Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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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

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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 two dollars' worth was rated at about ten cents. Push-face Lambert left in February. In March the entire college was stirred by the announcement in the Prince that a great event was about to happen which should be put down in annals of the history of the College as the probable wonder of wonders. Naturally there was great excitement. It seems that a wireless message had been coaxed all the way from Dr. van K-3,1-5 Dyke, on the Eiffel tower of Paris, to fa' jwthe Primetoniafz office, something ww-M Q gum lf quite new and novel in college journal- .ts,EivMfJlSl'I1. The Prince, when it issued this startling news, to make the whole affair as impressive as possible had Egg' a large chart on the front page of the paper, showing the various vessels F ' ' which had intercepted the message K M Bio A 22. bl N uS 1 5..- 23,9 Q X . X it and sent it on its way again. The ships were pictured with smoke issuing from their funnels, and even whales and other inhabitants of the deep, including mermaids, were given a place. Though these figures were slightly out of proportion, the whole was a master- piece and resembled one of those old charts used by Sir Walter Raleigh or Columbus himself, when he explained his theory on the rotundity of the world. The 1911 Brie-a-Brac made its appearance. Due to the par- ticular efforts of Ike Bennett and Louis Stewart, the- book was the best ever published, before or since. The Triangle Club made its trip with the Duchess of Bluffshireu, and was received with varied degrees of applause in the several cities it visited, while eight of the class were enrolled in the English play, The Knight of the Burning Pestlef, s Cunningham, the coolest man on the team, and Hooker White were on the varsity baseball teamy Eighteen out of twenty-seven games were won, and we all looked forward to the game of June 22nd in New York. But the Elis got to 28