Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Class History to them at about this time. Both made a trip to New York and both being lovers of music, they decided to drop in at the Carnegie Lyceum that Saturday morning and hear Miss Susan Metcalf, who was to sing for some society sewing circle, or the Sisterhood of Housewives, I have forgotten which. It was distinctly an affair at which very few men were present, if I remember correctly, there were only two. They wan- dered about the building, finally ambled on the stage and stood in the doorway of the scenery, watching Miss Metcalf as she played and sang. The selection finally ended. Clancy was touched by the sweetness of her voice, and advancing to Miss Metcalf, fx' he stooped and in a most gallant way displaying his polished Southern man- ners, kissed her hand before the assem- X. 9- bled audience. She did not draw back, but seemed impressed that her singing had so touched the soul of the young man. Now it so happened that Clancy had been smoking, and as he advanced to do homage to the lady fair, he removed the cigarette from his face. It was not a Rameses, but a cigarette of his own makings. As he raised his head after the honor he had so graciously bestowed upon the artist, he left sticking a small bit of Bull Durham on the lady's hand. But Schooney saved the situation by advancing quickly to the front and flicked the stray particle with his thumb and forefinger. The spring came before long and then the young men had their thoughts turned into other channels, which reminds me of a little one on Dopeless Larkin, who won't mind, Fm sure. One bright sunshiny afternoon he grasped Charley Law- rence and ushered him to his room in Hill. Having looked around in the Hall to be sure that no thugs might be eaves- droping, he quickly barred and double barred the door with all the secrecy of a Free Mason passing through the ordeal of the thirty-fourth degree, took from his bureau drawer a pic- ture of a very lovely lady which he carefully placed in Char- ley's hands. Charley, overcome by the beauty, had little to W in MIX i f 25

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The Nassau H erald nerves. The clapper, however, was finally captured and the descent ma e, but there was a tall guy in a neat blue uniform outside who had the dope on them, and the bill was something like S14 apiece. But Dillon later made an attempt, got away with it all right, and is the possessor of a whole clapper. P ,A In October, Ambassador Bryce pre- sented us with a sun dial from Sir john Mather. lt's not only a bully little time- piece, but some who understand it say ' a fortune teller as well, and there are lots of little jokes and riddles written all over it. For several days after its dedi- cation one might have seen students standing around it, with mouths agape, with deep wonder and amazement writ- , i ten on their faces, trying to make out p J yww what some of the little figures meant. ' K ,P Q -.1 4'-, li pl L 1 I! , fp No satisfactory explanation was given l l for most of them. It is said that there are some fortyidifferent ways of telling the time, but most of us prefer the good old open-faced clock. lt's less weary on the nerves. How- ever, it's a great resting place and serves as a splendid park bench for the upper classes. Returning from the Christmas vacation, we found that one of our most promising piano friends had left us. Old Weary jane. He had felt the call of the heart and entered into his matrimonial career. Before long came that week which we had been looking for- ward to and the week which no other class since has been obliged to pass through. I refer to the week of Uhorsingn, now abolished. It grew as tiresome for our enemies as our- selves. But soon we passed into the land of freedom. In the wrestling of February, Elder won the light-we1ht and Musser the heavy, thereby somewhat redeeming the class in the cane-spree of the November before. Clancy and Schoonmaker had a rather funny incident occur 24 1

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The N assaa Herald say for some moments. The silence was intense, not unlike the peace beyond the grave, which Dopeless suddenly broke by saying, Isn't she beautiful, Charley? I think she's a won- der, and you know I call her Topsy and she calls me Frinkief' The Freshman baseball team, under Charley Clough, won seven games and lost four, while the class track team, under Dwight's captaincy, defeated Yale 54M to 482. The Freshman crew didn't floss either. In the Com- mencement Regatta we won both in the eight and four, thus bringing Freshman athletics to a successful close. Probably the biggest night of the year was the one in which the Pee-rade down Prospect was made, a bit of Princeton we had never seen before. I Yale had taken a game away from us at New I-Iaven, we had won one here and everyone was keyed for the game which meant the championship or not. On the 16th of june the contest took, place in New York. The Princetonians came across with a wallop and Yale went down to defeat 4 to 2. The year was finished. Sophomore Year HE vacation ended, we assembled for the ff' second year of college life. The next few days were spent flitting about in our exclusive iiannels and custom made shirtings, purchased chez London, accomplishing nothing, but bragging when- ever an opportunity afforded of our summer conquests, and the scalps we now wore on lil our belts, smoking, no gold-tipped but finest quality Fatimas, asking and answering the same old ques- tions, Hi, Bill, just got back? I-Iave a good summer?', Any conditions P Saw a friend of yours this summer. Yes, Sophie,-great girl. Won the championship at Communipaw, you know. Well, if here isn't Fred. Say, you're looking fat. HI-Iow are all the family? Married yet, George ? etc. N X . Xa t 26