Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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fa- 4fL9J Qsx 4 the wealth of material at the start of the season the team should have made a better record. This discussion before the close of the season was unfortunate for the morale of the team, but once started it refused to be halted. Charles Fremd '29 wrote a Sidelines in which he stated that the coaching of the team was perhaps not perfect. This drew a lengthy letter from Captain Adler '28, who claimed that Coach Crowley was the best coach in the country and that the real trouble lay in the sparsity of reserve material, At this time the Sophomore Class gave a dance in the meeting room of John Jay and startled those who attended the affair by actually producing Marie Saxon, the musical comedy star who agreed to spon- sor the hop. Professor Walter Henry Hall gave up the directorship of the Culee Club. and William McDonald '27 was appointed to succeed him. The day before the Syracuse game, on Thanksgiving Day, the Athletic Association put an end to all criticisms of Coach Crow- ley's ability as a gridiron mentor by announc- ing that he had been reappointed for the l929 season. The Glee Club Thanksgiving Dance, given expressly for undergraduates, was a pronounced success. The start of December saw the beginning of the fraternity rushing season. Greek letter houses all over the Campus strove to entertain the yearlings better than their competitors. At the close of the period it was learned that sixty-two per cent. of the class had been bid by the various fraternities, a figure which is believed to be a high record. Despite the heavy bidding, only 175 Freshmen were pledged, with Delta Upsilon taking the largest delegation of eighteen pledgees. The beginning of December saw the first call for candidates of the pony ballet of Varsity Show, while Morningside published an issue which sold out immedi- ately. A second edition of the independent Campus literary magazine was ordered, and again a large sale was enjoyed. Cane Spree practice was started, and the usual wails from managers concerning lack of material could be heard emanating from the Auxiliary Gymnasium. Just prior to the opening of the basketball season the Athletic Association awarded nine- teen Varsity letters along with many minor insignia. Several days thereafter the eighteen men who received football C's gathered to elect a captain for the 1929 season. The re- sult was a tie between Campbell and Bleecker and several ballots and recounts failed to change the situation. After many months of uncertainty, the Athletic Committee announced that the election would be postponed until after the third game next Fall. For a time it was thought that this would put an end to the discussion but in the middle of February Campbell announced that he would withdraw . , , 4 THE FROSH GET WET THE TUG OF WAR IS RENEWED - E291

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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

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,F ,191 Levy -, --7 7-puns-us: lil i , his name from the competition. In a few days the football squad elected Bleecker to the captaincy. ' As soon as the fraternity rushing season was over the Campus was startled to learn that charges of breaking the Interfraternity Agreement had been made against several houses. Dean Hawkes investigated the charges, together with a committee consisting of Ben Hubbard, Hugh H. Gardner '29, Harold A. Rousse- lot '29 and Berton J. Delmhorst '29, but failed to ind any proof of infraction. Inasmuch as these were the Hrst charges to be brought since the agreement went into effect in 1925, they caused considerable comment from fraternity men. Coach Glendon issued his first call for Freshmen crew candidates just before the Christmas recess, while the Sophomores de- feated the Freshmen in the cane spree bouts by a 6-l margin. Thus the yearlings were denied the privilege of smoking class pipes on the Campus after Washington's Birthday. The start of classes in the new year saw the play committee of Varsity Show Iinally come to an agreement concerning the 1929 show. I The closest decision in the history of Varsity ' Shows gave the award to William P. Smith's script, on a 3 to 2 ballot, over the play writ- ten by Harold S. Neuberger '29 and A. Edward Stasheff '29. Thirty-seven men and women delegates from South African universities, on a tour of American educational institutions, spent several days on the Campus and were entertained in John Jay. While in the United States they were in the care of the National Student Federation. The Deutsches Haus, abandoned by the University when the nation declared war against Germany in l9l7, was re-opened with an appropriate ceremony and Germany was again represented on 117th Street, along with Italy and France. The Freshman Class succumbed to the sponsor craze, and invited Dorothy Stone to - A attend their hop in John Jay. The dance proved to be quite successful, the yearlings following the pre- cedent of the Sophomore Class in picking a sponsor who would actually attend. A minor campaign for a College Theatre was started, and after repeated editorials had been written on the subject, slight progress was made. Further developments in the dramatic situation at Morning- side Heights are anticipated, however. Ticket sales for the Junior Prom were started just before the mid- year examination period, and Spectator, suspecting that its pages were never read during the season of academic storm and stress, decided that it would sus- pend publication entirely until the start of the Spring semester. Early in February Dean Woodbridge asked to be relieved of his position at the head of the Faculties of - - Politics, Philosophy and Pure Science so that he could . PETER BRADY, BLUE continue his research in Philosophy. His resignation was accepted by the Board of Trustees, and Professor Howard L. lVlacBain was appointed to the post. I tm BUT THE MELODY LINGERS ON PETE AQ 1