Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Q.. AfBJ Qs'-X 4 At the end of October the endeavors of the athletic teams in the previous Spring were rewarded when the Athletic Association awarded eighty sports insignia. Most of the awards were of the usual nature, but the members of the 150-pound crew received major sport letters in token of their victory at the American Henley Regatta. Discouraged by the outcome of the Syracuse football rally of the preceding season, Student Board decided in an early meeting that the gridiron team would play just as well Without the assistance of pep meetings. Pressure was brought to bear, however, and a rally was planned for the night before the Cornell encounter. Aided by the Band and a fraternity cannon. the rooters assembled in Commons to listen to Coach Depler relate the prospects of the team for the following afternoon. With the usual cheering and enthusiasm that is indis- pensable for meetings of this sort. the rejoicing students filed out and started the snake dance down Broadway. Unfortunately the Band was going through a much-needed marching drill. so their services were lost to the rooters. At llOth Street the major portion of the gathering voted for the subway. The underground was quickly A'crashed and the first train was boarded with maniacal glee. Car lights were extinguished with little difhculty, and advertis- ing and destination signs were removed as souvenirs. Several discovered the emergency stop cord that runs through each car, and the train made slow prog- ress to Times Square. Most of the passengers clebarked at 96th Street, but those who remained on the ill-fated train witnessed an example of college-boy buffoonery at its worst. Thirty-five minutes behind schedule, the express finally limped into Times Square station, minus most of the windows and a goodly number of seats. THE 1'z4TH COMMENCEMENT f 27 I

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9, Ag-,9amsC99, as By means of guerrilla warfare the Sophomores managed to get the rope out on Broadway. Here the Frosh came up with reinforcements and with the aid of the rope the two classes succeeded in tying a delightful traffic knot. Down on Riverside Drive several trees were ensnared when some bright fellow brought peace back to Morningside Heights by cutting the rope. . Bringing sections of the rope to prove their victory, both classes returned to South Field and the battle was inal- ly over. On Columbus Day the Medical Center was opened at l68th Street, signifying that the College of P. 25 S., the Dental School, Sloane Hos- pital and the Vanderbilt and Squier Clinics had joined the group of buildings up at THE BAKER PLAQUE IS UNVEILED Washington Heights. While the Sophomores were hearing the Freshmen sing the Columbia songs at the annual song fest, Jester appeared in its new make-up for the Fall. New departments were started, while the type, style and scope of the magazine were radically altered. The rebuilt comic proved to be very popular, and the new features were retained throughout the year. Informal smokers of the Freshman Class, held in John Jay Hall through- out the Fall also helped in solidifying the yearlings into one group. Several water fights from the dorm windows proved amusing for a few students, but the consequences in most cases were rather severe. A group of brilliant Fresh- men decided that inasmuch as the Frosh rules forbade them to sit on the Hamilton fence they would prevent all others from using the seat. Accordingly, the top of the fence was treated to a coat of red non-drying paint one night, and several trousers were ruined before B. '25 G. came to the rescue and redaubed the mess. Class pictures for Columbian were taken after the usual postponements which seem to be necessary every year. Marie Saxon posed with the Sopho- mores, and Odette Nlyrtil was secured to sponsor the Seniors. When the latter Hnally arrived, however, the picture had been taken and most of the Seniors had gone their way. The debate squad met the Oxford University team in its annual inter- national match, but the audience decided with the Englishmen, who advocated the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations. Interest at this time was centering on the presidential election which was about to be held. Spectator stated that national politics held but little interest for the average undergraduate, and that few of its readers would cast ballots in the election. Accordingly, an editorial maintained that the Campus daily would take no sides in the campaign but would remain strictly neutral. Although this editorial stand was not contested, clubs were formed supporting Hoover, Smith and Thomas and Spectator finally succumbed and announced that it would take a straw vote poll of its readers. ln all only 527 votes were cast, while candidate Hoover nosed out candidate Smith by a margin of twenty-ive tallies. Blue Pete, running as a dark horse, received three votes in the poll. A if E f l26J

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9, AJLQJWLQFHC 4 After serenading the Columbia and Cornell Clubs, the group disintegrated, one portion returning to the Campus to visit Brooks Hall and the other con- tinuing South on Fifth Avenue in order to pay the public library lions a respectful visit. One immediate result of the rally was some unwholesome pub- licity in the downtown newspapers, while the football team battled to a score- less tie with Cornell in a sea of mud at Baker Field the following afternoon. Amelia Earhart visited the Campus as a guest of the Women's Graduate Club and spoke on her adventures while making the trip across the Atlantic, while Student Board, undaunted by the failure of the Dartmouth special train, made plans for a trip to Philadelphia for the Penn game. The Glee Club deter- mined to give three concerts in New York instead of the usual two, and plans were laid for the College concert to be given at the Waldorf on Thanksgiving Eve. After persistent pleas from Spectator and the student body, the Men's Resi- dence Hall Committee realized that the telephone service in Hartley, Livingston and Furnald was not all it might be, and the committee planned to install a buzzer system to call dormitory residents to the telephones. The work was started immediately, but in order to limit the inconvenience, progress was exceedingly slow. The next day news of an extension to Schermerhorn, similar to the Chandler extension North of Havemeyer, was released. The new build- ing will facilitate research and when completed will cost one million dollars. The football team managed to defeat Johns Hopkins by a l4-l3 score in a poorly played game, and shortly afterward Student Board supervised the Freshman Class elections. The several Junior Week committees were an- nounced, with George J. Banigan '30 in charge of the arrangements. A golf tourna- ment was run off for the first time in several years, and Monroe l. Katcher ll '29 succeeded in secu.ring twenty-two entrants for the matches. Just prior to the Penn game the Athletic Association released the basketball schedule for the coming season. Navy and Fordham appeared as new-comers on the list, while an extra game was added. Six hundred rooters journeyed to Philadelphia with the Band on the special train, while several hundred others made the trip by private car and bus, Despite this wholesale support from the student body, the team lost to Penn by a 34-7 margin. H Spectator came to the limelight once more with an article on student mar- riage which it reprinted from a Cornell literary magazine. The article, which caused little comment when it appeared at Ithaca, received columns and columns of space from the metropolitan press. Unfortunately the downtown correspon- dentsiconfused the idea of the article with companiate marriage and in this form it was broadcast throughout the country by several news syndicates. Spec- tator's columnists celebrated the event in high glee. Angus satirized the Cornell article in his column the next day, while Off-Hour printed a burlesque of the dramatic review column which appeared regularly in the neighboring space. At the same time Spectator stated that something radically wrong had attacked the football team. Editorials and letters to the editor hinted that with THE FROSH ARE WELCOMED l 23 l