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HAVERFORDIAN
VOLUME XXVIII
M&.rch, 1906, Through February,

I907

IRA JACOB DODGE, 1907, Editor-in-Chief

Department Editors

SAMUEL J. GUMMERE, 1907

JAMES P. MAGILL, 1907
(ColUgt)

{Alumni)

Associate Editors

HOWARD BURTT, 1908

T.

ALFRED LOWRY. 2cl, 1909

WINTHROP SARGENT, Jr., 1908

MORRIS LONGSTRETH. 1908

Business Managers
J.

WALTER W. WHITSON, 1908

PASSMORE ELKINTON, 1908
(SubtcriptioH Dtpartmmt)

(Advtrtistng

HAVERFORD COLLEGE
1907

Dtpartmint)

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CONTENTS
Paqb

Paob

Alumni

College Notes

Alumni Banquet. February 16, 1906
Alumni Banquet. Baltimore Alumni, March
1,

15

16

February

of,

15,

1907

193
64
Dinner, Class of 1896
193
Notes
17. 42, 65, 83, 105, 124, 147, 168, 193
Presentation of New Dining Hall, S. G.
15
Spaeth, '05
Program for Alumni Day, 1906, H. S.

Annual Dinner,

New York Alumni

Drinker
Reunion. Alumni, November
Reunion, 1898
Reunion. 1906

23,

16J
108
Practises
Bill
Corrupt
(Lecture), State
Senator A. B. Roberts
40
Dryden (Lecture). LeBaron R. Briggs
67
Junior Play. Class of 1907
108
Laws of Friendship. Human and Divine.
(Lecture) Dr. Henry Churchill King.
19
Lecture by Mr. Nicholson
43
Library Lectures. 1906, Henry Churchill
King. Announcement of
19
Library Lectures. 1907, Dr. Watson, An194
nouncement of
Life of John the Baptist (Y. M. C. A.). F.
20
H. Greene
Oratorical Contest, Alunmi
84
126
H. Roswell Bates, Y. M. C. A
Through Persia (Lecture). A. V. Williams
Jaclcson
169

Commencement Exercises

1906

Alumni Banquet, Notice

Civics Department

64
147
128
168

1906

Article! —

Alaska. Arthur Crowell, '04

93

About Amending the Constitution. Hon.
188
David A. DeArmond
Appreciation of Holmes' Autocrat. An. W.

.

.

S.

178

'07

Eldridge.

Charles Roberts' Autograph Collection
College and After. A.

S.

91
176

Bolles

College Gymnasium. The, Dr. J. A. Babbitt. 132
Early History of Haverford School. Isaac
74
Collins
Educational Conditions in New Mexico,
Hiram Hodley. '56
72
Haverford of the Future. Pres. Sharpless...
3
'96
112
Heidelberg Student. A, A. F. Coca,
Joseph Gibbons Harlan, Thomas F. Wlstar.
'68
48
S
Leigh Hunt. F. R, Taylor. '06
190
Men or Money. Which? Jacob A. Riis
29
Our Library. F. B. Guramere. "72
Social Reforms True and False. Chester J.
Teller. '05
1B4

Association Football

Awards

108. 171

66
65
171
150
IS

Cornell Trip

Harvard Game
Haverford vs. Harvard
Haverford vs. Cornell
Haverford vs. Germantown C. C
Haverford vs. Merlon C. C
Haverford vs. U. of Penna
Soccer Games
Soccer Schedule
Soccer Team Dinner

20
172
172, 194
126
67
42.

Cricket-

Awards
1st XI vs. Alumni
1st XI vs. Next XV

108
85
86
86
86
87

Haverford vs. Frankford
Haverford vs. Phlla.
Haverford vs. Germantown
Haverford vs. Moorestown
Schedule

Exchanges

86
68

Exchanges.

W

S.

Eldridge. '06

22,

44

Editorials

(By I. J. Dodge. '07.)
Against Proposed Operation on Barclay....
27
Annual Alumni Contest The
26
Annual Library Lectures. The
176
Caleb's Letter
Careless Usurpation of Others' Time
Concerning Policy of Haverfordian
Concerning the Resurrection of the Dead...
Conditions Conducive to Growth In Numbers
Constitution for the Haverfordian. A
End of Volume XXVIII. The
Football for the I^m of It
Football Season of 1906
Gym a Part of the Curriculum
Harmful Influence of a Word. The
Honor for a Haverford Professor
Incidental to Opening of College

ss^^s

Ill
71
45
152
70
174
178
90
129
131
110
175
89

..

CONTENTS
Page
Editorials continued

Influence of College Men In Politics, The.
In Memory of a Great Personality
Intercollegiate Civic League, The
It Is Originality that Counts
Medicine as a Science

.

Merely a Suggestion
Musical Clubs
Musical Trip

.

110
47
174
109
Ill
90
153

127
126
148
148
149

W

Gymnasium

27

New Members of Haverford Alumni

69
46
151

Recognition for Soccer
Practical Belief In a Manifest Destiny
Question of Class Prerogative, The
Recent Library Lectures
Record of Achievement, A
Rejuvenating a good Resolution
Results of Musical Club's Trip
Soccer Season now Open, The
Student Government in Dormitories
Unappreciated Institution, An
Official

1
2

70
130

Schedule

170

Haverford vs. Lehigh
Haverford vs. Rutgers
Interschol.astic Meet

43
21
20

Inter Class Contest
Quadrangular Meet.

170

Columbia,

Princeton,

Pennsylvania, Haverford

194

47

130
25
46

Volume XXVIII

1

What Constitutes a Good Short Story
Winter's

Paoe
Haverford vs. Urslnus
Haverford vs. Medlco-ChI
Haverford vs. Johns Hopkins
Haverford vs. Trinity
Haverford vs. N. Y.

152
153

Gym Program

Illustrations

Cricket Team, 1906
Football Team, 1906

No. 5
No. 7
No. 5
No. 8
No. 9

Interior of Dining Hall

Meeting House. The
Soccer Team, 1906-07

FacultyNotes by Dean Barrett,
Fiction

18,

41,

63, 104.

146,

166

Children of the Swamp, The, J. Padln,
Dea Ex Machina. I. J. Dodge, '07

'07.

.

