University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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A THURLOW WEED BRAND THURLOW WEED BRAND, AA. Pittsburgh, Pa. Pittsburgh High School. Cap and Gown. Owl Hoard MM3. The great biologist. He is a most gracious and obliging fellow and he will give his opinion on anything. His slogan of late lias been “Have you got that $5-50?” Brandy may have his faults but “grouchiness and ill will no one could accuse him of having. DONALD INGRAM KIRK, Pittsburgh. Pitshuigh High School. Glee Club. Organizer and Manager Pitt Student Har d. D. I. is inclined to be rebellious at times and goes over to the enemy. Do you understand, yes? But we will forgive him of this in lieu of lus many virtues. Took fright at our fair Co-eds in his Freshman year and has been quiet ever since. HAROLD KING LEITCH, Pittsburgh. Pittidnirgh High School. Class Football. Claw Baseball. Cap and Gown Club. Harold is a good-natured fellow, but disproves this statement when called ----” by Joe Thompson and the rest of the Football squad. One of Prof. Clint a iTs Latin Sharks. We sec a bright future for King” after he has left his associates at Pitt. LEE LEMOYNE REED, Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh High School. Cup and Gown Club. Reed is a bosom friend of Riley. This fellow had quite a time with his hair, was worried about it for a long time, but is alright now and we hope he has no more trouble with it. as it spoiled his beauty. HERBERT NELSON RILEY, Pittsburgh, Pa. Pittsburgh High School. Cup and Gown Club. A black haired young man, who in his own estimation is the best looking “man” in college. Is one of the favorite “girls in the Cap and Gown Club. A great favorite with Co-eds and. in fact, a favorite with anything that wears a skirt.” LAURETTA MAY YOHN, Avalon. Avalon High School. Classical Club. Y. W. C. A. A firm believer in that “silence” is golden. Never flirts so we think, perhaps. she is contemplating matrimony, like others of the Co-ed tribe. Never known to look or speak to a fellow. MILDRED ZIEGLER, Avalon. Avalon High School. Classical Club. Y. W. C. A. Mildred’s greatest notoriety comes from her zeal for study. Devours page after page of the Hitapodcca or the Lip-anishads (in a original), while nibbling a microscope lunch. Her visage, with its spectacles and borrowed frown is generally conceded to he the most scholarly in the school. 23

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 HE class of 1914 registered as Freshmen full of high happiness and great pride. There was a reason. They included in their ranks the largest bunch of Co-eds in the history of the works. But their pride, founded on such a flimsy basis, soon had cause to vanish. Consider what they had to endure. Sir John Falstaff and two others were made to sing songs and execute a dance on the small top of a deskin the draughting room, five flights up. Others were forced to perform noble •411(1 glorious deeds such as rolling beans across the campus by means of toothpicks held between their teeth. W orst of all a whole class was forced to disguise themselves in green caps. Two or three good sized chaps dared to leave the entire Winter pass without donning the Irish head-gear. The class as Freshmen distinguished themselves in many ways. To the horror of the faculty and co-eds swarms of them appeared daily in red sweaters. This to show the gentlemen’s indifference to the fair ones. Then they refrained from using ponies. It is said that not a man of them knows what the word means. And their records in class athletics were simply wonderful. The charge that the Freshman football team of 1910 lost more games than they played is a malicious falsehood. But where the men of 1914 have really distinguished themselves is in the amount of tobacco they burn up. The annual class tobacco bill would loom greater than the endowment of the University. This year the 1914 fellows have lorded it over the Freshmen in true Sophomore style. They beat the Fresh in the class contests. The morning after Hallowe’en they forced the Freshmen to wash their numerals from the retaining wall, and made them replace them with the figures “1914”. The Freshies were struck by a shower of white flour while posing for their picture on the steps of State Hall. And when Cap Xight came the Fresh were so meek that they gathered a ton of kindling wood for the bonfire and paid for the cider and pretzels as if their very life depended on it. 10