About Twenty-Five Years Ago
The varsity trimmed Mass. Aggies, 23-0; Tufts, 18-0; Holy Cross, 18-5; Amherst, 17-0; and was held 0-0 in a surprise game at Williamstown on a hot afternoon that few will ever forget .... the following men played in these games . . . . le, Capt. Kennedy, Daley, Brady, Elcock; It, Sherwin, Davis; Ig, Tobin, Thompson, Robbins; c, Brusse; rg, Rich, Farnum; rt, R. Bankart, Pevear; re, Schildmiller, L. Bankart, Dreyfus, Lewis, Steinert; qb, Pishon, Ryan, Dodge; Ihb, Hawley, Steward; rhb, Ingersoll, Driver, Pollard, Burns; fb, Marks, Dudley; the team was developing and using one and two forward passes successfully in each game .... and getting ready for thathistoric 10-6 Princeton victory which wasto be height of the season.
Fall tennis entries, the largest ever, were '09: Ball, H. S. Clark, Dole, Hammond, Hooker; '10, Armstrong, Bates, Brooks, Davies, Donovan, Hatch, M. L. Holmes, Hursh, Hutchins, Meleney, Nickerson, Pitcher, Pratt, Ricker, Shattuck, S. B. Smith, Thurber, Wolff; '11, Aronowitz, Byrne, F. C. Eaton, S. G. Eaton, Harris, Henderson, Learoyd, Leonard, Magrane, Mayo, Muhlfelder, Parker, H. S. Smith, Sullivan; '12, Booth, Childs, F. Clark, Grieb, H. M. Jones, Lovell, Reed, Wheeler . . . . unusual political activity in Taft-Hughespresidential campaign .... any studentable to read and write and having lived inHanover six months could vote at Etna bypaying $1.85 .... Republican College Club officered by Ralph Theller, Phil Chase, Red Dick Carpenter, Slip Powers and Joe Graff claimed major victory when J. Washburn Worthen '09, of Webster Ave., always a staunch Bryanite, proclaimed allegiance to Republicanism by wearing a large Taft button .... Walt Sidlev and fellow Democrats did not like that so good . . . . H. C. Bullard '84 presented new organ for Rollins Chapel .... Cecil Dodge, Walter Elcock, Wilfred Shrigley, Tracy Sanborn and Carl Wells elected freshmen class officers . ... 1911 won class baseball series from 1912, 1-0 and 10-0 .... Ray Gorton '10 won Hanover Country Club Golf Championship .... Art Lord '10 upset the dope by defeating Capt. Heinie Stucklen '09 for College Golf Championship .... Dartmouth Press Club elected H. R. Bankart '09, H. A. Osborne '09, and J. R. Everett '10 as officers .... Chief Tortes '09 (later known as Myers) signed with N. Y. Giants . . . . Sheldon Smith 'lO defeated Fred Harris '11 to win College Tennis Championship for third successive time . ... it isinteresting to note that Secretary of theCollege E. M. Hopkins '01 and Prof. J. K.Lord '6B were Dartmouth's representativesat the installation of Williams' new President Garfield (who has resigned recently).
Cub reporters for The Dartmouth Board competition included 1912: Lowell, Rollins, Urion, Tuttle, E. P. Johnson, Karr, E. A. White, T. P. Miller, W. L. White, Flint, Plummer, C. E. Snow, Fuller, Foster, T. A. Loughlin, Linscott, Batchelder, S. A. dark, Lovell, O'Neill, Weld, Grieb, Goss, Kent, H. A. Thompson, Salmon, Preble; 1911: Murchie, Ramelee, Boynton, Clute, Willard, J. B. Clark .... Dartmouth Magazine Board composed of Emmett Naylor, Fred Carroll, Ralph Theller, Roswell Pearl, Charles Cartland, Elbert Moffatt; 1909: Charles Libbey and Edwin Raabe; 1910 .... serious water shortage .... street lights not lighted until late in evening because West Lebanon power plant cannot run house circuits and street lights at same time .... return tickets to New York for Princeton game §5.85 .... DartmouthNight featured Judge David Cross of theclass of 1841 .... as a gentle reminder of just how old some of you readers are, it is of interest to point out at this time that you of the classes up to October, 1914, both saw and knew a man who could have seen every man that ever attended Dartmouth College ....
Judge Cross used to say that since he wasborn in 1817, he could have seen everymany attending Dartmouth from its founding in 1769 if said man had lived his allotted span of years following men were selected to play in Dartmouth Orchestral Club under leadership of W. P. Rogers '09; Violins: Finn, Kelly, Wagner '10, G. Lewis '12; Viola: Greenwood '09; Cello: R. Lewis '12; Bass: McLoud '09; Cornets: Dillingham '09, Warren "11; Clarinents: Rose '11, Cleves '12; Flute andPiccolo: Tyler '12; Trombone: Miller '12; Drums: Spokesfield '10.—HAP HINMAN '10.
A Good Laugh Comedians of note in those days were Paul Felt and Dwight Waring of '06.
