Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY. T HE history of the Senior Class is very difficult to write, for several reasons. In the first place, neitlier men nor events admit of any sort of orderly classification, because both are heterog eneous. In the second place, the record of the class being siii ,qr;;cr .s-, the historian has no other history by which to be guided in his writin r. The third difficulty is the fact that the present history must be only a crof, ■ section. Xot so much as the dim twilight of the history of the individual men bers of the class can be known, and there- fore we are obliged to write in a lese ])articular way than we desire. Four years ago, more or les . the present Senior Class came to this renowned institution for the purpose, or rather in the hope, of filling our empty heads with some of that intangible stufif called knowledge, which floats around the College and which, in the course of four long years, occasionally lodges in the upper story. We were uncouth, gawky, simple, and ignorant lads then ; now behold ! we are a noble array of most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors. From the humble position of polished Freshmen, whose ignorance was self- assertive, we have risen to a place of honor in this community the like of which few beside ourselves can ever hope to attain. Our progress may be indicated by mentioning the names that we have successively borne as we marched along. At one time we were known as the rankest Newish : the second year we were called the bully Sophomores ; the third year you gave us the name ' dandy Juniors, and now we hear on every side the dignified title, lordly Seniors. We used to be afraid of everything and everybody at Wake Forest, but at the present time we do not even deign to look at lower classmen, all of whom show a remarkable evidence of homage and fear whenever passing us. And we are on most intimate terms cum facultate. My comrades, the eye of a historian can scarcely survey the long distance over which we have traveled in reaching our present place of vantage, and the pen of a Thucydides is necessary to record adequately the many battles, sieges, fortunes, we have passed. We started out about eighty strong, but our ranks have dwindled down to half that number. Many were the foes that decimated our noble company. Some there were who died in a head-end collision with Miss Any ; quite a 19

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NAME. , SOCIETY. HOME ADDRESS. Stephen Gordon H. stv T Faulk, North Carolina John Milton Henley . Summerfield, North Carolina Isaac Archer Horne Y Pendleton, North Carolina Joseph Bascomh Huff . . Y Mar.s Hill, North Caroli na Senior Speaker. Summer Albert Ives . . ' Pine Blutf, North Carolina Henry Cox Lanneau T Wake Forest, North Carolina Hugh Johnson T Scotland Neck, North Carolina Spearman Atwood Newell Y Mapleville, North Carolina John William Nowell T ...... . . . Amboy, North Carolina Willia.m Heck Pai e T. Raleigh, North Carolina President G. A. A.; Associate Fditor The Howler: Senior Speaker; Secretary Senior Class ; Baseball Team. Charles Clay Pierce Finch, North Carolina Senior Speaker. Raymond Lee Pittman Ashpole, North Carolina William Scott Prixott Y . . Rocky Ho:k, North Carolina Anniversary Orator ; Commencement Speaker James Rovall T Wake Forest, North Carolina Richmond Debater: Senior Speaker : Commencement Speaker. Frederick Clay Sams Y F lag Pond, Tennessee Baseball Team. H. Paul Scarborough Y Murfreesboro, North Carolina Associate Editor The Howler. Wavland Arthur SEA(iRAVES Holly Springs, North Carolina Secretary Anniversary. Arthur Columbus Sherwood Y ' illas. North Carolina Edwin Ja.mes Sherwood Little Rock, Soiitli Carolina Richmond Debater; Senior Speaker; Business Manager Tin-: Howi.iii: Associate ¥A X.or Student : Secretary and Treasurer G. A. A. John IvEY Sixgletary Bladenboro, Nortli Carolina Senior Speaker. William Harry Stephenson Pendleton, North Carolina President, Anniversary. j8

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number were mortally wounded in an encounter with a host of malignant little Lilliputians called sines, cosines, and tangents; others, fatigued with much travel- ing and worn out by the long and difficult marching, fell exhausted and died by the wayside; one or two rebellious spirits were court-martialed by the faculty for depredations made on the anatomy of a Freshman; some were lost in an inextricable jungle inhabited by such fierce carnivorous animals as Homer, Livy, Lycias, and Terence ; and still others came near losing their lives, along toward thf shank of the evening, by falling into a lake filled with amoebas, umlauts, retorts, and concepts. Doubtless, many more would have died of overwork and fatigue had it not been for the little ponies which accompanied us on our journey and on which a few members of our class rode over the roughest and steepest part of the road. We are sorry to say, too, that some of our most stalwart men at one time, think- ing that a pony was a luxury which every one who was able should enjoy, instead of an animal for emergencies only, rode so continuously on their patient little beasts that they came near wearing them all to a worthless, unintelligible frazzle. It took many months of painstaking attention to restore our herd to its pristine vigor and beauty. As a historian, therefore, and a philosopher, we would like to leave this bit of advice with the coming classes : Do not in any case allow too much riding by any one. Use your animals for emergencies only, and never suffer them to be overburdened by heavy weights. A man who always rides forgets how to walk when compelled to dismount and enter a country where his beast is under the ban. There is no one word that may be used to characterize our class as a whole. We have to a large extent been run through the same mould, and yet are very different in features and caliber still, and I doubt if the word lordly, which all of us now bear, will accompany us through the rest of our lives. The shock of difference will gradually become so painful in going from one member of the class to another that we may expect our titles to change ; and a different environ- ment will probably also change our occupations more and more. With the prophetic eye of a historian, it seems to me I can see one member of our class clothed in the humble attire of a backwoodsman and walking down the dusty furrow of life behind a faithful bull ; I catch a glimpse of several others who began political careers while in College, completing those careers by occupy- ing the high positions of notary public, constable, and coroner in the remote burgs of their native State ; many more do I see serving the god Somnus as faithfully in life as in their college days; and a few choice spirits I know will attain the humble positions of Governor, Congressman, Senator, Professor, and Editor, leaving behind no monument more lasting than bronze, unless that be the potent influence of a life well spent.