Digital Commons @ George Fox University "The Crescent" Student Newspaper Archives and Museum 5-1-1909 The Crescent - May 1909 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "The Crescent - May 1909" (1909). "The Crescent" Student Newspaper. 94. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/94 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Museum at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in "The Crescent" Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 0-I xjX U) C) rn z -I THE CRESCENT. VOL. XX. MAY, 1909. NO. S Junior QtLnSd 3istorp. Time flies. The Junior class has known this for a long time. But to realize that time flies swifty, we have only to look back over the last six years during which the class has existed as such. In the fall of the year 1903 there were twenty-seven students enrolled in the second year Academy class, three of whom are now members of the class of ‘10. In 1904, there were twenty-five enrolled in the class, twelve of whom were graduated from the Academy at the end of the spring term. There were eight members in the Freshman class the next year. Few classes have the privilege of being Freshmen two years, but such is the record of the class of ‘10. Owing to a change in the college curricu lum which advanced the courses one year, our class was again the Freshman class. Nothing is harder to do gracefully than to be a Freshman, but at the end of our second year, we felt more at home in our places. We will not tire you with an account of our deeds,—which were really great—as is the custom in class histories, but we will proceed to give an account of the individual members of the class. Suffice it to say that one member of our class in 1907, Miss Katherine Romig, won the state contest; that we have had our full share of positions in student activities and on athletic teams; and that we, having become tired of the class colors crimson and white, which are so common, now float a flag of ma roon and black. But now for the five units which compose the class of 1910. THE CRESCENT 3 2 THE CRESCENT Harvey is musically inclined, and although not ac Roy 0. Fitch, the phenomenal student of the Junior complished, is talented. His favorite song is “Auld class, Latin and Greek he devours with a zest seldom Lang Syne.” His athletic abilites are marked. His equaled. Chemistry he took by storm. But his great achievments in basketball are highest, and in tennis he est interest at present is in Botany and Physics, since is one of our best men. Harvey’s amatory relations he is at present assistant laboratory instructor in those would be of interest to our readers, were they not too branches. Roy’s achievements in debate are note I long to report, and could they be known, but at present worthy. In 1908 he was leader of the team, and worked we are denied that privilege. Harvey is very temperate like a man to win. That he did’nt win, was not his in his habits. His future is as yet uncertain, but very fault. This year, Roy was again on the debating team, hopeful. and for a term of three months lived on nothing but Laura E. Hammer is at once the Queen of the Junior Ship Subsidy. Roy is also an orator of no small ability, find that, while she is our only lady having represented the Junior class in the local contest class. We member, she does the work of many, and would be two years. The above named person has made no small among a hundred. As a student, Laura is of reputation as an exponent of the theory of Evolution. queen high standing. She has a record of fifteen minutes in If asked why he believes in the evolution of man, he I required to get a French or Greek lesson, and her will tell you that the fact was forced upon him by his time class is very satisfactory. Miss Hammer plays surroundings at Pacific College. Anarchy, he considers work in on the girls’ basketball team, and no match game has a deadly foe. Fitch is no lady-killer, yet he recognizes won by our boy’s team unless Laura were in the the beauty of (a certain) woman. He lives at Sherwood, been grand stand to cheer on the players. One of the lessons Oregon and is said to be of excellent character even by I she has learned while in college is that one’s value is those who know him best. He is a native of Sherwood. not determined by their class standing. One may be a His future is as yet uncertain. hero and not be a Junior. Laura ranks high as a Harvey A. Wright we would fain leave to some musician. Her excellent alto voice has won for her ‘a literary genius to describe. To give his speciality in the chapel choir which we think would be ill- would be impossible, and to give a list of his accomplish place else. Laura plays the piano well. ments would be an endless task. Indiana has produced filled by any one favorite piece is “Mississippi Rag.” few such men. Yet it took Oregon to serve as an Her Laura is president of Y. W. C. A. and an active adequate field for his genius. Harvey is a man of figure in all of the college activities. We can not tell excellent character, ex-president of Y. M. C. A., editor what she will do when she gets through in.chief of the Crescent, basketball manager during the certainly she has stated that she does not intend to past two years, and since his advent at Newberg he has school, but after the manner of her sisters and mother. done successful pastoral work in the churches at Rex, teach school, George is one of our members, who has Springbrook, and Sherwood. He is an excellent Leonard C. from the beginning. When others faint student, showing a tendency toward the classics. been with us 4 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 5 by the way, Leonard is still up and going. Science is fetu at Oregon’s 1etuL lirb. his lot. English has no especial attraction for him, while German and French he considers an abomination. But in the realms of chemistry, physics, and biology he The barn owls are shot whenever a chance occurs feels more at home. It is said that on consulting the which is a shame as its name should be on the laws Springbrook Oracle in the days of his youth, he was in protected list. It depends upon a diet of moles, gophers, formed that in future years he would carry a medicine rats and mice. They are more useful to rid the premises case, and cure the ills of many thousands. of these pests than cats, and they are the only bird or Leonard’s fame at present centers about his work animal that I know of that will catch and eat moles. as an artist. Many of the excellent posters on the When a child I delighted to go to my grandfather’s bulletin board testify to his skill with the pen and brush. for there was a small owl that used to stay in and George is an active member of the Y. M. C. A., and around his barn. Many a time I have seen it seated on chairman of the religions meetings committee. Any the gatepost, clothesline, fence, or some part of the time after 1915 you may have Leonard’s professional barn. How wise it looked. I delighted to watch its services as physician. movements after sunset, but at one of my visits the Concerning the author himself, little need (or could) owl was missing. It was supposed that some hunter be said. As a student his main accomplishment has had killed it. been in making people believe that he knew something There are many kinds of woodpeckers, the Lewis, when he did not. Mathematics have always been ab Redbrested Sapsucker, Pilate Bowney, Harris, etc. horred by him. Latin, German, French and English They never sing, but the rapping on the roof or trees have proved fascinating, while psychology and philoso I will testify that they keep good time. We see the phy have been very highly prized. Indeed the author woodpecker about the farm on all kinds of trees search has been called a philosopher without an idea, Wouldn’t ing for insects. —They retire to the tall isolated stubs of it be better to say a philosopher without a correct the forest to prepare for housekeeping. Both birds idea? He is an admirer of things musical, and yet not help in digging out this nest; while one rests and a musician, an enthusiast over athletics, but not an watches the other works. They carefully chip away athlete. His future is yet before him. the inner surface to give it a smooth finish. The cir RUSSELL LEWIS. cular entrance to the nest is merely large enough to P. S. You may believe or you may be tempted to doubt admit the bird, then it turns downward and enlarges the ability and the characteristcs of the individuals into the shape of a large pear.