183
120

Fireball Sacrifice, The, R. J. Shortlidge,
7
First Mate, The, I. J. Dodge, '07
34
Grandfather Higgins' Escape, W. S. Eldridge, 07
135
Heroes and Martyrs, J. Padln, '07
141
Highland Tragedy, A. R. Scott, '06
138
Idyll of the Grove, An, R. J. Shortlidge, '06
31
In Union, Strength, T. M. Longstreth, '08... 160
Jim Clearj-. F. R. Taylor. '06
38
Laying Down of Conwell Meeting, The, F. R.
Taylor, '06
179
Mill Never Grinds, The, F.' R. Taylor
96
Minister. The, R. Scott, '06
157
Nine of Diamonds, The, J. Padln. '07
10
Outcome, The, R. J. Shortlidge, '06
51
Pity of it All. The, I. J. Dodge '07
144
Ruins of Flores Viva-s. The. J. Padln, "07
98
Through the Tears. H. Burtt. '08
162
Tito, Tup* and Don Pepe, J. Padln, '07 ...
53
Vespers, The. F. R. Taylor, '06
96
Veterans, The, F. R. Taylor. '06
78
'06

.

.

.

Miscellaneous

Haverford College A. A. Financial Report.
Haverford Missionary In China, A, W.
W. Comfort
Musical Club's Program
Flans for Haverford Missionary
Year's Work in T. M. C. A., R.
lidge,

Sketches

J.

.

101

192
171
105

Short-

"06

77

Another View of the Quality, H. Burtt, "08.
Atateka Lake, R. Scott. '06
Inside the College Library, I, J. Dodge. '07.

.

14

186
13

In the Observatory, W. S. Eldrldge. '07
14
Inspiration of Crane Mountain, R. Scott, '06 165
Mt. Ampersand at Sundown, A. Lowry, '09,
40
Pictures by the Way, Howard Burtt, '08... 186
Plain, The, J. Monroe, '06
13
Signs of Spring, T. M. Longstreth
39
12
St. David's Church, R. Scott, '06
167
Token, The, H. Burtt. '08

.

Schedule

FootballSchedule

Haverford vs. Lehigh
Haverford vs. Rutgers

Track-

43.

107
127
127

W

Haverford vs. N. Y.
Haverford vs. Wesleyan
Inter Class Contest

Sophomore-Freshman Meet

67
88
88
68
128

CONTENTS
Paqb

Vers«—
Awakening, The, J. T. Troth, '08
164
Capitol at Washington, The, J. F. Wilson.
'10

189

Conqueror, The, J. F. Wilson, '10
131
Erin's Prayer, J. T. Troth. '08
60
Femina. J. F. Wilson. '10
159
Haverford Alumni Poem, Thos. Wistar, '58 28
In der Wuste, S. G. Spaeth, '05
104
In the Dark Night. G. H. Graves. '06
165
Loved and Lost. T. H. Burgess. '58
50

Page
Prodigal, The. J. T. Troth, 'OS
Quest, The, M. O. Frost, '10
Repesussus Horatio, T. C. Desmond. '08 ...

.

Res Aetemae, T. C. Desmond, '08
Rubalyat, J. C. Thomas, '08
Sonnet, J. F. Wilson, '10
Terra Incognita. M. O. Frost. '10
Toast. A. J. F. Wilson. '10
Triolet J. T. Troth '08
Triolet! J. C.

Thomas ....................

Wintersnacht S. G. Spaeth. '05
why the Lips are Red. J. T. Troth, '08

71
140
82
9

119
175
Ill
145
82

30
33
145

:

HAVERFORDIAN

Haverford College
Volume XXVIII, No. 1.

March, 1906

CONTENTS
Editorials

12

7

Skbtchbs
Alumni Department
Faculty Department
College Department

lo

Exchange Department

22

I

Haverford of the Future
Leigh Hunt— An Appreciation

3

The Fire-Bali Sacrifice
The Nine of Diamonds

.

5

.

i8

:

DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

Association Football:

D. Philips, '06
F. D. Godley, '07
H. G. Pearson, '07
C. H. Rhoads, '93

Pre«id«nt
Vice President
Secretary

J.

TreMurer

President

Manager

S. G. Nauman, '06
P. W. Brown, '07
H. Pleasants, Jr., "06

Assistant Manager

Captain

DEPARTMENTS

ADVISORY BOARD

Foot Ball:

W. Carson, '06

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

S. J.

Gummere, '07

M. H. March, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08
E. W. Jones, '07

Captain

Gymnasium

A. C. Dickson, '06
E. R. Tatnall, '07

Vice President

J.

Other Members— R. J. Shortlidge, '06;

A. N. Warner, '07
F. G. Sheldon, '06
Assistant Manager. ..W. R. Kossmaessler, '07
Captain
T. K. Brown, Jr., '06

J.

D.

'07.

T. Fales, '06

Manager.

M. H. March, '07

Philips, '06; T. K. Brown, Jr., '06; R. L. Cary,
'06; W. Haines, '07 ; H. Evans, '07; I. J.

Dodge,

:

Chairman
Vice Chairman

W. Carson, '06

President
Secretary

LOGANIAN SOCIETY.
W. Carson, '06
R. J. Shortlidge, '06

President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

P. W.

Brown, '07

DEPARTMENTS

Track:

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager.....
Assistant Manager

K. Brown, Jr., '06
P. W. Brown, '07
A, K. Smiley, Jr., '06
.T.

E. R. Tatnall, '07
'06
J. D. Philips,

Captain
Cricket

Civics:

President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

H. Pleasants, '06
F. R. Taylor, '06
P. Blkington, '08

,

Scientific :

R. L. Cary, '06

President

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

D. Philips, '06
A. E. Brown, 'o7
F. D. Godley, '07
B. Windle, '07
J.

H. W. Doughten, Jr., '06

Captain

ASSOCIATIONS.
College:
President
Vice President
Secretary

Treasurer
Musical:
President

Manager
Assistant Manager

Leader

J.

I. J. Dodge, '07
D. C. Baldwin, '07

Debating:
President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

W. Carson, '06
M. H. March, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08

CLASSES.
D. Philips, '06

M. H. March, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08
W. Shoemaker, '08

R. J. Shortlidge, '06
A.N. Warner, '07
W. B. Windle, '07
S. G. Spaeth '05

Tennis:
President
H. W. Doughten, Jr., '06
Vice President
W. Rossmaessler, '07
Secretary-Treasurer
C. J. Teller, '05

Y. M. C. A.
President
R. J. Shortlidge, '06
A. E. Brown, '07
Vice President
Rec. Secretary
Cor. Secretary
Treasurer

Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

E. Jones, '07
I.J. Dodge, '07

H. Evans '07

1906:

W. Carson
W. K. Miller

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

1907:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
190S:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

J.

R. Scott
T. Fales

H. Evans
G. H.Wood
J. N. Nicholson, Jr.
K. J. Barr
G. K. Strode

W. R. Shoemaker
C. S. Scott
J.

T. Troth

1909:

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

B. E. Dwlge, Jr.
T. K. Lewis
R. L. M. Underbill
E. S. Shoemaker

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Vol. XXVIII.

