Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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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,

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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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THE ORACLE fencing and wrestling rooms, run- ning track, baths, bowling alleys, etc., besides a tank 100 by 25 foot. The cross-country teamis getting into shape for the inter-collegiate meet on the 26th of this month, and the Triangle Club, the Univers. ity dramatic organization, has be- gun to prepare for the presentation of the comic opera, which every year is written and given by its members. This year the plan is to present it as far west as Chicago. I hope the Plainfield High School will be represented in the entering class here next fall and for many years to come, and wish you every success in the publication of the ORACLE. CoA. BROOKS, ’O1. The New Elocution Class. The morning of September 23 is long to be remembered, for on that day the new Elocution class was formed. Mr. Travell, afteralengthy address on the value of singing, announced that all boys unable or unwilling to sing could goto Room No. 3, and the girls to Room No. 5. Immediately some forty boys and a dozen girls responded, but it is only with the former that we are here concerned. Mr. Best broke the news as gently as possible, and yet the very thought of elocution brought forth a wail of protest. But tono avail. Hec- tograph copies of Lincoln’s Gettys- burg Address were distributed, with ag instructions to memorize it, and thus ended the first lesson. The following Tuesday Mr. Best delivered a learned address on the meaning and scope of elocution, discussing the definitions in Web- ster and the Century, and finally giving us one of his own to mem- orize. In the succeeding lessons we were told how to breathe properly, and were given some practice sentences for clear enunciation, of which the following are samples: She sells sea-shells; Coop up the Cook; She says she shall sew a sheet, etc., etc. Much merriment resulted, but the fun continues, for now we have selected readings by members of the class, taken in alphabetical order. And since the success of a class is directly proportional to the amount of fun to be gotten out of it, the new Elocutionclass bids fair to con- tinue on forever! Cyrit Brown, ’03. School Notes Miss Prescott, who left us last June. has returned to us and is fill- ing the place of Mr. Macnab during his illness. Could we not have a few more English or Caesar classes and keep here to teach them ? Cyril Brown attended the Yale- Harvard game. The school received a visit at Thanksgiving from Russel Bailey, ’02, and Wesleyan, ’06.