About 25 Years Ago
APRIL showers were snow storms. Quizzes and make-up exams filled the time until the spring vacation started on the fourth.
At 2:20 A.M. on the 15th the ill-fated 5.5. Titanic sank.
College opened on the 19th with snow on the ground and in the air, and the musical clubs returned from their trip, which consisted of five successful concerts at Holyoke, Mass., Albany, N. Y., Hartford, Conn., Worcester, Mass., and Lowell, Mass. Eighteen men from the Mandolin Club and sixteen from the Glee Club, with H. F. Jacobus '12, accompanist, and T. L. Brennock '12 manager, made the trip.
The ball team won three out of the four spring trip games: the victories: over Columbia 3 to 2, West Point 6 to o and Seton Hall l to 0. Penn defeated the green team 6 to 3 Captain Daley and Hoban showed up well and Howard Fahey '14 proved to be the right man in the right place at short stop. Matt Hallett '14, Dave Morey '13, .and Louis Ekstrom '13 were most promising twirlers.
Returns from 102 institutions in the U. S. showed that fraternity conditions at Dartmouth were typical. The short chinning system was the most popular throughout the country Two delegates from the Webster Club attended the sixth annual convention of the Intercollegiate Civic League at Columbia University and the banquet at Washington, D. C. One of the speakers at the dinner was Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt Many students registered in order to vote April 23rd to help carry Hanover for Teddy Roosevelt, although Taft carried New Hampshire.
Fred A. Bishop of Boston was secured to coach "The Green Parasol." He had successfully produced "The Promenaders" and "The Summer Bachelors" previously. . . . . George Steele '13 was operated on for appendicitis Prof. Curtis Hidden Page visited Hanover in preparation to taking up his work in Hanover.
Tennis candidates were out in the baseball cage. Most promising were Nelson '13, Hugus '13, Webber '14, Gannon '13, Nutt '13, Gulick '13 and S. A. Clark '12. The season to open on May 5th with M.I.T. . . . . The class of 1899 presented to the College a Daniel Webster clock from his home in Marsh field, Mass Marc Wright '13 presented with a cup, donated by C. B. Baxter '10, for his feat of twice breaking the college pole vault record . . . . the track training table started.
Tuck, Thayer and Medical Schools held graduation exercises and Pres. Nichols presented diplomas. A dinner was held in the evening in College Hall. Thirty-five degrees were given—14 Thayer, 13 Tuck and 8 Medics .... spring football under Coach Elcock started.
Dartmouth defeated Bowdoin 13 to 3 on the campus in the opening game and the next day 22 to 2. Morey's brilliant pitching and Gammons clever fielding were bright spots of the first game The freshman team showed strength in the game with the varsity but lost 8 to 4. . . . . P. W. Loudon '14 was appointed freshman baseball coach for the season.
Turtle, the Junior secret society, was disbanded by unanimous consent, as announced by R. L. Bennett, H. A. Barends, and E. A. Davis. It was founded in 1902.
Nine track men competed in the Penn Relays. Enright '13 won the high jump clearing 5' 11", winning from Burdick of Penn and Thorp, the Indian jumper. Marc Wright tied with Gardner of Yale for 3rd place in the pole vault. Whitney and Marden took second and third in the discus. The four-mile relay team, Dolan, Ball, Day and Harmon, each running a one-mile lap, took third place to Penn and Michigan, finishing first and second.
Senior canes were in evidence. For over a quarter of a century, for the Class of 1886 originated the idea with a rough oak cudgel which persisted up to about 1900, when the Indian Head was added, the seniors have carved hieroglyphics and names on these canes Members of the 1914 Aegis board were elected: W. B.
Humphrey, H. A. Castle, J. N. Hazen, L. K. Little, G. C. Sleeper, F. J. McCullough Jr., and A. A. Tukey The annual freshman-sophomore debate in A Dartmouth resulted in a 2 to 1 victory for the sophs: H. A. Pease '14, L. D. White '14, and E. Briggs Jr. '14 over C. E. Whitney '15, C. B. Jordan Jr. '15, and J. B. Forres tall '15.
"The Green Book," a new departure in publications, which was designed to serve as a Year Book of the freshman class, was issued.
The Seniors, for the first time, donned caps and gowns, new or borrowed, and marched into Chapel while "Harmony" Morse rendered the usual Priest's March.
The month ended with another fire; this time one of unknown origin on the third floor of Crosby Hall, but the damage to the building was small although the students living on the third and second floors suffered considerable damage from water and smoke.
