About Twenty-Five Years Ago
FINAL EXAMS, Wet Down, Commencement—June Harvard was defeated by the hard hitting green team 10 to 5 and the freshmen won from the Harvard second team 4 to 3 Dartmouth took Vermont 9 to 3 and Penn 10 to 7 in the last two games and the season was over except for Commencement.
The Dartmouth management was reorganized and the new Editor-in-Chief, C. E. Snow; the Managing Editor, H .J. Urion and the Business Manager, L. W. Snow, were on equal standing and terms. .... The Board held its annual dinner at the White River Tavern.
The final 1913 class meeting was broken up by 1914 in a general roughhouse and Chandler Hall suffered somewhat by drenching when the fire hose was used, and lost its piazza railing after Chuck Riley had shed the first blood, cut by broken glass.
Dartmouth entry "The Boston" in the intercollegiate triangular balloon race traveled 41 miles from North Adams and was the first to land. "The Stevens" belonging to Williams sailed 67 miles and Penn's balloon "when last reported was over Stamford, Vt." Jay B. Benton '9O piloted "Thg Boston" with John W. Pearson 'll as passenger.
Frederick Kenyon Brown 'lO, under the assumed name of A 1 Priddy, published a serial story "Through the Mill" in TheOutlook Ex-President Teddy Roosevelt stopped at White River Junction. . . . . J. F. Aulis and Dave Adams 'l3 in The Dartmouth started their "cash paid for secondhand furniture" ads.
"Clothespin" Richardson spoke in Chapel. Said he had heard 1,295 sermons in Hanover but the best lines were: "The question, whenever I hear anything disagreeable, is not 'May I tell it,' but 'Must I.' "
The Annual Sing Out in Rollins Chapel, where "Harmony" Morse held forth and L. H. Sisson 'll was soloist, was followed by the Palaeopitus initiation at the Old Pine. George Morris, president of 1911 Palaeopitus, conducted the ceremony when G. P. Bullard, C. R. Cabot, W. B. Elcock, J. B. Erwin, H. S. Fuller, E. W. Gammons, B. A Hoban, W G. Knapp, H. E. McElwain, C. E. Snow, and C. B. White were initiated . ... at 7:15 the classes formed on the campus and paraded to all college buildings. President Nichols spoke at his home, Dean Emerson from the Ad Building, and Professors Hastings and Patten from the Inn porch Seniors & juniors drank from the barrel of lemonade at the south end of the campus, but the freshmen rushed and upset the keg before the sophomores could partake. The three lower classes ran the gauntlet between rows of seniors, armed with their canes, seated on the Senior Fence Warren Agry, manager of baseball, presented to Tom Ready a gold watch, the gift of a large proportion of the student body Harry Butler for the seniors passed on the Senior Fence to the juniors. It was accepted by Arthur K. Lowell.
The College was saddened by the death of David Collin Wells, Yale 1880, professor of sociology, father of Collin Wells 'l3.
The Outing Club held its second annual meeting. President Fred Harris' report contained a few recommendations that he considered would increase the importance of the club. Secretary Lee White reported 97 members and that the card index of the individual records showed that Harris led in distance covered during the winter with 98 miles. Mr. Goldthwaite was second with 92 miles and Dr. Licklider third with 90. The following officers were elected, W. C. White 'l2, president; A. T. Cobb 'l2, vice president; M. C. Avery 'l3, treasurer; H. E. Allen 'l2, secretary.
Final exams were held in the new gym where "better lighting and proctoring facilities will be secured." .... Edward J. Daly elected captain of baseball, R. L. Steinert captain of track, E. F. Mensel captain of basketball, and C. S. Wells captain of hockey.
The Baccalaureate preached by Rev. Charles E. Johnson of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, opened Commencement. Monday was Class Day. Marshalled by J. E. Ingersoll and J. J. Conroy and headed by the Salem Cadet Band the senior class marched to the stand in College Yard to hear J. M. Irwin's Address of Welcome, Harry Butler's Address to the President, K. F. Clark's Class Oration, and Geo. M. Morris' Address to the Old Chapel; on to the Bema where Edward Stafford gave the Sachem Oration and E. F. Karr the Class Poem; then to the hilltop for A. M. Jackson's Address to the Old Pine
At the Commencement exercises in Web- ster Hall "degrees were conferred upon candidates" by Dean Emerson, Master of Arts degrees by Prof. H. D. Foster, and Honorary Degrees were conferred by Prof. E. J. Bartlett Amherst 6, Dartmouth 1 in the first game and Amherst 10-9 in the second Lewis Parkhurst '7B pre- sented his gift, Parkhurst Hall, to the col- lege following the President's reception. .... The Commencement Ball in the new gym ended the festivities. Music for the 24 dances with two extras was furnished by the Salem Cadet Band, and the supper in the Trophy Room at intermission was "by" Page of Lowell.
Most of the student body had already departed for home and summer work. Now the town was in its summer quiet again, waiting for summer school. "Havagood summer."
