Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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The N assau H emld in the class to, get his numerals. On November Ist the Varsity slipped one over the Navy, tied Dartmouth the fol- lowing week, but the bacon strayed away to New Haven after its concluding game. Not so with the class team. After walloping the Harvard cubs 9 to 0,-thus proving the supe- riority of organized cheering,-We tied Yale at New Haven. The latter were taken into camp by the sons of Cambridge a week later, giving Princeton a clear title to the freshman football championship for the first time in five years. Penny Peniield was so elated with this success 'that he decided to kick over the traces and break training just once. ,He accord- ingly adjourned, with several of his team-mates, to one of New York's more famous resorts of the thirsty. The waiter took the orders but was thrown off considerably when Pen called for a chocolate nut sundae. Hard luck, Pen , but remember the old saying that grape juice kills 'more men than grape shot . Another event, commonly known as Elliot's Ethics or the Tragedy of Forty-seven 'occurred about this time. It seems that the new Dean decided to put into effect certain new prin- ciples of conduct which provided that lit was not right to strike your landlady roughly with torn-up banisters. Several of our number accordingly had their cuts excused for a brief period, and the Tiger closed the incident by remarking that Thus it is that happy homes are broken up and tender in- fants rendered desolate, not by Licker but by man's ungovern- able longing to holler. We lost the cane spree to 1912, two bouts to one. Bill Bickel felt something had to be done, so he got Ex-Mayor McClellan to come down as Stafford Little Lecturer. ,This bucked things up, and we took four out of five bouts in the novice wrestling meet, won the eight-oared event in the Fall Regatta and then went home for our first holidays on Decem- ber 2Ist. A - Wepq returned from vacation to lind that the hockey cham- pionship had been landed by the University-team, -and- that our first mid-years were upon us. With an awful suddenness 32

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C lass H istory the Cannon that evening, after which we sauntered home, 'fFats Kinnan incidentally setting a new mark for the 440. Fifty-eight of 'our husky lads answered the call for the class football team, an increase of 5011 over the preceding year, and Tol Pendleton was elected Captain. The class baseball team also got busy under Si Young, and, We smile to say it, a C. I., one Johnny johnson, went out for the Prince. In the meantime, those of us who had none of these excuses from horsing , amused the public in general, and got out of warm beds with a polite smile to welcome marauding salesmen whose wares included anything from the latest picture of 'Qlackude Cop to patent doorknobs that ,wouldn't -open for proctors. We were received at Murray Hall and provided with ice cream, cake and name tags. Chub Seggerman, our blush- ing blonde, was right at home with the first two, but his modest nature Wouldn't allow him to wear a tag. About this time a startling notice came from the University Offices to the effect that the class of 1913 had entered with 44 per cent of its members free of conditions, and 71 per cent with one condition or less, thus establishing a new scholarship record, which, after all, is one of the things a college is organized for. Brick Fauntleroy, who was then leading a reform movement in New Goldies for the pure use of the English language, on hearing the news as he was going to bed one night, stubbed his toe and the house was startled by such violent, exclamations as gracious goodness, mercy me . Truly it is wonderful how college changes a man. Things now began to get going in earnest. The Varsity opened its season by defeating Stevens, and the class team took a fall out of Lawrenceville, tied Groton and the Prince- ton Prep., and sent Wyoming Seminary home to the tune of 27 to 5. 1912 engaged two umpires and beat us in baseball, but we took a fall out of them after the game in a catch-as- catch-can promenade to the Commons. We started a long list of track victories in the fall games when our cinder shovers took the meet with 49 points. Toi Pendleton won the 100-yard dash, thereby being the first man gt

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FRESHMAN YEAR