Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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THE CLASS, SOPHOMORE YEAR

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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

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,...,, -....,...,...1....,..1. -...,..,,-.-.-,.. L. . .4 an f-.4m:u. WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1911 CLASS 'BOOK 13 After the Christmas vacation, jack Savage, the Prairie du Chien Flyer , and freshman class presidenlt, was detected several times in earnest conversation with the Hogan family, so we at Once suspected that the 1912 cane plans were being formulated. A long series of scouting expeditions over the surrounding country was at once entered upon by us, but besides causing considerable trouble and anxiety to the Williamstown agriculturalists, there were no results. At last Cane Week came. By a new regulation we were prevented from tying up or laying violenthands upon any member of 1912, and so our only course was a system of watch- ing. Vergil says that the recalling of past troubles is as great pleasure, and if this is true we shall have to record those long, cold, all-night watches on the lonely Williamstown roads as the greatest of delights. We all undoubtedly developed into excel- lent sentinels, but the height of watchfulness, the very acme of care and vigilance was reached by Dr. Greenballv Van Gorder and Scrapping Oakley, when on the morning of Cane Day, they held up a funeral procession on the North Bennington Road and made sure that it was not a carefully thought-out plan of the freshmen for transferring their canes. Then on Cane Night, Honest Frank Coan secured what was supposed to be sure dope by hiding under a couch and hearing Gil Morse ex- plain to a bunch of seniors that the canes were coming in across the golf links. Accordingly the barge with the reserve fighting. men, under the leadership of Jim Forgan, was hurried to the links and others were summoned from the outposts, so that finally we had a force together large enough to stop anything from a bundle of canes to an automobile. But as usual, the absolutely sure dope proved to be wrong, and the canes came in by another route. We had the satisfaction our Sophomore year of seeing Johnny Templeton turn out his second championship basketball team, and in baseball we saw the team wind up the season with five consecutive victories-a fitting end to the four years' services on the diamond of Captain Wadsworth and jimmy Young. Our Sophomore year was brought to a close by the final exams in June, and the banquet in Albany separated us to return the next year as upper-classmen. . ' 1 ABBOTT P. aMILLS