Haverford,

PROPORTIONATE

Pa., March, 1906.

No. I

regret

Beginning with this issue competition

we experience upon seeing the re-

for the Haverfordian Board will be open

to

the

Editors give up their
during the
performed
duties, so ably
feel hesitayear,
we
past
do
voiume
assuming
the newlyjJQj^ 2^

tiring

Board

XXVIII

college

of

acquired editorial mantle.

We

know that we speak for the
when we voice our appreciation

of their work.

Feeling that there can

be no more sincere praise than imitation,
and being opposed to radical changes

for

men in the two lower classes.

sophomores is

called to this competition.

Contributions

may be given or sent to the editor-inand should be marked "HaverBoard Competition."
concluding
In
our brief platform we
state that arrangements have been made
whereby our exchanges from other colchief,

fordian

leges will be more accessible to readers.

unless they would very materially im-

Instead of

prove the paper, we have approved the

fordian

present

general

form

of

the

Haver-

fordian and shall limit ourselves to one

The

especial attention of the

list

all

being filed in the Haver-

Room,

as

formerly, a selected

now be found in the extreme

can

end of the north wing of the library.

or two minor changes in typography.

A proper neophitic

modesty

prev-

from giving a definite prognosis
of Vol. XXVIII under the new Board,
but we record the promise that the magazine shall receive its most conscientious
effort and attention. Apropos of this we
would remind our undergraduate read-

RECENT occurrences in the college
body have brought

ents us

all

unchecked would undermine many
Haverford traditions and our
The Question
j
unwritten system of student
of
i-

Class
Prerogative

it

..

This is the
government.
growing disregard of some

entails

men for the classes above them and the

should not be con-

decadence of the respect due to upper

other college

that interest in

a

if

ers that true success for a college paper,
like

light

to

rather grave condition of affairs, which

interests,

fined to an esoteric group, but be shared

by the college in general.

classmen.
It

is

no new sentiment cropping up

THE HAVERFORDIAN
suddenly

our midst, as the result of

either of the general lax attitude of the

but rather a condition

upper class men or the self-appreciative

which is the growth of several years and
resulting largely from carelessness.

mental attitude of the lower class men.
To avoid any ambiguity that may ex-

in

specific instances,

It is a

matter of observation that as a

ist in

the mind of anyone, we would say

three or four years of study and

that this does not imply that an individual

college life give to upper classmen a ma-

may not have good friends in any class ir
college, and we believe that when men

rule

and judgment that
those same men may have lacked when

turity of experience

practical

common

have reached their third year, respect for

a rule of

the senior class will be so ingrained in

sense that the indi-

them that no intimacy will mitigate their

they entered college; so

it

is

viduals of every class should have defer-

Nor

appreciation of class prerogative.

men in the classes above

do we for an instant mean to advise snob-

And, moreover, it is necessary
for us here at Haverford to continue to

bishness or the ignoring of lower class

ence for the

them.

maintain this sentiment among us since
it

is

the tacit basis of the whole system

of order in the college body.

Two broad causes tend to produce and
foster this sentiment of respect.
is

men. What we want to strive for is such
an understanding and respect between
the classes as will discourage rowdyism
and encourage a sane, wholesome manliness.

There

no doubt that the more important is

EVEN more than mid-vear examina-

coming class by the sophomores.

And,

second, we should place the maintenance

of personal and class integrity.
More difficult it is to analyze the causes

now

the turning point of the year, and

that they are past we look forward with
Th« Recent

more keenness to spring vaca^^jg ^^^^ j,,g ^^j^^^
^^^^^

•""ary

To be consist-

that function against it.

mark

tions, the Library Lectures

the carefully-prepared reception of an in-

events of the closing

Lectures

year.

g^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^.j^j^ j^^^

ent in our argument we should advise
class,
by some
that every incoming

page we want to speak about this recent

means, be taught a proper respect

series of lectures.

for

Thanks

the prerogatives of its senior classes and
for the customs of the college, as the

to the generous

endowment,

the college authorities are able to pro-

cure the best

men available

ence.

them, and

is

own integrity in its conduct toward the

though a required one for us to hear
such men and such lectures. Especially

freshmen, dealing with a firm and force-

is

hand if necessary, in bringing unwilling ones "into the union," but being conand not laying
sistent and impartial,
themselves open to the warranted dis-

formative age when we are all more or

lack of such respect

is

a negative influ-

Then it is necessary that each succeeding sophomore class maintain its

ful

it

a

to deliver

great privilege

during

this true

this very

al-

important

less actively deciding what we shall make

of ourselves.

Dr. King's lectures were helpful in the

respect of their proteges.

highest degree, and the force of his own

Less tangible but fully as important is
a condition which seems to arise at times

personality

from the fraternizing of individuals of
the two upper classes with individuals of
the two lower.

It may arise as the result

made them inspiring.

Two of his thoughts recur to our minds
pre-eminent.

"Stay persistently

presence of the best

in

which you seek gain."

in

the

the

sphere in

The

practical

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is

ness, or in the acquisition of knowledge,

apparent, and we feel it could well be re-

that in the pursuit of these absorbing in-

membered and applied to all our inter-

terests

He also said

things

psychological value of this apothegm

ests in life.

"There is

:

they

forget

the

so-called

little

—the things that go to make up

own spiritual significance and that

great danger in over-sophistication when

their

we have lost the sense of the values of

of those dependant upon them for train-

really

We hesitate

important things."

ing and example.

to sermonize upon this because thorough
introspection

makes us

feel

certain

are not yet in sight of that shore

;

we
but

we do feel certain that this danger does
The lives of many of the philosophers and great scientists show it but
we need not look so far. All about us
we may see men so engrossed in busiexist.

;

We are glad to be able to print for
our readers part of the speech delivered
by President Sharpless at the recent
alumni banquet.
This clearly outlines
the ideals toward which Haverford is
so consistently approaching.

HAVERFORD OF THE FUTURE
(Conclusion of address by President Sharpless at the recent Alumni banquet)

THEhad

ideals

realization

which some of us have

for a long time seem nearer

than ever before, and

this

of quiet but determined loy-

fine

spirit

alty

points to better things than were

possible a few years ago.

Haverfordians

to

have

I do not wish
any cramped

views as to what our college should be.

Nothing

less

will satisfy

than a unique institution

some of us.

If

you wish to

see the direction in which the college will

develop scan below the surface the de-

velopment of the past few years. To
some of you it may seem to be mainly a
growth in numbers and in buildings. But
if so you have missed the main point.
When a college measures its standards
by numbers and buildings it is not a
great college.

