University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Class of 1910 21 aged to delay them here until evening. Then somehow they got information that made them sure of the place, and in two autos we raced to Roca. Unluckily we broke down. The Sophs of course then beat us to the house, overpowered our guard, and rescued their man. About six the next morning we were back in Lincoln. Suspicion had fallen on a certain house here and, undaunted by our failure of the night before, we surrounded it and waited hopefully. But we had been misinformed and discovered it only when it was too late to make any other plans. We lost out there, but we took it in true 191 o style and marched to Sam ' s cafe. There we held a rousing good banquet and swore vengeance once more. We still have time to pay the Sophs back and they had to work this time to beat us. I will be home in a few days and tell you more. Jack. February i, 1907. Dear Bob — Once more we have gotten the best of the Sophs. We had our big Freshmen Hop January 25 at the Lincoln, and it went off perfectly. The lit- tle party we had in Memorial Hall before Christmas was unmolested, but we were looking for trouble this time. The Sophs made gallant but ineffectual attempts to capture Lyle Davis, the chairman of the committee, and even more strenuous efforts to get hold of Harry Ingles, the M. C. With almost Soph-like wisdom we kept them both successfully hidden, and so our first big social stunt went off in regulation style with all officers present. Our presidential campaign passed off quietly this time, and L. J. Weaver was elected with very little opposition. Jack. May 5, 1907. Dear Old Pal — Strenuous college life with the spring weather on is mighty hard to keep up with, and it is a good thing that there is a considerable amount of fun mi.xed up with the work. Otherwise I could not stand it. Class affairs have been plenty this spring and we have much to be thankful for in that line. Once more we defeated them in athletics. Our basketball season was about the most satisfactory thing of the whole year. We have a splendid team and took everything in sight. They beat the Sophs easily and won the cham- pionship from the Seniors in the finals. The girls ' basketball season was not so successful. They lost to the Sopho- more girls by a single goal and so had no chance to fight the Seniors. The tour- nament was played as usual in the armory behind closed doors labeled Ladies only. As usual, the east door of the armory and the windows in all the nearby buildings were filled with the curious ones who were not ladies. May 4 we had our second hop. Whether the long inactivity of the Sophs had rendered us careless or not I do not know. At any rate we were only able to save Frank Wheelock, the chairman, from the hands of the Soph kidnapers. La wrence Holland, the M. C, was captured. All efforts to rescue him before the dance failed, but at about nine o ' clock he appeared at Fraternity Hall hand- cuffed to one of his captors. We are just about quits now, and so I suppose will end this year. Jack. October i, 1907. !My Dear Bob — Back at school again and everything is once more in running order. I thought last vear that I was fresher than most first-year men, but I know that I was not in the same class at all with some of these ' 11 Freshmen. They are green enough to suit St. Patrick himself. Being Sophomores it was up to us to get busy early in the year. Our own

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CLAIS 1111 (Being a compilation of the letters of a nienibtr of that class to a friend at home; nv GKAC1-; KI.MMliL University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. October 5, 1906. Robert Clark, Hitchcock, Nebraska: Dear Old Bob — At last I am fairly launched, a member of a full-fledged class, upon the rather boisterous sea of University life, and am coming to you to unload my first impressions. You have been through it all and can understand something of the trials of a Freshman. Registration week wore me out completely. The fellows were fine about showing me how to do it and helping me to get my bearings on the campus, but in the office I got it with all the other Freshmen. You know how it is. — crush, hurry, push, jam for the eight hours of the working day. After two days of it I needed the remainder of the week to recuperate. Having succeeded in satisfactorily explaining to the Rhetoric Department who I am and why I came to the University of Nebraska. and having satisfied several professors on various points of interest in my chequered career, I was at liberty to turn my attention to divers and sundry student activities. Following the lead of classes who have gone before, the class of 1910 met at Memorial Hall for permanent organization. The occasion was certainly most inspiring. While without the sacred portals a mob of curious and husky Sophs howled and shouted in impotent derision, we on the inside carried out our purpose strong in dignified calm. Upon A. J. Heskett was bestowed the honor of being the first president of the class of 1910. and amid loud cheering our organization was completed. But alas for our jubilant spirits! The foiled Sophs sought their revenge. They swooped down in numbers upon our unsuspecting and unprotected presitlent and a few of his friends. They were marched to the fountain at nth and [ and there, before a crowd of jeering Sophs, were ingloriouslv ducked. Now we have in turn sworn revenge and await the opportunity for evening up things. Rest assured 1 will keep you posted as to the result of our plots. Jack. December 20. 