About Twenty-Five Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 22, President Ernest Fox Nichols delivered a short but impressive address and College opened .... two days later at the annual reception to the new men, 7:30 in College Hall, the Dartmouth Christian Association distributed the "Freshman Bible." . . . . South Fayerweather and the Gym nearly completed but the fall of a derrick which crushed one mason in the Gym delayed brick- laying Old Hubbard was demolished to make room for the new Administration Building, gift of Lewis Parkhurst, and New Hubbard "looked out of place" back of Chandler. Shurtleff House was used as a storehouse but was torn down later. Phi Kappa Psi moved into Dr. Wm. T. Smith's house, entirely remodeled, on School St. Delta Tau Delta moved into the Phi Psi rooms in Bridgeman Block. The old Campbell House on Main St. became the home of Phi Sigma Kappa.
The Dartmouth, celebrating its 71st year, changed from a semi-weekly paper to appear thrice a week on Monday, Thursday and Saturday in its present size.
Jack Ryan succeeded Jack Marks as football captain and nine veterans reported for practice—Daley end, Farnum guard, Needham center, Ryan halfback, Boylan quarterback, Elcock tackle, Dodge end and Ingersoll halfback. From the last year's freshman team came Barends and Dudley fullbacks, Morey left half, Harris guard, and Bennett center, and from 1912 Lewis, Ahlswede and Whitmore were promising candidate . . . Sept. 28 brought the first Mass Meeting with Manager Keeler, Coaches Randall, Tobin and Brady and Professors Bartlett and Laycock holding forth and Cheer Leader Paul and Chorister Carlisle doing their stuff.
The season started with the Mass. Aggies' defeat 6-0 in "the weirdest and most poorly played game ever seen in Hanover." Jack Ingersoll scored the one touchdown. Colby was defeated 18-0, two touchdowns by George Hoban and Ingersoll and two field goals by Barends. Vermont was taken into camp 33-0, touchdowns by Ingersoll, Cottrell, G. Hoban 2, Daley; and Williams, 39-0, with Cottrell, Barends, Ingersoll, Needham and Morey scoring. Dartmouth lost to Princeton 6-0, ending the October series.
A. Karl Skinner became Secretary to the President following the resignation of E. M. Hopkins and Dr. John M. Gile '89, dean of the Medical School Prof. Frank H. Dixon, head of the economics department, accepted the position of chief statistician of the newly formed Bureau of Railway Economics at Washington but continued to teach J. M. Irwin elected president of the senior class, J. R. Erwin president of the junior and H. A. Barends president of the freshman classes.
Dartmouth Night featured Judge David Cross '41 introduced by President Nichols, and among the speakers were Charles F. Mathewson '82, a trustee, B. T. Marshall '97, A. O. Brown '78, Professor Laycock '97 and Melvin O. Adams '71 Palaeopitus suggested Delta Alpha last one hour each evening in the dormitories and no rules be printed by the dorm committees. .... Legal chinning was from 7 A.M., October 3, with no entertainment involving the expenditure of money allowed and the season ended, with 184 freshmen, 6 sophomores and 1 senior bid.
Track meet won by 1913 with 50 points, freshmen 38, seniors 22, juniors 17. Tilley '13, the individual star, was pushed by Marceau '14 for premier honors. . . . . F. H. Harris '11 defeated H. S. Harmon '12 to win the tennis cup.
Big Green Stalwarts Bill Gibson '13, Vermont highway engineer and Bill Rogers '15, N. H. Congressman.
