Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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before 1110 war, I doubt whether it was as true as it was at the turn of the century. Then we usod to talk ttoo much, it soomod to mot ahout ttclass spiritiE we had clues canes and sweaters, class rushes, class hasohall and foothall games. class track meets, and oven class speaking contests. At the end of each year we had a class supper, with a good deal of drinking;r and a lot of speeches filled with some- limos rather maudlin sentiment. Aftvr tho senior supper. which ended considerably after midnight. we went in a hody t0 hid t'arvwell to each college building and give a cheer for each. W'c sang some hymns for the last time in the chapel; and us we came out we formed a line, and each man wont down the line and shook hands with oavh of his classmatvs. Tours woro shod on those occasions, with no apparent shame. I do not mourn the passing of those h'good old days . which did not seem to me at the time particularly good. I was a non-conformist, and most of these manifestations of class spirit struck 1110 as rather silly. Some of them still seem so; hut forty-odd years later 1 am not so sure. I think lllL' boys who are graduating.r in this decade are a more svnsihlc and intelligent lot than we were. And yet I sometimes suspect that in discarding our foolishness they may have lost something of value. Even that farewell midnight chapel ceremony is rather pleasant to remember. In 1946 . . . Page. fuwnty-mte

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1111831.... C l- A S S E S ByProf. HomerE.Woodhridgo ILLIAM JAMES onee defined a college faeulty as a collection of infinitely repellent particles. I have sometimes wondered whether there is not as mueh eentrifugal force in a eollege elass as in a faeulty. Ahout all that the mem- bers of an entering elass seem to have in common is their youth and sex and the minimum credits necesmry for admission. Yet by the time they have been in eollege a year or so they have begun to acquire a collective personality. not perhaps obvious to outsiders hut clearly felt by themselves and by members of other classes. It is not that they eome to resemble each other more; their indi- vidual tastes and abilities are usually farther apart by the time they graduate than when they entered. Very likely a good many of them detest each other cordially. But even the non-eonformists and rehels have heeome distinctive features of the class eharaeter. Somehow the clashing personalities merge into a group with an individuality of its own. unlike that of any other group. I am sure that this was true THEN, which means when I was in college. I am not so certain that it is true now, when the war has broken up and recombined Classes, so that a man who is graduating in '46 may have entered in ,39. Even Page twen ty

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LEONARD NICKERSON ADDIS Meluchen, N. J. Delta Kappa Epsilon; First LL, USMC. LAWRENCE ALEXANDER Brooklyn, N. Y. Golf 1; Argus 2, 3; Car- dinal, Editor-in-Chief 3; International Relations Club 2, 3. 4; Senate 4; Wesleyan Political Union 2, 3; John Wesley Club. Secretary 2, President 3. EARL WILLIAM ALLEN New London, Conn. Choir 1, 2. 3, 4-; Glee Club 1., 4; Jibers 2; Car. dinnls; Eclectic. PAUL HOSFORD ALLEN Ridgewood, N. J. Chi Psi; 15! LL, Army. Page twenty-two GRADUATES IN 1946 HENRY IRVING ALTMAN New York. N. Y. Argus 2, 3; Cardinal 2, 3; W E S 2, 3; Varsity De- bating 4; International Relations Club; Sigma Chi. FREDERICK PERRIN APPLETON. JR. Upper Montclair. N. J. Soccer 1, 2. 3; Basket- ball 1, 2; Track 1; Yacht Club 3; Eclectic; Lieuten- ant, NAC. ARISTEDES JOHN BARTIS Meriden. Conn. Senate 1; Choir 2; Car- dinals; 492 Theatre Group; Fraternity Secre- tary; Della Kappa Epsi- lon; A45, USN. JAMES FINLEY BELL II Scarlefs Mill, Pa. Phi Beta Kappa; Skull and Serpent; Argus 1; C. A. Treasurer 2; Vice-Pres. Student Body 3; Student- Farully Committee 3; Fundamentals Committee 2; Traditions Committee 4; Bruner Prize 1; Gerald Prize 1; Fraternity Secre- tary 2, Treasurer 2, Pres- ident 3. 4; Psi Upsilon.