About Twenty-Five Years Ago

IN BEST HOME game of the year the basketball team defeated Wesleyan, 25-7; King Brady playing If, Cap Hedges rf,, Jack Dingle c, Phil Avery and Jack Ryan rg, Johnny Mullen lg . . . . Alumni team comprised of Grebenstein, McGrail, Ailing, Lang, Hobart and Russ trimmed 36-27 .... on a trip the team lost to Williams, 38-15 .... won' from Syracuse, 25-22 .... in the Williamstown game Cap Hedges was forced from game with sprained wrist, Wiley succeeding him . . . . a few minutes later Phil Avery was knocked unconscious in a collision and removed to the hospital .... a telegram brought Jack Ryan to Syracuse in time for that game .... King Brady '10 elected captain for next year.

In the Triangular Debating League the Dartmouth team of Ralph Richardson '09, Mark Smith '10, Warren Shaw '10 and Conrad Snow '12 defeated Williams while the other Dartmouth group, Clifford Lyon '10, Philip Chase 'O9, Ralph Theller '09 and James Lowell '10 was defeated by Brown at Providence .... Marston '09 selected for forward line of All-Collegiate Hockey team .... for infractions of rules during league games Columbia players served 15 minutes on bench, Yale 14, Harvard 12 and Princeton 4 . . . . Dartmouth keeping all of her men playing all of the time.

Freshman class officers were C. P. Dodge, pres.; H. S. Harman, v. p.; D. W. Jones, sec'y; J. H. Cleaves, treas freshman defeated sophomores at basketball 28-12, a wild and wooly game with Kimball, Hart. Chase, Pierce and McCarty starting for 1911 and Jones, Mensel, R. H. Whitney, Harman and Bud Hoban for 1912 .... Cap Hedges 'lO refereed and did a good job .... an impromptu smoker was held between the halves with a fine kid game on the floor and good-natured raillery among the smoke clouds until J. Bowler, Custodian of P. H. (Public Health) gave an abbreviated Smut-Talk that was charged with chain lightning and dynamite .... W. H. Ham '97 lectured at Thayer School using lantern slides to illustrate cement construction .... the Rt. Hon. Reginaldo Bankart, U. T. P. M„ U. P. (Untrained Prehistoric Man, Unorthodox Politician) installed as Hanover's mayor after inaugural parade, forming in front of Hon. Bankart's residence, escorted him (in liis barouche) to the Commons where in a blood-raising plea he begged the assembled impudent morons to support his administration pledges of Liquor, License, Subway across the Campus, and Free Elevated Rides to Lebanon .... amid wild-eyed heckling from political non-sympathizers an attempt was made to assassinate the big mayor who swooned and was escorted to his bed chamber for rehabilitation of nervous system.

The Dartmouth in one of its occasional"Holier-than-Thou" editorials approvedclinking of glasses and pounding of soupplates but suggested placing a sign at TheCommons entrance "Animals cannot beseen while eating" if shouting and stamping of feet continue when guests visit thebalcony during meal hours . ... it mightas well have tried to stop "wooding-up" inDr. Bowler's "Smut" lectures or preventSentimental Journeys to Leb, Claremontand Northampton .... Prof. George RayWicker "stump-speeched" around the statefor William Jennings Bryan .... Professors "Toot" Worthen and Georgie D. Lordspoke locally on the same subject.

A Boston paper published this: "Here isone on young Ingersoll who started at righthalf for Dartmouth against Maine at Portland. The youngster comes from the Westand had never seen salt water. When theteam was about to leave the hotel, Ingersoll was missed. The elevator boy informedthe searchers he had taken a man to theroof. Sure enough, there was the footballplayer on the roof of the building. Whentold to hustle into his togs, the Westernboy replied 'Oh, let me see the ocean.'"

On the subject, "Resolved: That further concentration of power in the federal government is contrary to the best interests of the United States" the 1911 debating team of J. R. Scotford, C. K. Moses, W. A. Noyes and E. F. Karr defeated the freshmen team of W. R. Kent, F. Clark Jr., T. P. Miller, B. M. Preble .... a 45-minute fire did considerable damage to the Inn sample room .... students saved Clement's and Vocke's samples but didn't keep 'em . . . . Austin Keough '11 won the Rollins Prize, Kenneth Clark '11 took second, Warren Shaw '10 third .... Ralph Richardson '09 won Smith Prize with Ralph Theller second .... Jess Hawley '09 signed up to coach Phillips Andover next fall . . . . Marshall Ailing, William Bodwell, PhillipsChase, Thomas Connell, Edward Larrabee, George Laton, John Nolan, FitzroyPillsbury, Frederic Scribner, Arthur Torrey, Murray Towle, Thomas Uniac andHomer Wilson graduated from MedicalSchool .... $189. raised with vaudeville show to buy new victrola for Commons .... Ralph Marston elected hockey captain . . . . M. R. Buck, football guard, Amherst ex '11, is attending Dartmouth this semester; in all probability he will return to Amherst in the fall .... annual banquet of Alpha Tomato Onions given by Ed Doyle and wife to members of the famous Doyle Club; Clarke Tobin, toastmaster, eulogized the House of Doyle and called for the following toasts "The Religious Life of Our Club" by Wallie Ross '09: "Club Finances" by Commissary Larry Bankart '10; "Fletcherizing Doyle Titbits" by "Bolivar" Sherwin '11; "Normal Digestion" by "Diddy" Doyle; "Sanitary Service" by Jim Driscoll '09; music by Jim Erwin '11 and the A. T. O. Quartette .... Bible Study Groups started at C. & G. House by Dr. Licklider and at Phi Gam Rooms by Rev. Janeway.

Harry Could Use Some More Like These Wm. A. Noyes '11, Jack Marks '11, C. A. Duffie '11, Coach Hillman, Nate Sherman '10. Chan Baxter '10.