Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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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

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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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WILLIAMS COLLEGE CLASS HOOK 23 JUNIOR YEAR - H'esidenl.' HORRAX S66f'6'f!l7jl-' JOHNSTON Vice Presz'dent.- SWAIN ' 73'easurer.- TOLL GNV strange it seems that only one year ago we bore the same ofliciousness to the seniors as the juniors now bear to us! And yet it was but one year ago that we started in, none too gently, to break up rushes and watch with sarcastic looks the feeble attempts at hazing. We had no right to look sarcasti- cally-only the favored few, who had felt the clannny dankness of an enforced shower bath, could do that, and yet we all did look witheringly sarcastic. After the first few weeks, when the football season was fully under way, we all came to the realization that we had a crackerjack team to support, and in the joyousness of such an occurrence the jolly juniors lost their domineering attitude and, realizing that the eleven was composed chiefly of their classmates, they cheered it on to a bewildering victory over our erstwhile enemy, Amherst. The 1906 tie on Pratt Swamp had been broken in our favor and great was the rejoicing that the season had ended so gloriously. In basketball, although handicapped by the ineligibility of promising candidates at the start, Williaiiis won the New Eng- land Intercollegiate league championship by defeating Wesleyall in the most exciting game of our college course. None of us will forget, those two extra, periods with the shouting and dis- organized yells. ' Wliat a sigh of relief we all heaved when the whistle blew with the score 26-24 in our favor. The baseball team was moderately successful, in that three of the four games with Amherst were victories for Williams, and that Harvard and Princeton both went down to defeat. Nothing like the sixteen-inning victory of the year before over Dartmouth was present, for the extra inning game of the season was a seventeen-inning tie, 6 to 6, with Wesleyan. As for track, we always are sure of fifteen points at the New England Intercollegiate A. A. meet as long as nineteen nine remains in college, and it was due to these fifteen points that we were able in this year to defeat both Brown and Amherst.