The Illman School - Span Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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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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June And now we come to the last and best month of the year. The air seems so full of poetry that when some one remarked What is so rare as a day in June? somebody else Cit must have been one of the Sixth Formb responded, One in February 5 there are only twenty-eight. Commencement lasted for five days, and the most joyous days of the whole year. We feel sure that our visitors were more than ever impressed by The Hill when they heard its representatives in the prize debate, the prize speaking contest, the prize drill, and finally the prizes themselves. What would they have thought if they had seen these same representatives for the rest of the month- grinding and watching ball games? . July This month was short and sweet CPD. It saw the finish Cin two senses of the word? of many fellows, so it will have to see the finish of the history of the year of 1904, a great year in the history of The Hill. f . ff, is ,rv .W XX , N 3 I g X E ii' ix rift' TW' 4 ' I XX Us ll I