The record of the class of 1918 . xpounded at great length, and ashort resume is almost impossible. It is antedilu-vian as a general thing, but sometimes, inmoments of supreme inspiration, reaches up tothe Spanish-American War. Like Mozart, helikes to repeat the same thing, but without inter-esting variations. An engineer, a-geodetic surveyor, and a manwho would rather squint through a theodolitethan go to heaven—or to hell with the poets andmusicians he will tell you anything you want ordont want to know about electricity, motors,dynamos, etc. He specializes in showing Ritten-house pictures o
The record of the class of 1918 . xpounded at great length, and ashort resume is almost impossible. It is antedilu-vian as a general thing, but sometimes, inmoments of supreme inspiration, reaches up tothe Spanish-American War. Like Mozart, helikes to repeat the same thing, but without inter-esting variations. An engineer, a-geodetic surveyor, and a manwho would rather squint through a theodolitethan go to heaven—or to hell with the poets andmusicians he will tell you anything you want ordont want to know about electricity, motors,dynamos, etc. He specializes in showing Ritten-house pictures of electric locomotives. If youapproach his room on any quiet night a seriesof loud explosions greets your ear, followed by a loud , Bill, cant you cut that out? as a ukulele starts a furious spasm, and you find Bill gnashing his teeth on thefloor and Herb Carr doing the strumming. Mussetter will be an engineer, a builder of the strong, heavy-set structures of theworld, and everything he does will be carried through to a 89 918 HAVERFORD 918 WALTER SCOTT NEVIN Walt, Mr. Evans, Mr. Never, Mr. Donnelly /m sure ifs nothing in my young life From what humble nests burble mighty springs! We first heard of Nevin as theNarberth hurdler whose dislocated jaw was to lose for us the momentous Soph track he was soon sociably in our midst as one of the four entrants in the Tuesday morningdash after Al Hiseys College Algebra, and he looks back upon this early career as onecontinual argument, with the family about cutting the hedge, with Kent Keay aboutreligion, and with Alex about which train they had just missed. But—whisper it—the student would out, and in Junior year Walt applied himselfvigorously to doping exam questions for Joe Hayman and to educating the impossible
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