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

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Perhaps the most interesting and exciting single event that has happened in the history of the present Senior Class was the annu al fight on the Euzelian diamond over the adoption of caps and gowns to be worn at commencement. The line-up was as follows : no-gowners. Creasman . . . Davis BOYCE aOWNERS. . Center Pace Right Guard Keener Left Guard Mull Greene, L Right Tackle Sherwood, E. Ives Left Tackle Seagraves Harris, M Right End Huff Sherwood, A Left End Privott Craven Quarter-back Scarborough SiNGLETARY Right Half-back Larkins Allen Left Half-back Britt Ayscue Full-back Fowler Referee, CoAiNtiTON Timekeeper, Falls Substitutes, Johnson, H., and Lanneau The game was spirited throughout. Snappy ball was played on both sides. There w-as some kicking by the two guards for the No-Gowners, Davis and Boyce, on the decision of the referee. The kickers protested against the playing of right and left guards and half-back for the Gowners, Keener, Mull, and Larkins, claiming that these men had been known to play professional ball. The point was decided against them, however. The rushes of Ayscue and Davis were terrific ; but the superior head-work of Pace, backed up as he was by such heavyweights as Mull, Sherwood, E., and Keener, won the game for the Gowners by a score of 22 to 10.

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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.

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JUNIOR CLASS, OFFICERS. GASTON SIMMONS FOOTE PRESIDENT. ROBERT Marsh Dowd VICE-PRESIDENT. CHARLES PRESTON WEAVER SECRETARY AND TREASURER. John Steger Hardaway, Jr.