About 25 Years Ago

EXAMS OVER. The students mentally bloated with facts and figures, details and theories entered the second semester. The average man could not attain now the marks possible a week before.

The football rules committee, P. D. Haughton of Harvard, Walter Camp of Yale, W. N. Morice of Penn. and E. K. Hall of Dartmouth, chairman, announced radical changes The debating team, C. E. Snow 'is, A. K. Lowell '12, A. Hornblow '15, E. E. Mabie '15, negative, and D. B. O'Connor '12, H. E. McElwain '12, C. F. Shepard '12 and S. A. Stravrum '13, affirmative, met Williams and Brown. The subject: "Resolved, that in dealing with such industrial combinations as the Standard Oil Cos. and the American Tobacco Cos., a policy of Federal control without dissolution is preferable to a policy of dissolution designed to enforce competition." . . . . C. E. Snow, first, and D. B. O'Con- nor, second, were announced as winners of the Lockwood Debating Prizes.

Dartmouth in basketball won from Penn 19 to 18 and then a week later Penn took Dartmouth 12 to 18. Both teams were thus on even terms in the lead for the intercollegiate championship. Columbia followed winning 18 to 17 over the Green team and three teams were tied for the honors The team then won at Yale 14 to 12 and from Princeton at New York 42-12 Sisson led in the number of individual points scored in the league—119 with Benson of Columbia with 92, his nearest competitor.

The hockey season ended as the most unsuccessful in years. Harvard won 7 to 3 at the Arena on February 9th. Then Yale defeated Dartmouth 4 to 3 in the last minute of play. Cornell won 5 to 2 H. W. Mason '13 was elected captain of next year's hockey team .... much promising material from the freshman class would be available.

"ATOMS AND ORANGES"

February nth and 25 below zero. In chapel Prof. Hull gave his now famous talk on "Atoms and Oranges," followed by wooding up Thirteen baseball candidates answered the first call on the arrival of Coach Walter Woods Fire in the E. T. Ford and American Express Cos. block. The Jack O'Lantern was a tenant of the building. Heroism of the local fire department prevented a conflagration and Hanover was saved to the nation Lyman H. Howe's moving pictures were shown in Webster Hall to a large audience under the auspices of the Dartmouth Christian Association.

Dartmouth four man relay met M. I. T. in the B. A. A. games and the team, Capt. Steinert, Gardner, Dolan and Haywood, won. "Bud" Whitney won the shot put. .... At the Columbia Relay Carnival in New York Whitney set a new American record of a total of 78 feet 6 inches in the right-hand and left-hand shot put. In the relay race Dartmouth finished fourth in a field of six colleges.

Warm weather did not mar the success of the second Winter Carnival. Five hundred people watched the events in the Vale of Tempe. Nine men entered the crosscountry snowshoe race and S. L. Day '14 and A. S. Holway '12 and G. B. McClary '13 finished in that order. F. H. Harris '11 and little "Dick" Bowler gave exhibitions of ski jumping. A. T. Cobb '12, J. BacheWing '15 and J. Y. Cheney '13 won the first three places in the cross-country ski race The carnival dance in Commons, which had been turned into a veritable woods, was a great success Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" by the dramatic club, starring J. R. Erwin '12 and G. H. Tilton '14, brought the carnival to a close.

Sigma Chi held an informal house warming at the new chapter house on Webster Ave. followed by a banquet at the Inn. Prof. C. E. Bolser '97, presiding as toastmaster, had his hands full with a formal program of eleven alumni and eight undergraduate speakers The Boston Festival Orchestra and Madam Marie Sundelins gave a concert in Webster Hall. .... Doc Kingsford read a highly technical paper on "Etiology of Tumors" in Wilder Hall before the Scientific Association The Dramatic Club took "The Importance of Being Earnest" on the road to Winchester, Mass. and Exeter, N. H.

Fire broke out on the third floor of Wentworth Hall and did but little damage. Furniture and furnishings, however, were brought and thrown from the building, and it was 17 below zero.

WENTWORTH HALL DURING THE FIRE