Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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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.

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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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24 XVILLIAMS COLLEGE CLASS BOOK 1'n'literary lines, the class added one more volume to the list of GIILY, which, representing the class that it does, is certainly the best we have seen. The Record could not have been what it was had it not been for the services of those members of our class who were preparing to conduct its precarious course in the following year, and of the Lit. and the Cow let us quote a would-be wit, who said, There are not two better monthlies published in VVilliams. The class series in basketball and baseball ended very fortu- nately-for the other three classes. But let us hasten over such trivial matters Cfor most of us will not soon forget those two glorious seasonsj to the serious discussion of what was accom- plished during our junior year. The jolly evenings spent at the four smokers will always! be rememberedg nor will it be forgotten that we were the first junior class to hear about QI will not say see,'j the canes being captured under the new limitsg that memorable reproduction of Doctor Faustus is another pro- gressive step indelibly fixed in our mindsg and the interclass singing contest which nineteen nine won so melodiously will certainly be remembered for ,having brought into existence one of the best songs of which Williams ever boasted. In short, much was accomplished which promoted the interests and ideals of the college, and in view of this fact we are prepared to take up the arduous duties which will be thrust upon us next year, when we cease being jolly and become grave. Then the college will obtain what it has been looking forward to for one hundred and fourteen years-the class of nineteen nine as seniors. G1Lu'13R'r L. Monsis JUNIOR SUPPER i Hotel IdIr'wiIdQ South Wi'lIiamsto'zw1, Jima 16, 1908. - COMMITTIQE : RICHARDS fChaii-many, I-IALL, JOHNSTON. Toasts. Evizm-:'rT Luci: I-IAZELTON, Toastmaster. President's Address .......................... Gilbert I-Iorrax Our Prom. Friends. . . . . .Clarence Fayette Brown Aero-Waero ..... . . .john Frederick Bargfrede Next Year.. . ......... George Engelhard