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Colonial Echo, 1906 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/colonialecho190608coll The Colonial Echo Published by the Students of the College of William and Mary WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA Nineteen Hundred and Six LTKCHBUBG, VA.: J. P. BELL COMPANY, MANtTFACTDBINO STATIONEBS AWD PBINTEBa. 1906. >*«««fc. r COLONIAL (^.^ M^^^- ^j^----^^ l^^. ANXVAL STAFF. Miss Elizabeth Tyler Miss Catharine Henley .Sponsor Sponsor Rfiss Elizabeih Meau .Sponsor Dedication Co (U. C. C. taliaferro, a member of the Board of Uisitors, an alumnus, and a lover of Ulilliam and mary Col- lege, we dedicate the sixth volume of "Che Colonial echo." U. < . I,. TAl.lAlKllliO. ) Lightly Poem 97 College oFWiLLiAMANDMAEY(iSAeteA) 17 Step Lightly, Oh Step ( Board op Visitors and Faculty 18 Grinds 98 Omar TO AN Alumnos (Poem) 24 FRATERNITIES: Post Graduates 27 Phi Beta Kappa 100 103 CLASSES: Kappa Sigma Kappa Alpha HO Senior Class: Pi Alpha 116 Roll 29-32 Kappa Delta Chi 122 History 33 TheU 128 Poem 36 Sigma Phi Epsilon (Poem) 131 Prophecy 38 A Love Song 132 Kubaiyilt of the Senior for the Final Y. M. C. A Soul (Poem) 135 Ball: With Apologies to Omar My 136 Khayyam (Poem) 43 L'Absintheur (Poem) Moonlight on the York (Poem) 138 Junior Class : Colonial Football Game (-Story) 139 Roll 47 April's Story (Poem) 143 History 48 Twenty-one Club 144 Poem on Hammock 50 O. W. L. Club 145 Class Sophomore German Club 147 54 Roll Dramatic Club 148 History 57 To Maude (Poem) 151 Love Sonnets of a Sophomore (Poem) 58 On the Singing of » Song (Poem) 151 Freshman Class: Glee Club 152 Roll 65 Taliaferro Club 166 66 History Brafferton Indians 166 By the Seashore : An Ode 69 Ewell Club 158 A Dream Tryst (Poem) 70 Trevilian Club 159 160 ATHLETICS : Liar'sClub Athletic Editorial 73 The Span of Life (Poem) 161 Officers 77 Williamsburg Club 162 Foothill 77 Norfolk Club 164 Basketball 78 Southside Club 165 Relay 78 Southwest Club 166 Ring Hockey 78 Tennis Club 168 The Ringer (a baseball story) 81 "Echo" Election 169 Baseball 84 Growlers' Club 170 A Toast (Poem) 87 Consumers' Club 170 Literary Societies 88 Ministering Angels 171 Sonnet to FaUtaff 89 Cupid's Bower 172 To Estellene 89 Magazine Staff 173 Phoenix Society, Roll and Final Men 90 Doctors' Club 175 Philomathean Society, Roll and Final Men 93 Lost Hope (Pom) 17» The Practice School 94 Advertisements 177 GREETING If this, the sixth volume of "The Colonial Echo," gives a true picture of the life at William and Mary; if it will later in life's battle carry you back to the scene of some joyful occasion, or draw out one long sigh of cherished sadness at the memory of a lost happy day, it has fully accomplished its purpose. We aimed at nothing higher, and hoped for nothing less. We are glad to have this opportunity of thanking those who have so kindly assisted us in making this book what it is. To Dr. Hall, and Messrs. John Weymouth, J. S. Wilson, A. R. W. Mackreth, O. L. Shewmake, W. L. Davidson, L. C. Lindsley, and many others, we are deeply indebted for the literary matter. We also wish to gratefully acknowledge our appreciation of the contributions made the art department, being under special obligations to Prof. Craw- ford, Misses Tyler, Geddy and McEnery, and Messrs. Hynson and Ransome. We thank all others, everybody; yes, even those who only lent their faces, for it takes all to make an annual. THE BOARD. \ll:\V 111' (AMl'lS IHIIM MIK 1 IIU hST. VIEW OK CAMl'lS KROM SOITH. College of William and Mary FOUNDATION. and Mary. To these men is to be ascribed annexation of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, The College of William and Mary is in its the territory, thus treb- antecedents the oldest of American colleges; and most of the western the original area of the Union. The in actual operation it is second only to Har- ling vard. The project of a college for Virginia most illustrious of the chief Justices, John was agitated as early as 1617, three years Marshall, was an alumnus, and so was the Fed- before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth most distinguished commander of the General Winfield Rock. An Indian massacre put a stop to eral army down to 1861, 1861 the this enterprise, but after many years the Scott. In the period from 1789 to of twenty- original intention was finally consummated College furnished sixteen out Virginia, three out of in the college established at Middle Planta- seven senators from of tion (now Williamsburg) in 1693, and four speakers of the House Representa- Virginia, out of the three min- named in honor of the ruling monarchs, tives from two King William and Queen Mary. isters plenipotentiary to England, four out of the six ministers to