Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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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

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THE CLASS, SOPHOMORE YEAR

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F l 14 WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1911 CLASS BOOK SOPHOMORE SUPPER The Hampton, Albany, N. Y., Jane 16, 1909 ' . COMMITTEE ,. RALPH LAWRENCE OAKLEY, Chairman 4 JAMES 'TRACY HALE, JR. MERRILL NEWCOMB GATES JAMES BERWICK FORGAN 1 GEORGE ORR LATIMER A . T oasis i CHESTER DODD HEY WOOD, Toastmaster President's' Address ...... Q ..,................... .....,................ . Q ..,,....... Abbott ,Paige Mills The Class .....,............,.........,..,.. ........., ...... M e rrill Newcomb Gates P , ..........,.... ....,... F rederick Littlefield Cobb Athletics .........,............ ............. E rnest Howard Winter The Wimmin .......,. ..,, ...J . . .Jesse Dudley Peterson