Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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FRESHMAN YEAR

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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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Class History we realized that there is much more learning than knowl- edgehin the world and that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing . The Faculty was good to most of us, so we called a class meeting, offered up a prayer of thanks, and elected Ferd Eberstadt second term class President g Jack Larkin, Vice-President, and fait Woodriff, Secretary-Treasurer. Paul Myers was chosen Washington's Birthday Debater, and Rowland McKee, who succeeded in winning his contest, Class Orator. These tasks performed, with a light heart and a clean shirt, we went to the Prom. It was a great success. Rube Ross was there, and the girls all had a perfectly wonderful time. The Triangle Club got- under way with its alluring drama of the East entitled The Mystery of the Harem or His Honor the Sultan , and Jack Larkin, Paul Myers, and Roy Watson were in the cast. Things moved along rapidly. The class baseball team under Eddie Rheem won II out -of I8 games, breaking even with Yale 1913, and Truman Handy celebrated the occasion by disarming the town po-lice force, and dampened their ardor with a fire-hose. Max Chaplin led the class track team to victory over Yale IQI3 fwho later defeated Harvardj in a meet in which three freshman dual meet records were lowered. With a weaknened team we lost a close meet to Dartmouth IQI3 by the score of 58 to 59. The class debating team took a fall out of Yale, and Halley's Comet broke things' up generally for several nights. Accord- ing to the Prince it was supposed to be visible to the naked eye a little north of East just before sunrise . Ned Page decided there was only one way to locate it, and that was too dangerous while the proctors were up. Bush Dunlap won the class tennis tournament from Carl Smith, and Rudy Rauch's crew defeated the Philadelphia Central High School in the first outside race ever rowed on Lake Carnegie. The class four-oar also won in the Commencement Regatta. ln the meantime the Varsity track team had lost to Yale, 33