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About Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 1934 Hap Hinman '10
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About Twenty-Five Years Ago
June 1934 Hap Hinman '10

BASEBALL TEAM split even with Holy Cross, 4-1, 4-7; Vermont, 8-0, 2-3; Wiliams, 2-1, 0-4; lost to Tufts, 1-0, Princeton, 6-5; Penn, 5-0, 7-5; won from Trinity, 7-2; West Point, 5-4; Mass. State, 7-5 ... . letters were voted to Capt. Schildmiller, Norton, Conroy, Brady, Eaton, Mitchell, Chabourne, Emerson, Daley and Orr . . . . Track team lost to Harvard, 92-25; won from Williams, 89-37; won New England Meet for fourth consecutive year; those making the trip, Sherman, Hawley, Hotaling, H. W. Smith, Seaver, Dodge, T. A. Smith, E. R. Palmer, Morris, Foreman, Preble, Baxter, Jones, Noyes, Spokesfield, Bull, Holmes, Clark, Thomes, Holdman, Jenks, Whitney, Lewis, W. W. Marden, Tobin, D. Palmer, Ray Palmer .... Walter Norton elected baseball captain . . . . Russ Palmer, track leader .... thirty couples attended last faculty dance of season .... Dramatic Club presented "In Chancery" at Montpelier and other onenight stands; cast, '09, Carroll, Wellsted, Morwaski; '10, Smith, Batchellor, Pishon, Fay, Meleney; '11, Keough, Parker, Carlisle; '12, Lena.

Hal Brown's new lunch cart got badlyscorched from burning gasolene; Hal displayed great presence of mind in kickingstove through the window, emptying thegasolene into the street and not calling theFire Dept.; Class sings held Tuesday andFriday evenings under Art Swenson '09;"Babe" Steward '10; A. P. Donovan 'n;Gardner Bullard 'l2 .... Tennis teamdefeated Vermont; Williams; won NewEngland Championship; team composed ofCapt. Smith, Wolff, Harris and Brooks;"King of U-Kan" written by Rollie Reynolds and Charlie Libbey; music by WalterGolde; conducted by Harry Wellman; presented at Junior Prom with following cast,'09, Carroll, Rogers, Childs, Morawski; '10,Pishon, Reynolds, Tobin; '11, Carlisle,Donovan, Keough, Warren, Grant, Pendleton; '12, Smith, Gale, Geiser.

Worcester South High won Paene Meet .... Society Circus tremendous success at Alumni Oval .... long parade led by Mayor R. Bankart; Ringmaster, Naylor; stunts; animals; sideshows; clown-filled rings; fakirs .... Wallie Ross appointed Graduate Secretary of D. C. A.; other officers, '10, Meleney, Lyon, C. E. Allen, Lord, Blake; '11, Barstow, Trask, Karr, Patten, Sherwin; '12, Urion .... Dartmouth Vaudeville put on by Childs-Morawski Carroll-Osborne-Warren-Donovan-Keough with thrilling saw-mill, poker-game and "grind" scenes .... Louis Dow purchased new 30 h.p. Cadillac; R. W. Hus band got a Maxwell runabout; Doc Frost still driving old gray mare .... second issue of "Hydrophobia" on street to delight of majority and discomfort of minority .... Freshmen ineligible for varsity teams in future .... explained at mass meeting by E. K. Hall .... popular Dr. Home of Philosophy Dept. resigned to accept appointment at New York University .... Freshmen baseballers, Moyer, B. Hoban, Ryan, Fox, Berthiaumie, Cottrell, Knapp, Steen, Diery, Frothingham and Mgr. Erwiti made trip to Mass. and Me.; Bobby Bartlett withdrew from Athletic Council after long service therewith . . . . Dartmouth Magazine board comprised of C. O. Libbey, Gay Gleason, E. O. Raabe, Frederick Kenyon Brown, E. R. Palmer and J. R. Scotford .... Ernest Fox Nicholselected Dartmouth's new president . . . . W. C. Shaw and C. S. Lyon chosen president and manager of Debating Union . . . . Dr. Shearer of History Dept. resigned to go to Hamilton .... Brown Cooper, new manager of band; A. D. Pease, leader . . . . C. S. Lyon, J. R. Everett, and R. E. Parker, new editor, athletic editor and manager of The Dartmouth.

Announcement made of new prize to beknown as The All Round AchievementCup presented by John Barrett 'B9 . . . .gold-tipped baton presented to H. L. Dillingham by student body for his work inorganizing and leading college band . . . .new Jack-o'-Lantern board, '10, E. O.Raabe, E. W. Hiestand, A. C. Gow; '11,J. L. Willard; '12, D. A. Augur, D. W. Redfield .... 1909 Phi Beta Kappa initiates,Bedell, Bull, Burbank, Cartland, Dean,Dreyfus, Dunbar, Graves, Hooker, Norris,Oliphant, Pearl, Pearson, Rose, Stucklen,Weinz, Wort hen.

Someone dealt the perennial deficit of the Commons a mean blow when Horace Fletcher, Dartmouth '70, globe-trotter and inventor of "Fletcherism," was brought to Hanover to lecture on dietetic righteousness; which meant masticating your food "until the taste is all out" thereby cutting your food bill 50% and increasing physical endurance up to 200%; everybody's jaws worked overtime for a week or so until they begrudged the time when returning to the old Hanover custom of "bolting and running" .... spring football practice under Capt. Tobin assisted by Joe Brusse and Reggie Bankart .... W. H. Deering '10, R. V. Case 'll and A. H. Lord '10 elected officers of Worcester Academy Club .... senior class setting new precedent of wearing gowns until noon each day and all day on Sunday.