Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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i6 The Log. NINETY. “Young, aggressive, rapidly growing, always interesting.” “-Tout enfant encor, des Seniors recueillis L’ecoutaient, racontant d’une bouche ravie Les jours si peu nombreux et deja si remplis.” I , ' Class of Ninety, W. P. I., is a bashful little thing. It shrinks from publicity. When its eyes fall on the two poetic sentiments delineated above, it blushes. From the time when it was asked to tell all it knew on a few subjects connected with the entrance examinations, it has ever been averse to proclaiming its own virtues. With characteristic modesty, therefore, its representative enters upon this duty of emblazonry. This opening paragraph is not funny—it is solid fact. Let us now penetrate further into this mystery and see wherein lies the remarkable genius at which the poet darkly hints. Strange and incomprehensible A mystery ex- as it may seeiii, it lies in each individual member plained. class. Aiid it does not lie passively there. It lies with all the fervency and ardor expressed in the fiction inseparably linked with G. Washington and cherry- trees. Repress a smile here, gentle reader, and note the following

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The Log. 15 THE CLASS OF NINETY. OFFICERS. ELMER C. RICE, - . . President. ARTHUR B. LARCHER, - - Vice-President. LOUIS E. BOOTH, - - - Secretary and Trp:asurer. Department of Mechanical Engmeering. Merrill W. Allen. David F. Atkins. Louis E. Booth. James H. Clancy. David R. Collier. Charles S. Cook. Harry P. Crosby. Clarence G. Davenport. Harry P. Davis. Fred R. Dawson. Charles H. Faulknp:r. Norman V. Fitts. Edward S. Frary. . Frank A. Gardner. . Windsor T. Charles H. Jenness. James J. McLane. Paul B. Morgan. Michael H. Murphy. George H. Nutt. James C. Perham. Clarence K. Prince. Elmer C. Rice. Stanley H. Rood. Charles D. Sherman. Alton L. Smith. Joseph P. Taylor. Charlp:s F. Treadway, Frank A. Whipple. White. Department of Civil Engineering. Tho.mas T. Allard. James P. Anderson. Robert C. Barnard. Joseph H. Dp:vlin. Loring N. Farnum. Herbert Y. t oLLiurr Philip G. Hilliard. John E. Mathewson Edward H. Rockwell. Arthur P. Smith. William L. Smith. Francis W. Trp:adway. Hi-:nry E. Warren. Harrison P. Wires. Department of Chemistry. Herbert E. Austin. Arthur B. Larcher. William H. Baird. Ellis W. Lazell. Julius W. Bugbee. Warren E. Mumford Herbert F. Burrage. Daniel F. O’Regan. Everett J. Lakp:. Charles A. Pierce. Albert J. Reinbold, Jr.

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The Log 17 analysis of this genius. In the paragraphic style affected by the writer of the Wanamaker advertisements, the Junior Class embraces Football players, Baseball tossers. Amateur photographers. Mashers, Chauvenet solvers. Farmers, Cranks. The football men are invincible, the mashers are irresistible, the Chauvenet solvers are too shy and retiring for anything, and the A few plain famiei ' S have an air of rusticity about them which is simply unsurpassable. The cranks are small in number, but very select. The class is also subdivided into Chemists, Civil Engineers and Mechanical Engineers. Each variety can be easily detected. The A pointer for Chemists liave stains on their fingers, the Civils have detectives. mud on their shoes, and the Mechanical Engineers have small sections of the grindstone concealed in their clothes. We will now leave off analyzing and write a little history. It was in the spring of ’87 that the class began its history-making A bit of ancient Career. At that time it composed itself into a ball-nine history. convenient form made more history than all the other organizations of the school combined. Nobody doubted the strength of this nine. It was as strong as Limburger cheese. It stood alone for some time, the other class nines being unwilling to try issues with it. Finally it claimed the championship of the school, and soon after defeated the Highland Military aggregation of paid professionals, in two successive contests. Flushed with these victories, the manager of the team quickly arranged for a game with our friends of the Worcester Academy. Here the historian sheds bitter tears. Confident of success and wishing to try some new material which promised well, the captain laid aside his true and tried men and experimented with the Paxton battery and the West Brookfield infield. It was a rash experiment and the score was 18 to I.