Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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ECENTLY I heard a Senior remark that he thought we Preps were the freshest Preps that he had ever seen. To be sure we have some men who are very babyish and don’t seem to know that they are in their freshman year at col¬ lege. They act like a set of kids on the campus and make themselves a general nuisance. There are always some black sheep in every flock, but our class as a whole, is composed of pretty good fel¬ lows filled with enthusiasm. To tell what we have done since we have been here will take but a short time. We of course played the usual jokes on each other in the wood-room. All Preps do that, and our class was no exception. Our first big lark was at the Musee, where about thirty of us had the front row at a very naughty performance. We felt pretty tough and used our spy glasses just like men. The fellows tied a bou¬ quet on a string, and one of the girls picked it up after the string broke. Since then he has been boasting that he had one of the Musee girls on the string. We had a good time that night. After that, we all went into training for the ball nine. A few of us found positions on the nine, and we can play a pretty good game. Our nine beat the Senior’s and we began to think we were hot lemons. Preps seldom win a vic¬ tory over the upper classmen, and as that put us in the lead for the ♦ 14

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Edward L. Burdick, Eugene B. Whipple, Harry C. Hammond, Victor N. Cushman, Louis R. Abbott, Chester B. Allen, Clifford M. Allen, William J. Baldwin, George W. Bishop, Daniel W. Bradt, Augustus R. Briggs, Edward L. Burdick, Charles A. Burt, Charles N. Chambers, Merrill B. Chace, Arthur A. Clark, Harry L. Cobb, Victor N. Cushman, Walter E. Davenport, David F. Dillon, Albert W. Dimick, Clifton H. Dwinnell, OFFICERS. George M. Eaton, Ralph W. Emerson, Walter B. Fuller, John M. Gallagher, George C. Gordon, Harry T. Goss, Alfred B. Grout, Edwin C. Ham, Harry C. Hammond, Charles G. Harris, George W. Heald, Frank B. Hill, Lewis A. Howland, Edward H. Keith, Frank E. Killam, H. Joseph Knight, Leslie Killam, . . President. . . Vice-President. . . Secretary. Treasurer. Frederick H. Leland, Hiram K. Lovell, Louis deV. Magaw, David D. McTaggart, Harris W. Moore, Frank E. Norcross, Theodore H. Nye, Andrew A. O’Connell Frank O. Plumber, Albert H. Putnam, Frederick A. Rice, George O. Rollins, Fred W. Sawyer, Elwyn P. Smith, Henry N. Smith, Henry D. Temple, Eugene B. Whipple. 13

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class championship we could afford to celebrate. We held the lead until the next game. During the spring we had prize fights, under the auspices of the class. We had one dandy which ended in a foul. Lots of the Preps attended and some invitations were extended to upper classmen. We are looking to the future with a great deal of pleasure, and while we know that we must do a lot of hard work, and that not more than ten of us will graduate, we do not falter. We have thrown blocks in the drawing room several times. This is great fun but we find the most amusement in yelling “cuckoo” in chapel and watching the doctor detain the other classes. We are going to keep this up right through the course, unless our ventriloquists are expelled. We expect to have a grand class in the fall, and also expect to excel in athletics, but of course we shall not let any such thing interfere with our studies. We have planned for next year a series of monthly bon-fires. We think that they encourage sociability and we intend to make this a feature of our work. The Tech needs something of this kind to change the monotony of things. We have a good start now on the scheme, and think that things will go along very smoothly. If they don’t it will be because the Faculty interfere with us too much. Of course we don’t want any such clash to come, but we know that there is a liability of it. Well, I think I have said all that is necessary to show that there is a class of ’94, and for the rest I will let the class speak for itself in the future.