December, 1920
The afterglow of the football season dies out slowly with reviews, ratings, and All American selections. It is announced definitely that Pittsburgh will not be on the new Dartmouth schedule. Letters from alumni deplore the poor cheering and singing by Dartmouth rooters.
Basketball, under Zahn, gets under way with 1923 represented by Cullen, Conley, Heep, Landauer, Moore, Millar, and sixbutton Mackedon.
Hockey practice starts in the Gym, moving later to Occom Pond and then to the wind-swept rink beyond the Gym. Billings, Calder, Eaton, Furey, Neidlinger, Paisley and Smith are sophomore prospects. At the moment Osborne and Foster, later to be stars, are unreported.
President Taylor presided at the second Class Smoker. Harry Wellman was the speaker and the entertainment consisted of an account of the Seattle trip by Eddie Lynch, a banjo duet by Hubert and Height, and a boxing match of three rounds between Aschenbach and Dutton.
J. S. Coonley, '23, played in "Androcles and the Lion." Halsey Mills was rehearsing for the Carnival show. But popular fancy stuck with the Nugget where gorgeous femininity was represented by Bebe Daniels, Elaine Hammerstein and Dorothy Dalton.
The short month ended with the exodus by special trains for Christmas vacation. Was this the day when the thermometer hit fifty below zero or was that freshman year?
