Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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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.

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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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22 VVILLIAMS COLLEGE CLASS BOOK , VVe returned from the strenuous holidays for a well-deserved rest and to see from our crowded places in the Gym. the basket- ball team carry off another championship. The disappointment at Richard's Castle was no more of a one than every sopho- more class has had to experience. Baseball came with spring, and our chief diversion was to sit on the bleachers and watch Dez. and 'ijinf' work out a snappy double and whistle admiringly as Clyde lined it down to second. VVe saw among others, Yale, Amherst, Wesleyan and the southern champions, Alabama, lower their colors to the Purple, and followed with hilarity the devastation brought by the raid into the far West. NVe saw Gil, take four iirsts and a second in the Brown meet and repeat the performance at VVesleyan, bringing victory both times, and follow this by breaking the high-jump record in the Worcester intercollegiate. There is hardly space here to dilate on the great successes of the Prom. and the festivities of the Thirtieth, but it was better to us perhaps, for it was ours. Our last appearance together was in the familiar halls of the Richmond, which echoed loud with song and cheer and the How of silver-tonguecl orators, and we parted after giving a vocal treat to the sleeping city, to meet again the next fall in our new dignity of upperclassmen. CLARIQNCE FAYETTE BROWN SOPHOMORE SUPPER The Richnzozzd, Norilz Adams, func I9, IQO7. COMMITTEE! .HAZELTON 'QChairmanj, I-LxNsoN, BARGFRIQDE. Toasts. LEWIS EL111H,xL1i'1' TIFF'1l, Toastmaster. President's Address ................. . .Stillman F. Westbrook Athletics ............ ....... G ilbert L. Morse The Class ..... .... H enry W. Toll The Faculty .... ..... R alph Perkins The Ladies .... ..... L evant M. Hall Grinds ..... . . .VValter J. Herzfeld