University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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€la00 of 90. Alexander McIver, Jr., Hugh L. M11.1.ER. President. Secretary. CLASS DAY OFFICERS; Ralph H. Holland, W. F. Shaffner, T. M. Lee, Ex. ' 90, Chas. a. Rankin, Orator. Historian. Poet. Marshal. CLASS COLOR, ' PURPLE. History of ' 90. On August 26th, 1886, glorious old ' 90 was ushered into existence. Our Freshman class, though a little larger than usual, numbering seventy-four, was not an exception to the rule, and ' ' greenness ' ' and ' ' self-conceit ' ' were the chief characteristics. Shortly after our arrival we were some- what shaken up by the earthquake, but it was not long before we were settled again and each man began to do some little studying. On October loth, 1886, our class- mate, J. A. Freeze, was brutally murdered by negroes, and in March, 1887, we lost another member, H. A. Wilson, by pneumonia. Commencement soon came and each one of us pictured in our mind ' s eye the mighty Soph, of ' 88. But alas! the great honor which we had been so long look- ing forward to seemed to be almost nothing, and we soon came to the wise conclusion that the Soph, was not as big a man as the Fresh, imagined him. During this year the

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monotony was only broken b y the withdrawal of the Phi. members. Yes, ' 88 had come and was fast going awa} ' . Vacation came, and after crushing all the damsels ' hearts we came back with our Junior dignity on us. The Com- mencemenc of ' 89 was indeed a glorious one. It being the Centennial Anniversary of the establishment of the Univer- sity, our ahnnni flocked from all parts of the country and some of the old ones said it reminded them of ante-beUinn times. Now we are Seniors. The seventy-four Freshmen, besides additions in the Soph., Junior and Senior years, have dwindled down to twenty. Some have died, some have voluntarily left, the climate did not suit others, and the Faculty deemed it best that others should not return. We are few in number but still in the ring. We are, as a rule, quite as dignified as the average Senior class, thouo:h sometimes we come off of our hio h roost and make night hideous with Where did you get that Hat? and Down went McGinty. Our class has contained all specimens of humanity — the Y. M. C. A. man and the sinner, the temperance man and the toper, the man who never dirties his lily-white hands with cards, and he that throws the papers with a blanket on the table to the wee hours o ' midnight. We have caused the Faculty little » trouble and have behaved ourselves well during our college course. ' 90 ' s men stand well in their studies and in June we will show as fine an average as the great majority of our predecessors. During our connection with the University many changes in the Faculty have occurred. Profs. Henry, Phillips and Atkinson have gone to other institutions and in business. Dr. Chas. Phillips, emeritus Professor of Mathematics, died in the spring of ' 89. Prof Ralph Graves died in the sum- mer of ' 89, and Prof. William Cain now fills the chair of Mathematics in the University. Our time is nearly out and ere long, only a few weeks, we will, most of us, sever our connections with the dear 8