University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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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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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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could take exception to them. But the Smoker in general went under the ban of the Faculty, and ' 03 Smokers, like the rest, passed into history. Naughty-Three held the last Smoker ever perpetrated. In our third year several of our classmen entered the field of S. L. A. politics. John Robinson was prevailed upon to make the run for President. As usual Robbie had the united support of his class and, in fact, of the whole Literary Department in this election. But he had strong opposition in the Law Department, and the Medical electors were an unknown quantity. The Robinson ticket won out, however, by securing 10 of the 19 electoral votes. Soon after this occurred the annual contest for MICHIGANENSIAN editorial positions. Those who were on the inside during these two campaigns know that no city or ward politics were ever more strenuous. Verily, the University of Michigan has some courses to offer which are not in the catalog, and which are withal quite as practical. The Class of 1903 has had a goodly number of men besides those already mentioned who have come into ' Varsity prominence. Herrnstein and Sweeley were for several years two of the very best men on the ' Varsity Football squad. Hernie, with his phenom- enal runs, was always a favorite with the men on the bleachers; and no one who saw that magnificent punt, the last and best he ever made, will ever forget Sweeley ' s wonderful leg. In baseball 1903 claims as her own, Jerry Utley, who has twice captained the ' Varsity team. Cutting has also done good work on the ' Varsity team for 1903. Our class had a championship Tennis-player for three years in Danforth, while Wherry was a close second. It speaks pretty well for Michigan tennis and for 1903, when the finals in singles at the ' ' Western Intercollegiate ' ' have to be played off by two Michigan men. McNeil also won honors for the class in this line. In the management of Athletics 1903 has had an unusual amount of talent Danforth for Track, Potter for Baseball, and Ralston and Mason for Interscholastic, while Lloyd has held the position of Financial Secretary of the Athletic Association. Upon the Board of Control we have had Herrnstein, Robinson and Wherry at various times. MacAfee has been a very efficient leader in ' Varsit}- yells. Robbie Robinson, Captain of this year ' s ' Varsity Track Team, has won many honors for 1903, as also did Herrnstein on the Championship ' Varsity Track Team of 1901 . Our class has been well represented upon the University Musical Clubs. Among these makers of glad noises were Macduff, Stevens, Ralston, Stuart, Morton, Jampolis, Ferguson and Lloyd. In this, our last college year there occurred a very spirited contest for the class offices, in which well-known politicians were much in evidence. Two full tickets were in the field, with one candidate running independently for Orator. For this office there was no choice on the first ballot, thus necessitating a special election. Max Finkelstein finally won. The utmost good feeling prevailed, however, upon all sides, and the campaign, upon the whole, was a benefit to the class. People took an interest in class affairs and thus became acquainted as they never had before. This election had the effect of bringing out the largest class meeting ever held in the history of the University. 9