The Illman School - Span Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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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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fifth inning it was becoming so late that the game was stopped with a score of IQ to 5 in favor The Hill. Saturday, April 23, was the day for the first regular game with the Germantown Cricket Club, which we lost, 6 to 3. The same day we secured third place in the relay races at Philadelphia. The game with Pennsylvania Freshmen, scheduled for the twenty-third, had to be cancelled on account of rainy but on Saturday, the last day of the month, one of the most exciting games ever played at The Hill was played with Haverford Grammar School. Up to the twelfth inning the score was I to I, but in the twelfth inning Haverford scored five runs and won the game. Little need be said ofthe Princeton Inter- scholastic meet which took place this day. The orchestra escorted the month out with a promenade concert. May May was a month replete with athletics-and other things. Cn the second the golf team played Lawrenceville: on the fourth the baseball team played Banks Business College. Then came the great and much-looked-for event-the Sixth Form Dance. It was a marked success in several ways and successfully surpassed all former - 01165. The next day we played Bethlehem Prep. School and in the evening the Dramatic Club gave She Stoops to Conquer. 'i 'i On May I ith we beat Central High School, S to 5 and on the fourteenth won a great game against Hotchkiss, II to 6. On the eighteenth we played our semi-final game with Cornell Prep. School, which came out 5 to 3 in their favor. The twenty-first was the day for our track meet and no one who saw it were disappointedg for we gave old Lawrence the worse trouncing they ever got from us, 69 to 27 ! ! On the morning of the twenty-eighth we played Lawrenceville in tennis, and in the afternoon in baseball. They were both good and well-matched events, and we need say no more about them. s it L!! - .A I . ,4 . A A 163