Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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IO Hzkiarjy of Zke Class Q' '96, gave chase with loud shouts and a pair of mastiffs. Brownie and Fred being hard pressed down Mercer, dodged into Mar- quand's, thus throwing their human enemies off the track, but not so with their four-footed pursuers. These ferocious beasts ran them up through the Rookery, and there Brownie, who owns a clean pair of heels, escaped altogether. Fred Howell, however, must have fallen by the wayside, for he did not show up at Vanderbilt's until nearly three A.M., and then his clothes would have been a disgrace to Fred Parker, and his face was torn and wan. I tell you what, fellows, he said, with that peculiar waving motion of his hands, I don't mind dog, nor I don't mind barbed wire, but barbed wire ami dog is too much. The next day, which was Thursday, we all attended recita- tions and were there notified of a 'meeting of our class to be held at twelve o'clock in the old chapel. We were also again warned, by Sammy Winans, I think it was, not to participate in any row either then or subsequently. ,We began to think this must be a very warlike sort of college if even the Freshmen had to be begged not to iight. We felt proud of ourselves and, of course, went to the class-meeting en masse. The object of the meeting was disclosed by prominent upper-classmen and we were told just what was right and what was wrong for Freshmen to do. We had small regard for the prohibitive clause-s at the time, but they were impressed upon us forcibly at a later date. When nominations for class-presi- dent were called for, no less than seven, all honorable men, were named, but as the stalwart form and handsome features of Langdon Lea ascended the platform we knew there was no need to seek' further. For, you know, a Freshman president rnust be a fighting man, not ex-Wjcio but gbso facfof besides, Freshmen always like a good-looker to represent them in order that the upper-classmen may perceive what a fine lot they are. Hence Biff was elected temporary president without much

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HZTIUYQI qi the Class ef '96. 9 undergone. As we looked upon such manly forms as those of Buck Hall, Jake Beam, Dave Edwards, 'K Pop Faile, Joe Miller, Bill Hearn, Gordon Johnston, Fitzy Fitzgerald, Billy Parsons and Beef Turner, not to mention Farmer Thomson, Abe Roberts, Danny Glenn, Homer Snitcher, Sim Overton, Pip Frazer, Syd Bunting, Tom Gaskill and others, our bosoms swelled with the glad con- sciousness that these mighty men of valor were members of our class. There, too, we saw, with their faces already 'fsicklied over with the pale cast of thought, such men as Johnnie Trout, Poller Bishop, Buck Waters, Lloyd Smith, Hiram Doolittle, Billy Bush, Fred Loetscher, Bob McElroy, Ed Hamilton, his room-mate J, J, Nell Gaskill, Ned Hodge and Phil Churchman. When our eyes fell on them we felt that the forensic and literary ability of Ninety-Six would be equal to the best. Presi- dent Patton did not detain us long with extracts from his sesquipedalian vocabulary, and escaping from chapel we de- parted to our several domiciles in the stealthy manner charac- teristic of Freshmen. A That night was, in one way, rather uneventful and the Sophomores, as a whole, must have kept very low, for the historian can find but few accounts of any games that took place. Perhaps ,QS was overawed by the ubiquitous Topley, who was new that year and Wanted to prove he was not quite so green as the other newcomers. Some of the gang that roomed at Vanderbilt's on University Place were so emboldened by the apparent absence of Sophomorical enthusiasm that they determined to get up a little expedition on their own account. So Brownie Orr, Fred Howell, Billy Leonard and two or three others, all more or less affected from prolonged contemplation of the moonshine, started over to haze the Seminoles. On Mercer Street they were discovered by a band of Sophs, who

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Hz'St01gf qf the Class gf '96, II opposition, while William Strong McGuire polled a heavy Lawrenceville vote and was declared secretary-treasurer. Then an athletic committee, devised for nobody knew what, not even themselves, was chosen after a desperate contest. They were: On football, Barnett and Parsons, on baseball, Anderson, on track athletics, Alford. This last important business over, the Junior president in- formed us that '95 would tender us a reception outside 5 we must keep together and not try to avoid the kind offices of the recep- tion committee, but charge Sffdlghl ahead Our newly-made president put himself at our front and with the rest just chucked in anyhow, we burst forth from the Old Chapel and pell-mell into the Waiting Sophomores. It was lively work for a couple of minutes, and I can see the astonished Sophomores yet as they reeled before our thronging hosts. We burst their ranks asunder and marching down in front of Dickinson gave a lusty cheer for our own prowess. We then separated to repair the ravages of war, and to wonder if ,QS would dare to dally with us. Well, they did. O, yes, they did! That very night the fun began. T About eight P.M., Sally Bostwick and Monk Godfrey were seized while buying some fruit at Zazzali's, and led quietly but firmly out Vandeventer Street. There they were relieved of their purchase,with remarks of ff how appropriate, and made to kneel down together. Then one of the Sophs produced a small can of green paint and-but why describe so painftjful a scene? When the two horror-stricken Freshmen were released, Bos's face resembled the campus on a spring day, while Godfrey be- came known as the Princeton Zebra. Fred Mudge has always lived here in Princeton and been mixed up in college affairs, nevertheless, when three men called at his house that evening, representing themselves as collectors for the Philaclelphian, Fred, being a minister's son, took the careworn bluff in good faith, Indeed, he invited them right up to his room and begged them