captained the team since its advent and has been most faithful in his trust. gl