If its

efforts are confined

to noisy advertising through ball games,

necessary

halls,

seairing them.

and we are gradually

We need, of course, ath-

and social opportunities and, as we
know, we have them, probably quite
as much as, in a general way, any of us
desire. At any rate we have in our location and our grounds the physical possibilities to do anything in these lines.
But
if you ask me what has been at the basis
of our recent development, the root from
which, directly and indirectly, it has proceeded, I should say that it was the quality of our teaching force, and herein lies
letic

all

the key to the future.

We must aim to have a faculty as gi )od,
man for man, as any to be found in the
upper positions of the best universities.

As you think of it this may seem to you
an audacious proposition. Would a small
college be able to command and to hold

shows, popular lectures, and
other means to attract the public without

such a faculty?

adding to its real opportunities for edu-

have gone it is solved affirmatively.

cation in its fullest sense, it is not in the

have found that some such men will stay

theatrical

line of the best

development.

as we want to go.

It is

not

We need fitting and

This is the experiment

we have been trying, and so far as we

It means more than salaries.
means favorable conditions. It means

with us.
It

We

—a
;

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time and opportunity for study.

It means

land.

For most

reasonable academic freedom.

It means

ahead

financially

It means meeting
demanded by that rather
exacting and difficult body of men, the

certain surroundings.

the conditions

men who are scholars.
would not wish to have it inferred
is all we want at Haverford.
I would not take many of the
I

that a scholar

scholars at our universities if

I

had the

choosing to do and could get them. We
want influential men. Of course they

places

when they get

add departments and
keep as poor as ever, or if they do not get

money, remain small because no more
students will go to them. But here we
would have a college giving the best that
could be had of education in the United
States, with

that

all

those valuable influences

come from a moderate number in

close contact with the strongest men of

the country.

We would have a college

with an atmosphere charged with intel-

must be scholars, but we all know there

lectual,

many variations in the ranks of
Some are imscholars as in chickens.
possible socially. They are rough, vulgar and unpleasant. Some are im-

college everyone of you, of course, would

are as

moral and social aspirations

value, but which a multitude of the careful

and thoughtful boys now

fathers

strangers to us would also value.

Num-

and conversation, which would destroy
any charms their scholarship would have.

make them what we chose.

We could
We would

take such and such only as

we wanted.

Some are weak creatures in character

\\'e

morally,

possible

preferring recreations

intellectually strong, but characterless

Some have religious con-

uninfluential.

ceptions which would militate against the

bers would trouble us no more.

would not race with anybody else.
We would use even our football games
as healthy recreations, regardless of their

We would have sport

advertising efifect.

Some

for

sport's

indeed,

we have

would hold that their devotion to research is dominant and that teaching and

now

—and could always win or

lose with

spirit

and

ideals of

Haverford.

influencing

young men is only a neces-

sarily evil

concomitant of the position.

All of these would cut out nine-tenths of

but if we had the
means to rake the country I am sure we
would find enough of the right sort, each
possible candidates

;

sake

as,

honor.

Such is the program for Haverford
along which we think we will work. We
see the plan clearly, \^e have finished
experimenting,
^^'e shall go ahead as

we have resources.
are needed?

How much of these

You will smile at the reck-

—to use the language of another
pointing
—would leave a luminous

less

to Haverford, and would advertise in the

One-fifth of tliis should go for buildings

best sense our college to the country.

the rest for Sioo.ooo professorships.

of which

trail

Now

it

will be done

or

late.

only a question whether this

is

—gradually or

It,

at once

— soon

of course, does not

mean

clearing out our present excellent faculty

or any striking revolution.

It

means a

policy to be lived up to whenever circum-

stances permit.

But think what it would do for the
college.
It would differentiate it immediately from any other institution in the

lars

dreamer when he says a million dolin addition to what we have now.

The

good number of
]irofessorships thus endowed would in
itself be tlie making of the new Haverford, which would be only a development

mere statement of

a

of the present Haverford.

One-half of it

should come from the sale of the land in
West Philadelphia as soon as it can be

marketed.

The other half should come

do not know whence. The sooner it
comes the sooner will arise the new conT

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ditions, on the firm organic basis of the

carrying out

olil

college,

and

principles, hnt leading in

iiient

which will nfit i)e an experiment to

its

move-

a

there never existed at any

time such an interesting circle of
literary

men, bound together by feelings

of mutual esteem and good-fellowship,

company, of
through
Charles Lamb. For a locality to have a
single man of letters were honor enough
as

that

large

but

select

a

great

which we hear

in

deal

these days of literary quiescence, but

when we realize that a little less than one
hundred years ago there existed a community of men who met together for a
pleasant evening of literary discussion,

we begin to realize in a small way what a
centre of scholarly activity was the city
of London in the year 1812.

.\round the

hospitable fireside of Charles Lamb there

met

this

assembly

numbered

which

among its members such men as Shelley,
Keats and Byron.
ists

In the line of essay-

the critical world has left us only the

name of Charles Lamb as that of a writer
of the first class, while Clarke, Talfourd

and Leigh Hunt have been allowed to go

We have, in-

down into forgetfulness.

deed, retained a liking for Hazlitt, but his
popularity

has

never

been

equal

to

Lamb's, and for some reason he does not
figure very largely in the
circle of close friends.

at times, but he

prove that quality

worth more than
is none too

is

nuniljers antl that the best

good for Ilaverfordians.

HUNT -AN APPRECIATION

LEIGH
P1-;R11A1'S

traditions

little,

familiar

He was present

seems to have enjoyed

than with Lamb and (JUier. We,
however, know and love the man best for
."^hclley

his

essays,

for he rarely

showed great

poetic gifts, and, with the notable exception of Abou

Ben Adhem, he hardly ever

rose beyond the limits of a clever and

To be sure, his sonwhich he wrote in competition with Keats and Shelley, will
bear the closest comparison with the
other two, and by no means suflfer by the
ordeal.
Yet he never rose above a certain fixed level even in his more ambitious poetic attempts.
So it is that he
must be classed with Lamb as an essayist
if he is to have any lasting hold upim our
sympathies and affections.
In the notable group of which he was
a member, he was, with the exception of
Lamb, the only one to reach old age.
Keats and Shelley lie side by side in an
Italian graveyard, the one on account of
a sickly constitution, the other drowned
in the Mediterranean
both dead when
much more might have been expected
from them. Byron also died young on
accoinit of his manner of living, and the
world is left to mourn and wonder what
might not have been expected from men
who gave such large and splendid promise in their youth, if they had been perpersistent versifier.

net on the Nile,

;

out the tale of years al-

these occasions merely as an invited guest

mitted to

and not as a regular attender.

lotted to the average

fill

ed that fireside there is none who can bet-

man.
But with
Leigh Hunt the opposite is the case he
wrote in his youth that he did not con-

ter claim our attention than

sider the cat

But of all the lesser men who frequentLeigh Hunt.

