Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1911 CLASS BOOK 15 JUNIOR YEAR President: OAKLEY Secretary: VAN GORDER Vice-President: LESTER Treasurer: HALE ITH the days of canes and rushes, of underclass humility andrestriction behindit, the Class of 1911 enteredinto the exalted privileges and the welcome independence of Junior year. Oh! how we longed for weather cold enough to warrant our appearance in corduroys without causing paternal smiles among the grave old seniors . And had we not now reached that ,great epoch when our command f'Break it up! must inevitably be obeyed by underclassmen, even in times of the greatest excitement? Yes, we had arrived as jolly Juniors. We were now safe in a class of elective studies with no more iniquitous requirements of a cut- and-dried curriculum, When we returned from the summer vacation we missed a num- ber of the familiar faces. Not only had several of our classmates failed to resume their college work, but Professor Hewitt, Pro- fessor Spring and Rev. E. B. Parsons had retired from the active service of the institution, and the absence of these threemen, whom we -had learned to honor and respect, was keenly felt by us all. The first interest in the fall was, of course, in football. Under Dr. Newton's direction the material was rapidly rounded into shape and early promise of the team was realized in the season's results. Harvard defeated us only by the narrow margin of 8-6 and victories were secured over Cornell, Wesleyan and other colleges, a fitting climax being the 17-0 triumph. over Amherst on Weston Field. t 1 After the football season, interest centered around the inter- class basketball series, in which 1911 made a much better record than in previous years, but, by being twice defeated by a single point, lost the championship to the seniors. The Varsity five started inalmost at the point where they had left off at the triumphant close of -the previous season. The team was practically unchanged and went through the schedule of games without a defeat, winning for the fourth consecutive

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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

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THE CLASS, JUNIOR YEAR