Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1911 CLASS BOOK 19 L r SENIOR YEAR President: LESTER . Secretary: HALE. Vice President: NEWTON Treasurer: HEYWOOD O write up a history of Senior year at this early date is well-nigh impossible. We do not like to attempt it, for we can not believe that this, the last and best of our years at Williams, is so nearly at an end. It seems but a few days agoithat we returned to Williamstown to look over the freshman class and to attempt to realize our own new responsibilities as Seniors. We do not like to think that the goal of our strivings for the past four years is so near at hand. True, we have looked forward to this same goal with uneasiness and even with impatience at times, during our college course, wishing for that time when we would be thrown upon our own responsibility and would be given a chance to show our mettle inthe world of business. But now that it is so near, we hesitate. The expectation is better than the realization. y , p I But this Senior year has done much for us as individuals and as a class.: The serious responsibilities of our position as leaders in the College activities have given us much valuable experience and have made us better men. We have been drawn more and more closely together by the invisible bond of like interests and a common purpose, so that now as the time approaches for us to leave these surroundings which we have grown to love so dearly, we feel better fitted for the battles of life which lie before us, and more firmly united in the bond of Williams. It is not necessary here to dwell upon the different events of our Senior year. They are chronicled elsewhere in this volume under the heads of the various activities. One thing, however, should be mentioned in passing, that is the abolition of the under- class rushes. The creative genius and ingenuity of some of. our members was called upon and the result was an underclass tug- of-war, a push-ball' contest, and a series of canesprees, all of which have met with considerable success. The freshman peerade,

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18 WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1911 CLASS BOOK On the Whole, Junior year Was one of success and of progress, and again the theory was corroborated that the appearance of Halley's comet marks a great epoch-making period. ' A' RALPH LAWRENCE OAKLEY .1..l. - JUNIOR SUPPER Hampton Hotel, June 15, 1910 G COMMITTEE p I WILLIAM VANDERBILT DoLPH g A A LYNDoN BALDWIN HARDWICK- A RALPH LAWRENCE OAKLEY , A . Toasts A do ' GEORGE BRUCE BROOKS, Toastmaster President's Address ........,....... ' ................,........... ............ R alph Lawrence Oakley Corset Strings and Hair Pins .......... .............................. L loyd Robinson Also Ran ...... 5 ...................................... . .............. Jesse Dudley Peterson Athletics ............... .........,....., A .......,, - ............. G regory Mason Chain ...,...... -. .............. William Pickett Converse

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