Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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lVASHINGTON7S BIRTHDAY ORATION. 23 weak cigars that Cap Kafer habitually calls for at Snook's. But, ladies and gentlemen, please donft take these two men as examples of our class. VVe have more real sports than one would at first imagine, although I am sorry to say we lost one of our leaders in that line when, on coming back from Trenton one night, Bummy Booth remarked that he had turned down the last page of his sporting life. But we still have some generals left. Doc Hillebrand said, I believe, that there were no stories to tell on him, but if he really did not want to hear any, he should have gone to Florida as he announced his intention of doing after he had made, as he said one time, a much maligned beast of burden of himself. Perhaps when the infant Miss Taylor, that noted New York belle, said the two nicest men she knew were Doc Hillebrand and Toot Hen- drickson, Doc decided to stay North and be near this com- plimentary young person. Much has been said of late years of the Heavenly Twins, but it is not generally known that we have the originals here in college. They are Tommy Snyder and Buss Boyd. No, they do not look alike. Far from it. But I will try to show you they are trying to grow alike. For some in- stances, Tommy skates into a hole in the ice and is nearly drowned. Buss follows up and skates into the same hole. Then, last year Boyd bought a new wheel, and instead of getting a '99 model got a '96 one, just to 'fhave one like Tommy's, and a few days ago Boyd was found with a needle, making a sore spot on his hand so as to have one like Tommy got working in the gymnasium. Before I forget it, I wish to read you this notice which appeared in the Printsanythfing a week or so since : There will be a meeting of all men interested in forming a brass band to-night at 8 o'clock, in 15 S. M. Rf, I was unable to attend the meeting, but I understand it was successfully carried on by two scared Freshmen and about twenty Sen-

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22 THE NAssAU HERALD. day that Col. Knight was so sweet, and clean and kiss- ablef' But Tuck's presence forbade this their only Way of making money, so they bummed about all day, slept in a free lunch house, and were thrown out of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they tried to wash their hands in the morn- ing. They saw the celebration just the same, though they had to walk all the way from the Tomb to Cortlandt street because they didn't have a car fare between them. Speak- ing of being stranded in New York, reminds me of the time Freddy Scott went over to take his girl to the theatre. All the money he had was in the shape of a check, and he went all over town trying to get it cashed, but he couldnlt. So there was only one course open, and he took it. IVould you believe it, he had the unlimited nerve to go to his girl's house and ask her to give him the money to take her to the play with. I'll bet he felt like 30 cents. And by the same scale I guess Norris Miller felt like about 13 cents when he came back to College a year ago. Miller thought he was quite a shark on constitutional law, and he tried to impress some points as to the rights of Congress on a gen- tleman he met on the train. You know Miller has a way of shaking his finger at you, and he H not infrequently told the gentleman 4' in question some of the very obviously fine points of the subject in a rather decided manner. Just as the two parted company at Philadelphia, this gentleman turned and said : Of course, Mr. Miller, I don't know very much about this subject of the rights of Congress, but as a member from YVisconsin, I have held a seat in that body for six years, and I feel moderately sure of my groundfl By the way, has anyone heard if Harry Lathrop has recovered from the effects of that cigar he tried to smoke in Philla. awhile ago?' He should have known enough to have waited until the quartet was through singing for the evening, or else he should have started in on one of those

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24 THE Nassau HERALD. iors with tin horns. Still Sam Scott did not think there were enough present to warrant the formation of the band, and there will be another meeting in Sam's room to-night at I1 o'clock, when I hope there will be a large attendance. Right here I wish also to state that the fair-haired, youth- ful-looking and boyish-appearing person who attended the groom at the recent Vanderbilt wedding was no other than our classmate John P. Kellogg. I have it on the best authority that this hitherto obscure identity has been well established. I have some sad news to impart to you. My roommate, Imer Embury, is engaged. This fact dawned upon us one evening a short time ago, just after Imer had returned from a short visit to New York. A party of us were walking down Nassau street, and, when we reached the dog-wagon, Embury rushed in and yelled to the attendant for a ham- less bone sandwich. Quicker than I can tell it he emerged from the opposite door with a bound, but one generated by feet other than his own, still grasping, to his credit be it said, in his hand and mouth the sandwich. I would like to ask any fair-minded person among you if a man who was not engaged could have thought of asking for such a thing as a hamless bone sandwich '? My roommate is one of that species of civil engineers that we keep in one of our buildings yonder, and another of the tribe is Ralph Poole. Last year, one time, Poole got an examination paper in Physics handed back marked 98 XVhen he opened the paper, Poole found the first question marked S out of a pos- sible IO, so he went to the Professor, and said : Professor, I see this first question is marked only S, and I think it should have been 10, giving me a grade of 100. The Professor looked at it and admitted it should have been marked 10. ffBut wait, he said, let us look over the rest of the paper, and, before he had gone very far, he added: VVhy, Mr. Poole, there has been some mistake