France; and John PRIORITIES. James Beckley, first Librarian of Con- gress, and first clerk of the House of Rep- It is the only College that received its resentatives was a William and Mary man. charter direct from the Crown of England, and the only one that received its coat of HISTORY FROM 1783-1865. arms from the College of Heralds in Lon- By the results of the Revolutionary war don. It was the first College in the United the College was left with little property but States to have a full Faculty of Professors its lands, amounting to about 20.000 acres first the Lecture Sys- (1729) ; the to adopt in different parts of the State. These were first establish the Elec- tem (1758) ; the to sold and an endowment fund was realized of first to tive and Honor Systems (1779) ; the about $150,000, by means of which, with wiiU'n its scope into that of a University fees, the College was supported till 1861. first to establish Chairs of Mu- ( 1779) ; the During the war the main College building nicipal and Constitutional Law ( 1779) , Mod- was burned by some disorderly Federal em Languages (1779), Political Economy troops, and most of the Endo\\'nient Fund first organ- (1779), History (1803) ; the to was lost. ize Greek Letter Intercollegiate Frater- a STATE. nity, the Phi Beta Kappa Society; and the PRESENT first to award gold medals as Collegiate For many years after the war the College prizes, donated by Lord Botetourt in 1/71. was in a very crippled condition, but in 1888 the State formed a connection with it, MAKING OF THE UNION. and it is now in a more prosperous condition was. The Endowment Fund The alumni of the College exerted more than it ever raised from about $20,000, all influence on the making of the Union than has been after the war, to $134,000, the alumni of any other institution. Rich- that remained interest of $5,700. The College ard Bland was the first to anonunce in a yielding an addition the annual sum of $35,- pamphlet that American was no ])art of the receives in State of Virginia, on condition Kingdom of England, and was only united 000 from the its keeping up, in connection with the \Wth it by the common >,ie of the Crown of regular Collegiate Course, a course of Nor- ( 1766) . Dabney Carr was the patron of the Training. All the old resolutions for the appointment of com- mal Instruction and been restored, and there have mittees of intercolonial correspondence buildings have an Infirmary, a Dormitory, a (1773). Peyton Randolph was the first been added a Science Hall. The Col- president of the Continental Congress Gymnasium, and equipped with electric lights (1774). Thomas Jefferson wrote the Dec- lege is also well water. The largest at- laration of Independence (1776). John Ty- and artesian in the annals of the Institution, ler, Sr., carried through the Virginia Ivegis- tendance before the late war, was about lature the proposition for the convention at at any time attendance this session is near- Annapolis (1786). Edmund Randolph open- 140, but the figure. The faculty consists ed the proceedings at Philadelphia by sub- ly double this Professors, one mitting "the Virginia plan" (1787). Geo. of a President, eight full one Physical Director, Washington, though not an alumnus, re- Adjunct Professor, tlw Mo<lel School, and ceived from the College his first public office one Principal of It has classes in Amcr:- of surveyor, and his last as Chancellor of eight instructors. Political Economy. Civil Gov- the Institution. ran Ilistorv. erniiient. English Literature. General His- ' DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNION. tory. Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Modern Natural Science, Of the seven Presidents of the United l>angiuiges. Education. Drawing. JIanual Arts, States, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Chemistrj', Biology. Ethics. and John Tyler were educated at William Psychologj-. Logic, and Board of Visitors To Take Office June 13, 1906 HON. JAMES N. STUBBS, Woods X Roads, Va. THOS. H. BARNES, Elwood, Va. ROBT. M. HUGHES, Norfolk, Va. D. GARDINER TYLER, Stubgeon Point, Va. BEVERLY D. TUCKER, Norfolk, Va. B. B. MUNFORD, Richmond, Va. W. C. L. TALL&PERRO, Hampton, Va. W. D. S]VnTH, Gate City, Va. S. W. SOMERVILLE, Fredeeicksburg, Va. RICHARD P. BARHAJM, Petersbubg, Va. Members of Faculty 1906-07 LYON G. TYLER, M. A., LL. D. President. Masters or Pbofbssobs in the Order of Oftioiai, Seniobitt. JOHN LESLIE HALL, Ph. D., Dean of the Faculty, Professor of the English Language and Literature, and of Oeneral History. THOI1LA.S JEFFERSON STUBBS, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of Mathematics. LYMAN B. WH.\RTX)N, A. M., D. D., Professor of Latin. VAN F. GARRETT, A.
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