1906. Dear Bob — We have been having great sport since my last epistle Hitch- cock-ward, and I congratulate myself on having some one like you to enjoy it with me all over again. Since the Varsity football season closed, class doings have kept tlie air filled with excitement and are still claiming the most of our attention. Chief among these affairs has been the develo])ment of the 1909-10 feeling. Football offered us our first opportunity to humiliate the Sophs. In the class champioiishi]i series we beat them thoronghly and further added to our glory by tying with the Seniors for the championshii) of the school. That was a great game, and with any luck we would have won it. The Sophs planned to hold their annual Imp December 15. This was another opportunity, and we made the most of it. ( )n the morning before the hop we cap- tured the master of ceremonies. The l)oys had an auto waiting. We hustled him into it and were off to Roca before the Sopiis discovered their loss. Leaving the M. C. in the little burg guarded 1) two husky iM-eshmen. we returned to Ijiicoln to threw the Sdiihs off the trail. ' I ' hev were (in. however, and we oidv man-

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22 Class of 1910 political fight was short and close. J. M. Alexander was elected by a small ma- jority over F. O. Wheelock. Having thus quickly disposed of our own politics, we turned our attention to the management of Freshman affairs. . s benign Juniors, our friends of 09 found it impossible to keep out of Freshman-.Sopho- more scra])s. They proposed to take charge of the first Freshman meeting, to instruct the credulous youngsters in the ways of the University world, and to give them a paternal push in the right direction. Scenting in this arrangement an un- warranted interference with our natural rights, we got together in a plot to stop it at once. About si.xteen of us met at the high school the night before the Fresh election. We knew that there were four candidates in the race, and for a time we were stumped. Finally some one suggested that we get them all. ' e mapped out a brief campaign for the night ' s work and separated about nine o ' clock. There were four divisions, each after a certain man, and we had planned on meetings and reenforcements where we felt that it would be necessary. The group which was detailed to get Weaverling, whom we felt to be one of the im- portant candidates, had a hack to aid them. With some difficulty we persuaded Weaverling to go with us peaceably and escorted him across the viaduct. Under guard he was headed for Capital Beacli, and the hack returned to help the others. A second division arrived at Hascall ' s home about nine o ' clock. Mr. Hascall was not at home. When would he be in? Hard to tell. He was at a dance; 9:30. 10:00, 10:30, and Hascall did not show up. At last shortly after eleven o ' clock the half-dozen watchers were rewarded by seeing the candidate, whistling in fancied security, come toward his home. He was taken on his own doorstep, marched down South street, out across Salt Creek toward the old Western Nor- mal. The party spent half the night wandering around in the wilds of Salt Creek valley, and finally arrived at the rendezvous at 3:30 a.m. The Junior president had been captured, too, and the entire party, the Sophs shivering and the Freshies roasting, spent the night and the ne.xt day in hiding at Robber ' s Cave. At about four the next afternoon we started back to town. At the viaduct a band of Sophomores met us with the news that Weaverling had been elected. We released Hascall, and, painting Weaverling a bright green, paraded him down O street. He made a speech, and as we knew what he had been througli the night before we decided to forego the ducking which, in memory of our Freshie days, we felt that he should have. Point I for 1910! Jack. February i. 1908. Dear IjOB — We are certainly feeling fine as regards our athletic stunts. The success of the Varsity seems to have passed onto us. Once again we have squelched those gentle I ' eshmen, adding a football victory to their long list of grievances against us. Then we properly humiliated our old enemies, the Juniors, by defeating the Seniors in the fast finals. So we have ended ;i fine .season with the ehami)ionship and sweaters belonging to us. In their over-anxiety to even up, the Freshies did a rasli tiling. ( )ur class hop came off in January with Jesse Clark managing. Of course we expected trouble, but not so soon as it came. Fully a week before the ilance Dale McDon- ald, M. C, was kidnaped by a mob of Freshmen and driven to Beatrice in an auto. Not satisfied with their feat the foolish Freshies boasted, and their vanitv proved their undoing. The Chancellor took a hand in the affair and demande.l that McDonald be returned to .school. The Fresjiie president was excited and pro- posed to defy orders; but the class, with greater wisdom than their previous ac- tions would have led any one to exi)ect from them, dicidi l to ohev. antl .McDonald was returned. Point 2! fAcK.