Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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When the underclass contest came we beat the Sophomores a rainy game of baseball by the score of fourteen to six, but lost a muddy game of football by the score of I5 to 0, and lost the track meet, 84 to 20. Our combination cider raid and flag rush, held on Hallowe'en night at Forest Home was the last Cornell has seen. We paid for the cider and will long remember its fine flavor, and then Went out into the open and lost the rush. On November 24th, Eddie Toohill persuaded our football team to go up to his home town, Auburn, where it defeated the Auburn Business College by the score of I0 to 0. A feature of the game was a 40-yard touchdown run by Eddie, to the great joy of the inhabitants. Beyond the province of the present historian is a discussion of the comparative values of the dry Freshman banquet and the wet Freshman banquet. Why the class of Nineteen-Two chose the former, and how much the Kellys, the co-eds and other politicians influenced that choice, it is equally beyond his power or desire impartially to say. To answer these questions is required a knowledge of ethics and sociology and college administration, and a capacity for historical research, that is far from being his. At the banquet, which was held at the Ithaca on the evening of February 21st, everything was successful, as usual, except the speeches of the Freshmen. Al Bole won the reputation for briefness by saying eleven words of one syllable on Our Baseball Team g Johnny Francis laughed for a few minutes on the subject of Sub- Froshf' Billy Eckert was as eloquent as he could be regarding Our Futuref' and Philip B. Fitzpatrick, with an enthusiasm born of intimate acquaintance with his subject, talked on Grinds. Two days after the banquet occurred the 1900 Junior Smoker, which we were not allowed to attend, and in this connection it is interesting to note that our own Junior Smoker was the first to which Freshmen were admitted. Meanwhile our crewcandidates were at work, and the result was the boat-load composed of Francis, Toohill, Powley, Petty, Teagle, Haskin, Chase, Brinckerhoff and long that defeated Columbia and Pennsylvania at Poughkeepsie. This crew kept together in Sopho- mhre year, and, with one exception, in Junior year when they Won the class races. Nineteen-Two has been rightly proud of them, both as oarsmen and as classmates. At the class election in Sophomore year, the firmness in the right of the Wood- ford Club adherents of Richmond Pearson Hobson Shreve secured a brilliant victory for that energetic candidate over William Wallace Foote and the Sibley men who Wi' Wallace bled. Shreve and Kent, when all was over, gazed at each other with the same rapt attention with which the Ithaca women listen to Hi Corson, and straightway mapped out the campaign for the ensuing three years. After a decent interval the selec- tions of Ross Fernow as chairman of the Cotillion, Bill Kugler as leader, and Dad Whitbeck as chairman of the Smoker, were announced. The Smoker was held in the Armory and the proceeds were about enough to buy a set of oars for the Navy, while with the Cotillion surplus a show-case was bought for the Trophy Room. We won the underclass baseball game, 5 to I, and the track contest by a 9