Conway Hall Preparatory School - Log Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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School Diary 1908-1909 Sept. io. 11. 12 . 13 - 14. 15 - 16. 1 7- 18. School open with two new Profs, on the Fac- ulty. Out till 10.00 o’clock. The fellows begin to come in in crowds. Sched- ules made out. Freshies are shown some of the mysterious places about town. A little baseball and ten- nis in the morning. Kingsberry gets the first demerit and that was for smoking a cigarette in the building. Everyone obeyed rules and went to church. Even Mr. Mowatt’s Y. M. C. A. was well attended. Work begins in earnest. Some stragglers ar- rive. Tennant says he is going to study hard (?). School songs and yells practiced in chapel. Profs. Hadden and Chadwick coach the squad in the rudiments of football. Students seated in the dining room. Hutchie makes same old speel on hazing, rules, etc. The coach — Wilder — made his appearance on the scene. Seats were assigned to the fellows in chapel. Several rooms were rough-housed, but no one is able to explain. Hand books were distributed. First meetings of the Literary Societies. The Night Riders took Hummel out for a drive over the country. Ask Emmert what the St. Peter ' s Club did to him. Squad picture taken. Sept. 19. Sure! We all saw the College Freshmen win the rush. The Indians defeated our team 53-0. Who took Vaughn and Kingsberry out to the High School to amuse the crowd? Every one went to the Y. M. C. A. reception to get something to eat. Even Dr. Reed was there. First session of Study Hall. 20. Rose certainly was popular with the old fellows in the evening, but luckily he could not be found and thus avoided some pleasure. Many long letters were written home. Chicken for dinner. Robinson peached’’ on Rose behind the building. He would have gotten his. but time was too short. “Peaching” is a mean trick. McLane tried to pacify the bunch. 21. Rose found out the meaning of a trip to the athletic field after dark. Some fellows think he should have had more. Everybody on? All the old students received a See Mee” card. 22. An interesting talk on Class Cutting was given in chapel by the Head Master. Show in town and a great many take cuts. 23. Training table started. Rev. Dr. Black led the chapel exercises. Dickinson, 14; Conway, o. Dr. Hutchison discovered four fellows sneak- ing out the back way to see the Indian-Leb- ancn Valley game. They each got five de- merits. 110

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Sept. 24. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30 . Oct. 1. “Bo” and Prof. Ohl had a wordy scrap. First call for candidates for the glee club. Ten- nant would like to earn his R’ but he still holds his record for laziness. After literary society was over the fellows went to see the moving pictures. First meeting of the Grand Order of Night Owls. The Royal Kicking machine did fine work and Adams was very artistically painted. Messrs. Smith, Robinson and Griffiths were put through some stunts to the great amusement of the Owls. Some students saw Dickinson defeat Western Maryland, 5-0 and others saw the Indian-Villa Nova game. Prof. Chadwick finds a good congregation of Home Baptists in “BO ' s” room. The St. Peter’s Club did fine work. The heavy rains put out the electric lights and we ate our supper in lamp light. Out till 10.30. First rain for a month. Prof. Swift used some jaw-breakers in class, but that is nothing new. At supper Hutchie told us the rules of the evening study period. Everybody went to the fire at 8.45 on condi- tion that they would come back as soon as it was over. “Hercules” Becker and several others spent the night in the office playing cards. Who took the “Drunk” to prayer meeting? Who put him out of the building? None other than Alfred the Great. Big day at the fair and no school in the after- noon. Emmert and Adams took well with some of those rosy cheeked country girls as did some others. Whiteman held a smoker in his room after lights. Baird, Cardon and Robinson stung for disturbing the peace at 12.30 a. m. The football players were not able to sleep. Ill 3. The team went to Philadelphia and was de- feated 15-0 by the Freshmen of University of Pennsylvania 4. No going to church for the majority. They heard and talked the game over instead. Some of the fellows enjoyed long walks with their town friends. 5- Capt. “Mack” and Prof. Hadden told about the game in chapel. Blue Monday. Reseated in the dining room. 6. Tri-weeklies begin. Awful! Hutch, broke up the dance in chapel. Boarding students were given advice about throwing water (?) from their windows. 7. What about that scrap with the college that the fellows picked? Dockie Reed” soon settled that. Those exams, are over. 8. “Rip” Shearer elected by the day students to represent them in the school Senate. “Three so-called seniors” were called down in chapel for not standing to sing. Then the head mas- ter began to talk. Dr. Black received some strange welcomes when he called on some of the fellows such as Wood, Whiteman, “Bo,” Bergen and others. 9. The student body elected Whiteman to the Sen- ate. After the societies were over, some of the fellows went to a reception at the First Presbyterian Church. 10. Everyone was out to give the team a good send- off to Pottstown. Hill, 17; Conway, o. Inno- cent Prof. Ohl did not like the word devil so he made the following announcement in the dining hall: “There will be a meeting of all candidates for positions on the team that plays against the preachers, immediately after dinner in the chapel. Out to meet the team.