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Hiterarp Department
MISS ELIZABETH E. ADDITON, Editor
NATHAN W. GILLETTE RAYMOND R. WILLOUGHBY
THEODORE B. MITCHELL MARSHALL O. LANPHEAR
statistical Department
EDWARD N.
CARLETON T. SMITH
MITCHELL, Editor
WILLIAM R. LORING
FRANK J. BINKS
#rint>6 Department
LEO C. HIGGINS, Editor
FOSTER K. HAINES
9rt department
FOSTER K. BAKER, Editor
ADDISON C. STOWERS THOMAS E. CARTER
CAMILLE B. FULLER, Photographer
ISusiiirss Department
KENNETH L. MESSENGER, Busiiiess Manager
DAVID M. LIPSHIRES OLIVER G. PRATT
THEODORE H. REUMANN
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HE INDEX must function as a mirror, holding up
to its readers a clear image of the life and ac-
tivities of the College and its students. That this
mirror should have the clearest of glasses and the
smoothest of silver linings, has been our earnest
endeavor. But this mirror must have more than physical prop-
erties. It must reflect those intangible yet powerful factors
-stfhich contribute totOard the very atmosphere of the campus; the
inspiring personality of the teachers, the vjholesome spirit of an
institution dedicated to the enrichment of rural life, and that
love and loyalty that all Aggie men ha\>e for their Alma Mater.
We know our skill unequal to the task of constructing such
a mirror. We complete this book, hovJever, satisfied that it
contains our best efforts. For the Class of 1918, we present this
book to Aggie men and all friends of the College as a mark of
the undying fealty and appreciation of its members.
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Currp ft. fttcfes
In appreciation of his tire-
less efforts in behalf of
tKe College and in ad-
miration for his genial
personality and
strong character,
the Class of 1918
gladly dedicates
this volume.
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9n appreciation
LUE October skies, trees glowing with the colors of Autumn, a touch of
frost in the air — these were Nature's contribution toward a successful
dedication of M. A. C.'s Alumni Field. October 9, 1915, will go
down in the history of the college as the day that marked the
realization of M. A. C.'s long cherished dream of an athletic field of
her own. Many agencies helped on to the desired end. Generosity of the Legisla-
ture, wise aid from the Trustees and faculty, subscriptions from alumni and stu-
dents, as well as actual work on the field by the student body did much toward
reaching the wished for goal. But, more than all, is credit due to the man who saw
the possibility of organization and accomplishment, who not only dreamed the
dream but worked with might and main to make the dream come true — Curry Stan-
Hicks.
Born in central New York, Professor Hicks spent his early years on his father's
farm, moving to a farm in Michigan when fourteen years old. His college prepara-
tion was gained in the public schools and in 1902 he entered the Michigan Agricul-
tural College for a year's work. After teaching for several years he again took up
college work at the Michigan State Normal College, graduating in 1909 with the
degree of B. Pd. During the last year of his college course he acted as instructor
in Physical Education at the Normal College. From 1909 to 1910 he held the
Edward Hitchcock fellowship of Physical Education at Amherst College. 1910
was spent as director of athletics at the Michigan State Normal College and in
September, 1911, Professor Hicks came to the Massachusetts Agricultural College
as assistant professor of Physical Education and Hygiene. In 1914, he was ad-
vanced to the rank of associate professor.
As a student athlete his record was above reproach, a man who played the
game for the game's sake, who believed it a greater distinction to lose honorably
than to win dishonestly. This attitude has marked all his work at M. A. C. and
every student knows that nothing underhanded will be countenanced in any con-
test under the control of Professor Hicks. In this way he has done much for the
work in athletics at the college.
In the scarlet fever epidemic during the winter of 1913, Professor Hicks worked
long and well. The student body of that day will not soon forget the unselfishness
with which he threw open his home to house as many as it would hold until satis-
factory adjustment of rooming conditions could be made. If the friends of Pro-
fessor Hicks were asked to suggest a name for his home, there would be none more
appropriate than "The house of the friendly hand."
Professor Hicks insists on hard work from the students, but he sets the pace
himself. Whether in athletic practice or in actual work in construction on the
field the men follow because he leads. His control over the men is well shown by
an incident in the Springfield Training School game of 1915. As the struggle
grew more intense, the tension increased among the spectators and protests and
criticisms came from the M. A. C. bleachers. From his position on the gridiron,
Professor Hicks indicated his disapproval of the shouting. The first man to notice
the gesture, shouted — "Shut up, fellows, Curry says so" and the threatened dis-
order stopped.
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A man esteemed by his co-workers on the faculty, Professor Hicks stands to
the students for the best type of Physical Director, a man not desiring that physical
achievement shall take the place of mental training, but that the sound body shall
house an equally sound mind.
That hard work with head, or hands, or both, is the best possible employment
for a man is Professor Hicks's belief, and his daily life embodies his belief.
Of Professor Hicks's work in intercollegiate activities, Dr. Paul Phillips,
Physical Director of Amherst College, says: ' ' Some directors of physical education
have horizon and ideals but are not practical. When one has all three of these
characteristics and the energy and tact which makes them efficient his success is
assured. This statement represents as nearly as I can express it the feeling of the
Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges regarding Professor C. S.
Hicks, who has been a member for several years. He has impressed our Society
most favorably during these years both by his personality and his contributions
in papers and discussions. On pure merit Professor Hicks is each year making
himself a larger place in the Society".
That M. A. C. may long number Curry S. Hicks among her instructors is the
wish of every
"Loyal Son of Old Massachusetts."
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jUlemberg of tije
Corporation
Frank Gerrett of Greenfield
Harold L. Frost of Arlington
Charles H. Preston of Danvers
Frank A. Hosmer of Amherst
Davis R. Dewey of Cambridge
John F. Gannon of Worcester
Arthur G. Pollard of Lowell
George H. Ellis of West Newton
Elmer D. Howe of Marlborough
Edmund Mortimer of Grafton
Nathaniel I. Bowditch of Framingham
William Wheeler of Concord
Charles A. Gleason of New Braintree
James F. Bacon of Boston
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His Excellency Governor Samuel W. McCall . President of the Corporation
Kenyon L. Butterfield ...... President of the College
Payson Smith ...... State Commissioner of Education
Wilfrid Wheeler .... Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture
(Officers of ttjc Corporation
His Excellency Governor Samuel W. McCall
Charles A. Gleason of New Braintree .
Wilfred Wheeler of Concord
Fred C. Kenney of Amherst
Charles A. Gleason of New Braintree .
President of the Corporation
1 'ice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
. Auditor
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^>tanbtng Commuters of tlir Cotporation
Committee on Jfinantc
Charles A. Gleason, Chairman
George H. Ellis
Nathaniel I. Bowditch
Arthur G. Pollard
Frank A. Hosmer
Edmund Mortimer
Committee on Course of g>tubp anb Jfacultp
William Wheeler, Chairman
Frank A. Hosmer
Elmer D. Howe
Payson Smith
Davis R. Dewey
John F. Gannon
James A. Bacon
Committee on Jfarm
Nathaniel I. Bowditch, Chairman
Frank Gerrett
Committee on Jftorticulture
Harold L. Frost, Chairman
Charles A. Gleason
George H. Ellis
Edmund Mortimer
Elmer D. Howe
Wilfrid Wheeler
Committee on experiment department
Charles H. Preston, Chairman Arthur G. Pollard
Wilfrid Wheeler Harold L. Frost
Edmund Mortimer
Committee on iitmlumgs* anb arrangement of <&rounbs
Frank Gerrett, Chairman George H. Ellis
William Wheeler Charles H. Preston
James F. Bacon
Committee on extension &erbite
Elmer D. Howe, Chairman Davis R. Dewey
George H. Ellis Wilfrid Wheeler
Harold L. Frost John F. Gannon
examining Committee of ©berseers from the £>tate JSoarb of agriculture
John Bursley of West Barnstable
Frank P. Newkirk of Easthampton
William E. Patrick of Warren
John J. Erwin of Wayland
Charles W. Freehan of Great Barrington
*The President of the College is ex-officio member and secretary of standing committees.
fThe Director of the experiment station is a member of the Committee on Experiment Department, without vote.
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William P. Brooks, Ph. D.
Joseph B. Lindsey, Ph. D.
Fred C. Kenney .
Charles R. Green, B. Agr.
. Director
Vice-Director
Treasurer
Librarian
department of Agriculture
William P. Brooks, Ph. D. ....... Agriculturist
Henry J. Franklin, Ph. D. . . .In Charge of Cranberry Investigation
Edwin F. Gaskill, B. Rc Assistant Agriculturist
Robert L. Coffin Assistant
department of JJotanp ano Vegetable $atljologp
A. V. Osmun Botanist
George H. Chapman, M. Sc. .... Research Physiologist
Orton L. Clark, B. Sc. Plant Physiologist
Bepartment of (Entomology
Henry T. Fernald, Ph. D Entomologist
Burton N. Gates, Ph. D Apiarist
Arthur I. Bourne, A. B Assistant Entomologist
department of Agricultural (Economics
Alexander E. Cance. Ph. D. .... Agricultural Economist
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Orpai Intent of plant anb annual Onnisht'
Joseph B. Lindsey, Ph. D. ....... . Chemist
Edward B. Holland, Ph. D. Associate Chemist in Charge of Research Div.
Fred W. Morse, M. Sc. ...... Research Chemist
Henri D. Haskins, B. Sc. . . . In Charge of Fertilizer Division
Philip H. Smith, M. Sc. . . In Charge of Feed and Dairy Division
Rudolph W. Rtjprecht, Ph. D. . . . . . . . Assistant
Carleton P. Jones, M. Sc. . . . . . . . . Assistant
Windon A. Allen, B. Sc. . . . . . . . Assistant
Carlos L. Beals, B. Sc. . . . . . . . . Assistant
James P. Buckley, Jr., B. Sc. ...... Assistant
Thomas L. Harrocks, B. Sc. . . . . . . . Assistant
Lewell S. Walker, B. Sc. . . . . . . . Assistant
Harry L. Allen . . . . . . . . . Assistant
James R. Alcock . . . . . . . . . - . Assistant
James T. Howard . . . . . . . . . Collector
Department of horticulture
Frank A. Waugh, M. Sc. . . . . . . . Horticulturist
Fred C. Sears, M. Sc . Pomologist
Jacob K. Shaw, Ph. D. . . . . . Research Pomologist
department of Jfleteorologp
John E. Ostrander, A. M., C. E. . . . . . . Meteorologist
department of jflicrobiologi>
Charles E. Marshall, Ph. D. . . . .In Charge of Department
F. H. Hesselink van Suchtelen, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Microbiology
Department of JJoultrp ^usbanbrp
John C. Graham, B. Sc. Agr. . . . .In Charge of Department
Hubert D. Goodale, Ph. D. ..... Research Biologist
Department of Vetermarp Science
James B. Paige, B. Sc, D. V. S. . . . . . . Veterinarian
George E. Gage, Ph. D. . . Associate Professor of Animal Pathology
John B. Lentz . . . . . . Assistant in Veterinary Science
Arnold P. Sturtevant, A. B. . . . Assistant in Veterinary Science
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September 20-23, Wednesday-Saturday — Entrance Examinations
September 27, Wednesday, 1.30 P. M— Fall Term Begins; Chapel
October 12, Thursday Afternoon — Half Holiday, Columbus Day
November 29, Wednesday, 12 M.-Friday, December 1, 1 P. M. —
Thanksgiving Recess
December 22, Friday, 5 P. M.— Fall Term Closes; Christmas Recess
Begins
1917
January 1, Monday, 1 P. M. — Christmas Recess Ends; Winter Term
Begins
February 22, Thursday Afternoon— Half Holiday, Washington's Birth-
day
March 23, Friday, 5 P. M— Winter Term Closes; Spring Recess Begins
April 2, Monday, 1 P. M. — Spring Recess Ends; Spring Term Begins
April 19, Thursday Afternoon — Half Holiday, Patriots' Day
May 30, Wednesday — Holiday, Memorial Day
June 23-27, Saturday-Wednesday — Commencement
June 27, Wednesday — Spring Term Ends
July 2, Monday — Summer Term Begins
September 19, Wednesday, 1.30 P. M. — Fall Term Begins
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IBregibente of tfje College
President Harry F. French, M. A.
President William S. Clark, Ph. D., LL. D.
President Charles H. Flint, M. A., LL. D.
President Levi Stockbridge
President Paul A. Chadbourne, D. D., LL. D.
President James C. Greenough, M. A.
Acting-President Henry H. Goodell, M. A., LL.
Acting-President Charles H. Fernald, Ph. D.
Acting-President William P. Brooks, Ph. D.
President Kenyon L. Butterfield, A. M., LL. D.
Acting-President Edward M. Lewis, A. M.
1864-1866
1S67-1879
1879-1880
1880-1882
1882-1883
1883-1886
1886
1905-1906
1906
1913-1914
Beans of Hje College
Dean George F. Mills, M. A.
Dean Edward M. Lewis, A. M.
1907-1914
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Fernald Hasbrouck Kenney
Sprague Butterfield Foord Watjgh
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Kenyon L. Butterfield, A. M., LL.D., President of the College and Head of the
Division of Rural Social Science.
Born 1868. B. Sc, Michigan Agricultural College, 1891. Assistant Secretary, Michigan Agri-
cultural College, 1891-92. Editor of the Michigan Grange Visitor, 1892-95. Editor Grange
Department Michigan Farmer, 1895-1903. Superintendent Michigan Farmers' Institutes, 1S95-
99. Field Agent, Michigan Agricultural College, 1896-99. Graduate Student, University of
Michigan, 1900-02. A. M., University of Michigan, 1902. Instructor in Rural Sociology,
University of Michigan, 1902-03. President of R. I. College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts,
1903-06. President of Massachusetts Agricultural College since 1906. LL.D., Amherst College,
1910. Member U. S. Commission on Country Life, 1908-09. U. S. Agricultural Commission,
1913. * K *.
Charles H. Fernald, Ph.D., Honorary Director of the Graduate School.
Born 1838. Bowdoin College, 1865. Ph.D., Maine State College, 1886. Studied in the Museum
of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge and under Louis Agassiz on Penekese Island. Also traveled
extensively in Europe, studying insects in various museums. Principal of Litchfield Academy in
1865. Principal of Houltoii Academy, 1865-70. Chair of Natural History, Maine State College,
1871-86. Professor of Zoology at Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1SS6-1910. Director of
Graduate School, 1909-10. Honorary Director of the Graduate School since 1910.
Edward M. Lewis, A. M., Dean of the College and Professor of Languages and
Literature.
Born 1872. B. A., Williams College, 1896. M.A., Williams College, 1899. Graduate of Boston
School of Expression, 1901. Instructor in Public Speaking, Columbia University, 1901-03. In-
structor and Assistant Professor of Public Speaking and Oratory, Williams College, 1903-11.
Instructor, Harvard Summer School, 1903 and 1906. Instructor in Elocution, Yale Divinity
School, 1904-16. Member of American Academy of Political and Social Science. Assistant
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Professor of English and Assistant Dean, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1911. Professor of
Literature and Associate Dean, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1912. Dean and Professor
of Languages and Literature, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1914. $ K <i>.
Fred C. Kenney, Treasurer of the College.
Born 1860. Ferris Institute, 1890-91. Bookkeeper for Manistee & Northeastern Railroad Com-,
pany, 1895-1907. Assistant Secretary and Cashier of Michigan Agricultural College. Treasurer
of Massachusetts Agricultural College since 1907.
William P. Brooks, Ph.D., Director of the Experiment Station and Lecturer on
Soil Fertility.
Born 1851. Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1875. * 2 K. Post-graduate, Massachusetts
Agricultural College, 1875-76. Professor of Agriculture and Director of Farm, Imperial College
of Agriculture, Sapporo, Japan, 1877-78; also Professor of Botany, 1881-88. Acting President,
Imperial College, 1S80-S3, and 1886-87. Professor of Agriculture at Massachusetts Agricultural
College, and Agriculturist for the Hatch Experiment Station since January, 1889. Ph.D., Halle,
1897. Acting President of the College and Acting Director of the Experiment Station, 1905-06.
Director of the Experiment Station since 1906. 4> K 4>.
William D. Hurd, M. Agr., Director of the Extension Service and Supervisor of
the Short Courses.
Born 1875. Graduate Lansing, Mich., High School, 1895. Michigan Agricultural College, 1899.
$ T A. M. Agr. Michigan Agricultural College, 1908. Teacher, Lansing High School, 1899-
1902. Nursery Inspector, University of Illinois, summer 1900. Professor of Horticulture, School
of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture, Briercliff Manor, New York, 1902-03. Professor of
Agriculture, University of Maine, 1903-06. Dean of the College of Agriculture, University of
Maine, 1906-09. Lecturer, Summer School Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1908. Director
of the Short Courses, Massachusetts Agricultural College, September, 1909-10. Director of the
Extension Service since 1910. Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of
Science; member, Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science; American Society of Agro-
nomy; Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations; National Association of
Farmers' Institute Workers. A Z. 4> K 3>.
Charles E. Marshall, Ph.D., Director of the Graduate School and Professor of
Microbiology.
Born 1866. Ph.B., University of Michigan, 1895. Assistant Bacteriologist, University of Michi-
gan, 1893-96. Bacteriologist, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, 1896-1902. Jor-
genson's Laboratory, Copenhagen, 1898. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1902. Professor of
Bacteriology and Hygiene, Michigan Agricultural College, 1902-12. Pasteur's Institute, Paris,
and Ostertag's Laboratory, Berlin, 1902. Koch's Laboratory, Berlin, 1912. Scientific and
Vice-Director, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, 190S-12. Director of the Graduate
School and Professor of Microbiology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1912. A Z. $ K *.
Philip B. Hasbrotjck, B. Sc, Projessor of Physics and, Registrar of the College.
Born 1870. B. Sc, Rutgers College, 1893. X W. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1895-1902. Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1902-1911.
Registrar of the College since 1905. Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Agricultural College,
since 1911. Member of American Association of Collegiate Registrars. $ K $.
Ralph J. Watts, B. Sc, Secretary of the College.
Born 1885. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1907. * 2 K. Teacher, Choate
School, Wallingford, Conn., 1907-08. Secretary to the President, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1908-14. Secretary of the Massachusetts Agricultural College since 1914. 4> K *.
Charles R. Green, B. Agr., Librarian.
Born 1876. Connecticut Agricultural College, 1895. The Hartford Courant, 1895-1901. As-
sistant Librarian, Connecticut State Library, 1901-08. Librarian at Massachusetts Agricultural
College since September, 1908.
Charles H. Gould, B. Sc, Field Agent.
Born 1893. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916. 0 X. Field Agent, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1916.
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James A. Foord, M. S. A., Head of the Division of Agriculture and Professor of
Farm Administration.
Born 1872. B. Sc, New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1S9S. K 2.
M. S. A., Cornell University, 1902. Assistant in Cornell University, Agricultural Experiment
Station, 1900-03. Professor of Agriculture, Delaware College, 1903-06. Associate Professor of
Agronomy, Ohio State University, 1906-07. Associate Professor of Agronomy, Massachusetts
Agricultural College, 1907-08. Professor of Farm Administration, Massachusetts Agricultural
College since 1908. 2 H. * K #.
William P. B. Lockwood, M. Sc, Professor of Dairying.
Born 1875. B. Sc, Pennsylvania State College, 1899. K 2. With Walker-Gordon Laboratory
Co., of Boston and Philadelphia, 1S99-1901. Instructor in Dairying, Pennsylvania State College,
1902-03. Inspector, Hires Condensed Milk Co., Malvern, Pa", 1903-06. * Creamery and Con-
densing Construction Work, 1906-08. M. Sc, Pennsylvania State College, 1909. Assistant
Professor of Dairying, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1908-10. Associate Professor of
Dairying, 1910-1913. Professor of Dairying since 1913. A Z.
John C. Graham, B. Sc. Agr., Professor of Poultry Husbandry.
Born 1868. Milwaukee State Normal College, 189-4. Student at Chicago University, summers of
1894-98. Teaching and Institute Work in Wisconsin, 1894-1907. B. Sc. Agr., 'University of
Wisconsin, 1911. Associate Professor of Poultry Husbandry. Massachusetts Agricultural Col-
lege, 1911-14. Member of American Association of Investigators and Instructors in Poultry
Husbandry. Professor of Poultry Husbandry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1914.
Christian I. Gunness, B. Sc, Professor of Rural Engineering.
Born 18S2. B. Sc, North Dakota Agricultural College, 1907. Instructor in Mechanical Engi-
neering, North Dakota Agricultural College, 1907-12. Superintendent of School of Tractioneer-
ing, La Porte, Indiana, 1912-14. Professor of Rural Engineering, Massachusetts Agricultural
College since 1914. 4> K <I>.
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John C. McNutt, B. Sc, Professor of Animal Husbandry.
B. Sc, Ohio State University, 1907. Farm Manager, Ohio State University, 1907-08. Assistant
Professor of Animal Husbandry, New Hampshire State College, 1908. Associate Professor of
Animal Husbandry, New Hampshire State College, 1909-10. Professor of Animal Husbandry
and Dairying, North Carolina State College, 1910-15. Professor of Animal Husbandry, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1915.
Elvin L. Quaife, B. Sc. Agr., Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry.
Born 1887. B. Sc. Agr., Iowa State College, 1911. ASP. Instructor in Animal Husbandry,
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1911-14. Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, since 1914. A Z.
Orville A. Jamison, M. S., Assistant Professor of Dairying.
Born 1889. B. Sc. Agr., Ohio State University, 1912. Instructor in Dairying, Michigan Agricul-
tural College, 1912-13. Instructor in Animal Industry, University of Maine, 1913-15. Assistant
Professor of Dairying, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1915. M. S., University of
Maine, 1916.
Earl Jones, M. Sc, Assistant Professor of Agronomy.
Born 1886. B. Sc. Agr., Ohio State University, 1912. M. Sc, Ohio State University, 1913.
Instructor in Agronomy, University of Maine, 1913-15. Assistant Professor of Agronomy,
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1915 — .
Samuel Coons, Instructor in Dairying.
Certificate of Proficiency in Dairy Industry, Cornell College of Agriculture. With W. R. Boynton,
189S-1908. Superintendent, Delhi Dairying Co., 1908-11. Short Course Instructor, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1909. Manager, Prattsville Dairy Co., 1911-12. Instructor in
Dairying, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1912 — .
Harry D. Drain, B. S., Instructor in Dairying.
B. S., Ohio State University, 1913. Mt. Lake High School, Minnesota, 1913-14. Miss. Agricul-
tural College, Dairying Department, 1914-15. University of North Carolina, Department of
Animal Husbandry and Dairving, 1915-16. Instructor in Dairving, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1916.
Walter M. Peacock, M. S., Instructor in Farm Management.
B. S., 1913; M. S. Agr., 1915; Cornell University. Instructor in Farm Crops, Cornell University,
1913-1916. Enumerator for Long Island and Steuben County Farm Management Surveys, 1913.
Supervisor of Monroe County and Clinton and Franklin County Surveys, 1914. Secretary of
the New York State Potato Association, 1914-16. Instructor in Farm Management, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1916. Acacia Fraternity.
Loyal F. Payne, B. Sc, Assistant Professor in Poultry Husbandry.
Born 1889. B. Sc, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1912. Instructor in Poultry
Husbandry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1914-16. Assistant Professor in Poultry Hus-
bandry, 1916.
Everett H. Rucker, B. Sc, Instructor in Poultry Husbandry.
Born 1892. B. Sc, University of Missouri, 1914. Instructor in Poultry, University of Missouri,
1915. M. A., University of Missouri, 1916. A Z. Instructor in Poultry Husbandry, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1916.
Frederick G. Merkle, B. Sc, Assistant in Agronomy.
Born 1892. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1914. Graduate Student and Graduate
Assistant, 1914-15. Assistant in Agronomy, 1915.
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A. S. Thompson, Harrison, Nehrling, Johnson
Bibiaton of horticulture
Frank A. Waugh, M. Sc, Head of Division of Horticulture and Professor of Land-
scape Gardening.
Born 1869. Kansas Agricultural College, 1891. K £. Editor Agricultural Department, To-
peka Capital, 1891-92. Editor Montana Farm and Stock Journal, 1892. Editor Denver Field
and Farm, 1892-93. M. Sc, Kansas Agricultural College, 1S93. Professor of Horticulture,
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, and Horticulturist of the Experiment Station,
1893-95. Graduate Student, Cornell University, 189S-99. Professor of Horticulture, University
of Vermont and State Agricultural College, and Horticulturist of the Experiment Station, 1895-
1902. Horticultural Editor of the Country Gentleman, 1898-1911. Hospitant in the Koenigliche
Gaertner-Lehranstalt, Dahlem, Berlin, Germany, 1910. Professor of Horticulture and of Land-
scape Gardening, Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Horticulturist of the Hatch Experi-
ment Station since 1902. 4> K 4>.
Fred C. Sears, M. Sc, Professor of Pomology.
Born 1866. B. S., Kansas Agricultural College, 1892. Assistant Horticulturist at Kansas Ex-
periment Station, 1892-97. M. Sc, Kansas Agricultural College, 1S96. Professor of Horticul-
ture, Utah Agricultural College, 1897. Director Nova Scotia School of Horticulture WolfviUe,
Nova Scotia, 1898-1904. Professor of Horticulture, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro,
Nova Scotia, 1905-07. Professor of Pomology, Massachusetts Agricultural College since 1907.
William D. Clark, A. B., M. F., Professor of Forestry.
Born 1879. B. A., 1904; M. F., 1906, Yale University. United States Forestry Service, 1906-OS.
Professor of Forestry, Pennsylvania State College, 1909-12. Professor of Forestry, Massachu-
setts Agricultural College, 1912. A Z.
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Walter B. Chenoweth, A. B., M. Sc., Associate Professor of Pomology.
Born in Missouri, 1872. A. B., Valparaiso University, 1902. Assistant in Botany, Valparaiso
University, 1902-03. Head of the Department of Science, Chillicothe Normal School, Mo., 1903-
10. Secretary of the Missouri State Board of Horticulture, 1912. B. Sc. Agr., University of
Missouri, 1912. Instructor in Pomology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1912. A Z.
2 S.
Arno H. Nehrling, F. H. S., Associate Professor of Floriculture.
Born 1886. F. H. S., Missouri Botanical Garden and Shaw School of Botany, 1909. Instructor
in School of Gardening, South Chicago Public Schools, 1909. Instructor in I loriculture, Univer-
sity of Illinois, 1909-10. Associate in Floriculture and Assistant in Agricultural Experiment
Station, University of Illinois, 1910-14. Assistant Professor of Floriculture, Massachusetts
Agricultural College, 1914. Associate Professor of Floriculture, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1914. University Landscape Architects Society. ATP. K 2.
Harold F. Tompson, B. Sc, Professor of Market Gardening.
Andrew S. Thomson, A. M., Assistant Professor of Market Gardening.
Cortland Normal School, 1890. Teaching, 1890-94. Ph. B., Brown University, 1898. Super-
intendent of Schools in Massachusetts, 1898-1910. A. M., Columbia University, 1912. Head
of the Department of Agriculture and Pedagogy, Clarion State Normal School, 1912-15. Assistant
Professor of Market Gardening, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1915 — .
Arthur K. Harrison, Assistant Professor of Landscape Gardening.
Born 1872. With Warren H. Manning, Landscape Designer, Boston, acting at various times in
charge of the Surveying and Engineering Department, of the Planting Department, and of the
Drafting Room, 1908-1911. Instructor in Landscape Gardening, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1911-13. Assistant Professor of Landscape Gardening, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, since 1913.
Charles Henry Thompson, B. Sc, M. Sc, Assistant Professor of Horticulture.
Born 1870. B. Sc, Kansas Agricultural College, 1893. M. Sc, Kansas Agricultural College,
1898. Field Agent, U. S. D. A., Division of Botany, 1893. Instructor in Botany, Washington
University, St. Louis, Mo., 1893-95. Botanical Assistant, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis,
Mo., 1895-99. Forestry Service, U. S. Dept. of Interior, 1900. Graduate Student, Leland
Stanford, Jr., University of California, 1902-04. In charge of the Department of Succulent
Plants and Botanical Assistant, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo., 1904-15. Collabora-
tor, U. S. D. A., 1909-11, studying succulent plants of arid regions of America and Mexico. As-
sistant Professor of Horticulture, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1915. 2 S.
John T. Wheeler, Assistant Professor of Horticulture.
Frank W. Rane, M. F., Lecturer in Forestry.
Born 1868. B. Sc. Agr., Ohio State University, 1891. M. Sc, Cornell University, 1892. $ A 0.
Lecturer in Forestry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1906.
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Goessmann, Lewis, Sprague, Neal, Julian, Prince
Btbiston of ^umantticsf
Robert J. Sprague, Ph. D., Head oj the Division oj the Humanities and Projessor
of Economics and Sociology.
Born 1868. B. A., Boston University, 1897. B © II. Studied industrial conditions in Eng-
land, 1898. M. A., Harvard University, 1900. Ph.D., Boston University, 1901. Head of the
Department of Economics and History, Knox College, 1901-06. Studied socialism and socialistic
development throughout northern Europe, 1903. Head of the Department of Economics and
Sociology, University of Maine, 1906-11. Appointed to research work, Carnegie Institution,
Washington, D. C, 1906. Head of the Division of Humanities and Professor of Economics and
Sociology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1911. * B K. 4> K 4>.
Edward M. Lewis, A. M.
Literature.
(See Administrative Officers.)
Dean of the College and Professor oj Languages and
Robert W. Neal, A. M., Associate Professor in English.
Born 1873. A. B., University of Kansas, 1898. A. M., University of Kansas, 1899. Assistant
in the Department of English, University of Kansas, 1898-99. University Scholar, Yale Graduate
School, 1899-1900. Teacher in Wallingford, Conn., High School, 1900-01. Instructor in English,
University of Cincinnati, 1901-02. Harvard Graduate School, 1902-03. A. M., Harvard, 1903.
Substitute Instructor in English and Acting Head of the Department, Rutgers College, 1903-04.
Editorial Department of the World's Work, 1904-06. Assistant Professor of English and In-
structor in German, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1906-08. A. M., Yale University, 190S.
Assistant Professor of English, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1908. *BK. * K 4>.
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Edgar L. Ashley, A. M., Associate Professor of German.
Born 1880. A. B., Brown University, 1903. <J> K f. Instructor in German, Brown University,
1903-06. A. M., Brown University, 1904. Student, University of Heidelberg, 1906-07.
Instructor in German, Bates College, 1907-08. Instructor in German, Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, 1908-11. Assistant Professor of German, Massachusetts Agricultural College,
1911-15. Associate Professor of German, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Agricultural College,
1915—. * B K. $ K *.
A. Anderson Mackimmie, A. M., Associate Professor of French.
Born 1878. A. B., Princeton University, 1906. Bondinot Fellow in Modern Languages, 1906-07.
Instructor in French, Colcester Academy, Truro, Nova Scotia, 1906-08. Instructor in French
and Spanish, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1908-11. K F <t>. Assistant Professor of
French, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1911-15.
A. M., Columbia University, 1914. Associate Professor of French, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1915. *BK. * K *. Adelphia.
Walter E. Prince, Ph. B., A. M., Assistant Professor of English and Public Speak-
ing.
Born 1881. Ph. B., Brown University, 1904. A. M., Brown University, 1905. Instructor in
English, University of Maine, 1905-12. Instructor in English and Public Speaking, Massachu-
setts Agricultural College, 1912-15. Assistant Professor of English and Public Speaking, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1915 — .
Helena T. Goessmann, Ph. M., Instructor in English.
Elmhurst Academy. Providence, R. I., 1887. Studied in Boston and New York. Ph. M., Ohio
State University, 1895. Studied in England and Paris, 1899. Studied in Munich, 1900. Pub-
lished The Christian Woman in Philanthropy, a novelette entitled Brother Philip, and a small
book of poems, A Score of Songs. Member of the Pen and Brush Club of New York. Assistant
in English, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1910-14. Instructor in English, Massachusetts
Agricultural College, since 1914.
William L. Harmount, A. B., Instructor in French.
Born 1881. A. B., Yale University, 1903. Tutor in college preparatory subjects, 1903-06.
Instructor, Kingsley School, Essex Falls, N. J., 1907-08. Instructor in French, Kiskiminetas
Springs School, Saltsburg, Pa., 1908-11. Student at Cours de Vacences of the Universities of
Caen and Grenoble, France, summer of 1910. Instructor in French, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1911. * B K.
Arthur N. Julian, A. B., Instructor in German.
A. B., Northwestern University, 1907. Instructor in German at Elgin Academy, Elgin, 111.,
1907-10. Travelled in Germany and student at Berlin University, 1910-11. Instructor in
German, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1911. * B K.
Frank P. Rand, A. B.-, Instructor in English.
Born 1889. A. B., Williams College, 1912. Instructor in English, University of Maine, 1913-14.
Instructor in English, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1914 — .
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Phelan
iStbiSton of JXural Social Science
Kenyon L. Butterfield, A. M., LL.D., President of the College and Head of the
Division oj Rural Social Science.
(See Administrative Officers.)
William R. Hart, L. B., A. M., Professor of Agricultural Education.
B. L., Iowa State Law School, 1880. A. B., University of Nebraska, 1S96. A. M., University of
Nebraska, 1900. Department of Psychology and Education in Nebraska State Normal at Peru,
1901-07. Professor of Agricultural Education, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1907.
Alexander E. Cance, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of Agricultural Economics and
Supervisor of Agricultural Surveys.
B. A., Macalester College. Graduate Certificate, State Normal School, Oshkosh. M. A., Uni-
versity of Wisconsin. Professor of Greek and Literature, Avalon College, 1S97-99. Principal,
Asheville Industrial School, 1901-04. Supervisor of Practice, First Pennsylvania State Normal
School, 1904-05. Fellow in Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1906-08. Ph. D., University
of Wisconsin, 1908. Instructor, 1908-10; Assistant Professor, 1910-12; Associate Professor,
1912-15; Professor of Agricultural Economics, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1915.
John Phelan, A. M., Professor of Rural Sociology.
Born 1879. Graduate Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Michigan. A. B. and A. M.,
University of Michigan. Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Michigan. 1909-10.
Acting Director, Rural School Department, Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
1910-11. Director, Rural School Department, State Normal School, Stevens Point, Wisconsin,
1912-1915. Professor Rural Sociology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1915 — .
Ralph M. Rutledge, M. S., Instructor in Agricultural Economics.
B. S., Oregon Agricultural College, 1914. Secretary of the School of Agriculture and Experiment
Station, Oregon Agricultural College, 1914-15. Graduate Student, Oregon Agricultural College,
1914-15. Research Assistant in Agricultural Economics cooperating with the U. S. D. A. Office
of Farm Management, University of Wisconsin, 1915-16. M. S., University of Wisconsin, 1916.
Instructor in Agricultural Economics, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916.
Joseph F. Novitski, Assistant in Rural Sociology.
Born 1884. Graduate State Normal School,! )shkosh,Wis. County Superintendent of Schools, Brown
County .Wisconsin, 1910-16. Assistant in Rural Sociology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916.
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jUtlttarp Science anb tactics
Henry W. Fleet, Captain, U. S. In-
fantry, Professor of Military
Science and Tactics.
Born 1880. Graduate Culver Military Acad-
emy, 1899. University of Virginia, 1900,
1901. Appointed 2d. Lieutenant 2d. U. S.
Infantry, 1902. Promoted 1st Lieutenant
and assigned to 19th IT. S. Infantry, 1908.
Placed on duty at the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, January 11, 1915. Promoted
Captain U. S. Infantry, 1916.
logical (Education
Curry S. Hicks, B. Pd., Professor of Physical Education and Hygiene.
Born 1885. Michigan Agricultural College, 1902-03. B. Pd., Michigan State Normal College,
1909. Assistant in Physical Education, Michigan State Normal College, 1908-09. Edward
Hitchcock Fellow in Physical Education, Amherst College, 1909-1910. Director of Athletics,
Michigan State Normal College, 1910-11. Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Hy-
giene, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1911-14. Associate Professor of Physical Education
and Hygiene, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1914-16. Professor of Physical Education and
Hygiene, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916.
Harold M. Gore, B. Sc, Instructor in Physical Education.
Born 1891. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1913. Q. T. V. Assistant in Physical
Education, Massachusetts [Agricultural College, 1913-16. Instructor in [Physical Education,
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916. Adelphia.
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Clark, H. C. Thompson
Ball, Osmun, Marshall, Fernald, Chamberlain, Shaw, Lindsey, Machmer, Gage
Bibtsiton of Science
Henry T. Fernald, Ph. D., Chairman of the Division of Science and Professor of
Entomology.
Born 1866. University of Maine, 1885. B 0 IT. M. Sc., University of Maine, 188S. Graduate
Student in Biology, Wesleyan University, 1S85-86. Graduate Student, John Hopkins Univer-
sity, 1887-90. Laboratory Instructor, John Hopkins University, 1S89-90. Ph.D., John Hopkins
University, 1890. Professor of Zoology, Pennsylvania State College, 1890-99. State Economic
Zoologist, Pennsylvania, 1898-99. Professor of Entomology, Massachusetts Agricultural College,
since 1899. Associate Entomologist, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1899-1910.
Entomologist, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, since 1910. Fellow in the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of Science. Member in the Association of Economic En-
tomologists, Entomology Society of America, and Boston Society of Natural History. Massa-
chusetts State Nursery Inspector since 1902. <1> K <I>.
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Joseph B. Lindsey, Ph. D., Goessmann Professor of Chemistry.
Born 1862. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1883. A 2 <I>. Chemist. Massachu-
setts State Agricultural Experiment Station, 1883-85. Chemist, L. B. Darling Fertilizer Co.,
Pawtucket, R. I., 1885-89. Student at University of Gottingen, 1889-92. M. A., Ph. D., Uni-
versity of Gottingen, 1892. Student at Zurich Polytechnic Institute, 1892. Associate Chemist,
Massachusetts State Experiment Station, 1892-95. In Charge of Department of Foods and Feed-
ing, Hatch Experiment Station. 1895-1907. Head of the Department of Chemistry and Goess-
mann Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1911. Mem-
ber of the American Chemical Society. Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. <& K <I>.
Charles Wellington, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry.
Born 1853. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1S73. K S. Graduate Student in
Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1873-76. Assistant Chemist, United States
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Department of Agriculture, 1876. Student, University of Virginia, 1876-77. First Assistant
Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture, 1877-82. Ph. D., University of Gottingen,
1885. Associate Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1885-1907. Pro-
fessor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1907. <!> K 4>.
Joseph S. Chamberlain, Ph. D., Professor of Organic and Agricultural Chemistry.
Born 1870. B. Sc, Iowa State Agricultural College, 1890. M. S., Iowa State Agricultural
College, 1892. Instructor in Chemistry, Iowa State Agricultural College, 1894-97. Ph. D.,
John Hopkins University, 1899. Instructor in Chemistry, Oberlin College, 1899-1901. Volun-
tary Assistant in Chemistry at Wesleyan University, summer of 1900-1901. Research Assistant
to Professor Ira B. Remsen, John Hopkins University, 1901. Chemist, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, 1901-09. Chief of Cattle Food and Grain Investigation Laboratory, Bureau of
Chemistry, 1907-09. Student, University of Berlin, 1909. Associate Professor of Organic and
Agricultural Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1909-13. Professor of Organic and
Agricultural Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1913. American Chemical
Society. Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. Fellow in the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, Washington Academy of Science. 4>BK. 4> K <I>.
Charles A. Peters, Ph. D., Professor of Inorganic and Soil Chemistry.
Bom 1875. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1897. AS*. B. Sc, Boston Uni-
versity, 1897. Assistant in Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1897-98. Graduate
Assistant in Kent Chemical Laboratory, Yale University, 1899-1901. Ph. D., Yale University,
1901. Professor of Chemistry, Head of Department, University of Idaho, 1901-09. Student at
the University of Berlin, 1908-10. Exchange Teacher, Friedrichs Werdersche Oberrealschule,
1909-10. Graduate School Yale University, 1910-11. Assistant Professor of Inorganic and Soil
Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1911-12. Associate Professor of Inorganic and
Soil Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1912-16. Professor of Inorganic and Soil
Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916. S S. $ K 4>.
Ernest Anderson, A. B., Ph. D., Professor of General and Physical Chemistry.
Born 1881. B. A., Trinity College, Texas, 1903. B. S., University of Texas, 1903. Fellow in
Botany, University of Texas, 1903-04. M. S., University of Texas, 1904. Fellow in Chemistry,
University of Texas, 1904-05. Instructor in Corsicana High School, Texas, 1905-06. Fellow In
Chemistry, University of Chicago, 1906-07. Associate in Chemistry, University of Chicago,
1907-09. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1909. Research Instructor, University of Chicago,
1909-12. Assistant Professor of General and Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1912-14. Associate Professor of General and Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College, 1914-16. Professor of General and Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, 1916. <t> B K. 2 H. <I> K #.
Paul Serex, Jr., B. Sc, Assistant in Chemistry.
Born 1890. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1913. * K <I>. M. S. 1916. Graduate
Assistant in Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1913-15. Chemist, New Hampshire
State College, 1915. Assistant in Chemistry, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1915 — .
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A. Vincent Osmun, M. Sc., Professor of Botany and Head of the Department of
Botany.
Born 1880. B. Agr., Connecticut Agricultural College, 1900. Assistant, Storrs Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, 1900-02. B. Sc, 1903; M. Sc, 1905, Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Q. T. V. Assistant in Botany, 1903-05; Instructor in Botany, 1905-07; Assistant Professor of
Botany, 1907-14, Massachusetts Agricultural College. Associate Professor Botany, Massachu-
setts Agricultural College, 1914-16. Acting Head of the Department of Botany, Massachusetts
Agricultural College and Experiment Station, 1914-16. Professor of Botany and Head of the
Department of Botany, 1916. 4> K 4>.
Paul J. Anderson, Ph. D., Associate Processor of Botany.
Born 1884. A. B., Wabash College, 1910. * B K. Ph. D., Cornell University, 1914. 2 X-
Fellow in Plant Pathology, Cornell University, 1910-13. Pathologist, Pennsylvania Chestnut
Blight Commission, 1913-14. Instructor in Botany, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1915.
Assistant Professor in Botany, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1915-16. Associate Professor
of Botany, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916.
Orton L. Clark, B. Sc, Assistant Professor of Botany.
George W. Martin, M. Sc, Instructor in Botany.
Born 1886. Litt. B., Rutgers College, 1912. M. Sc, Rutgers College, 1915. Assistant in
Plant Pathology, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, 1912-15. Assistant in Botany,
Rutgers College, 1913-15. Graduate Student in Botany, University of Chicago, 1915-1916.
Instructor in Botany, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916. T A. 2 E.
Cntomologp
Henry T. Fernald, Ph. D., Professor of Entomology and Chairman oj the Division
of Science.
Born 1866. University of Maine, 1885. B 0 n. M. Sc, University of Maine, 18SS. Graduate
Student in Biologv, Wesleyan University, 1885-86. Graduate Student, John Hopkins University,
1887-90. Laboratory Instructor, John Hopkins University, 1SS9-90. Ph. D., John Hopkins
University, 1890. Professor of Zoology, Pennsylvania State College, 1S90-99. State Economic
Zoologist, Pennsylvania, 1898-99. Professor of Entomology, Massachusetts Agricultural College,
since 1899. Associate Entomologist, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1899-1910.
Entomologist, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, since 1910. Fellow in the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of Science. Member in the Association of Economic En-
tomologists, Entomology Society of America, and Boston Society of Natural History. Massa-
chusetts State Nursery Inspector since 1902. <I> K <I>.
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Burton N. Gates, A. M., Ph. D., Associate Professor of Beekeeping.
Born 1881. Cornell University, College of Agriculture, 1901. A. B., Clark College, 1905. K <S>.
Scholar in Biology, Clark University, 1905-06. A. M., Clark University, 1906. Fellow in Biol-
ogy, Clark University, 1906-07. Assistant in Biology, Clark College, 1906-07. Field Fellow,
Clark University, 1908-09. Ph. D., Clark University, 1909. Lecturer in Beekeeping, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, Spring, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910. Collaborator, Bureau of Ento-
mology, United States Department of Agriculture, February to July, 1907. Expert in Apiculture
and Apicultural Assistant, ibid., 1907-10. Assistant Professor of Beekeeping, Massachusetts
Agricultural College, 1910-16. Apiarist, Massachusetts Experiment Station and Inspector of
Apiaries, State Board of Agriculture, since 1910. Fellow in American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science. Member in American Association of Entomologists; American Genetic
Association; National Geographic Society. Ex-President of the National Beekeepers' Associa-
tion. A E T.
G. Chester Crampton, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of Insect Morphology.
Born 1882. A. B., Princeton University, 1904. A. M., Cornell University, 1905. Student at
Freiburg and Munich, 1907. Ph. D., Berlin University, 1908. Instructor in Biology, Princeton
University, 1908-10. Professor of Biology and Entomology, South Carolina State Agricultural
College, 1910-11. Associate Professor of Entomology, Massachusetts Agricultural College,
1911-15. Professor of Insect Morphology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1915.
* B K. * K $.
William S. Regan, Ph. D., Assistant Professor in Entomology.
Born 1885. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1908. Ph. D., Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, 1915. Assistant in Entomology, 1914-15. Instructor in Entomology, 1915-16.
Assistant Professor in Entomology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916.
jWatljcmaticg
John E. Ostrander, A. M., C. E., Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering.
Born 1865. B. A. and C. E., Union College, 1886. Assistant on Sewer Construction, West
Troy, N. Y., 1886. Assistant on Construction, Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway, 1887.
Draughtsman with Phoenix Bridge Company, 1887. M. A., Union College, 1889. Assistant in
Engineering Department, New York State Canals, 1888-91. Instructor in Civil Engineering,
Lehigh University, 1891-92. Engineering Contractor for Alton Bridge, summer of 1892. Pro-
fessor of Civil Engineering and Mechanic Arts, University of Idaho, 1892-97. Professor of
Mathematics and Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1897. Member
of Committee No. 6, International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics, 1909-1911.
<*> K *.
C. Robert Duncan, B. Sc, C. E., Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Born 1884. B. Sc, Rutgers College, 1906. C. E., Rutgers College, 1914. On East River Di-
vision of Pennsylvania Tunnels, 1906-08. Instructor in Mathematics and Physics, Massachu-
setts Agricultural College, 1908-11. Assistant Engineer on Valuation of Boston and Maine
Railroad's Property in New Hampshire, summer of 1910. Inspector of Bridge and Pier Con-
struction, Florida East Coast Railroad's Extension over the Florida Keys, summer of 1911.
Instructor in Mathematics, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1911. On Valuation Survey
for Canadian Pacific Railway in Ontario, Canada, summer of 1912. On Topographical Survey in
connection with Flood Protection Work in Ohio, summer of 1913. Chief Inspector of East River
Tunnels, summer of 1915. X1r.
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William L. Machmer, A. M., Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Born 1883. Graduate of Keystone State Normal School, 1911. Teacher in Fublic Schools,
1901-04. A. B., Franklin and Marshall College, 1907. Head of the Department of Mathematics,
Franklin and Marshall Academy, 1907-11. A. M., Franklin and Marshall College, 1911. In-
structor in Mathematics, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1911-13. Assistant Professor in
Mathematics, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1913. *BK. * K *. A S 4>.
Burt A. Hazeltine, B. Sc, Assistant in Mathematics.
B. Sc, Tufts College, 1913. ATA. Assistant in Mathematics, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1913—.
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Charles E. Marshall, Ph. D., Director of the Graduate School and Professor of
Microbiology.
(See Administrative Officers.)
Frans H. Hesselink van Suchtelen, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Microbiology.
Born 1885. Degree Nederlandsch Gediplomeerd Landbouwkundige from the Rykslandbouw-
school. Ph. D., Georgia-Augusta University at Gottingen, 1910. Private Assistant to Dr.
Reitz Stuttgart. Student in Berlin under Geheimer Regierungsrath, Prof. Dr. Delbruck. Student
in the University of Leipzig under Prof. Dr. F. Lohnis. Research Assistant, Michigan Agricultural
Experiment Station, 1911. Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, 1913-15. Associate Professor of Microbiology, Massachusetts Agricultural College,
1915—.
Arao Itano, B. Sc, Instructor in Microbiology.
Born 1888. B. Sc, Michigan Agricultural College, 1911. Assistant Chemist at the Michigan
Agricultural Experiment Station, 1912-13. Assistant Bacteriologist, Michigan Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, 1912-13. Graduate Assistant, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1913-14.
Student at Copenhagen, Denmark, 1914-15. Assistant in Microbiology, Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, 1915-16. Instructor in Microbiology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916 — .
General Investigator at Woods Hole, 1916. Ph. D., Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1916.
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Philip B. Hasbrouck, B. Sc, Professor of Physics and Registrar of the College.
(See Administrative Officers.)
Harold E. Robbins, B. Sc, M. A., Assistant Professor of Physics.
B. Sc, Trinity, 1908. M. A., Yale University, 1910. Laboratory Assistant, Sloane Laboratory,
Yale, 1910-11. Instructor in Physics and Mechanics, University of Colorado, 1911. Instructor
Science Department, Hartford High School, 1912-13. Assistant Professor of Physics, Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1913. S E. 4> K $.
Harry C. Thompson, B. Sc, Assistant in Physics.
Born 1893. B. Sc, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1915. Assistant in Physics, Massachusetts
Agricultural College, 1915 — .
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James B. Paige, B. Sc, D. V. S., Professor of Veterinary Science.
B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1882. Q. T. V. Farmer, 1882-87. V. S., Montreal
Veterinary College, 1888. D. V. S., Faculty of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Science,
McGill University, 1891. Veterinary Practitioner, 1888-91. Student in Pathology and Bac-
teriology, McGill University, Medical School, summer 1891. Post-Graduate Student in the
Konigliche Tierarzlichen Hochschule and the Pathological Institute of Ludwig-Maximilians
Universitat in Munich, 1895-96. Professor of Veterinary Science at Massachusetts Agricultural
College since 1S90. * K <£.
George E. Gage, A. M., Ph. D., Associate Professor of Animal Pathology.
B. A., Clark College, Clark University, 1906. K $. M. A., Yale University, 1907. Physio-
logical Chemist, Sodium Benzoate Investigation, U. S. D. A., 1908. Ph. D., Yale University,
1909. Associate Biologist, Maryland Experiment Station, 1909-10. University of Michigan,
1910. Special Student in Pathology, University of Michigan, summer of 1910. Biologist, Mary-
land Experiment Station, in charge of Pathological Investigation. Assistant Professor of Animal
Pathology, Department of Veterinary Science, Massachusetts Agricultural College, since 1911.
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Clarence E. Gordon, A. M., Ph. D., Associate Professor oj Zoology and Geology.
Born 1876. B. Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1901. C. S. C. Student Clark Uni-
versity, summer session, 1901-03. B. Sc, Boston University, 1903. Instructor, Cushing Acad-
emy, Ashburnham, Mass., 1901-04. Graduate Student in Zoology and Geology, Columbia Uni-
versity, 1904-05. A. M., Columbia University, 1905. Instructor in Geology, summer session,
Columbia University, 1905. University Fellow in Geology, Columbia University, 1905-06.
Assistant Professor of Zoology and Geology, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1906-12. Ph. D.,
Columbia University, 1911. Associate Professor of Zoologv and Geologv, Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College, 1915. * B K. <i> K <S>.
Stanley Crittenden Ball, Ph. D., Instructor in Zoology.
Arms Academy, Shelburne Falls, Mass., 1905. Lumber Business, 1905-08. Ph. B., Sheffield
Scientific School, Yale University, 1911. Ph. D., Yale University, 1915. Assistant Curator of
Zoology, Peabody Museum, Yale University, 1915-16. Instructor in Zoology, Massachusetts
Agricultural College, 1916.
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William D. Hurd, M. Agr
Director of the Extension Service and Supervisor of Short Courses
Ernest D. Waid, B. Sc. Agr. Assistant Director
Sumner R. Parker, B. Sc.
Assistant State Leader and Extension Professor of Rural Organization
George L. Farley . . Extension Professor of Agricultural Education
Ezra L. Morgan, A. M. . Extension Professor of Community Planning
Laura Comstock .... Extension Professor of Home Economics
E. Farnam Damon, B. Sc. .
Extension Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
A. D. Killian ..... Extension Instructor in Pomology
Frank A. C. Smith, B. Sc. . Extension Instructor in Civic Improvement
Erwin H. Forbush .... Supervisor of Correspondence Courses
Ethel H. Nash . . . Extension Instructor in Agricultural Education
Alfred G. Lunn, B. Sc. . Extension Instructor in Poultry Husbandry
Eric N. Boland, M. Sc
Extension Instructor in Charge of Boys' arid Girls' Pig Club Work
Marie Sayles, B. Sc. . . . Extension Instructor in Home Economics
Wesley H. B'ronson, B. Sc. . Extension Instructor in Farm Demonstration
William F. Turner, B. Sc. . . Extension Instructor in Animal Husbandry
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J. Stanley Cobb
J. A. PURINGTON .
Ernest E. Fish
William L. Doran
Donald White
Gerald E. Perry .
Ralph L. MacNeil
Paul Beebe .
Arthur L. Prince
Stuart C. Vinal .
