About 25 Years Ago

THE ATHLETIC COUNCIL announced that Dartmouth would not meet Harvard in football the next year. William F. Garcelon, graduate manager of athletics, wrote that as Harvard desired a "less exacting series of contests" before the Yale game it had been deemed expedient to drop Dartmouth. . . . . Graduate Manager Harold McAllister stated that Dartmouth would meet Pennsylvania at Philadelphia for the first time in 15 years and that Carlisle would be added to the schedule for the first time in its history. Mass. Aggies started the schedule as announced, followed by Colby, Norwich, Vermont, Williams, Princeton, Amherst, Penn and Carlisle in that order.

The report from Shattuck Observatory showed January to be the warmest on record. The mean temperature, which had never risen above 25.8°, averaged 28.2°. The coldest day was January 13th with one below zero Eddie Shevlin of Boston was secured to give instruction in boxing and W. H. Cronan of Boston was engaged to assist Doc Bowler in advanced gym classes The 1913 Aegis proved to be a financial success and $448.18 was added to the class treasury.

Dartmouth won both the mile and the two-mile relay races at the B. A. A. games in Boston from M. I. T. and Harvard respectively. Whitney took second place in the 16-lb. shot-put and Brann finished third in a fast field of high hurdlers The varsity basketball team with Win Snow as the star defeated Penn 28 to 21 and the freshmen team won from Tufts freshmen 30 to 15. In its next game Dartmouth 18 Williams 16 was the result of the hard and fast game in Alumni Gymnasium.

The Winter Carnival eclipsed all previ- ous ones, in spite of lack of snow. Due to the recent thaw the ski jump was extremely slow. Among the jumpers were F. H. Har- ris 'll, G. F. Fox 'l3, C. E. Shumway 'l3, R. F. Varney 'l3 and D. T. Rogers 'l5. The snowshoe cross-country event was won by A. W. Bingham '16, with S. W. Saltmarsh '14 second and H. T. Ball '13 third. The ski cross-country event on the golf links was won by C. E. Shumway '13, who covered the 3 miles in 23:54; E. M. Noyes '15 came in second followed by F. H. Weed '14. The obstacle race took place on Faculty Pond and E. S. Bidwell '13 was the first to finish, followed by E. E. Clark '14 and D. E. Adams '13. F. A. Llewellyn '14 won the 220-yard dash in skating and C. A. Pudrith 'l6 captured first place in the quarter mile The Dramatic Club scored a grand success with "She Stoops to Conquer." E. V. K. Willson's Tony Lumpkin was the crowning performance of the evening. George Tilton '14 and Bill Castello '16 were truly dashing young blades. C. M. Claey's Mrs. Hardcastle was an entirely satisfactory piece of acting The feature of this third Carnival, the Outing Club Ball, was held in College Hall. "The dining hall was transformed into a mass of forest greenery." Patronesses were Mesdames E. F. Nichols, C. D. Adams, H. E. Burton, J. M. Gile, J. W. Goldthwaite, C. A. Harris and G. F. Hull. The dance committee was C. E. Shumway, Chairman, D. E. Adams, J. J. Barnett, J. Y. Cheney, G. L. Foster, H. C. McClary and F. P. Walsh, all 1913.

Harvard won in hockey 3 to 1, then Dartmouth defeated Springfield T. S. 6 to 1; Dartmouth 3, Yale 2 was the next result. For. the Carnival game the team beat Springfield for the second time 12 to o. The next game was a win over Cornell 7 to 1. Winning eight out of ten games ended a successful season coached by Rocque.

R. L. Bennett '13 was appointed captain of the undergraduate fire brigade. Nine juniors with the members of Palaeopitus composed the company, the first in any small college town Alvin Schroeder, the world's greatest cellist, assisted by Miss Hedwig Schroeder, pianist, Miss Edith Bullard, soprano and Miss Eleanor Morris accompanist in Webster Hall gave one of the best concerts heard in Hanover for many years John Mitchell, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, discussed "Philosophy, purpose and ideal of the Trade Union Movement" at the Smoke Talk.

Snow, Bickford and Loudon, in the close and rough basketball game with Williams, helped make the 18 to 16 score. The varsity defeated Columbia 20 to 9 but lost to Princeton 2 a to 12 and to Columbia 29 to 21. In this second game with Columbia the team was handicapped by having four men removed because of personal fouls. The New England Champions, Wesleyan, after being outclassed in the first period, pulled away to win 29 to 17. Sisson and Margeson were the stellar lights.

Dartmouth two mile relay team, Granger, Marceau, Harmon and Dolan, in the Indoor Intercollegiate Championships at Columbia on a poor track where spiked shoes were forbidden, defeated Cornell and Harvard—B min. 4% sec. Bud Whitney took third in the shot put The Athletic Council in a new departure in Dartmouth athletics assembled all "D" men in college at the Inn for a banquet. Athletics were discussed by the sixty odd men present. Joe Gannon '99 was toastmaster and the speakers included Irving French '01, "Moose" Engelhorn '14, Dr. Bolser, Coaches Hillman and Woods, Bob Hogsett '14, Karl Fulmer '13, Ray Bennett '13, Harold McAllister '13, Line Morton '13, Prof. Laycock, Dock Kingsford, Don Cunningham '13, Ralph Stone '13, Dave Morey '13 and Professors Bartlett, Burton, Lingley, Patten and Proctor. As you can imagine, many ideas and plans for improvement were advanced.

Seventy-six seniors aspired to class offices and the polls were open from 5 to 7:30 P.M. on February 28th. H. C. McAllister was elected president; J. G. Nelson, vice president; Wright Hugus, secretary; T. S. Jewett, treasurer; R. L. Bennett, marshall; W. M. Gibson, assistant marshall; W. L. Davis, floor director of the Commencement Ball. Seven members of the Executive Committee were Ball, Cornstock, Manley, Morey, Morton, Nutt and Wilkins; the Auditing Committee, Gardner, Sauer and Winship.

Under the auspices of Le Cercle Francais, M. Firnin Roz, member of the Academie Francaise, gave a series of lectures. . . . . Jack Delinger '14 was elected captain of the hockey team Coach Woods arrived in town to start baseball practice for battery candidates The 1916 debaters, E. H. Gumbart Jr., A. M. Behnke, W. H. Brown and J. D. Crewer Jr. held their first formal debate in Chandler The Athletic Council granted the insignia G. D. T. to the members of the gym team.

"SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER" Don S. Page Earle V. K. Willson C. M. Claeys