1902

The subject of nicknames is often fascinating, especially in regard to college men. A single incident in the first days may give a man a label which, at least as far as his classmates are concerned. will stick to him all his life. Possibly this was just as true in all colleges of our day, but we were not -of the co-educational variety.

Of course some men took their nicknames with them from high school, though occasions provided opportunity for more significant ones. In our class there three groups of three men who had the same surname, thus presenting a problem in a period when the general use of surnames was far more common than it is today. One such trio was readily distinguished by the nicknames, "Shorty," "Henniker," and "Lady." If a man happened to have the same surname as a popular professor, he might get that man's nickname, but not necessarily. Some men inherited the nicknames of recently graduated brothers. And a man who apparently never acquired a nickname gave himself a very short one. Of course, that happened when it became time to put his ten-letter surname on a senior cane.

Despite the faint risk of ruffling some tempers, here are a few more common nicknames in the Class of 1902:

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