Carrick E. Wildon
Irving C. Root
George B. Ray
Roy C. Avery
Egerton G. Hood
S. G. Mutkekar .
Robert P. Armstrong
E. G. Wood .
Lloyd L. Stewart
Agronomy
Agronomy
Animal Husbandry
Botany
Botany
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry-
Entomology, Experiment Station
Floriculture
Landscape Gardening
Microbiology
Industrial Tests, Experiment Station
Industrial Tests, Experiment Station
Industrial Tests, Experiment Station
. Pomology, Experiment Station
Pomology
. Poultry Husbandry
College inftrmarp
The present infirmary owes its inception to the disastrous epidemic of scarlet fever which
made its appearance here in the winter of 1912-13. The magnitude of this situation, which neces-
sitated the requisition of an emergency isolation hospital on Mount Pleasant, and which caused
the death of one man and the entire disorganization of the college work for some time, seems to
have focussed public attention on the need for some sort of establishment for caring for the health
of the student body. Accordingly the Legislature, during the same winter, voted $15,000 for
such a purpose. It was originally planned to construct a general hospital, which might be capable
of handling without outside aid any such situation that could develop, but the size of the appro-
priation rendered necessary a change in the plans. In consequence, the buildings were constructed
with the idea of furnishing temporary isolation hospitals, and are in the nature of makeshifts until
an appropriation for the proposed general hospital is secured.
Construction was started in the spring of 1915, and the buildings were ready for use in the
fall of the same year. They comprise the general ward, located in the southernmost building,
which contains two ward rooms ot four beds each, two bathrooms, and quarters for nurses; and
the contagious ward, in the northern building, identical in all respects save nurse's quarters. A
kitchen is also included in both houses.
The general administration of the enterprise is in the hands of Dr. Charles E. Marshall,
head of the department of microbiology. The nurse in charge is Miss Florence N. Levensaler.
Miss Levensaler is a graduate of the Boston City Hospital, and has had extensive experience in
various parts of the country; she is excellently fitted by training and disposition for the manage-
ment of such an institution .
As at present administered, the avowed purpose of the infirmary is "to help maintain the
general good health of the student body" in which it cooperates with the Physical Education De-
partment, and "to furnish a suitable place for medical attention duringserious illness or accident".
The students are accordingly urged to go there at any time when they may feel any necessity for
it, and are urged as well to consult the nurse for any advice regarding their physical well-being.
The charges at the institution are moderate, a fee of $1.00 being assessed against the student
for each day of occupancy. For special attention or supplies or for purely personal charges the
student is also responsible. Propositions have been put forward in the Student Forum to adopt
a method of general taxation to defray the infirmary expenses of individual students, and it is
expected that something of this nature will be undertaken in a reasonably short time. In the
meantime, the infirmary as a safety measure and as a moral asset fulfills in an efficient manner a
definite need in the Aggie social order.
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In the new microbiology building, a much needed addition to the equipment of the College
was made. The building which was completed in September, 1916, at a cost of 867,500, is but
one of three units which will eventually contain, in addition to the microbiological laboratories,
the physics department and a lecture amphitheatre. This laboratory will permit of much more
extensive work in the microbiology department, for up to this time, due to cramped quarters,
no investigational work has been carried on, nor has there been room to accommodate all the
student applicants. The equipment when complete will provide table space for 86 students.
Special investigational laboratories will also make up part of the equipment.
l^ije IXural engineering puilbing
The new Rural Engineering shop in the rear of Stockbridge Hall, which was constructed
during the last summer vacation, is a necessary adjunct of the Department of Rural Engineering,
which has been established as such in the college for only two years. The broader purpose of
this department is to teach the principles of all agricultural engineering, but for the present it
undertakes more specifically, work involving the care of farm machinery and the construction of
farm structures. The new building will be used as a laboratory for the study of farm
machines, including power machines, and will give an opportunity for practical shop work,
in which the repair of those machines and carpentry will be emphasized. The work, in fact,
is divided on this basis, a line being drawn between work in wood and work in metals. These
courses are sophomore electives; a senior course in the designing of buildings is also offered.
The establishment of this department and its prompt equipment may be said to have a
peculiar significance at this time. There are a large and increasing number of men coming to
Aggie from city homes, and of those who come from the farm a surprisedly large percentage
are inadequately trained mechani-
cally; and it is felt that machine
farming in this country has reached
a degree of importance that every
man in an agricultural college,
whatever his major, should have the
opportunity to acquire some famil-
iarity with its principles. The in-
troduction of this building into the
college plant is of local interest, to,
in view of the popular clamor that
the college is becoming too classical.
It appears from circumstances such
as these that the work of the insti-
tution is tending to become more,
rather than less, technical.
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Agricultural Jllajorg
Despite the all-too-prevalent belief to the contrary, M. A. C. is essentially
an agricultural college, for far better than fifty per cent, of the students are taking
courses that will fit them for rural vocations of some kind. Many of the graduates
from these courses obtain positions as farm managers or return to their own farms.
Others are connected with fertilizer companies, experiment stations, or up-to-date
dairies, while those so fortunate as to be blessed with the "silvery tongue" become
instructors in agricultural high schools, academies or colleges.
The M. A. C. student has his choice of five majors under the general title of
agriculture — agronomy, poultry, animal husbandry, general agriculture and dairy-
ing. The atmosphere of rural husbandry hangs most heavily over Stockbridge
Hall, the new, splendidly equipped, $225,000 agricultural building. This is truly
a fitting place for Professor Foord to teach his progenies the science of farming.
From his sanctum he supervises the major in agriculture, and also the destinies of
the College Farm.
Here, too, is located the agronomy department with its well equipped labora-
tories fitted for the study of the many different varieties of soils found in the vicinity
of Amherst. In these rooms it is not uncommon to see Assistant Professor Jones
demonstrating to a group of awe-stricken classmen, the mastication process of
distinguishing clay from sand, or to hear Mr. Cobb glibly telling a group of future
tillers of the soil the value of seed corn selection. Professor Graham has one cor-
ner of the building allotted to him that he may the better tell the story of his
chickens from start to finish. Much of the laboratory work in his major, however,,
is carried on at the large poultry plant, where poultry husbandry in all its phases
can be studied.
The home of the dairy department is in the Flint Laboratory. Here can be
found all the up-to-date machinery and other equipment to be had in a modern
dairy. Guided by the able assistance of Professor Lockwood and his staff, dairy
students become proficient in the handling of milk from the time that it is brought
in from the farm until it comes out as cheese and butter, or still better — ice cream.
Still other men cast their lot with Professor McNutt and his animals. He has
a great variety of specimens with which to work, ranging from old worn out dairy
cows to registered prize winners, from bony old farm "plugs" to the splendid
Percheron stallion prized by all the department .
Men who have chosen these majors are doubly fortunate in being able to en-
joy the use of first class equipment in their work and in having the privilege of
studying under men of unusual ability and rare personality.
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horticultural jfflajors
Professor Frank A. Waugh is the head of the Division of Horticulture, which
includes four distinct majors: Floriculture, Forestry, Landscape Gardening and
Pomology. Assistant Professor Charles H. Thompson is the man who last year
introduced the uninitiated into the mysteries of the general subject of Horticulture,
but under the new three-term plan, the Pomology Department now offers the
elementary course to Freshmen.
The Floriculture Department aims to train men for three different lines of
work; commercial floriculture, investigation and instruction, and private garden
work. This department is well equipped for its work. The north wing of French
Hall is devoted entirely to Floriculture. There are, in addition, six greenhouses,
a palm house, a conservatory for the culture of sub-tropical plants, a propagation
house and a garden containing over five hundred varieties and species of perennials.
This garden is the only one of its kind planted solely for teaching purposes. Pro-
fessor Arno H. Nehrling has charge of this major. He claims that the rapid de-
velopment of this type of work has created many more openings than there are
competent men to fill them.
The Department of Forestry is under the guidance of Professor William D.
Clark. Two lines of work are recognized in the major; city forestry and the man-
agement of forest land. This last is a work of growing importance in the country.
There is a steady demand for trained foresters by the Federal Government, by
the various State Governments, and by private concerns such as lumber, water,
paper and railroad companies. Recently a large tract of land on Mt. Toby has
been obtained. This will be used as a demonstration forest or field lahoratory
for the training of foresters and for experimentation.
Landscape gardeners are trained by Professor Waugh with Professor Arthur
K. Harrison as his aid. Mathematics is a prerequisite in this major and is especially
emphasized by this department. The fact is also emphasized, however, that
landscape gardening is an art, not a science, and that something more than theoret-
ical knowledge is necessary to one who is to be successful in it.
Men majoring in Pomology work under Professor Fred A. Sears and Professor
Walter W. Chenoweth. This department is located in Wilder Hall but the labora-
tories are the orchards on the college land. In these orchards, the men get practical
experience in spraying, pruning and renovating. A modem and thoroughly
equipped cold-storage plant greatly facilitates the work of the department.
Horticultural subjects are fascinating and the work, especially in the fall
and spring, is of a pleasant nature, but they cannot be recommended to any one
troubled with weak knees, since the taking of notes for' two hours at a time in a
standing position is not conducive to comfort. Gastronomically speaking, pomol-
ogy is the only course on the campus, but every major has its advantages.
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humanitarian Jflajorg
It is in the Division of the Humanities that we find ourselves drawn from the
plain prosaic atmosphere of practical farming to the realm of literature and lan-
guages. Here we meet the men and women who have to cope with our struggle
against culture and our aversion to "polish".
Miss Goessmann made a noble beginning in our cultural training during our
Sophomore year. Charming our ears with most interesting stories of high society
and travel abroad, interestingly woven into skilled interpretation of English au-
thors, she makes her courses so attractive that, as Juniors and Seniors, we return
again to absorb her view,s on "The Literature of Rural Life".
Neither will Dean Lewis' dreamy rendering of poetry be soon forgotten, nor
the laugh which the drooping eye called forth. His aids in teaching us the higher
forms of enjoyment and education are Professor Walter E. Prince, Assistant Pro-
fessor Charles Patterson, Mr. Frank P. Rand, Mr. Philip Payne and Associate
Professor Robert W. Neal.
The last mentioned is the college authority on short story writing, being the
author of a text-book on the subject. Moreover, he is the adviser and head of the
Major in Rural Journalism, the only real Major in the Humanities. On the fourth
floor of Stockbridge Hall there is a veritable editors' den, where those majoring
in the subject may be seen half buried in papers and clippings and busy with pen
and pencils vainly endeavoring to apply "the journalistic principles of getting
and suitably presenting material adapted to the non-urban reader".
A few upper classmen brave the wilds of public speaking but mere prefer to
journey to the foreign parts where Professor MacKimmie teaches French, but more
"Life" than French. Indeed, most Aggie students do not feel that they are edu-
cated unless they have had at least one course under him. Professor Harmount
is more scientific in his method of teaching French and illustrates well the necessity
of study.
Perhaps Professor Ashley appeals more directly to our aesthetic sense, if we
are guilty of such a thing, through his one hour a week music course. No one
taking the course fails to enjoy the hour at the Faculty Club, where the victrola
and piano are called into use. Professor Ashley is also head of the German De-
partment with Mr. Julian as Aide-de-Camp.
But we cannot forget, with Professor Sprague's piercing eye fixed upon us,
that an interesting course in economics and sociology is carried on under his super-
vision. Miss Lorian P. Jefferson supplements his work by giving several ccurses
in History and Government, particularly the history of New England.
It is plain, then, that the work of injecting culture and an appreciation of things
aesthetic into the minds of Aggie students is in the hands of a staff of teachers
whose worth and abilities are in proportion to the magnitude of the task.
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Jflajors m Hural Social Science
Exactly what caused the unusual influx into Aggie Economics has not yet been discovered
by the statisticians; but whether it was a natural even-class reaction from the ultra-domestic
tendencies of '17 or whether it was the logical result of the graceful soaring of the Hash House
rates, the new major has attracted probably more men from 191S than any other.
There is a peculiar fitness, to speak seriously for a time, in this reflection in M. A. C. of the
changing popular sentiment toward agriculture. It is as though the college were a huge barome-
ter, detected in the process of rising, in accordance with progressive popular thought, from the
production aspect, which has ceased to be the immediately pressing issue, to that aspect which
brings the farmer more and more into social and economic relationship with his neighbor and the
world.
The scope of activity of a man trained in economics in the rural community is broad in this
day and generation. To such votaries of Land, Labor and Capital as will offer up on the altars
of those divinities a sufficient quantity of midnight oil and writer's cramp, they graciously promise
anything from a sound and useful comprehension of the whole subject of farm relations to a lucra-
tive job in the IT. S. D. A. Office of Markets, a la Read '14'.
O ye shades of those wonderful spring afternoons and balmy nights spent in unholv wander-
ings through the maze of cotton, corn, pigs and other unhallowed denizens of our librariette,
smile benignly on our more daring brethren!
Perhaps of all our majors, none links us more with the actual farming community than that
which trains men and women to carry the college to the people. The significant note in the ad-
ministration of the Department of Agricultural Education at present, is the proposed reconstruc-
tion of courses, which aims "so to change the relation to the college of the courses in method that
the students preparing to teach agriculture may serve two terms as apprentice teachers under the
direction of an experienced teacher of agriculture" ; also to introduce "courses suitable for persons
preparing to take up garden supervision, home economics and canning among boys and girls";
a program of the usefulness and general commendability of which there can be little doubt.
The most familiar aspect of this department from the student point of view is the well-known
vista down carefully laid out rows of school gardens, flanked by sundry mysterious ropes, stakes,
hoes and other warlike instruments struggling with sturdyyoungsters of indeterminate nationality ;
and terminated by the broad back of Prof. Hart himself, as he helps some future farming expert
with his present problem in applied agronomy.
The work is interesting, because significant. To the 1918 recruits we can do no better than
to commend for consideration Prexy's watchword: "Agriculture — from the soil to the soul."
For more than forty years farmers' organizations and farmers' clubs have constantly called
attention to the importance of the social problems of farm and community life in the maintenance
and further development of rural citizenship.
M. A. C. was the first agricultural college in the United States to offer a course in response to
this demand; it was the first to establish a department for teaching and research in social prob-
lems; it was the first to undertake, through the extension department, the problem of community
building.
In 1905, a course of lectures, without credit, on the "Rural Community" was offered by
President Butterfield to the Senior Class. A large number of men took the course. The next
year regular elective courses were offered by the President. Professor E. K. Eyerley was ap-
pointed head of the department in 1900, a position he held for five years. In 1915, Professor
John Phelan was appointed head of the department. Mr. J. F. Xovitski comes to the depart-
ment this year as assistant.
That rural sociology is now taught in many of the leading universities, agricultural colleges,
normal schools and high schools is evidence of the fact that it met a keenly felt need. Though
the demand for teachers of this subject is now, and for several years to come will lie, far in excess
of the supply, yet the largest service of the Rural Sociology department will be that of training
capable young men and women who go from the college to the farms of Xew England to study
systematically the social conditions and needs of their communities in order that they may take
their part as intelligent and thoughtful citizens and bring to their communities the spirit of fellow-
ship, progress, and labor for the common good for which our college stands.
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Scientific jHajor£
If you are inclined to wander about that work of art known as the "chem" building, you
may find in one place a calm man with pointed beard with fingers stuck in his coat pockets; in
another you may hear a voice like that of a huge steer in its native Texas; and, seeking, may
find a man, never stopping to take breath, but lecturing straight ahead, with one eye watching
lest the unwary slumber and with the other lest a test tube boil over. Farther on you may find
a sage chasing a piece of chalk all over a black wall, but never catching it; the wall looks like
the result of an explosion in a tvpe foundry, with the addition of a few minor bursts like Ccoo-
H»Nu.FeS»,-o.
"And what," we asked, after making all these, observations, "aside from the asphyxiation
of sundry students per annum, is the end of all this paraphernalia?" "Ah", grinned the genius
of chemistry from the battlefield on the wall, "knowest thou not, young man, that some of the
greatest aids to the farmer of the future will be worked out by the present victims of these noxious
stenches?"
After the necessary circumnavigation of the pond, we inquired of the head of the "Ent"
department for particulars concerning the subject. Quoth he: "Entomology is that branch of
zoology which treats of insects. All species of insects, from the smallest to the largest, are con-
sidered; their anatomy, economic importance and methods of control being the principal topics
studied."
"Just why should you, need to study their anatomy?" we inquired.
"Well," came the reply, "it might be interesting sometimes to know whether an insect was
biting or stinging, if only to determine the best means of feeding them."
"And what good are insects?" I said.
"Why, some of them feed upon other insects, which saves us the trouble of preparing meals
for them. But come to my office to-morrow and I will procure a few students to demonstrate
these points." We were satisfied.
"Microbiology", said the Grand Mogul, in answer to our question, "sometimes called bac-
teriology or mycology, is a scientific study of such minute forms as Schizosaccharomycetes."
"One minute", said I, "I fail to comprehend the meaning of your terms."
"Well", he said, "they should have sent around a man who knows the subject, but I shall
do my best. You have heard of tetanus, poliomyeletis, spinal meningitis?"
"Who?" I queried.
"Pardon me. I am used to dealing with intelligent gentlemen." I subside. "Minute
bacteria and other microorganisms are prevalent everywhere in nature. Microbiology, which
deals with them, is thereby concerned in the canning and spoiling of fruit and vegetables, molding
of bread, rotting of potatoes, souring of milk, and practically all the diseases of plant, animal and
man. The subject is a branch of science still in its infancy in many ways, for there are what
are called invisible organisms which cause infantile paralysis, rabies and other diseases of which
little is definitely known. It is a branch of pure science, but is of tremendous practical impor-
tance. There is a great deal yet to discover and every discovery is a great help to mankind.
Have you followed me?"
And now at length, we glanced back to last spring, when we overworked the microscope
three times a week and pursued the modest violet, born to blush unseen, a large part of the re-
mainder of said week, and took account of ourselves. It seemed as though, softened by the haze
of even that small distance, we could begin to grasp the outlines of the science of Botany and
their relations to agriculture and agricultural economy. So we proceeded forthwith to the quiet
gentleman who presides over Clark Hall.
"Yes", he admitted, "Your required course is designed to form a general backgroimd for
the science. Now for such of you as continue with the work, there will be courses in Pathology,
Morphology and Physiology with numerous scattering seminars. Of course, I need not impress
upon you the economic significance "
He spoke truly; Already our typewriter had begun to click. We had been sufficiently
bescienced for one day .
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{Efje College Jfarm
Go back with me to the day when our college
was but a dream — the dream of far-sighted seers who
saw down the shining vista of the years agriculture as a
science and occupying an exalted place among the pro-
fessions. Gradually the dream began to materialize,
until, as it were, fine farms emerged from out of the
mists of the valley, offering the first possibilities of
realization of the vision. But what a problem they
offered —
"Each farm was surrounded and divided by its
own fences, supplied with its own roads, lanes, and
Prof. Foobd buildings, all of which were nearly worthless and re-
quired removal before the land could be brought into shape for being conducted under one
management. The entire estate was intersected in every direction by miles of Virginia fences har-
boring unsightly and unprofitable hedges of several years growth, clumps of alders and worth-
less orchards of scraggy, unproductive, seedling apple trees. Much of the land had been so de-
pleted by constant and improvident cultivation as to have become comparatively sterile; al-
though our inheritance of desolation brought forth bountiful crops of white daisies, yellow docks
and wild turnip."
To this, in 1865, seventy-three more acres of land in a
similar condition were added. The time for dreaming had
gone and the time for action had come. So carefully and
competently was this problem solved, that by 1881 we find
the college year book speaking of the college farm and campus
as "a well-tilled, comparatively productive and wonderfully
beautiful estate, without hedge, fence, ditch or gully; laid out
in smooth fields; intersected by well-kept and shaded drives,
paths and pleasure grounds; ornamented with trees, flowers
and fountains; supplied with new and appropriate buildings".
At this time "the college farm itself included two hun-
dred and fifty acres, one-half of which was in fine tillage and
mowing land, and the remainder about equally divided into
pasturage and woodland. A large model barn with drained
cellar, stack and hay floors, each accessible to loaded wagons,
with one wing for sheep, swine, breeding animals, steaming
apparatus and windmill; and another for vehicles and tools;
a large corn barn; a house for machinery, tools and farm
office; a sugar house, containing grinding mill and evapora-
tors; a dairy house and foreman's building made up the
building equipment of the farm."
Gradually, since that time, new land has been bought,
bringing the total acreage up to six hundred, but the land
has been redistributed among the various departments until
the final amount settled as farm land is two hundred and
thirty acres. Meanwhile the farm buildings have been
changed in character, number and value. At present, they
include a. horse stable near the Farm Superintendent's house;
a model dairy barn with a large capacity square silo; a
young stock barn with the open pen system for some of the
young stock, one wing for the college hulls and a round silo;
a piggery, a sheep shed; various types of henhouses; anil
a small house for the help, principally Hie milkers.
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During the same period of time, the college herd
has been built up and improved by careful home breed-
ing. At present it includes sixty-four cows representing
four breeds — Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey and Ayrshire.
The Holstein and Guernsey bulls are better animals
than the Jersey and the Ayrshire, but the college will
probably soon dispose of the old Ayrshire in favor of a
younger bull that they have just obtained. It is to be
regretted that the Jersey cannot be replaced now.
But we pride ourselves on the fact that the sire of the
Holstein known as Woodcrest Gordon Fayne is a half-
brother to the sire of Findeine Holingen Fayne, who made 1116 pounds of fat — the world's cow
record. Following are some noteworthy records from our barn of several individuals, showing
first the number of pounds of milk produced, and second the number of pounds of butter fat.
Milk Fat
Holstein— Concordia Pietertje 21,921.4 lbs. 690.55 lbs.
Holstein— Concord Maid 18,203.5 " 624.65 "
Holstein— Beth Blossom 2nd. 19,129.2 " 683.4 "
Jersey— Chrysalids Golden King's Lass 5,798.8 " 333.95 "
Jersey— Nantaska 4th. 8,748.6 " 469.65 "
Ayrshire— Chevleryin's Beauty 3d. 6,242.5 " 261.83 "
All these records are far in advance of the individual requirements for advance registry.
From seven hundred to seven hundred and fifty quarts of mdk a day are produced on the
farm. Most of this goes to the college certified milk plant — connected with the dairy barn.
There it is prepared for shipment to Boston and the
surplus goes to that original home of dietetics, the
college dining hall. All milking is done by hand at
the poetic hours of 1 A. M. and 1 P.M., in order to
make train connections. All feed is carefully weighed
and measured and the record of each individual cow is
kept. The certified milk is the only farm product of
real commercial value.
But "pigs is pigs" so they are kept on the further
edge of the fields where the proper perspective lends
enchantment. There are three different breeds repre-
sented and housing to suit, as the small pen, piggery
and open lot or green crop systems are .all utilized.
They are quite set apart, for their nearest neighbors are
flocks of sheep of two different breeds who have the
freedom of three comparatively large lots and a common
fold at night.
In the other direction, we find the poultry plant where from one day's end to the other the
old hens cluck and gossip1, the young cocks strut about in their self-satisfied way, and the chickens
fight regardless of civilization. The little Rhode Island Red who made a record of two hundred
and seventy eggs in a year, told us confident'ally that she didn't know what hens were coming to
with all this fuss nowadays. She said that her ancestors had no house at night, but slept in the
trees, laid only enough eggs to rear a flock of chicks, then quit. But now, one laid and laid and
laid until one could lay no more. Then too, she didn't know whether her mother was an incu-
bator, an improved incubator, a hen or a goose. Neither did she approve of the jealousy which
all the different and modernized houses created among the twenty-five breeds of poultry. Pro-
fessor Graham was her chief antipathy, as she couldn't understand why he was always haranging
about types and breeds, housing, range system, feed-
ing, egg and meat production, incubating, brooding,
caponizing, crating, killing, shipping to Boston mar-
f^-i^* I kets and worst of all being sent to the college dining hall
/f H I'll T I r/ii'' ~ '■ tor student consumption.
' ' Leaving such petty and flighty individuals as
these chickens, we go to the college stable, which af-
fords a splendid specimen of horse flesh — an imported
Percheron stallion whose pedigree is well worth study.
Ker David is the sire of many of the younger horses on
the farm, the most promising offsprings being two colts
of about five months whose dams are farm draft horses.
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Besides these, a three year old Morgan, now being
broken for horseback riding, a French Coach horse
"Jennie" and her offspring furnish interesting material
for the study of light horses. In addition, the stable is
full of good draft horses ranging from 1,400 to 1,600
pounds in weight. Indeed, they are so good that it is
not much of a condescension on John Green's part to
drive with them after driving his seven passenger
Mitchell.
The one man who keeps personally in touch with
the farm life every day in the year is Mr. Barber, the
Farm Superintendent. Though apparently quiet and
reticent, he knows how to get the work done. Orders
come from the throne room in Stockbridge Hall where
Professor Foord, as farm manager, listens to suggestions from six department heads as to the
improvement of soil conditions, crop rotations, feeding, breeding, marketing and so on. From
these he culls the best, making special arrangements for demonstration and experimental work to
be carried on on the farm for the benefit of students taking Agriculture, Dairying, Agronomy,
Animal Husbandry, Rural Engineering, and Poultry. This last arrangement is the thing which
keeps the farm from being an entirely successful Dusiness proposition; for who can make money
out of crops and live stock that they start simply to show the ignorant that they will not grow
here or under certain adverse conditions? In spite of some adverse criticism, the college farm is
an extremely successfukinstitution when we come to take into consideration the dual role it
plays of financier and instructor.
So, at last, we have the -dream come true — we have agriculture put on a scientific basis and
taught as a profession. Before us every day lie the problems of rural life and labor. Let us
make the most of our opportunities until we can visualize an ideal college farm; on which vision
some future generation will found an agricultural Utopia.
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Mr. Bowker was of the type of men that have
made this institution and other great enterprises a
success.
Imagine, if you will, the enthusiasm, faith and un-
daunted courage that it must have taken to enable the
pioneers of '71 to stick to a new and poorly equipped
college; the discouragements and setbacks this "Old
Guard" must have encountered. As one of these fear-
less souls Mr. Bowker has endeared himself to us to
such an extent that we all feel, with President Butter-
field, that in his death we have lost a staunch friend
and supporter.
For thirty-one years he was a trustee of our college,
serving well and faithfully. In this capacity he was
one of President Butterfield's most far-sighted and
keenest advisers, for he was a wide reader of stimulating
literature and a shrewd judge of men. Thus he was
well fitted to keep in close touch with the workings of
the college, and to express his approval or disapproval
of its affairs, his criticism generally proving construc-
tive. By way of illustration of his enthusiastic in-
terest in the welfare of M. A. C, Doctor Lindsey likes
to relate the following anecdote:
At one time Mr. Bowker had invited one of the
professors at the Agricultural College to go out to
lunch with him to talk over some matters of mutual
interest. Professor X. went into his office about one
o'clock, and instead of being greeted in a cordial manner, as he had expected, Mr. Bowker began
at once to upbraid him because of a certain publication which had been issued by the college which
did not meet with his approval. Professor X. listened quietly and made occasional remarks
until he became rather out of patience, and, rising, said to Mr. Bowker, "Now, Mr. Bowker, I
do not know anything about this publication, was in no way responsible for it, and I do not see
why I should be so severely censored. If I remember rightly, you invited me to go to lunch
with you, and I came in for that purpose." Mr. Bowker stopped suddenly, rose from his chair,
smiled, and said "Professor X., you are right; let's go to dinner".
Mr. Bowker appreciated a man with courage to combat him in argument, especially "one
who fights in the open", to use his own expression. This phase of his character may easily be
associated with his liking for strong-minded men of President Eliot's type, although he also loved
the simple country folk, for he was by nature a friend to all.
Having considered Mr. Bowker as a trustee, let us now look at him as a business man. It
has been said that in all his commercial connections he was a most creditable representative of
the upright business man. The vigor with which he carried himself even to the last, his erect,
alert figure, frank forehead, and bright eyes in which lurked a merry twinkle, all bespoke a man to
be trusted. In this respect we can pay him no greater tribute than has Frank E. Miller, who was
closely associated with him in the Bowker Fertilizer Company.
"He was first, last, and always a man's man — a man with a thick shock of iron-gray hair,
with clear, wide-open, kindly eyes, with broad shoulders and broader views', a man who knew
what it was to work with his two hands and who stood squarely and solidly on his two proper feet".
Last, but not least, Mr. Bowker was a farmer. He made "Farmer" a proud and noble
title; all his business was transacted in the interest of farmers, and for a while he himself was a
farmer.
As a friend he was beloved by those who knew him. How fitting it seems that he should have
passed away at the close of the season which he held dearest — the Christmas season of love and joy.
To close this tribute it seems appropriate to recall a few lines loved and often quoted by him :
"Give fools their gold and knaves their power,
Let Fortune's bubble rise and fall,
Who sows a field or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all.
For he who blesses man is blest,
And God and man shall own his worth
Who toils to leave as his bequest
An added beauty to the earth."
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Herbert Jlpricfe, '82
A story of the rise of an individual from
among the ranks of his fellows to a position of
honor and power fascinates and charms the
average reader. Aggie men, young and old,
cannot but be inspired by the following biog-
raphy of Herbert Myrick '82 of Springfield, a
fellow student and alumnus who not only has
gained individual success of the highest order
but has, by unswerving devotion to the wel-
fare of all, left his mark upon community and
nation alike.
Herbert Myrick was the son of a minister
and received that inspiration and guidance that
can only come from God-fearing parents.
The old New England principle that a boy
should be trained in the way he should go, was
not waived in the case of Herbert Myrick.
His mother taught him to do all kinds of
housework, and under the tutelage of his
father he was initiated into the mysteries of
horticulture through the medium of hard labor
at hoeing and weeding. One of the first green-
houses in the vicinity of Castine, Maine, was owned by his father. At the early
age of twelve and a half Herbert Myrick was placed in full charge of the
greenhouse.
In another year he accompanied his father to the West, where in four years he
lived through experiences rarely crowded into a forty 3'ear period of most men's
lives. His experiences ranged from herding sheep and punching cattle to ordinary
farming. He helped to construct the first irrigation ditch in Colorado. Fighting
Indians kept life from becoming too dull. During these four years from 1873 to
1877, he became in addition to his other activities a printer's devil, local editor and
finally publisher. In 1877, Mr. Myrick returned home and managed his father's
farm at Concord where he made the rocks pay.
In the fall of '78 he entered M. A. C, his financial resources being limited to
$50 which he had saved from his Western trip. It would be well for all Aggie men
to compare their undergraduate activities with the strenuous schedule followed
by this man. In his Freshman year, he tended the plant house furnaces, emptied
slops in North College, milked cows, and worked on the farm at 8c per hour. Later,
he set type in the evenings for the Amherst Transcript. At the same time he began
to write for the New England Homestead, furnishing the paper with news of the
college, Amherst, Leverett, Shutesbury and Hadley. In addition to this general
news, he would supply every week a column article of a technical nature as well as
numerous short paragraphs. For this work he received one dollar a month and a
free copy of the paper.
Canvassing for new subscribers for the New England Homestead began to
occupy Mr. Myrick's attention while yet a student. When he took up this line of
work there were four subscribers to the paper in four townships. Before he gradu-
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ated from college he had increased the number to 1000, most of whom are now
subscribers.
While Mr. Myrick entered college with but $50, he succeeded in paying all his
own expenses, contributed $700 to the support of his parental home, and at gradua-
tion had $147.50 in the bank. Perhaps there was some justification in the state-
ment of a classmate that "Boots" Myrick could make a living if placed on a rocky -
island in the middle of the Pacific.
An outline of Mr. Myrick's activities during a typical week of his Senior year
serves to illustrate his wonderful store of energy and stick-to-it-iveness. On Wed-
nesday he would leave Amherst for Springfield on an early train; work for the
New England Homestead till 11 o'clock at night; repeat on Thursday; work on
Friday until 8 o'clock and return to Amherst. Saturday morning was occupied by
recitations. Saturday noon he would start out to canvass the nearby farmers for
subscriptions to his paper, which would occupy his time till midnight. Sunday
mornings, Monday and Tuesday were devoted to study and recitations.
Upon graduation from M. A. C, Mr. Myrick became the Agricultural Editor
of the New England Homestead as well as Agricultural Editor of Farm and Home.
These magazines were both published by the Phelps Publishing Co., of which Mr.
Myrick became President and Editor in 1890, and controlling owner in 1899. His
present position as President and Editor of the Orange Judd Co. was assumed in
1891.
In addition to his journalistic activities Mr. Myrick has been the leader in the
organization of various enterprises for promoting agricultural interests, such or-
ganizations as the New England and American Tobacco Growers' Association, New
England and New York Milk Producers' Unions, American Maize Propaganda, and
the League of Domestic Producers in 1901 and '03, bearing the stamp of his per-
sonality.
Mr. Myrick is a thorough student of American agricultural conditions, particu-
larly those of the Northwest. He plans to visit every state at least once a year.
He has an unbounded faith in America and in American ideals. He is profoundly
In August 1916, Mr. Myrick Took a Swing Around the Circle Making Innumerable
Speeches on the New Federal Loan System
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interested in education, art, sciences, literature, history and development of natural
resources and individual character. - Among his hobbies is the collection of original
data about pioneer days, Indian warfare and early history in the Northwest.
At present Mr. Myrick is President, Editor, Manager and Director of the
Phelps Publishing Co., the Orange Judd Co., the Good Housekeeping Co., and
President of the Educational Press and Patriot Publishing Companies.
Mr. Myrick has been called "the Father" of the Rural Credits Bill signed by
President Wilson on July 17th, 1916. It was in large part due to his tireless efforts
that this bill became a reality. His interest in the bill prompted him to conduct
a nation-wide campaign of education on the rural credits. After the signing of
the bill, Mr. Myrick visited almost every state, speaking daily to large and en-
thusiastic crowds in explanation of the Rural Credits Bill.
In his own words, Mr. Myrick's success has been due in large part to his will-
ingness "to work and work hard". Undergraduates who would grumble at the
present day burdens of the curriculum as well as alumni who have not yet "arrived"
may do well to look closely at the record of this son of Aggie of a former generation.
It brings home the truth spoken by the sages of all times that the great difference
between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant,
is energy and invincible determination.
A. Herbert Myrick — Father of the Rural Credits Bill. Me. Myrick is Now in
Possession ofthe Pen With Which President Wilson Signed the Bill
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Winthrop Ellsworth Stone, '82, was born in the New Hampshire hill town of Chesterfield in
1882. As an Amherst High School lad of sixteen, he responded to the call which assembled the
famous class of '82 at M. A. C. A "town" boy, he escaped entanglement in many of the escapades
which marked the days of the old "south dormitory". Under the system of class work then in
vogue he "did his bit" in grubbing up the stumps in the west meadows of the college farm. Mili-
tary drill was his "bete noir" which probably accounts for his rising to no higher rank than that
of high private in the entire four years, but as a scout and strategist his ability was acknowledged.
Grateful tribute he always pays to the galaxy of great men who were members of the faculty at
that time, Clark, Stockbridge, Chadbourne, Goodell, Goessmann and Maynard. In lieu of
athletics he found healthful exercise on the home farm in Mill Valley and in the daily walk to and
from college. By senior year he began to come to the front, was president of his class and chairman
of the committee which planted the row of elms along the west side of the county road; and at
graduation scooped all the prizes in sight, viz., the Hills botanical prize, the Grinnell Prize, and
the prize for the best military essay; delivered an oration on Arctic Exploration; and at the class
banquet uttered a class prophecy more sensational than accurate, in the light of subsequent
events.
Having a scientific bent of mind, he took employment at Houghton Farm, near Newburgh,
N. Y., a kind ot private experiment station, where he was for two years scientific assistant to D. P.
Penhallow (M. A. C. 1873), followed by two years' service as assistant chemist in the Experiment
Station at Amherst under Dr. Goessmann. Gradually the longing for foreign study took form
and in the summer of 18S6 he set forth for Germany and for two years enjoyed, as he describes
it, the pleasantest period of his life under Tollens, Meyer, Berthold and other leaders in the Uni-
versity at Goettingen, whence he emerged in 1888 with his degree of Doctor of Philosophy and
a position as chemist to the Experiment Station in connection with the University ot Tennessee.
One year later he was called to the chair of chemistry at Purdue University, which has been the
scene of his labors for the past twenty-seven years. From 1S92 to 1900 he was not only Professor
of Chemistry but Vice-President of the University. In 1900, being elected to the presidency,
his active career as a chemist ceased. In eleven j'ears he had published over seventy scientific
papers, mostly on the subject of carbohydrates. His researches have been widely cited and
become permanent contributions to this important field. He has often expressed regret at the
fate which called him from the laboratory to the duties of an executive.
Purdue University under his guidance has taken first rank among the land grant colleges
and technical institutions of the country for the integrity and thoroughness of its work. He
has taken an active part in the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, as
member of the executive committee, chairman of various other committees and as President in
1912. He is an active member of the Indiana State Board of Education; of the governing board
of the Indiana Legislative Reference Bureau; past president of the Indiana State Teachers'
Association; of the Indiana College Association; formerly a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science; Fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science; Charter member
of the Purdue Chapter of Sigma Xi; a writer and speaker on education. In 1907 he received
the honorary degree of LL.D. in connection with the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
Michigan Agricultural College.
He is a loyal son of M. A. C, maintaining a keen interest in its welfare, and a staunch sup-
porter of President Butterfield. As a member of the Western Association of M. A. C. Alumni,
he is a contributor to the annual prize awarded to the student making the most marked progress.
Dr. Stone is a keen lover of nature and of all outdoor recreation. In recent years he has
achieved a reputation in mountaineering circles for his climbs and explorations in the Canadian
Rockies and Selkirks, and his publications in Alpine journals. He is an active member of the
Canadian and American Alpine Clubs, of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and The Mazamas.
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Satwaji Gundoji Mutkekar was
born March 22, 1886, in Belgaum, In-
dia. The first school that he attended
was the London Mission Marathi
School in his native city. Beginning
school at the age of eight, he proved so
efficient in his studies that he received
the Middle School Scholarship, which
amounted to one dollar a month. He
completed his course here at the age
of twelve years. He next attended
the Sirdars High School after working
two years in a store. There he studied
for seven years and passed the matricu-
lation examination, after which he
served in the military department.
Two years were then spent at the
Rajaram College, Kolhapur, where he
successfully passed the previous ex-
amination for college. Next he work-
ed for one year and received a scholar-
ship from the Prince of the State of six
dollars a month, after which he joined
Poona Agricultural College in Poona
for the purpose of taking their four
year course. This college honored
him with the degree of B. Agr.
For the next four years, Mr. Mut-
kekar worked in the Bombay Govern-
ment Agricultural Department as Superintendent of dry farming experiments under
Mr. Knight, a graduate of M. A. C. and a professor in the Poona Agricultural Col-
lege. Mr. Knight became convinced of Mutkekar's ability and requested the
Bombay government to send him to America for further studies in agriculture.
The government approved of the plan and granted him two years' leave of absence
and signed an allowance of ten dollars a month for his family. Mr. Mutkekar ar-
rived at M. A. C. in June 1914 and worked for four months on a farm, thus getting
practical experience. In October of the same year, he entered M. A. C. as a
graduate student.
Ever since his entrance to M. A. C, Mr. Mutkekar has supported himself by
his own labor, as he has had no one on whom he could depend for financial assistance.
To all those with whom he has come in contact he has shown himself an ardent
worker and on the whole a man whom M. A. C. can point out with pride as one of
her graduates. Mr. Mutkekar has now completed all his work for the Master of
Science degree with the exception of his thesis. He has recently been awarded a
fellowship in the department of Microbiology and has obtained an extension of his
two years' leave of absence in order to study for the Doctor's degree.
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proofed Jfarm Jfyow&t
The burning of the Brooks farm house on Saturday, December 11, 1915, brought to a close
the history of one of ''Aggie's" most famous student lodging places.
The house was a part of the old Cowles estate which formerly included land on both sides
of the road and ran back to the river on the west side. The college has acquired parts of the es-
tate and private parties have bought up the rest. A large part of the land on which are located
the experiment station plots on the east side of the road was once part of the estate. In 1907,
the farm-house and other buildings came into the hands of Dr. Brooks, Director of the Experiment
Station. All the buildings except the house, which was still kept as a lodging place for "Aggie's"
sons, were removed. The house was closed during the spring of 1915, but was opened in the fall
of 1915, being leased to Mrs. Minnie MacLagen, who was living there at the time of the fire.
Many tales are told of the life at Brooks Farm. Before the advent of steam, the stove w:\s
the only source of warmth in the rooms. When it was necessary to empty the ashes, the stove
was carried to the window and its contents dumped on the lawn below. If there was no available
help to move it, the desk drawers were found to be handy receptacles.
The various landlords of the Farm have had a good deal to stand from the students. A
story is told that Mr. Noah Pease, M. A. C. 1915, who rented Brooks Farm for sub-rental, was
surprised one night when he was about to retire, to find that his cot bed had disappeared. A
diligent search revealed the spring in the attic, the head and foot in the potato bin, and the minor
parts all over the hosue. When the bed was assembled. Pease was unable to sleep until West-
man, Stjernlof, Kilbon and Walkden had tired themselves out singing "Annie Laurie".
Pease' successor was A. James Hicks, Jr. The 1918 lodgers had so little consideration for
him that they were eventually denied the privileges of residing under the same roof with him.
This group departing under protest were the last students to occupy the house for, soon after,
during an informal, all gathered around to see the house disappear in a spectacular blaze.
Some of "Aggie's" best men have spent a year or two or at least a few nights at Brooks Farm
just to get a taste of the "roughhouse" for which it was noted.
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Late on the cool, clear, autumn afternoon of Oct. 9, 191.5, a happy crowd of "informal"
girls and Aggie men filed out through the gates of Alumni Field after witnessing the first inter-
collegiate contest on the new ground. Playing cleanly and forcefully, one of M. A. C.'s greatest
elevens had dedicated the new field with a 26-0 triumph over the hard playing Colby team. The
dreams of twenty years of Aggie men had been realized.
When Professor Hicks came to the college five years ago, plans were under way for a new
field, and had been for years. Difficulties in procuring land, and the lack of someone to "boost"
the project, were accountable for the continual delay. The athletic board then controlling ath-
letics had no recognition from the trustees by which it might do business. In June, 1913, the
trustees incorporated the Joint Committee on Inter-collegiate Athletics, and accepted plans for
the control of athletics and for the construction of the field. The original plan was to change
the course of Lincoln Avenue, but because this would necessitate great expense, and because the
land did not belong to the college, the site was given up. Professor Hicks found that the chief
objection at the different colleges was that their fields were too far from student activities to be
easily accessible. With this in mind, the trustees at their meeting on June 17, 1913, set aside for
the field the section of land now occupied by it.
The next step was to raise funds with which to build the field. This campaign was set off
by an enthusiastic mass meeting by the student body, Dec. 3, 1913, at wdiich §2,500 was pledged.
A canvass of the alumni followed. April 10, 1913, the work of draining the field commenced
with student labor, and was successfully completed under plans made by Professor Haskell at a
cost of but $100, by reason of the fine work of the students, and despite the pessimistic warnings
that the field was full of spring holes and could not be drained. In June 1914 the contract to
grade the field was made with G. S. Dickinson of Amherst, and by the following September the
work was completed. During the summer of 1915 the field was fenced on three sides. However,
the field cannot be considered finished until the fence, the 220 yard straightaway, and the quarter-
mile cinder track are completed, and until the tennis courts and the grand stand are built.
Recently a section of land of seven acres on the south end of the field has been acquired in
in connection with the Recreation Field plan, and blue prints for its utilization have been drawn
up by Professor Hicks. These call for the moving of the quarter-mile track farther south so that
it will not conflict with the baseball field, for a concrete walled hockey rink which will be filled
and emptied by gates opening into the brook, for two football and two baseball fields, and for a
section to be devoted to minor sports.
Up to the present time $11,00 has been paid into the field, besides $200 which the Class of
1916 set aside at graduation for the purpose of planting a hedge on the north and west sides of
the field, and over $2,000 which the directors of the original athletic field committee are holding
and adding to by soliciting from the older classes as a fund for the building of a grand stand.
Alumni Field, an investment of $12,500, has put athletics at M. A. C. on a truly collegiate
basis-. It has been made possible by the unselfish giving of both labor and money by the under-
graduates and alumni, and by the leadership of Professor Hicks, who believed in making a venture,
and whose phrase of success is, "If you have a dollar, — spend it!" Alumni Field stands as a
monument to his integrity, resourcefulness, and service.
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George Beabp iHcItcan '15
The search for an alumnus who could carry and sustain
the enviable reputation of Aggie football established by
Doctor Brides was difficult because of its thoroughness but
comparatively simple because of the ease with which
George filled all the qualifications. A four years' prep
school experience; a brilliant collegiate football career, the
details of which are still fresh in the minds of Aggie men;
a close and intensive study of the game, and a sustained
interest in Aggie football, made Giggie the logical choice for
Head Field Coach. We are justified in having no little
pride in the fact that Aggie football history has progressed
to the stage where the credit of Aggie victories can be laid
at the feet of Aggie men.
George IB. palmer '16
The regrets and gloom incident to the disorganization of
the wonderful team of 1915-16 by the graduation of so
many of its members were greatly allayed by the news that
"Gawge" was returning as coach. The close and hard
fought victories of the season of 1915-16 were made pos-
sible to a large extent by the clever directing and spec-
tacular kicking of this "little giant" general. While Har-
vard breathes easier at George's absence from the line-up,
no one doubts his ability to pass along his skill to others
who, like him, may drive Harvard backwards by the force
of their punts.
Ctigar 8. $ertp '16
In undergraduate days, insurance writers never bothered
Ed. When playing football, he wasn't considered a good
risk. Apparently constituted without fear or even caution
in his make-up, Ed's appearance on the field always
prompted the question of the irresistible body meeting the
immovable object. The reason he was so rarely hurt was
that seldom did he find a foe that more than once would
care to challenge his right of way on the football field. As
a player, Ed had the rare faculty of inspiring an exhausted
team to play like supermen. The example of his great
courage and gameness in games gone past and his rare
ability as a linesman make him invaluable as a coach.
Varolii ffl. (gore '13
"Pep, spirit, vim, vigor, call it what you will", but Kid
has it just the same. Here we have a never failing foun-
tain of that enthusiasm and ceaseless energy which carries
men over and through all obstacles to sure success. Ath-
letes in the embryo come to the campus and learn first to
respect this remorseless taskmaster and then to love this
big-hearted teacher and loyal friend. No student can
stay long on the campus without benefiting by contact
with Kid's contagious personality. Fitted by nature and
training for leadership in his chosen profession, Kid fills
his position as freshman coach in the most efficient man-
ner. Combined with his loyalty to his Alma Mater is a
clear vision of Aggie as a leader in principle and in deed;
a vision which he generally succeeds in placing before the
eyes of all who come under his tutelage.
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#rabuate ^>tubent£
Robert P. Armstron
Roy C. Avery
Harold C. Bales
Paul Beebe
Willard G. Bemis
Arthur I. Bourne
Wesley H. Bronson
John T. Caruthers
Edward A. Chapin
Raymond K. Clapp
J. Stanley Cobb
William L. Doran
Arthur E. Etter
Charles H. Fernald,
Ernest E. Fish
Arthur G. Fletcher
Egerton G. Hood
Benjamin F. Hubert
Linus H. Jones
Harold R. Kelly
Austin D. Kilham
Emmons B. Liddell
2nd.
Ralph L. MacNeil
Frederick G. Merkle
Ezra L. Morgan
Satwaji G. Mutkekar
Clayton W. Nash
H. A. Noyes
William C. Pauley
Curtis Peckham
Gerald E. Perry
Bennet A. Porter
Arthur L. Prince
James A. Purington
George B. Ray
Irving C. Root
Paul Serex, Jr.
Lloyd L. Stewart
Leland H. Taylor
Stuart C. Vinal
Donald White
Carrick E. Wildon
Elwin G. Wood
Allison M. Woodman
J?ot CanbtbatcS for a Begrcc
Walter M. Peacock W. Bradley Thompson
Henry H. White
M. A. C. GRADUATE CLUB
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Jllemuerg in tfjc Jfacultp
George H. Chapman Harold M. Gore Curry S. Hicks
A. Anderson Mackimmie
William L. Doran
i&esibent jfflemberfi
George D. Melican
William L. Machmer
George B. Palmer
<3ctibe fflzmbtvsi
Lewis T. Buckman David H. Buttrick James H. Day Emory E. Grayson
William R. Irving Richard W. Smith Almon W. Spaulding Arthur F. Williams
Adelphia is an honorary senior society whose aim is to foster and uphold the
best interests of the college. In doing this it is the part of the society to work in a
quiet and unobtrusive manner, not seeking honors. In fact, it endeavors to avoid
publicity, believing that its best can be done in this way : but it takes active steps
to advance the college in every branch of college life and work, and exerts itself
against anything which it considers detrimental.
Adelphia interests itself in all matters which concern the student body and
often works jointly with the Senate in remedying faulty conditions and endeavoring
to keep college politics clean.
In considering and electing men to membership in Adelphia, the society tries
to draw into its membership representative men in college who are leaders in the
various branches of student activity.
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1917 CLASS PRESIDENTS
Grayson Smith
Spaulding
Irving
Mentor (^fttcersi
Almon W. Spaulding
. President
Joseph F. Whitney
. 1 ice-President
John T. Dizer ....
. Secretary
Samuel F. Tuthill
. Treasurer
Edmund B. Hill ....
Class Captain
John M. Sauter .
Sergeant-at-Anns
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|OR the last time" so read all Senior histories, as each year another
class write the last lines of its undergraduate page and passes on,
leaving its place to a climbing brother; stepping out to meet those
j who have gone before.
We, the Class of 1917, have almost reached our college goal. The peak
toward which we gazed as freshmen is within our grasp. A few short months
and we will bury the hatchet of class rivalry, sing our class song for the last time
together, smoke the pipe of peace, and, turning over the guiding reins and tradi-
tions of our Alma Mater to our '18 brothers, step out, leaving behind us another
Senior Class.
We will be freshmen again, with our college work behind us, looking forward
to the bigger things of life looming up on our horizons just a little farther on.
Then later when success has come, when each man has done his best, we can
gather round a fire in the open grate, and, taking the Index from its resting place,
bring back from its yellowing pages scenes from our College days. Freshman and
Sophomore years — how far away seems the activities of those early days. Rope
pulls and picture scraps, ball games and night shirt parades, class sings and banquet
seasons, Dean's lists and finals, contests of every kind; some lost, some won; all
had their places in the natural order of college life.
Then came the period of reconstruction. With the class watchword " Stick"
still ringing in our ears, we came back as Juniors. Amoeba and paramoecium were
things of the past ; laws of gravitation and motion had lost their fear-creating pow-
ers; and the great "Triumvirate" had passed us on, with only here and there some
wayward one returning for another seance. We were upperclassmen, ready to as-
sume with new dignity the duties of our position.
A new athletic field greeted us; a new agricultural building was finished for
our benefit, and in due time a new Index appeared to perpetuate the records of
1917. So we moved on, till the Junior Prom held for its short time the center of
the stage, topping the social life with a crown of success.
Then to the Hotel Nonotuck where around the class banquet tables were
cemented the final bonds of class friendships and ambitions. Class trees we planted
as guardians of the entrance to the athletic field we had helped to make. Commence-
ment time came;— a few parting words from 19 Hi and we were Seniors.
So far the records are written; the rest is yet to come. Barely one half of the
entering class of 1917 remains. Each passing term has seen more and more join
the ranks of the "ex" men. Each one of the hundred left is but a unit of the whole ,
one percent of the hundred which makes up the efficiency of 1917.
"For the last time",— as we began, so will we end. For the last time we
write our history as a class in college and with the watchword of the year, "Ambi-
tion", before us, we pass on.
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Babcock, Philip Rodney ........ Lynn
K 2 House; Lynn English High School; 1893; Microbiology; K 2; Microbiology Club;
Class Track (2).
Behrend, Oswald Natick
Commons Club; Natick High School; 1893; Microbiology; Commons Club; Microbiology
Club; Rifle Club; Vice-President (2).
Bell, Alfred Whitney, Jr Newton Highlands
53 Lincoln Avenue; Newton High School; 1896; Animal Husbandry; Mandolin Club;
Class Track (1, 2, 3); Class Cross Country (2, 3); Varsity Track (3).
Boles, Robert Stewart Dorchester
B K * House; Mechanic Arts High School; 1894; Agriculture; B K *; Class Baseball
(1, 2); Class Football (2); Varsity Football (3, 4).
Bonn, Wesley Copeland ........ Grafton
Commons Club; Grafton High School; 1895; Agronomy; Commons Club.
Booth, Alfred Campbell Hall, N. Y.
12 South College; Middletown High School; 1S92; Agriculture; K T <J>; Class Football
(1,2); Manager Six-Man Rope Pull (1).
Boyce, Harold Prescott Haverhill
15 South College; Haverhill High School; 1893; Agricultural Education; K F <£.
Buckman, Lewis Taylor Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
13 South College; Harry Hillman Academy; 1896; Pomology; 6 X; Adelphia; Roister
Doisters; Dramatics (1, 2, 3); Manager Class Football (2); Class President (1); Fraternity
Conference (3, 4); President Fraternity Conference (4); Squib Board (2, 3, 4); Editor-
in-Chief 1917 htdex; Chairman Junior Prom Committee; Senate (3,4); President Senate
(4).
Buttrick, David Herbert .... . Arlington
* S K House; Arlington High School; 1894; Poultry; * 2 K; Glee Club (2); Roister
Doisters; Adelphia; Captain Ckss Football (1); Varsity Football (3); Varsity Hockey
(1, 2, 3); Captain Varsity Hockey (4); Sophomore-Senior Hop Committee (2); Informal
Committee (3); Class Hockey (1, 2); Captain Class Hockey (2).
Carruth, Glenn Howard ......•• Orange
3 North College; Orange High School; 1894; Agricultural Education; Commons Club;
Stockbridge Club.
