Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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VVASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY GRATION PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. CHARLES DALTON CLEGHORN. ADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FEL- LOIVS-To-day, as some Of you may know, is the 22d of February. George IVashington was born to-day, and I often think how clever he was to appear after the cessation of midyear hostilities. It is different now-lots of fellows disap- pear after midyears, some to come back in a week or two, Others to return the next fall and join the ranks of the class coming after. Before I go deeper into the metaphysical aspects of my subject, however, I wish to submit to you the fol- lowing notice Which has been given me for publication: Stony Brook 'Harvest Home' Among the speakers, Prof. VV. Brokaw Bamford, Esq., on W'ar Experi- ences in Porto Rico. Prof. Bamford was only one of the many brave soldiers who Went to the front from our class. There was Corporal Voorhees who bravely re- pelled the blood-thirsty Spaniard, armed with the company cooking utensils, and there was our President, Ike Brown Qand,

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20 THE Nassau HERALD. by the way, I feel highly honored by the flattering refer- ence he has just made concerning mej. Could you imagine Ike Brown, who was so modest as to try to keep his picture out of the Brfic-a-Brac, leading the guns of the Penn. Light Artillery to their position on the forward hatch of Transport No. Umpty-ump? Did you ever hear any of Bill Edwards' experiences in the Infirmary '? He waged a little war there all by himself against the nurses. Perhaps you would not believe it to look at him, but Bill had the measles Freshman year, and he and I were in the same room at the Infirmary. Oh, no ! I did not have the measles. VVell, Bill got delirious and he was bound he would get out in the hall where it was light, and read a letter some girl in Tren-, or some girl had written him, while the nurses were bound he should stay in bed. So the war began. Every few minutes Bill would run out in the hall, triumphantly bearing the letter towards a gas-jet or window, but, before he could reach either, the nurses would start the pursuit, and how Bill would run for his bed. They tried to keep him in it with safety-pins and every other infantile contrivance, but noth- ing daunted Bill but a trained nurse, and I would venture to say he was more afraid of one of them than of the whole Yale rush line. Our Glee Club took a trip not so very long since, and among the heelers was one Artie Poe, who had his picture on every program. On one of the many occasions when a young lady asked her escort, with great excitement, to point out Artie, this remark was heard, 4' VVhy, is that Poe ? That dirty little man, who looks as if he had not washed for a week ? 7' Somehow it is always the little fellows who are the big men. It was way back in Sophomore year that Stump Stuart, having just won a golf match or something, was feeling very gay, and this gaiety being increased by some goods purchased at a liquid emporium, Stump was