Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

Page 33 text:

The Nassau H erald t . is again changed to that of a community governed by rational beings. ' But this is diverting. In March the debating team lost to Harvard and won from Yale. The baseball team went South. The English Club gave King Henry IV and the Triangle Club squeezed all its men into two small cattle cars and started on a trip to cultivate the Middle West with H is H oum' the Sultan. lt was some trip, and the Sultan was enter- tained royally. To hear Black Hughes talk when the lamp black had been thrown all over his face sure did sound like one of the colored race. In Chicago at one of those pretty lavender receptions, where you sit down, balance a tea cup in one hand, with a bit of cake in the other, while the hostess introduces you to twenty odd girls, Black was asked by the coy dame on his left what part he had in the show. Evidently this question per- turbed Hnghes, for he winced somewhat and, after a hesi- tancy of a few moments during which time the lips quivered but nothing came forth, he said, I come in as a M ammy in the last act. T Halley's comet was scheduled to appear and after con- siderable search it was located. It was a thing which would PM occur only every seventy-five years, and , mu everyone felt that the occasion should be cele- ,alll L' brated with due ceremony. Pee-rades were ,p1ti,,.. UT l +' 5. g H1 formed and we Wh0oped it up for Halley's W . comet , though the metre wasn't exactly cor- 13 ,fi lt., rect. Some brainy lad, after having made I some scientific investigations of the comet, its Maw habits, 'and occupations, planned to give the T students an exact working model of this phe- nomenon. A towel dipped in kerosene oil was tied to an alarm clock. The alarm was started and a match applied to the towel. The missile was then thrown from the top of one of the towers of Sage. Everyone was delighted with the repre- sentation of this peculiar manifestation, 'carried out in such perfection of detail. 32

Page 32 text:

Class H istory None of them knew too much about horses, but Scotti con- vinced the other two that his uncle had once had a horse which he as a kid had once driven, so Scotti handled the reins. All went nicely till they reached Reunion, where the sleigh Q somehow turned over. Rumor has it 39' that they hit the corner of the building. The horse thought it about the right mga time to sart something, and dashed mad- 4 ly away towards Blair. Seeing the arch and thinking it an exit, the brute darted through and down the whole flight of steps with the sleigh ever so close behind. One of the students, in a room facing the station, was shaving at the time, and when he saw the beast sliding, sliding down the steps on his haunches, the tail dragging at every step, he near cut off his ear. Strange to say, the horse came to a standstill at the foot. To make the story short, the three stu- dens paid S12 for the damage done the cutter and S3 a day while the horse was convalescing. Jim Lynch, for that is the name of the horse, is still to be seen doing duty at the sta- tion. Soon February was upon us and the usual fair dames were to be seen who graced the concert of the Musical Clubs and later the Junior Prom. The basketball team took the last game from Yale, 38 to 24, but the wrestlers lost. Mid-years followed and a few familiar faces were lost sight of. It is to be wondered what a stranger might think of Princeton if they happened to enter town some night during the exams about 8.55, when a deep lull seems to hang like a heavy pall over the campus, and then in about 5 minutes to witness the change. Seeking some place of shelter, the stranger must feel that the place has been suddenly transformed into an asylum for the mentally unbalanced. Lighted papers drop from windows, cow bells jingle, horns are heard, while the yelling as of those in pain, and the pistol shots, change the place into a very pandemonium. Everyone seems stark mad. Then about as quickly the cry goes up, All over , and abruptly the scene .....1m.... - sn ,.f.1a::5:w.1,:s- 4 Z! KO 3-5 . x .V .--'Jai f lFu V ' 2 Ahagaw ,,w11.w,..-.... k, f-x 0' 6' -14 515 ,..,,......, f !5,.,.,..,,...s. S qi z V cu .JJHMFMIIMGMHTYAYIL-U0 31

Page 34 text:

SENIOR YEAR