Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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THE CLASS, FRESHMAN YEAR

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WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1911 CLASS BOOK 9 FRESHMAN YEAR s President: PETERSON I Secretary: GARFIELDI Vfice-President: E. H. WINTER Treasurer: MASON HE Freshman year of the Class of Nineteen Eleven was one of ups and downs. To begin with, our Class was not one that gave promise of anything remarkable in the athletic line and the class of nineteen ten much overshadowed us in size, both physif cally and numerically. We managed to hold our own in the flag and sweater rushes but the baseball game went to the Sophomores after a hard struggle. The wonderful freedom of college life appealed to us, but we soon realized that we must find ourselves and that right early. As a class we were rather late in so doing, but here and there among us individuals began to follow the courses which have characterized them throughout the four years. 'We had two men on the nineteen seven Varsity football team, but one was prevented from taking part in the disastrous ll-0 game because of injuries. We lived through our first interclass basket- ball series somehow and then we succeeded to pattern our own Freshman schedule after that of the 1908 Varsity. We won most of our games and even took Andover into camp. The next big excitement was the Cane-time, and we feel with re- gret that it was the last of the good old mud-and-water rushes and yet are proud that we were one of the two last classes to par- ticipate in one of that kind, for we feel that both class and college spirit are stimulated to a great degree by such a rush. We did not get all the canes within the boundary but the spirit that we showed as a class for the first time made up in a large degree for the loss of part of the canes, and the Class showed its real worth and spirit by the way it stuck together and gave its rivals a royal fight that will long be remembered by all those who took part in the memorable Charityville scrap. Here it was that the Class seemed to have found itself. The closing of the hostilities came with the Burial of the Hatchet, and the outside people say that our Class had a larger proportion of our shirts intact than any pre-