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History of Class or 1905 BY MARK FOOTK RICHARD HUDSON, Dean oj the Department oj Literature, Science, and the Arts. OST all of us can remember the beginnings or ' ' birth ' ' of the Class of 1 903 . We were fully as green as the proverbial Freshmen are reputed to be, and bought our ' ' Campus Tickets, paid our tuition, and studied Fresh- man Math. with uniform equanimity. The class first assembled and organized in University Hall under the tutelage of Prof. Goddard. At this meeting there was a spirited contest for the class Presidency between Richard R. Kirk and Charles F. Smurthwaite, the former winning out by a small majority. It is interesting to note in this connection the fact that Mr. Kirk has the distinction of being the first man in years who has escaped the dangers with which the office of Freshman President is fraught, and stayed with his class to graduate. After organization things went along very smoothly and quietly. 1903, modest and retiring, showed up very well on the side lines, waiting to get into the game when more sophisticated. In the annual Fresh. -Soph. Rush, one of the Michigan traditions which is unfortunately becoming a thing of the past, we quite vanquished the Sophomores. It was a pretty sight to see hundreds of bare-headed fellows in old clothes and sweaters form into two compact wedges upon opposite sides of the field and gradually move down towards each other until they came together with an impact of hard heads that was terrific. Then to see one side gradually waver, give way, turn and run, and the other with a yell of victory sweep the field. Of course some heads were bumped, there were a few bruises and scars, but upon the whole the affair was far from brutal; it was invigorating, healthy, and calculated to inspire physical and moral courage. On the Hallow ' een on which the students took possession of, and operated the Ann Arbor Rapid Transit Street Railway System Naughty -Three was in evidence ringing up fares, as also at the Ringling Bros. ' circus. This, by the way, was the last circus which had the intrepidity to venture into Ann Arbor during the college year. In the Spring of 1900 we had the good fortune to get into the finals in the Inter- Class Baseball contest, but we went down to defeat before the Laws. Naughty-Three ushered in its second year by relegating Oracle, the old publication of the Sophomore class, to innocuous desuetude. This book had been
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degenerating from year to year, the classes were showing less and less interest in it, and it had in fact little excuse for existing. An effectual quietus was now put upon it forever. By our Sophomore year there were those who thought they had learned the ropes pretty well, and as a consequence we had a very wily bunch of politicians. Such old familiar names as Ed Pinney, our Sophomore President, Shorty (R. C.) O ' Brien, Charles Gates, Bruce Broad, sweet- throated Bob. Parker, Joe Ferguson, and bellows-lunged Pat De Wolf come to our minds to conjure up fond memories of by-gone college days. The strange thing about it all, however, is that not one of these men is now left with us to tell the tale. They have all either dropped by the wayside entirely, or have been out of college a Semester or two and dropped back into the Class of 1904. Another name of this period of our history is that of Charlie Haslam, the very promising track athlete, who unfortunately left college after his second year. It was as Sophomores that we won the ' Varsity championship in Basketball. Miss Harriet Thompson captained the team that year, as she did during all four years. Miss McNerney has also played her four years with us as guard. In the Spring of that year the attempt of the Freshmen class to take possession of a hall which we had rented for a Smoker resulted in the famous hair-cutting scrap between the Freshmen and Sophomore classes. The fight went merrily on for several weeks before Spring vacation. Professors and students would be surprised and amused in classes every morning to see newly-clipped heads appear, some of which were very queerly shaped when naked for inspection. But the end was sure to come. A little unpleasantness occurred, and a little pressure from the Faculty resulted in both classes holding meetings and agreeing to eschew the tonsorial business forever. It was very gratifying to the Class of 1903, however, to realize in this event that the final score of heads cut stood 29 to 17 in our favor. Our Junior year was an ' ' era of good feeling ' ' in politics. This does not imply that there was any bad feeling other years, but this year, at least, there was a unanimity, lacking at other times. John Robinson, who had won fame as a shot-putter and hurdler, was elected Class President without opposition. In athletics this was perhaps our most successful year. We won the Inter-Class Indoor Meet after a very exciting contest. The score stood very close between our class and the 1904 Laws, up to the time of the very last event, when Douglas Macduff broke the tie by winning the pole vault, the final score standing 21 for 1903, to 20 for the Freshmen Laws. Our Relay Team, consisting of Herrnstein, Sweeley, Crumpacker, Maclntyre and Dilloway, also won the championship this year, as it had the year previous with the help of Charlie Haslam. In the line of amusements and class gatherings ' ' Naughty-Three ' ' was always strong. During our Junior year we held several very successful socials, and also enthu- siastically took up the class Smoker idea lately introduced. Our Smokers were jolly affairs in which conviviality and good-fellowship were the key-notes, and no one
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