Clough, Charles Henry Dedham
11 North College; Dedham High School; 1892; Agriculture; B K *; Class Track (2, 3);
Stock Judging Team (4).
Cross, Walter Irving Hingham
6 North College; Hingham High School; 1894; Floriculture; Florists' and Gardeners' Club;
Six-Man Rope Pull (2).
Curtin, Charles Warren Newton
10 Hallock Street; Newton High School; 1894; Entomology; A X A; Class Hockey (1, 2);
Collegian Board (1, 2).
Chamberlin, Frank Shirley . . ... Framingham
Commons Club; Framingham High School; 1894; Entomology; Commons Club.
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Davis, Monsell Henry ....... Orange, N. J.
16 North College; Newark Academy; 1894; Agriculture.
Day, James Harold ......... Hatfield
A Z <J> House; Smith Academy; 1895; Entomology; A S 4>; Adelphia; Varsity Football
(2, 3, 4) ; Class Football (1) ; Varsity Baseball (2, 3) ; Class Basketball (2, 3) ; College Senate (4) .
Dempsey, Paul Wheeler ....... Dorchester
15 North College; Newton High School; 1895; Pomology; A X A.
Dickey, Harold Gammell ....... Dorchester
8 South College; Dorchester High School; 1896; Animal Husbandry; Q T V.
Dillon, Thomas Stevenson ....... West Warren
Aggie Inn; Springfield Technical High School; 1892; Animal Husbandry.
Dizer, John Thomas ....... East Weymouth
East Experiment Station; Weymouth High School; 1894; Floriculture; Commons Club;
Florists' and Gardeners' Club; Class Secretary (4) ; 1917 Index Board; Collegian Board (4).
Duffill, Edward Stanley ...... Melrose Highlands
8 Allen Street; Wakefield High School; 1893; Floriculture; Commons Club; Landscape
Club; Florists' and Gardeners' Club; Class Tennis (1, 2, 3).
Dunham, Henry Gurney
West Bridgewater
11 North College; Howard High School; 189.5; Microbiology; B K <1>; Microbiology Club;
French Club.
Edwards, Francis Gill ........ Beverly
$ 2 K House; Salem High School; 1893; Microbiology; <t> S K; Microbiology Club;
Roister Doisters; Glee Club (1, 3, 4); Leader Glee Club (4); Quartet (4); Class Footbal
(1, 2); Varsity Track (3); Class Captain (1).
Elliot, Ralph William ........ Chartley
Flint Lab.; Norton High School; 1S96; Dairying; Commons Club; Stockbridge Club;
Country Life Club.
Everbeck, George Charles ....... Winthrop
1 South College; Winthrop High School; 1893; Agriculture; 2 * E; Class Basketball (1):
Class Rifle Team (2).
Fearing, Ralph Watson ....... Dorchester
3 North College; Dorchester High School; 1S94; Agriculture; Commons Club.
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Flagg, Wayne McCrillis . . Mittineague
B K * House; West Springfield High School; 1894;
Microbiology; BK$; Microbiology Club; Class Foot-
ball (1); Class Track (3).
Flint, Oliver Simeon .... Lowell
120 Pleasant Street; Lowell High School; 1891; Poultry;
Class Track (1, 2); Class Cross Country (2); Captain
Class Rifle Team (2); Manager Class Track Team (3);
Manager Varsity Track (4).
Goldstein, Maurice .... Lynn
10 North College; Lynn English High School; 1894; Mi-
crobiology; Commons Club; Microbiology Club.
Graham, Leland Jenkins . . Amherst
Lincoln Avenue; Amherst High School; 1896; Poultry.
Grayson, Emory Ellsworth . . Milford
A-$ House; Milford High School; 1894; Agriculture;
AS*; Senate (3, 4); Class Athletic Board (4); Var-
sity Football (2, 3, 4) ; Captain Varsity Football (4) ;
Class Football (1, 2); Varsity Baseball (3); Class Base-
ball (1, 2); Class Hockey (1, 2); Class Basketball (1,
2, 3); Captain Class Basketball (1, 2.)
Gurshin, Carl Alfred .
K 2 House; 1895; Entomology;
K 2; Glee Club (1, 2, 3, 4); Orchestra (3, 4).
Lynn
Hagelstein, Charles Henry Dorchester
14 South College; Dorchester High School; 1895; Microbiology; K T *; Microbiology
Club; Country Life Club; Class Football (1, 2); Class Basketball (1, 2, 3); Class Baseball
(2); Class Tennis (3); Varsity Football (4).
Harlow, Frank Edward Maiden
10 North College; Maiden High School; 1894; Agriculture.
Harlow, Paul Goodhue • • Maiden
* 2 K House; Maiden High School; 1895; Agriculture; * 2 K; Class Baseball (1, 2);
Varsity Baseball (2, 3); Captain Class Baseball )2).
Henninger, Roswell Woodward Williamsport, Pa.
87 Pleasant Street; Williamsport High School; 1893; Poultry; 2 $ E; Poultry Judging
Team (3); Secretary Market Poultry Show (3).
Higginbotham, Harry .....•••• Taunton
North College; Taunton High School; 1894; Microbiology; 0 X; Microbiology Club;
Class Football (1, 2); Class Baseball (1, 2); Class Hockey (1, 2).
Hill, Edmund Baldwin Rutherford, N. J.
A 2 * House; Rutherford High School; 1893; Floriculture; A 2 #; Varsity Track (3);
Chairman Sophomore-Senior Hop Committee (2); Junior Prom Committee (3); Informal
Committee (3, 4) ; Pluto's Daughter (2) ; Roister Doisters.
Holden, Richard Lynde . Haverhill
11 South College; Proctor Academy; 1897; Animal Husbandry; A X A; Stockbndge Club ;
Manager Varsity Football (4); Varsity Track (2); Class Track (2).
Holder, Ralph Clifton Farmington, N. H.
17 Kellogg Avenue; Millis High School; 1895; Chemistry; Varsity Baseball (2, 3).
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Hubbell, Franklin Homer ......
14 South College; Staples High School; 1896; Pomology; K F <f>.
Irving, William Raymond ........ Taunton
13 South College; Taunton High School; 1892; Entomology; 0 X; Adelphia; Senate (4);
Informal Committee (3); Class Football (1, 2); Class Basketball (1, 2, 3); Captain Class
Basketball (3) ; Class Baseball (1, 2); Manager Class Hockey (2); Class President (3).
Kelsey, Edmund Dean . . . . . . . . Amherst
Commons Club; Rindge Technical School; 1892; Agriculture; Commons Club; Class
Rifle Team (2). '
Kelsey, Lincoln David ..... West Hartford, Conn.
90 Pleasant Street; West Hartford High School; 1894; Agriculture; B K *; Stockbridge
Club; Debating Club; Country Life Club; Fraternity Conference (3, 4) ; Roister Doisters;
Class Basketball (1, 2, 3); Burnham Eight (1); Flint Contest (1, 2); Class Treasurer (2);
Public Speaking Council (2, 3); Varsity Debating Team (2, 3).
Merrimac
Stockbridge
Kinsman, Alfred Oberlin, Jr. ... .
Math. Building; Merrimac High School; 1893; Animal Husbandry; A X A;
Club; Class Football (1,2).
Everett
Class Baseball (2).
. Norwichtown, Conn.
K 1; Stockbridge Club;
Larson, Frederick Christian .....
12 South College; Huntington School; 1893; Forestry; K T $;
Latham, Paul Walker ......
12 North College; Norwich Free Academy; 1895; Agriculture;
Y. M. C. A.; Burnham Eight (2); 1917 Index Board.
Lawrence, Milford Robinson ...... Falmouth
K 2; Lawrence High School; 1896; Landscape; K 2; * K <I>; Landscape Art Club; Flor-
ists' and Gardeners' Club; University Landscape Architects' Society; Glee Club (2, 3,
4); Quartet (2, 3, 4); Collegian Board (1, 2, 3, 4); 1917 Index Board; Manager Varsity
Hockey (4) ; Chairman Freshman Banquet Committee; Class Vice-President (3).
Light, Brooks ......... Brookline
4 South College; Milton High School; 1893; Poultry; 2 <I> E; Six-Man Rope Pull (2).
Loring, Albert Briggs ...... Nantasket Beach
16 North College; Hingham High School; 1893; Dairying; Class Track (1, 2, 3).
Lydiard, Harry Crowther ...... Hartford, Conn.
2 North College; Hartford High School; 1894; Floriculture; Florists' and Gardeners' Club;
Landscape Art Club; Glee Club (1, 2).
Mack, Walter Adams . ... . . Springfield
15 South College; Springfield High School; 1895; Microbiology; K F $; Microbiology
Club; Rifle Club; Catholic Club; Class Football (1, 2); Varsity Football (4); Class Basket-
ball (2, 3); Class Baseball (2); Varsity Rifle Team (2).
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MacLeod, Daniel Johnston ....... Wakefield
Hillside Avenue; Wakefield High School; 1896; Agriculture; Stockbridge Club.
Marchant, Horace Greenough ...... Cambridge
5 North College; Milton High School; 1895; Pomology; S 4> E.
Mayo, Frank Willard ........ Houlton, Me.
4> 2 K House; Foxcroft Academy; 1890; Agronomy; <J> S K; Fraternity Conference
(3, 4); Junior Prom Committee (3); Class President (1); Business Manager 1917 Index;
Class Baseball (1, 2).
Mayo, William Irving, Jr. ...... Framing-ham Center
Experiment Station Farmhouse; Framingham High School; 1893; Agronomy; Commons
Club.
McNamara, Michael Joseph Stoughton
Stockbridge Hall; Stoughton High School; Dairying.
Merrill, Dana Otis . East Pepperell
10 North College; Pepperell High School; 1896; Agriculture; Commons Club; Y. M. C. A.
Moorhouse, Newell . . . Worcester
9 South College; 1894; Agriculture; Q. TV.; Manager
Varsity Basketball (4).
Nash, Herman Beaman . . . Amherst
13 North College; Amherst High School; 1895; Agricul-
tural Education; Commons Club; Y. M.C.A.
Nelson, John Brockway . . Newburyport
15 South College; 1894; Microbiology; K F 4>; Microbi-
ology Club; Manager Class Tennis (2, 3).
Noyes, Samuel Verne . . . Georgetown
11 North College; Newburyport High School; 1894;
Animal Husbandry; B K *; Stockbridge Club; Stock
Judging Team (4).
Pierce, Harold Barnard Kansas City, Mo.
80 Pleasant Street; Manual Training High; 1894; Chemistry; B K *; Microbiology Club.
Pratt, Harold Arthur Shrewsbury
Plant House; Worcester English High; 1894; Floriculture; AX A; Florists' and Gardeners'
Club; Class Cross Country (1, 2, 3); Varsity Cross Country (2); Varsity Track (2, 3);
1917 Index Board; Squib Board.
Quimby, Charles Frederick ..... Cape Neddick, Me.
83 Pleasant Street; York High School; 1896; Agriculture; Class Hockey (2).
Randall, Earle MacNeill Winchester
11 South College; Somerville High; 1896; Landscape; A X A; Landscape Art Club;
1917 Index Board.
Richardson, Lewis Elmer ....... Rockville
11 South College; Millis High School; 1894; Animal Husbandry ; AX A; Class Rifle Team
(2); Class Track (2); Class Cross Country (2, 3); Varsity Cross Country (3).
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Rodger, Raymond Miller ........ Everett
16 South College; Everett High School; 1892; Chemistry; B K $; Class Football (1 2V
Orchestra (2, 3); Manager Class Baseball (-2); Class Track (3).
Rogers, Roland Winsor . . . . ' . . . . Braintree
12 South College; Mechanics Arts High School; 1894; Landscape; K T *; Landscape Art
Club; * K $; Y. M. C. A.
Rorstrom, Hans Alfred ........ Boston
Experiment Station Farmhouse; Mechanic Arts High School; 1892; Agriculture; A X A-
Stockbridge Club; Class Football (2); Class Basketball (3); Six-Man Rope Pull (2); Class
Captain (3).
Ross, Louis Warren ........ Arlin°ton
$ 2 K House; Arlington High School; 1893; Pomology; <1> Z K; Mandolin Club (3 4V
Class Football (1, 2); Class Hockey (1, 2); Captain Class Hockey (1); Varsity Hockey
(1, 2, 3); Class Baseball (1, 2); Class Captain (2).
Saidel, Harry Samuel ........ Worcester
2 North College; Worcester High School; 1895; Floriculture; Commons Club.
Sargent, George Leonard ........ Merrimac
4 North College; Merrimac High School; 1895; Agriculture; Commons Club; Y. M. C. A.
Saunders, William Putnam ....... Lawrence
20 South College; Lawrence High School; 1S93; Journalism.
Sauter, John Martin ........ Turners Falls
13 North College; Turners Falls High School; 1892; Microbiology; Microbiology Club-
Class Football (1, 2); Varsity Football (4).
Saville, William, Jr. ........ Waban
7 South College; Newton High School; 1895; Pomology; Q.T.V.; Roister Doisters (1, 2 3V
Advertising Manager (3); Collegian Board (2, 3, 4); 1917 Index Board; Sophomore-Senior
Hop Committee (3); Class Tennis (3).
Schaefer, Leonard Charles Holvoke
Entomology Building; Somerville High School; 1893; Entomology.
Schwab, Andrew Nathan Yalesville Conn.
French Hall; Wallingford High School; 1895; Floriculture; Commons Club; Glee Club
(1, 2); Florists' and Gardeners' Club; Class Track (1, 2, 3).
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Selkregg, Edwin Reimund . . North East, Pa.
10 South College; Entomology; Q. T. V.; Dramatics (3).
Shumway, Paul Edward . . . Greenfield
60 Pleasant Street; Greenfield High School; Pomology;
0 X; Class Baseball (1, 2).
Sims, James Stanley .... Melrose
20 South College; Melrose High School; 1894; Chemistry;
* S K; Class Football (1); Orchestra (3).
Smith, Herbert Dwight Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
60 Pleasant Street; Poughkeepsie High School; 1894;
Entomology; Commons Club.
Smith, Richard Woodworth
Pittsfield
12 North College; Pittsfield High School; 1895; Landscape
Gardening; K 2; Senate (3, 4); Adelphia; Landscape Art Club; Class President (2);
Chairman Informal Committee (4); Collegian. Board (1, 2, 3, 4); 1917 Index Board; Ban-
quet Committee (1).
Spaulding, Almon Whitney ...... Newton Highlands
16 South College; Dorchester High School; 1895; Rural Journalism; B K $; Manager
Class Basketball (2); Sophomore-Senior Hop Committee (2); Senate (3, 4); Adelphia;
"i> K <S>; Manager Varsity Baseball (3); President Greater Boston Club ; Class President (4) .
Squires, Paul Revere ........ Belchertown
A 2 * House; Springfield Technical High School; 1895; Entomology; AH*; Class
Basketball (1, 2, 3); Captain Class Basketball (2).
Stearns, Carlton McIntyre ....... Melrose
15 Phillips Street; Melrose High School; 1895; Pomology; Commons Club; Class Track
(1,2,3).
Stiles, Albert Ralph ....... Arlington Heights
8 South College; Arlington High School; 1894; Chemistry; Q. T. V.; Class Hockey (1, 2);
Class Rifle Team (2).
Stowell, Harold Thurber ........ Amherst
193 South Pleasant Street; Amherst High School; 1894; Agriculture; Y. M. C. A.; Man-
dolin Club (3, 4); Class Hockey (1, 2).
Thayer, William Wallace ....... Somerville
A X A House; Somerville High School; 1895; Agriculture; A X A; Fraternity Conference
(3, 4); Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Class Tennis (2, 3); Class Sing Leader (2, 3).
Tuthill, Samuel Fuller ....... Mattapoisett
16 South College; Fairhaven High School; 1894; Agriculture; BK*; Rifle Club; Stock-
bridge Club; Glee Club (1); Class Hockey (2); Varsity Rifle Team (3).
Upson, Everett Langdon ...... New Britain, Conn.
7 "South College ; New Britain High School; 1893; Animal Husbandry; 2 * E.
Walbridge, Henry Blood .....
7 North College; Bennington High School; 1894; Agriculture.
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Warner, Merrill Pomeroy ....... Sunderland
8 South College; Amherst High School; 1894; Agriculture; Q. T.V.; Rifle Club; Musical
Club (2); Dramatics (2); Collegian Board (1, 2, 3, 4).
Warren, Harold Manson ........ Melrose
1 South College; Chauncy Hall School; 1893; Microbiology; Roister Doisters; Class Foot-
ball (1, 2); Band (1, 2, 3, 4).
Warren, James Joseph ... . . North Brookneld
3 North College; North Brookfield High School; 1892; Poultry; Commons Club; Catholic Club.
Webster, Frank Cedric ........ Harvard
Math. Building; Harvard High School; 1892; Animal Husbandry; A X A; French Club;
Class Football (1); Six-Man Rope Pull (2).
Westman, Robert Clayton ...... Roslindale
15 South College; Mechanic Arts High School; 1S96; Economics; K F 4>; Country Life
Club; Senate (3, 4); Class Baseball (1); Class Hockey (1); Varsity Baseball (3); Class
Vice-President (2); Class Secretary (1); Cheer Leader (4); President Agricultural Eco-
nomics Club (4).
Whitcomb, Warren Draper ... .... Waltham
0 X House; Waltham High School; 1895; Entomology; 0 X; Class Baseball (2) ; Junior
Banquet Committee.
Whitney, Joseph Fradley ...... Brooklyn, N. Y.
96 Pleasant Street; Erasmus Hall High School; 1895; Landscape Gardening;; KS; Landscape
ArtClub; Mandolin Club (2, 3, 4); Leader(4); 1917 Index Board; Collegian Board (3, 4);
Class Cross Country (1); Class Track (1, 2, 3).
Wies, Calmy .......... Maiden
31 Pleasant Street; Maiden High School; Agriculture.
Wilber, Charles Raymond ........ Walpole
6 North College; Walpole High School; 1895; Floriculture; 2 <1> E; Roister Doisters;
Fraternity Conference (3, 4); Florists' and Gardeners' Club; Dramatics.
Wilcox, Timothy Palmer ........ Andover
A 2 <i> House; Punchard High School; 1S94; Animal Husbandry; A 2 $; Mandolin Club;
Glee Club; Dramatics; Fraternity Conference (3, 4); Class Football (1); Class Baseball
(1); Class Track (1); Sophomore-Senior Hop Committee (2).
Williams, Arthur Franklin ...... Sunderland
10 South College; Amherst High School; 1S94; Pomology; Q.T.V.; Roister Doisters;
Musical Club (3, 4); Adelphia; General Manager Dramatics (4); Class Vice-President (3);
Mandolin Club (3, 4); Junior Prom Committee (3); Business Manager Dramatics (3).
Williams, Herbert Clifton .
Pleasant Street; South Hadley High
I'hool; 1894; Chemistry
. South Hadlev Falls
Class Baseball (2).
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On the night of May 5, 1916, the juniors
added their bit toward the furtherance of the
established custom of planting a class tree.
The ceremony differed in certain respects from
that of former years, inasmuch as two trees
were planted instead of one. In accordance
with the general scheme of decoration of the
new athletic field, these were set at either side
of the proposed gateway at the north side.
The ceremony was opened with a speech by
President Irving, who gave a brief history of
the custom and called to the attention of the
'17 men the peculiar appropriateness of the
ceremony for them, as their class, as freshmen,
had seen the beginning of the athletic field as a reality. Spaulding and Buckman
followed with a few remarks, after which the entire class proceeded to throw in the
traditional shovelful of earth per man, the trees having been already set in their
locations. The assemblage then marched to the gravel pit in the rear of the
barns, where light refreshments were served and speeches and songs given by
members. Among the speakers was Captain King of the baseball team, who
prophesied the defeat of Amherst next day; it is a matter of history that
King's prophetic reputation did not suffer by the test. The gathering broke up
with the singing of "Sons of Old Massachu-
setts".
The committees in charge were as follows:
tree, Whitcomb, Rogers, Larson; refreshments,
Buckman, R. W. Smith, Williams; ceremony,
Birchard, Henderson, Westman.
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1918 Class %i*tovv
MJ^E suppose that a class history exists,
iljlj primarily, for the purpose of show-
ing wherein its subject differs from
gz* rm the classes that have been before
ffi^^ii and from those that shall be after.
But we are not different; and we
think we are not disloyal in saying it. Yes,
our men have played on winning teams, our
speakers have won some fame, our energy and
grit have been praised by other classes; in
which we have behaved essentially as would
any other body of vigorous and immature
youth. We have been thoughtless, we have
been selfish, we have been narrow, too; but
we should hardly think of those faults as con-
fined to ourselves. Our only claim to great-
ness, if we have one, is, like Lancelot's, that we
know we are not great; that we have seen,
perhaps, a little more clearly than have others,
and, in the seeing, have been compelled to ad-
mit that not only those others but we ourselves
as well were not kings or queens, but pawns.
We hope, then, that we have begun aright in
the old Socratic wisdom which says that only he is wise who knows that he knows
nothing.
Nevertheless it is true that we have acquitted ourselves not discreditably in
those external activities which constitute,in the popular mind, the expression of
the class as such. Of our freshman football team — the less said the better; but
in basketball and baseball we repaired the breach. We were hauled through the
pond in the sixty-man rope pull, and lost the six-man by a narrow margin, but
retaliated in part on the indoor rifle range; we failed to get our picture into the
1916 Index, but, in the fullness of time, successfully carried out our freshman ban-
quet in Greenfield. In our second year, we could not resist the temptation to follow
in the footsteps of former classes, and we enjoyed ourselves a week or two at the
expense of 1919. We won, also, the picture contest, both rope pulls, and class
football, but lost in basketball and the rifle match. Hockey went to our friends
the enemy in a hard-fought game, as did baseball the following spring. After
working out a thorough system of patrolling, the freshmen outwitted us after all
and held a decidedly successful banquet. Meanwhile we had been amply repre-
sented on varsity athletic -teams, on debating teams, on the Collegian, and in
divers other machinery of college life. Of the present year we can say little as yet,
except that, like our predecessors, we tend to drift apart somewhat, and that we
have rendered unto the freshmen our traditional share of moral support.
So then, our greatest history, let us hope, lies, as always, just ahead. May
we, still setting up before us high ideals of service and of power rightly applied,
seek ever for our distinctiveness not in the transitory field of what is evident in
college, but rather in the permanence, of our ideals and their later helpfulness.
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Jfrcfifjman gear, ist Semester
Jfrcsfjman gear, 2nb g>emesiter
Robert L. Boyd .
Lewis W. Spaulding
Richard W. Thorpe
Harlan N. Worthley
Herbert H. Baxter
Forrest Grayson
Harold E. Jones .
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
. Captain
Sergeant-at-Arms
Historian
Chairman Banquet Committee
Member Banquet Committee
Howard L. Russell
Alfred Sedgwick
Frank M. Babbitt
Harlan N. Worthley
Robert P. Holmes
Forrest Grayson
Harold E. Jones
John J. Maginnis
George J. Duncan
i?opl)otncire gear, l£t g>ctne£iter
ikipbomore gear, 2rrt) Semester
Frank M. Babbitt
Sidney S. Smith .
Marshall O. Lanphear
Harlan N. Worthley .
Stephen M. Richardson
Robert P. Holmes
Harold E. Jones .
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Class Captain
Sergeant-at-A rms
Historian
Sidney S. Smith
Stephen M. Richardson
Nathan W. Gillette
. Harlan N. Worthley
Robert P. Holmes
Thomas J. Gasser
Harold E. Jones
junior gear, I sit Cerm
Roger W. Weeks .
Lewis W. Spaulding
Oliver G. Pratt .
Harlan N. Worthley
Robert L. Boyd .
Stephen M. Richardson
Raymond R. Willoughby
. President
. Vice-President
. Secretary
. Treasurer
Sergeant-at-A rms
Captain
Historian
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€U?abeth Cmerp gbbtton
"Gentle and true, simple and kind was she
With gracious speech to all and gladsome looks."
Newton Centre Draper Hall
Newton High School
1895; Agriculture; 1918 Index Board.
Once upon a time there philosophized a philosopher to
this effect: "You can't understand a woman, so why
try?" But a wiser than he arose in the land, and quothed
thuswise: "Why indeed, thou boob? If you could she'd
cease to have any attraction for you." But this specimen
of humanity combines so many opposite and equally de-
sirable qualities that we're in no danger of succeeding.
A dignified reserve toward fellows, yet an engaging friend-
liness and tact; an infinite capacity for hard work, yet a
very human love of a good time; an inexhaustible fund of
practical good sense, but a keen appreciation of the deeper
things; a virtual fountain of good cheer, even in the midst
of disheartening difficulties; the sister of the class —
SOME class!
George Iitng babbitt
"Kino"
" Mornin' , Cy\"
Boston A 2 4> House
Williston Academy
1893; Agriculture; A 2 *; Class" Baseball (2).
King first began doing chores along the Great White
Way. As yet, however, he has never fleeced any lambs
on Wall Street. From then on his life has become a
merry-go-round, like "down to the fair", and just where
his parental hatrack is now would make a good subject
for debate. His greatest pastime is to linger somewhere
between the second and third sacks and grab the elusive
sphere as long as anyone will consent to knock it at him.
"What he's a-comin' to is somethin' good."
Jfranfe Pencbtct Jgainbrtbge
"Frankie"
"He can fight, but you ought to see him run"
Paterson, N. J. 5 South College
Paterson High School
1896; Economics; Q. T. V.; Assistant Manager Roister
Doisters (3); Class Track (1, 2); Varsity Track (1, 2);
Varsity Cross Country (3); Manager Class Football (2).
This staunch defender of the honor of old Paterson
early showed his rare judgment when he forsook his
native haunts and became a loyal "Son of Old Massa-
chusetts". Frank may well be ranked among the peppiest
and gamest members of 1918. That he soon attained
popularity is evidenced by his repeated invitations to
certain select parties when a freshman. "Frankie"
has proved his merit by emulating the example of John
Paul Jones, outpointing "Doc" Cance in an argument on
the silk industry, and submerging self in support of
Hughes' principles. This but shows that Frank is prac-
tically indispensable on the campus and we would predict
a great future for him in whatever line he may undertake.
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Jfofiter Hcnnetf) $afeer
"Beany"
"His years are young, but his experience old"
Fairhaven Apiary
Fairhaven High School
1894; Plant Pathology; 2 4> E; Y. M. C. A. (1, 2);
Class Cross Country (1); Class Track (1); Class Rifle
Team (1); Class Athletic Board (2); Art Editor Squib
(2,3); 1918 Index Board; 1918 Prom Committee; Student
Committee 50th Anniversary.
"Beany" — the boy artist! He can even draw his own
picture. He charmed Mr. Blanchard and "Doc" Gordon
with his zoo sketches, and is now exercising his artistic
ability under Prof. Osmun in the Clark Hall. Dean
Lewis succumbed to the depths of his poetry — look
further in the book, if you would find a fair sample, —
and could find no excuse to post him. His extraordinary
hieroglyphics are sure signs of greatness, along with a
great amount of ambition, and certain integrity of purpose
that make him a sure winner in the race of life.
^ettrp 3&apmonb Jgafecr
"Bake"
' ' / beseech you all be better known to this gentleman"
Amherst West Street
Amherst High School
1896; Microbiology; K V <J>.
"Bake" is one of our Amherst representatives or am-
bassadors, very true to type also. Quiet and unassuming,
Raymond ekes out most of his life in peace among the
fields of West Street. His tranquil demeanor, however,
serves a purpose in covering up a more lively trait. For
he is wont to do a "little cutting up" of his own at times.
He is right there with the proper spirit in the pinches also,
and has always been a faithful worker in time of need.
(george Wenbell barton
"Bart"
"Thou'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink"
North Sudbury 36 North Prospect Street
Concord High School
1896; Agriculture; Commons Club; Class Rifle Team
(1,2).
During his prehistoric age, — before the fall of 1914 —
"Bart" was in the semi-dormant stage, absolutely guar-
anteed to be perfectly harmless. As polishing has dis-
covered the priceless gem in the roughest stone, so college
has revealed the amazing originality of Barton. With his
ingenuity he uses this recently disclosed attribute. It is
expected that these last two years will not prove fatal to
his awakened aspirations, but that he will eventually tuck
the sheep skin in his little blue bag, along with the poetry
he wrote for Miss Goessman.
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Jfranfe Joseph Jitnfes
"Red"
' ' May such a man of solid worth
Long choose to stay upon this earth;
On ' Binxie' we would bet our neck,
But not, 0 Lord, in Aggie Ec."
Maynard B K <£ House
Maynard High School
1895; Rural Journalism; BK $; Interfraternity Con-
ference (3); Collegian Board (2, 3); 1918 Index Board.
With us unto death is this cool container of excessive
trust that the future will come to him "right side up"
without his care. His philosophy is to exercise a fair
amount of ability thru a reasonable length of time, and
expect the meed therefor. He came to us with a set pur-
pose, and like an alarm clock, he will probably do his duty
automatically when the time comes. His righteous wrath
is aroused at times by too large lumps of nigger work in
one week, especially in that noble perusal of how the
farmer makes a living and why.
William ^enrp Poa?
"Bill"
' ' My heart is 'in Virginia,
My heart, it is not here"
Covesville, Va. <I> 2 K House
Randolph Macon Academy
1894; Pomology; * £ K; Varsity Track (2); Class
Cross Country (2); Class Track (2).
There were very few of us who did not hate "Billie"
while we were freshmen, and it was not until he later
joined us that we found out the princely qualities of this
genial descendant of the Sunny South. His friends are
by no means confined to the masculine sex, for as far as
memory carries us he has been a visitor at Smith on
numerous occasions. His ability as a high-jumper and a
hurdler will make him as great an asset to the track team
during the remainder of his college course as it was to the
class in the indoor meet last year.
Robert ILuciutf $opb
"Chip"
"May your shadow never grow less"
Lynn 7 North College
Lynn English High School
1892; Floriculture; K r <I>; Interfraternity Confer-
ence; Class Football (1, 2); Band (1, 2, 3); Captain
Six-Man Rope Pull (1, 2); Class President (1).
Oh, see the little Cupid! Robert forsook the spiritual
town of Lynn in the fall of '13 and entered Aggie as a
seventeener, but decided to add his little mite to the 'IS
pep the next year. The banquet season was his chief de-
light both years, and his good right arm proved to lie a
tower of strength to '18 on several occasions. lie has
never been seen fussing, but we have Brsl hand informa-
tion that he goes "as often as they fall for it," and we ask,
"Who wouldn't fall for that cherubic smile?" If the
chief reason for his coming to college is to become broad-
ened, then "Chip" has fulfilled his purpose.
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"Walt"
"Nothing great rvas ever done without enthusiasm"
Amherst 21 Fearing Street
Springfield Technical High School
1894; Animal Husbandry; Commons Club; Stock-
bridge Club.
Appearances do not deceive in the ease of this studious-
looking personage. From his early youth up to and in-
cluding his two and a half years at M. A. C, he has per-
severed in his ambition to become a scientific and original
farmer, and from present indications there is every likeli-
hood that he will succeed with a thoroughness seldom
equalled. Walter's pet obsession is domestic animals; two
years ago he carried off first prize in the freshman stock
judging competition, and he has continued his studies in
this line by selecting An. Hus. 3 in the last semester of
his sophomore year.
Walter <^rap ^udrjanan
"Buch"
"In manners tranquillity is the supreme power"
Chicopee 97 Pleasant Street
Chicopee High School
1893; Agricultural Education; Commons Club; Six-
Man Rope Pull (1, 2); Class Track (1,2); Mandolin Club
(1, 2).
"Buch" entered Aggie with an odd class but soon realized
his error and cast his lot with the '18 bunch. Altho noted
for his prowess in various six-man rope pulls, "Buch" is
also somewhat of a runner. This perseverance and rugged
determination shown upon the track combine with a true
sincerity to make Walter esteemed by all with whom he
comes in contact. Whatever his chosen calling, "Buch"
is certainly laying the foundation stones of true success.
Jfrattfeltn ^artooob Canlctt
"Hungry"
"He hath a lean and hungry look"
Bedford 36 North Prospect Street
Concord High School
1896; Pomology; Commons Club; Class Rifle Team
(1, 2); Varsity Rifle Team (1, 2).
Not large — one might say wiry — of good appetite and
medium looks, is our hero of the rifle range. Here, there,
or somewhere else, you can never know exactly where he
is. His presence is as uncertain as the ever-changeable
color of the chameleon. Nevertheless, he is a sticker
when it comes to rifle shooting and his persistence at this
art has won for the class and himself more than one
"rMt". "Hungry Henry," as he is often called, always
stands ready behind the gun, and we pity the fellow who
happens to get in his line of sight.
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Jfreb Albert Carlson
"Fritz"
"The mildest manners with the bravest minds"
Pittsfield 84 Pleasant Street
Pittsfield High School
1897; Agronomy; 2 * E ; Class Track (1, 2); Varsity
Track (1); Class Basketball (1, 2).
Colossal uncommon sense is the natural label of our
"Carly." Fred is best explained thru his friends, and,
since everyone is his friend, the problem is simple. Imag-
ine a modern Greek athlete who prefers philosophy or
geology to the hammer-throw, with a disposition like a
humanized piece of Chippendale furniture, and you have
"Fritz". All except one factor, that being Howard.
You know those theorems in Euclid about similar each
to each, etc.; Carlson and Howard, the inseparable, the
reciprocal — united they stand and divided they tower,
assets of old '18.
Cbomas Cbtoarb Carter
"Nick"
"He's gentle and not fearful"
Andover A X A House
Punchard High School
1896; Animal Husbandry; A X A; Class Football (1);
Manager Class Track (2); 1918 Index Board.
"Nick" received his prep training at Punchard High.
He is a loyal alumnus, for he frequently reviews to his
friends the time that Punchard almost beat Haverhill in
baseball. He is also a supporter of Andover Academy, al-
though not having spent any of his time within its walls.
"Tom's" personal traits have made him many friends.
Honesty is one of his strong points; it has been said that
he is "too darned honest to live long in this world." As
to the girls, "Tom" fits; he has often been accused of
stealing other fellows' girls, but it has always appeared
that it was an accident. In view of "Nick's" geniality,
however, we feel disposed to pardon these irregularities.
gbumner jfisffec Chamberlain
"Summie"
' ' His ways are ways of pleasantness"
Holden 83 Pleasant Street
Holden High School
1895; Pomology; Commons Club; Y.M.C.A. (1, 2, 3);
Roister Doisters (1, 2).
1917 lost one of her worthiest men when "Summie"
transferred his allegiance at the beginning of our sopho-
more year. His outstanding qualities are perseverance,
equanimity, and friendliness. He is always on hand with
the goods when it comes to a class scrap, and when given
a job to do one may always rest assured that it will be
performed in a reliable fashion. Sumner's forte is botany;
he succeeded in getting together, they say, a collection of
over 200 excellent specimens to pass in instead of the re-
quired 75 his sophomore year.
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&ogcr James Chambers
"Rog"
"A good fellow! Could more be said?"
Dorchester North College
Dorchester High School
1895: Chemistry; A 2 *; Class Football (1); Class
Baseball (1. 2); Captain Class Baseball (1); Varsity Base-
ball (1, 2); Assistant Manager Football (3).
"Rog'' broke into the minor leagues on October 13,
1895, and after successful seasons on the sandlots of
Dorchester he started his career in Amherst by choosing
plays for our memorable class football team, and in the
spring he handled all the hot ones sent to the short field.
In his sophomore year he made a strong bid for the varsity
and was rewarded with the coveted "M". "Rog" has
lately formed a new league in "Hamp"; his batting eye
is perfect in this new winter league, so we may expect a
new social light at the Drill Hall soon.
John &lbcn Chapman
"Cute"
"His worth is warrant for his welcome"
Salem *SK House
Salem High School
1897; Chemistry; # 2 K; Musical Clubs (1, 2, 3);
Fencing Club; Roister Doisters; Class Football Manager
(1); Assistant Manager Varsity Football (3); Sophomore-
Senior Hop Committee (2); Senate (3); Informal Com-
mittee (3); Junior Prom Committee (3); Commencement
Show (2).
Salem has a peculiar characteristic of blossoming into
fame periodically. First it was witchcraft, then the big
fire, and now behold "Cute". Of these three "Cute" is
by no means the lesser light. His grin is one of the
bright spots in the Mandolin Club and his occasional
stupendous frown from beneath his red and black hat is
the terror of misguided freshmen. His aspirations have
led him steadily up the rungs of college social life since
those days of temporary chairmanship of the freshman
class.
&oger Jframte Clapp
"Rog"
"0, thou art too mild, too mild; —
I pray thee swear"
Salem 79 Pleasant Street
Salem High School
1896; Floriculture; Commons Club; Roister Doisters;
Fencing Club; Dramatics (1, 2); Assistant Manager
Basketball (3); Manager Class Tennis Team (1).
We suspect that it must have been Roger's good looks
that won him the post of battalion adjutant. Good looks
are not his only strong point, however; his even disposi-
tion and readiness with a smile and a cheerful word are
the qualities which draw people to him and cause them to
value his friendship. Though well able, if he wished, to
shine in society, he much prefers, in the company of one
or two individuals, to tramp thru the woods armed with
a botany can. His ability to carry out successfully all
which he undertakes presages a brilliant career for him in
Floriculture.
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"Stew"
"His bark is worse than his bite"
Holyoke Chemistry Laboratory
Holyoke High School
1895; Chemistry; Commons Club; Y. M. C. A.
This great scientist in embryo spends a large part of
his time in the old Chem Lab, although he hasn't lost his
old trick of hustling around the campus trying to be in
several places at once. His efforts toward chemical
analysis show up well in class meetings where he is a great
man for the "deep dope". "Stew" must have met the
lady of his choice, for we miss the sweater and "shirt" so
familiar to former years.
€ltopn $)agc Cotton
"Cot"
"He has to study to estimate his ignorance"
Woburn 87 Pleasant Street
Woburn High School
1895; Agriculture; 2 <J> E; Stockbridge Club; Class
Football (1, 2); Band (2, 3); Class Track (1, 2); Dra-
matics (1, 2); Class Baseball (2).
This boll hails from the noted Woburn. He used to
play football, but we suspect that he was too frequently
down. Tradition says that he jangled a sword at his side
while on duty in his high school army; he was a captain,
according to the source just noted. Times have changed,
however, as is further evinced by the fact that he has
shaved the rough off his neck and turned student. His
favorite pastime, besides availing himself of the possibilities
of the ' ' open season", is sporting about immediately in rear
of a capacious pipe.
Slbert J^oab Babte
"Al"
"Mingle a little folly with your wisdom"
Amherst 4 Chestnut Street
Springfield Technical High School
1893; Pomology; * M T.
Erstwhile of Clark College, now of Aggie, much to the
benefit of the latter. The gentleman is the possessor
of a quiet, well-poised manner, a friendly dignity, and a
quick intelligence which have won him much respect from
the friends lie has made since he came to us during our
sophomore year. "Al" functions as a bright star in
Aggie Ec, we have several times observed, in spite of the
fact that his major is pomology.
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' 'Dave"
' ' Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"
Woburn Commons Club
Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt.
1897; Pomology; Commons Club; Mandolin Club (2).
Beau Brummel gathered the major portion of his early
training in fussing at the Broad River Academy, in the
Vermont hills. This neglect, he has studiously endeavored
to repair in his first two years at Aggie by a careful planned
course in informals. Dwight also pursues athletics to a
moderate degree, basketball and baseball being his pet
pastimes. With an entirely commendable desire to
broaden himself he has added religious and semi-religious
activities to his other fields of endeavor, being prominent
in Bible classes and Y. M. C. A. work.
William Hatoreme Uotob
"Bill"
"He will give the devil his due"
North Amherst North Amherst
Amherst High School
1894; Entomology; Catholic Club; Class Hockey
(1,2).
' ' Bill" never loses his smile even if an instructor threat-
ens to "get" him. He takes his exercise in the form of
tag-football and hockey, and is quite proficient in both.
It is quite the usual thing to see him "tearing up" the old
athletic field, or hockey rink, harried by a host of pursuers.
Sometimes he may lose the puck or football, but never his
happy grin. "Bill" lives in Cushman and "commutes"
between his home town and the civilized world every day.
George 3Samt6 JSutuan
"Dunk"
' ' My life is one dem'd horrid grind"
Arlington Colonial Inn
Arlington High School
1894; Floriculture.
After a somewhat tortuous journey "Dunk" arrived at
Aggie in the fall of 1914. His entry was quiet and he
immediately started the old grind. But he sprang into
immediate prominence when he tried to snapshot two
Gilmore beauties from a window across the street. He
owes his super-prominence, however, to that ever-flowing
demijohn behind his door. He spends his odd moments
in writing to Anita, who dwells somewhere in the vast dim
environs of our little world. His ability to fool the profs
comes from his aptitude in wrinkling his high Scottish
forehead. He expects to fool them another year, and
then — oh blissful thought! — he will return to Anita and
Arlington.
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&rtf)ur $aul Burnt
"Art"
' ' God bless the man that invented sleep' '
Maiden 91 Pleasant. Street
Maiden High School
1896; Journalism; B K *; Varsity Football (1, 2, 3).
Maiden claims Dunn as one of her favorite sons, for it
was there that he put football on the map, after temporarily
giving up his ambition to be a policeman or a prize fighter.
He is giving Aggie the best of his football knowledge, and
we admire his energy and grit on the gridiron. Meanwhile,
our modest Arthur dispenses that which we cannot afford
to be without at the Aggie Inn. His pet hobby is of a
somnolent nature, which may explain his earlier aspira-
tions ; chapel and first hour classes are in consequence the
bane of his existence.
Babtb #libet iBtourgc €be£
"Don"
"Amidst the soft variety I'm lost"
Bolton 82 Pleasant Street
Clinton High School
1895; Agriculture; A X A.
The bearer of this polysyllabic cognomen came into
this vale of tears in Bolton, Mass., where he grew up to
be the type of vigorous young manhood which he now
represents. He is not given to vain boasting nor to over-
estimation of his mental powers, but by quiet, consistent
plugging manages to demonstrate to the Profs that he de-
serves a passing grade. He is also very self-possessed, a
quality which even "Billy's" lightnings could not shake.
But even the best of us has his Gad habits, and "Don" is
no exception; he smokes! But it is better thus than if
he had been a burglar or a bartender, so we should permit
him this one baneful custom.
Balpi) CJjtcb CUtss
"Pipe"
' ' Here you may see Benedict the married man ' '
Los Angeles, Cal. Colonial Inn
Newton High School
1895; Agriculture.
His fame is but too small a reward for his fortitude.
Being disqualified by nature for the notoriety of being
born first or dying first, Ralph took the only other road to
glory. Up to date his marital adventures have apparentlv
not damaged his capacity for enjoying college life, as his
class scrap exploits and his tumultuous residence at the
Colonial Inn can testify. His favorite avocation appears
to be manfully manipulating a pipe while tossing a base-
ball up and down Baker Place. We presume it is in order
to wish him a very happy connubial voyage.
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"Louie"
"The best things come in small packages"
Paterson, N.J. 6 South College
Paterson High School
1895; Economics; Q T V.
' 'Louie" didn't want to be famous when he came to the
campus but he was in the wrong company. There is no
doubt, however, that many of the clever stunts pulled off
by the Patersonian trio originated in the fertile brain of
this silent little man whose heart is in inverse proportion
to his size. Everyone has given up trying to stick him
on any business enterprises connected with various athletic
contests. "Louie" can be depended upon to fill his niche
in the world with credit to himself and his class.
(gcorgc €btoin Crtcfeston
"Ertck"
"Of their own merits modest men are dumb"
Brockton Lincoln Avenue
Brockton High School
1895; Agriculture; Commons Club.
"Erick", as he is commonly called, hails from the
eastern part of the state. Dpwn in Brockton he has been
acquiring proficiency in Boys' and Girls' Club work.
Having efficiently supervised the school gardens for two
seasons, he expects to succeed in his chosen work with
Prof. Hart's aid. "Erick" has one peculiarity, — that of
falling asleep whenever studies present themselves.
However, he was sufficiently awake to keep off the sopho-
more Dean's board — an unrivaled achievement.
ILto Joseph Jfaneuf
"Spot"
' ' True beauty dwells in deep retreats, ivhose veil is
unremoved"
West Warren Birch Lawn
Warren High School
1896; Chemistry.
An open-mouthed, go-lucky chap is "Spot" from War-
ren's seedy lap. From hay fields and farms into our
midst; ambition high — a great chemist. All in all " Spot"
is a hard working chap, and is probably now, under the
new dining hall system, contemplating buying a touring
car or a bungalow.
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Beltom J&vutt Jfarrar
"Del"
"Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb"
Amherst 1 Dana Street
Amherst High School
1894; Poultry; Q T V.
"Del" is the only poultry man known who doesn't
spend his time over the river, but, of course, there may
be a reason, you know. He managed to get thru his first
two 3'ears without changing the curriculum, though he
tried hard to put across the argument that physics and
aeronomy didn't have anything to do with poultry.
Withal, however, he is most agreeable and earnest. He
has ambitions, as shown by his early risings in the spring
to pitch for the Sunrise League; it takes ambition to
pitch that mud-laden ball, even for five innings.
^arolb Carter Jfellotosi
"Jackie"
"Now wherefore stopp'st thou me t"
Peabody Commons Club House
Peabody High School
1896; Chemistry; Commons Club.
This rubicund embodiment of the smile that won't
come off is usually to be discovered up on Mt. Pleasant,
illustrating the law of inertia. His face fairly radiates
contentment, and he never gets angry or enters into a
controversy — save perhaps a class controversy; witness
the banquet season, when "Jackie" with his coat off and
his sleeves rolled up was a spectacle to inspire terror. In
his studies, however, he is far from easy-going, and plugs
away like a good '18 man. He claims to be a confirmed
misogynist (see glossary) but the bigger they are the
harder they fall.
Sbaline Hatofion Jfcrrts
"She is pretty to walk with.
And witty to lull; with,
And pleasant to think on, loo"
Ridgefield Park, N. J. Draper Hall
Ridgefield Park High School
1895; Floriculture. A * V
"Addie" is another of those near New Yorkers who try
to look unconcerned when the "Campaign against Mos-
quitoes" reel is put on during Farmers' Week. She be-
lieves in a liberal education, a fact which may explain her
ten weeks as a "shorthorn" last year, as well as her trial
of 1917, before she finally decided to join a real class.
It's a far cry from Psychology and History at Columbia to
plain farming at M. A. C, but we've always believed in
"Addie's" good judgment and we consider her choice of
an Alma Mater an excellent one, to say the least.
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Itlltam Albert Jfolep
"Bill"
"His life is gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that
nature may stand up and say to all the world, ' This is
a man' "
Palmer North College
Monson Academy
1897; Animal Husbandry; Stockbridge Club; Catholic
Club.
Another big thing done up in a small package! When
the package bursts, the fire-works will begin; for "Bill"
has the determination of a bull-dog. He simply won't be
beaten in an argument. He likes farming very much.
His choice of majors seems to be due to a wonderful little
project he has in mind — namely, to go back home after
graduating, and develop his father's dairy farm. His
congenial nature and willingness on all occasions must
bring him success.
Hamilton UnigJjt Jfosfter
"Ham"
' ' On either side he would dispute, confute, change hands,
and still confute"
New Rochelle, N. Y. 4 Lessey Street
New Rochelle High School
1895; Landscape; Commons Club; Debating Club;
Varsity Debating Team (1, 2); Prize Debater (1).
"Ham's" most prominent characteristics are a bound-
less optimism, an abiding good fortune, a broad grin, and
an ability, which in our experience has never deserted
him, to carry on a conversation whenever and wherever
circumstances might demand. In his freshman year he
made the varsity debating team and was accorded one
of the three gold medals. His bent is military and mathe-
matical, and he himself confesses to a deep, dark intrigue
to juggle the majors so as to further his own ideas of pre-
paredness.
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"Duke"
"He'll whip the tune from the violin"
Lynn A X A House
Lynn English High School
1896; Microbiology; A X A; Class Rifle Team (2);
Orchestra (1, 2, 3).
In intimate terms "the Count". No one is positive
of the origin of this appellation, but possibly his high fore-
head or imposing hair-comb suggest nobility. At any
rate the height of his forehead must have had something
to do with it; for he has elected microbiology as his major,
and no one but a man of brains, with such a title to back
him up, would ever have the courage thus to commit
himself. But then "all signs fail in dry weather".
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JSonalb gmtttl) Jfrancts!
"Don"
"Sleep, my pretty one, Sleep"
Athol BK* House
Monson Academy
1894; Pomology; BK4>.
"Don" is the original profanity-bane and has delivered
more sermons against swearing than Billy Sunday has.
"Don" gets his ears tuned up to the delicate cooings ol
the Smith maidens and when he comes back to Amherst
and earth our coarse language grates terribly on his ears.
Next to fussing "Don" enjoys "Lefty's" sentimental
readings of the love poems in the "Century Readings".
"Don" proved that he is a hard worker by getting out of
Doc Cance's Aggie Ec final.
Charles alien Jfraser
"Baldy"
' ' Some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of
mischief"
Plymouth K 2 House
Plymouth High School
1893; Chemistry; K 2.
Plymouth is proud of two things — the Rock and
"Baldy", and that is enough for any small town. He
is remarkably proficient at telephoning. At the old
Lanthorne, while he was still a member of those nonenti-
ties, the unclassified students (a root of the genus imper-
fecti), the call "Fraser on the telephone" was far from
rare. He is also noted for his ability to sit back and
smile, while others sweat over finals. Come, stretch those
six foot appendages and show a little Aggie speed. We
all know it is in you, for you've shown it.
Srtfjur Heater Jfrelltcb
' 'Fido"
' ' / believe they talked of me, for they laughed constantly"
Everett 13 Phillips Street
Everett High School
1895; Chemistry; B K <I>.
This officious looking personage has entered upon his
second childhood, as is evidenced by his gray hairs and
his baby linguistic endeavors. In the Everett High
School he learned to wear those impressive tortoise-shell
glasses and prepared to weather the storms of the now
defunct triumvirate. His verbosity is very imposing;
he has some line — in fact, it's a whole rope-pull. The
fact that he loves the ladies has nothing to do with his
holding a job in a poultry market during the summer.
As a society man he is second only to Faneuf; he may
be seen any of these days fussing around the aromatic lab.
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Camillc Palbtotn Jfuller
"Camel"
"His years are young, but his experience old"
Quincy Commons Club
Quincy High School
1896; Microbiology; Commons Club; 1918 Index
Board.
The secret of Camille's success at Aggie has been in his
inherent gentlemanliness, his good-tempered equanimity,
and his perseverance. He is also possessed of something
of an artistic temperament, and many of the photographs
in this volume owe their existence to his sense of the ap-
propriate and careful technical skill. Strange stories con-
cerning the banquet scrap at Plum Trees hover about of
late, for with an Aggieite of Camille's romantic temper-
ment romance can be found even in such occupations as
clearing up after a fracas.
Cfjomajs Jeffergott dagger
' 'Thobs"
"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance"
Uxbridge 14 North College
Uxbridge High School
1895; Agriculture; AS*; Class Baseball (1, 2);
Class Basketball (1, 2); Varsity Baseball (2); Sergeant-at-
Arms (2).
"Tom" hails from the beautiful little hamlet of Ux-
bridge. At an early age he developed a propensity for
heaving round stones over the fence, and came to Aggie
with "Goo" and "Kenn" to transform this ability into
throwing baskets the whole length of the floor. "Thors"
has a remarkable asset, his beaming smile, and he uses it
to get around the umps in baseball. Between the seasons
"Tom" studies Agriculture, as he intends to go back to
the farm and make it blossom like the rose, therein follow-
ing the example of his illustrious namesake.
jflabcl ifflapbeto (Sifforb
"Giff"
"There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple"
West Tisbury 6 Nutting Avenue
Mt. Hermon School
1895; Economics; Commons Club; Band (1, 2, 3).
"Giff" is of the vintage of Marthas Vineyard, and ap-
parently of good stock. He makes efficient grafts and
cuttings, but better whistles. Though quiet, he is of the
fiber of which musicians are made. Indeed, he manipu-
lates the trombone ' ' to beat the band." He is the type of
a man that we know will make good and we wish him the
best of luck.
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Jlatfjan Warner (Gillette
"Nappy"
' ' The children laugh loud as they troop to his call"
Revere 5 South College
Revere High School
1896; Agricultural Education; QTV; Collegian
Board (2, 3); 1918 Index Board; Class Secretary (2);
Class Track (2); Class Basketball (1, 2).
Here we have a by-product of Revere — called "Nappy"
for short. Sometimes he studies, but his real hobby is
boys' club work. And when it comes to giving the little
fellows a good time, Nathan is a "Johnnie on the spot".
They follow him as a dog his master. At times, however,
his attention is wont to wander from his fold to the genus
femina, but this is only natural. "Nappy" is also an
ambitious fellow and likes to be in about everything except
the classroom.
George Itucien <§oobrrtige
"Goody"
"Though learned, well-bred, and though well-bred, sincere"
Melrose A X A House
Melrose High School
1896; Animal Husbandry; A X A; Six-man Rope Pull
(2).
The strength of character which marks "Goody" belies
his nickname. His strong build, erect carriage, and steadi-
ness and persistence in ail his work go far toward winning
him friends. But even these friends cannot fathom his
extravagant desire to milk cows; for it seems as though
his vacations' labor on dairy farms would reduce it to a
minimum. This same idea has led him to take Animal
Husbandry, which vocation, we hope, will not draw him
from New England to the ranches of the "wild and woolly
west".
