.... About Twenty-Five Years Ago . . . .
BASKETBALL TEAM trimmed Holy Cross, 27-17; Syracuse, 30-11: Mass. Aggies, 40-11; and on a trip defeated Holy Cross, 27-23; M.I.T., 28-17; Harvard, 31-13; losing to Wesleyan, 26-15 .... The Dartmouth line-up included Brady, Hedges, Dingle, Mullen, Avery, Ryan, Wiley . . . . in the Intercollegiate League comprised of Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, Harvard and Dartmouth were tied for first honors .... in a play-off at the St. Nicholas Rink in New York City Harvard won, 1-0, scoring in the last two minutes of play .... Dartmouth's line-up included Doe, Stucklen, Marston, Perry, Leighton, Pettengill and Erhard . . . . among the Harvard players were Horn-blower, Morgan, Hicks, Gardner and Washburn .... Freshman Hockey team lost to Vermont Academy, 1-0 . . . . 1912 line-up was McCarthy, Home, Bullard, Cabot, McLaughlin, Wells, Luitweiler .... Sophomores defeated the same institution in basketball, 22-11 .... 1911 summary, Hart, Kimball, Chase, McCarthy, Pierce.
Coach Tom Keady and Capt. Dutch Schildmiller called out battery baseball men for practice in the old baseball cage .... in the squad that reported were '09, Bankart, Hammond, Caverly; '10, Grant, Wallace, Finn, Kinney, West, Mitchell, Chadbourne; '11, Needham, Davis, Cooper, Wilder; '12, Eckstrom, Goss, B. Hoban, G. Hoban, Stern, Biery, Shrigley, Frothingham, Leach, Norris, Dodge .... Cap Kelley '09 and Tommie Leonard '10 were disqualified for playing summer baseball with Barton Landing.
Efforts made to secure George Howard '07as coach for debating team .... President Tucker praises Hanover VolunteerFire Company for its splendid record ofaccomplishment, yet regrets inability ofCollege to guarantee freedom from "falsealarms" .... the "firemen" havingthreatened to resign in a body unless theyceased to be the butt of undergraduatepranks .... who will ever forget thenight the alarm was rung right during theAnnual Fireman's Ball at G. A. R. Hall and.how the "firemen" poured forth in dresssuits to answer the call?
Samuel W. McCall believed slated as logical successor to President Tucker . . . . Dick Lane '07 acting as Supervisor of Dormitories during absence of Harry Wellman .... Norman Hapgood, Editor of Colliers Weekly, speaks in Hanover .... Rumor that E. B. Watson, assistant professor of English, tendered his resignation from the faculty to be effective the next college year found to be untrue .... Secretary E. M. Hopkins returned from attending alumni meetings in Albany, Cleveland, St. Paul, Lincoln, Denver, Pittsburg, Omaha, giving an illustrated lecture at each place to alumni, prospective students and friends of the College .... Freshman Debating Union elected D. W. Jones, Pres.; E. P. Johnson, Vice-Pres.; E. I. Mitchell, Sec'y; W. R. Kent, Treas.; B. M. Preble, K. P. Foster and F. Sheppard, Program Committee .... on the Dartmouth Christian Association winter program of sending prominent athletes to speak at near-by towns and prep schools, Clarke Tobin spoke at White River Junction and Kimball Union Academy; Jack Ingersoll at Quincy Y. M. C. A.; "Bolliver" Sherwin at Cushing Academy .... Dr. Licklider in a review stated that the "Dartmouth Magazine was unworthy of the College" in contrast with the "tradition of praising the Magazine with faint damns" .... residents of Sanborn Hall lived up to their traditions by suggesting that the "concerts in Webster Hall be a diversion rather than an attempt to satisfy the higher musical tastes" .... that was good news to those who felt that the Old College was going high-brow .... Eugene Chafin, candidate for president on the prohibition ticket, lectured in College Hall .... a stray cigar butt caused fire in Wheeler Hall but the conflagration was extinguished before the "Visiting Firemen" arrived ....
son born to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clough .... Bill passed cigars around to waiters and servers at the Commons .... Prof. Charlie D. Adams lectured at Franklin High School, Til ton Academy and Pinkerton Academy on "Demosthenes as a Statesman and Orator"; Prof. George Ray Wicker and Gabe Campbell lectured at Hanover High School on Lincoln's Birthday
"Bush" Himself Medical Director and Coach of All-Dartmouth, Ail-Time Sick Excuses Team. (This is an Ante-Bellum photo.)
