Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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10 WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1911 CLASS BOOK ceding class. Again the class spirit was line and the transparency battle at PreXie's hill was as much in our favor as such a one-sided affair can be. In track we had but one letter man during our Freshman year and boasted of but one in baseball also. The Class baseball tea.m, however, was one which we could be proud of, as they tied for the Championship and Would have won without doubt had another game been played to settle it. y As a whole, after attending the Banquet, our Freshman year most certainly assumed a roseate hue, but as a matter of fact it was one that we all look on with many happy thoughts and it is one of the sad things of a college man's life that so many good friends leave to enter business. During this whole year, but in the latter part especially, the spirit was more than could be asked, and we surely made the most of every opportunity that we had. ' JESSE DUDLEY PETERSON -.i,..1. FRESHMAN SUPPER Hotel Rensselaer, Troy, N. Y.,fu1ee 17, 1908. COMMITTEE V GEORGE WILSON VAN GORDER, Chairman JAMES BERWICK FORGAN, JR. HAROLD HUNTER KISSAM MERRILL NEWCOMB GATES ' ROBERT CORNELIUS VAN SCHAACK Toaslfs , WILLIAM VANDERBILT DOLPI-I, Toastmaster P President's Address ...............,,.. . ........................................, Jesse Dudley Peterson The Girls ...............................,. ............ W entworth Caleb Carr Athletics ......................,.. ........... R alph Lawrence Oakley Faux Pas .......... y ............ ..........,....... T homas Russell Brown The Class of 1911 .........., .........,.... R edford Kohlsaat johnson

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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-

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WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1911 CLASS BOOK 11 SOPHOMORE YEAR President: MILLS Secretary :W NEWTON Vice-President: OAKLEY Treasurer: HALE EPTEMBER, 1908, brought most of us who had been together Freshman year back to the classy shades and the walls of learning. In a strange and unaccountable manner we realized soon after landing in Williamstown that we were in need of amuse- ment, and like other sophomore classes we turned to the freshmen as being best Htted for entertainers. Any such open and cordial reception as 1910 tendered us on our arrival Freshman year, was prevented by Faculty regulations, but we managed to have several frolics after dark when Shotgun Jarvis and other members of 1912 performed very acceptably for us by 'wrestling with Satan, playing strip-poker and carrying out the other time- honored hazing stunts and such new ones as our inventive geniuses could devise. What we did not do in the way of hazing was admirably attended to by Physician Barrett, and for the first few days of college it was a common sight to see some member of 1912 issuing forth from the Doctor's sanctum to make the rounds of Spring Street merchants in quest of Lifting Straps, Run- ning Oil, and A Key to the pitcher's box. The freshmen made bold to oppose us in a baseball series and track meet, in both of which the expected happened and over- whelming 1911 victories resulted. Those were the days before the introduction of the Tug-of-War and so after the last base- ball game we clashed with the freshmen in one of the old-time flagrushes. Of course a sophomore victory was the result. What other result could there have been when Battling Ogden stood raging in our front line? I do not need to record his harrowing deeds at that time, for the story of the terrible havoc and brutal slaughter wrought by him in the rnks of 1912 is indelibly written in our minds. In what had been heralded before the game as a sure football victory for the freshmen, we narrowly missed turning a tie game into a victory. m.....J