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

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were added to these after another year. With the small but mighty band which we now have we can conquer any force which the enemy can send against us in the shape of examinations on Conies, Chemistry, or Geology. The love that each member of ' 91 bears for his class is so strong that he will never forget it, whether he be teacher, preacher, lawyer, doctor, tramp, beggar, or what- not. In after years when care is bearing heavily upon us and wasting thought has set its deep imprint upon our brow the turning over of that leaflet of memory on which are inscribed the joys and trials and successes of our col- lege life in ' 91 will not fail to smooth out the wrinkles and make the heart light and joyous as in the days that are dead and gone. S. B. 13

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During our Fresh, year — to begin at the beginning — nothing of importance happened to disturb the even tenor of our way. At Commencement we were represented by two marshals — Batchelor and Green, B. In the Phi. Society, Bryan won Declaimer ' s Medal. As Sophomores, we treated the Fresh, with consideration. We brought back the time-honored water-melon treat — which degenerate classes had allowed to be forgotten — and our hearts were made glad with the hearts of the melons, while the poor Fresh, were given only the rinds, and these, to be rendered eatable, must first be deprived of rapid whirlings and twists through the air. To our class belongs the honor of having awakened in North Carolina the interest in foot-ball, by challenging the Sophomore team of Wake Forest College. A member of our class — DeBerniere Whitaker — was the prime mover - in the organization of the Inter-Collegiate Foot-ball Asso- ciation. This year we added two more Declaimer ' s Medals to our list of honors — Bingham in the Di. and Ball in the Phi. At Commencement of 1889 five of the six Representa- tives were from our class and Crowell ( ' 91) received the medal. Bus, Jumbo, Fritz, Bat, Babe, Mr. Varnes, Windy, Gilly, Tuf, and others failed to respond to roll-call at the beginning of our Junior year. Four of the Representatives for Commencement of ' 90 are from our class, as are also the Chief Ball Manager — Graham — and, by law, the Chief Marshal — Ransom — and his six sub-marshals. Out of the seventv-two men with whom we entered for the four years ' siege of faculty for sheep-skin, twenty-two dropped by the wayside after the first year and twenty more 12

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Cia00 of ' 92, COLORS : White, Old Gold and Black. CI.ASS song: ' ' Dozvn Went the Clapper to the Bottom of the Well. ' ' AlvFRED M. SCAI.ES, JR., Fred. L. Wii.i.cox, Geo. W. Connor, President. Vice-President. Historian. Ipl G bet of ' 92. A is for Allen, with face blood-red, B is for Busbee, the ' ' punkin ' ' head, Then comes Bennett, Buie and Beall, What they are, it pains me to tell. C is for Connor of the shambling gait. Also for Cheek, who came a 3 ' ear late. D is for Davis, both R. and S. Iv. , E is for Edwards, who on Math, does well (?] F for Foust, his nose w orse for wear. Also for Ferguson, the mountain bear. G is Gatling, the statistics bore, H for Hamlen, who snorted and tore. Next is Harvey, the sweet pet of the Hill, Huggins and Hunter, who need a liver pill. I am the man w ho has no doubt That J is Johnston, the knocker out. K is Kernodle of Hiawatha fame. Whose mission, alas ! is but to declaim. L, is our look of enforced resignation As what-not bobs up on every occasion. m is Mebane, the prett} little man Who eats all he gets, and gets all he can. Also McDufiQe, with pompadour hair. 14