He always aspired to be a poet, and so
associated

more with Bvron, Keats and

;

and the teapot as indispen-

sable to a cheerful fireplace

;

but in his

later years, when he had brought his more

THE HAVERFORDIAN
mature mind to bear on the

subject,

he

ject, so

fell

connected with his inborn sense

back into the conventional and custom-

humor that the impression, when the
reading is over, cannot but make us smell

ary way of looking at the matter.

the aroma of his coffee, or see the leaves

The man's cheerfulness is astounding.
We know that his family conditions in

over,

ilid

to tabby, and thus

justice

full

Italy were little short of desperate.
his

Had

friend Shelley lived all would have

gone well, but at the poet's death Hunt
was thrown entirely on his own resources
and the questionable bounty of Lord

The latter was, to say the least,

Byron.
ill

at ease with a man and wife and eight

children
alone.

entirely

dependent upon him

The whole incident is one of the

most pathetic and at the same time the
drollest that

we find in the life of this

wonderful man.

But the strangest part

of

in the

bottom of his cup of tea. Morewhen w-e read Hunt we are in the

open air. We can see all around us the
commonplace beauty of an English moor,
which Hunt preferred to all the richly
colored landscapes of

Or if his

Italy.

walk leads him to an unfinished house,
the sight of the bricklayers brings to his

mind a curious old book

;

a pebble in the

path gives rise to an interesting

philosophy

or the village

:

gests one of his most

pump

bit

of

sug-

humorous essays.

No incident or object is too trivial to be
noticed, or to start a flow of thought.

of the whole aiTair is the fact that at this

Gone and

very time of absolute financial depen-

hangings of an Italian villa, and in their

dence, he was writing and sending to

place we have the cheery breakfast room

England some of his most cheerful essays and to judge the man's position
by his cotemporary productions would be
to place him as a well-fed and satisfied

on Hampstead heath, with the sun shin-

mortal

the wall a select picture, and, last and

:

in

easy, not to say affluent, cir-

There is not in Leigh Hunt

cumstances.

any of the

glorification of poverty

and

love of economical living that is
found in Elia, and yet from an outside
standpoint he is just as optimistic as the

ing in

forgotten are the

(this

is

the

luxurious

one indispensable

feature which Hunt demands for such a

room), and

at

next to the sun

window a vine, on

the

in

.

importance, a clean

and well-wooded hearth, on which blazes
with a cheeriness equal to

the

a bright

frugal

But even a rainy
day may be full of pleasure. Here the
hearth is everything, and the dampness

Lamb.

fire,

that of the sunshine.

To those who acknowledge that Leigh

of the outer world, received during the

Hunt does hold a place in their affections,
it is his quality of beautifying commonplace things, and of making an entertain-

business duties of the day, is all disposed

ing and readable

wannth.

trivial

claim.

he

is

production

from

a

subject that constitutes his chief

Charles

of by the presence of carpet slippers and

an easy chair pulled up to the congenial

"Around

Lamb says of him that

"indispensable as a fireside com-

panion," and this is, indeed, the situation

compact form. His essays
seem tedious,
nor do they have the short and unpolished form of careless or hurried preparation. All of his published works show
an appreciatio!! and interest in the subin a terse and

are never long enough to

the

radiant

fireplace,

enclosed

In a tumultuous privacy of storm."

X(ir do the advantages of more strenuous living escape him. In a charming
little essay entitled "Cricket," he praises
the merits of the game, admitting that

he

is

far too

fond of his books for his

own good.
There

is

no doubt that Leigh Hunt

belongs to a secondary class of

men of

;

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genius, men who, as

Arnold says, "have
what is true and ex-

a genuine gift for

and

cellent,

capable

therefore

are

of

emitting a life-giving stimulus, but who,

more fit "to come across a genius of this
kind and to extract his honey."
The limits of literature seem to be iron
bound and capable of no extension.

for some reason or other, have remained

Since Leigh Hunt's time so many gifted

nbscured. nay, beyond a narrow

writers and poets have

own

country,

of

can

their

in

But

all

us

circle

unknown."

recognize

the

come before the

public and demanded a place among the

world's greatest men of letters, that

we

coming upon a man
whose works are unknown to us, and of
whom we have not learned in the class-

have lost sight of all the essayists of that

room. To read a man by rule and to
know beforehand just what one ought to

these

men dreamed of; but when one is

tired

of philosophy,

get out of this or that essay lacks orig-

restful

and greatly decreases the profit.
It is this sense of newness, of freedom
to judge of a writer's merits, untrammeled by the teaching of the schoolroom,

essays

that forms one's chief pleasure in orig-

winter, and be sure of finding something

of

pleasure

inality

inal

work, and it is this that renders us

time but Lamb and Hazlitt.

Carlyle has

profounder thought than ever

us

left

it

some

read

to

is

pleasant and

of

the

cheerful

on humble, domestic affairs of
every-day life such as Leigh Hunt has
written for us. and to these we can turn
in

sorts of weather, in

all

that will

tit

both

summer and

mood and season.
F. R. Taylor, '06.

THE FIRE-BALL SACRIHCE

AT

the time

I

joined the

company

they were making a paying thing

out of the pearls gathered in Utopia, an

With aptness the place had been so named. Out
island in the Central Pacific.

of the
visited

track

of

but twice

line

steamers and

a year

by a special

all

looked to
Hanlin as one with supernatural power.
L topia,

fifty-some

was plainly manifest. Men and women
were alert for every motion he made
nor were their faces burdened any more
with

stayed any time had been driven almost

superstition with

mad with melancholia. But not so Reddy

quackery

it

Hanlin.

His had been a crazy career

at the best

;

his experience had in it data

that were world wide
in

—but mountebank

ever\-thing else, his honesty

was im-

Many a sailor had circumvented the
safeguards and precautions of

former

away a pretty
hoard of pearls, but Reddy broke that
up with marvelous rapidity. It was
agents and smuggled

scarcely a year before every native on

fear

than

with

reverence.

We

guessed he had been working on their

some of his ingenious

how and with what
we did not discover till the night of the full moon in
August last. Our ship was moored of?
I knew a little
the island at that time.
:

but just

over-mastering results

of

peccable.

told,

None of us who made the periodical trips
knew the secret of his influence, but it

was the most lonesome spot
in the world, and all our agents that had

trader,

all

the

native

lingo

had overheard two

aw-ful

stuff

—and

women speaking of

sacrifice and harvest of
and I gathered that was the faSo on leaving Hanlin, ostental night.
sibly to row to the ship, the mate and I
went around the promonitory that form-

the

"fire-ball

pearls,"

THE HAVERFORDIAN
We

ed the plantation bay, and then, by the

luminous coronet around his head.

help of the moonlight, landed in secret

were hidden but a few feet from him
and in a constant fret of fear of being
discovered and so breaking up the rites
which we now believed we were going to

further up the beach.

