From a 1908 Mem Book
THIS SPECIMEN OF Dartmouth memorabilia, if the visibility isn't entirely destroyed by the photo-engraving process which transmits it to the pages of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, is rather choice. It shows a section of 1908 in the Spring when we boys were sophomores. Under the patronizing gaze of a few beneficient upperciassmen, and a mysterious stranger, possibly from the faculty or a shoe house, the igoBers were supervising the preparations for a bonfire in celebration of a baseball victory over Harvard, score Dartmouth g, Harvard 1. The victory, it might be explained with complete modesty, was achieved through the brilliant pitching of Percy Skillen 'OB. Aside from the wagon wheels, sleigh, outhouse sections and other
inanimate contributions which the picture encompasses, the offshoots of mankind who stood about waiting for the camera to click carry a certain 1908 interest. Those easily spotted, note the euphony which went along with the naming of a child who would be in college in 1906, included (left to right) Alanson Gilbert Alden '08; Reggie (What-a-Freshman) Bankart 'O9; Laurence Wakeman Griswold '08; Seymour Suffee Rutherford '08; Theodore Ira Dunn '08; Arthur Merriman Wyman '08; Francis Asbury Robinson (with the Gettysburg pose) '08; Alva Bruce Rutherford '08; James Jackson Norton '08; Arthur Turner Soule '08; Hugo Ignatz Schwartz '08; who's the fellow with the big, bad, moustache?; Gordon Blanchard '08; James Milton O'Neill 'O7; Edward Albert Herr 'O6. The costumes are of more interest when it is realized freshmen rules forbid going hatless and coatless.