William 3(rbing <£>oot>U)tn
"Gyp"
"What man. dare, I darel"
Bradford A X A House
Haverhill High School
1896; Economics; AX A; Six-man Rope Pull (.1);
Orchestra (1); Mandolin Club (1); Manager Class Indoor
Rifle Team(l); Varsity Football (3).
Since February 19, 1896, "Gyp" has been chiefly noted
for a determination to carry thru to a successful completion
whatever he undertook. His early history isn't well
known, but upon his arrival at Aggie he became a royal
member of the Brooks Farm gang, and immediately gave a
good account of himself in the first picture scrap. This
was followed in his next year by sterling efforts on (lie
sophomore six-man rope pull team. He lias the right
idea with regard to his studies also; never a grind, he has
stuck with them until, as with his other activities, success
has been the result.
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Jfrcbertck George #orbon
"Fussy-top"
' ' Virtue is its own reward"
Plymouth North Pleasant Street
Plymouth High School
1897; Poultry; Class Cross Country (1, 2, 3); Class
Track (1, 2); Varsity Cross Country (3).
Fred first saw light in Cambridge, but, not being satis-
fied with that city, he tried others; however, he was
forced, like the Pilgrims, to the conclusion that Plymouth
was the best place. He is a quiet fellow whose chief ath-
letic interest is in running. At M. A. C. he first found
trouble when he tackled his namesake's course, wherein
he found that a similarity of names does not necessarily
indicate a similarity of minds. He is majoring in poultry
so that he can go back to the Cape and help solve the
problem of the poultry supply in Massachusetts.
ifttilton Perforb <grap
"Sam"
"A chip off the old block."
Woods Hole 13 Phillips Street
Falmouth High School
1895; Poultry; *2K; Class Football (1); Class Track
(D-
Once a son of '17, "Sam" found it better to his liking
in '18, and has always proved a loyal man. He has always
been a star in studies, and was a critic for the best of writ-
ers. His friends expect to see published a work of wonder
by this versatile student. "Sam" spends his summers on
the briny deep collecting specimens that tax the brains of
the sophomores in the zoo lab. "Sam" seldom says no
and is a friend well worth having. We know that he will
be an efficient man whatever he does, and we wish him the
best kind of luck.
Jforrest <^rapjSon
"Goo"
"As wild of thought and gay of wing as Eden's garden bird"
Milford 1 North College
Milford High School
1895; Dairying; A 2 4>; Class Football (1, 2); Cap-
tain Class Football (2); Class Baseball (1, 2); Class
Basketball (1, 2); Captain Class Basketball (2); Varsity
Football (3).
This product of the jungles of Milford is a regular guy.
He is game for anything from dragging a chaperone to an
informal to hooking a freight to the Dartmouth game,
and is as timid and shy as a rhinoceros at bay. His worm-
like form may be seen on the football field or the basket-
ball floor, playing the game hard and putting the pep into
his team. Moreover, he has something in his scolex, and
wallops the books in the same way he hits everything
else he tackles. Forrest's specialty is class scraps —
nuf ced.
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Jfoster lUngSlep dairies*
"Tacks"
"No wit like thine to make a jest"
Peabody 120 Pleasant Street
Peabody High School
1896; Forestry; Commons Club; Mandolin Club (2,
3); 1918 Index Board.
Foster was born in Salem October 11, 1896, but was
reared in the "Tannery Town". His well-known sobri-
quet was bestowed because of his summer vacation la-
bors in the wr.y of tacking leather. Foster is a member
of the Mandolin Club. Turn to the picture of the Man-
dolin Club and see how unconcerned he looks in a dress
suit. " Tacks'" major is forestry and he intends to do
graduate work at Yale. F. K. may go over the moun-
tains to see the timber; but it is rumored he is becoming
a sure enough "fusser".
Jforregt §s>awzbutp Stance
"Fat"
' 'A prodigy of learning"
Paterson, N. J. Colonial Inn
Paterson High School
1896; Landscape; 0 X.
This handsome, ever-chuckling Jersey youth has been
growing fat steadily since his freshman year, in spite of his
association with the other two members of the restless
Paterson trio. He did not become really famous until
the Great Movie War of 1916; in that dreadful conflict he
soon became the hero, and although the evidence against
him was merely a large feldspar boulder concealed in his
pocket, he pleaded guilty, to the great surprise of Prof.
Neal's crack reporting squad. If at any time you happen
to see an up-to-the-minute Ford spinning around the
campus, inspect it carefully and perhaps you may see
Forrest carefully picking out the road from the ruts. We
heartily recommend him to any landscape corporation
who can use a live wire.
&alpJ) Wallace ^artooob
"Pete"
"A man in all the world's new fashion planted"
Barre 4> 2 K House
Barre High School
1895; Agriculture; <I>2K; Manager Class Track (1);
Class Hockey (1, 2); Sophomore-Senior Hop Committee
(2); Class Athletic Board (1).
"Pete" is the proverbial maiden, handsome as any one
could wish — and such a fine complexion. He is a hearty,
straightforward, dependable chap who never gets excited,
as was shown in the banquet scrap at Sunderland last
year. "Pete" has confined his activities to hockey, where
he put up a great game at forward in both class games.
Always jovial, ever willing to do anything for a friend —
he has no foes. No one ever accused him of talking too
nAich, but when he does have a word to say it is worth
hearing. This is but a brief summary of "Pete", for we
know that the future will for itself discover him a worthy
friend.
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Robert Borman ^atolep
"Bob"
"That hath a mint of phrases in his brain"
Springfield <I> 2 K House
Springfield High School
1895; Economics; *EK; Fraternity Conference (3);
Class Football (1); Class Basketball (1, 2); Class Athletic
Board (3); Manager Varsity Baseball (3).
All men have ambitions, but not all realize them —
"Bob", however, is one who does. When he entered the
institution there was a charm in the managership of base-
ball for him. He did not sit down and long for it, but
went after it — the only real way to get things. He has
been a mainstay of the class basketball team for two
years and he put up a great game of football for the class
his freshman year. He has made friends in the class
rapidly, and our best wishes go out into the world with
him.
&lin l^apeg
"Oliis"
"He is complete in feature and in mind"
Lawrence 7 Nutting Avenue
Phillips Andover Academy
1892.
A little present straight from Tech, and maybe we
don't appreciate it! ! Just because our Dean is keeping
him on probation doesn't mean that our class is. In fact,
it's quite the opposite; we welcome him with "The more,
the merrier". The faculty especially ought to appreciate
him, for he was so careful about breaking probation rules
that he hesitated about going to Hamp to have his picture
taken for our Index.
$aul 3John ^effron
"Hefp"
"Full many a flower is bom to blush unseen"
Sherborn Birch Lawn
Sherborn High School
1S95; Agriculture; Commons Club; Catholic Club.
Paul, thinking it wise to follow his brothers' example,
bravely set out from Sherborn in the fall of 1913 on his
way to M. A. C. to become a freshman at what he called
the one American college. Despite his earnest efforts he
was obliged to leave the class of 1917 and join 'lS's happy
throng. He is perfectly contented with the change, and
is proving to be a studious, ambitious, and loyal son of
Aggie. Sherborn will be none too big for him.
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lito Clement Wiggins
"Elsie"
"What ho, Aldeborontiphoscophornio\
Where left you Chrononhotordhologos?"
Amesbury 24 Beston Street
Amesbury High School
1896; Journalism; Debating Club; Catholic Club;
Stockbridge Club; Le Cercle Francais; Class Track
(1,2); 1918 Index Board; Squib.
Nirvana has no charms for this "Bard of Amesbury"
when, seated before his lil* ol' typewriter, he pounds out
frown busters for the Squib and the Index, and dreams of
the day when a journalist he will be. "Hig" is tender-
hearted, for although the girls have been unable to "fox"
him, he has a great fondness for the chickens and for
"Billy". Little does he care for the sciences nor frets he
much from overwork, and wherever "L. C." is, divil-a-bit
do clouds withstand his happy presence. Education, 'tis
a pity, seems to be subduing his effervescence and ladening
him with care. In spite of his joviality, in the council
chambers "Hig" is there with a punch.
Harriett Jfrankltn l^iUtfeet
"A sweet attractive kind of grace,
A full assurance given by looks"
Lynn 9 Phillips Street
Lynn Classical High School
1896; Agriculture; 2 K.
Harriett is our "co-ed" mystery — we find it hard to
fathom her. The strangeness of new surroundings has at
no time "phased" her — she remains quiet, observant, and
calmly frank. In her "brevity is the soul of wit". In-
deed, she is quite democratic; for with her "all men count,
but none too much".
(gcorge jfrebertcb holmes
"Gawge"
"Were silence golden, I'd be a millionaire"
Ipswich 60 North Pleasant Street
Manning High School
1S96; Economics; Commons Club.
A man hewn out of solid oak is George, who comes from
Ipswich but without any yarn. After progressing from
the newsboy and high school leader stage he enlisted in the
'IS army as a private. His industry and rugged stuff
made him a general friend. His experience handling men
gave him an asset for class scraps. He helps build "that
team." He jangles a tin sword with the rest of the officers
as a result of an early love for tactics inspired by the ex-
ample of Sampson, a former wife of George F. lie is very
ambitious, although he had some restaurant experience,
and we watch his progress with delight and hope that
George will be taken for what lie is sterling.
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Robert palmer holmes!
"Bob"
"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than in twenty of their swords"
Wakefield Aggie Inn
Wakefield High School '
1894; Floriculture; K 2; Class Football (1, 2); Var-
sity Football (2, 3); Class Hockey (1, 2); Class Baseball
(1,2).
"Woof, woof" the "bloody Englishman" hails from
Wakefield, where he acquired a most wonderful imagina-
tion. "Bob" can keep one interested for hours at a time
by relating his experiences among the snow clad mountains
of Canada or in the tropical regions of Wakefield and
South America. He takes part in all the college activities
but basketball and fussing, which he thinks are too rough
for one with a delicate constitution. Our friend expects
to devote his time and energy to the study of floriculture,
that is, when he is not busy waiting on customers at the
Aggie Inn.
Arthur Jflerchant ^otoarb
"Hunker"
"Blessed are the innocent , for they have lots to learn"
Pittsfield 84 Pleasant Street
Pittsfield High School
1895; Agriculture; 2 * E.
"Art" is one of the chosen few who have come to us
from western Massachusetts to learn the new methods of
farming. His originality and wide-open smile-that-won't-
come-off have been tremendous factors in gaining him his
popularity about the campus. Like a brave, even if
somewhat battle-scarred, veteran, he takes delight in
looking back over the battlefields of math and physics.
Only one question regarding his otherwise perfectly trans-
parent manner of life worries us — sh-h-h! We sometimes
wonder why his visits to Westfield are so frequent.
Albert C&toarb ^otoe
"Al"
"/ have a little studied physics, but now I'm all for music"
Needham Lincoln Avenue
Needham High School
1S94; Agronomy; Orchestra (1, 2, 3); Mandolin Club
(1,2,3).
Needham was too dull for " Al," so he forsook his native
haunts and cast his lot with old '18. "Al" shines with
the 'cello, and every year we find him one of the mainstays
of our orchestra. But best of all is his sunny disposition
and cheery smile, with which he greets everyone unreserv-
edly. We can see a great future for "A. E.", even though
he chooses agronomy for his major.
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Honalti Jfranris ^otoes
"Don"
' 'Books were his passion and delight"
Ashfield Birch Lawn
Sanderson Academy
1898; Pomology; Y. M. C. A.
Our infant prodigy from Ashfield is a living exemplifica-
tion of the fact that youth and brilliancy commonly go
together. "Don" is one of the youngest members of his
class, nevertheless he has succeeded in performing several
notable scholastic feats; e. g., he was one of the triplets
who were spared the ordeal of the sophomore, agronomy
final. Also, we feel obliged to assure the reader that the
specimen doesn't bite, notwithstanding the expression
and intonation of something approaching righteous re-
sentment that he habitually employs.
$aul Jfigfec ^unnetodl
"Honey"
"I awoke one morning and found myself famous"
Winthrop $SK House
Somerville High School
1895; Economics; * 2 K; Class Hockey (1,2); Class
Football (1); Manager Class Basketball (1, 2); Class
Athletic Board (1).
"Honey" — of course a ladies' man; for what fair damsel
could resist the gentleman portrayed here? Gentle
reader, cast your eyes upward and judge for yourself ere
you turn the page. He has made friends rapidly, for
you could always spend an entertaining evening tall ing to
him. He has ideas on most subjects, and original ones,
too, that had never occurred to you before. "Honey"
takes part in most all branches of athletics and has worked
his hardest to make '18 come out on top in her class con-
tests. He views the world thru rose-colored glasses, is
always happy, and scatters sunshine wherever he goes.
©ouglas ^cnbcrsson $untoon
"Doug"
"The world knows nothing of her greatest nun"
Norwood <!' 2 K House
Norwood High School
1894; Poultry; *2 K; Class Baseball (1); Class Track
(1, 2); Class Football (1).
"Doug" is somewhat of a large fellow but he keeps it
all to himself. He is a consistent plugger at the books
and consequently has always been able to take a little
extra vacation at final times. He appears to some to be
wrapped up in a shell, but when the shell is broken there
always emerges something well worth while. "Hun"
is a great admirer of the gentle sex, but has never showed
us that he is very much interested in Smith or the femmes
over the mountain. When "Doug" goes out into the
world, he has the best wishes of the class with him.
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&alpf) Walter ^urlburt
' 'Walt"
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune"
Ashley Falls 94 Pleasant Street
Searles High School
1896; Agriculture; 2 * E; Stockbridge Club; Y. M.
C. A.; Class Rifle Team (1, 2); General Improvement
Prize.
Another representative of the House of Berkshire.
Walter is a born farmer, his specific tastes leading toward
dairying. He played football, baseball, and basketball in.
high school, but has never followed up athletics here ex-
cept to make the class rifle team. However, he is deter-
mined to make the most of his opportunities, and carried
away the sophomore improvement prize last June. He
is a shark at math; he is not musically inclined, dances
little and fusses less. "Walt" is a hard worker, a good
student, a quiet but congenial fellow.
Jtlargaret &eble SUman
''Demure, a studious girl"
Schuyler Falls, N. Y. Draper Hall
Tilton Seminary
1895; Agricultural Education.
"Just a maid, not afraid" to come to an agricultural
college; for she is a country lass, and knows the joys of
early rising. Moreover, she is quite erudite, and thus has
been attracted by the glories of '18 to such an extent that
she left '17 in the second half of her sophomore year.
Since her return she has been doubly quiet and studious,
whence we doubt whether her presence has been duly ap-
preciated. We must not overlook the fact that she comes
from Connecticut, whence have also originated, as was re-
marked recently, "other of our great men".
Srbing Meatier 3ngallg
"Uncle"
' ' What if it looks like rain? It's fine now"
Brooklyn, N. Y. BK* House
Manual Training High School
1896; Chemistry; BK*; Class Cross Country (2);
Class Rifle Team (1); Class Track (1); Squib Board.
This boid foist saw the light of the electric light in
Brooklyn. He is the minor member of that famous com-
bination "Ingie and his line", which line is all bull and a
yard wide. "Ingie" showed his class spirit by finishing
eighteenth in the Tech cross country run. His dry humor
and everlasting arguments are the spice of our young
lives, although they are not exactly pleasing to "Uncle's"
major advisor Smith.
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gfotatjam Jepsfep
"Abe"
"I am not in the roll of common men"
Medway Birch Lawn
East Boston High School
1895; Chemistry.
A graduate of Boston's school system, "Abe" has been
sent to us as a living incarnation of a modern Galileo.
He shines with undeniable luster in math, and although
he has chosen chemistry as a major, he has twice managed
to elude Miss Goessman's English exam. His stories of
M. I. T. are certainly illuminating. We trust that those
who have left our fold and gone to Tech are as profuse in
their praises of their erstwhile Alma Mater as he is of his
freshman year at M. I. T.
Pirgcr Hats* 3Fof)ngon
' 'Johnnie"
" Self commaritt is his main elegance"
Dorchester 29 McClellan Street
Dorchester High School
1895; Chemistry; K T #; Class Baseball (1).
"B. L." has as many different kinks in his character' as
there are inches in his lofty stature. His talents range all
the way from baseball to machinery and mathematics;
once his brow begins to furrow like a plowed held and his
tawny hair to bristle, he has never been stopped by any
physics problem up to date. Of all his studies, however,
he has least preferred animal husbandry and agronomy.
Although his temperament is capable of varying on occa-
sion from slight dejection to almost desperate hilarity, for
the most part he displays an equanimity that makes him
one of the sanest of friends.
Carl Jfranctfi Hetmebp
"ClUTo"
"The fellow picks up wit as pigeons peas"
Milford 8 North College
Milford High School
1894; Economics; AS*; Catholic Club; Class Base-
ball (1, 2).
When Carl first made his appearance here with the class
of 1918, he was voted the best looking man in liis class by
the coeds of that time. Since then he has added knowledge
to "looks"; though he seems unable to resist the tempta-
tion "to kid informalites". His clog dances, which arc
the amazement and terror of "North Dorm," by reason
of the attendant racket, are easily pardonable, as his
genial nature makes friends for him wherever he goes. We
expect nothing less of him than a promising community
leader.
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"White"
' ' This man for genius, wit, and lore,
Among the first ivas numbered"
Windsor, Conn. K 2 House
Hartford High School
1894; Agriculture; K2; Stoekbridge Club; Collegia?!
Board (1, 2, 3); 1918 Index Board; Junior Brom Commit-
tee; Class Secretary (2).
Two years and a half is all too little in which to get
acquainted with this delightful composite; so that we are
quite undecided as yet whether he is more of a lady than
a rough-houser, more of a social light in temporary abey-
ance than a master of satire, or whether perhaps he may
not be more of an all-round good fellow than any of these.
"Whitey's" forte is writing, whence his present job as
managing editor of the Collegian as well as that requiring
him to grind out sundry reams of copy to fill these columns
against the day of need.
ILetaig l&cnxv Uatorcnce
"Dick"
"A lad of mettle — a good boy"
Falmouth 79 Bleasant Street
Lawrence High School
1896; Floriculture; Commons Club.
This long, lean specimen was born on March 10, 1896,
in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He safely passed thru
High School and arrived at Aggie with us to take up his
favorite study, mathematics, which, however, seems to
give him considerable bother. Botany, though, is his
strong point, and his herbarium was one of the very finest.
To talk with him is to know what part of the world he
comes from, as one of his chief objects in life seems to be to
convince people that Cape Cod is a "darned fine place"
to live in.
&alpi) Milfaer Hatoton
"General"
' ' Tis better to be brief than tedious"
Fall River 17 Fearing Street
Fall River High School
1896; Floriculture; Commons Club.
Yes, this modest, silent, but nevertheless determined
aspirant for the post of military advisor to Fresident Wil-
son is from Fall River, but don't let that prejudice you.
His mask of thoughtful expression conceals a capacity for
making himself useful, as some of the '19 men who occupied
the Flint Lab during the banquet season could testify.
He has an appreciation for a good joke, though he can't
seem to spring one himself. We almost forgot to say
that at the beach last summer "Jawn" proved that he
has the makings of a hero. For more information see the
files of the Fall River News.
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a^alpf) gbtanlep Heonarb
"Stan"
"Belter be small and shine than be great and cast a shadow"
Melrose 120 Pleasant Street
Melrose High School
1896; Pomology.
M. I. T. became too small to hold this youth, hence he
sought a bigger place; bringing up at M. A. C. as a
sophisticated junior. Of course we don't know him real
well, but from a brief acquaintance, we think he will settle
down to be a loyal " Aggieite". Then too, his aspirations
toward the cross country team point out an active career
for him.
Bartotn Solomon ILcbine
"Darby"
' ' His worth is warrant for his welcome here"
Sherborn 11}^ Amity Street
Sarvin Academy
1897; Forestry.
Darwin comes to us from the Sherborn High School.
While there he played football, but, finding it too strenu-
ous, he has taken up fussing instead, and now qualifies as
an expert therein. He is a man of studious habits, and
his interpretations of Browning quickly made for him a
way into Dean Lewis' heart. He is also somewhat of a
poet, having written a collection of poems which Miss
Goessman has edited and which he expects to print in the
near future.
JBabib ifflanjeto UtpsfjtreS
"Dave"
"The business of this man looks out of Kim"
Roxbury Flint Lab.
Somerville High School
1896; Economics; Commons Club; Debating Club
(1, 2, 3); Greater-Boston Club; Manager Musical Clubs
(3); Sec.-Treas. Greater-Boston Club; Roister Doisters
(1); Class Football (1); Class Basketball (2); Class
Debating Team (1); Varsity Debating Team (1, 2); 1918
Index Board; Squib Board; Public Speaking Council;
Student committee on 50th anniversary.
Forsooth! You behold before you the most energetic
little Christmas present ever displayed before bewildered
and admiring relatives. However, Aggie thinks well of
him, which is recommendation enough. "Dave" is an
active partner in several well-known business enterprises,
among which is the Squib. He became a varsity debater
his freshman year, and was picked as one of the three best
in college. That he has an analytical mind is shown by his
choice of Agricultural Economics as a major. His quick
wit and energetic qualities have endeared him both to
1918 and the whole student body.
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"Bill"
"He was a man all in all
I shall not look upon his like again"
Great Barrington Physics Lab.
Searles High School
1893; Agricultural Education; 2 <J> E; Stockbridge
Club; 1918 Index Board; Burnham Eight (1, 2); Six-man
Rope Pull (2); Class Debating Team (2).
Here he is, the rustic son of agriculture from the Berk-
shires. We have modified "Bill's" idea of life somewhat,
but there are two things about him we have not changed —
his comely gait and his ethical idea of the gentler sex.
"Bill's" biggest flaw is his lack of one. This may be the
reason why he always sees them in others. But he is
bound to succeed, if from nothing more than his name —
consider Bill Shakespeare, Bill Bryan, Buffalo Bill, and,
last but not least, Billv Sunday.
Iloute Jlartttt ILponi
"Louie"
"Doesn't talk much; just does things1'
Norwell East Experiment Station
Norwell High School
1897; Agricultural Education; A X A; Varsity Track
(1, 2); Class Track (1, 2); Varsity Cross Country (1, 2);
Class Cross Country (1, 2); Captain Class Track (2).
You could never accuse "Louie" of being noisy, in fact,
he is so quiet that you would never know he was near.
Quietness in him is a virtue rather than a fault, and saves
time for him by avoiding useless words with strangers.
Achievement is his motto, and success seems to have at-
tended him so far, his splendid track work being a fair
example.
3oi)n Sfosicpi) iHaginnis
"Mac"
"The mills of Lawrence grind slowly but surely"
Lawrence A S <J> House
Lawrence High School
1895; Economics; AS*; Varsity Baseball (1, 2);
Class Baseball (1,2).
The pride of Lawrence has been known to astonish
many denizens of the Aggie campus with his sure aim,
both with repartee, paper wads, and the horsehide pellet.
His excellent showing as varsity second baseman the
spring of his freshman year qualified him admirably for
his duties as captain of the sophomore zoo lab sharpshoot-
ers. Occasionally he lias been known to indulge in study-
ing as a side line. "Mac" intends to pursue money and
sundry species of -optera with an entomologist's net
after being graduated.
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"Sid"
"Young in limbs, old in judgment"
Lynn 15 Hallock Street
Lynn English High School
1894; Agriculture.
Still waters run deep, and "Sid", though not by any
means self-assertive, is noted for perseverance. Outside
of studying, which occupies most of his time, his chief oc-
cupation is planning poultry houses for Professor Graham.
During the summer, his chief duties are caring for chickens
(literally speaking) and a cow or two in the New Hampshire
hills. Contrary to appearances, he says one of his chief
difficulties is keeping away from the girls. He expects to
put in his spare time lecturing to farmers, having success-
fully passed thru the ordeal of Agronomy 1.
Jfflax H>feitimore jUarsfjaU
"Max"
"Though learned, well-bred and though well-bred, sincere"
Amherst 44 Sunset Avenue
Amherst High School
1897; Microbiology; K £.
Max "Hiker" Marshall is the Weston of M. A. C.
That his quiet demeanor on the campus is no criterion to
judge him by is evidenced by the stentorian tones used in
drilling freshmen and his general "Johnny-on-the-spot"
attitude when there is anything "doin' ". Only a man of
courageous heart and a desire for unusual and exciting ex-
periences would have undertaken to walk from Amherst to
Michigan, but Max accomplished this and contemplates
even more ambitious "stunts".
Ultlliam tytmp jfWcHcc
"Bill"
"Thai man thai hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win u woman."
Chelsea College SI on'
Chelsea High School
1895; Economics; 0 X; Varsity Football (2); Class
Football (1,2).
We are mighty glad that "Bill" escaped the big Chelsea
conflagration. This old Scotchman is the fire under the
boiler of the College Store enterprise and keeps the steam
at high pressure all the time. "Bill's" middle name is
"business" and "success" is his slogan. lie gets wlij'.t he
goes after whether it's fooling the Big Three or dabbling
in the game of love. For inspiration, those who desire
to gather unto themselves the coin of the realm are advised
to ask "Bill" to tell how he got his first million by repre-
senting the aluminum trust.
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"Fat"
"In arguing, too, the Parson own'd his skill,
For e'en- though vanquished, he could argue still"
Plymouth Colonial Inn
Plymouth High School
1894; Chemistry; Dramatics (2).
"Fat" first came into prominence as a member of '18
in the old Lanthorne. After once hearing his hyena-like
yelling one would always recognize the approach of War-
ren. During the. sophomore year ,he was the light of
"Billy's" physics class and conducted a little session of his
own to aid some of "Billv's" goats. Since coming to col-
lege, besides his accomplishments as a student, he has be-
come a habitual user of the vile weed, and will even speak
to a girl that he knows. He has gained a reputation of
being one of the most generous in the class.
Herbert &anfetn iHc&ae
"Dusty"
"The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly"
Maiden 4 Nutting Avenue
Maiden High School
1893; Animal Husbandry; Commons Club; Band (1,
2, 3).
"Mac" is another of the men who realized the value of
belonging to '18, leaving the ranks of '17 in his sophomore
year. Although he is very quiet most of the time, he
manages to liven things up occasionally wi' a wee nippie o'
dry Scotch — what's that? No, no, you're all wrong; wit,
mon, wit, we were about to say; that's different. But at
that, you might think so if you heard some of the noise he
made that alto horn in the band responsible for last year.
"Mac" hopes to have a farm, probably in Maiden, and
raise live stock of as good quality as Sophie XIX.
lixenneth Herop
"Ken'
[eSSenger
"A moral, sensible, and well-bred man"
Winsted, Conn. K £ House
Gilbert School
1892; Landscape; K 2; Senate (3); Fraternity Con-
ference (3); Business Manager 1918 Index; Glee Club
(1, 2, 3); Assistant Manager Musical Clubs (3); Sopho-
more-Senior Hop Committee (2).
The reason why "Ken" is hailed by all as a worthy
friend is that he is quiet, modest, unassuming, and whole-
heartedly optimistic. What could the Dean's office do
without him? And how would a Kennethless Index Board
solve its financial problems? Those who have entered the
portals of his thoughts have found a serious and fair-
minded attitude towards all important matters. A man
destined to do big things, and universally welcomed into
the work of the day and social world because of his re-
markable adaptability.
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"Milord"
"Exceedingly well read"
Great Barrington Veterinary Lab.
Searles High School
1891; Rural Sociology.
Harold has always been a hard-working, conscientious
fellow, and a good Berkshirite withal. Among his ac-
complishments, besides a talent for versifying, are his love
for books, music, dancing, and girls. He plays a banjo
quite well. He never blossomed forth as an athlete,
though he pretends tobe a runner; he has a love for baseball,
though he has never played it here. "H. B." has spent his
summers in Amherst since coming to college. Seekonk, a
suburb of Great Barrington, is his birthplace. Best of all,
he is a good and true friend to those with whom he makes
friends.
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"Jacky"
"For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die"
Plainville, Conn. K 2 House
Cheshire School
1896; Chemistry; K 2; Class Football (1); Class
Rifle Team (1, 2).
"Jack's" greatest scholastic ambition is to follow in his
Dad's footsteps. Although he won't make <I> K $ , he
seems to be getting out of most of his finals. His most
notable habit seems to be rising at one minute of eight,
visiting the Aggie Inn, smoking a cigarette, and then
wandering into class in his usual state of preparedness.
But he knows how to work it. Although he isn't very
large outwardly, his friends have found something large
beating regularly beneath his calm exterior. "Use your
cuts while you have a chance" is "Jack's" motto.
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"Mitch"
"Endurance is the crowning quality"
Medford * 2 K House
Medford High School
1895; Agronomy; <I> 2 K; Class Cross Country (1, 'J.
3); Class Track (1, 2); Varsity Track (1); Collegian
Board (2, 3); 1918 Index Board.
For versatility commend us to the protracted gentleman
from Medford. He was equipped by nature with a re-
markably efficient running apparatus, which he has main-
tained and developed with very gratifying results — witness
his cross-country and board track records. In addition,
he has won for himself a place on the Collegian Board and
Hie Index Board; has attained third place in the Burnham
Fight his freshman year; and has taken sufficient interest
in things military to start him on the road lo promotion
with a sergeant's duties his sophomore year.
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"Ted"
"Outstrips his compeers in each liberal science"
Needham 15 North College
Boston Y. M. C. A. Evening Prep. School
1S90; Entomology; A X A; Orchestra (1, 2, 3); Band
(1, 2, 3); 1918 Index Board.
Here we have the other "Mitch", sometimes called
"T. B." just to differentiate. He has acquired a reputa-
tion for blowing (his cornet, of course) and by some this is
not held against him. Like other celebrities, he has his
weak points, one of the most pronounced of which is his
liking for "gut" courses, such as agronomy, physics, and
zoo, not to mention geology. It must have been very
humiliating for "Ted" when he was obliged to take half of
the sophomore English final, having successfully escaped
all the rest.
Carlos ®aft iHlotocr
"Carl"
"A foot more light, a step more true
Ne'er from the counter dashed the slew"
Montpelier, Vt. K 2 House
Montpelier High School
1894; Agronomy; K 2; Glee Club (1, 2, 3).
This smooth chap hails from the metropolis of Vermont,
Montpelier, and you have only to mention that state
to find it out. His freshman year he was induced to go
over the mountain one night, but since that time he has
left the fair sex entirely alone. Occasionally "Dear"
rises to nights of eloquence entirely unsuspected by one
who is used only to seeing his benign countenance. He
expects, in the future, to fill the position left vacant by
our former friend, "Sid" Haskell.
^Patrick 3Tosicpi) ifflojmifjan
"Pat"
"I love tranquil solitude and such society as is quiet, wise,
and good"
Holyoke AS* House
Holyoke High School
1895; Agricultural Education; AS*; Class Football
(2); Varsity Football (3).
We owe the accumulation of "Patsy" en route to his
discontent with the Catholic University at Washington,
D. C, or perhaps to a natural desire to be near his home in
Holyoke (or was it Mt. Holyoke he wanted the society of?)
At any rate Aggie is richer by a corking good football man
by reason of the deal. We fear it was a bit unhospitable
in the Triumvirate to meet him with the traditional wel-
come (?), but "Pat" managed to weather thru in fair
shape. "P. J." spends his summers extracting kale from
the city's coffers, and Dame Rumor hath it that there is a
little Elmwood girl who helps him enjoy it.
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"Newt"
"He's gentle and not fearful"
Durham, Conn. 21 Fearing Street
Middletown High School
1898; Animal Husbandry; Commons Club; Stock-
bridge Club; Y. M. C. A.
"Newt," as he is commonly called, hails from the Nut-
meg State. The spice of his existence seems to be animal
husbandry ; for he is rumored to have broken in colts, and
trained oxen to the yoke in a masterly way. Otherwise,
the even tenor of his habits has been as quiet and unal-
tered as the hills (for the same space of time). We wonder
if his apparent reserve is merely a youthful state of coma,
from which he will some day emerge to find himself a star
in oratory and arts.
Larimer Clpbe J^orcross
"Nojrkie"
"A firm quick step and a firm quick liearl"
Brimfield 35 East Pleasant Street
Springfield Technical High School
1893-; Agriculture. Glee Club.
This stalwart son of the soil strode masterfully upon
the campus in the fall of 1914, dropped his bundles, took a
hasty look around, and, finding the place to his liking,
promptly settled down. Although of a somewhat retiring
nature, this flaxen-haired young giant more than makes
up for it by his work in the class-room. He is what is
known as a "shark" in all subjects. It is very rarely that
he is not ready for a good time, his favorite beverage being
sweet cider. "Norkie" is every inch a man — and there are
lots of inches — and one well worth knowing.
ILegtct i^tcJjolsf €>toamss
"C'UBSES"
"Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit"
Salem 79 Pleasant Street
Salem High School
1895; Microbiology; Assistant Manager Basketball (3).
To most of those who know him he is just Lester, but to
a few of us he is known as "Curses". In his early youth
he moved from Waltham, his birthplace, to the Witch
City, whose high school prepared him effectually for his
struggles with the Triumvirate here. He is a "one girl"
advocate, and Creeper's horse is fast wearing out by rea-
son of the frequency of her letters. He contemplates the
pursuit of microbes as a life work, as well as preparing
himself on the side to be a sort of chemical Sherlock
Holmes.
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"Len"
South Hadley Falls
South Hadley High School
1895; Animal Husbandry.
August came to us when we were learning to be sopho-
mores, and shared with us the vicissitudes of our contests
with the freshmen. To him, the studies that every sopho-
more fears were but obstacles to be surmounted, and his
complacent, confident air of going about them made it
apparent that he would have no trouble from that quarter.
In college activities he has taken little part, for he believes
that it is better to do one thing well than to do many
things poorly. For the future, we predict that his pru-
dence, wisdom, and patience will bring him success in his
chosen field, Animal Husbandry.
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"Frank"
''This gentleman has happily arrived for his own good and
ours' '
East Milton 5 North College
Milton High School
1893; Botany; 2 <$> E; Fraternity Conference (3).
Time, the fall of 1915. Enter two new personalities on
this campus. The smaller figure with the omnipresent
"roll-up" between his fingers is the subject of the present
discourse. He has a quiet and self-contained, but mag-
netic manner. Again, that fall in the classroom we saw
that this same reserved classmate of ours is always ready
to aid a fellow when he can, and does so with sympathy
and understanding. His sense of humor is keen, his
ability to "string" a fellow being practically unsurpassed,
and harmlessly exercised. In a word, he is a wonderful
pal — a most loyal little big person.
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"Tip"
"Man delights not me; no, nor woman either"
Dorchester 29 McClellan Street
Dorchester High School
1S93; Chemistry; K T <!>.
Oliver, alias "Tip", claims he is of very good Scotch
descent, and as proof twirls his r's and places Burns above
all poets; but his face and beard give him away. The
former is as open and frank as that of any son of old Erin,
and the latter is long and dark fifty-two times a year.
"Tip's" chief delights are his pipe and his chemistry, and
it is the prayer of us all that some day he will combine the
two with the beneficent result of eliminating the chem
lab from the reaction.
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"Dan"
"In peace, there is nothing so becomes a man as modest
stillness and humility"
Wenham Wilder Hall
Salem High School
1896; Agriculture; @ X; Y. M. C. A.
Such was the name added to the Wenham directory
soon after March 15, 1S96. The roar of the nearby ocean
has been a part of his life, which explains the fact that he
can sit cheerfully thru the lectures of some of our roaring
profs with such fortitude and patience. His usual aspect
is one of benevolent tranquillity, which may not be logical,
for we learn that he is about to take up dancing, which,
mingled with his occasional trips over the mountain, is
liable to raise havoc with any good intentions.
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"Vic"
"Enlarged him and made a friend of him"
Amherst 31 East Pleasant Street
Amherst High School
1894; Chemistry; Varsity Football (3); Class Football
(1, 2).
Is there any of us who has not noted the dignity, the
urbanity of "Vic" Petit? And he a chemist, too! Tough,
to hide that natural smile, the neat manner, the capacity
for laughing as well as for dinner, in a test-tubular, flasky
laboratory. And as for business management, Victor
handles things almost as easily as Kennedy coins a "fairy
stunt". When "Vic" gets excited we eat plank steaks at
Draper; all of which goes to say that he is an intensive
chemist and an extensive friend with a circle of geniality
as rotund as the perimeter of his white flannel jeans at the
zone of attachment.
Clarence Bttcfttc -pfnpps
"Carrie"
"Oh! How sad a thing is a man in love!"
Dorchester 88 Pleasant Street
1895; Entomology; 0 X; Rifle Team (2).
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clean strong mind and heart that has won for him the
respect and affection of his classmates.
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"Pf.ppee"
" goes the weasel''
Albany, N. Y. 9 North College
Albany High School
1894; Floriculture; AS*.
When the trainman at the South Station begins to
bellow "Worcester, Palmer, Springfield, Pittsfield, Albany,
and the West, 'board! ! ! " Edward pricks up his ears and
shows vast intelligence, for, prithee, 'tis me 'ome. Ed-
ward has lived there for some time, for he was born quite
young and has resided in said place since. But wait — said
place has not yet been said. If at all curious ask "Pop"
and he will put it on the map; we leave one little hint.
It's the capital of New York. "Pepper's" pastime proves
to be the light fantastic. Very good, Eddie.
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"Jim"
"Youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm"
Newport, R. I. 6 South College
Rogers High School
1895; Pomology; Q T V; Mandolin Club (1, 2, 3);
Collegian Board (1, 2, 3).
"Jim" was washed up on the shores of Newport with
the rest of the mermaids and seaweed about twenty-one
years ago. Thus "Jim" instinctively exhibits a peculiar
affection for maids in general and "the weed" in particular.
James Congdon can flirt like a widow with nine grave-
stones to her credit. They say that co-eds will gather
around just as if they were a lot of kittens and "Jim" had a
pan of milk. Good looks and a pleasant manner are a
tremendous handicap sometimes, "Jim", but we'll put our
money on you to be up with the leaders at the finish.
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"Slats"
"I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty"
Salem K 2 House
Salem High School
1896; Pomology; K 2; 1918 Index Board.
It takes all kinds to make a world — hence "Slats".
This length of the thread of existence wandered in with
the rest of pur tribe and easily found himself a place in our
midst. Ever since that day we have been trying to pick a
flaw in him, but to date without success. He has no bad
habits, goes to bed early nights, and never even wastes his
substance on the Hamp cars. There is a rumor that he
gathered "dope" from freshman class meetings at banquet
season last year, attending said meetings with impunity,
because, having no breadth, he was entirely invisible.
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"Preb"
"Ordained to guide the embodied spirit home"
Jamaica Plain 0 X House
West Roxbury High School
1895; Pomology; 0 X; Y. M. C. A. (1, 2, 3); Roister
Bolsters (1, 2).
One Easter morning this cute little chap was left in
Jamaica Plain. "Jack" pursued his studies diligently
and in due time became an Aggie man. Spasmodically
John leaves college (for a few hours) and departs for parts
unknown (?) ; we even saw him at an informal once. If
he hadn't gone over to Carnegie Hall one night we could
give him the prize for being the model boy. "Jack" is
quite an actor, his specialty being female parts, but he has
confined his athletic activity to Gilbert Hall, starring on
the football, baseball, bid whist, and marble teams of that
(ln)famous institution. "Jack" has chosen Pomology as
his major.
Clinton i&ufuS iaapmonb
"Bugs"
"Here is a man — but it is before his face;
I will be silent"
Beverly A X A House
Beverly High School
1896; Pomology; A X A; Class Tennis (1, 2); Class
Rifle Team (2); Varsity Rifle Team (2); Class Football
The small town of Beverly was "Bugs' " playground be-
fore he came to Aggie. You can imagine how proud the
town must have been of such a manly son as is here pic-
tured. He seems a little shy at first; but once the barrier
is removed, he is an interesting man to know. In fact
everyone likes him, except the "soldiers" that have to
keep up with his seven-league strides on a hike.
Qtheooorc ^cnrp Neumann
"Ted"
"Wait till you hear me from the pulpit, there you cannot
answer me"
New Bedford 87 Pleasant Street
New Bedford High School
1896; Rural Sociology; S <I> E; Y. M.C. A.; Debating
Club; Varsity Track (2); Flint Winner (2); 191S Index
Board.
Among other things, Aggie is noted for the number of
ministers' sons in her flock. Here is one of them. "Ted1'
believes in action first, last, and all the time. Social ser-
vice and business are the channels in which his ambitions
he. Some day our children may vet study under him as a
professor of rural sociology, for he is headed that way now.
bike his ambitions, he sometimes vaults high with the
bamboo, and likewise generally lands safely.
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"Steve"
"To almost all things could he turn his hand"
Marlboro 6 South College
Marlboro High School
1894; Economics; Q T V; Musical Clubs (1, 2, 3);
Class Baseball (1, 2); Varsity Baseball (2); Class Football
(1, 2); Varsity Football (3); Class Hockey (1, 2); Captain
Class Hockey (1, 2); Class Captain (2); Vice-President
(2); Class Athletic Board (3).
By voting him the best all-round athlete in 1918,
"Steve's" classmates did not wish to belittle his many
other accomplishments. Enhancing a multitude of vir-
tues and talents is his uniformly genial disposition and
kindly attitude toward the world in general. "Steve"
may be regarded as a true "sportsman" rather than a
"sport". What he goes into, he enters with heart and
soul. Activities ranging from Mandolin Club to Baseball
profit by his enthusiasm. Market gardening is the pro-
fession that looks most attractive to him and he will
doubtless score as heavily in getting fresh vegetables to
market as he has in bringing runs across the pan in M. A. C.
baseball games.
Ctncst fitter
"Rttt"
"Though I am not splentilive and rash
Yet I have something in me dangerous"
New Britain, Conn. 0 X House
New Britain High School
1894; Agriculture; 0 X; Stockbridge Club.
This Teutonic representative might be described, a la
Gray, as "adventive from '17", since he, along with sundry
others, joined us from the camp of the enemy in the fall of
1915. From the evident symptoms we should hazard
the guess that Smith held certain attractions for him,
though it is apparent that he doesn't believe in publicity
in this connection. We also have a fleeting recollection
from the dim past that Ernie once signified his intention of
taking up farming for himself, but again his somewhat
retiring nature makes this information a bit unreliable.
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"Toby"
"Heavy work in youth is great rest in old age"
Arlington 88 Pleasant Street
Phillips Andover Academv
1S95; Pomology; 0 X; Class Football (1, 2); Varsity
Football (2, 3) ; Student Committee on Fiftieth Anniver-
sary.
Here the Gods have combined two hundred pounds of
substance, a large order of gray matter and a brave heart
to make one of those well balanced mortals whose steady
progress in any line of work or play is at once the delight
and despair of those less gitted by Nature. One does not
have to compete long with "Toby" whether in rough-
housing or in the pursuit of knowledge to realize that his
inherent tenacity of purpose and his strong will are quali-
ties that are bound to lead him to success. After two
more years of football, "Toby" expects to return to Maine
to tackle farming via the "Little Henry" method.
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iltlliam Herbert Robinson
"Robbie"
"He wears the rose of youth upon him"
Lynn 87 Pleasant Street
Lynn Classical High School
1897; Microbiology; £ * E.
He's a linnet but not a singer, for he comes from the
town next to the home of I. W. W., and consequently, he
can stir up considerable noise. An adage says: "Sense,
sincerity, simplicity — the college man's three graces"; but
"Bill" says: "Fussing, frittering, and fooling are his three
graces". His wit is ever ready, like the dry cell battery.
It has been said that he has aspirations to be a doctor
some day. He is on the right track, for he is now enjoying
chemistry and microbiology, which make one feel the
need of being a doctor or having one.
Pirgcr JXctgnolb ikoficquigt
"Rosie"
"0\ he sits high in all the people's hearts"
Brockton A 2 * House
Brockton High School
1895; Animal Husbandry; A E <J>; Collegian Board
(1,2,3).
"Rosie" was unfortunate enough to enter college with
an odd class, but soon realizing his mistake he wisely
joined '18. In the business department ot the Collegian
"Rosie" has faithfully chased the elusive ad. Though
it is not generally known, Birger has one hobby — seeing
how hard he can make "Creeper" work by writing letters
to the one he left behind. So far his daily average has
been perfect, and he takes especial delight in the "one to
read on Sunday". A real friend and conscientious in
everything, Birger has the respect of all.
^otoarb ILetgh &usoscll
"Russ"
"Who, not too eager for renown,
Accepts but does not. clutch the crown"
Worcester 116 Pleasant Street
Worcester South High School
1893; Economics; 0 X; Senate (3); Inter-fraternity
Conference (3); Agricultural Economics Club (3); Vice-
President Boston Club; Secretary Worcester Club (1, 2);
Public Speaking Council; Class Debate (1): Varsity De-
bating Team (1, 2); Flint Winner (1); Class President
(1); Editor of 191S Index; Chairman of Student Commit-
tee on 50th Anniversary.
To a man of Russell's culture and versatility belong by
natural right the praises of all factions; for while there
may be legitimate contention as to the degree of merit
shown by the man who forgets himself to serve his college
or forgets his college to serve himself, there can be little
difference of opinion regarding a man whose interests
comprise intercollegiate debating, music, economics,
philosophy, international politics, and constructive direc-
tion of class and college affairs — all carried on in conjunc-
tion with the maintenance of a high scholarship grade.
May the brilliancy of his college career be still more
heightened by his prospective two years' membership in
the Senate.
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Walter jfrebertcfe Gutter
"Rutt"
"He thinks too much; such men are dangerous"
Lawrence 17 Fearing Street
Lawrence High School
1894; Animal Husbandry; Commons Club.
Walter commenced his education a year too soon, but
rectified his mistake by joining our ranks. He soon de-
veloped a fondness for drill, and in order to retain his
sword he went to Plattsburg last summer, where he learned
to rule with an iron hand. As Walter has a leaning to-
ward culture and refinement, he chooses his companions
from among the profs rather than from his fellow students.
The name of his girl is Annie Hus., and some day he in-
tends to settle down with her in his native Lawrence on
the banks of the Merrimae.
JXapmonb Skxanber gj>t. George
"Saint"
"He dwelt at peace with himself and all mankind"
East Lynn Commons Club
Lynn English High School
1894; Entomology; Commons Club.
Quietness and steadiness are the chief characteristics of
this gentleman. He also has considerable of the thing called
nerve, as shown by the fact that he elected geology his
sophomore year and chose entomology for his major.
During his spare time he prowls about the zoology labora-
tory making sure that no Amoebae or Paramoecia escape.
Jfrebmcfe JHucfenam gbampson
"Sammy"
"A minister, but still a man"
Fall River 60 North Pleasant Street
Fall River High School
1S95; Chemistry; Commons Club; Country Life Club;
Y. M. C. A.; Debating Team (1, 2); Public Speaking
(1,2).
In Sampson we have a jolly good fellow, depressed by
neither sunshine nor rain, physics nor zoo, and enthusiastic
in whatever he undertakes. Like his namesake he is a
mighty man of valor, and carries his sword in our "Aggie
Army" as gracefully as milady carries her fan. He has
shown skill in oratory not only as a member of the college
debating team, but also in the Burnham Declamation
Contests. He is a member of the Cercle Francais and was
its vice-president during his sophomore year. ' We predict
his success, for we believe him capable of filling any posi-
tion from that of Friar Tuck to that of General Funston.
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"Lefty"
"Blushing is the color of virtue"
Nantucket North Pleasant Street
Nantucket High School
1895; Agriculture.
The quiet leader of the clan which was burned out of
Brooks Farm, and which reassembled in the following
year in the vicinity, is Sanborn, the heir of the land, ac-
cording to Scripture: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth". He is the type of fellow who is sure
to get out of such finals as Aggie Ec, and who can take
all kinds of hard work in lumps without a murmur. In
short, he is a thinker, a competent planner, and a doer.
IHcsflep §s>tt\icn& ^atupcr
"Wes"
"Full many a lady I hare eyed with best regard"
Jamaica Plain B K <I> House
West Roxbury High School
1895; Botany; B K *; Botany Club; Class Football
(1); Assistant Manager Hockey (3).
'Tis difficult to believe that this soulful visage is the
stamping ground of the "wear ever" grin. But remember,
this catches "Wes" in one of the intense moments of his
young life. This "eversetting sunset smile" has made
many friends, and it might be said that it never shines
brighter than when "Wes" picks the old rose pin feathers
out of it with a "Durham", of a Sunday night, and takes
it for an eight mile ride on the Connecticut Valley. "Wes"
finds relaxation from college cares and worries (?) in the
goat-getting of "Uncle Ingie", and in the mutilating of
Webster's Unabridged. His optimism is invaluable, and
is sure to attract friends and bring success to "\Y. S."
wherever he goes.
militant #eorge H>atoper
"Bill"
"Thy smile becomes thee well"
Berlin 8 South College
Hudson High School
1895; Economics; QTV; Glee Club (1, 2, 3); Roister
Doisters; Class Football (1); Pluto's Daughter (1);
"Under Cover" (2).
Behold "Bill" from Berlin. Not the Kaiser, but a close
second in the art of conquering. But where the Kaiser
conquers with his sword, this "Bill" wins victories with
his ever-ready smile and good humor. He is one of the
original gloom dispellers in the class, so if you ever feel
blue, drop around for a talk with "W. G." and that feeling
will soon disappear. He also adorns the first row in the
Glee Club, and endeavors to hit the highest spots on the
scale with his tenor. "Bill" intends to put his artistic
ability into landscape gardening, hoping to make Berlin
the most beautiful city in the state.
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"Shorty"
"The best things come in small packages"
Waltham A X A House
Waltham High School
1896; Pomology; A X A; Class Baseball (1); Manager
Class Rifle Team (2).
"Shorty" is certainly an excellent example of this
proverb. He comes from the "fast" town of Waltham,
but seems to have left all his "fastness" at home. He
spends his summers at the seashore behind the soda
fountain. "Sid" is the only prof who has been able to
"get" Shorty, although "Billy" did his best. He is the
original come-back kid, having a retort ready on the
slightest provocation. He is often associated in our
minds with a drill shirt and a green can, with "Doc" Fos-
ter and "Keck" Laird hovering in the vicinity.
limits; Hkbtoattj
"Louie"
"With the swiftest wing of speed"
Melrose West Experiment Station
Melrose High School
1893; Chemistry; Class Track (1, 2, 3); Class Cross
Country (1, 2, 3); Varsity Cross Country (3).
"Louie" will rank high some day as an agricultural
chemist. He is very enthusiastic about his future pro-
fession, and even devotes the time between the courses at
the Dining Hall to writing equations on the table cloth
with a spoon. Any evening you will find him doctoring
the nitrogen flasks at the Experiment Station. He also
enjoys a reputation as a runner and may be seen con-
verting C plus O2 to CO2 any day during the fall cross
country season.
Catleton {Eotocr i?>mtti)
"C. T."
"To hear his girlish voice in laughter ring,
But oh, ye gods, to hear him sing"
West Newton A X A House
Newton High School
1897; Microbiology; A X A; 1918 Index Board; As-
sistant Manager Hockey (3).
Bang, Biff, Smash, clouds of dust, smoke, shoes, clothes
and furniture issuing forth from the windows of Gilbert
Hall, sounds of pistol shots, the sight of bodies moving
frantically to overtake the syncopations of "I love a
piano", a grand ecstacy of noise crowned by a silvery
rippling laugh, tells the bewildered passerby that Carleton
is again surrounded by admiring friends basking in the
warmth of his genial and happy disposition. Ever ready
for a good time, yet capable of serious and sustained appli-
cation to any task set before him, "C. T." is a man of
accomplishment whose obvious enjoyment of life in all
its aspects makes all those about him the happier for it.
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"Sid"
"Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith"
Roslindale 3 Fearing Street
Boston English High School
1895; Economics; Commons Club; Senate (3); Class
President (2); Vice-President (2); Student Committee on
Fiftieth Anniversary; Public Speaking Council (2, 3);
Manager of Debating; Junior Prom Committee.
This essence of optimism is always there with the
"peppery stuff", especially when it comes to class scraps.
As a financier, a most successful career awaits him in the
business world. Somebody else is waiting too, they say —
which may account for his total lack of interest in the in-
habitants of neighboring towns. His chief pastime so far
has been hunting deer in the fastnesses of Mt. Toby. It
may be that the solitude of such pursuits is responsible
for the witty couplets and verses which he showers promis-
cuously about him.
ILc'miiZ HUtnanS H>paultiing
"Louie"
"Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure"
South Hingham 5 South College
Hingham High School
1895; Economics; Q T V; Class Football (1, 2);
Varsity Football (2,3).
"Louie" won the title of "wild man" of the class when
he attempted to capture the Chapel steps singlehanded
during the picture scrap freshman year. The title, how-
ever, belies the serenity of disposition with which he pur-
sues the even tenor of his way thru Aggie. Instead of
"roughing up" "Steve", he has now directed his surplus
"pep" to football, where he holds now a place in the line.
That work holds no terror for him is evidenced by his de-
cision to attempt to fool the "Doc" in the Aggie Ec major.
Jfranfe CljarluS g?tacfepolc
"Stack"
".I pendulum betwixt u smile mid a tear"
Somerville 15 North College
Somerville High School
1892; Economics; A X A; Glee Club (2, 3); Class
Cross Country (3).
Anyone with curly hair ought to be perfectly satisfied
with himself, but with this particular man it is not l In-
case. He thinks he needs education in addition to his other
advantages, and so "stays put" here in spite of the past
efforts of the Triumvirate. His coming from Somerville is
not held against him by his friends, lie is taking Aggie
Education along with Poultry, probably with the object
of educating chickens.
