Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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NVILLTAMS COLLEGE CLASS HOOK I1 FRESHMAN YEAR H'esz'a'eul .- BROWN Sc'rff'e'f013f.' HANSON Vice Presz'n'c11l .- GUTTERSON Trc1zs1u'er.' SAYRE North Pownal-Pownal-Wfilliamstown, four years ago-and we were here. No, not quite here either, because Consumption hill was still ahead of us, and our dress suit cases were not yet reposing in the corner of a bare-walled and gloomy cell of Col- lege Hall. However, such burdens were soon disposed of, and with raincoats and umbrellas we set out to find what 'SHP' XfValden was able to produce. Having now secured the bare necessities for our future existence, getting settled became our next diversion-diversion, because it occupied spare moments from September 23 until at least February I. So far, so good, but in the morning we woke up to the fact that it was time to register, so with the help of a few upper- classmen and a very wise-looking' professor, we spent several hours in Hopkins 1-Iall, wondering if everything would really come out all right in the end. Things seemed now to be fairly started, and we went to our rooms after supper of this second day in VVilliamstown with firm resolves to start in right and get our lessons all prepared for the next day. Our resolutions may have been of the best, but we had hardly sat down to study when Lights out, Freshj' resounded from the throats of a howling mob outside. A moment later and the hall was filled with stamping feet and a chorus of fearful yells, and we did not know whether to run for the closet or skip under the bed. However, we did neither, for with the command to Open up, Fresh. we tremblingly unfastened the bolt of the door, and-the game was on. ' First impressions, however, are not always lasting and in the course of a few weeks we even began to realize that to do and say certain things would not call down upon our heads any ter- rible chastisement. By winning the baseball game with the sopho- mores, we added another peg to our confidence, and this followed

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I 1 X FRESHBIAN YEAR

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18 wlLLl,xMs CoLL1Ce16 CLASS Book up by a victory in the track meet filled our spirits with fire-and the air with smoke. Even our defeat in football was set down by a few ardent classmates as a moral victory, and we almost felt as if certain things which we had believed concerning sopho- mores were delusions of our infancy. lt was at about this time that we struck up an acquaintance with the man who makes all freshmen famous. -a hermit living in the Gym.'l by the name of Doctor Barrett, and from FRESHMAN BASEBALL TEAM hence our trips to the college carpenter-shop became frequent and famous. VVell, all of freshman year is not taken up in the First few months, although in the retrospect it may seem so, and we had better skip over the XVesleyan and Amherst football games of this, our freshman year. and pass on to more pleasant memories of the basketball and relay seasons. The basketball team of TQO6 was the first of a series of wonderful players and the game lost to Dartmouth, II to 9, was the sole defeat of the season on the home floor. In relay we defeated VVesleyan and Amherst in two