The Illman School - Span Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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victory over Willianisoii School, 33 to 23. On the same evening the orchestra gave a concert which was enjoyed by all Qwho wentj. February AMW, -g Mr. Surrette started the month by a lecture on Grieg ff ii A Tl1is was followed by another victory for The Hill over Chester I E yi High School, 39 to 12. On the same evening Mr. Powers recited EQ . The Rivals, which was thought by some to be his best recital W X ever made at The Hill. Mr. Clarence Eddy gave an organ recital lv on the evening of February seventh. ,,. ,ll-fi On account of measles the great event of the Xlfinter term, the U Q Sixth For111 Dance, was postponed until May. Likewise, the :S f Dramatic Club's play was necessarily postponed. This was a great x , regret to all, especially the .fVfzvs board, because they would not be lajliw P Q able to publ1sh'a pgctgire of the gym., taken at the time of the dance Ng Q ji Qsix years previous y . V X Y Cn the thirteenth the basket-ball team again scored a victory, ' this time over Central Manual Training School, 32 to io. February twentieth was the crowning feature of the 'W inter term. About seventy-five old fellows came back to The Hill to the annual Alumni banquet. It was a great success, due prob- ably to the fact that Shevlin condescended to accept his invitation. The following day the Alumni chapel was dedicated with all due ceremony. On the evening of the twentieth University of Pennsylvania Freshmen were defeated, 29 to 2 1. W3Sl1lI1gtO11,S Birthday was celebrated in the morning by an unusually large list of D's, and in the afternoon the Alphas defeated The Hill, 21 to 12. On the same afternoon the final events of the all-round athletic contest were run olf. In the whole meet George Fryer won first place, Howard Linn, second, and Congdon, third. This week was full of entertainments and was enjoyed all the more because most of them came 161

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December M B E R On Saturday evening, December fifth, Mr. Fox ,, A - gave a lecture on English public schools. The ex- - aminations started December ninth, and oyster supper Y ! o , -it as usual was held on Dece1nber sixteenth, although -S fflvffflf 1 -: there were not as many fellows there this year as lu 1 usual. 1 r January :' On january sixth we returned to The Hill, ready for a long and steady old grind. We did not think the term would be very delightful, but in the end we all confessed that it had been the best Wiiiter tern1 ever spent at The Hill. A On january ninth Mr. Hill entertained the school with his lecture Fighting Fire. The next evening the new custom of organ recitals in the chapel was inaugurated and Mr. Surrette started it, helped out by Mrs. Surrette and Miss Goell. On Monday Mr. Suirette also gave a lecture on H Parsifalf' On Saturday evening, january sixteenth, the basket-ball season was started by a close game with Banks Business College, which resulted in the -score of 27 to 26 in their favor. About this time the beautiful and artistic CPD new uniforms arrived . V. amid great rejoicing Qso that it sounded like the lobby of a large hotelb. fp l he next Saturday the basket-ball team turned the tables and defeated Albright College 43 to 16. On Mon- . i t '.-- : 'al-Xi J . - . - ,YgigY ,1 ,,, day the first of a series of events of the all-round athletic f - contest was started. Cn the same evening the announce- ...J f ,I I fzawfljk -h Y,-3311, .J W., . .ff I 'ky-fp4!g' gfig3,,,i.g ment, of the Alfred Raymond Memorial essay was ' .Qs - -Q 9 3' 312 V lead out. S - V . . . V On january thirtieth the team scored its second I6O

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during study periods. O11TU6Sd3yVthC Hampton Institute singers entertained the school Cand took up a collectionj, and on Thursday Polk Miller and his niggers. As a final end-up for the month Princeton Seconds Were beaten 26 to 16. March 3 L March came in like a lion, and up to the time of exams. was going out M Iwi F like a lamb, or more probably, a sheep. -V Q, On March eighth Central High School defeated The Hill, 23 to 18. A 1 ll? E The same evening the first public dinner to be given at the Pine Cone Inn R V 'JF was given to Mr. Weed by the Sixth Form. N' , On Saturday afternoon, Mafeh twelfth, the Alphas defeated The Hill C f ii E for the second time by the score of 22 to 20. In the evening a concert was H Q E given by all the musical organizations of the school Qexcept the orchestra, ,li til' E which does its share every nightb. P I IL-J january nineteenth marked the great event for the as E literary papers, the Literary Dinnerf, It was a great ' bi 1 success, and it is to be hoped that it will become a regular custom in the school. Finally the great day came, and on March twenty-third everybody breathed a sigh of relief, which was to be one of much more relief for some on the last day of the Winter term, March 31, 1904. April April I3 was a very unlucky day-school opened! Of the first thirteen days we know very little, so We will have to start our history at the thirteenth with the opening of school, and the sixteenth, when We defeated the Baraca's, of A Pottstown, IO to 9, in our first baseball game. , On the following Monday We played the Pottstown Y. M. C. A. By the N: 6 A A ll Q Al gf Q 162