We made our

way around to a hill overlooking the
settlement of shacks and hid ourselves
in some brush near a group of palms.
The hill on which we were led gently to
the beach on the north and south of the
ridge, but directly east it broke off into
a sheer wall

some fifty feet high, at the

bottom of which large seas broke and
foamed angrily.
When the moon, obscured by thin silvery clouds that a light breeze shifted
here and there in mysterious shapes,

had nearly reached the zenith, one lone
form came up the hill along the path we
had followed. We soon distinguished
Hanlin.

On one side he carried a small

round disc and on the other a can. Over
one shoulder hung, as near as we could
judge, some sort of net. He parted the
brush and then hurried along a hidden
path. After a few moments we saw him
climb one of the palms, and, most astonishingly to us, lug the disc, now gleaming with phosphorescent light, up with
him. He lodged it deep in the shade of

see.

Hanlin uttered a loud wail like to that
of the asolian harp he had strung in the

and

tree,

after the space of three min-

utes one figure ascended the

hill

with

slow, springing steps, and at short intervals giving an answering wail to the

soundings from the palms.

The figure

proved to be a woman.

She kneeled and
bowed to the supernal palm, and begged
to be spared. .A.s she arose Hanlin, standing behind her, with a jerk of his wrist
slipped a card into the air that,

boom-

erang like, fell at the woman's feet as if
shot from the disc

in

the tree above.

Eagerly she snatched it and carried it to

The fatal lot had
With a most piteous whimper she knelt and bowed to the palms
again and returned down the hill with
the same slow, rhythmic swinging to
him to be interpreted.
missed her.

her body, and the recurrent moanings in

answer to the wind-swept harp.

the tree, facing the ocean, and descend-

Eight times each of eight women as-

Up he went in the next one, and

cended the hill to learn the cast of fate,

ed.

when he reached

the top

moved back

and forth from one branch to another
and came down. The breeze seemed to
change on that instant and out of the
palm tree came a mournful sighing that
now sank to a whisper and again swelled
Then, too, and with
to a dismal wail.
a similarity to the clouded

moon that

almost immersed us, the disc loomed up
with uncertain yellow light that glowed

and dimmed in miniature ripples like a
field of golden grain before the summer

But to the ninth the interpreter
made no answer.
He

of the

fire-hall

waited in silence a moment, then carried
the card the

woman had given him to

the edge of the rocks and cast it in.

The

sank to the earth

and

ill-falcd

victim

bowed her head, but not a sound did she
utter. Hanlin took the band from around
liis head and waved it in the air.
Then
came up the hill fifty men and women,
wailing piteously in answer to the wailing of the night wind in the palms. They

winds.

Hanlin himself was now standing before the palms on the open

whimpered thanksgiving and descended
again.

flat

over-

looking the sea, and evidently waiting.
He was fantastically garbed and wore a

formed a silent circle aroutul the sitting

woman, leaving an opening toward the
sea.
falter,

Slowly she arose, and without one
stepped to the

1)rink.

The harp

:

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN
iK'gaii its

uailings again, but louder still

woman.
fell

the fire-ball

lin

sacrifice

had

removed

all

and
was the honest
R. J. S., '06.

traces of the rites

This

left in silence.

charlatan.

i

Res Aeternae
Nineveh boasted of grandeur perpetual,
Carthage her widespreading commerce and pride
Greece of her valor and wealth intellectual,
Yet all in the roll of the ages have died.
Babylon laughed at the Deity scornfully,
Rome, drunk with power, grew haughty and bold
Out from their ruins the echoes sound mournfully,
" Things that eternal are, never grow old."
;

;

Where are the dreams that our ancestors cherished,
Dreams of magnificence, glory and power ?

Gone as the breath that they breathed has perished,
Vanished forever like things of an hour

1

Corinth, the waves of the quiet Aegean,

Image the stars that looked down on thy fall
And the streets once trod by the feet of armies

;

Now bloom with the roses that grow on thy wall
Thebes no longer exists but in storj-,
The splendor of Athens was but a day's sun

;

And the captains that marshalled their legions to glory,
Have mouldered to dust like the trophies they won.
Gone are the towers of Tyre and of Sidon,

Now otily names that the poets employ

;

Gone are their rulers, faded like memories.
Or the last gleam of sunshine that shone upon Troy

Over the nations of haughty dominion,

The tide of vengeful destruction has rolled
By the long course of the ages is written.
Brightly and clearly, in characters bold
*"

palm,

They leaped

below Hanlin scattered a shower of pearls
into the air;

in the

to the rocks

who broke from the circle and ran to the
together, and as they

been answered by the god

The miserable group wailed again, and
as they swung down the hill the mate
and I sat dumbly by and watched. Han-

there arose a shriek from one of the men,

side of the fated

9

;

;

The God of Hosts is a God of Judgment

Live by His will! Ere His wrath, uncontrolled.
Smite thee to death and He crieth
Ye perish
My laws are eternal and never grow old.' "
;

'

;

T.C.D., '08.

a

THE NINE OF DIAMONDS

THE medium looked
and
late the

wise for a min-

then began to re-

ute or two,

following story:

swamp. At last I came to a place where
ground rises considerably above the

the

of the coast.

level

About five years ago

had a very
strange experience.
I was sitting one
evening in my study reading the "Revelations from the Spiritual World." All
of a sudden I heard three loud raps, as
if someone had struck upon the zinccovered roof with a hammer. I looked
up and listened.
A full minute must
have elapsed before I heard a faint noise
coming from the door. Just as I turned
my eyes to see what it was a strong
draught of cool air rushed in, and the
lamp was put out. How long it was
before I recovered enough to strike a
match I could not tell you. It may have
been ten minutes. I groped around in
the darkness and shut the door. Then
I lit the lamp.
The light from the lamp
fell square upon a piece of paper
upon
which the following words were written
in a scrawly hand
"Come to the gambler's house at once.
Peace be with
I

In the distance

I

Something tugged at my heart, and I knew
that I was near the dread place.
With
eyes focused upon that distant light, I
caught sight of a flickering light.

walked on, unmindful of dangers.

Sud-

The pain,

denly I ran into a sand bank.

as the thorns of a prickly pear plant bur-

my hands, was noth-

ied themselves in

ing compared to the sensation which

I

felt

when a band of sea birds rose from

the

bank and flew all around me. flap-

ping their wings and uttering an angry
"kiah

I

kiah !"

