Reed sportsmen in a human pyramid, 1915.
lthough in 1916 the European war was looming, students were still participating in clubs and starting up new clubs around their interests and faculty specialties, such as “The Literats”—later the “God-awfullers”; classics and philosophy clubs; debating and rowing clubs; and the biology club. There were 16 in all; the U.S. entry into war ended the club era. During this year and later, holly was grown and harvested to be sold, raspberries and root crops from across the canyon provided income, and root crops were cultivated by hand on the south lawn.
A second annual yearbook, the Class-Book of Nineteen-Sixteen, was produced and contained a commentary on the “little band of the faithful forty-five,” seniors with the “sad ratio of males to females as one is to two.” A woman was elected during her junior year “owing, perhaps, to this preponderance of the feminin element.” Specific courses in commerce and industry were introduced for students preparing for business careers in the Pacific Northwest.
Reed in 1916
