Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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with which we entertained, perforce, our evening callers,--these all come back to us as dreamy persecuting phantoms to a mind fevered by grief and suffering. With Eighty-eight it has been different. In contests among Freshmen, the fresher must inevitably win. Our victories have been many. The rope- pull, the base-ball game, the foot-ball game,-lhree! and won by Ezlghzjf- seven .f It is almost too much, and our feeble brain reels under the overwhelming truth. We tried to haze them in our feeble way, but, alas! in accordance with Nature's inexorable laws, the tables were turned, and the fresher class was hazed. In vain did we call piteously through oaken doors to the two unfortunates of our number. In vain were our frantic efforts to release them from the clutches of their tormentors. .They were making a ea!L and deehheri Io be dzrmrbed. Again, 'tis true that we could not find windows and doors enough to accommodate our exit from certain localities whose warmth threatened to wilt us, -but what of that? We had b11.vz'fze.v.v else- where. 'Tis true, that, while we slept, the audacious Freshmen covered the town with posters revealing more of our family history than we had cared to have known,-but what of that? Had we not previously vindicated our superior freshness by making night hideous with our liendish horns? Some unfeeling and vulgar-minded upper classmen persist in saying, that, in the last transaction, we out-freshec1 our own record 5 but they are incapable of understanding us. Could they but look at it from our standpoint, they would agree with us that it was the very cutest proceeding of the year. But words are wanting in number to enumerate our defeats, and in warmth to enumerate our victories. To those who know us, we would say, Study us. To those who have had the misfortune not to know us, we would say, Come and see us. It will pay you well. In closing, we are content to trust our welfare to the class itself, feeling sure that the future will but be a repetition of the glorious past we have so feebly endeavored to describe. Let others strive for victory, for learning, for culture. Let them pursue each his favorite device, bound clown by precedent and custom 5 but not we. As we kiss our hand to a wondering audience, we are the same as when we entered the ring,-Eighty-seven,-the verdant, cheeky, unapproachable EIGHTY-SEVEN.

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Giass of '88. COLOR.-Light Blue and Silver. YELL. - Ho-Rah-Ho-Ruh-'Hou-PoIIa- De-PolIou- Eighty-eight. PI'6.Yl'IfL'7lf . Wa'-H'esz'def1! Secrclazj' and Chonzgus . Hzlrlozifzzz . 7y'L'!Z.S'Il1'EI' FFICERS. J. THOMAS. C. KNICKERBOCKER M. ALLEN. L. HUBHELI.. N. Huvcx.