\Mth

bleeding

disentangled myself.

Leaving

kiah

!

hands

!

the last dunes behind,

I

turned to the

and walked upon a beaten path.
a whirl the band of black birds
flew over my head again and disappeared
left

With

ominous

distance, uttering their

the

in

"kiah! kiah! kiah!"

At last

:

reached the house.

I

.-\n

old

negro woman stood at the door, holding
Nodding, she
a candle in her hands.

You can imagine my surprise at
Had a brother
from the other world come to visit me?

a large, square

Why should

I go out so late at night?
Rut it was an absolute command. As a

bed lay a

man with glazy eyes and an

emaciated

face.

medium I could not disobey.
The gambler's house at midnight—
tough task,
assure you
The stretch

portrait

between the coast and the edge
of the swamp where that man lived is a

table,

crooked palms rise

there

you."

reading those words.

I

!

of land

desolate place.

Tall,

here and there.

At night, when the sea

the

room.

tlie

prickly pear,

was

bunches of

chairs

the

path every-

was bare.

Wild vines and thorny cactus
where.
grow pell null in the soft sand. Through

a

medicine

bottles.

burning piece

at

and

of

cotton.

was a pack of

under the cards a dollar bill.
these

for

with

intercejjt

hung a

bedside stood a small

with

Xe.xt to the saucer there

Except

Banks

the bed

Floating in a saucer full of cocoanut oil

cards, and

crowned

Over

L5y the

loaded

branches, making doleful noises.
sands,

room.

which was completely lit up by
light of a lamp in a corner of

breeze blows they rock their shrouded
of

me into
On a very plain

silently led the way, and ushered

a

things,

padded

a

rocker,

couple
the

of

room

The man in the bed looked

me a long time.

Then, raising him-

this waste, following a

winding path,

I

un his elbows, he almost shrieked:
"They are all around. Can't you drive

made my way toward

the edge of the

them awav ?" and sank back into his pil-

self

;

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN

II

lows. He pointed toward tlic small table
and muttered something unintelligible.
The negro woman walked over, took
the dollar from under the cards, and
handed it to me, saying: "Pray for him
and return to-morrow at midnight."

nie.

Then she ushered me out.

had not gone a hundred yards when I
found my way blocked by a hedge of
'"malla" and wild vine. Had I taken the

*
I

*

*

rose late the following morning. The

started once more, with a

I

The night was not as dark as
had been upon the two previous occasions
a few stars twinkled above and
venture.

it

lessened the terrors of the darkness.

events of the previous night nished back

wrong path?

to my mind. Had it been a dream ? No
my hands bore the marks of the prickly
pear.
I jumped out of bed and sought
my pocketbook eagerly. If the dollar bill
was in it, then it was no dream. With
trembling hands I opened it soul of my
soul instead of the bill I found one of
the cards which I had seen upon the

to the right

swamp beyond.

gambler's table the evening before.

of

!

turned

it

— was the nine of

over

it

I

dia-

What mystery was this? Had
that woman given me a card when I
thought she was giving me a dollar?
monds.

All that day a vague uneasiness swept

over me.

I

myself

promised

that

possessed

of

unconquerable desire

an

to return to the gambler's house.

before midnight

I

started

Just

and began to

walk hurriedly. As I reached the path
which leads to the house the same ominous "kiah kiah kiah'!" of the evening

I

thought not.

I

I

I

turned

and walked rapidly until

nearly ran into another sand bank.

I

Had

lost the path again ? It seemed strange.

At last

caught sight of the flickering

I

light in the gambler's

window.

Almost

simultaneously my eyes wandered toward
"the palm

fire

souls" and the

of the lost

A bluish little tongue

hovered over the top of the tail,

while over the swamp
hundreds of pale little lights sprung up
and licked the air, disappearing only

crooked palm

;

and be swept away

to spring out again

by the breeze.
*

I

would not make a second journey for a
nine of diamonds. But toward nightfall
my uneasiness vanished, and I became

hope

of getting to the end of the strange ad-

*

*

When I entered the room I found the
gambler cold and stiff in his bed.
I
glanced over the room.
I shall never
forget the spectacle that

my eyes met.

The walls, the ceiling, the floor, the bed,
the table
everything was shrouded in
black. The burning piece of cotton had
ceased to burn. The lamp in the corner

seemed to come from the very heart of
On reaching the house the

dim light over the scene. In
hands the dead man held the portrait which had hung over his head.
I
looked at it. It was the portrait of a

events of the previous night were re-

pretty

!

!

before struck my ears.

Only this

time it

the swamp.

peated to the extent of

my getting an-

other dollar.

On the following morning I found
another nine of diamonds in my pocketbook.

More mystified than ever, I ap-

pealed to the

good spirits to enlighten

me, but without any success.
all

day, but

when night

fell

I

prayed

the

same

uncontrollable desire took possession of

cast only a
his

young girl, bearing a strong reUnder the
jjack of cards there was not a dollar bill,
semblance to the dead man.

but the everlasting nine of diamonds

The old negro worrtan whispered in my
car: "It's all over," and ushered me out

without another word.

My head was like an oven. The cool
evening

air

seemed to do me good.

walked on, lost in

I

my thoughts, until I

a

!

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN

12

sank knee deep into a hole.

I

had taken

wrong path and gone right into the

the

swamp.

grabbed to

I

pull myself out

my hand clutched a wooden box.

and

It
uncanny noise.
was a coffin! Curiosity overcame my
fears.
I struck a match and held it over
the coffin. Inside of it there was a skull,
a few bones, a rusty poniard and
nine of diamonds. They seemed to have
been put in there that same evening. As
I stood there pondering I could not help

with an

rattled

It

monds?"

thought

I

I

heard a rustling

my head.

Then I shuddered as I
heard once more that ominous "kiah
kiah kiah !" A few more lights sprung
up around me, danced awhile in the air
and then disappeared.
With a heavy
over

!

heart

left

I

the dismal place.

asking myself the question
skull

:

"Has

this

any connection with the portrait?

What is the meaning of this nine of dia-

Friends, that strange adventure has
always remained shrouded in the deepest mystery.
I once heard that the
gambler had staked his daughter's honor
in a game of Monte, and
lost
Qiiieyi

sabef

!

J. Padin, '07.

SKETCHES
who died of a broken heart at her lover's

St. David's Church

That broad flat slab conceals

desertion.

