Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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THE ORACLE ’00.—Miss Alice Morgan is a Junior at Mt. Holyoke College. ’00.—Miss Edna Burr is a Junior at Mt. Holyoke College. ’00.—Miss Mary A. Ross, who is now a Junior at Alfred University, has been chosen Editor-in-Chief of ‘The Alfredian.”’ 700.— Miss Emma Miller is a Sophomore at Wellesley College. 00 —Miss Fanny Fish has changed her residence from Chicago to Brooklyn. ’00.—Charles Fountain, formerly of Columbia, is now taking his Junior year in the Baptist Theologi. cal Seminary, Louisville, Ky. ’00.—Walter Squires is at Wil- liams’ College. ’01.—Miss Ethel Titsworth, who is a Sophomore at Smith, has been made a member of the Washburn House Hockey Team, the champion hockey team of the College. ’01.—Miss Beulah Cline has se- cured a position as private secretary to Mr. Walter McGee, of the Stand- ard Oil Company. ’01.—Miss Lillian Maclay, after a post-graduate course at the High School, entered Mt. Holyoke in the fall. ’01.—Holly Titus, the class presi- dent, and Cyrus Kinsman are at Cornell University. ’02.—Miss Margaret Abbot and Miss Lulu Fuller are freshmen at Mt. Holyoke. Herbert Dyer, ex-’03, iscaptain of of his base-ball team in the Cincin- Bio hd e Boek 15 H. K. Doane, president, ex-’03, has been enjoying (?) immensely his first few months at Rutger’s. “Dave’? Pond, ’00, Princeton, 05, has been playing a snappy game at tackle on the varsity scrub this fall. He was full back on our 1900 team. Kenneth Bulkley, ’01, Columbia, 06, is playing half back on the Freshmen team. He played half back on our 1900 team. ALUMNUS LETTER. PRINCETON, N. J. Nov. 24, ‘02. The Editor of the ORACLE: May I congratuiate you and the students of the High School in general upon your decision to com- mence the issue of a school paper. Now-a-days a school, likea college, seems hardly complete without at least one publication, and this de- cision of yours seems to me to mark one more stepin thesteady advance our old institution has been mak- ing within the last few years. I suppose at present the most in- teresting subject down here at Princeton is football. While our season ended with the Yale game two weeks ago, we are now await- ing the decision in regard to the championship. Ofcourse Yale will have first place this year and by the result of last Saturday’s game we should have second, Yale having defeated Princeton 12-5 and beaten Harvard 23-0. In view of the fact that we lost through injuries Burke and Kaper,

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14 Alumni Notes Dr. F. J. Miller, Professor of Latin at the University of Chicago, and former Principal of the Plain- field High School, is spending the year abroad. °86.—Captain Tieman Horn, U.S. A., has been appointed one of ten captains to takea specialcourse in the torpedo school at Fort Tot- ten, ’90.—Edward Petrieisin business in Chicago. ’91.—Miss Edith Gilbert is teach- ing in the Randolph-Cooley colleg- iate school. ’94.—Champlain Riley, who was graduated from Cornell in 1898, has lately taken up his residence in Plainfield. °97.—Miss Edith Burt is teaching in the Seminary, Plainfield, New Jersey. °97.—William B. Van Alstyne has completed a course at Columbia, and will enter upon hospital work in January. 97.—Earnest Suffern who was graduated from Williams’ in 1901 has announced his engagement to Miss Georgia Greene, of Elizabeth. 97.—Louis Squires, Williams’, 1901, is studying law in New York City. ‘98.—Miss Constance S. Patton, Smith, 1902, is teaching at Saint Timothy’s School, Baltimore. °98.—Miss Carolyn Kampman, TAPES ORAC ITE Wellesley, 1902, is teaching in Can- ton, Ohio. °98.—Miss Lillian B. Hunt is the principal of a kindergarten in New York City: 98.—Miss Sarah Richards was graduated from Smith in June, and is now living in New York City. °98.—Miss Adele H. Kirby, after three years as assistant librarian in the Plainfield Public Library, has resigned her position. ’98.—Elwood L. Davis, Rutgers, 1902, is studying medicine in Phila- delphia. He was awarded third scientific honor at his graduation from Rutgers in June. °99.—Miss Angie Kuhl has been appointed the leader of the Glee Club at Wellesley. While on the Inter-Collegiate Geological Tour, she has recently been visiting her friends at Mt. Holyoke and Smith College. ’99.—Miss Helen Hall, who will be graduated in June from Welles- ley, is now specializing in German. ’99.— William C. Morgan is a Senior at Amherst. °00. —Miss Mary Lock is aJunior at Barnard. ‘00.—Miss Flora Campbell after two years spent at the Woman’s College, Baltimore, is now at Bar- nard. ] ’00.—Miss Emily Runyon is tak- ing a course in kindergarten work at the Ethical Culture School in New York. °00.—Miss Ruth Maxson is a Junior at Smith College.

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16 THE ORACLE our star quarter and full backs. it is surprising that Yale did not runup a larger score in her game with us. If it had not been for De Witt’s wonderful kicking she probably would have done so. But it wasa good clean game and the best team won. Few people realize, however, the difficulty with which we have to contend, as compared with either Yale or Harvard, in regard to the limited number of men we have to draw from. We turn out teams from a body of but fifteen hundred undergraduates against Yale’s three thousand and Harvard's double that number. That we are able to do so is due to the purely democratic spirit which pervades our athletics and to the fact that the best man gets the contested place without fear or favor. At the opening of this year’s sea- son, Our prospects were not very bright. Ourends and backs were all that could be desired, but the line was woefully weak. The out- look for next year is the best that could be desired. Only five men, three of them substitutes, will have graduated, and their positions will be filled by promising candi- dates. Davis, Henry, De Witt, Bu'ke and Kaper will play in the team again. After all, the most satisfactory thing is that nocharges of professionalism or of any other kind have been brought against any of our players. ‘ Which fact,”’ as Professor Henry Van Dayke re- cently remarked in an address to some of the undergraduates, “is a pleasant thing to realize even in defeat, and it leads to victories in the end.” The most important thing in the near future is the debate with Har- vard. Last year this resulted in a victory for Princeton, and we are looking for a repetition of such an outcome this year. Our previous recordin debating with Harvard has been one long succession of de- feats, last year being the first time we have won in several years. The inter-collegiate gun shoot was held here not long ago and re- sulted ina victory for Yale, with Harvard second, Princeton third and Pennsylvania fourth. The scores were remarkably close, Yale getting 206 out of a possible 250 clay birds, Harvard 205 and Prince- ton 204. Archer, the captain of the Princeton team, made a new inter-collegiate record by getting forty-seven birds out of a possible fifty. Candidates for the winter sports, hockey, basketballand gymnastics, have been called out and practice has begun inallofthem. The work of the two latter teams is some- what handicapped by the ineffici- ency of the old gymnasium, but work on the new oneis progressing rapidly, and it will be ready for use by spring. When completed, this will be one of the finest in the country. The main floor space measures 170 x 100 feet. and the Trophy Hall adjoining, 100 x 50. There will be the usual boxing,