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"Ax"
"Fez noi i/to« the poet's mind"
Worcester Care Prof. A. P. Julian
Worcester South High School
1894; Chemistry.
Axel's idea of a wonderful time is either to face a sur-
geon in the operating room or to face a pile of books at
night that must be digested before morning. If this were
true, Axel has been enjoying a continual round of pleasure
since entering Aggie. As an example of industry, Axel,
hustling about with his little leather bag full to overflowing
with books and papers, is a constant reminder that in-
dustry is the sure road to success and happiness. Reams
and reams of poetry have been known to come out of this
fertile mind. Axel's talent in this direction was formerly
squandered on white-aproned nurses and fair town damsels
but now he seeks the Muse for the sake of "Kultur"
alone.
JXapmonb Cimotljp iHotoe
"Ray"
"He has common sense in a way that's uncommon"
Scitico, Conn. 51 Amity Street
Enfield High School
1895; Pomology; Commons Club.
Scitico, Conn., is responsible for the advent of this en-
tirely innocuous looking brother into our midst; his ap-
pearance in that quaint old town can be found recorded as
taking place October 6, 1895. "R. T." is noted chiefly
for his quiet perseverance in his work, curricular and
otherwise, for the results it brings, and for the fact that he
rooms with Mallorey. "Ray" doesn't aspire to be a
comet; he has a higher ambition — to be just a good,
steady, fixed star of the first magnitude. And we've
noticed that such ambitions usually get results.
Sbtiigon Clifford g>totocr£
"Addie"
"I'm sure care's an enemy to life"
Dorchester <I> £ K House
Dorchester High School
1896; Landscape; *M; 1918 index Board.
The spirit of "Addie" is so animated by joviality and
the determination to get off grinds that it is contagious.
No subject ever discussed can fail to evoke from him a
witticism that presents the lighter side. It has helped a
lot of us, when the dark shades of gloomy finals were set-
tling fast, to be shown that optimism, after all is said and
done, can surmount the greatest difficulties. He becomes
serious enough once in a while to draw a few sketches for
this volume and the Squib. It is not difficult to discover
just how much we owe him.
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"Sully"
"Put me amongst the girls"
Lawrence 9 North College
Lawrence High School
1896; Microbiology; AS*; Dramatics (1); Class
Football (1).
Since July 3, 1896, the world has little known where
next to expect a certain beauteous tenor voice, for our
friend Leo is extremely versatile. He has tried every-
thing from football to informals with equal success. He
drained the bitter cup of freshman football to the dregs,
and took for a chaser a female part in "Pluto's Daughter".
His latest venture is the Glee Club (we can but hope that
he will not be too persistent). However, despite the fact
that he hails from Lawrence, parts his hair in the middle,
and once roomed with Maginnis, he has done nobly at
Aggie.
&apmonb (Halter g>toift
"Ray"
"A stranger in a strange land"
North Amherst 16 Summer Street
Amherst High School
1895; Chemistry, Commons Club; Orchestra (1, 2, 3,
4); Band (1, 2, 3).
When one thinks of "Ray" music is always the next
thing that comes to mind; for his name is in reality a
synonym for that particular form of art. He can play
any genus or species of musical instrument from a bass
drum to a flute, and "get away with it." The cornet is
his specialty, however, while the others are merely thrown
in for the sake of variety. As a side line he is studying
chemistry.
"Tommy"
"Your coffee's rotten, I'll hart sonic lea"
Adams A 2 '!> House
Adams High School
1895; Landscape; A 2 <I>; Mandolin Club (2,3).
"Tommy", the boy from the Bcrkshires. Believe us,
the kid is almost clever! He's a good student, an early
riser, and a marvel at the social game. He plays the
mandolin and the women; he is good at the former, but
the latter — oh, boys! Dark eyes, dark hair — you know,
the kind they all fall for. He doesn't say much about
them; he just has that leave-it-to-me-I'll-tend-to-this sort
of an air. Yes, you've got to hand it to him; he certainly
has done well for a fellow who has had the misfortune to
spend his early and tender years away up in the backwoods
of Adams.
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"Dick"
"Whatever sceptic could inquire for"
West Medford $ 2 K House
Medford High School
1S95; Pomology; * 2 K; Class Hockey (1, 2).
"Dick" is not what might be called a ladies' man;
true, there have been certain rumors, but he steadfastly
affirms that "They are all fickle!" He brought with him
to Aggie a large stock of information on all sorts of subjects,
and he has been adding to it ever since. "Dick" uses his
information to back up his arguments — and he surely does
like to argue. He has opinions on every subject from
Wilson's Mexican policy to our co-eds, and is always willing
to discuss them with anybody. He takes an interest in
his work, and though he ties things up once in awhile
and gives us a good laugh, he gets on very well.
&rtf)ur ©ana Ctltott
"Tilt"
"Good night, what a shape"
Wellesley $SK House
Wellesley High School
1895; Entomology; * 2 K; Glee Club (1, 2); Orches-
tra (1, 2, 3); Band (1, 2, 3); Class Football (1); Varsity
Squad (3).
At a glance, one would conclude that there is nothing
small about "Tilt", and a further acquaintance confirms
this opinion. Arthur found time during his freshman year
to play football, but since then he has confined his exer-
cise to the band, where he makes a noise that some may call
music. He came to Aggie, however, with a purpose — to
graduate — and all else has been subordinated to this one
aim. He is good-natured and so built that you cannot
help liking him, and it is needless to say that we do.
Hetotg ifflorrdl ban Stetpne
"Van"
"One foot on sea and one on shore
To one thing constant never — xoell,
er — hardly ever"
Kinderhook, N. Y. * S K House
Burrows' Private School
1893; Landscape; *SK;Y.M. C. A.
We suspect that "Van" chose Aggie as his Alma Mater
for two reasons — because it is near Mt. Holyoke, and be-
cause it is near Smith. Although he dwelt during his
freshman year in the Lanthorne (which to be sure was
hardly an abode of culture) nevertheless the spectacle of
his claw-hammer bobbing circularly around the Drill Hall
floor at informals was a frequent and edifying one. If he
cannot get a position as husband to some beautiful maiden,
he plans to set up a landscape gardening establishment,
after having absorbed as many details as possible from
M. A. C, Harvard, and studies abroad.
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"Rajah"
"To be strong is to be happy"
Hyde Park K 2 House
Hyde Park High School
1894; Pomology; K 2; Class Football (1); Varsity
Football (2, 3).
Roger, or "Rajah" as he likes to be called (a most fitting
name too) is a progeny of Hyde Park — down near Boston,
you know. Nature blessed him with a superabundance of
"pep" and lots of muscle to back it up. If you don't believe
it, just ask the fellow who bucks up against the "big Aggie
fullback" on the gridiron, or better still, let Roger show
you in person. He is such a congenial chap, however, and
takes such pleasure in a little fun. that it is a real pleasure
to have him pound you. "Rajah" sings some also and
has been known to make frequent visits "over the river".
He even studies a little.
Hatorencc Weston Slilbur
"Father"
"He reads much; he is a great thinker, and he looks quite
thru the deeds of men"
South Middleboro B K <I> House
Middleboro High School
1894; Agricultural Education; B K #; Y. M. C. A.;
Six-Man Rope Pull (2).
Since coming to Aggie "Father" has spent most of his
time at the Epworth League meetings and the rest trying
to bugle. He likes nothing better than teaching his class
of young ladies at the Methodist Sunday School. Because
of his angelic countenance "Father" is very popular with
the ladies, especially school teachers, and their proposals
and daily letters sometimes get boresome. His relations
with the ladies evidently strengthened his arms, for he
surprised us by winning his numerals in the six-man rope
pull. "Father" may apply for a position in a ladies'
seminary by preference, but we feel sure that wherever he
goes he will be a successful teacher.
&apmono &oj>cc (UliUougljup
"Will"
"What he does not know is not worth knowing"
New Britain, Conn. 24 Beston Street
New Britain High School
1896; Rural Sociology; 1918 Index Board: Class His-
torian (3).
Marcus Aurelius was a piker compared with this merci-
less logician. Down among the nutmeg philosophers in
New Britain "Will" ranks as a demi-god; most of the time
he is surrounded by a psychic aura so rarefied that the
mosquitoes drop dead when they try to pass thru it.
"Ray" wields a typewriter ami isn't afraid to express his
ideas. He has been Russell's right bower on the Indix
and is responsible for much of the literature spilled on
these pages. "Will's" chief trait is his earnestness. He is
in deadly earnest about an astonishingly large number of
things. We need more such men at Aggie — "may his
tribe increase".
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"Woody"
"And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace
A Nymph, a Naiad or a Grace
Of finer form or lovelier face"
Yalesville, Conn. Plant House
Wallingford High School
1895; Economics; 2 * E.
This gay and chivalric fusser may be seen or heard at.
any time humming love songs in his retreat among the
flowers. He is a master of the flute, harmonica, and potato
whistle. He has real possibilities as a social light, but he
is shy and must be sought if you are to know how amiable
and contented he is. Paul's best bet is his tremendous
fund of good sense (that is — er — we mean, in all matters
not involving sentiment) gained from a solid foundation
in hard work. His build and high school experience
would entitle him to the rank of a leading athlete here,
but he has chosen rather to devote himself to other things.
Proofed Woobtoortf)
"Woody"
"The dome of thought"
Lowell A 2 <i> House
Lowell High School
1895; Pomology; AS*.
He hath a fiendish smile which he unwinds at such re-
lations as those of "Sammy" and McNau'ght. He is the
referee in the daily debates on Fall River and Plymouth,
and forever berates Sampson for his old Fall River Line,
which the judges at one contest thought worthy of ten
dollars in cold coin. He is a ready acquirer of news, and
parts with his penny rapidly at the sight of the loud seller
of papers. When he yells "Bone", he has not found an un-
welcome portion of the fish's vertebra in his soup, nor
does he desire the stick that the beef was cut from; he
wants his paper.
Harlan J^opcg HortJjlep
"Har"
"He lived in that ideal world, whose language is not speech
but song"
Greenwood K 2 House
Somerville High School
1S95; Entomology; K 2; Glee Club (1, 2, 3); Soloist
and Quartet (1, 2, 3); First Prize Burnham Contest (1);
Class Treasurer (1, 2, 3); Student Committee on Fiftieth
Anniversary.
Though "Carus' " accomplishments are many, the one
by which he has brought fame to his class and college is
his splendid singing; he has been a member of the glee
club and of the college quartet during his whole stay here,
besides favoring the neighboring churches frequently, and
it is safe to say that he is easily the best baritone Aggie
ever had. He is also something of a business man, in
which line his talents have been sorely tried, we fear, by
his duties as class treasurer for five semesters. His great
ambition is to discover some new bug.
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Amos Lawrence Allen
Leland Christy Allen
Ralph Emerson Allen
Ftank Madison Babbitt
Francis Collins Barbour
Herbert Hill Baxter
Herbert Ocumpaugh Beadle
Edgar Stearns Bennett
Winthrop Herbert Bent
Rolfe Nelson Bolster
Sylvia Bowen Brigham
Robert Edward Brown
Rollin Hugh B uck
Chester Swan Burtch
Herbert Hale Calderwood
Walter Leslie Cameron
Howard Boy den Capen
Louis David Chefferds
Joseph Lawrence Drummond
George Arthur Dubois
Norman Owen Durfee
Edward Stuart Faber
Robert Dunning Fairchild
Samuel Ferriss
Walter Greene Fletcher
Mary Ellen Monica Garvey
Howard Goodwin Gilbert
George Cole Howe
Robert Patterson Irvine
Charles Henry Jackson
Albert George Jenks
Sidney Clarence Johnson
Forrest Dean Jones
Harold Ellis Jones
Leon Dudley Jones
Philip Lefftngwell Kirkham
Frank Edward Knight
David Lasker
McCarrell Hudson Leiper
John Isaiah Lusk
William Mather
Adams Newton McClellan
Donald McKechnie
James Patrick Murrin
Edward Buckland Newton
Waring Eugene Randall
Waldo Whiting Robbins
Arthur Jones Seavey
Alfred Sedgwick
John Sliski
Arthur Winthrop Spencer
Frank Parker Stanton
Stephen Arthur Stickney
William Perkins Strong
Ralph Sutherland
Hubbard Swift
Weston Cushing Thayer
Lee Heston Tucker
Arthur Leslie Underwood
John Vicker^
George Jones Walker
Wesley Raymond Warren
Louis Elijah Wolfson
Ray Willard Woodbury
Frank Archibald Woods
John Lindsey Wright
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1915 panguet Reason
Came spring, and with it the long heralded banquet season. Many weeks before the date
set for the "big doings", the skillful brains of 1918 men were hard at work scheming up ways to
outwit the wily "vigilance committee" which the Sophs set on the trail of their adversaries. Des-
pite an observant watch, however, our plans ran smoothly. Election ballots were sent in to
"Herb" Baxter during the Easter vacation and, at his home, counted by the committee. Then in
open class meeting, held in the "Ent" building, the real election was carried out, code fashion,
while the Sophs stood on the outside looking in. True, 1917 would much rather have been on
the inside looking out, but the freshman line held for downs. Result — expense account No. 1
payable to "Shylock" from the Sophomore class for broken glass.
The big meeting was put off until Friday night before the banquet. Then did all loyal 1918
men stealthily steal down to the Masonic Hall, purposely rented for the occasion, to get the final
"dope". The fighting squad was picked, the other fellows advised to "beat it" for home as soon
as possible, and with a parting "On to Greenfield", the meeting broke up — not one Sophomore
having invaded our sacred precincts.
The real excitement began with the opening of the season, May 1st, at the scheduled mass
meeting. It was the plan of 1917 to hunt out or run down certain suspected freshies after they
left the Chapel. Frank Babbitt was one of these. But the wily freshman proved a faster fox
than "Nap" Morehouse a hound and he soon skipped the Sophs, not to appear again until Mon-
day at the Mansion House. Nineteen seventeen had followed the right trail, however, for "Bab"
turned out to be the class secretary. But for the rest of the class —
Directly after the mass meeting, 1918 formed en masse and marched off toward North
Amherst, closely followed by a few curious Sophs. In froxit of the Experiment Station, the pro-
cession suddenly halted and in an instant three or four blanketed freshmen rose in the midst,
soon to be loaded into a waiting push cart. The mysterious procession moved on. The cart
was finally dumped of its precious cargo in North Amherst at the Gaskill house. Their share of
the work completed, most of the Freshmen beat for the tall timber, not to reappear till hunger
called them to the banquet in Greenfield. But to follow the fate of the three men at Gaskill's.
'17 kept a strong guard outside all the first night. Once they broke into the house, succeeded
in handcuffing Beadle, Johnson a.nd Baker, guards of the lower floor and came within one wall of
getting the real booty. But a miss is as good as a mile. Evidently thinking the Gaskill house a
mere blind, 1917 now relaxed the watch, leaving only two or three men on guard. As a result,
early Monday morning, Jack Preble, seemingly the only other refugee, made good an escape.
The Sophs, thinking he was the last of the kind, ceased the watch altogether. A short while
later, three handsome young ladies, by name Howard Russell, President; Harlan Worthley,
Treasurer; and Harold Jones, Historian, walked out of the Gaskill house, unmolested, stepped into
a waiting auto and were soon being whizzed away to a safe shelter at the Mansion House, Greenfield.
Most of the excitement centered in Sunderland. Several of the officers were on the baseball
squad playing at Williston. They were hurried off to their hiding places after the game, slipping
the ever watchful Sophs in a mad auto race up through Turners Falls and back to Sunderland.
But the shades of night were falling fast and to find the house already prepared for them proved a
hard task. They landed at the wrong dwelling and, in an endeavor to correct the mistake by
crawling snail-like through brush and briar to the right house, aroused the dozing Sophs. After
a merry scramble, two of the men, Grayson, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Maginnis, Chairman of the
Banquet Committee, stealthily got away by travelling in a horizontal position. They finally
took up their abode in the house first visited. The Sophs eventually "got wise" and early Mon-
day morning raided the place. Just as they were in a position to grab the two officers, our twenty-
man fighting crew cainc rushing (into the scene in autos. Ensued a battle royal in which flour
and fists held lull sway. When the dust cleared, there could be seen, vanishing in the distance,
four autos bearing with them to safely with the fighting squad, two more freshman class officers
Holmes, the other man with Grayson and Maginnis, had a little excitement also, lie was
unable to escape when the Sophs arrived, so he sought safely on the top rail in a tobacco barn.
Perched here he was able to watch the drowsy second year men search the shed several times.
Little did they realize that their prey was overhead. By morning it had flown. Leaving the
shod in the black of night, "Bob" was again unable to find the right house. He prowled around
for some time until he came upon the Bullis homestead. After convincing Mr. Bullis that he
was no ex-convict, the class captain, for such Holmes was, found shelter there. He was rescued
by the fighting squad and taken to Greenfield by auto on Monday afternoon.
When the roll was called up yonder at the Mansion House 152 Freshmen out of 154 in the
class wen- able In answer a lusty "present". And so another banquet season, reviewed from
1018's standpoint, the best ever, — was rung out.
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Jfollte* of 1918
Jforctoorb
Bear with us, we are yet young. Have patience:
patience is its own reward.
All bouquets and other appreciations intended for
the cast, will be collected at the door and presented in
a barrel. We'd rather have them in a bunch than in
pieces.
Co-eds will kindly remove their hats.
"The audience is requested to maintain strict
neutrality."
®f)e 3&a?oo iffltngtrds;
Warren, Interlocutor
Tambos, Hunnewell, Lasker
Kirkham, Preble, Sawyer, Minor, Stowers, C. T.
Overture .......
Introducing Spike Jones
The Swiss Cheese Yodler, in the popular spasm entitled, "Addie,':
"When the Chapel Bell Rings Ding Dong"
"That Hash-house Tea" .
"They All Had a Finger in the Pie"
"You Made Me Study"
Hymn 1001 ; Congregation Standing
Barcarole Waltz ........
"The Hoss Race" ........
Class Quartette — Worthley, Sawyer, F. K. Baker, Sutherland
"Lefty at the Bat" .....
& telegram from JBab
9 Scenic ^fectclj in <£>ne S>ccnc
Characters
Paul Pildreth, a student
Harold Gidsore, a football coach
Pete the Pink Peril
Terry the Terror .
Melly Gravy, cheese of police
Mick O'Hanaranagan, a messenger
Bones, Hawley, L. D. Jones
Smith, Van Alstyne
Witinark
or "Why Co-eds Leave Home."
. Geraldine Hunnewell
Zowie Lasker
Oswald Hawley
. Spike Jones
Orchestra
M. H. Leiper
de Wolfson Hopper
boy
Mrs. Gertie Gidsore, "Zudora Wopwinkle'
Harold E. Jones
Lewis Spalding
M. H. Leiper
Frank Bainbridge
Robert L. Boyd
Walter Fletcher
The Maid of Mystery
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tEfte Camera ikrap
The camera scrap, or picture season, was formerly
an annual contest between the Freshman and Sopho-
more Classes. It was only of recent years that it be-
came an established M. A. C. custom; for the first
class seriously to contest the taking of a Freshman Class
picture was that of 1916. The custom was short-lived,
however; its demise being brought about by joint
action of the Faculty and Senate in the spring of 1916.
Starting from an informal, illy regulated scrap, the
picture season went through a rapid evolution until, in
the fall of 191.5, it was carried out under formal rules
and the close supervision of the Senate. Instead of a week, as formerly, the Freshmen were
given twenty-four hours in which to take a picture of their class. To make up for the reduction
in time, the Freshmen were to be allowed to have the picture taken with any campus building for
background instead of being confined to the Chapel steps.
The opening of the "season" on a Saturday noon, found the Class of 1918 divided into
squads, four of which were stationed at different points at the edge of the campus and the fifth,
the fighting squad, located centrally so that it could get to any part of the campus quickly. Each
squad, in addition to its captain or leader, had a bugler whose trusty horn was to rouse the 'IS
warriors in case of attack":' At 12.15 the serenity of the campus was broken by the piercing notes
of the bugle which brought several squads of "ruf necks" to the lawn in front of the Entomology
building just in time to break up a little parade being held by nineteen. A few cameras were
accidentally smashed before the Freshmen realized that they didn't want a picture anyway.
The next eighteen hours were broken only by the inspiring vocal efforts of the various squads as
they sang themselves to sleep, the measured hoof-beats of Del Farrar's horse as he galloped from
station to station and the occasional false alarm whoops of the upperclassmen anxious to see some
action.
A sharp watch was kept up during the night, but the attack of the Freshmen failed to ma-
terialize. A bright clear moon shone down upon the valiant Sophomores, but its charm and
beauty was hardly appreciated in view of their efforts to keep warm by means of blankets, coats,
mackinaws and a fire built of parts of Billy's poultry plant. The enemy was not heard from until
six o'clock on Sunday morning, when a classmate who had fallen into the hands of the Freshmen
and subsequently escaped reported that the Freshmen had spent the night in the carbarn at
North Amherst and were preparing an attack at daybreak.
An electric car with the Freshmen aboard coming from North Amherst was easily stopped
by means of a big reel of wire rolled across the tracks. The sight of a few squads of Sophomores
ready for action discouraged the Frosh who, without the semblance of a fight, took up their home-
ward journey without even a civil "Good morning, sir" to the hosts who had waited all night for
them.
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HE Massachusetts Agricultural
College takes great pleasure
in announcing the successful
production of the musical com-
edy "Very Good Nineteen". This pro-
duction, staged by the members of the Class
of 1919, was the most remarkable exhibi-
tion of its sort ever witnessed. The show
appeared on the Aggie campus from Sep-
tember 1915 to June 1916. The faculty
and the three upper classes of the college
attended the entire performance and re-
ceived therefrom both amusement and
worry. The musical ability of the cast
was pronounced. Undoubtedly several of
the songs will be the "hits" of the coming
season, especially among the members of
1920. "How Green I Am" was sung in a
very touching way by the entire class clad
in evening clothes (?). "How Wet the Water Looks" was sung by sixty strong
men. Another interesting number, composed and sung by the co-eds, was entitled
"Why Can't We Go to the Banquet?" All rights on these songs are reserved
by the class.
To prevent the show from becoming tiresome, the management introduced a
big feature consisting of athletic contests between the classes of 1918 and 1919.
These contests were staged at intervals throughout the show and were enthusiasti-
cally received. The 1918 football team trimmed the 1919 team very efficiently.
This defeat stirred up the '19 men and they started to "rub it out". Did they?
Ask any man who attended the show and saw the basketball, hockey, and baseball
games. Just before the curtain rang down, a banquet was suggested for the
members of 1919. It was at this time that the '18 men evinced a desire to prevent
the '19 class officers from getting indigestion. After nine months of highly inter-
esting and instructive entertainment, the performance ended with the singing of
"Finals".
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Allan Leon Pond
Olive Evangeline Carroll
Helen Aramintha Sibley
Arthur Martin McCarthy
Roger Readio
William Kimball .
Stewart P. Batchelder
. President
. Vice-President
. Secretary
. Treasurer
Captain
Sergeant-at-Arms
. Historian
'ONE-WAY TICKET"
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Class of 1919
Alden, Dean Watson ........ Proctor, Vt.
A X A House; Proctor High School; 1896; A X A.
Bagg, Qtjincy Austin South Hadley Falls
60 Pleasant Street; South Hadley High School; 1898.
Baker, William Alphonso ........ Melrose
A X A House; Melrose High School; 1898; A X A; Class Baseball (1); Assistant Manager
Baseball (2); Class Football (1).
Baker, William Herbert, Jr. ..... . Chesterfield
0 X House; Mount Hermon School; 1897; 0 X; Class Baseball (1).
Batchelder, Stewart Putnam . . . . . North Reading
7 South College; Reading High School; 1898; Q. T. V.; Class Basketball (1); Class Base-
ball (1).
Batista, Victor !' Havana, Cuba
B K $ House; Lawreneeville Academy; 1896; B K <i>; Y. M. C. A.; Class Treasurer (1)
Baxter, Herbert Hill . Brighton
A 2 * House; Brighton High School; 1894; AS*.
Beadle, Herbert Ocumpaugh ...... Lima, N. Y.
18 Nutting Avenue; Genesee Wesleyan Seminary; 1893; Y. M. C. A.
Bigelow, George Samuel ....... Millville, N. J.
3 McClure Street; Millville High School; 1897.
Blanchard, Carlton Douglas Uxbridge
96 Pleasant Street; Uxbridge High School; 1898; K2: Class Football (1); Varsity Football
(2); Class Basketball (1).
Blanchard, George Kinson ........ Abington
96 Pleasant Street; Abington High School; 1897; K 2; Varsity Football (2).
Bogholt, Carl Moller ....... Newport, R. I.
29 Pleasant Street ; Rogers High School; 1896.
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Boland, Kells Shepard ....... South Boston
120 Pleasant Street; Berkelev Preparatory School; 1896; <E> 2 K; Orchestra (1, 2); Man-
dolin Club (1, 2).
Bond, Herbert Richard . . . . . . . . Dover
Lincoln Avenue; Dover High School; 1898; 4> 2 K; Y. M. C. A.; Class Football (1).
Bowen, Arthur Newton ........ Quincy
15 Phillips Street; Quincy High School; 1897.
Bowen, Maurice Stetson ........ Lakeville
81 North Pleasant Street; Middleboro High School; 1896; Commons Club; Stockbridge
Club; Y. M. C. A.
Boyce, Alan Freeman .....
Colonial Inn; Melrose High School; Commons Club.
Boynton, Raymond Woods ....
North College; Framingham High School; A 2 <£.
. Melrose
Framingham
Groton
Newtonville
Ayer
Bradley, William George ......
88 Pleasant Street; 0 X.
Brigham, Sylvia Bowen ......
Draper Hall; Newton High School; 1897; A <J> T.
Brown, Ralph Hall .......
K 2 House; Ayer High School; K 2.
Buffum, Eliot Mansfield ........ Waban
10 South College; Newton High School; 1897; Q. T. V.; Assistant Manager Varsity Base-
ball (2); Class Hockey (1); Class Tennis (1); Collegian Board (1, 2).
Burt, Henry John ......... Arlington
10 Allen Street; Somerville High School; 1895; Commons Club; Debating Team (1).
Burton, Lee Williams . . . Plainville
35 East Pleasant Street; Worcester Academy; 1895;
Orchestra (1).
Callanan, John Edward . . Dorchester
60 Pleasant Street; Boston English High School; 1896;
K T <I>; Catholic Club; Class Track (1).
Callanan, Vincent DePaul . . Maiden
4 Chestnut Street; Maiden High School; 1896; Catho-
lic Club; Class Track (1).
Carpenter, Hall Bryant . . Somerville
K 2 House; Somerville High School; 1896; K 2; Y.
M.C. A.; Class Cross Country (1, 2); Class Track (1);
Varsity Track (1).
Carroll, Olive Evangeline Dorchester
Draper Hall; Dorchester High School; 1896; A * 1\
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Cassidy, Morton Harding ....... East Boston
82 Pleasant Street; East Boston High School; 1897; A X A; Y. M. C. A.; Orchestra (1).
Castle, George Btjrdette . . . . . . . . Pittsfield
77 Pleasant Street; Pittsfield High School; 2 * E.
Chandler, Arthur Lincoln ....... Leominster
3 Nutting Avenue; Leominster High School; 1897; 2 $ E; Y. M. C. A.
Chapin, Frederic Charles
Greenfield
West Experiment Station; Mount Hermon School; 1895; Commons Club; Y. M. C. A.;
Class Track (1); Class Cross Country (1, 2).
Chase, Malcolm Willis ....... Amesbury
94 North Pleasant Street; Amesbury High School; 1896; K F <!>; Band (1).
Chisholm, Robert Dudley ........ Melrose
66 North Pleasant Street; Melrose High School; 1897; * 2 K; Manager Class Basketball
(1); Class Hockey (1); Class Secretary (1); Class Athletic Board (1).
Clapp, Augustus Warren ....... East Braintree
82 Pleasant Street; Thayer Academy; 1895; A X A.
Coderre, Ernest Laurier ....... Southbridge
35 North Prospect Street; Southbridge High School; 1896; A 2 #.
Collins, Robert Burleigh ........ Rockland
© X House; Rockland High School; 1898; © X; Class Debating Team (1).
Cone, Willis Refine . . . . . . . Mittineague
42 McClellan Street; West Springfield High School; 1897; BK*.
Cooley, Edwin Prince ........ Sunderland
Sunderland; Amherst High School; 1895; Commons Club; Y. M. C. A.; Class Football
( 1 ) ; Class Debating Team ( 1 ) .
Cosby, Alfred Francis ........ Westfield
15 Amity Street; Westfield High School; 1897; 2 4> E.
Crimmin, Royce Brainerd ........ Haverhill
82 Pleasant Street; Haverhill High School; 1896; A X A; Class Debating Team (1).
Crowe, Charles ........ Norwich, Conn.
K 2 House; Norwich Free Academy; 1896; K 2.
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Davies, James Pillsbury . Cambridge
6 Phillips Street; Phillips Andover Acad-
emy; 1895; * 2 K; Manager Class Rifle
Team (1); Varsity Rifle Team (1).
Day, Harold Ralph . . Milford
A 2 4> House; Hopedale High School;
1897; AS*.
Dickinson, Victor Abel . Amherst
Mt. Pleasant; Amherst High School; 1896.
Dunbar, Charles Oliver . Westfield
84 Pleasant Street; Westfield High School;
1895; 2 * E; Band (1, 2); Orchestra (1,
2); Mandolin Club (1).
Erhard, Bena Gertrude ....... East Milton
Draper Hall; Milton High School; 1897; A <l> T.
Erickson, Gunnar Emmanuel . . . . . . • Lynn
29 McClellan Street; Lynn Classical High School; 1897.
Evans, Myrton Files ........ Somerville
K 2 House; Somerville High School; 1898; K 2; Class Rifle Team (1); Manager Class
Track (1); Class Athletic Board (1); Collegian Board (1, 2).
Faber, Edward Stuart . Plainfield, N. J.
North College; Plainfield High School; 0 X.
Faneuf, Ambrose Clement ....... West Warren
Birch Lawn; Warren High School; 1897; Catholic Club.
Farrington, Robert Pierce ........ Newton
15 Beston Street; Mechanic Arts High School; 1896; Manager Class Baseball (1); Class
Athletic Board (1).
Faxon, Paul ......... Wellesley Hills
66 Pleasant Street; Newton High School; 1898; <P 2 K; Class Football (1); Class Track
(1); Class Baseball (1); Class Athletic Board (1).
Fellows, Katherine Adelheid . . . . . . Northampton
21 Amity Street; Newcomb High School; 1894.
Ferriss, Samuel Boynton ...... New Milford, Conn.
103 Butterfield Avenue; 1896; B K <I>; Le Cercle Francais (2); Glee Club (1); Manager
Six-Man Rope Pull (2).
Field, Wilbert Daniel ....... Somerville
29 McClellan Street; Berkeley Preparatory School; 1891.
Fiske, Eustace Bridge ....... Somerville
6 Nutting Avenue; Somerville High School; 1898; Commons ( 'lull.
Fogg, Verne Allen ......... Topsfield
I Chestnut Street; Topsfield High School; 1897; Musical Club (1).
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Fox, Charles . . . Baltimore, Md.
17 Kellogg Avenue; Baltimore Polytechnic Institute;
French, Willard Kyte . . Worcester
6 Phillips Street; Worcester Classical High School; 1897.
Garde, Earl Augustus . . . Lynn
30 North Prospect Street; Lynn English High School;
1896.
Garvey, Mary Ellen Monica Amherst
27 South Prospect Street; Amherst High School; 1896.
Gilligan, Gerald Mathew . West Warren
120 Pleasant Street; Worcester Academy; 1895; K F
4>; Class Captain (1).
Glavin, William Francis . . Wenham
North College; Beverly High School; 1897; £ * E;
Six-Man Rope Pull(l).
Goff, Howard Mason . . Cambridge
120 Pleasant Street; Everett High School; 1894; * 2
K; Glee Club (1,2); Class Track (1); Class Rifle Team
(1).
Graves, Walter Decker . . Brookline
1 North College; Brookline High School; 1895; AS*;
Stockbridge Club; Assistant Manager Varsity Track (1).
Green, Lynn
Sehenevus, N. Y.
6 Nutting Avenue; Cooperstown High School; 1896;
Commons Club.
Guba, Emil Frederick
New Bedford
6 Nutting Avenue; New Bedford High School; 1897;
Commons Club.
Hall, Frank Edwin .... Revere
103 Pleasant Street; Searsport High School; 1896.
Hamilton, Howard Milton . Winchester
Cottage Street; Winchester High School; 1896; K T 4>.
Harding, George Warren . . Somerville
Flint Laboratory; Somerville High School; 1895; K £;
Class Hockey (1).
Harris, Ethel Lovett . . . Beverly
Draper Hall; Beverly High School; 1897; A <!> T.
Hartwell, Richard Raymond Springfield
Colonial Inn; Springfield Technical High School; 1896.
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Harvey, E. Eeskine . . . . . . Washington, D. C.
Physics Building 0 X.
Hastings, Louis Pease . . . . . . •_ . Springfield
K 2 House; Springfield Technical High School; 1896; K 2; Roister Doisters.
Hathaway, Wilfred Adelbert
88 Pleasant Street; 0 X; Class Cross Country (1, 2).
Hodgson, Benjamin Earl . .
22 Amity Street; Phillips Andover Academy.
Hopkins, George Randolph Lawrence
60 Pleasant Street; Orleans High School; 1898.
Howe, Ralph Thomas .....
120 Pleasant Street; ' Melrose High School; 1897.
Hunter, Harold Clayton ....
60 Pleasant Street; South Hadley High School; 1896.
Berkley
Methuen
Orleans
Melrose
Jewell, Charles Henry ......
17 Kellogg Avenue; Merrimac High School; 1897; Debating Club
Johnson, Lawrence Wilhelm .....
12 Cottage Street; Williston Seminary; 1892; A 2 $.
Johnson, Sidney Clarence ......
South Hadley Falls
Merrimac
Avon
Gloucester
B K $ House; Gloucester High School; 1894; BK$; Band (1, 2); Orchestra (1, 2).
Jordan, Raymond Douglas ....... Springfield
21 Fearing Street; Springfield Technical High School.
Kennedy, Alan Giles ......... Milford
85 Pleasant Street; Milford High School; A 2 *; Class Baseball (1).
Kimball, William Lincoln . . . . . . . . Orange
<J> 2 K House; Orange High School; * 2 K.
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King, William Cutting . • . . . . . Suffield, Conn.
120 Pleasant Street; Suffield School; 1897; 2 # E; Class Basketball (1); Sergeant-at-Arms
CD-
Knight, Frank Edward ....... Brimfield
'35 East Pleasant Street; Hitchcock Free Academy; 1893.
Knowlton, Priscilla ......... Roxbury
\ M. A. C. Farmhouse; Girls' Latin School; 1898.
Leary, Frank Dennis ......... Brockton
12 Cottage Street; Williston Seminary; 1892; Catholic Club.
Leiper, McCarrell Hudson ...... Blauvelt, N. Y.
3 Nutting Avenue; 2*2; Class Track (1).
Liebman, Anna ......... Dorchester
Draper Hall; Dorchester High School.
Logan, Milan Alexander ........ Brockton
19 Lincoln Avenue; Brockton High School.
Mansell, Elton Jessup ....... Cambridge
4 Chestnut Street; Arlington High School; 1895; * 2 K; Class Football (1); Class Hockey
(1); Class Baseball (1).
Martin, Andrew Lawrence ........ Hopedale
Mather, William .......... Taunton
Fitts House; Stand Grammar School; 1898.
Mattoon, Charles Gordon ........ Pittsfield
120 Pleasant Street; Pittsfield High School; 1896; 2 4> E; Class Rifle Team (1); Varsitv
Rifle Team (1).
McCarty, Arthur Martin ........ Monson
9 South College; Monson Academy; 1897; Q. T. V.; Catholic Club; Orchestra (1); Band
(1); Class Basketball (1); Class Baseball (1).
McClellan, Adams Newton ...... Keene, N. H.
K 2 House; Mount Hermon School; 1896; K 2.
Montgomery, Forest Kimball ..... East Orange, N. J.
87 Pleasant Street; Moses Brown School; 1896; 2 * E; Class Track (1); Varsity Track
(1).
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Moor, Erwin Charles
Lynn
10 Allen Street; Lynn Classical High School;
1897; Y. M. C. A.
Moore, John Raymond . Tolland
Birch Lawn; Mount Hermon School; 1S92;
Mount Hermon Club; Y. M.C. A.
Morgan, Earl Amos . Amherst
2 Allen Street; Amherst High School; 1890;
K 2.
Morse, Maurice . Dorchester
Entomology Building; Mechanic Arts High
School; 1896; Commons Club.
Morton, Elmer Joshua ....... Watertown
Commons Club; Waltham High School; 1S96; Commons Club; Orchestra (1); Roister
Doisters; Band (1); Y. M. C. A.
Newbold, Douglas Tracy ....... Northampton
87 Pleasant Street; Mount Hermon School; 1897; 2 <J> E; Roister Doisters; Dramatics
(1); Class Debating Team (1).
Newton, Adelbert ........
77 Pleasant Street; 2 * E.
Newton, Edward Buckland ......
Chemistry Laboratory; Holyoke High School; 1896; Commons Club.
O'Hara, Joseph Ernest .......
6 Phillips Street; Worcester Classical High School; 1897.
Parke, Robert Warren . . . . . ■
5 Allen Street; Murdoek School; 1897.
i . Lenox
. Holyoke
Worcester
Winchendon
Parkhurst, Raymond Thurston ...... Fitchburg
K 2 House; Fitchburg High School; 1898; K 2; Y. M. C. A.; Stockbridge Club; Class
Basketball (1); Class Track (1); Varsity Track (1).
Parsons, Edward Field ....... North Amherst
North Amherst; Amherst High School; 1897; Y. M. C. A.; Debating Club; Class Track
(1); Varsity Rifle Team (1).
Peck, George Newberry ........ Amherst
L0 Allen Street; Hartford High School; 1895; Commons Club; V.M.C. A.; Glee Club (1).
Peck, Roger Eugene ........ Shclburnc
6 Nutting Avenue; Arms Academy; 1896; Y. M. C. A.
Peirson, Henry Byron ........ Bradford
18 Nulling Avenue; Haverhill High School; 1894; Y. M. ('. A.; Manager Class Tennis
Team (I ); Squib Hoard (I).
Perry, Errol Clinton ....
15 Hallock Street; Fairhaven High School; 1896.
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Peterson, Roy Duane . . . . . ... Brooklyn, N. Y.
120 Pleasant Street; Greenfield High School; 1896; A 2 <J>; Class Baseball (1).
Pierpont, Frederick Trowbridge ..... Chester, Pa.
18 Nutting Avenue; Milwaukee High School; 1896.
Pond, Allen Leon . Holliston
K 2 House; Holliston High School; 1896; K 2; Class Football (1); Class Basketball (1);
Class Baseball (1); Varsity Baseball (1); Varsity Football (2).
Poole, Harold Walter .......
B K * House; Hudson High School; 1897; B K *; Class Hockey (1).
Pree, Karl Julius .........
© X House; Brookline High School; 1896; 0 X.
Pulley, Marion Gertrude .......
2 Allen Street; Melrose High School; 1898; A * T.
Ouimby, Arthur Edmund . . ■ .
Hudson
Brookline
Melrose
Boston
36 North Prospect Street; Somerville High School; 1893; B K 4>; Varsity Baseball (1);
Class Baseball (1); Class Hockey (1); Class Athletic Board (1).
Ratner, Charles Cosrael
Re a, Julian Stuart
Lincoln Avenue; Weymouth High School.
Readio, Roger Frank .
Springfield
Weymouth
Florence
120 Pleasant Street; Northampton High School; 1896; BK4>; Class Football (1); Class
Basketball (1); Class Baseball (1); Class Captain (1).
Record, Harold Jordan West Boylston
Butterfield Road.
Rice, Harold Miller Kensington, Conn.
Stockbridge Hall; New Britain High School; 1895; 2 * E.
Robbins, Waldo Whiting South Hingham
14 Nutting Avenue ; Hingham High School.
Roberts, Mark Anthony ....... Dorchester
2.5 Lincoln Avenue; Dorchester High School.
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Ross, Donald ......... Arlington
4> 2 K House; Arlington High School; 1897; * 2 K; Class President (1); Class Hockey
(1); Class Football (1).
Rowe, Clifford Alton ...... East Orange, N. J.
* 2 K House; East Orange High School; 1897; * 2 K; Glee Club (1, 2)
Sargent, Walter Harriman ....... Maiden
4 Chestnut Street; Maiden High School; 1895.
SCHENKELBERGER, FREDERIC ........ QuinCV
10 South College; Stone School; 1S96; Q. T. V.; Manager Class Cross Country (1).
Seavey, Paul Stanley ........ Cambridge
Commons Club; Cambridge Latin School; 1897; Commons Club; Class Hockey (1).
Sedgwick, Alfred ........ Fall River
A 2 <I> House; Proctor Academy; 1894; A 2 <!>.
Sexton, Ernest Francis ....... Darien, Conn.
3 Nutting Avenue; Stamford High School; 1896; 2 * E; Catholic Club; Class Football
(1).
Sheldon, Howard Rhoades ...... New Marlborough
4 Chestnut Street.
Sibley, Helen Aramintha ....... Longmeadow
Draper Hall; Springfield Technical High School; 1897; A <J> T.
Skinner, Everett Hamilton ...... West Upton
K 2 House; Worcester Academy; 1895; K 2; Class Tennis (1); Class Track (1).
Smith, Jonathan Harold ....... Roslindale
88 Pleasant Street; Boston English High School; 0 X; Roister Doisters.
Smith, Wendell Frederick .....
10 Allen Street; Troy High School; 1898; Commons Club.
Spaulding, Harold Edwin .....
K S House; Hopedale High School; 1896; K 2.
Troy, N. Y.
. Milford
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Spencer, Arthur Winthrop ........ Danvers
North College; Danvers High School; 1895; K T *.
Stafford, Irving Boynton ....... Fall River
6 Nutting Avenue; Durfee High School; 1898.
Stearns, Horace David ........ Waltham
18 Nutting Avenue; Waltham High School; 1897.
Stevens, Chester Dillingham ....... Reading
10 Allen Street; Reading High School; 1897.
Stockwell, Erwin Sidney, Jr. ....... Sharon
Commons Club; Sharon High School; 1898; Commons Club.
Strack, Edward Framingham
Clark Hall; Framingham High School; 1895.
Sutherland, Ralph . Cambridge
35 North Prospect Street; Rindge
Technical School; 1897; AS*.
Sweeney, William Joseph
Dorchester
35 North Prospect Street; Boston
English High School; Class Rifle Team
(1); Varsity Rifle Team (.1); Class
Cross Country (2) .
Taylor, Edmund Billings
Wollaston
17 Fearing Street; Thayer Academy;
1893; Commons Club; Rifle Club.
Thayer, Julian Bailey ...... Durham, Conn.
36 North Prospect Street; Middletown High School; Mandolin Club.
Thayer, Weston Cushing .....
53 Lincoln Avenue; Hingham High School; 1897; K T *.
Thomas, Frank DesAutel .....
Lincoln Avenue; Milford High School; 1897.
Tietz, Harrison .......
24 Beston Street.
Tirrell, Loring Vinson ......
Lincoln Avenue; Weymouth High School; 1896; Class Baseball (1)
Underwood, Arthur Leslie .......
B K * House; 1897; B K *.
Vickers, John .........
B K * House; Deerfield Academy; 1895; B K $; Class Basketball (1).
. Hingham
. Milford
Richmond Hill, N. Y.
South Weymouth
. Maynard
Amherst
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B K * House; Deerfield Academy; 1896; B K 4>; Assistant Manager Varsity Track (2).
Wells, Marion Nichols . . . .
Draper Hall; Central High School; 1896; A <J> T.
Wheeler, Russell Hubbell ....
4 Chestnut Street; Newtown High School; 1898; K T <J>.
White, Edward Asa ......
4 Chestnut Street; Moses Brown School; 1896.
Springfield
Newtown, Conn.
Providence, R. I.
Weymouth
Whittle, Clarance Parker, Jr. .
120 Pleasant Street ; Weymouth High School; 1896; * 2 K; Class Football (1); Varsity
Football (2); Class Basket ball (1).
Williams, Allan Carruth ....... Rockland
Williams, Kenneth Sanderson ...... Sunderland
9 South College; Deerfield Academy; 1897; Q. T. V.; Class Football (1); Class Basketball
(1).
Window, James Joseph ........ Lynn
7 Allen Street; Lynn Classical High School; 1897; Debating Club; Class Debating Team (1)
Wing, Arland Junius Danvers
North College; Danvers High School; 1897; K T <i>.
Wood, Oliver Wiswell ......
81 Pleasant Street; Arlington High School; 1892.
Woodard, Chester Smith ......
Leverett; Amherst High School; 1S96.
Woodbury, Ray Willard ......
Cottage Street; Newburyport High School; 1894; Commons Club
Woodside, Wilfred Livingstone .....
4 Chestnut Street.
Yesair, John ...
K 2 House; Dummer Academy; 1894; K 2.
. Arlington
. Leverett
Newburyport
Auburndale
Newburyport
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Co tfje Jfrestfjman Claste
Give me men to match my mountains,
Give me men to match my plains,
Men with power to subdue them,
Men with empires on their brains.
This is the College's plea to you, oh Class of
1920. Yours is a history — not made — but in the
making. You come here, men from every walk of
life, of all moulds and dispositions — some thinkers,
dreamers, schemers; some backward and shy,
others daring and unreserved. Yet it is to you that
Alma Mater looks for the forming of new and
worthier traditions, while she is yet young.
You have been observed while at your classes and in your social life ; sometimes
with approval, sometimes with disapproval. With appreciation the college has
noted your unity as demonstrated in interclass relationships, even in such affairs
as the semi-humorous struggle on Freshman field, the rope pull and in your class
organization with its attendant election of officers.
May you find these things the spice rather than the foundation of your college
life. Look about you, find a friend and be a friend. This is the beginning of
manhood. Next find the place where you can do the most good in the college
social life, for ' ' Give to the world the best that you have and the best will come
back to you".
Many of those who have looked unsympathizingly on your struggle to affiliate
yourself with the work here have casually remarked ' 'Just like all the other fresh-
men". To you it may have a melancholy ring at first; but give it a second, deeper
thought and you will find there a living, invigorating hope. Recall that all the
college men you most admire wiere once Freshmen — uninteresting to the uninter-
ested— but the pride of those who knew and cared. Now see them fulfilling the
fondest hopes of those who kindled the ambitions, or made them possible. They
are men of strong character and steadfast purpose, men who can accomplish things
worthy of our admiration.
Neither can you afford to disappoint those who care, nor to let the spark of
your ambition flicker out. To yourself you owe courage; to your friends, success;
and to all, honor. The college can ask no more of you than that you be true to
yourself.
Oh, men of 1920 — for men you are — make your college history worth the
while. May the last chapter read — "They were men of sterling worth."
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Fred V. Waugh .....
. President
Warren H. Dewing ....
. Vice-President
Helen Millard .....
. Secretary
Ralph S. Stedman ....
. Treasurer
Ivan A. Roberts .....
Class Captain
Starr M. King . . . : .
Sergeant-at-Arms
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Allen, Harold Kenneth
Belohertown
Anderson, George
Somerville
Andrews, George Henry
Farmington, Conn.
Apsey, George Wills, Jr.
Winchester
Armstrong, John Shepard
East Sandwich
Armstrong, Philip Brownell
Rutherford, N. J.
Babcock, Leslie Edmund
Marlboro
Bacon, Milo Roderick
Leominster
Bailey, William
Williamstown
Ball, Harry Abraham
Bridgewater
Ball, Lorin Earl
Amherst
Beauregard, Winfield Scott
Framingham
Berman, Harry
Holyoke
Bigelow, Henry Charles
Millville, N.J.
Blake, Robert Austin
Wollaston
Blanchard, Kenneth
Haverhill
Boardman, Charles Meade
Amherst
Bowen, Abram Temple
Granville, N. Y.
Bowmar, Ralph Burton
Canton
Bridge, James Pitts
San Antonio, Tex.
Brown, Roy Robertson
Wollaston
Bunker, Carroll Wooster
West Somerville
Burnett, Paul Lapham
Leicester
Burns, Allen Melville
Taunton
Cande, Robert Parsons
Pittsfield
Card, Ralph Hunter
Somerville
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Carleton, John Foxcroft
East Sandwich
Chase, Francis Chapin
Royalston
Clarridge. Fred W.
Milford '
Clough, Alfred Arnold
Wollaston
Cole, Frederick Eugene, Jr.
South Portland, Me.
Crafts, Gordon Burnham
Manchester
Crawford, Alexander George
Waverly
Crawford, John Alexander
Allston
Daggett, Clinton Tones
New York, N. Y.
Davenport, Frank Semore
Dorchester
Davidson, Donald Gordon
Amherst
Davis, Orrin Chester
Bclchertown
Delahunt, John Kersey
Boston
Derick, Glendon Robert
Clinton
Dewing, Warren Montague
Kingston
Dixon, Harry Louis
Harrisville
Doucette, Charles Felix
Melrose
Douglass, Donald Churchill
Arlington
Dwyer, James Edward
Sunderland
Earley, Marion Edith
West Newton
Eldredge, Reuel West
Winchester
Farnsworth, Richard Wasgatt
Lancaster
Fuller, Lorenzo
Lowell
Gay, Lawrence Washburn
C ! nil on
Golosov, James Sidney
Roxbury
GORWAIZ, Richard II amulet
Newburj ■purl
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Reading
Graves, Carlisle Ferrin
Stamford, Conn.
Gray, Irving Emery
Woods Hole
Gustafson, William Nathaniel
Boston
Hale, Frank Thompson Caldwell
■ Byfield
Hamlin, Hazen Wolcott
Amherst
Harrington, Harold Leon
Lunenburg
Haskins, Harold Arthur
North Amherst
Hathaway, Richmond Hobson
Warren
Hathaway, Warren Sidney
Somerset
Hersom, Allen Humphrey
Acushnet
Higgs, John Alden
Wareham
Hill, John Farren
Egypt
Hill, Theodore, Jr.
Jefferson Valley, N. Y.
Hillabold, Charles Kroh
Syracuse, Ind.
Holland, Frank Harold
Shrewsbury
Holla way, John William
Taunton
Horne, Robert Sanderson
Wellesley Farms
Howland, George Herbert
Melrose
Hurd, Davis Alden
Wellesley Hills
Hurd, Gordon Killam
Millbury
Hyde, Kenneth Squier
Amherst
Iorio, Carlo Antonio
Amherst
Johnson, Alberta
Old Westbury, N. Y.
Johnson, Conrad John
Campello
Jones, Edson Temple
Roslindale
Jones, Robert Lambert
North Easton
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Roslindale
King, Starr Margetts
Pittsfield
Lambert, Richard Bowles
Gleasondale
Lent, Donald Ashford
Maynard
Levine, Maurice Eleazer
Sherborne
Liang, Ping
Canton, China
Lindquiat, Harry Gotfred
Holden
Littlefield, John Edwin
Lynn
Lothrop, Earle Daniel
West Bridgewater
Luce, William Alan
West Boylston
Lyons, Henry Egmont
Norwell
MacLeod, Guy Franklin
Lowell
Mallon, Charles Hugh
East Braintree
Mangum, Andrew Bruyette
Holyoke
Maples, James Comly
Port Chester, N. Y.
Martin, Lawrence Paul
Maiden
McDonald, Milton Crandall
Peabody
McGeorge, William Brimble
Greenwich, Conn.
McNulty, Raymond Henry
Amherst
Meserve, Albert Wadsworth
Framingham
Millard, Helen Stanley
Great Barrington
Munroe, Raymond Franklin
Fall River
Murray, Harry Athol, Jr.
Raynham Centre
Newell, Philip Sanger
West Newton
Oppe, IIhrman DeWitt
Newtown, ( !onn.
( (rtloff, Henry Stuart
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Hardwiok
Parkin, William Hildreth
West Springfield
Peckham, William Harold
Newport, R. I.
Phillips, Stephen Austin
Pittsfield
Plowman, George Taylor, Jr.
Winthrop
Porteck, Henry George
Lowell
Putnam, Frederic Henry
South Framingham
Quadland, Howard Preston
North Adams
Quincy, Percy Edmund
Allston
Readio, Philip Adna
Florence
Redding, George Kenneth
Melrose
Reed, Morris
Worcester
Richards, George Henry
Springfield
Richardson, Mark Morton
North Dana
Roberts, Ivan Andrew
South Lee
Robertson, William Fenton
Framingham
Sanborn, Joseph Raymond
North Amherst
Sanderson, Ralph Hemmenway
Waltham
Schandelmayer, Ralph Ernest
Marlboro
Scott, Clifton William
Buckland
Shaughnessy, Howard John
Easthampton
Silverman, Joseph
Dorchester
Simmons, Lester Winslow
Dighton
Smith, Donald Hiram
Pittsfield
Smith, Fred George
Gardner
Smith, George Alfred
Whitinsville
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Atlantic
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Maynard
Smith, Raymond Newton
Plainville
Smith, Susan Almira
Great Barrington
Snow, John Dow
Arlington
Spencer, William
Worcester
Steacie, Curtis
Framingham
Stedman, Ralph Shaw
Springfield
Stiles, William Burling
Great Barrington
Strecker, Edmund Herman
New York, N. Y.
