Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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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

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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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YVILLIAMS COLLEGE CLASS HOOK 21 SOPHOMORE YEAR President .- XVEs'rn1aooK Sewzflafjf .- I-IocH Vice Prcsz'deul.- HORRAX 73'msurer.- HOPKINS HERE were 104 of us, some lifty less than the last year, thanks to the closer relations of the faculty, having recovered from the effects of the last evening we had together in Troy, who braved the perils of the Boston Sz Maine and arrived in Williamstown in the fall of 1906, full of the con- sciousness of the newly acquired dignity of sophomores. Every- thing looked the same about the old town, but we walked down Spring street with a new air of possession and a rather paternal sort of feeling towards those whose lowly position seemed now so far behind us. And we were more or less paternal, for we had to be, as hazing was under the bang but we can all of us remem- ber several little parties in which these young gentlemen who had so lately joined us very prominently Hgured- Evie Hazel- ton and his fire brigade and I-larry J0hnston's stern Whom have we here ?g', that so struck terror to the freshman heart. Tim, Westbrook was chosen to the highest office of the class and a fine leader he made. We all regret that he had to leave us when his term was over. Let us pass hurriedly over the tie baseball game with the freshmen and the track meet, the score of which is not mentioned in our annals, to those crisp autumn days when we strolled down to the field to watch practice, or walked out over the hills, or even, some of us, disregarding the enticements of a rural nature, took the car for Ad. and the pleasures of the big city. Some of us saw Harvard score on a blocked punt and a great many journeyed to Springfield to see a team, of which almost three- quarters were nineteen nine men, spring a great surprise on Dartmouth, we had to content ourselves with a tie where a victory was deservedly won. Then Colgate in a fine game was overwhelmed by the Purple, and Wesleyan fell not without some excitement, and finally as a climax, the unsatisfactory day when some three inches of mud and Hubbard saved Amherst from a defeat which all the muds and Hubbards .in the world could not have staved off the following fall. The football of the year ended auspiciously with our 5-0 victory over the Freshmen.