Haverford School - Haligoluk Yearbook (Havertown, PA)

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i p Q V 1A ,, , W., hit the world in the following year, students were given spending money to an amount which Was, to put it mildly, quite ample. November 19, 1928. CTo brotherj . . . but I suppose FCXD was no different when you were here at Col- lege. For yesterday's algebra class we rigged up an alarm clock on one of the chandeliers. It went off at exactly nine o'clock. Effie followed some seconds later. He was already a bit put out because all the windows were stuck closed. It was a curious coincidence that all the handles to turn the radiators off were also missing. And you know how Effie likes his fresh air . . . I thought this place was going to be pretty tough. So far I haven't had to do much work. But I guess I didn't get such bad preparation in Woodbury High after all . . . November 21, 1928. Report of Mr. Hoo of the Freshman Class for the First Quarter of the Academic Year, 1931-1932. English 1-C hIath lc!-D French 2-F Biology 1-D German A-E History 1-D Math 1-A Phys. Tr. 3-C General Average 58.8 November 22, 1928. CTo homel . . got a lot of tough breaks in my examinations. I will try to do better at the half-year. November 26, 1928. CTo homej . . . so the faculty, not satisfied that the college is stiff enough, has contrived a new scheme of torture, known as the comprehensive examina- tion, to be taken in your major subject at the end of four years. We had a big bonfire last Friday night for a sort of pep meeting before the Delaware game. After the soccer game with Swarthmore, some of their boys tried to light it. There was a general fight following. Coach Harman waded in swinging with both right and left. To my knowledge the only person he hit was myself . . . I feel better today. December 5, 1928. CTo homej . . . the refrain of this letter ought to be The old grey pants! They ain't no more. We had a pants fight with the sophs. We lined up at 13

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SENIOR CLASS IN RHINIE YEAR Rudge, Sipple, Ferris, Houston, Lawrence, Foley, Lipsitz, Gibbs, Feroe, Zapp. Tabakin, Strong, Crozer, Haines, Kohn, Fields, Bean, Gerenbeck, Richards, Succop, Wlatkins, deLagunu, Ayers, Cadbury, Conner. Jopson, Bliss, Fox, Young, Stockwell, Powell, LaDue, Strickler, Kretschmer, Taylor, Scudder, Osgood, Woodward, Bourne Wvagner, Potts, Brinton, Pusey, Hollander, Wlertime. Bailey, Parker, Eckert, Dothard, Nelson, Ballard, Allendoerfer, Katzenbach, Reed, McKinlay, Irion, Baker, Bijur, Smiley Elkinton, Rhoads, Gaskill, Wray, Roberts.

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one end of the Held, the sophs at the other. At the signal we rushed in at each other, and in no time the field was a mass of rags and Wiggling humanity. I had sewed my pants on previously, so the sophs were able to do little with them. We won 3-Q. The Customs Committee has let us off rules for a while. December 17, 1928. CTO girl friendj . . . and the dean called me into his office. He said I got sixteenth in the class on my psychological exam, while I was seventy-second in general scholastic average. He told me that they would be much more likely to kick out somebody that showed ability to do good work but didn,t do it than somebody who did worse on the psych exam and had the same average. I guess I better get my nose down to the grindstone. The Freshman class gave an entertainment for the rest of the college last night in the form of skits from the stage show of the Ne-Hi night club. Modesty rather forbids my going into any detail about the acts. You would think from this clipping that John sent me that Haverford is an armed camp at present . . YF - From the Johns Hopkins News Leiter: At the present time students of Haverford are walking about the campus trying to look as innocent as possible, for a number of thefts on the campus have been the cause of a searching investigation by the authorities. 14