Sullivan, Walter Mitchell
Lawrence
Sumner, Ralph Martin
Springfield
Talmage, Harry John
Great Barrington
Taylor, Elliot Hubbard
Shelburne
Taylor, Thornton Greenwood
Waban
Torrey, Converse Hall
Williams town
Turner, Alfred William
San Pedro, S. Domingo
Urquhart, John Wardrop
East Walpole
Vigezzi, John Dellea
Great Barrington
Vigezzi, Mary Theresa
Great Barrington
Ware, Mason
Maiden
Waugh, Frederick Vail
Amherst
Webster, Milton Fuller
Maiden
Willis, Maud Ethel
Amherst
Woodward, Ralph. |r.
Grafton
Wright, Kenneth Ykrxa
Arlington
Wright, Stuart Eldredge
Taunton
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Allen, Arthur Frederick
Avery, Humphrey Roger
Berry, Fred Mitchell
Blanchard, Margery Elizabeth
Bridgman, Ralph Scofield
Buck, Paul Ten Broeck
Campbell, John Collins
Clancy, Henry Gregory
Cross, Robert Earle
Curran, Ralph Aloysius
Davis, Edwin John
Emerson, Caroline D. .
Fleorsh, Mary Frances
Giles, John Farrar
Grundler, Adolph Joseph
Harris, Warren Timothy
LaPoint, Wilfred John
Messmer, Robert Frederick
Morton, Leander Paul
Norris, Harold Allison
Novitski, Joseph Francis
Palmer, Philip Leonard
Perley, Robert
Rollins, Eva Isolde
Rucker, Harriett Evans
Scott, John Edmund
Searles, Edward Marlborough
Watson, Hawkesworth Douglas
Whitman, Luther O.
Woods, Frank Archibald
Boston
Patchogue, N. Y.
Lynnfield Center
. Linwood
. Westhampton
LaGrangeville, N. Y.
. Gardner
Natick
. Agawam
East Boston
. Holyoke
. Amherst
Nashville, Tenn.
. South Lincoln
Lowell
. Millbury
Greenfield
Milwaukee
. Amherst
East Northfield
R. 3, Green Bay, Wis.
Springfield
Wakefield
. Amherst
. Amherst
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Schaghticoke, N. Y.
. Walpole
. Amherst
Groton
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Alden, Margaret E.
Anderson, Ernest Emil
Andrews, Nelson I.
Churchill, Oliver C
Coleman, Moses M.
Fitzgerald, A. J. .
Hallock, Genevieve
Savage, John B. .
. Abington
. Medford
Hyde Park
West Somerville
. Mendon
. Braintree
. Westboro
New York, N. Y.
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James B. Paige
J. E. Bement
Charles F. Deuel
James E. Deuel
Henri D. Haskins
Harold Gammell Dickey
Newell Moorhouse
William Saville, Jr.
Frank Bainbridge
Louis Philip Emmerick
Delwin Bruce Farrar
Nathan Warner Gillette
Stewart Putnam Batchelder
Eliot Mansfield Buffum
Arthur Martin McCarthy
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Harold M. Gore
JfratreS in Wlxbt
A. Vincent Osmun
Gerald D. Jones
Albert McCloud
George D. Melican
Albert Parsons
Frederick Tuekerman
1917
Albert Ralph Stiles
Arthur Franklin Williams
Merrill Pomeroy Warner
Edwin Rcimund Selkregg
1918
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James Congdon Powell
Stephen Morse Richardson
William George Sawyer
Lewis Winans Spaulding
Edward Field Parsons
Frederick Schenkelberger
Kenneth Sanderson Williams
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Twenty-nine Chapters
Eleven Alumni Clubs
Colors: Silver and Magenta Red Publication: "The Signet'
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William P. Brooks
Orton Clark
Robert P. Armstrong
Lawrence S. Dickinson
Walter E. Dickinson
Arthur M. Hall, Jr.
Raymond A. Jackson
David Herbert Buttrick
Francis Gill Edwards
Paul Goodhue Harlow
William Henry Boaz
John Alden Chapman
Ralph Wallace Harwood
Robert Dorman Hawley
Paul Fiske Hunnewell
George Anderson
Kells Shepard Boland
Robert Dudley Chisholm
James Pillsbury Davies
Paul Faxon
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George E. Stone
jfratresi in Urbe
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John Lentz
Frank P. Rand
F. Civille Pray
Luther A. Root
Philip H. Smith
Frank E. Thurston
Ralph J. Watts
Frank Willard Mayo
Louis Warren Ross
James Stanley Sims
Douglas Henderson Huntoon
Edward Nahum Mitchell
Richard Warren Thorpe
Arthur Dana Tilton
Lewis Morrell van Alstyne
Howard Mason Goff
Elton Jessup Mansell
Donald Ross
Clifford Alton Rowe
Clarence Parker Whittle, Jr.
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Seventy-one Undergraduate Chapters
Fifty-three Alumni Chapters
Publication: "The Cadueeus"
Colors: Scarlet, Green and White Flower: Lily of the yalley
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Harold F. Thompson, r A
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Frank A. Waugh, T A
James A. Foord, B K
William Regan, T A
Edward B. Holland, V A
James K. Mills, T A
Philip Rodney Babcock
Carl Albert Gurshin
Paul Walker Latham
Charles Allen Fraser
Robert Palmer Holmes
Marshall Olin Lanphear
Max Skidmore Marshall
Kenneth Leroy Messenger
Carlton Douglas Blanchard
George Kinsman Blanchard
Ralph Hall Brown
Hall Bryant Carpenter
Charles Crowe
Harold Edward Spaulding
Raymond Thurston Parkhurst
Arno H. Nehrling, A T
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1919
George E. Cutler, V A
Benjamin S. Ellis, V A
Milford Robinson Lawrence
Richard Woodworth Smith
Joseph Fradley Smith
John Bacon Minor, Jr.
Carlos Taft Mower
Oliver Goodell Pratt
Roger Wolcott Weeks
Harlan N. Worthley
Myrton Files Evans
George W. Harding
Louis Pease Hastings
Adams Newton McClellan
Earl Amos Morgan
Allan Leon Pond
Everett Hamilton Skinner
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Alfred Booth
Charles Henry Hagelstein
Frederick Christian Larson
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A. Anderson Mackimmie
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Henry Raymond Baker
Birger Lars Johnson
John Edward Callanan
Gerald Matthew Gilligan
Edson Temple Jones
Arthur Winthrop Spencer
Russell Hubbell Wheeler
George B. Ray
H. Prescott Boyce
Franklin Homer Hubbell
Walter Adams Mack
Roland Winsor Rogers
Robert Clayton Westman
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Oliver Maurice O'Neill
1919
Robert Lucius Boyd
Gardner Clyde Norcross
Malcolm Willis Chase
Howard Milton Hamilton
Mark Anthony Roberts
Weston Cushing Thayer
Arland Junius Wing
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Ernest Anderson
Carlos Loring Beals
Robert Stewart Boles
Charles Henry Clough
Henry Gurney Dunham
Wayne McCrillis Flagg
Frank Joseph Binks
Arthur Paul Dunn
Donald Smith Francis
Victor Batista
Willis Refine Cone
Samuel Boynton Ferriss
Sidney Clarence Johnson
Harold Walter Poole
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Elvin Lee Quaife
Jfratres in Urbe
Henry Harrison White
1917
William Leonard Doran
Bennct A. Porter
Lincoln David Kelsey
Harold Brainerd Pierce
Raymond Miller Rodger
Almon Whitney Spaulding
Samuel Fuller Tuthill
1918
Arthur Leicester Frellick
Irving Weaver Ingalls
Wesley Stevens Sawyer
Lawrence Weston Wilbur
1919
Roger Frank Readio
Arthur Leslie Underwood
John Waring Vickers
Arthur Edmund Quimby
Richard Austin Waite
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Eight Alumni Chapters
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Colors: Red and White
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Charles H. Gould, 9
Lewis Taylor Buckman
George Basil Fisher
Harry Higginbotham
William Henry McKee
Lawrence Henry Patch
Clarence Ritchie Phipps
William Herbert Baker, Jr.
Robert Burleigh Collins
Wilfrid Adelbert Hathaway
Edward Stuart Faber
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John Nelson Preble
1919
Erskine Harvey
William Raymond Irving
Paul Edward Shumway
Warren Draper Whitcomb
Ernest Ritter
Howard Leigh Russell
Oliver Cousens Roberts
William George Bradley
Karl Julius Pree
Jonathan Harold Smith
Lawrence Washburn Gay
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CatabUsIjeb 1912
iBtattonal ©rgatmation
Thirty-seven Chapters
Publication: "The Journal"
Colors: Purple and Reel Flowers: American Beauties and Violets
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Ralph Waldo Rees
1917
George Charles Everbeck
Brooks Light
Foster Kenneth Baker
Elwyn P. Cotton
Arthur Merchant Howard
Ralph Walter Hurlburt
Joseph Alfred Chadbourne
Arthur Lincoln Chandler
Alfred Francis Cosby
Charles Oliver Dunbar
William Francis Glavin
McCarrell H. Leiper
Horace G. Marchant
Everett Langdon Upson
Charles Raymond Wilber
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1919
William Rupert Loring
Francis J. O' Heron
Theodore H. Reumann
William H. Robinson
William Cutting King
Charles Gordon Mattoon
Forest Kimball Montgomery
Douglas Tracy Newbold
Harold Miller Rice
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Paul Revere Squires
Timothv Palmer Wilcox
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Roger James Chambers
Thomas Jefferson Gasser
Forrest Grayson
Harold Leo Sullivan
Brooks Woodworth
Herbert N. Baxter
Raymond Woods Boynton
Ernest Laurier Coderre
Harold Ralph Day
1919
Ralph Sutherland
Carl Francis Kennedy
John Joseph Maginnis
Patrick Joseph Moynihan
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Paul Serex, Jr.
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Olive Turner
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Edmund Dean Kelsey
George Wendell Barton
Walter Griffith Bruce
Walter Gray Buchanan
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Roger Francis Clapp
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Dwight Shaw Davis
George Edwin Erickson
Harold Carter Fellows
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Henry John Burt
Frederick Charles Chapin
E. Holloway Coe
Edwin Prince Cooley
Eustace Bridge Fiske
Lynn Green
Emil Frederick Guba
John Anthony Hayes
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Arthur K. Harrison William L. Harmount
Arthur N. Julian Fred C. Kenney
Paul Serex, Jr.
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William Irving Mayo, Jr.
Dana Otis Merrill
Herman Beaman Nash
Harry Samuel Saidel
George Leonard Sargent
Andrew Nathan Schwab
Herbert Dwight Smith
Carlton Mclntyre Stearns
James Joseph Warren
Flavel Mayhew Gifford
Foster Kingsley Haines
Paul John Heffron
Ralph Wilbur Lawton
David Mathew Lipshires
Herbert Rankin McRae
Gaylord Arthur Newton
Walter Frederick Rutter
Raymond Alexander St. George
Sidney Sumner Smith
Raymond Timothy Stowe
Frank Archibald Woods
Louis Edgar Morse, Jr.
Raymond Franklin Munroe
Elmer Joshua Morton
Edmund Buckland Newton
George Newberry Peck
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For nearly fifty years, the social life of Aggie students has been influenced by
the presence on our campus of Greek letter fraternities. The development of these
fraternities has been similar to that of fraternities at large ; first, a period in which
the organizations existed without recognition and under the strictest secrecy;
second, a period in which the fraternities won the recognition of the Faculty al-
though still maintaining their secret character; and the third period in which the
fraternities made their appearance as a pron inent factor in the social life of the
whole undergraduate body. The present, doubtless, is witnessing the transition of
the fraternity from the third to a fourth period ; a period in which the cooperation
of fraternity groups with the College as a whole will reach its height.
An investigation conducted by the Index shows that the members of the fra-
ternities have done more than their share in building up and contributing to the
various athletic and non-athletic activities of the campus. The figures from which
this conclusion was drawn were gathered from five successive publications of the
Index. The number of activities in which each meml er of the three upper classes
was engaged was listed and a distinction made between fraternity and non-fraternity
men. The figures for the five years were averaged, showing that the average fra-
ternity man took part in at least two activities while the average non-fraternity
man was not always interested in even one extra-curriculum activity. These
figures which are presented in Table I, while slightly affected by several factors,
show nevertheless that the fraternities are influential in maintaining interest in
student activities and in encouraging participation in them.
Table II shows a comparison of the growth of the College with that of the
fraternities as well as the varying relation of the number of fraternity men to the
number of students enrolled. It may be noticed that the rapid decrease in the
percent of fraternity men in recent years has been accompanied by a rapid increase
in the number of fraternities at the College. M. A. C. apparently presents to-day
favorable conditions, for more additions to its fraternity roll.
Table I.
No. IN
No. OF
Year
Frats.
Activities
Non-Frat.
Activities
1912
186
477
125
78 '
1913
186
478
130
73
1914
188
440
118
76
1915
195
452
149
114
1916
229
563
147
124
Total
984
2410
669
465
Ave.
197
482
134
93
% of Total
59.5
83
40.5
17
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Table II.
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
No. of
Year
Stu-
dents
Frat
Men
%
Frats.
Year
Stu-
dents
Frat
Men
%
Frats.
1869
92
22
24
2
1893
141
122
87
4
1870
121
29
24
2
1894
114
107
94
4
1871
107
32
30
2
1895
78
78
100
4
1872
104
24
23
2
1896
74
73
99
4
1873
90
25
28
3
1897
93
91
98
4
1874
83
31
37
3
1898
106
97
92
4
1875
79
43
54
3
1899
116
71
61
4
1876
65
28
43
3
1900
117
70
60
4
1877
67
46
69
3
1901
128
66
52
4
1878
118
53
45
3
1902
141
78
55
4
1879
93
50
54
4
1903
156
83
53
4
18S0
82
47
57
4
1904
177
91
51
4
1881
71
46
65
4
1905
208
9S
47
4
1882
67
40
60
4
1906
206
105
51
4
1883
74
56
75
4
1907
237
111
47
4
1884
83
64
77
4
1908
258
108
42
5
1885
83
64
77
4
1909
313
126
40
5
1886
91
1 1
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4
1910
398
175
44
8
1887
92
73
80
4
1911
478
193
40
8
1888
97
81
83
4
1912
504
182
34
8
1889
101
84
83
4
1913
543
282
52
9
1890
119
94
79
4
1914
506
208
41
9
1891
141
112
80
4
1915
590
229
39
9
1892
152
115
76
4
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Vice-President,
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Secretary- Treasurer
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M. J. McNamara '17
Vice-President,
H. A. Rorstrum '17
Secretary,
P. W. Latham '17
Ebc i«lt. pennon Club
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F. M. Gifford '18
1 'ice-President,
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Almon W. Spaulding '17
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Howard L. Russell 'IS
Secretary-Treasurer,
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Chairman Executive Committee,
Charles H. Hagelstein '17
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Harold M. Gore, '13-- )
George H. Chapman, '07 }
. Appointed by the President
Appointed by the Associated Alumni
H>tuticnt JJlanagers;
Richard L. Holden, '17
Football
Robert D. Hawley, 'IS
Baseball
Oliver S. Flint, '17
Track
Milford R. Lawrence '17
Hockey
Newell Moorhouse '17
Basketball
Committee on Clas& &tf)letic£
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Emory Grayson
Marshal of the Senate
Harold M. Gore .
Physical Education Department
Robert S. Boles
1917
Emory E. Grayson
William I. Goodwin
1918
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Hall B. Carpenter
1919
Paul Faxon
Kenneth S. Hyde
1920
Starr M. King
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Emory E. Grayson '17 .
Richard L. Holden '17 .
George Melican '1.5
George Palmer '16 )
Edgar E. Perry '16 )
Harold M. Gore '13
James H. Day '17
Francis G. Edwards '17 )
Charles H. Hagelstein '17 \
Arthur P. Dunn '18 .
Oliver C. Roberts '18
Lewis Spaulding '18 )
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Robert P. Holmes 'IS )
Carlton D. Blanchard '19 J
Emory E. Grayson '17 )
Stephen M. Richardson 'IS \
Forrest Grayson 'IS )
Clarence l\ Whittle, Jr., '10 )'
Robert S. Holes '17
Patrick J. Moynihan 'is )
Roger W. Weeks '18 I
Allan L, Pond '19
Barry Higginbotham '17
Walter A. Mack '17
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Assistant Coaches
Freshman Coach
Right End
Right Tackle
Right Guard
Center
Left Guard
belt Tackle
Left End
Quarter-back
Right Half-back
bull-back
belt t-Ialf-back
lohn M.Sauter '17
lohn.l. Maginnis'18
\rlhur D, Tilton 'IS
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Captain Grayson
OOTBALL
Ctje Reason of 1916=1917
Playing the heaviest schedule in the history of the
institution, probably as hard as that of any college
team in the country, the Aggie heavers of the pigskin
had a severe task to accomplish this last season.
Several factors must be taken into consideration before
drawing up definite conclusions as to the standing of the
present season's squad. First, there was the loss of
Coach Brides, the best individual coach that Aggie
has ever had. For four years he worked with Aggie
teams, each season turning ovit a combination a little
better than the previous. The team of 1915-16 repre-
sented the sum total of his efforts — a perfectly running
machine capable of holding its own with Harvard,
Dartmouth, Tufts and Springfield. Alluring offers
from Yale, however, drew him to a new field and this
11 he took up his duties as coach of the line at "Old
Eli", his Alma Mater. As a result, a new system of
alumni coaches was inaugurated with Melican '15 as
head coach, assisted by Palmer and Perry both of the
class of 1916. Though rather early to prophesy as to
the success of the system, the plan has so far met with
the hearty support of the entire student body.
The loss of Coach Brides was enough for one season
— but with him went practically the whole 1915 team;
no less than seven veterans graduating last June.
This left only four regulars, Captain Grayson and Day
as ends ; Weeks at fullback and Dunn at guard, around
whom to build the present team. Rival colleges re-
fused to take these matters into consideration, however,
when arranging for the 1916 schedule. Colleges of our
own size, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Vermont refused to
play "a superior team". Williams would do so only
on terms that the periods be limited to ten minutes.
On the other hand, offers were continually made from
Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale— all the large
eastern colleges— for places on the M. A. C. schedule.
Rather than leave several open dates, the football
management was forced to take on these heavy teams.
The student body rallied loyally to the cause, how-
ever. Long before college opened there was a goodly
squad out for daily practice. Freshmen were in-
eligible but the men from the three upper classes worked
out with grim determination. Much promising ma-
terial was available, the worst fault being lack of ex-
perience. Captain Grayson '17 and Day '17 easily
fitted into the end positions; two good substitute ends
being found in Richardson '18 and Maginnis '18.
For tackles, Edwards '17 and Holmes '18 showed up
well, with Hagelstein '17 and "Red" Blanchard '19
as substitutes. All four developed wonderfully as
the season progressed.
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THE DARTMOUTH SKXD-OFF
One of the most
valuable men on
the team is "Art"
Dunn '18, often
mentioned in con-
nection with All
American combina-
tions and a man
who for technical
skill and courage
has no superior.
As a co-worker in
the guard position,
Spaulding 'IS has
shown ability in his
first year as a regu-
lar. 'Iligginbotham
Day
asasubst it utcin the
guard position.
At center, Rob-
erts 'IS has in-
creased his accur-
acy and general ef-
fectiveness by a
season's experience
and with Sauter
'17 has borne the
bulk of the work of
this position. For-
rest Grayson '18
and Whittle '19
have divided the
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work at quarterback. In the backfield, Weeks '18 was
the only regular left. Though hampered somewhat by
injuries, he has played his usual strong game on both
offensive and defensive. Goodwin '18 has substituted
for him at fullback. Pond '19 at halfback was one of
the finds of the season. Though inexperienced at the
game, he was a strong defensive man and fast in car-
rying the ball. The other backfield position was held
down by Boles '17 and Moynihan '18.
Connecticut Aggies opened the season on Alumni
Field. Though they boasted a team of well seasoned
veterans, they were forced to carry back to the old
nutmeg state the small end of a 12-0 score.
At Dartmouth the following week, the tables were
turned. The Hanoverians, all experienced men,
hardened by three previous games and superior by ten
pounds in weight per man, had little trouble in plowing
through the Aggie line. Though the maroon and
white fought with grim determination, the obstacles
were too many; fumbling and lack of team work too
costly. When the final whistle blew, Dartmouth had
piled up a 62-0 score.
With undaunted spirit, the team lined up against
Harvard the next Saturday. Here again superior
weight and team work were in favor of the opponents.
Fumbling also caused Aggie much trouble. Neverthe-
less the team showed improvement over the previous
week's work — especially in the work of the line. Cap-
tain Grayson was the individual M. A. C. star, his
consistent work on the defence doing much to keep
down the score. Despite the efforts of the team, Har-
vard romped off with a 47-0 victory.
W. P.I. was the next attraction on Alumni Field and
although the final score was 7-0 in favor of M. A. C,
the game was more or less of a disappointment. Both
sides fumbled often, were constantly offside and played
rather loosely. Aggie's score came on a series of
rushes and a successful forward pass, Pond to Day.
The varsity team showed up well on the defense but
lacked power on the offense.
The big game of the year took place as usual on the
old Tufts Oval field. Though the Medford boys have
one of the strongest teams in the east, they found many
a stumbling block in the Aggie line. M. A. C. was un-
able to break up the forward passes of her opponents,
by which they did most of their damage. The score
of 28-0 hardly indicates the tenseness and interest of
the game.
Dartmouth, Harvard, Tufts, Williams, Cornell and
Springfield on a single season's schedule hardly fur-
nished the opportunity for a victorious season for a
green young eleven but it did furnish experience that will lead to many future victories for
217
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1915 16
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Captain Day
ASEBALL
With a team composed of many men new
to varsity baseball, our 1916 squad came
through the season with what, from a stand-
point of development and progress, may be
called a good record. It was a very difficult
problem to instill into new men the spirit of
teamwork when the elements were against us
as they were last spring. Cold weather, snow
and rain was the order of the season. It was
no easy task to produce a winning combination
when .game after game and two or three days
of practice a week were called off on account
of inclement weather.
While the record of games won is small, there
were no large scores piled up against us in spite
of the fact that our schedule called for games with the
best college teams of the east. The scores of the Am-
herst games were certainly beyond criticism. The
spirit of the individual players and of the team as a
whole was and will be this year that of earnest endeavor
to produce the very best results possible.
There has been some criticism of the general policy
of playing colleges "out of our class". Such a criticism
might be justified if the sole object of intercollegiate
athletics is to win games. But it is usually the senti-
ment of the members of the team that to play against
some of these "near" professional aggregations means a
chance to fight and to show the real spirit of the team
that is not obtained by playing with the smaller college
teams.
Captain Day is a fighter and next spring he will
have a crowd of hard workers on his team. With the
backing of the student body, Coach Fitzmaurice
should be able to produce a team that will be a credit
to the college.
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Edward L. King '16
Almon W. Spaulding '17
Wm. P. Fitzmaurice
Chester S. Burteh '18
Arthur E. Quimby '19
Stephen M. Richardson 'IS
Stanley W. Hall '16
Paul G. Harlow '17
Vatfeball
Captain
Manager
. Coach
Wsst 1916 tKeam
Pitchers
George N. Danforth '16
Catchers
First Base
George B. Palmer '16
Second Base
Roger S. Chambers '18
Third Base
Short Stop
Edward L. King '16
Right Field
Harold G. Little '16
Center Field
Henry M. Walker '16
Left Field
g>cl)ebuk 1916
1917
. James H. Day '17
Robert D. Hawley '18
Wm. P. Fitzmaurice
Robert C. Westman '17
Ralph C. Holder '17
Thomas J. Gasser '18
Emory E. Grayson '17
April 19 Springfield Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield
April 26 Dartmouth at Hanover
May 2 Springfield Y. M . C. A. College at Amherst
May 6 Amherst at Amherst
May 13 Tufts at Amherst
May 19 Holy Cross at Worcester
May 20 W. P. I. at Amherst
May 23 Middlebury at Middle! ury
May 24 Vermont at Burlington
May 27 Boston College at Boston
May 30 Tufts at Medford .
June 17 Amherst at Amherst
Totals ....
James H. Day '17
M. A. C.
2
1
0
10
4
0
4
2
10
7
4
3
47
Opps.
10
7
8
2
9
6
3
3
3
S
10
3
72
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O C K E Y
The hockey situation at M. A. C. has had
its ups and downs much the same as the other
branches of athletics. The sport has been more
or less successful since its inception as polo in
1890. It was given very little support in its
early years, although the teams compared very
favorably with those of the small colleges. About
1903 the style of game was changed and the
team was composed of seven players instead of
five.
After a few years of rather mediocre playing,
the Aggies began to come into the limelight and
frdm 1908 until the present date have been
represented by teams that have done much to place the sport on a firm basis.
In recent years the team has played with teams representing such institutions
as Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth and Princeton and in almost every case
has given an excellent account of itself.
There is one great handicap that the team has to contend with. That is the.
irregularity of the playing season due to the inclement weather. A team, in order
to compete successfully with Harvard, Yale and Princeton, who have the advantage
of artificial rinks, must have regular and consecutive practices. In the seasons
that have been consistently regular as regards weather, M. A. C. has produced
teams better than the average of small colleges; teams that have beaten Yale and
forced Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton to the lirrit and into overtime periods
to register a win. In 1914, the team stood fifth among all colleges.
The team of 1915-1916 had the poorest weather conditions to overcome that
any team has had in recent years. Under these conditions however, they won from
all teams of equal standing. Notwithstanding the fact that five men out of last
year's seven were graduated, there is much good rraterial still in college. With
the possibilities of having a new rink exceptionally good, the prospects for the
team of 1916-1917 are very bright.
g>cl)ebule 1915 = 1916
December 29 Dartmouth at Arena ....
December 31 M. I. T. at Arena ....
January 12 Yale at New Haven ....
January 19 Springfield Y. M. C. A. College at Amherst
February 1 1 Springfield Y. M. C. A. College at Amherst
February 17 Williams at Amherst ....
February 22 Williams at Williamstown .
Totals
M. A. C.
Dpps.
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Top Row — Buttrick, Lawrence, Plaisted, Huntington, Ross
Second Row — Fernald, Chisholm, Wooley
First Row — Wildon, Sanderson
1915=1916
1916=1917
Raymond L. Chisholm '16
. Captain
David H. Buttrick '17
Charles A. Huntington, Jr
., '16 Manager
Ufa Ceam
Milford R. Lawrence' 17
Harold C. Wooley '16
Right Wing
Everett S. Sanderson '16 .
Left Wing
Raymond L. Chisholm '16
Rover
Charles H. Fernald, 2nd, '16
Center
Louis Ross '17
Cover Point
CarrickE. Wildon '16 )
Point
Philip A. Plaisted '16 j
David H. Buttrick '17
Cl)c gmtogtttutcfi
Coal
George B. Fisher '17
Robert C. Westman '17
Albert R. Stiles '17
Robert P. Holmes '18
Stephen M. Richardson 'IS
223
THE 1918 INE»
Track work at Aggie is divided among
three teams; cross country, relay and cinder
track teams. The relay team runs on a board
"indoor" track which, as a matter of fact, is
outdoors. This is not conducive to the best
development of the team as practice is often
hampered by weather conditions. Mostrom '16,
Russell '16, Pratt '17 and Babbitt 'IS made up
the team which last year defeated W. P. I. and
Trinity College; losing by inches to Williams.
Of these four letter men, only Captain Pratt
remains. A number of last year's candidates
are very promising, however, and a fast team
is expected.
The track team has also been hampered
by the lack of a cinder track. This condition
has been remedied by the construction on
Alumni Field of a quarter mile oval track
with a 220 yard straightaway. Last year's
team had to lower its colors to Trinity, Vermont and W. P. I. In spite of the loss
of several stars, it is expected that this year's team with the aid of better facili-
ties will prove a strong combination.
During the past few years, Aggie cross country teams have been steadily im-
proving. With the exception of Lyons '18, the 1916 team was lost by graduation,
but this season new material was developed and a successful team formed. The
prospects for the next few years are pleasing since the present team is largely made
up of underclassmen.
Won by R. I. S. C.
Eelap gdjebule, 1916
Coast &rttllm> Jfket-&. 3. g>. C. fag. M
South Armory, Boston, January 29, 1916
Time — 2 min. 40 2-5 sec.
a. c.
Distance— 1 280 yds.
9. a.
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Boston, Februarv 5, 1916
Won by M. A. C." (default)
Jftabal Militia ifflec t-tErtnttp bg. ill. &. C.
Hartford Armory, Hartford, February 21, 1916
Won by M. A. C. Time — 3 min. 44 sec. Distance — 1 mile
Jfttntf) a&csimcnt Mcct-M. $. 3. fag. JR. 9. C.
Boston, February 22, 1916
Won by M. A. C. Time — 3 min. 39 sec. Distance — 1 mile
$1. S. C. Mcct=-Wiil\iam& fag. ill. SL C.
Amherst, March 4, 1916
Won by Williams (by 6 inches) Time — 3 min. 12 4-5 sec. Distance — 156(1 yds.
l\unncrs
Babbitt 'IN, Pratt '17, Russell '16, Mostrom '16 Montgomery '19
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TRACK TEAM 1916
Back Row — Coach Dickinson, Boaz, Montgomery, Pratt, Verbeck, Flint, Edwards,
Danforth, Lyons, Ricker
First Row — Bell, Googins, Mostrom, Russell, Aiken, Birchard, Parkhurst
Harold A. Pratt
Oliver S. Flint
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Hartford, May 6, 1916
Won by Trinity 72^—53^
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Tied— 27^: 27^ Course— 4.8 miles Time— 27 min. 4 sec.
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Amherst, November 2, 1916
Course— 4.8 miles Time— 26 min. 35 sec.
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Jleto Cnglanb SntercoUcgiate Cross Countrp &un
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Won by M. A. C.
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The M. A. C. Rifle Team was established
in 1909. During the past seven years, the
team has won the U. S. Intercollegiate Out-
door Championship four times and the Indoor
Championship three times. No college has
equalled the outdoor record of M. A. C. George
Washington University, at Washington, D. C,
our closest competitor, has won it three times.
Last year Frank E. Haskell, '16, established
a new individual outdoor record for M. A. C.
by making a total of 145 points out of 150. On
the indoor range, the team shot three perfect
scores (1000 pts.) in three consecutive matches,
averaging 997.15 for the entire season of thir-
teen intercollegiate matches. The highest man
averaged 199.00 out of 200.00. There were
seven men entered in the Individual Open
Championship match last year and although none carried off many prizes, all made
creditable scores.
Upon first glance the prospects for the team may look dull this year; five of
the six men on last year's team graduated and most of them were excellent shots.
This does not leave much of a nucleus. However, the last season brought to light
a wealth of fine material, largely from the class of 1919. With this material in
view and an added support from upperclassmen, there is a fine prospect for turning
out the best team that Aggie ever had.
©utboor Championship jHatct), 1916
200 yds.
300 yds.
500 yds.
Aggreg
Norwich University
284
273
284
841
M. A. C.
285
256
283
824
U. S. Naval Academy
282
256
279
SI 7
George Washington University
274
265
278
si 7
M. I. T.
273
250
279
802
University of California
277
253
268
79S
Kansas State Agr. College
207
247
275
7S9
Texas Agr. and Mech. College
270
255
260
7S5
University of Minnesota
209
215
271
785
University of Illinois
202
233
284
779
Cornell University
259
238
262
759
University of Michigan
21 is
2-10
221
731
University of Texas
251)
220
25 1
721
University of Pennsylvania
249
219
239
707
Mississippi Agr. and Mech. College
245
248
203
096
228
THE 1918 IN»
Serg't Lee Hemenway Behbend Davies Raymond Phipps Serg't Smart
Clapp Capt. Fleet Gaventa Canlett Tuthill
Rice Sweeny Parsons Mattoon
intercollegiate d^utboor iWatcf)
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libibual Scores
200 yds.
300 yds.
500 yds.
Total
Haskell, Frank Eugene
49
47
49
145
Clapp, Raymond Luckey
50
42
49
141
Canlett, Franklin Harwood
47
42
50
139
Rowe, Louis Victor
46
43
4G
135
Gaventa, Harry Reymer .
47
41
45
133
Hemenway, Justin Stanley
40
41
44
131
229
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^l^5:
Back Row — Ross, Mack, Harlow, Weeks, Chambers, Grayson, Richardson
Front Row — Canlett, Pratt, Buttrick, Day, Carpenter, Spatjlding
»earers of fte "Jtt"
baseball
James H. Day '17
Emory E. Grayson '17
Roger J. Chambers 'IS
Paul G. Harlow '17
Almon W. Spaulding '17
Stephen M. Richardson
'IS
James H. Day '17
Arthur P. Dunn 'IS
Jfootball
Emory E. Grayson '17
Rogver W. Weeks 'IS
Louis W. Ross '17
l^ocfeep
David H. Buttrick '17
Walter A. Mack '17
a&tflc
Franklin H. Canlett MS
Harold A. Pratt '17
(Erack
HallB. Carpenter '111
Allnd W. Bell, Jr., '17
Prank B. Bainbridge '18
Louis M. Lyons '18
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Francis G. Edwards '17
William H. Boaz 18
Forest K. Montgomery
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Allow us to introduce to you, Professor Harold E. Robbins, a teacher in Physics and Mana-
ger of the Non-Athletics Activities Board. To the student body, he is known to be a daring
motorcyclist, a man who can keep his head. It is this latter quality combined with perseverance
and the courage of his convictions, that particularly fits him for the managership of this new
Association. The following is his report, to the President, of the Non-Athletic work:
This Board, after considerable preliminary consideration, was formally organized in the
month of Sept., 1915. .
For several years the need of systematic control, financial support, regulation, and super-
vision of policies of student organizations has been recognized. These organizaticns include the
Collegian (college newspaper), Combined Musical Clubs, Roister Doisters (dramatic society)
and Public Speaking Council. Other organizations are under consideration.
Organization of Board. The Board includes a student manager from each activity admitted
to it, two members of the college faculty appointed by the president of the college, two alumni
selected by the associated alumni, a genera! manager appointed by the president of the college,
and the president of the college ex-officio. The general manager is treasurer and executive officer
of the Board.
Official Position. The Board is directly responsible to the president and trustees, and con-
forms to all faculty regulations.
Funds are obtained partly by student tax and partly by the earnings of the various organiza-
tions.
During period Sept. 1915— Sept. 1916 over $53C0 was handled. Of this amount about 30%
was derived from student tax.
The total amount collected by the student tax is budgeted out each year to the several ac-
tivities according to their needs and earning capacities.
Disbursements are made thru office of college treasurer, on written approval of both student
and faculty managers.
The General Manager of the Board supervises the business and policies of each activity with
the idea of assisting in every way possible the general administration of the several organizations.
What the Board is Accomplishing . The following general statements are compiled from va-
rious sources.
It has given the non-athletic organizations a standard and stamp of most desirable character.
It has shown a decided interest in the development of present and future policies in student
organizations.
It is devising profitable ways and means for the students to utilize spare time, especially for
those not athletically inclined.
It is trying to inculcate sound business policies and administration by students.
It is trying to develop a live spirit of business co-operation between students and certain
members of the faculty and alumni.
It is trying, thru the students' organizations, to bring the literary and dramatic ability before
the public in ways which will re lest only credit on the college.
It puts a responsible party at the head and in this way the administrative offices are benefitted .
For the same reason disbursements are made according to the demand of the individual
activities.
Members
President, ex-officio .
Acting President
Secretary
Treasurer and Manager
Faculty Representative
Alumni
Collegian
Musical Clubs
Roister Doisters
Public Speaking Council
L. Butterfield, A.M., LL.D.
W. L. Machmer, A.M.
O. L. Clark, B. Sc.
H. E. Robbins, A.M.
W. P. B. Lockwood, M.Sc
F. D. Griggs
Merrill P. Warner
David M. Lipshires
Arthur F. .Williams
S. S. Smith
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K. L. Messenger '18
Assistant Manager
Prof. H. E. Robbins,
A.M. '. '.
<§lee Club
Faculty Manager
Rodgers '17, Piano
Jfirst tenors
W. P. Bigelow, A.M., Coach
Harlow '17
Sawyer, Wm. 'IS
Sutherland '19
Norcross '18
Hastings '19
H>econb tenors
Snow '20
Gurshin'17 Hawley '18 Stackpole '18 Goff '19 Readio '19
Chambers "18 Maginnis '18 Worthley '18 Peck '19 Record '19
Stiles '20
JfirSt Passes
Warren '17
Hunnewell'18 Clapp '19
Burnett '20
Clark '18
Tilton '18 Leiper'19
Davidson '20
Davis '18
Weeks '18 Morton '19
Hurd '20
Erickson '18
H>econb Passes
Edwards '17, Leader
Messenger '18
Sullivan '18
Lawrence '17
Mower '18
Morse '19
Thayer '17
Richardson '18
d^rdjestfra
Violins
Foster '18
Fogg '19 Holloway'20 Smith, G. A. '20
Burton '19
Davidson '20 Luce '20
Waugh '20
Cornets
Cellos Clarinet
tKromuone
Mitchell '18, Leader
Howe, A. E. '18 Boland '19
Johnson '19
Parkin '20
Readio '20 Oppe '20
Hurd '20
$iano
Morton '19
Gurshin '17
Boyce '19
Cosby '19
Pass
©rums
straps
Swift '19
Dunbar '19
Murray '20
Jflanboltn Club
W. C. Knipfer, Coach
JfflanboIinS
Lawrence '17
Whitney '17, Leader
Robbins ' 19
Stowell'17 .
Haines '18
Stockwell '19
Thayer '17
Powell' 18
Boardman '20
Chamberlain '18
Waugh '20
Ukulele Panjo=JtlanoolinS ipiano
Cello
Whitney '17
Ross '17 Gurshin '17
Canlett '18
Ross '17
Saville'17 Cosby '19
Hurd '20
Haines '18
Boardman '20 Boyce '19
Readio '20
Weeks '18
Thompson '18 Oppe '20
<©uitar
Jflanbola
Craps
Davis, D. S. '18
Howe, A. E. '18 Dunbar '19
Smith, F. G. '20
PanjoS
H>teel (guitars
Wilcox '17
Boyce '19 Readio '19
Waugh '20
235
THE 1918 Mb
jHusrtcal Club*
The musical clubs of the college form an important part of those activities grouped under
the head of Non-athletics. Membership in these clubs calls for more than musical ability, since
steady attendance at rehearsals and scholastic eligibility are required. In the case of individuals,
the eligibility rule is at times somewhat of a "bugbear"; occasionally the club is handicapped
by the loss of a valuable man through it, but on the whole it tends to keep the members from
neglecting their studies in favor of the possibly more enjoyable work of the clubs. The trips
and concerts of the clubs do much to bring the college into closer relationship with other colleges
and with people of cities and towns in this and neighboring states. Trips are usually planned for
the Christmas and Easter vacations. The itinerary ordinarily centers around either New York
or Boston. The men making these trips receive peculiar advantages in the way of enlarging
their circle of acquaintances and friends as well as being introduced to many new scenes.
Three organizations serve to make up the musical clubs; Glee Club, Mandolin Club, and
Orchestra. Each of these bodies holds weekly rehearsals and endeavors by this constant effort
throughout the year to attain and maintain a high standard in their work. Professor Bigelow of
Amherst College trained the Glee Club during the season of 1915-1916. His criticisms were al-
ways to the point. His knowledge, experience and ability as a director have been invaluable.
The work of the club is varied so that both classical and humorous numbers are available for
the concerts. Although the membership in the Glee Club is not limited, the number of men to
make the trips is generally twelve or sixteen. Expense is an important factor and is usually the
limiting factor in deciding the number of men to be taken. Since only those men who are most
faithful and who do the best work at the rehearsals "make" the trips, an incentive is always
present for the constant effort on the part of the individual members.
The work of the Mandolin Club is more along the line of popular selections and novelties.
With the help of the drums and traps, their ragtime is all "pep"; never failing to make the au-
dience sit up and take notice. The rules for making trips that hold for the Glee Club are also
true for this organization as well as the Orchestra. The most important work of the Orchestra
in the past has been to furnish dance music after the concerts or after Dramatic Club perform-
ances. The large number of men trying out for the Orchestra last season made it possible to
conduct the work on a more ambitious scale. Classical selections were attempted and creditably
performed. The Orchestra also accompanied several of the Glee Club numbers. The College
Quartette of the last season was a great success. Swan '16, Little '16, Worthley 'IS and Lawrence
'17 composed the quartette and proved to be a winning combination. As a comic singer of
humorous ballads, Little '16 never failed to take an audience by storm. Probably one of the
best soloists that the college has ever had was found in the person of Worthley '18, whose singing
has been universally enjoyed.
The season of 1915-1916, under the management of Frank Anderson '16, was most success-
ful. The feature trip of the year was made during the Christmas recess. Concerts were given
in Waltham, Marlboro, Newburyport, Hingham, and Filene's Restaurant and the Copley Plaza
Hotel in Boston. Everywhere the clubs were met with large and appreciative audiences which
meant financial and social success. The concert at the Copley Plaza was in the nature of an
Alumni Reunion and was regarded as a complete success. This ambitious undertaking on the
part of the management was the first affair of its kind ever attempted by the musical clubs.
Much similar to this was the Alumni Reunion, Concert and Dance given by the combined Clubs
in the Hotel Worthey in Springfield April 28, 1916. Critics wrote that the work of the clubs
compared favorably with thai of any that had appeared in Springfield previously that season.
Of the local concerts, that in conjunction with the musical chilis of Amherst College given
in the Amherst College Hall was perhaps the most satisfactory. "Comparisons arc odious"
but it is lair to say that our clubs did not suffer by comparison. Such joint concerts cannot help
but foster a closer relation between the students ol both colleges. Other concerts deserving
mention are those given in Hadley, Westfield and on the campus during Prom week, on High
School Day and at Commencement. The Prom concert took the form of an afternoon cabaret.
the novelty of which made a decided hit.
The prospects for a still more successful season this year are very bright. Never in the
history of the clubs have so many men competed for the vacancies; forty-five trying out for the
Glee Club and thirty each for the Mandolin Club and Orchestra. The severe competition for
membership in the Hubs means greater effort and slill belter work iii these organizations, l.m-
slnrcs 'is, the new manager, has trips to Boston and New York under consideration lor the clubs
and we havt perfect faith in him to carry them through successfully, lie is sure ol' the earnest
cooperation of the clubs and may safely assume thai their work will be of a high order.
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The Roister Doisters in the past two years have had an enviable record of
successes among the various student activities. Beginning their career withj the
very successful comedy "Her Husband's Wife", they attained even greater heights
by presenting an original musical comedy during the 1915 Commencement entitled
"Pluto's Daughter". This production was entirely the work of undergraduates
and the very remarkable talent shown was surprising to many.
The 1915-1916 season started with the reorganization of the society under the
supervision of the Non-Athletics Association. The man-
agement, believing that the society could attain even
greater success than before, arranged for the production
of the late New York melodrama "Under Cover". Here
again all the work was done by the students even to the
construction and painting of the scenery. The dress re-
hearsal was witnessed by the "Northampton Players" who
gave very favorable criticisms.
The season came to a close with
the Commencement show "A Full
House". Perhaps, of all the work done
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received. The scenery and costumes
were especially designed by Manager
Nicholson to further assist in his pro-
duction of a broad comedy as played
on the continent . From start to finish ,
the play was acknowledged to be flaw-
less.
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public Speaking at M. a. C
Whether in the form of declamation, oration or debate, public speaking at
M. A. C. is a gratuitous undertaking. Gratuitous — not in the sense that material
rewards are lacking, for prizes a-plenty, medals abundant are the inducements
which bring forth no lack of competitors every year. Gratuitous — not in the
sense that intellectual achievement is wanting, for M. A. C. in her intercollegiate
debates has been for several years almost universally successful. Indeed, it is
not exaggeration to say that during the past year the finest of all records in the
history of public speaking at the college has been made. Out of five debates held
in competition with other institutions, four were M. A. C. victories. And yet
in the face of such an encouraging situation, it is no secret among those who have
followed the fortune of public speaking here to say that any form of public address
is with us a gratuitous enterprise.
Let the reader who doubts this statement drop into the Auditorium at the
next public debate. Let him note the hundreds of empty chairs — an inspiration,
of course, to the speakers. Let him note the presence of the handful who have
had interest and loyalty enough to make up what is termed the audience. Let
him note the bigness and bareness of the place under these conditions. Let him
imagine how much a debater is put on his mettle by such a prospect, and if our
reader does not then begin to comprehend what we mean when we say that public
speaking is with us a gratuitous enterprise, nothing we can present will ever en-
lighten him.
Now, one of two things is evident. Either public speaking as a student
activity merits student support or it does not merit student support. If it is not
worthy the vital, concrete approbation of the student body, approbation which
will show itself in something more than platitudes and lip service, approbation
which will not hesitate to inconvenience itself to uphold the activity; then let us
be honest with ourselves, let us arise and abolish such an activity from our midst.
But if we do really believe in the value of this work, let us support it with a support
which none may call anaemic. Let us resolve that we will in very deed put red
blood into our efforts; that we will do our best heartily to sustain an activity the
worth of which no one questions; that, like modern Britain in her hour of decision,
we will "do our bit" manfully and "see it through".
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FEBRUARY 18, 1916
UninerSitp of Vermont
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JWasiaaeljusiette Agricultural College
Resolved: — ' ' That an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
should be passed prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors in the
United States."
Affirmative — Wi. of "W.
Raymond L. Grisner
Zenas H. Ellis
Philip R. Johnson
Negative— Jdl. S3. C
Howard L. Russell
David M. Lipshires
Thomas L. Harrocks
Presiding Officer, Professor Philip B. Hasbrouck
Subgeg
Professor John C. Hildt, Smith College; Professor Frederick S. Hyde, Springfield
Y. M. C. A. College; Mr. Watson Wordsworth, Williston Seminary
Decision in favor' of the Negative
APRIL 14, 1916
g>prmguelb H. J$l. C. S3. College
05S.
Jtlaasiacljusiettg Agricultural College
Resolved: — "That military training should be introduced in the high schools
and colleges of this country."
Affirmative-
C. S. Cleasby
L. H. Libby
H. T. Burtis
C. 9. C.
Negative — ill. S3. C.
Lincoln D. Kelsey
Robert S. Westman
Hamilton K. Foster
3htbge«
Charles F. Warner, Springfield Technical High School; D. M. Cole, Wcstfield High
School; Arthur T. Irving, Buckingham School
Decision in favor of the Affirmative
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Jf lint Oratorical Contest
AT STOCKBRIDGE HALL, FRIDAY
EVENING, JUNE 2, 1916, AT
7.30 O'CLOCK
Presiding Officer,
Lieut. Henry W. Fleet
Theodore H. Reumann
'Society and the Criminal"
'Mob Rule and the Lynch Law"
'The Ultimate Preparedness" .
'Country Life and Higher Ideals"
'The Call of a Country" .
Speakers;
Henry J. Burt '19
. Leon F. Whitney '16
Lincoln D. Kelsey '17
. Theodore H. Reumann '18
. Frederick B. Sampson '18
fubges
Prof. John Corsa, Amherst College Prof. Benjamin Bills, Williams College
Prof. Walter E. Prince, M. A. C.
Jfirat prije, $20 attb a <6olfc Mtbal
Theodore H. Reumann '18
Hmonb iprije, $15
Lincoln D. Kelsey
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Content
STOCKBRIDGE HALL, FRIDAY EVENING,
MAY 5th, 1916, AT EIGHT O'CLOCK
Presiding Officer,
Ralph J. Watts
Hexrv J. Burt
Speakers;
" Centralization in the United States"
E. Sidney Stockwell, Jr., 1919
"The New South"
William R. Loring, 1918
"An Arraignment of the Wilson Administration"
Frederick B. Sampson, 1918
" The Character of Washington" ....
McCarrell H. Leiper, 1919
" The Man for the Crisis" .....
Edward F. Parsons, 1919
" Raising the Flag Over Fort Sumter"
Earl A. Morgan, 1919
" Invective Against Corry" .....
Edward N. Mitchell, 1918
" A Call to Arms" .......
Henry J. Burt, 1919
Dr. Ernest Anderson
Prof. John Phelan
Won by
First, Henry J. Burt Second.
Note: — The winner of this contest is awarded $15 and
second is awarded $10.
Henry W. Grady
Henry W. Grady
Elihu Root
Edward Everett
Anonymous
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Grattan
Patrick Henry
Mr. Charles G. Baird
Frederick B. Sampson
the contestant ranking
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Jffl. a. C. ^utiltcattons;
Successful college or class publications at M. A. C. have been, comparatively
speaking, few in number ever since the founding of the institution. Several at-
tempts have been made, at various times, to establish productions of many different
sorts, — some newspapers, some strictly literary efforts. Some of these have
succumbed before a single volume was completed, others have lived a number of
years, a few have become permanent fixtures.
The first publication ever attempted was a little pamphlet-like paper called
the "Grand Menagerie at M. A. C", which appeared in 1869, two years after the
college was established. It no doubt had worthy ambitions concerning the print-
ing of college news, but owing probably to the fact that the number of students
was very small, it became a source of "hits" on the men,. rather than a newspaper,
and consequently lasted but a short time.
Another publication, of a more serious nature than the "Menagerie," made
its first appearance, as an annual pamphlet, on July 19, 1871, immediately following
the commencement exercises of the first class to be graduated from M. A. C. This
was ' ' The Register", which contained full accounts of the entire commencement
program, including orations, class honors, and the like. According to available
records, the last number of this paper was published in 187S, and the next year
finds a somewhat similar production coming in, known as "The Cycle", edited
by the D. G. K. fraternity. Its purpose is best explained by a quotation from
one of the articles on the editorial page of the first number, which reads as follows:
' ' Though our venture is published under the auspices of a secret society, it is not
only the exponent of our fraternity, but a truly representative organ of our college;
it is our desire that 'The Cycle' shall become the plane on which these interests
shall meet." And in another place the statement is made: "There is a demand for
an annual in which the exercises of Commencement Week may be preserved."
"The Cycle" was the most successful paper which had been printed in the college,
and its production was continued until 1906, although its importance and influence
were considerably decreased by the publication, beginning October 1, 1890, of the
first actual newspaper of the college, known as "Aggie Life", published fortnightly
by a staff of students. Changing frequently in form and name, and improving
steadily by its development, this paper still exists, known now as "The Massa-
chusetts Collegian", and it is destined to exist, with further improvement and
advancement, as long as the college lives. After eleven years of success, the
name was changed in November 1901 to "The College Signal", in compliance
with a vote of the student body to drop the word "Aggie" wherever possible with
reference to the college. The circulation at that time was about 400 copies. In
1909 the ' ' Signal", as it was popularly called, became a weekly publication instead
of bi-weekly, and has remained as such since that time. The name was again
changed during the year 1914-15, "The Massachusetts Collegian" being selected,
on the grounds that "The College Signal" was not a sufficiently distinctive title.
The present circulation is approximately 1850 copies a week, and a project is now
under consideration for publishing the paper twice a week.
Occasional attempts have been made to produce publications for Alumni in-
terests alone, but not one has survived the inevitable periods of criticism and
non-support. Records are found of various class albums and class letters contain-
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ing biographical information and statistics of the members of the respective classes.
The first of these was published in 1885 by the class of 78, and as recently as 1912
and 1913 there have appeared similar class letters, produced from one to five years
after the graduation of the class. In 1903 an Alumni annual was established by
the Associate Alumni, known as the "College and Alumni News", a publication
' ' bringing together a review of the work of the college and the Alumni for the year
and forming a record of value and interest to all the Alumni and friends of the
institution." Nothing is heard of this paper after 1908. Such a publication is at
the present time, however, one of the greatest needs of the college, and it seems al-
most inconceivable that support should be lacking. It is claimed that a newspaper
such as the "Collegian" is intended to be cannot rightfully afford to give up as
much space and attention as the Alumni desire, and still maintain a "newsy"
standard. The production of an Alumni Quarterly, properly managed and rea-
sonably supported, it is said, would fill a long-felt want.
Even less success has attended literary attempts than that given to Alumni
efforts. No strictly literary publication exists at the 'present time, lack of interest
causing a corresponding lack of material. The "Irving Gazette", published by
the Washington Irving Literary Society, was probably the most successful pro-
duction of this nature, enjoying a life of thirty-one volumes. This was, of course,
not an actual college publication, but - pertained more closely to the interests of
the society which edited it. In February, 1910, there appeared the first number
of the "M. A. C. Literary Monthly". It was composed largely of fiction, and
contributions were solicited from the undergraduates. The magazine lasted only
through the end of that college year.
Not until very recently has the wit of the college been expressed on paper at
regular intervals, unless the "Menagerie" could be called a humorous production.
During the year 1914-15, however, facetiousness in all its splendor burst forth
from the pens of a select few in the student body, in the form of a leaflet called
"The Friday War-Cry". Support for this was not wanting, and the popularity
of the paper was the cause of its expansion, and the establishment the following
year of "The Aggie Squib", in magazine form, appearing approximately once a
month, with various cartoons and humorous attempts. Its existence seems as-
sured as long as enterprise exists for the compiling and editing of the material.
Two publications in book form are among the most successful of the college.
The Young Men's Christian Association of the college has published every year
since 1890 a so-called "Handbook", containing all general information of value to
members of entering classes, whence its more frequently used appellation, ' ' Fresh-
man Bible".
