"Lookin Back"
NONCHALANTLY dropping one hundred years off the age of the College in its headline, THE DARTMOUTH of September 18, 1913 heralded the opening of the "45th" year of Dartmouth to start off our Junior year with a "record" enrollment of 1280, of which 286 were Juniors.
We found Hitchcock Hall ready for occupancy; Robinson Hall well underway, and the announcement of the gift of Edward Tuck for the building of the now beautiful Tuck Drive. Far above the bickerings of the infantile freshmen and sophomores, our first act was to start sitting for Aegis pictures and to elect the committee for the gala social event of the year —Junior Prom. The class named Milt Ghee, Johnny Woolverton, Harry Ellms, George Hutchins and George Dyke, with Bill Huntress and Phil Alexander, auditing committee (to audit the deficit, probably). Milt was chosen chairman by the committee.
There was no Harvard game that fall to look forward to, but Penn, Princeton and Carlisle were the objectives and 1915 footballers shone from the start—Ghee, Curtis, Whitney, Murdock, Tuck, Bill Rogers, Milmore, Lafferty, Redfield and Cannon helped to take Princeton 6-0 and Penn 34-21. However, the Carlisle Indians socked us 35-10 and put the only blot on the year's records of their white aborigine cousins. Bud Whitney was elected captain for 1914.
Early in the fall class officers were elected with Wanamaker as president; Child, vice president; Dave Kinne, secretary and Ev Lamson, treasurer. About this time John E. Johnson '66 added to his many gifts three more cabins for the Outing Club.
Pray and Livermore ranked among the elite in the fall tennis, BUT—here's one for 1940—the cup for the consolation prize was never awarded as the matches were not completed. Visiting -Stick Parnell recently, who as assistant manager of tennis, was its custodian, we dug up the old cup, tarnished and showing its age, but still intact and properly inscribed. So Stick is going to bring it along for belated competition in 1940, and a match under the flood lights in front of Dartmouth Hall has been suggested with midnight of the second day as being reasonably appropriate.
The Musical Clubs carried on their rolls the same 15ers as in year before, with the addition of—Mandolin Club: Ben Grills, Elliott Sharp and Russ Chase; the Glee Club: Jack Bowler; the Band: Dick Coon, Sam Wright, Runie Rowell, Jim Harlow and Ed O'Shea.
The debating society dressed up became the Forensic Union with Ed Mabie, Gov Jordan and Cecil Whitney as leading lights, while the powers announced that varsity non-athletic "D's" would go to team members.
Thorn t Pray alone of 1915 graced the golf team; the usual dramatic personalities trod the boards as the season opened, newcomers being George Young and—hold everything—Stan Llewellyn cast as a "defaulter"! Early issues of the Bema found Gov Jordan continuing his remarkable series of poems of the outdoors, and a poem by Beards Ruml with stories by Dave Kinne, Dabney Horton and Johnny Mullin were headlined.
In the fall track meet outdoors, all the old luminaries of the class shone anew, but added to the roll were Murray Austin, Jack Warren and Bob Griffin. It was early that same fall that the College added a new athletic departure—the Gym Team—and Ev Lamson, Ben Grills, Jack Hurlbert and Max Saben found niches in a new hall of fame.
King Cook and Ralph Sawyer won the day in the Lincoln-Douglas debate by arguing a winning yes to make Ireland free (page Ray King to sing the AOH's of the U.S.A.)
Dartmouth football players wore numbers for the first time in the Carlisle game that fall Dyke, Ghee, Graves, Milmore, Wanamaker, Whitney were 15ers in the fire squad— (25 years makes them veteran firemen, so bring your red shirts in June) Some intrepid statistician discovered that the average cost of food in the Commons was $3.90 per week. .. .the Red Rover was chosen for the 1914 Prom Show, with Dave Kinne as co-author Gov Jordan starred in The New Sin (he's probably learned many since), and Herb Potter was tops in The Workhouse Ward. ... .Football "D's" went to Curtis, Ghee, Whitney, Bill Rogers and Murdock Cross country "D's" to Granger and Merrill .... in interclass basketball we beat 1914 with Sid Crawford starring, but lost the final to 1917 13-12.
Witter Bynner, famous playwright of that day and author of The Little King, came to Hanover to see his play by the Dramatic Association and opined there-after that Dartmouth dramatics equalled any in the country. And an editorial in THE DARTMOUTH of December 18, 1913 said: "THE DARTMOUTH feels it ought to mention him whom a false modesty banishes from the program of the Dramatic Association—to W. F. Wanger '15 is the College indebted for the plays presented Tuesday evening for their action; to C. E. Harwood 'l5 also is credit due for the smoothness of the staging and the remarkable effects."
The hockey team was in and out, winning from Yale but losing to the famous Hobey Baker and his Tigers. Wanamaker, Tuck, Donahue, Bowler, Pendleton, Livermore were the 15ers, the first three winning "D's," and Leon was named as captain at the close of the season.
Ray Perry won second prize in the Rollins Prize Speaking Basketball season started off with Pete Winship in a regular berth January 13, 1914 was the coldest since 1877 with 20 below at noon.. . . the indoor track season found Whitney the highest scorer, with others above the average in the persons of Granger, George Read, Phil Smith, Lafferty and Hulbert.
HIGH COST OF LIVING
.... Homer Eaton Keyes said in a national symposium of the colleges that $700 was enough for a Dartmouth student's college expenses for a year.
Thus ended the first half of Junior year —eventful and with promise of more to come as spring elections for Senior year neared.
The rest of Junior year to come, so tune in again on the January issue.
Until then, ye ed of Lookin' Back signs off with—
See you in June—'15 UP.
