When We Were Freshmen
THE .UNIVERSITY of Vermont baseball team, accompanied by a band and 250 rooters defeated the Varsity 3-2, and at Ithaca, playing Cornell for the first time since 1906, Dartmouth was beaten 3-1 Harry Hillman's first Dartmouth Freshman track team defeated Princeton Freshmen 59-58 in the first freshman dual meet ever held. On the same afternoon was the Interscholastic Meet, won by Worcester South High. Princeton carlars, lied off 40 out of the 45 points in the track events and Dartmouth 38 to Princeton's 7 in the field contests. The final result hinged on the broad jump but Buck and Enright took Ist and 2nd and the meet was won.
At the Class Meeting Carl Pfau was elected Class Chorister and class hockey numerals were voted to Bigelow, Blumenthal, Easton, Luhman, Don Mason, Schulte, Stone and Taylor. .... Delta Sigma Rho, the oratorical fraternity, admitted Dartmouth, for member of that year's championship debating team had organized and petitioned for a charter.
May 18th the world was to pass through the tail of Halley's Comet. A group of 600 undergraduates behind a hybrid band paraded to Wilder Hall where Prof. Hull explained that the most extraordinary thing about the heavenly wanderer was the commotion' which it seemed to stir up. Wah-Whoo-Wahs were given for the Comet, the tail and Mother Earth. .... A bonfire and night shirt peerade followed the Dartmouth win at the New England Intercollegiate track meet at Brookline and the baseball and tennis victories at Amherst and Williams. The old time stage coach which had so many times been pulled up the hill under the guidance of "Old Dud" was found to be perched on top of the pile when the torch was applied. Thus this relic perished in the flames Robert Kapplan, "Robbie," as usual did a big business in old Clothes.
Prom and what a Prom. The Pea Green Earl, the joint work of Russ Palmer and Les Wiggin, was a huge success. Kippy Tuck, Carl Pfau, Chip Semmes and Bob Crenner were in the cast.
Oedipus Tyrannus was given Friday the 20th with Joseph Bartlett as the blind seer and Wm. W. Flint as Oedipus. Dave Adams was the messenger from the palace, Harold McAllister, Coryphaeus in the chorus of Theban Old Men, which included Carl Forsaith and Carl Pfau. In the train of Suppliants were Leeds Gulick, Collin Wells and Dave Adams; Emmett and Sturgis Pishon were two of the attendants on royal persons, while Bob Crenner and Bear Walsh were in the supplementary chorus and Don Mason and H. W. Oliver in the orchestra.
Chi Phi won the pennant in the Interfraternity baseball league with the help of Nichols, Luhman and Meleney The Varsity' ball team finished the month's activities by winning from Holy Cross on Fitton Field for the first time in seven years.
Harry Hillman's First Freshman Track TeamBack Row: McQuesten, Wilkins, Joyce, Enright, Hillman Middle Row: D. Mason, Reed, Brady, Nichols Front Row: H. Ball, Riley, Tilley, Seidler, Buck.