The second book-form publication is the "Index", a college annual published
by the Junior class and appearing each year about Christmas time, a summary of
the college and class activities of the past year. This book is the forty-eighth
volume of that publication. The first volume was presented in 1869, "a pamphlet
(of twenty-eight pages) designed to represent the internal growth and status of
the college." The "Index" has been published regularly since that year, and has
constantly increased in size, quality, and value, so that it may now be safely said
that it is the most successful publication the college has ever seen.
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One of the most popular social events of the year is the Soph-Senior Hop.
The Hop is given by the Sophomores to the Seniors and is a fixed part of the Com-
mencement program. It comes after the college scholastic life is over, at a time
when everyone can give himself up to a thorough enjoyment of the affair.
The campus is always at its best in the latter part of June. The velvety lawns
and heavy foliage make it a veritable Garden of Eden and at night myriad Japanese
lanterns and electric decorations transform it into a wonderful fairyland. The
Drill Hall itself, under the skillful direction of the Committee, changes its everyday
colorless garb to the gala dress of the ballroom. Last spring, seventy-five couples
took advantage of this opportunity to introduce their friends to the gayest fund ion
of Aggie life as well as to experience the novel sensation of watching the sun rise.
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Top Row — Messenger, Spaulding, Habwood, Jackson, Weeks
Bottom Row: — Caldwell, Babbitt, Little
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3Iune 20, 1916
•patrons anb -patronegseg
Governor and Mrs. Samuel W. McCall Regtr. and Mrs. Philip B. Hasbrouck
Pres. and Mrs. Kenyon L. Butterfield Prof, and Mrs. Charles E. Marshall
Dean and Mrs. Edward M. Lewis Prof, and Mrs. Clarence E. Gordon
Prof, and Mrs. Harold E. Robbins
Frank M. Babbitt
Lewis Spaulding .
John Alden Chapman .
Ralph Wallace Harwood
Charles Henry Jackson
Kenneth Leroy Messenger
Roger Wolcott Weeks
Committee
Sophomore jflembers
Harold Nute Caldwell
Mentor jHembers
Chairman
Treasurer
Taxicabs
Programs
Music
Decorations
Dinner
Harold Greenleaf Little
Jfacultp iflember
Prof. Harold E. Robbins
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junior $rom
The Junior Promenade at the Massachusetts Agricultural College marks the
climax of the winter's social season on the campus. The 1917 Junior Prom was
no exception. It was held in the Drill Hall amid novel decorations, under ideal
winter weather conditions, honored by a delightful assemblage of guests, and
wrapped in that mysteriously attractive air imparted by the old memories and
traditions of the Drill Hall and Campus.
The Prom "season" opened on Friday afternoon, February 11, with a varsity
hockey game. The dance was that evening, and the following afternoon, _ the
Musical Clubs entertained at a Concert-Cabaret. In the evening, the Roister
Doisters presented "Under Cover" in the Auditorium. Three of the fraternities
entertained at house-parties which made the week-end much more delightful for
the guests.
There is one thought which the 1917 Committee wishes to leave with the
student body, a thought which they have conceived as a result of their own ex-
perience. And that is : that too much effort and money are expended in the desire
to put on something just as good or better than the other fellow. A standard seems
to have been set which each committee appears to endeavor to conform to, and in
so doing they usually jeopardize the financial success of their undertaking. In
the light of the present day conditions, it would seem advisable for future commit-
tees to splurge less and to plan their affairs more conservatively, honestly taking
the stand of repudiating this false standard of other years.
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Smith
Worthley Baker
Lanphear Maginnis Chapman
1918 Junior $rom Committee
Marshall O. Lanphear
Foster K. Baker .
John A. Chapman
John J. Maginnis
Sidney S. Smith
Wells N. Thompson
Harlan N. Worthley
Chairman
Treasurer
Secretary
Program
Supper
Decorations
Music
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Messenger Chapman Spaulding Gurshin
Saville Irving Smith Williams Hill
informal Committee
Mentor iWembersf
Carl A. Gurshin of Lynn William Saville, Jr., of Waban
Edmund B . Hill of Rutherford , N . J . Arthur F. Williams of Sunderland
junior ifflcmbers
John A. Chapman of Salem Kenneth L. Messenger of Winsled, Conn.
Lewis \V. Spaulding of South Hingham
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program for tfje Jfortp=££>txtf) Commencement
g>aturfcap, June £s>ebenteentf)
3:00 P. M. BasebalLGame— M. A. C. vs Amherst, at Pratt Field.
•8:15 P. M. Roister Doisters, Stoekbridge Hall.
^unbap, June (figfjteentf)
4:30 P. M. Baccalaureate Address by Dean Edward M. Lewis, Stoekbridge Hall.
jfflontiap, June J&tneteentfj
10 :00 A. M. Class Day Exercises.
3:00 P. M. Competitive Drills.
4:00 P. M. Regimental Parade.
6:30 P. M. Class Sing, Steps of Stoekbridge Hall.
7:45 P. M. Concert by Musical Clubs, Stoekbridge Hall.
9:30 P. M. Fraternity Reunions.
tEuesfcap, June {Etoentietfj, SUumtu 3Bap
9:00 A. M. Meeting of Trustees.
10:00 A. M. Business Meeting of Associate Alumni, Chapel.
12:00 M. Alumni Parade.
1 :00 P. M. Alumni Dinner.
4:00 - 6:00 P. M. Trustees' Reception, Informal, Drill Hall.
6:00 P. M. Alumni Class Reunions.
8:00 P. M. Senior-Sophomore Hop, Drill Hall.
IKetmesbap, June Ctoentpfirst
10:30A.M. Commencement Exercises. Address by President Kenyon L.
Butterfield. The Commonwealth will be represented by
Lieut. -Gov. Calvin Coolidge.
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To-day proud Massachusetts welcomes home
Her loyal sons, brave men and strong and
true;
Back from the north and west and south they
come,
Leaving their labor now with gladness to re-
Sweet memories of the days
When buoyantly they trod these ways
In the full flush of youth.
Theirs were the forms which once in other
years
Peopled these sacred halls.
Their voices, glad and sweet and strong,
Oft woke the echoes of these walls,
Raised high to praise her name in song,
Telling her triumph with exultant cheers
That echoed long.
Theirs were the loyal hearts which once alight
With all the righteous flame of passion then,
Upheld her honor, kept her virgin glory
bright,
Cherished the pride of Massachusetts men.
Cherished — ay, cherish ever
Through all the years of time. Never
Shall that loved name
Grow faint in mem'ry or her influence fail
To work sweet mystic spell
O'er those who, kneeling at her feet
Learn there to choose both right and well
Of nature's gifts; to read defeat
In death of purpose true and high ideal;
To know no shame.
Jffilae Jfausitina Colbert
So on this day in the glad golden spring,
When life is pulsing high and all around
The very air is vibrant, every living thing
Filled with a magic mystery of sound —
How sad we bid good-bye
How with a mighty purpose high
We face the open way,
Into a world where opportunity
Waits once for every man.
And we shall only win success
If strengthened by the fight, we can
By service conquer selfishness;
By honest effort earning victory
Our toil to bless.
To-day we are looking backward o'er the
years,
And minded how the days have traveled fast,
Look through the mistiness of parting tears,
And welcome tender memories of the past,
How sweet the happy hours
Spent mid th' enchantment of these bowers,
Youth free from every care.
How eager in the days that are no more
Our youthful hearts sought joy.
Life held no pleasure bought too dear;
Our happiness knew no alloy;
Our hearts knew naught of pain or fear,
We sucked life's pleasure to the core,
And shed no tear.
We face the future, knowing not the way,
Or whether we shall reach the distant goal.
We only know that service day by day
Shall soothe the spirit and redeem the soul.
The waiting world invites.
We may not walk the lofty heights
That lead to splendid fame;
But where our course may lead, we carry there,
Within our hearts enshrined,
The golden precepts we have learned;
Sweet friendships that shall ever bind;
Knowledge that we have bravely earned ;
And, dearer yet, the influence of her noble name
God-formed and rare.
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Frost
Mendelssohn
Rev. Byron F. Gustin
Wagner
Organ Prelude, "Allegro Maestoso" ....
Senior Processional, "The War March" from "Athalie"
Hymn No. 304
Scripture Reading and Prayer .....
Anthem, "The Pilgrim's Chorus" from "Tannhauser"
The Glee Club
Baccalaureate Address, "The Greater Vision" . . Dean Edward M. Lewis
Hymn No. 234
Benediction
Postlude, "Marziale Avonle" ' Armstrong
Claste Bap Cxercteeg
Planting of the Class
Ivy Oration
Class Oration .
Class Ode
Campus Oration
Pipe Oration .
Hatchet Oration
Ivy
by Class President
. Charles Holt Gould
Charles Wicker Moses
Thomas Lincoln Harrocks
Mae Faustina Holden
George Newlon Danforth
. Charles Holt Gould
Harold Greenleaf Little
jfortp=££>txtf) Commencement
letmesbap, lune 21, 1916, at 10.30 9. 4*1.
Rev. Hervey C. Parke
Music
Prayer . .
Commencement Address, "The New Rural Advance"
President Kenyon L. Butterfield, LL.D.
Music
Conferring of Degrees
Address —
Hon. Calvin Coolidge,
Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth
Announcement of Prizes and Awards
Music
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$lontiap, futte I9tt), 1916, at 6.30 p. JH.
Mentors!
"Who Killed Cock Robin?" ' ' Dear Old Massachusetts" ' 'Aggie, My Aggie"
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"Dear Old Massachusetts" (Music and words by Swift, ex-'17) "Spirit of '17"
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Jfregijmen
"Dear Old Massachusetts"
*" Original Song" (Words by Helen A. Sibley, '19, Music arranged by George
Anderson, '19)
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*' ' Massachusetts, Thine Are We" ' ' Old Folks at Home"
(Words and Music by C. T. Smith, '18)
"Love's Old Sweet Song"
"Aggie, My Aggie" ' ' In the Evening by the Moonlight"
Rumors
*"Mass. Aggie — Here's to Thee" "Somewhere a Voice is Calling"
(Words and Music by W. W. Thayer, '17)
demons
*' ' Evening Hymn" (Words by Mae F. Holden, '16 ; Music by F. A. Anderson, '16)
"A Farewell to Aggie" (Words from the Class; Music from "Aloha Oe")
"Sons of Old Massachusetts" (To be sung by the entire student body)
Decision in favor of the Class of 1916
Clagg ILeabcrs
1916. Mr. Nelson U. Blanpied 1918. Mr. Harlan N. Worthley
1917. Mr. William W. Thayer 1919. Mr. Melvin W. Gurshin
fubgeg
Hon. Frank A. Hosmer, of Amherst
Prof. David Todd, of Amherst College
Prof. Frank A. Waugh, of M. A. C.
Prof. William P. Bigelow, Amherst College
Prof. Edgar L. Ashley, of M. A. C.
*To bo Judged on a basis '>f originality.
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(©rtmtell Prtjesi
The Grinnell prizes, given by the Hon. William Claflin of Boston in honor of
George B. Grinnell, Esq., of New York, to those members of the senior class who
pass the best, second best, and third best examinations, oral and written, in theoreti-
cal and practical agriculture :
First prize, $25, awarded to Harold Augustus Mostrom.
Second prize, $15, awarded to Ralph Fred Taber.
Third prize, $10, awarded to Raymond Alson Mooney.
(General 3hnprobemcnt
The Western Alumni Association prize, given to that member of the sopho-
more class who, during the first two years in college, has shown the greatest im-
provement in scholarship, character and example, $25. Awarded to Ralph Walter
Hurlburt, 1918.
T&\\i& botanical -prijesi
Hills prizes for the best and second best herbarium, competition open to mem-
bers of the senior, junior and sophomore classes, awarded as follows :
First prize of $20, to Roger Francis Clapp, of the sophomore class.
Second prize of $15, to Carlton Mclntyre Stearns, of the junior class.
Public Speaking (jPrebtouslp ginnounteb)
The Burnham prizes awarded to the students delivering the best and second
best declamations:
First prize, $15, awarded to Henry John Burt, 1919.
Second prize, $10, awarded to Fred Bucknam Sampson, 1918.
The Flint prizes awarded to the students delivering the best and second best
orations :
First prize, $20, awarded to Theodore Henry Reumann, 1918
Second prize, $15, awarded to Lincoln David Kelsey, 1917.
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Won by the Freshman Debating Team, silver cup to each:
Robert Burleigh Collins James Joseph Window Henry John Burt
College $ri?e Bebate ($15 to Cach)
Lincoln David Kelsey, 1911
Thomas Lincoln Harrocks, 1916
Henry John Burt, 1919
Jtltlttarp honors;
The following named Cadet Officers have been granted the military diploma
and have been reported to the Adjutant General of the United States Army and
to the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as being efficient
in Military Science and Tactics and graduating therein with highest honors:
Cadet Colonel Charles Edward Hathaway, Jr.
Cadet Major Albert James Hicks
Cadet Major Charles Albert Huntington, Jr.
Cadet Captain Harold Aiken
Cadet Captain Emilio Joseph Cardarelli
Cadet Captain George Newlon Danforth
Cadet Captain Frank Eugene Haskell
Cadet Captain Stanley Marshall Prouty
Cadet Captain Everett Stackpole Richards
Cadet Captain Dean Albert Richer
Cadet Captain Benjamin Charles Louis Sander
Cadet Captain Raymond Scott Wetherbee
&ural JSrama -prije
A prize of $50 offered jointly by Professor M. L. Morgan and the Dramatic
Society for the best Rural Drama produced by a member of the undergraduate
student body. Awarded to Mr. Thomas Carlton Upham, of the class of 1916.
STOCKBRIDGE HALL KY SEARCHLIGHT
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4WL S. C Social Linton
The words "Social Union"
are likely to convey to the
average Aggie undergraduate
one of three impressions, ac-
cording to the length of his stay
in college; if he be a freshman,
and the season be not far ad-
vanced, they are apt to convey
to his mind a certain vague won-
dering as to just what comprises
value received in the case of the
one dollar item on his receipt
from the T. O.; after the first
entertainment he thinks of it as
, designating some phase of the
unseen powers that be devoted
to filling otherwise barren winter
— evenings with a very good quali-
ty of diversion; and when he attains to the dignity of an upperclassman he visualizes a large
room sacred to ragtime and the new dance steps. It is somewhat regrettable that the popular
conception of the institution is thus limited; as a student identified with the movement remarked
"Most fellows think of it only as the thing that gives the entertainments; they haven t an ^ idea
of the other things it's trying to do." So that it may be enlightening as well as appropriate in
this place to call attention to the work of the Social Union during the season of 1915-16, and
b™ ^USp^Swo?* thing attention to the fact that by the payment of one dollar at
the beginning o the year, students are admitted to four or five high-class entertainments of the
ortwhXonnally command prices of from one-half to two do lars , as.wellas wo°rthrees uclent
affairs of the mediocre-art but good-time variety. Last year's schedule included of the former
sort the offering of the Ernest Gamble Concert Party, musicians of the first quality, Mr Leland
Powers whose ability as a dramatic reader is well-known throughout the country; and the Hc£
Francis Neilson the English Member of Parliament whose utterances and writings against the
^^ll^Zi^r^Stif^^y Show of lasting fame and the Freshman Night
Fntertainment The projected Student Vaudeville failed to materialize.
EntThe administration of the Social Union is in the hands of a jomt committee , oT the Senate and
faculty; this year's committee consists of Messrs. Spaulding, Irving and Russell of the former
UnAv qnrl Messrs Lewis Kennev and Watts of the latter. .,_,,, , a j j
The ehan« 'fro m the old chapel to the new auditorium in Stockbridge Hall not only afforded
MeatlvneS a greatly appreciated facilities for the above class of entertainments but also
„ u V 1 ' 1 " nfi ■ k actum oi moving pictures. The aim in this movement has not been con-
SS'Z , 1, nor has it been designed to obviate any Possible unpleasantnesses at he
Town Hall but has taken the form rather of a simple endeavor to give the^tudrnts be ttoi value
than would be obtainable elsewhere for the same money. Features like The Spoilers , lhe
WeTnaut" "Heart of the Blue Ridge", etc., took a prominent place on the programs The
Sation was on the whole, excellently' supported by the student body, and it is confidently
believe a extensions of the plan will be as successful. From the financial side sufficient ^sur-
nl.is was forthcoming to enable the Union to establish a free telephone for local calls in the Trophj
Room i \ , th ' 1 Ige, a feature of the work the existence of which many students are .unaware of
TheTact of the presence in North College of a completely furnished pool room for the benefit of
students fitted out by the same means, is probably even less widely known.
students, ,, u existence of about a decade, during which it has
been^nstr^SinVn-vuhng t.£ students w,.h a grea. many ^f^^^ZdZ
,„j in„tr„rtion Its noliev has been to preserve and foster the spirit oi sociability in tiu siuat
b^anTto —
hetween students and faculty. The realization of this ambition, therefore, depends emllel>
upoTthepofX^attitude toward the Union; yet the ideal is ^^f^X^f^E In
commensurate with both increased interest and with the matcn: 1 g 1 « | Wfc *
fact its best days cannot be until the size and finances of M. A. C. warrant tin ni.unu name o a
s^al center, with adequate physical equipment, which shall form a nucleus around which an
active, healthy college life can be built.
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JMgf) g>djool ®ap
The latch-string at Aggie is always out, but on High School Day a particularly
hearty welcome is extended to those who come to the campus to get acquainted
with the institution. However well we may succeed in telling our friends by written
or spoken expression of the attractions of our college, the democracy of the stu-
dents, the inspiring Aggie spirit, the splendid equipment in buildings, land and
men, the simplest way to drive these facts home is to bring our friends to the
campus and let them see the college as if is. Every spring Aggie invites the high
school students of the state to be its guests for a day or two. A day's program is
carried out that is intended to demonstrate every phase of Aggie life. The very
machinery of the college is kept running, athletic contests are staged, a banquet
is given in honor of the guests, the musical and dramatic clubs entertain, the doors
of the fraternity houses are wide open. The increasing numbers who visit our
campus on High School Day are but proof that M. A. C. has found a unique way
demonstrating her real worth to prospective students.
INDKX SCRAMBLE
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Gflje parent
To you is granted a special privilege; arise and enter the "forbidden place"
with me, for even Turkish harem laws are lax at present. From the noisy haunts
of men below, I lead you boldly past the grim faced monster who guards the upper
regions with sleepless vigilance, straight into the abode of the damsels. _ Doors
flung wide reveal empty interiors, except where an occasional maiden is bent
studiously over ponderous books of scientific research or toiling on momentous
mathematical problems. Yet, listen! Do you hear a noise like the howling of
the night wind and the yawling of a wildcat? It comes from the last and only
closed door in this sanctuary. We knock, a shriek or two ensues, then silence and
a polite "come in". There is no noise here — but
an excessive display of combs and bits of tissue
paper littering the room, bespeaking a comb party
(most loathed by the keeper of the entrance) .
Anon a telephone rings and without cere-
mony we, the guests of honor, are tripped up by
her who hastens to obey the summons. Unbe-
lievable— a man has caught the monster off her
guard and beguiled her with a smile into giving
him the pleasure of an evening in the company of
the damsel of his choice. But not in absolute
privacy! Oh, no! There are plenty of errands
to carry maidens past a half open door (left so
by stern mandate). See, ingenuity has already
begun its work; from diverse fancy bags and
baskets silken threads of gay hue are drawn and
deft hands weave the date of the eventful evening
in the visitor's scarf, left conveniently at hand.
Let us hope it is not borrowed for the occasion !
Coat-sleeves and collar sewed up also will pro-
long the farewells this evening. It is rumored
that on other occasions, when visitors were less
welcome, clocks struck the parting hour while the
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evening was yet young, and alarm clocks
sounded a noisy warning.
The sewing task complete, behold
where two resourceful spirits are playing ball
with studied unconcern of alabaster walls
and dimly antique lights. But worse still, .
watch those two maidens struggle in un-
seemly fashion but with evident enjoyment.
Alas they fall locked in one another's arms,
too weary to rise — until an impious voice
whispers in seraphic and beguiling tones
"Let's eat". As if the Pied Piper had
piped, damsels appear at this summons from
the four winds. Then indeed in a most
feminine and ladylike manner is prepared a feast which you of the outside world
cannot equal in quality, nor far surpass in quantity.
One by one the lights go out, leaving us standing here in the shadowy hall;
tranquillity is at last restored and maidens sleep amid the havoc of the evening's
activities. Come close while I tell you in the
darkness, guarded by these walls, how other
days are spent in festivities to which other
maidens are invited; and how they may some-
times be found clad in resplendent garb perform-
ing the rituals of their new order beneath candle
light and midst the odor of white roses and pine.
Still give ear, while I relate how on Sat-
urday mornings the song of the suds resounds
in the corridor to rhythmic rub-rub and the air
is filled with a mingled odor of some mysterious
cookery and the scorch of a forgotten flatiron.
One worker sings Yankee Doodle as she briskly
wields the broom, and another in tones of awfullest discord hums Old Black Joe over
and over as she plies the needle. For this reason the doors of the studious are closed.
Oft on rainy Saturday afternoons, when men seek shelter and the way is clear,
the maidens make good their exit down the fire escape and skip away to fish. But
the only bite they get is a mosquito bite, and their only game a duck — ing.
Still, that is not so bad when one considers what befalls if all but one or two
of the maidens leave the apartments in the evening. Mischief is then rife ! Even you
brave men would tremble to return and
find every one of your beds occupied by a
night-capped stranger and in the large room
at the extreme end of the hall, a gigantic pa-
jama-clad man sitting in your great arm-
chair with his legs crossed and the moon-
light slanting across his folded arms.
Neither would you be delighted to find on
your table a beautifully beribboned box of
newly-made fudge — by the odor from your
neighbor's room — and open it only to give
freedom to a big fat mouse!
Horrors, it scares me to contemplate
it — I flee — follow me!
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Belta $i)i #amma
A new society has sprung up in our midst — Delta Phi Gamma. Already it
has achieved one thing most vital to all concerned — recognition by the faculty.
This means more than is generally realized, for it has brought recognition not only
to Delta Phi Gamma as a Society, but to all the girls studying at the college. At
last people have been awakened to the idea that there is here an active and able
body of "Coeds" who lacked a satisfactory social life. Even thus early in the
history of the society, favors have been shown the girls by faculty and fraternities
which were never accorded them before its existence.
From the impulse to better social conditions sprang worthier motives which
have led to the formation of an organization which will inevitably make for better
scholarship, greater democracy, and high standards of recreation.
Then, too, it will undoubtedly bring about that which its members most ar-
dently desire — a closer fellowship, that they, as alumnae, may remain more loyal to
one another and their college.
The growing necessity for binding the few girls together that they might
work and play to their mutual advantage was first recognized by the girls of Draper
Hall. On them fell the arduous and discouraging work of starting something
radically new. When all was well under way — for to reach the goal of their ambi-
tion will be the work of years — they deemed it advisable to extend their member-
ship by opening up the society to the other M. A. C. girls who desired to belong.
Three members were acquired in this way, and initiated in June.
The enthusiastic spirit in which this work has been taken up and carried on
under the able leadership of Esther Chase '16 and Mae Holden '16 promises to
make successful this first "Coed" society of Massachusetts Agricultural College.
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Cbttoriate
Several years have passed since an Index Board has expressed itself regarding
the campus questions of the day. Whether this has been due to a lack of time, a
lack of opinion or mere bashfulness is a matter of conjecture. The present Board
probably has been as profligate in the use of the wee sma' hours as any of its pre-
decessors, our opinions have been submerged in the mad scramble of campus life,
and as for bashfulness, we plead guilty to being as shy and coy as the average.
Nevertheless, we feel that a few editorials have a place in a college annual. Our
part may be only to resurrect these columns that future Boards may rejuvenate
them and prove their worth. We are not seeking reward either of the bouquet or
brickbat variety- We trust that our offerings will not be so acceptable as to be
taken without comment ; we would prefer that they might serve as a spark to light
the fires of the imagination, as a spur to action, that the obstacles to campus progress
and enlightenment may be more quickly consumed and overcome.
"Jit's a #reat Country"
"Oh yes, we go on hikes and picnics and everything of the sort on Saturdays
and Sundays thru the fall ; there's a whole lot of things to see — it's a great country,
you know. A little more of that stuffing, and some dark meat, please, dad."
Thus the freshman, home for his Thanksgiving vacation. Yes, even the freshman
knows it — his frat brother has told him so; besides, isn't it near Hamp and South
Hadley ?
Yet by some inexplicable coincidence he himself doesn't seem to know much
about it; and when he's a sophomore he's pretty busy, so that he "doesn't have
much time to get out"; when he's a junior his time is kept well filled discharging
his variously located social obligations, and, perhaps we might add, in hiring others
to take their places ; and he likes to have his last year to himself, to spend in trying
out the various methods of wearing his dignity and his glad rags. So it comes to
pass that we find a sophomore now and then who hasn't a very clear idea of where
Amherst is with relation to various cities or points of interest, together with a
goodly proportion of seniors who have never climbed Mount Lincoln or Sugarloaf,
or who have no idea whatsoever where the Devil's Garden or the town of Williams-
burg might lie. Not to speak of the eighty per cent, or more who never heard of
the regicide judges and their stay in Hadley, or the far greater proportion of geology
ex-students who have no conception of the simplest structural features of the valley
and its surroundings.
But the beautiful old legend of the "angel sent from God" and that of the
sixty devoted men who with their captain gave up their lives at Bloody Brook in as
thrilling a sacrifice as was Custer's battlefield of the Little Big Horn, the stories of
the Old Bay Road and the heroic tale of that grisly, freezing February night on the
Deerfield flats, with its slaughtering, burning demons from the north; the annals
of the huge two-legged lizards that roamed the valley ages before the advent of
man, of the immense Hadley Lake and its great shelving beaches, on one of which
stands most of our college today, the long-dead volcano at Little Mountain and the
still visible products of its eruptions — these are not by any means all. Paderewski,
one of the greatest of living musicians, gave a concert at Springfield last winter —
we do not recall any extensive desertion of the Aggie campus on the night in question.
We are all passably familiar with the topography of the Smith College campus —
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but how about the Hillyer Art Gallery connected with the same institution? A
very attractive course of lectures on political subjects was delivered by men with
nation-wide reputations at Amherst College last year, available — but apparently
not desirable — to Aggie students.
To touch another phase of the question : The New England hill town as a
type is known all over the country, together with the typical New England problem
of the abandoned farm: why is Shutesbury? Speak up, some of you fellows who
have lived one, two or three years within a few miles of it. The Polish settlement
in the valley is pretty nearly a unique case ; what causes it ? What does it mean ?
Whither is it leading?
Yet another phase: Men go into the South American jungles each year, en-
countering deadly fevers, dangers of assassination, serpents whose bite causes al-
most instant death, ferocious wild beasts, that they may bring out some new and
unknown species of the strange, rare orchid family of plants; how many of us, even
after passing thru the throes of a sophomore botany herbarium, are familiar with
the native orchids, some closely allied to the South American species, that grow in
little-known byways on Mount Toby? Who knows the heavy, gorgeous night-
moths that flap about our own campus, or the brill iant-hued fungi that grow in
places we have passed a dozen times, or has heard the song of the wood thrush in
the thicket at twilight? We have even seen fellows — not merely one or two, either
— who, at nightfall, when God's great color organ was pouring out its solemn, silent
notes from the western hills, would dash by in too much of a hurry to get thru supper
even to notice.
Yes, it's a great country. But, by the shade of old King Philip, who sits on
his pristine seat on Sugar Loaf and moodily thinks of the days when his Nipmuck
braves skulked over the tobacco fields at his feet, we need a little sense of the
beautiful in life.
<Ebc establishment of a Comstructtbc Crabitton
A good many of us, we fear, — especially those who for one reason or another
have had the sociological viewpoint developed a little more than usual — have been
brought into a pessimistic frame of mind by what they have been pleased to call the
"intolerable infancy" of the average undergraduate, and his decidedly uniform
tendency, in consequence, to worship a tradition long after it has become outworn.
Now, we do not pretend to condone this sort of thing; this refusal to think for
oneself, to weigh all ideas, new or old, in the scale of reason before adopting or re-
jecting them, is one of the biggest problems the Eastern college of this twentieth
century has to face; it is little short of mentally suicidal for a man who comes to
college, whether he knows it or not, to get his mind and soul sharpened, to permit
a college ancestor of forty years ago to dull that mind and soul through the tyran-
nous exercise of a "tradition" censorship. But, on the other hand, though under-
standing perfectly well the point of view of the man who couldn't lay an egg but was
a better judge of an omelet than any hen in the state, wc cannot in l his case excuse
the fellow who crabs, but has no reasonable substitute to offer.
These few words may perhaps explain in part the existence of this article;
we wish to kill two birds with one stone, and at once to point out to the rah-rah
boy the possibilities of his tradition idea, and to supply the deficiencies of the crab-
ber in the way of constructive suggestions.
There is, then, tucked away snugly in one of the mountainous corners of our
state, a little town only a shade larger than our own Amherst — Amherst in summer,
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we mean. The town, like most other towns, supports a high school, which gradu-
ates a matter of not to exceed twenty-five per class ; and the high school maintains
a principal — behold the forger of the Tradition. From that school there have come
to Aggie, in three years, nine boys and three girls, if we are correctly informed;
those boys and girls have not been heroes or heroines in any field or in any sense of
the word, but — we approach the point of all this discourse — there is not a man or a
woman in the twelve who is not oj the very finest blood of Old Aggie and oj the nation.
There, Boston and New York and other centers of so-called culture — fabricated,
for the most part, from the left-over and hashed-over remnants of the thoughts of
great men — is a record which even you might be proud of, could you ever reach it —
which you cannot. Mind, they are possessed of no great talent, no wonderful
genius, these youths; they were, and one might surmise, rejoice to have been born
and bred in an atmosphere of hard work and plain living and right thinking — and
every one as clean and sweet as the air on a crisp October morning in their own
Berkshires.
The Tradition ? There it is : not a measured heap of shekels coined once per
generation for five generations, not a ten-year reputation for influence in college
or elsewhere, not even a name for studious asceticism running in the family, but
only the development of men and women worthy the name, sound, rugged stock
fit to be the eternal — and only — hope of their college and their country.
And the Man? Well, we've noticed that somehow, when one finds a tradition
like this one springing up in a college or elsewhere, you generally can't find him;
you have to assume him (if you are thoughtful enough to consider him at all) as
part of the work he built. But there he is, turning them out to come to M. A. C,
keep up the Tradition here, and go back home, we hope, to help build even a bigger
one. Sir, we salute you, and wish we at our "institution of learning", might take
a few lessons from you, you builder of Men instead of Things !
g>i)all Wie $rogre*£S?
Of the three or four types of group thinking usually recognized, we lack the
tangible sign of the last and most advanced — a monthly or quarterly periodical
for the exercise of the creative power of the mind, a kind of dissemination point for
new or original ideas. Most of the older colleges have such an institution, taking
sometimes the form of a printed forum of popular opinion on live subjects in the
college, sometimes that of a pure literary magazine, or occasionally that of a com-
bination of both, relieved by snatches of wit. Not only is Aggie capable of pro-
ducing this kind of work, but with her new consciousness of growth she is beginning
to feel the need of some such focussing point for her thought. It would not- be
difficult to turn such a project into reality right now, for the production problem
is comparatively a small one. Its worst enemy is our old friend the man who
maintains that his life is a part of his work, instead of his work being a part of his
life, and hence is opposed on general principles to the acquisition, in an agricultural
college, of the power and the desire to think deeply.
It has often been said that the truths that are most alive and actively beneficial
are those over which there is considerable discussion, debate, difference of opinion;
and that where there is apathy, there is also intellectual stagnation and death.
The tangible measure of this capacity for discussion — the desire for active
thinking — is found in just such an undertaking as has been proposed. How much
alive are we?
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Oh you who love old Aggie — can you afford to throw aside your higher in-
stincts and your nobler motives? Can you afford to disregard all things cultural,
to hold in contempt all things sacred? When man fails to exercise and develop
those faculties which make him more than animal, he gradually slips back into
an undisciplined and vulgar state — that state of brutal egoism where nothing
sways him but his own desire. Beholding this, those who feel the call of a higher
destiny are mocked by fear of that which must come to renew the manhood of
the race. They ask, will it be war? Will it be panic; — financial disaster — or physical
calamity ?
Why is it that in the heart of every man there lies a spark of a diviner nature ?
Was it that the spark should smoulder amid the ashes of mortal environment, or
that it should be fanned into a blaze by the recognition of a human soul ?
Certainly the latter — else why your existence ? It should not be felt that these
things are above everyday life. They are the fundamentals of that life. It is
this that turns life's pettinesses into largesse.
After all, it is the commonplaces of life that count. Did you receive a letter
from your Mother to-day, and being caught reading it, pass your embarrassment
off with light ridicule — or did you say the truer thing and leave your friend with an
indefinable feeling of greater confidence in this old world? Did you betray a con-
fidence in the spirit of bravado? There is greater honor among animals. Have
the days of chivalry departed forever that you so vaunt your disregard of moral
law and human right ? Search yourselves — deal fairly with yourselves, and in the
innermost recesses of your being you will find a something which is ashamed, and
which questions your right to abuse these characteristics that make man master
of the beast. Let "loyalty" be your watchword — "To thine own self be true, and
it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man".
Cije Jfifttctl) anmbersatp
Think — think hard! Can you recall any instance where progress has been
more marked than right here on our own campus, in these the first fifty years of our
College's existence?
There was a day when agriculture was not recognized as such, but merely as
farming — a means of keeping body and soul together. At length a time came when
farmers' lads and lassies, feeling keenly their lack of social status, began to migrate
toward the cities. As this migration began to assume large proportions, men
awoke to the importance of this heretofore unclassified industry, and became
alarmed at the enormity of the role it played in our greatest economic problems.
The cry was then "back to the land". But how to get them there and keep them
there were problems in themselves. A question of so great moment was well
worthy of time and study. A few far-sighted men with a deep understanding of
human nature, looking into this matter, believed that they saw in these country
folk and their common tasks the partial solution of the ever increasing "high cost
of living question". They conceived of a school where farming should be made a
science and farmers' children educated thai they might keep it on that basis. In
fact they would recognize it as a big task, and create men big enough for the task.
Right here in our valley, a small part of that vision was realized. A few scattered
buildings on ragged, unkempt land, one or two professors who weren't afraid to
venture out in untried paths, and a handful of faithful students: from this dc-
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veloped the M. A. C. of today — almost a large college in number, and with very
good and steadily improving equipment for its agricultural courses. Because of
the tireless energy of our college pioneers it is to be our privilege to participate in a
pageant — unique in its kind and typifying the spirit of progress.
As students of the College we cannot fail to respond to the appeal that the
references to the history of our College's past must make. It cannot fail to develop
in us a wholesome appreciation of the men who have gone before us, and to stir
us to greater action on our part, that the next fifty years of this institution shall
find still greater progress.
Besides, this anniversary celebration must call the attention of thousands to
our college, who, having no realization of the importance of agriculture, have
simply passed by on the other side. It will, moreover, while visualizing for these
the progress of practical agriculture in this college, equally well demonstrate the
fact that culture of the soil and culture of the mind are not inimical, but may be
carried on at the same time, one being incomplete without the other.
Read for yourselves in this pageant the story of noble ambition, faith, daunt-
less enthusiasm, thought, purpose, progress as it has been written by the Aggie
students for the last fifty years.
Qftje Snbesfttgatiott
The "merciless probe" is about complete. The heavy mist that settled over
the college since the Committee on Ways and Means, instead of recommending
the proposed development fund of two million dollars for six years — suggested a
rigid investigation of the college, is beginning to clear. Out of the haze we see
new hopes for the future of "Old Aggie", new opportunities that will open up after
the exact status of the college is known, the awakening of a new faith and confidence
in M. A. C. — both on the part of the State and the individual.
Once and for all the college should be assured of adequate financial support.
Heretofore, President Butterfield has been obliged to fight to the last ditch for
every dollar that has been granted the institution. Not a single appropriation has
been passed without his supreme effort. The result — much valuable time and
thought and energy that should have been directed along more constructive lines,
the development of the intercollegiate standard, the efficiency of the college curri-
culum, has been spent in idle jargon with the Legislature. After the investigation
report is in, however, the authorities and trustees should be assured of better sup-
port. Money for the development of Aggie should come more freely. The State
should then feel safe to invest in the college, realizing that its case is perfectly clear,
that it is a safe proposition, a paying one, established on a firm basis. Aggie's
stock should rise.
The probe should also settle for a generation to come all questions concerning
the work and methods of the college. The old watchword of the "mossbacks",
their war-cry in the Legislature, — "more practical work" should die a shameful
death. Through the hearings of the investigation committee, the state and the
individual must realize more and more that an agricultural college is not meant
primarily as a place where the student learns to hoe corn, milk cows, dig potatoes.
The arguments of the alumni at the hearings must have shown conclusively that
to meet the needs of the modern farmer the State is obliged to get away from the
narrow-minded view of a few individuals. It must allow the authorities to offer
such courses as will broaden the farmer of tomorrow, not force him into the rut of
seclusion, mental inactivity, moral torpor.
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The resultant of the investigation will move along another line also. The
rigid criticism which the college has undergone will not be without results. It will
lead to more efficient work. Constructive ideas have been offered by men who
stand high in the world of agriculture — men who would never have given M. A. C.
a thought if it had not been for the probe. Suggestions and criticisms have been
offered concerning the short courses and extension service. M. A. C. has been
held up before other agricultural colleges, compared with them, shown to be lacking
in some respects, superior in others. The faculty entrance requirements, courses,
methods of teaching have all come in for their share of comment. In brief, every
branch of the college has been "raked over the coals" and the weak spots criticised
severely. We never realize our mistakes until they are pointed out by another.
Probably this constructive criticism will be the best thing that could ever happen
to Aggie. . After the probe is completed, there will be an opportunity for a general
readjustment. The authorities will have something definite upon which to plan
for the future, so that in due time every branch of the college will reach a higher
plane of efficiency.
Best of all, the investigation has aroused the alumnus to a keener sense of his
duty to his Alma Mater. Previous to the time of the first hearing, the M. A. C.
alumni were a negligible quantity when it came to helping the college. Especially
was this true of the older graduates. A few faithfuls would manage to come around
to commencement or class reunions, but in the case of the majority, it was once
away, always away. They felt that they had nothing for Aggie and Aggie had
nothing for them. But with the approach of the investigation, there was a change
of attitude. That little spark of love of Alma Mater, deadened by long years
away from the campus, suddenly leaped into flame when the future of Aggie was
at stake. Alumni from all classes, the old graduate, the new, flocked to the hear-
ings to defend the college, its courses, its methods. This alone was enough to
make the investigation worth while, for with a body of loyal Alumni deeply stirred
to the welfare of the college, Old Aggie's cause cannot help but prosper.
Scttbtttcg
Very often in our college life we hear such expressions as "Why doesn't he
get out and do something?" or else it will be "Oh, he doesn't amount to anything,
he's a grind." This is within the realm of every college man's experience, for the
average man has a certain superficial fear, as it were, of scaling the heights of
Phi Kappa Phi, and of failure to succeed in student activities, lest he be the subject
of such criticism as the foregoing. Yet there is some ground for taking this, critical
view of our too hard working classmates when it is realized how many men take no
active part in athletics or non-athletics, nor share in the fraternity life or the friend-
ships which spring from common interests of a recreational nature. Is this the
fault of the individual or of the body of college students? While this question
may not be definitely answered, it furnishes a basis for discussion which may prove
of value.
One possible explanation may lie in the fact that many capable students fail
to realize the worth of student activities, and therefore bend all their energies
toward their studies. Again we ask — whose fault is it?
Could we but make them see that student activities, both athletic and non-
athletic, are of inestimable value to each and every individual inasmuch as they
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give a chance for the play of individuality and the development of personal genius
which has formerly been dormant. Moreover, the student should be made to realize
that it is in such activities that he puts to the actual test the worth of his education as
exhibited by his mental growth. Yet, it is not so important in what direction
these activities shall lead him, or what their nature shall be. The mere fact that
he is learning how to mingle is of inestimable worth. Leadership can never come
without such training. After all, is it not leadership for which the college man
strives? Here Reticency learns to talk, to take the initiative, to make decisions,
to shoulder responsibilities, to plan; in short, is in a fair way to acquire executive
ability. Are these things of value?
Nor are purely social functions without their advantages. As the saying
goes, "Man is a social animal." Hence, to argue circuitously but quite truly, if
one would be a man, one must of necessity be social. Social life breeds sympathy
with one's fellow worker, broadens the mental outlook, instills confidence in one's
self and in one's associates, and teaches the power to excite the sympathy and
interest of other people. If you would be a success in life, is it not necessary that
you have the ability to meet any man on equal terms and to win his confidence
in you and in your integrity and ability ? To do this you must be able to meet his
gaze squarely, to talk intelligently and frankly, and to discuss topics of current
interest understanding^. This cannot be done without practice any more than
one can learn to swim,' sing, play tennis, or make a speech without practice. Ease
in such matters is to be obtained only by mixing freely with those with whom you
rub elbows daily, and thus learning how to use tact and judgment in your conver-
sation, while you acquire a keener perception of human nature. Social life is,
moreover, a means of relaxation, one of the necessities of life. "All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy" without a doubt, and the average college student is no
exception to the rule. No matter how much there is to be accomplished, no per-
manent benefit can result from pushing a tired brain beyond the limit of endurance,
and the surest way of getting relief from "brain fag" is to forget your troubles
absolutely in utter relaxation with your fellows, — yes, even in a "rough-house."
To mingle in the college life is a man's duty to his college as well as to himself.
For if such things are of great value to the individual, they are worthy of support
that they may be broadened and developed along lines of greatest benefit. The
reluctant or bashful may feel himself a nonentity in regard to student activities,
but this feeling is one which he must be taught to overcome. Again, he may think
that the students prominent in activities are thus prominent because they enjoy
prestige and attach small importance to their studies. Yet it may with truth be
said that, while there are men who are socially active to the neglect of their studies,
most social leaders are such because they realize the part it plays in rounding out
their lives, and opening up to them an opportunity for personal sacrifice in behalf
of their college.
Yet remember, no definite rule can be laid down by which a student may di-
vide his time between activities and studies. It is a personal problem which every
man must solve for himself. Development is the great object, and this develop-
ment should not be one-sided ; it should be broad and comprehensive, the kind of
development that will fit a man to be the highest type of citizen. But let us not
blame the recluse of college life, — the "grind" and the "thinker." Rather let us
seek to draw him out that he may benefit by advantages, the existence of which he
does not realize ; while we, in turn, derive pleasure from the new impetus which a
thinker gives to society.
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Confessions of a <©rtnb
We draw, at the outset, at least one corner of a merciful curtain over the
normal undergraduate's picture of the creature he denominates "grind". It
contains a multitude of unsavory details involving stacks of musty-smelling tomes
of the vintage of '76, a pervading smell of kerosene, and long and weary hours spent
in unpopular absorption by the traditional osmosis. "It isn't good for a fellow to
stick to the books too tight," says our old friend Popular Opinion, "After a while
he gets so that he simply can't get out and meet anybody at all." So speaks the
voice of wisdom, and lights another Mecca.
But suppose — only suppose — that the old boy had another think coming,
and that somehow he'd gotten mixed in his thinking, or what passes for thinking,
and managed to put the cart before the horse. For instance, if the brute, instead
of forgetting to make friends with people because he was too busy pursuing books,
had taken to pursuing books because he couldn't make friends with people? Would
P. Op. extract his hands from his khaki jeans, pull down his sweatshirt and begin
to take notice? Not if we know him. He'd merely take an extra long whiff from
the aforesaid Mecca and tell you, "Naw, you're all off; why, those chaps don't
care anything about people — never did; why, they're as dead inside as Creeper's
last year's plug." Well, if you agree with him, fair, gentle, amiable and otherwise
pulchritudinous reader, don't waste your time on what's coming. We pass.
You're inconvertible.
For that is precisely the first proposition we wish to expound — that the grind
is many times not one from choice. Did you ever really know one? And did he
never stop in the middle of a weary page on a weary Saturday night when snatches
of song floated over the campus, and close his book and dream for a while? Or
pass a gay, happy bunch contained with difficulty in a smoke-filled room, consuming
cider and doughnuts at SS feet per second, and think of the college stories he used
to read in his callow days? Or see the crowd clearing out for Hamp on a Sunday
night in midwinter, and wish a little wish that Providence had made him like his
classmates? Perhaps, after all, a grind is human.
But there are the books. Oh, yes, the books; at least, they furnish an avenue
of forgetfulness, of at least temporary escape. So he goes to it, and finds relief
from his lonesomeness in the true artist's satisfaction of knowing his duty well done,
though it be the only thing left for him to succeed in. Or, once in a while, you
may find a fellow of the grind type who forgets his troubles in helping out a younger
chap, or one who has had less experience with the same difficulties; and verily,
from the effect on the worker alone, the true Christianity of this idea is eminently
practical. Such a man graduated from Aggie within five years, who, cut to the
quick by the neglect and ridicule of his own class, nevertheless resolutely set about
rebuilding the last two years of his college course on the wrecks of the first two —
and succeeded. But we were speaking of the man who finds his solace in books.
Eventually, as his new horizons expand and he sees the tremendous reality of the
life and the men perpetuated there, what wonder if he find the college life about
him, which after all is not much more than an elaborate play-system, growing petty
and insignificant? What wonder if he resigns himself to never being understood,
never really becoming a part of his surroundings while in college, and comes to
rejoice that the new fields were opened up to him, however painful the method?
And yet — and yet, there comes sometimes that overpowering loneliness, that
yearning to be once more just plain irresponsible. But it is the law of compensa-
tion— he who would understand the real things must pay the price.
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Overdrawn ? Well, perhaps. But just try it on yourself some time, in imagi-
nation, if you can; just take away your friends and your fraternities, and all the
widespread fabric you call Activities, give yourself a rather sombre background of
pre-college life, put some little quirk in yourself which makes it hard for you to
make friends, and — have you so very much on the grind after all?
tEfje 3lnbex
Every year, the editors of the Index are brought face to face with the problem of
determining just what are the functions of the book. Judging by the books of the
past, it may be variously classed as a college annual, a class record, an alumni
census bulletin, a cartoon magazine or simply a compendium for whatever literary,
statistical and witty productions could be gathered by a bewildered Board.
The present Board has felt very keenly the variety of needs that the book
must nil. That the very multiplicity of duties has limited and handicapped the
Board in fulfilling any one function is only too obvious to those who read these
pages. The Index must serve as a college annual, yet we have been forced to
slight some phases of college life for lack of room. As a class record we feel that
our tribute to 19 IS is not in proportion to her worth. Even though this book
should satisfy the various demands made upon it, we would feel that it had not
secured its results with the greatest efficiency. We do not begrudge the loss of sleep,
the sacrifice of scholarship or the enforced absence from campus pleasures. We be-
lieve, however, that the conditions which keep an Index Board, for months prior to
the publication of the book, in a frenzied and tense state of action can be remedied.
The experience that the members of every Board gain for themselves is in-
valuable. They gain this experience, however, at the cost of energy and time
which might be more profitably used. A new Board that assumed its responsibility
with a working knowledge of the job ahead, of the pitfalls that led others astray
and of the previous successes and failures, should unquestionably be fitted to turn a
greater amount of energy and thought toward the production of a better book.
To us, it appears that the only remedy is to be found in standardization. We
should make a determined effort to find the greatest need that the Index can fill
and then proceed to make it do its duty. If the present type of book satisfies, well
and good; but the class which publishes the book should elect its Board early in its
collegiate career, while the preceding Board is still at work. If a genuine college
annual is desired, however, then the whole student body should take over the
publication of the book, place the Board on a competitive basis and give it its
undivided support. In this case, the need of a class record should be supplied by
a class book, published before Commencement at a time when the complete record
of the class may be written. We desire to see a better book appear on the campus
each year. A clearer understanding of the place that the Index must fill in the
college life must inevitably lead to this result.
©ashhoujSe g>emperbtrem(
Amidst all the excitement attendant on the perennial regermination of the
bud of discontent over our dearly beloved bean foundry, we wish to say that if the
Index can add anything of positive value to the discussion we shall greatly rejoice,
hoping that by some at present unforeseen accident it may find a hearing with
those most directly concerned. With that end in view, then, we present what is to
come, not with the idea of injecting still another consignment of loyalty talk into
a very much overtaxed subject, nor yet with the intention of adding our bit to the
umphty-steen volumes of satire already uttered thereupon. The following statistics,
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after making some allowance for the personal equation of the various sources, repre-
sent the approximate eating conditions at one New York and thirteen New England
colleges, being compiled from a questionnaire sent to the respective Year Book editors :
College
Dining
Hall?
Student
Waiter-
ships?
Social
Oppor-
tunities?
Influ-
enced by
Student
Opinion ?
Other
Eating
Places
Rates
"Rush"
Eating
Popular?
Near
Campus
Buildings?
Wesleyan
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Fraternities t
S3. 50-6.00
At night
Yes
R. I. State
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
3.75
Yes
Yes
Conn. Aggie*
Yes
Yes
No
No
4.20
No
Yes
Bowdoin
No
No
No
No
Fraternities
5.00
No
No
Clark
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
4.50
No
Yes
Cornell
Not
No
No
No
Boarding
Houses
6.00
Yes
Yes
Bates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
4.00
No
3 minutes
U. of Maine
No
No
No
Yes
Fraternities,
B'rd'g Houses
350
No
Yes
Dartmouth
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
5.50
No
Williams
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
6.00
At breakfast
Yes
B. U.
No
No
No
No
Lunch Room
4.50
Yes
W. P. I.
No
No
No
No
4.50
Yes
5-10 minutes
Amherst
No
No
No
No
6.50
No
Yes
Middlebury
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Fraternities
3.50
No
Yes
M. A. C.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Boarding
Houses
4-50
Yes
Yes
investigation of food conditions by Trustees und
tOne soon to be erected.
jPractice soon to be abolished.
MENU (Composite)*
Breakfast
Dinner
Supper
Fruit, 6 colleges
Meat, 10 colleges
Soup, 4 colleges
Cereal (cooked or dry), 10
Vegetables, 7
Meat, 9
Dessert (pie, cake, pudding), 10
Salad, 3
Rolls, 6
Soup, 7
Dessert, 8
Toast, 2
Beverage, 5
Potatoes, 6
Griddle cakes, 2
Potatoes, 5
Beverage, 5
Beverage (tea, coffee, cocoa,
nilk), 8
Vegetables, 3
Doughnuts, 2
Meat, 2
*Many of the menus reported were i
ncomplete, and not
Bread, general for all meals
all the colleges reported their men
It may be noted that by comparison, at least, we are by no means getting the
small end of the deal. Neither the quantity nor the quality of the food is conspicu-
ously wanting, and the price keeps within a small margin of the average. Then,
too, we have somewhat of an advantage in the way of social advantages, etc.
We do not believe in trying to persuade a man who is not living at the Hall
that he should double his eats bill to keep up a tradition ; neither do we contend
that a Dining Hall ranks as an appurtenance to be maintained at all costs; but
we do maintain that there is a very definite sphere of usefulness for it, consisting on
the one hand of its unifying effect on the student body and on the other in the fact
that it is the only safeguard we have against the tender mercies of local boarding
mistresses. Let us not hesitate to tell in definite and prompt terms what ails
i In- rstablishment when it has definitely proved that there is an ailment, but on
the other hand let us give it the same consideration that we would ask were we
facing the same difficult problem.
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Cbtps from tfjc burning
The following have been deemed representative of the most worthy sonnets
broueh ou by the English 3 sonnet requirement. There has also been appended
a sorfof eclectic summary of the finest and deepest thoughts expressed by the class
on that occasion.
Clje filler of tfjc g>oil
He is a cultivator of the soil;
He too takes in the heart of ripened wheat;
The long hot, tiresome days of weary toil
Through summer months he often must repeat;
The harvest fruit without his care would tall;
An everlasting vigil he must show,
Or else his season's gain would be but small
And have for his hard summer naught but woe.
His aim in life is honestly sincere;
His task is but to feed his fellow-men;
His work is to upturn the fertile sod.
His character his neighbors all revere;
From childhood through the years he s always been
An honest man— the noblest work of God. ^ ^ Kennedy
Jfattl)
The night is silent; all is hushed and still;
The shrouded moon casts dull and frigid light;
The power Death, with overwhelming might,
Enfolds all life in winter's icy chill.
But look' A golden spark glows o er the hill
And sheds a warmth throughout the arctic night;
'Tis Faith, that sets our hearts with God aright,
And prophesies that help is in His will.
But now the summer winds breathe through the trees,
The merry song of birds is in the air,
Across the meadow drones the hum of bees,
And Nature's scents are wafted on the breeze,
While up above, the skies are blue and fair;
To live is sweet— Faith triumphs over Care. pREBLF
King Winter, white and desolate, doth he
About in cold magnificence. I stand
Alone, and all I see on any hand
Is endlessness of snow and woods and sky.
What silence there is here! Yet just a sigh
I feel, a whispering stealing through the land-
That of the ancient wood.
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At times, as I recline, and think, and dream,
My thoughts roam far into the ancient time
When Mother Earth held in her lap sublime
Vast forests of uncanny forms, supreme
In all their majesty, through which the scream
Of prehistoric moil of brutes in slime
Rang out in horrid echo to the chime
Of heavenly spheres, with which great space doth teem
These strange and wanton flights do me confuse;
Enchanted, mute, I glory in the spell
Cast o'er me by Witch Nature's hoary muse;
In haze the misty ages I peruse,
And ponder o'er the wondrous fate that fell
Upon this grand old earth in which we dwell.
