University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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Senior. .. ... History IT was in September '99 that we first made our appearance on the campus, and that very night we proved to those around us that we had come to stay, and from that moment we began to make a history that has extended over parts of two centuries. How well we all remember that night when we first gave three times three for 1903; how with “Park” Merryficld at our head we rushed the Sophomores all over the yard, and how the Juniors patted us on the back until our heads swelled a great deal above their normal size. The “night shirt parade” that year was considered by all to be a great success, but for this we alone are responsible, for if we hadn’t been there, there probably would not have been any parade. Although the upper classmen said we were the freshest class they had ever seen, this did not bother us and we continued to win all scraps that came our way. Late in the fall “Proxy,” thinking that the Sophomores were getting a little the worst of it, told us if we didn’t mend our ways he would have to send some of them home out of harm’s way and so, being good natured, we did as he said; there was no more hazing and we did as we liked the rest of the year. Even Everett, Smith, and Rogers had girls. “Brad” wet “Marm” Spearen and Conner began to go to Old Town to church. By June we had learned from the upper classmen and by ex- perience, that “Janie” had an eagle eye for “cribbers;” to laugh at “Honey’s” jokes (?) meant ninety in the finals; and that notifications