Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 29 Swninra Qbftirrrn President .... l-liland G. Batcheller Vice-President . . . Arthur Seybolt Secretary-Treasurer . . Arthur P. Hickcox Gllaaz 15211 y Kiax! Kiax! Kiax! Ric! Chichy! Re! Rax! Ri! Ro! Reven! Wesleyan! Wesleyan! Nineteen Seven! A A t imiemhrra Benjamin Pettengill Adams, fIJNQD 22 College Place Rochester, N. Y Manager Class Track Team UD: Alternate Wesleyan-Amhe1'st Debate f4Jg Class Debate Team fl, 2, 459 Senior Ball Com- mitteeg Junior Exhibitiong Harrington Prize CID, Camp Prize C05 Historian, Class Day. Bo-Peep l-larolc! Douglass Allen, 'PNG College Place Burnside, Conn. Class Baseball Team fl, Zlg Gym Squad C259 Treasurer Y. M. C. A. Mfg Class Day Committee. Holy

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28 OLLA P-ODRIDA ,Svrninr Lqintnrg To write a really accurate account of the class of i907 would require the genius of a second Florentine, for in truth many of our most carefully planned activities have been con- strued as fit occupations for the inhabitants of the Inferno. But we have had our celestial moments also-for instance, could anything less than a Heaven-inspired intellect ever have con- ceived those little pastoral dramas enacted in Middle I-laddam and in Doc's barn? Such recollections only recall the martyr-like sacrifices we made to furnish our rural friends with hand-embroidered isleeping apparel and I .. garden implements inlaid with pearl,-so perish the thought. But what of our prowess in the domain of athletics and scholarship? We I-Iilie have always been conservative along these lines, and our policy has resulted in a succession of victories, few but well chosen. As for prizes, et cetera, credited to us, it would take a more brilliant imagination than mine even to attempt a record of them, and besides the editor has urged us to be brief. Suffice it to say that in every contest of brain, we have worsted our adversaries, and We have snatched our share of victories from the gridiron and track. We are a very cosmopolitan organization. It seems as if some super- natural divinity had shaped our politic ends, for we have all the various sorts and conditions of men from bandy'legged, sallow complexioned, grim-visaged, pulpit ornaments to merry minstrelizing bacchanaliansg saints and sinners, grinds and loafers, book-worms and worms not found in books, and best of all, god-like Apollos in form and figure, champions of class and college, and the idols of lVliddletown,s fair fin the sense of mediocrej daughters. Yes, we have had a good time and we have paid for it. We regret nothing except that our time is so nearly up. We rest with that self-satisfaction that comes from a ready response to the call of Duty. We are standing on the brink looking out into that awful unknown before which many weaker spirits have faltered, with that same self-assurance and command that characterized our undergraduate days. Soon will come that sharp command, To the frontf' and we'll forward every man for Wesleyan.

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30 OLLA PODRIDA Ray Roocl Allen, QIJNQD 22 College Place West Nanticoke, Pa l Olla Podrida Boarclg Ayres Prizeg Sher- man Prizeg Pierce Prize f25g Spinney Prizeg Walkley Prizeg One Half Pierce Prize C35g Preliminary Honors in Classics C255 Preliminary Honors in Mathematics C39- Urfl1olp P Hiland Garfield Batcheller, NIIY IIIY I-louse Fort Edward, N. Y. KI , GNE, Corpse and Collin, Skull and Serpentg Manager Class Baseball Team Q55 Senate f45g Class President f45g Argus Board O, 455 Gym Squad Q55 Sophomore l-lop Committeeg Chairman Junior Prom. Committee: Senior Ball Com- mittee: German Club CZ, 3, 455 Secretary- Treasurer f35g President f45g Business Manager 1907 Olla Podridag Washington Birthday Banquet Committee. Batch Joseph Clair Beebe, AAG AACI1 l-louse Meriden, Conn UKT, Zfbg Glee Club KZ, 353 College Organist. U Bceb H