— F. K. Baker
t£o Jfrienbship
Friendship, the sweetest joy of our short life,
Whether we reach the place of high renown
Or fail to gain an ordinary crown,
You modify the bitterness of strife.
Intangible and mystic bond that holds
The hearts of men together with the aim
Of mutual service, your goal to gain
The paths that lead to all men's souls.
For friendship at its best is naught but love
And when the soul is filled with love's sweet power
The mind of man rejects at every hour
The thoughts that toward the baser passions move —
Such sordid things as fear and hate and lust —
And listens to the voice of God in trust.
— H. L. Russell
***** Then o'er the coals to bend
And watch those glowing embers ruby-lined.
But then I saw the fire and passion, all
The dizzy whirl my love at first attained,
Grow softer, till in lovelier shades remained
The after-glow, which on the farther wall
My Peggy's picture lit, and shone awhile.
When all the heavens bright with stars did glow,
When Luna crept above the wooded rill,
When all the noise of Man was hushed and still
And Dusk enveiled the peaceful earth below,
Then out upon still waters I did row;
Out in the starlight, toward the shadowed hill;
And all these wondrous things my heart did thrill
With love divine, that I had longed to know.
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THE BANQUET SEASON
Lives there a Sof with heavy head
Who never to his mate hath said
This is the life for just three days
And in tin's time what hell we raise.
Wi)t #ranb $allp=^oo, fSatfes! to gou
Come on boys, hurry, hurry, hurry. See the Aggie Midway, watch the wonders
hobnob with all the freaks, hear the wild profs howl, talk with the deaf and dumb
co-ed, the freshman giant, famous stenog, the millionaire janitor, see the hookadoola,
the log-heaving math prof; Shylock, the magic coin flipper; the sharks that eat
quizzes alive, the campus movies, the human cider siphon, the dean's deadly
shingle, the sweat shirt ballet, — here we are, step inside and see them,
ask all the questions you like, (Easy there on the lemonade, Argerol).
Who wants to see the big show now, oh I'm dying waiter, succor, nobody
wants a ticket, — ah, the young lady has a quarter, thank you miss, (swallowed it
hook, bob, and sinker). Step inside the grand palace of heavy canvas; who is
the next one, over this way, neighbor, hear the Convict Iron Band, see the Justget-
Byplane, gaze at the Sofs in the Dip of Dread.
Try our Hog Serum, hams cured of old age. Feed the ferocious female Annie
Huzz, stroll through the milk brewery, have your photo taken with the Head
Waiter, fish in the mud for money, spot the maroon mystery and win a celluloid
silo, whoop, don't crowd, all the sights are waiting. Slide down the subway, sleep
in the seminar, sit in the Senate, look, look, look. He says he will do it, he will
eat a muffin, we think it will kill him, he takes great chances, oh — ye cows and little
cutworms, the child is dead, police, give me a handout, money, money, money, my
credit is busted. Now on the right, ladies and playmates, is the Aggie Inn, built
for a houseboat, and used as a trust company, lamp all the landmarks, the chapel,
the drill shed. Follow us through the dorms, the hives of cramming, the roofs of
rufhouse. Tear through the orchard, pick the forbidden fruit, stand neath the
spray pumps, point out the posies, ease in the museum, see the bughouse, all the
brickbats, ride on the coal truck, shake hands with a senior. Happy, happy,
enjoy all the wonders, listen to the noises, eat the dangers, cuss the cut-counting
instructor, nod at the daughters of Amherst, gamble with matches, gulp cider,
crack peanuts, visit the sweetly settled suburbs, all for a little old-fashioned fun
and amusement. Hoopla, ring the senior canes, hit the chapel bell and get a good
cigar, jingle, jingle, dollars money, win the riches, buy a souvenir M book, throttle
your troubles, get married.
A Prof that uses you 50-50 may be a good guy. but it lakes (ill to pass the course.
I'M
Rog tried to sing a ditty
One beautiful night last fall;
He was taken for a kitty —
Brick — Infirmary — that's all.
To Prove: — The Hash House can
be made a success.
Method :—
A Tray of Hearts
Q. E. D.
& ?£a?p 3bea
Fifty dollars reward will be given
for the proper explanation of this
picture.
Note: — As a matter of fact, Kid is
shivering because he has just swallowed
Curry's gum and is trying to think of
an alibi.
Bake — "Else" — a country street:
vSaid Bake, "For her a ride is meet";
From out the ditch they dragged a car;
"Camera, Tackie" — and here we are.
Frellick
Sm|th
GaSser
Howes
Baker
LanpheAr
Sull_ivan
Wil|_oughby
made from sharks
A smile; the lighting system of the face and the heating system of the heart
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Of all the sad and gloomy words
That mankind ever writ,
There are no sadder ones to me
Than these two: " 'Please remit'
llampuss Erueltp
(Meter snitched from Kipling Gas Works)
"What is all that noise outside?" said Frosh-
Unafraid.
"A pond party, a pond party," the Senate
Member said.
"What makes you look so stern, so stern?"
said Frosh-Unaf raid .
"It's nothing fit for you to watch", the Senate
Member said.
For they're throwing in the freshmen, you can
hear the Wet March'play,
And the walks and banks are crowded, but
you'd better stay away;
For they're taking all their collars off — so
early in the day,
And they're throwing in the freshmen in the
Mud Pond.
"What makes the senior smile so hard?" said
Frosh-Unaf raid.
"He passed a quizz, he passed a quizz," the
Senate Member said.
"What makes that sofmore guy so glad?"
said Frosh-Unaf raid.
"He fooled a prof, he fooled a prof," the
Senate Member said.
They are throwing in a freshman, and they
make him tell his crime,
For he failed to leap a numeral, so they heave
him in his prime,
And the pussyfoots have nabbed him, and will
kill him in the slime,
For they're throwing in the freshmen in the
Mud Pond.
"He rooms within a mile of me", said Frosh-
Unaf raid.
"There's room for him inside the Pond," the
Senate Member said.
"I one time went to Hamp with him," said
Frosh-Unalraid.
"If Hamp could only see him now," the
Senate Member said.
They are giving him his torture, you must
land on such a guy,
For he failed to jump a numeral, and he sure
deserves to die;
Methinks they won't be rushing him in Phi
Kappa Phi,
While they're throwing in the freshmen in the
Mud Pond.
"What's all that yelling that I hear?" said
Frosh-Unaf raid.
"It's rough-necks giving him the raz", the
Senate Member said.
"What made that splash so loud and deep?"
said Frosh-Unaf raid.
"The freshman's pep is dying out," the
Senate Member said.
For they're done with that poor freshman,
he is wet and cold and sad,
And he hasn't all the freshness that the sof-
mores said he had;
Ho! the other frosh are quaking, and would
like to call for dad,
After throwing in the freshmen in the Mud
Pond.
/ think the rifle team is prone to make good scores this year.
down on the job
No, I think they re lying
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Dives of freshmen all remind us
We must keep our rep sublime,
Or in splashing leave behind us
Ripples on the pools of slime.
^tBbC??^ swBBP j^l
1 1
We are the Aggie buccaneers, the campus is our college home,
We have no sentimental fears, we drink our beer and leave the foam.
We roam the land on murder bent, on evil errands we are sent,
Our devil deeds of blood and fight would make you shudder in the night.
We ruf the Frosh, razoo the green, and make them keep the campus clean,
We heave the rebels in the pond, of banquet seasons we are fond ;
We queer the movies every time, we spoil the show and waste a dime,
We make the Gilmore burlies reek, and ride to Hamp three times a week.
We burn our books and wreck the hall, we never take a quizz at all,
We overcut in every class, and crab the prof if we don't pass;
We swim the pond in blackest night, and break the street electric light,
We loaf downtown and howl a song and kid the local dames along.
We never lock our chamber doors, but pour molasses on the floors
We slip a sweater on our backs and greet the gang with mighty whacks;
We hang the traitors on the clock, and make the whole blame village rock,
We burn cigars in clouds of fire, and call the town policemen "Liar".
We stay up nights around the dorms, and heave about our deadly bombs,
We till the soil when we have time, and eat up nitrogen and lime.
Compared with us the war is tame, for terror is our middle name,
We make the Smith queens shed salt tears,
WE ARE THE AGGIE BUCCANEERS!
You who cannot master the fox-trot need not despair, the lock-step is always popular
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How nice to lounge in North
To sit in South is joy
But he who calls at Draper
Is one darn lucky boy.
Wbt &berage 1918 Jflan
(Based on actual statistics)
The average 1918 man is 20.5 years old,
weighs 151 pounds and stands five feet, nine
inches in his stocking feet. To feel perfectly
comfortable, his shoes must be No. 7.8s
while a hat to look well on him must be
slightly over seven in size.
This average man has a strong liking for
Agricultural Economics as a study although
certain phases of his make-up respond readily
to the pure sciences. The College Store and
Deuel's compete on equal terms for the trade
of this person. At meal times, he may gen-
erally be found at Draper Hall but he is not
altogether unknown at the Aggie Inn. Fuss-
ing is his chief amusement with music a close
second.
To keep in condition, this mythical indi-
vidual takes part in football and baseball
games with equal enthusiasm. When he
forgets M. A. C, Dartmouth is strongest in
his affections, although Yale appeals strongly
to him. Smith and Mt. Holyoke Colleges
are well matched in the contest for the big
heart of this individual. At present Smith
has the lead. He prefers to write oftenest to
a girl named Helen although the name of Ruth
causes his heart to flutter.
Our friend came to college to get an educa-
tion, of course, and to have some fun, but
more especially to become a farmer. He
has followed the practice of writing home
once a week, but occasionally slips in an extra
when the state of his finances is low. This
92.20 a year in getting his edu-
cation. He shows his good judgment by
considering the Index more interesting than
the Collegian and while he has kissed a sum-
mer girl on the campus, gone "hog rasseling",
eaten in the hash house and kissed a co-ed,
he considers that his rashest act was to take
and pass Agronomy.
'18 has no eyes for the stenogs outside of
the Library; he is resourceful in having sev-
eral hobbies such as autoing, music and play-
ing bid whist; and his bad habit of swearing
may be the result of a strong antipathy for
"Sherk". His funny-bone is always tickled
by hearing Billy's "Hook, bob and sinker"
advice. '18 is apparently a man of wide in-
terests and talents, of whom much can be ex-
pected in the future.
Jllardnng g>ong of Sggte
Hujpfjomoreg
Tune: — Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching, etc.
Flunked, flunked, flunked the boys are march-
ing
Come up boys and get your bid
With your ticket in your hand
Join the ever growing band
Of the men who flunked agronomy with Sid.
Flunked, flunked, flunked the boys are march-
ing
Have you billed your baggage through?
One more question shall we ask:
Did you meet that arduous task
Or did Billy's physics overwhelm you too?
Flunked, flunked, flunked the boys are march-
ing
Brace up, boys, or you'll go too.
Underneath that flag marked "flunked"
With your suitcase and your trunk
When you meet your fate in our Doc. Gor-
don's Zoo.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching
Cheer up boys, there's not a few
Who, a-cursing of their luck,
Are among those who are stuck
In Agronomy, in Physics, and in Zoo.
How about a bout; Sixsmith vs. Head Waiter
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Now where are corn and beans.
Oh, here they are, by heck;
Away with local queens,
Let's do some Aggie Ec. __
g>tav or &cstart W&
A doting father sat with his boy, an
only son was he,
The two were talking college and which
one it should be.
The youngster favored Aggie — it was
a noble choice —
But his father was boosting another
when they heard the mother's voice.
' ' Father, John has been good to us and
to Aggie he will go
But first, my son, you must promise
never to go to a burlesque show."
"I promise, mother" said hero John,
and he joyful dropped to his knees.
"Never, never will I go, mother" —
then he heard his father sneeze.
The father called from the other room
and said ' ' Come here my son ;
"Here is a pipe and Tuxedo, your col-
lege life has begun."
The only son took the pipe and Tux
and put them in his vest.
And packed his trunk and took a train
from Sudbury, going west.
The boy passed through his freshman
year and kept his promise good,
But he went to dances and to Hamp as
often as he could.
He smoked and drilled another year; in
the third year he grew rash
He fell in with a sporty crowd and his
promise went to smash.
And when he went home that summer,
his mother unpacked his trunk;
She spied a Gilmore program and into
a chair she sunk
Then came a chicken's picture and a
grimy old sweat-shirt.
Ah, you can well imagine how the
mother's pride was hurt.
' ' John, my son, what are these things ?"
(the father came in then)
Some scenes that kill a woman are lots
of fun for men j
"•Why, mother, it's only a college
joke,"
the fellows put them there"
The mother clasped him in her arms,
"My son, my John, my DEAR."
Rock me to sleep, Doc.
Sing a glacial lay;
Be gneiss to my notebook
For a-dolo-mitc not pay.
Let the mantle of the soil
Be spread ore my head
And send a young river
To flow near my bed.
I Eear 1 may be diabased
Like silli-catc and quartz.
So igneous I feel now
I'm amphibole in spots.
Advice to Alumni — Ij you want to avoid that nightly marathon get the "Nursery
Book" by L. H. Bailey.
290
Stewd. — "What did I get on that last
quizz, Prof?"
Prof. — "Zero."
Stewd. — ' ' That's nothin' '."
gs>opi)omore bonnet*
(With a few choice sentences from others)
tPje g>opt)omore's Snuocation to tijc tEriumb irate
When we stand in thy presence, O most mighty kings.
Our spirits are depressed, our visage sad
And e'en our thoughts of thee are very bad
Especially when Saturday a Dean's Board brings;
Save that some wise lad hath used his bean
And burned great oodles of the midnight oil
To study Mycorhiza in a sandy soil
And much Knowledge of the Protozoa to glean.
Woe be to us who thus far sure have failed
To find velocity "per unit mass
Who at Ascaris suilla oft have railed
Nor yet observed the freezing point of brass;
We know when comes a quizz we cannot fake it
Still let our motto be, "The devil take it!"
Note:— To the student giving the most fluent translation of the following sonnet, we offer
a scholarship which entitles the winner to all the rights and privileges in English Courses 25, 26,
and 27.
Cternitp's; Bream
(With apologies to Rossetti, Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Milton)
In sundry moods, twas pastime to be bound, —
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood
Drawn almost into frightful neighborhood
Crawl to maturity, wherewith being crowned
The wiry concord that my ears confound:
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood
Is a soul's board set daily forth daily with new food.
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die;
Light circled in a heaven of deep drawn rays
Then gladly would I end my mortal days:
Yet they were born for immortality
Bereft of light their seeing have forgot
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought.
Cfjoice JfflorgeljS
The tiny bird of hope within the slave— (One less in Massa's hencoop) .
Your dashing waves thrill me to the very core— (Oh, Marcella, look out for the breakers).
The summer heat has fled from out our ken— (Has it, Messenger?)
Thundering musics, as from a proud ball — (Why they have tin roofs).
I need someone's consul ever so bad — (We would suggest Webster).
Thou art sublime, to infinite degree — (some line, you mean).
The cold dark waters dashed with seething drive
Upon the growling gravel of the shore — (To say nothing of the barking dogfish).
After all, we go to school to study. Yes, after all.
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I want to be a burglar
Or a pirate on the sea
But since my Ma won't stand for it
The farmer's life for me.
"A scout is expected to do one kind act every
day".
This is a letter that a sub-freshman sent to
Billy.
Corn Corners, Paw's farm.
September, early in it.
Dear mister College Proffessor;
I saw a man all drest up from your school
and I have saved a tidy little sum on my
rabbits, so paw says I can get eddicated now
if I doant be stuck up about it.
I aint had no draggins up to speak of as
my mother had ten other fellows like me ter
do fer all the time, washing, sewing, etc.
Paw says tother day as how it aint what it
useter wuz around the farm and he aint goin
to let no Deacon Wilson's boy beat out his
sons, so as I be the biggest of us fellers, Icud
come to the cowledge and learn how to milk
cows with clean clothes on, and never have to
handle manure with a fork and all them nasty
jobs. Yer see Paw was ailing last winter,
and I had ter do all the chores around the
place, and he says, pop says, if I would take
good care of the four heifers we got a rearing
and keep the horses in good condition, I could
go off ter school this fall after we get the cider
all in the barls and everything hunky-dory
fer the cold weather.
I wuz at the demon-stration uv apple grad-
ing here to the fair and them smart fellers
wuz passing the apples through handcuffs
and telling they wuz three inches long and
everything. In one year, I won $3.95 on my
prize vegetables and I lost the cow judging
contest jest because I didn't know one cow
had a good spring in her rib. Now I wonder
if you can give me some advice and tell me
some things to help me get to Immersed, is
that the place, where all the farmer's boys go
ter git eddicated. Paw says he heard they
wuz having city boys there, but it aint so, is
it Mr. College Teacher? (i aint much on
spelling but I kin learn fast ernuff) I wish I
could live in the college barn house, I read
in the paper where you have one of them and
then you got a drill shed to keep your drills
and plows and all your tools tergcthcr in one
place, nice and handy.
Is there a back shed where I can bring some
of my Premium rabbits to and are they good
pasture for a ripping good calf that I own all
my self and want to rear for the cattle show
some time.
Paw says that he wouldn't let me go ter a
college where they hev latin and poetry books
but as long as they learn yer farming, that's
the place fer a smart young feller like me.
Paw is a good farmer but he wants me to be a
better one some time.
P. S. Please, if there is a boy's club there,
kin I be in it
respectfully yourn
Charles Pewee Simpson Clark Fowler, Jr.
My Dear Mr. Fowler: —
Stick to your rabbits, son, and stay at
home. We have too many smart young
fellows here now.
P. B. H.
"Billy is a good scout."
S Jfleto Btlcmma
There will surely be one, there is doubt
about it. Yes, it is coming. But the law,
is not the law a recourse in such cases? No.
No. Sad, but the times are way ahead of the
laws, you know. At last there is no escape,
it must be, and we must endure it.
But I cannot take the law into my own
hands in such a crisis as this. No, the situa-
tion is without precedent and dangerous to us
all. But my heart thirsts for his blood, the
villain, the monster. What has he done that
you should hate him thus? Has he mur-
dered your toy dog, snitched your letter pa-
per, broken your mirror, or visited your girl
at Smith?
No, no, it is far worse than I can ever ex-
press, it is awful, terrible. What did he do
anyway?
He wore a PLAID SHIRT to Chapel.
Oh turnkey, bring him the aluminum ear-
laps, he lias wind in his head.
// money talks, as some folks tell,
To most of us, it says "Farewell".
292
Lives of Sophomores all remind us
How to set a rapid pace
With the Dean's Board close behind us
Care and worry on our jace.
i! Ilet 3t Pc g>oon
They tell us that Charlie is longing
For a building to house all his books,
And the Commandant wants a real armory
In which he can drill all his rooks.
And Prexy, altho' he is modest
Wants two or three buildings himself,
Oh, when will our friends in the state house
Give to us the much needed pelf?
Oh, let it be soon, oh, let it be soon.
We're crowded and jammed and we need some n
space
To get these new buildings we'll run a great
And if we don't get 'em, 'twill be no disgrace,
But, oh let it be soon.
There's three of the dignified faculty
And I think they are with us tonight
Who for years have been watchfully waiting
For the right girl to heave into sight.
There's a tall one, a dark one, a short one,
It's Gates and it's Cance and it's Gage,
They'd all make good husbands, believe me,
And they're all of a suitable age.
Oh. let it be soon, oh, let it be soon.
There's one who'll get caught if he doesn't take care.
It seems to us all that their chances are fair.
If a honevmoon journey they plan to prepare,
Oh, let it be soon.
There's a guy that the boys all call Leftie
Louie, I think 's his last name.
He calls you up on the carpet
When you overcut for the Tufts game,
He's a habit of running for Congress
They shaved him up with a Gillette,
We wonder, we hope, and we wonder
When a chair down in Congress he'll get.
Oh, let it be soon, oh, let it be soon
(This line blue-penciled by the official censor),
It's the song the boys sing, and they'll bet their last
sou
That the next time he runs he will surely come
through,
Oh, let it be soon.
I think that you've all heard of Shylock
Who gathers in buckets of scads,
Who empties the pockets and purses
Of all of the poor undergrads,
And of Chimmie who sits in his sanctum
Supreme over all he surveys.
I wonder if the good day is coming
When these two will alter their ways.
Oh, let it be soon, oh, let it be soon,
The College can't run without Shylock and Chim
May their shadows in heaven never grow dim
If their chances to get there by time shall grow dii
Oh, let it be soon.
They say that the goblins will get yer
If you don't watch out and beware
There's goblins right here on this campus
Who'll get you if you don't take care
Doc Gordon and Rillv and Sidney
The boys say are goblins all three
Some dav everv bov in their classes
Will pass— Oh, when will that be?
Oh, let it be soon, oh, let it be soon,
So plug on the soil and the physics and
And never lay down like a sick kangaroo
And the day will soon come when they'll
You all know a guy they call "Pinkie"
Who hangs out in old Wilder Hall
He's known for his socks and his neckties,
A coon couldn't beat them at all
But lately he's had a close rival
With ties that would put out your eye
Perhaps some fine day they'll do better
Some day in the sweet bye and bye.
Oh, let it be soon, oh, let it be soon,
Kid Gore and Pinkie why don't you decry
Those colors so gaudy they put out your eye
Whenever we see you we heave a long sigh
Oh, let it be f
. Forbush.
Laugh and the class laughs with you; study and you study alone.
293
"I wish I had some ice-cream'
Thot the Sof in accents thick
Said Billy from the platform
"Let's consider a brick."
Snbcx ©tmtia Vincit
(We trimmed the sons-o'-guns)
Russ and Ken got together and
said: "Let's beat up somebody".
"I say, Ken, did you ever catch?"
"Throw me a line-er and see." ' ' Here's
Fuller." "Say Camel, let's have a
picture". "If the pitcher comes out
good, we'll play the Collegian or the
Shutesbury S. S."
Russ and Ken shouted "All hands
on deck to repel Collegian Boarders",
and the gang with upraised Index
fingers bunched up. Russ handed out
the dope and Ken gave the watchword
for the game, "Slug 'em in the shins".
21-11
He who hands the runs away
Had better not the Index play.
Rah Rah Pooh Pooh.
'Ain't nature wonderful! She gave us all faces, but we can pick our own /<< ///.
294
We cut with hope the Loligo
Quite often called the squid
But when we came to make a sketch
We find it can't be did.
©oto Moulb tEfcep Hook?
Boyd, playing on the beach, with
shovel, sandpail, and sun-hat.
Messenger, panic-stricken before one
of the fair sex.
Professor Smith pushing a baby
carriage.
Henry Young responding to a flat-
tering introduction in assembly.
Van, in rags enviously watching an
informal from the balcony.
Howes in a bonnet, short skirts and
half -sox.
Fellows in the role of nymph in a
classic drama.
Boaz in a Greek dance.
Norcross playing marbles.
Grayson disguised as a co-ed.
Popp shaking hands with Baldy
Fraser.
Roberts in the pony girl ballet.
Ed Hill in a bathing suit.
Bud Ross with wings and a halo.
Barton punching cows.
Kid Gore with a real mustache.
Squirt Neal as a brown-tail moth
sprayer.
Flagg in a Brush runabout.
Doc Sprague with a shave.
Prof. Duncan playing hockey.
H. E. Jones in a football game.
Sid Haskell in knee pants.
Fat Boyd walking on stilts.
Prof. Hart in a gym suit.
Prexy smoking a pipe.
Wilbur singing in vaudeville.
Doc G ordon making a parachute leap .
Thompson preaching a sermon.
Sid Smith — fat.
Miss Goessmann ski-joring in a
mackinaw.
Warren running anchor man in a
relay race.
Charlie Wilber in felt boots, overalls
and straw lid.
Mr. Blanchard on the stump against
the vivisection of mummies.
Frellick sitting still, hands folded,
saying nothing.
Doc Peters toasting marshmallows
over a Bunsen flame.
3$oofe JXebtetog
The Soil. E. P. Dutton & Co.
Study of the Growth of Crops.
This book, which was dedicated to
the worshipful company of Gold-
smiths, is Ledge No. 1 onto which the
Sofmores are sentenced to browse at
hard labor. This great book is heavy
stuff but the Sofs find a lot of pore
space in it. The author says "The
full story of the soil cannot yet be
told" ; for which the Sofs are thankful,
they finding those minute streaks of
soil knowledge already in the book
very tough.
Many interesting tables are shown
clearly to be tommyrot, and the ab-
sence of allusions to Shakespeare
seems to be the only good feature of
the volume. Instead of cyanide, or
when far from rivers, we would recom-
mend this pesky perpetration to a
gentle reader who has the prerequisite
of an intense desire to quit this cruel
world ere long.
The valuable knowledge of soil
temperature herein contained will aid
the victim in selecting a spot under-
ground suitable to his taste in heat and
cold. The only way to enjoy "The
Soil" is to get into it.
Sub. — ' ' Where's your glasses?"
Soil. — "Just came back from Hockanum.
295
<Ehe £&>olttarp Sleeper
Imagine, snoozing in his bed
Losing his chance of lasting fame
When every other Frosh had sped
To hockey rink to see the game.
Such was the sleep of Dinny Ross
The golden chance was total loss,
In woolen blankets he did roll
And snored. (Just then they shot a
goal) .
He dreamed of skating on the pond
With hockey stick and little toque
Of co-eds there with glances fond
When he the Sophomore defense broke.
In fancy heard he loud applause
(Another tally was the cause).
Right on the hockey players kept,
Sub-conscious Dinny turned and slept.
An icy shouting rent the air
(The game was won and lost by then)
A western breeze stirred Dinny's hair
He popped awake and saw Big Ben.
"f)wgi4bwoc-)"% )&", he said
And by this time his doom he read
You couldn't hold him for a while
But soon he smole his famous smile.
Sam Gray — (taking his watch from
under the pillow) — "Quarter of eight
and no one has come to wake me yet.
If they don't come soon, I shall cer-
tainly be late for class."
tKo Canter, the Crab
(Hero of Zoo, the gut course)
Those happy hours we spent with thee,
sweet cancer,
In dear old Doctor Gordon's zooy
lab;
Are wasted not, segmented ocean
dancer,
How we enjoyed the aroma of crab.
One by one we carefully sketched your
toes,
And made a birdseye view of your
left ear,
Dissected slow your megaphonous
nose
And traced the reservoir you have
for beer.
We labelled each small portion of your
maw,
And drew a neat cross section of
your eye,
Wishing our hand were like your
mighty claw,
To crack and tear the hashhouse
victuals by.
And now in later life we look 'way back
With pleasure keen to Gordon's old
zoo lab,
When we were wont to cut and tear
and hack,
Segment and draw eyebrow and
claw of you, crab.
AN MAC. ARM-Y COAT.
Rural Engineering Tip — A course in forging is recommended to those who can't
make an honest living.
L'!)(i
The Soapy Chute is near at hand
On which no Sophomore may stand.
The Soapy Chute is polished well
Is steep inclined and leads to h—l.
professor g>mW& 3Bream
Resolved: That submarines be li-
censed for passenger service under the
college pond.
Deep sleep. He dreams: a debate
is on in the auditorium. Every Aggie
man is there and all but one co-ed, who
is on pro. The brilliant and apprecia-
tive audience tilts .. forward in the
numbered seats and the usual hum
and whir of whispering is doused.
Every syllable uttered by the heroes
of the occasion is fondled by the stu-
dent body ; every burst of dry-tongued
oratory is cuddled with avidity. This
is the greatest contest of the year;
the victors are to be garlanded with
tobacco, in lieu of ivy, and the losers
are expected to hari-kari themselves.
The two sides are neck and neck
now, which means that neither has
broken the other's neck. A poised
senior arises to his turn and flashes to
the rostrum, digging his heels into the
hardwood floor out of pure ability in
the art of Cicero and Sunday. His
opponent had the moment before
sprung the climax of his argument, but
he had the "cumbak". It would not
be feasible to license submarines be-
cause a new stenographer would be
needed to handle the routine of the
licensing office and she would add to
the congestion in Draper Hall.
& Jforb'fi a Car for &' {Kljat
Is there for fear of laugh and cry,
And many a pun and a' that,
The rattling Ford, we pass it by,
It dares to run for a' that.
A Ford's a, car for a' that.
The engine's small and a' that
The tire is but a cat's paw tread,
A Ford's a car for a' that.
What tho the Chalmers oft is seen,
The Pierce, the Knox, and a' that.
Let millionaires spill gasoline
In racing cars and a' that.
A Ford's a car for a' that.
The tin shell cry and a' that.
The name is but a rubber stamp,
A Ford's a car for a' that.
You see yon banker high in Dun's,
His limousine and a' that.
Far happier are the poorer ones
With axle thin and a' that.
Their Ford's a car for a' that.
No Packard swell and a' that,
For honest joy and pleasure ride
Can beat a Ford for a' that.
(Honk-k-k-. Honk).
Tacky had a Ukeleli
Played upon it nightly, daily
Tacky thot it sounded gaily
Neighbors called it weepy, waily
Went to Tacks and called his bluff
Said, we like real music stuff
But as for yours — enuff .
Speaking of Men's Furnishings — Many belts were given away in the Night Shirt
Parade.
297
BANQUET SEASON, MAY, 1016
Ma and Lefty formed a crew
To tell the Sof mores what to do.
Ma said ' 'Don't think I am a fizz
Because dear old Lefty Lew-is."
a Case of Sbcntitp
"Little boy, where is this scene?"
"It is taken in North College".
"What room is this?"
"It is the Y. M. C, A. office."
"But what is that on the table?"
' ' Er, er, er — that is a case of — W. C.
T. U. poison."
"IsitM. T. HI' boy?"
' ' Yes, they have just varnished the
floor."
"What does it say on the box? My
glasses are at home."
"It says Duffy's Malt Whiskey."
' ' Little boy, how dare you insinuate
— you stay after school."
&aggte Jf autonomics, or tfje Course
®bat Put ttje "W" in #lue
Doc Cance's famous one ring circus, the
course that makes Atlas look like a mere
weakling besides those burly Sofs who succeed
in ringing the bell at the sixty mark, is a
wonderful institution designed to turn out
combination research chemists and stenog-
raphers. His prodigies learn the catalogue
number of every book in the library and
why the price of soft coal at Dawson, Alaska,
is directly dependent on the length of the
sound waves of the old chapel bell when it
strikes the hour of 3:34 G. M. One has
about as much chance of an argument in this
course as a fur coat salesman in the heart of
Africa. The desire of the department to co-
operate with the student at every opportunity
is shown by the following typical announce-
ments:
"On account of exams next week, 1 will
give a double assignment".
"Those who cannot find the reference books
in the library will prepare a forty thousand
word thesis on the Value of Knitting for the
soldiers at the Edgeworth League Meetings as
compared with the Effect of the Massachu-
setts Primaries on the Climate of the Congo
Free State."
Agricultural Economics is, by the way, a
story of man in his struggles to get a living.
Locally it is the story of man in his struggles
to pass the course. An attractive feature of
the course is the maps, on which you repre-
sent the production of Sunthin back in 1888
by the dexterous use of local color.
Another interesting feature is the process of
removing negroes from jugs in the South.
The remover is called Massa and gets a few
days' work out of the removed and then the
removed removes asain or still. If the crop is
good the help go, if it is bad they go. This
illustrates the law of Come and Go, so im-
portant in economics. They teach that cot-
ton is a woolly fiber. Thev discuss the tariff
and free trade. Some believe in free trade,
others in local option, still others are willing
to pay fees for the use of the Infirmary by
proxy. ., ,.
Speaking about the copyists of the Middle
Ages, how about the copyists in the agricul-
tural economical stage or the Si-lage as it will
go down in history.
Every little movement has a formula all its own.
299
Fate of the Junior.
Over the river — Smitten.
Fate of the Senior.
Over the mountain — Wholly-Yoked.
%tu Simple gsmnbap jBUsfct
Jfussing &ules<
(For Beginners)
Rule 1 — Ring the door bell of HER house
authoritatively. They must know
you have arrived.
Rule 2 — Do not send up a card. SHE
knows you are coming. Call HER
name. Your voice will sound
sweet to HER.
Rule 3 — Examine the surroundings. Are
you safe? Is your life in danger?
Are the avenues of escape open?
Rule 4 — You have studied under electric
light this week. Extinguish the
parlor lights if you so desire. Feel
at home. Be comfortable.
Rule 5 — When SHE enters the room, motion
HER to a seat. Be Master of the
situation.
Rule 6 — Do not allow HER to enter into
your conversation. Show your col-
lege training. It is a weakness to
be interrupted.
Rule 7 — Make a good impression. Presi-
dent Wilson is your "old friend
Woody", etc. You are a college
man.
Rule 8 — At the gong of 10 exclaim, "There's
my taxi". You leave hurriedly.
You are a busy man and have much
work and many engagements.
Rule 9 — In leaving you are indifferent.
SHE is one of many. Big results
will ensue.
Rule 10 — You reach the sidewalk and utter a
gentle but manly curse, — your taxi
is not there. Do not be dismayed.
Hurry up the street searchingly.
Carry out the rules to the last letter.
— SHE is looking.
Ctoemc be jUlertbor
Exhibit 234, Section 63. The original king
of the "just as good kind", and a firm believer
in the old saying, "Wherever there is life
there is soap."
"Good evening. Would any of you young
gentlemen like any toilet pwepawations?"
"Have you anything that is good for a rash"
"Here's some pewoxide cream that is
good."
"Yes, that's good for it. I was awful rash
when I was a freshman. 1 took some of that
and I have never done anything rash since.
It completely cured me."
After being kidded by the crowd the "Soap
King" usually sells several bars of soap, sonic
toothpaste and a jar of "cweme de mewidor".
The fact I lint Mr. Hamlin (polite for
Cweme de mewidor) earns his living by help-
ing people to remove portions of (lie earth
from their anatomy reminds us of the old
biblical saving, "Blessed are the meek, for
they shall 'inherit the earth".
The Clothes Law: — Lengths of glances vary inversely as the length of skirts.
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Tan — "See you're overcut in Physical, Ed."
Ed. What are you going to do about it?"
Van — "What they going to do bout it?"
Cfte Jfatile of tfje g>eben Mtge $rote
anb tfje g>eben Jfooltef) &ofe
On the great Opening Night of College, the Seven Wise Profs in their Stairless Bungalows sat and pondered—
and Smoked. Turning the Hoyle of the Curriculum they gleaned the Fact that they were permitted to torture
Certain Succulent Simps, yclept Sofmores. ' .
Rapidly as a Junior climbing a Dorm Fire Escape, they reviewed the Evolution of thermal h lamination —
from the harmless Trials hv Fire, Water, and Combat, thru the Eras of Flogging, Strangulation. Ink-Swallowing, Mas-
tication of Mud, Modern Murder, Bomb Gastronomy, Mexican Knifing, to the Deadly Pllor of the Last Terrible
Aha, the whole System of Faculty Oppression was a Triumph of the Undertaker's Art, and as, with Cunning
Care they planned Hour Quizzes before Vacations, and Promulgated Inaccessible Reference Readings for the Tortuous
Terni, their Eves Gleamed, while thev Refilled their Fountpens with Alacrity and a Small Supply of Extra Black Ink.
They Schemed Nefariously for Three Hours, read the Pussyfoot Daily, two Cutlery Catalogs, and an essay entitled
"Ou'treaping the Grim Reaper— How to Make an Ex-student with a Single Stroke of the Cleaver." Then in order to
be up Early so as not to Disappoint the Sun, they all Retired to the Alfalfa to allow us to Point the Finger of Scorn
at their Intended Victims, the Unconscious but Wideawake Sofs — Seven of Them.
All Gaietv. all Innocenfof the Desired Demise, the Seven Sofs were Telling a Slew of Freshmen they were Spar-
rows, and must Slide up Telephone Poles and Tap Wires with their Little Beakies. The Fresh FhUed agreeably
Feathered Bipeds for a while, then came Down in Response to a Flattering Invitation, pi
iHo
their Life History. Thev stopped Automobiles and offered their Services
of Yells Tore to their Rooms to try on Soft Trousers and Mustard Poultices
all asleep but the Seven Sofs.
The Seven Sofs, with Marshmallow Dip and Popcorn, Heeled the Streets, and
"With one accord they yelled and sung,
Unslept, uncornered, and unhung!" (Slav Folk Song).
Sneaking into the Bakeshop they Bought a Dozen Doughnuts apiece and swallowed twi.
punity and_ Plenty of Sugar
Flatter Boards, and Told
, and Finally with a Loud Following
They Slept. Now we have them
i many with 1m-
An Hour later thev' Fastened their Sweatshirts onto a Nail in the Fireplace, Argued, had a Rufhouse, Arbitrated,
Tossed up to see who Paid for the Broken Chandelier, Put a Little Cheese into the Mousetrap and Fell into a Doze
on a Trunk for Two Hours and Eight Minutes, woke up Sleepy, in time for Breakfast, to Pester the Frosh for a full
Lunch came in Due Time, on an Oval Tray, and they Told their Waiter they were Terrors and Wanted all their
Food served Raw, and so the Term wasted Away. Study? They had heard the word, it was in the Catalog, but they
were Trying Hard to Live it Down, if Possible.
And all the Time, those Seven Wise Profs were Using the Snath, and the Hone, and the Emery Wheel, Sharpen-
ing their Powers of Expression, which means "a Pushing Out."
The Calendar Changed Faces several Times and it was Now Two Weeks to the End of the Term. Every One
of the Seven Wise Profs Shouted to His Sofs to "Beware the Jabberwock, My Son", but all Unheeding, the Warned
and Wayward beat it Over to their Lockers and Played Handball for one solid Hour and One Gym Credit.
Again a Lapse of the Fleeting Stuff, and the Seven Sofs Found Themselves in "La Derniere ( 'lasse".
BAM! BOOM! OOF! Thev came to Life, and Groped for Help. "What will the Final Cover? Do We have to
Know this Formula? What Tables and Classifications are We Supposed to Know? Are We Responsible for Lab.
Work?" Thev were.
Alas, Patience was about to Graduate into Passion for Blood! The Profs Hinted at all Sorts of Catch Ques-
tions that were to come in the Awful Interrogation (Interrogation — a rolling around inside).
During the Reign of Terror, the Seven Sofs went around with Corrugated Brows, Heavy Supplies of Nicotine
and an intense Interest in Lecture Notes, and Lab. Writeups. They tried to Review but "They feared the desert
behind them w-orse than the dark before", so they Played Bid Whist Feverishly, Swallowed Hard at Mealtimes, and
Cursed many a Manly Epithet against the Hour of Judgment, wishing they had a Sawed- off Shotgun for Use in a Cli-
The Dead and Dving Filed into the Hall of Hell and sat down Twenty Feet apart, so that their Evil Com-
panions could not Tell them the Answers to the Ten Impossible Questions. Some lucky Cuss who got out of every
other Final started to Sing something Glorifying that there were No More of them. But that didn't get the Seven
Sofs anything, thev were Miles Deep in Mire. Gasping and Pale. The Death Warrants or Bills of Burial were Delivered,
and Paper was Provided on winch to Inscribe Wills or Make Dying Statements to Relatives. The Seven Sofs fumbled
with the Papers, Gnawed off a Thumb, and Wrote the Answer to Part 763 of the 7th Query.
For the Sake of Emphasis let us Consider the Agony — Pahdon me — the Agronomy Final, which Covered those
two Weapons of Wisdom, that Grave-filling Text "The Soil", and the Modern Domesday Book, "Manures and Fer-
tilizers." As They Lamped the Problems, the Last One Stood Out from the Paper and Shook its Fist at Them. It
was this: "What is the residual effect of Peruvain guano onsecond growth mangels in an off season in a windy exposure,
and what is the cost compared to excelsior applied to the pore spaces with a dibber, and wrhy is F. O. B. Amherst,
instead of C. O. D. Amherst? Give results in tabular form, and name of parent or guardian. Is it sound farm prac — "
THIS, Sighed the Seven Foolish Sofs, was to,, Much for the Poor Guys who were Dodging the Doctor, and Oyer
cutting the Infirmary for a Week, so thev Buttoned their Vests tightly. Put their Feet Flat on the Floor, and Removed
the Tops from their Self-Fillers Then, Inverting the Pens Near the Soft Palate, they Drank the Inky Dose with Great
Gusto and Disastrous Results. All had Large Funerals and Sleep Silently in the Subsoil. Beware, Be Good, and
You'll be a Graduate Some Day. That is if You Fit with the Faculty.
Mr. Rand in Eng. II — "Get this all into your head and you 11 have it in a nutshell."
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A — Absorption, a means of getting a chemistry lesson.
Alarm Clock, a product of man's insanity.
Amherst, the rendezvous of 1918-
Amoeba, an animal that starts many a man on the
downward path.
Agronomy, a dirty business.
Assembly, a weekly mobilization to boost some-
body in WHO'S WHO.
B
-Bandit, one who plays in the band.
Banquet, an annual affair enjoyed by ;
■ fresh-
Basketball, the art of basket making.
Bed, a humanity requiring few make-ups.
Biscuits, hash house ammunition.
Bluff, wasted energy.
Board, 1. Penalty for ingestion of antique food
stuffs; 2, article frequently applied to posterior
of freshmen; 3, perpetrators of any published
infliction.
Bolt, apparatus for the convenience of nuts.
Bone, 1. Rocky substance found in great abun-
dance in this vicinity; 2, form of misjudgment
frequently committed; 3, loud-voiced gentle-
man with surly manner, purveying daily papers.
Boning, a process of assimilation by osmosis.
Brain, has not been isolated with sufficient fre-
quency to warrant an accurate definition.
-Chapel, where you recline after you :
safely.
Check, the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.
Chaos, a condition of mind during exams.
Cigarette, probable source of haze sometimes seen
emerging from Physics Building.
Classroom, locality dedicated toslumber.
Co-cd, a non-com who commands Attention (and
gets it).
Coke, 1, an important by-product of slanguage;
2, tin- cranial filling of (lie other fellow.
College, training camp for athletes and their
MiTCHHoriea.
Course, :i homogeneous series of notes and minor
quizzics, ending up with a terrific final, every
man for himself.
Creeper, tin- mailman.
Cut,
' ' Why this bust in the museum here
And whose is the marble phizz?"
That is a student who never asked
( ( How did you hit the quizz?" .
D— Dairy Lab., a crematory where canny milk gets
refined and comes out whole cheese.
Dorm, a house of mirth provided for students
to do everything but sleep in.
E — Economics, 1, toil; 2, toil; 3, toil.
Engagement, 1, definition differs with authorities:
according to victim, a unique state of bliss;
according to engagee, a triumph of scientific
management: according to observers, a par-
ticular type of misfortune. 2. A more or less
strenuous conflict resulting from (1) or other-
wise. Note: It has been noticed that a large
crop of the former is usually harvested in this
vicinity immediately after Junior Prom.
English, a language now almost extinct at college.
Entomology, a major, where the net results are
carefully studied.
Equilibrium, what you are out of when you do
the first position in the latest fox-trot.
F— Faculty, source of all 1
Farm, a place where you
practise".
Fiction, substance of lette
week.
Finals, a catch-as-eatch-cj
match.
Flunked,
abbn
ated i
ledge.
apply "sound fai
ncntal wrestling
elongated college
Forum, a post-mortem over the student body.
Fountain-pen, a spray pump which leaks uni-
formly (sometimes).
Freshman, the meekest of men.
Fussing, see authorities on the subject: enjoyed
only by the select.
G— Geology, a study of rocks — hard stuff.
Geometry, a solid course.
Grinds, most sophomores, perforce.
-Hash, a weekly revi
Hazing, an amusing
of making kindlings.
Idleness, chief occupation of Juniors and Seniors,
Indev, a place where you like to see your name.
[nortia, a matter of moment to Sophomores,
Informal, 1, a physical ed. equivalent : 2, the one
popular Saturday course.
Instructor, ;i male BUfferer who works like a prof.
but win
A reputation is as hard to keep clean as a sweat shirt.
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Kan — " Going to the next informal?"
Ken — "You* re right I am"
Kan — l 'Got a dance?"
Ken — "Sorry, been full a week".
J — Jackass, a lab. asst. named John.
Janitor, a hard worker who leaves a clean ]
behind him.
Junior, Prom-ised.
-Kidnapped, freshn
son. (?)
offio
L — Laboratory, an insidious imprisonment
tating a write-up, where you test tubes, plant
food and cover slides. (Chem. lab., an isolated
building for the asphyxiation of freshmen).
Laboratory assistant, a larger man than Caesar,
according to his estimate.
Lemon, the one you --met last Sunday (see Peach).
Library, an amuseum of good looks in glass cages.
Love, temporary insanity prevalent in colleges.
M — Major, excuse for continuing course in Applied
Athletics.
Major Talk, small talk; 2, perennial proof of the
excellence of our equipment; may be consider-
ed as a device for the prevention of oversleep-
Microscope, a contraptious invention, by the aid
of which you while away two perfectly good
hours several times a week.
Milk, a diluted cow.
Money, a rare stake in college card games.
Morning, what you get up in — plus pajamas.
Movies, a flashy hall of film where a light is
thrown on reel life.
Mud, (see East St.)
Music, North College, any evening.
N — Nerve, prerequisite for bluffing.
P — -Paddle, used for pressing.
Peach, the one you will meet next Sunday night
(see Lemon).
Physics Building, a dyneing hall where you eat
force with an acceleration.
Pond, 1, a wet spot; 2, an aggregation of liquid
impurities superposed on a stratum of mud.
Predicament, condition ensuing when you find
yourself compelled to go to the Prom on forty
cents and a laundry check.
President, a man with a Faculty for keeping
students busy.
Professor, a man, not a student, but tolerated
mutually by them.
Prunes, the foundation of all hashhouse grub.
0 — Quiz, a young examination; an artificial con-
traption to hoist your grade above C-level.
R — Radiator, a bit of decorative iron-work seen in
dormitories, not felt.
Revival of learning, week before exams.
Registration, the mill you pass thru before you
can call a nickel your own and then you cannot.
S — Secretary, a congenial superior who never looks
Senior, an optimist.
Shaving, a phizzical change requiring other
Shoe, a leathery necessity which ties up capital
in fancy hose.
Skate, what you don't have after shoveling off
the pond; 2, hideous looking psuedo fish used
for interior explorations in zoology; 3, denomi-
nation applied to certain equines attached to
farm wagons.
Skis, popular methods for retarding progress on
snow; also used for tickling risibilities of on-
lookers.
Sleep, a popular elective course, hours by ar-
rangement.
Soil, a substance used to grow crops.
Sophomore, a pessimist; a dizzy-pated pet of the
faculty.
Space, what a blank cartridge shoots off into in a
battle of the clouds.
Student, a ra-ra avis.
T — Toes, locality where most of the informals are
danced .
Track, you won't get board (bored) by it.
Treasurer, a tourniquet on the circulation of
money.
Triumvirate, a smooth working combination.
U — Uniform, a laboratory for sewing experiments.
V — Vest, an unarmed pocket-bearing device for
"self-made men" to carry their "makings" in.
W — Waiter, a misnomer, a souperior who keeps you
waiting.
Z — -Zoology, a gut course, where the Sophs cut up.
You can lead a Frosh to study but you can't make him think.
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60WLS MADE IN FRANCE
Pipes Repaired
FOR SALE
High Calcium
Agricultural Lime
in bulk or sacks. Apply
WEST STOCKBRIDGE LIME CO.
West Stockbridge, Mass.
NEW ENGLAND
PLUMBING SUPPLY COMPANY
Jobber of Plumbing Goods
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
and
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
Use Baled Shavings
For Bedding Cows
The modern bedding material. Cheaper,
cleaner and more absorbent than straw.
In use at Mass. Agricultural College sta-
bles, about all state institutions and by pro-
gressive dairymen.
For delivered price in car lots, write.
New England Baled Shavings Co.
ALBANY, N. Y.
Our prof ession-Optometry
is dedicated to making people see
properly. Our experience enables
us to fit glasses so becomingly that
you are . satisfied to be seen as well
as to see.
O. T. DEWHURST
Maker of Perfect Fitting Glasses
Northampton 201 Main Street Tel. 184 W
Opp. City Hall
Joseph L. Newton, Pres.
Allen E. Newton, Vice-Pr,
W. Munroe Hill, Treas
Fred S. Card, Sec.
Shattuck & Jones
INCORPORATED
JVoodwar(Ps Lunch
27 Main St., Masonic Bldg.
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.
Lunches, Soda
Ice Cream
Closed from 1 a. m. to i a. m.
F. W. WOODWARD, Prop.
Pish of All Kinds
128 Faneuil Hall Market
BOSTON
Terrapin and
Soft Crabs
Green Turtle and
Oysters
"Bide-a-Wee"
THE
WAFFLE HOUSE
Waffles and Other Good Things to Eat
MRS. L. M. STEBBINS
Middle St. Tel. U5-W Hadlev, Mass.
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FINE
TAILORING
COLLEGE OUTFITTER
READY TO WEAR
CLOTHES
LOOSE LEAF AND
BOUND NOTE BOOKS
ALSO
FOUNTAIN PENS
Our assortment of Banners is the best in town
Amherst Book Store
CURRAN & DYER. Props.
BECKMANN'S
Candies and Ice Cream
Fancy Ices
247-249 Main Street
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.
COX SONS & V1NING
72 Madison Ave., New York
M.'ikcrs of f^jt
CAPS flE
G0WNS _Jn».
and HOODS /fff%Mk
FOR ALL DEGREES ** /( : M IlltS^
RAHAR'S INN
NORTHAMPTON. MASSACHUSETTS
European Plan
THE BEST PLACE TO DINE
Good Food Properly Prepared
All Kinds of Seu Food
50c Luncheon from 1 1.30 to 2.00 P. M.
SPECIAL DISHES AT ALL HOURS
R. J. RAHAR, Prop.
SANDERSON & THOMPSON
CLOTHIERS
Hatters and Tailors
Reliable Merchandise
At prices that are always as low as the lowest.
Sanderson & Thompson, Amherst
SEEDS
Grass Seed Grain Millett
Corn for Ensilage
Our Specially
Highest Grade Seeds for the Mar-
ket Gardener, Florist and
Private Gardener
Fottler, Fiske, Rawson Co.
Seeds, Bulbs, Plants
Faneuil Hall Sq., Boston, Mass.
Croysdale Inn
"The House That Jack Built'
The Place in South Hadley
at Which to Eat
THE HOLYOKE VALVE £?
HYDRANT CO.
JOBBERS OF
Wrought Iron and Brass Pipe Asbestos
and Magnesia Boiler Coverings
Pipes cut to sketch
Mill Supplies
Engineers and Contractors
HOLYOKE, MASS.
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Good Horses, Good Crop, Good Potatoes,
Good Farming,
Good Land! Bowker's made it so!
XCELSIOR*
"brani?'
RUST PROOF
Wire and Iron
FENCES
Flower Guards,
Trellis, Arches
Tree Guards
We furnish hand-
some wire and iron
fences and erect them
complete.
We installed t li e
fence around the ath-
letic field.
JJ
WRIGHT WIRE COMPANY
WORCESTER, MASS.
We've Been Selling
COAL
For Years
C. R. ELDER
AMHERST
1857—1917
E. Frank Coe Fertilizers
THE BUSINESS FARMERS' STANDARD
Business Established 1857
Have the Quality That Means Economy
They combine the experience of 60 years in
the fertilizer business with the latest teachings
of Agricultural science. They are True Plant
Foods — Concentrated, Available, Sure in Their
Action and benefit alike Crops and Soil.
IT PAYS TO USE THEM
The Coe-Mortimer Company
"Subsidiary of the American Agricultural Chemical Company"
51 Chambers St., New York City
HORSMAN
Tennis Rackets
Unsurpassed in 38 Years
Fulfills every demand of
the Tennis player
Do Not select a Racket f;r 1917
till you have seen the new
MODEL "A-A-A"
// your dealer can't show it,
Write to us.
The PERFECT Tennis Ball is the
"AYRES"
Used the world over by
players who know
We are sole U. S. Distributors
Write for Catalogue
Mditj*
E. I. HORSMAN CO.
11-15 Union Sq. West, New York City
Eureka Blank
Book Co.
printers anb
Plank Poofe
Jfflafeersi
School Work a Specialty
HOLYOKE, MASS.
K&ESLIDE RULES
For specialized work, as well as for general
calculations, we offer to Engineers and Students
a large variety of slide rules, all made according
to our rigid standards of excellence, and em-
bodying our exclusive improvments, such as
our Patent Adjustment, Frameless Indicator,
and other valuable features.
Write for our Slide Rule Booklet, also
for our Complete Catalog.
KEUFFEL & ESSER CO.
New York: 127 Fulton St.
General Office & Factories: HOBOKEN, N. J.
Chicago St. Lo
Mathemati
San Francisco
Drawing Materials
al and Surveying Instr
Measuring Tapes
Three Grand Prizes, Panama-Pacific
Exposition, 1915
XIX
An Appreciation
|t|N this way, we wish to thank our friends for their many
><jj kindnesses. All the members of the English Department
^Wo. ^ have been very helpful in their suggestions whenever
T^i^L^M called upon. Our photographer has been aided by the
activity of Boyd '18 in taking snapshots. To Professor Hasbrouck
and Mr. Watts for their help in collecting statistics; to Nicholson 16,
Buckman 17, Lawrence 17, Preble 18 and Professors Hasbrouck
and Prince for their articles; to Professors Nehrling, Hathaway and
various managers of campus activities for their loan of pictures; in
fact to all who have helped in the production of this book, we ac-
knowledge our indebtedness and express our deepest appreciation.
The Editors
For Copies of the
1918 Index
ADDRESS
K. L. MESSENGER, Bus. Mgr.
AMHERST, MASS.
Price by Mail $3.00
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