Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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WILLIAMS COLLEGIC CLASS BOOK I9 fast races. Christmas vacation came-and went, so did Mid- Yearsf' Then those broilsome days and anxious nights at the time of March I7. Brown, president of the class, Wfadsworth, Lichtenhein, I-Topkins, lloch and Cushing carried the canes across the line a few minutes before eleven, while the sophomores had come in drags to the depot, but turned OH in the wrong direction at that point. At this trying time, as throughout the year, llrown was an efficient leader for the class. VVhat a relief when FRESI-IMAN FOOTBALL TEAM that was over, the canes in, and the hatchet buried! lt was now that we felt like relaxing a little and seeing what new fields we could conquer, in .the form of North Ad., the Dean, Azh and other species of varying interest. Wie also remember with a shudder certain bloodthirsty individuals known as Managers, and our new radiator tops stood as memorials of many business- like upperclassmen. However, spring and its mud was soon upon us, bringing with it more hour tests, warnings and such like, together with the Easter vacation, which faded almost immediately into a pleasant dream. And then those lazy hot days in May, when we watched

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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

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20 NVILLIAMS COLLEGE CLASS BOOK jimmy and Dczzie out on the diamond. picking' up the hot ones, sliding to bases, or whacking' out liners. There are visions, too, of llonner sailing serenely around the track, and we still remember how he used to save his sprint. just one more shock-the final exams-and we were on our way to Troy, where With laugh and song We rolled along Beneath the starry dome, and when certain telegrams came from our thoughtful upper- classmcn, to us as sophomores, with a sudden start the truth dawned upon us that freshman year was over. G1LmaR'r Hoiuzixx FRESI-IMAN SUPPER Hotel Rensselaer, Troy, New York, June 20, 1906. C0lVIMI'1 l'EE : Wlssrlmoolc CChairmanj, Clmwifolm, ENGELIIARD, HORMIQL, . WILLIAMS. 1 Toasts. ALMIST REED LixTsoN, Toaslmaster. President's Address ..... .. .... Clarence Fayette Brown Canes ............... ...Mahlon Ernest Hopkins Parlez Vous Francais. .. ..... Henry Rust Johnston Athletics ....... , ........ ....... G ilbert Horrax Class of Nineteen Nine .... ......... F rancis Bowes Sayre Poem ....... , ......... . . .Robert Chamberlain Mitchell