TT was

a beautiful

Sunday afternoon

those rare days when
God and he are in per-

in Jiuie, one of

one

feels that

fect harmony, and death is only the door

The whole atmosphere

to a better life.

of the

old.

tributed to

revolutionary

church

con-

my mood — the cool of the

the remains of one the most dashing and

heroic

of the Revolutionary generals.
This one close to the church wall covers

perhaps the young children stricken by

some dread fever. The very threshold
the doorway bears an inscription

of

sacred to the memory of the first pastor,

the

who lived to a green old age, and died

stately pines, the honeysuckle straggling

peacefully, to be laid to rest by his son,

stone walls, the

ivy-covered

roof,

over the graves, the stern old stones
forgotten past when men
women with "like passions as our-

telling of a

and

selves"

came here to meet and to wor-

ship.

If

tell

their

only those inscriptions could
stories

!

be supplied by the imagination.

Per-

rich

father,

mother,

brother,

—thev

sister

had all met the same fate, but was it not

happy fate, a birth into a new life

a

Why then

But many of them

are hard to make out, and the gaps must

They were all
and poor, young and old,

elected to succeed him.
there,

should that long line of

people, clothed in black and with

bowed
For

heads be weeping and sorrowful?
turned to go,

noticed four

men

rosewood

case

tall

pine

as

tree could tell us of an old couple

who

carrying

a

varnished

of love and kindness,

toward a

far

comer of the yard, where

haps those stones near that
lived a long

life

I

I

the fresh earth and the old stones lookc'

honored and revered by the whole neighThis solitary stone by the
borhood.
wall commemorates a young girl, soon to

id

be married, perhaps, in this very church,

disturb the peacefulness of my thoughts.

strangely incongruous.

They had pass-

me in my revery, but they could not

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Reverently

watched

I

the last solemn

;

words were said, the earth was thrown
in and the men and women moved softly
away, leaving the father and mother
But again I
alone with their lost one.
thought "God and Man are in harmony
the dead have only found a larger and
:

;

gave the author the idea of an old

TTall

When he entered, and

English abbey.

the heavy oaken door swung shut behind

him, the illusion was not at first broken,
for a heavy, musty odor was present, and

he looked up expecting to see about the

among the bare black rafter

walls and

beams, dust-covered and bloody escut-

R. S., '06.

a nobler self."

13

cheons, battered armor, and along the

The Plaines

I

shed which served as a station,
watching the train as it glided into the
tle

western distance along that straight line
cutting the Arizona Desert. The smoke
hung in the shimmering atmosphere in
a

trail

behind

breath of

air,

swayed by a
held between two

it,

hardly

as

if

mightv forces, the sun boiling down
from above, and the heat reflected from
the glaring sand.

As

the eye

as

far

could see in any direction stretched limitless

sand, limitless sky, and between

them

that

hazy wavering which tends

A feeling of lone-

to confuse the senses.

crumbling

floor,

STOOD on the platform of the lit-

liness, of helplessness came

over me, but

But he did

effigies.

;

instead he got an impression of a

vast

number of books, methodically ar-

not

ranged everywhere on shelves, and the
spell was broken
He realized that here
were entombed men's thoughts and not
!

their bodies.

Arranged

shape

the

in

of

east wing,

devoted to a large reading

table and periodicals.

The shelves of the

west wing are occupied mainly by works
of reference, and

its

alcoves by books

pertaining to the social branches.

downed there would be no help for me.

bright

interest

my

wandering

searched the landscape for

senses

I

some varia-

Turning my burning eyeballs out
towards the horizon line I barely made
out a range of low-lying foothills, but

tion.

they only aggravated the frenzy of my
imagination, for to me they meant simply

more

of

that

accursed

sand.

It

seemed to me that I was lost in that
glowing sea of sand. I reeled, but just
then a piercing whistle cut me like a
knife, rallied my vanishing senses, and
set me on

Thank God, a

my feet again.

train for the

East

sight! /. Af., '06.

in

The
new south wing, with its ringing

cement floor, is cosmopolitan.
books in almost all languages

SURROUNDED
a

by

larches

Here are
;

here one

may behold the undignified flirtation of
a Gray's "i\.natomy," with a

little

dark-

eyed French novelette, or Euclid's "Treatise

on Mathematics," casting sheep's

eyes

across

the

aisle

at

"Jane Eyre."

Here also are the invaluable collections
of

old

manuscripts

and

Babylonian

tablets.

But the north wing is the most interall.
Here is a perfect mystic
maze of books, and in the centre a cou-

esting of

ple

of tables,

covered with catalogues

and i>eriodicals.

The Inside of the College Library

St.

from a square enclosure in the centre,
where sits ensconced not the muse of
learning, as one might expect, but the
librarian.
You enter the building by the

I battled with it, for I knew that if once

To

a

George's cross the four wings radiate

In this wing are books

touching all branches of human knowl-

and

oaks, overhung by ivy, flanked by

and, as if one floor were not
enough, there is a second gallery groan-

Alumni

ing beneath vast quantities of erudition

precise

Elizabethan

garden.

edge,

"

:
;

THE HAVERFORDIAN

14

—and Government
Yes,

for

statistics

interest,

and

pure

my coat and rolled up my sleeves.

ofi

!

simple,

"Well,

haven't been asleep more than

I

and if you do not want to find a certain
liook, the north wing is by far the most

a couple of miniites,"

fascinating.

.\nd

/./.A, '07.

reflected,

I

"for

just about time for that last local."

it's

so I grasped a smooth handle,
threw my weight on the lever and then
locked

The midnight

it.

limited

was

due in ten minutes, but the Wilmington

Another View of the Dttalty
*

the time

I

reached the top the iron gate

But I slipped through an
"exit" gate, jumped on the end of the
last car, and was soon dozing in my

clanged shut.

For some reason

seat.

other

or

my

mind always rehearses in reverse order
the events of the day just before

I

fall

and so, after congratulating myself on not missing the "owl" train, I
found myself gliding over smooth ice,

asleep

express preceded it by five and so I
wiped the perspiration from my forehead and turned to watch the local
"owl."
]\Iost of the male passengers
were dozing in their seats, but a fellow
:

^HE bell was ringing as I came up
I
* the steps three at a time, and by

;

in

the last car

stared curiously in

direction as the train flew by.

the express passed and

I

my

Just then

turned to re-

They flew back with
a clang, and the ticker on my desk awoke
lease both levers.

and

to

started

p-a-s-s-e-d

O-K."

say

"I_,-i-m-i-t-e-d

Then after a pause

"Hello 113! hello 113! hello 113! are

became black and tlie
skates turned to chalk I was conscious
that I was being called upon, but the

express
Hold the B
you there ?
freight wreck at
I awoke to hear the brakeman calling
"Haverford!" but the train was already
pulling out of the station.
I picked up
my suit case and made for the door,

professor, instead of asking a question.

almost

cutting

circles,

which

soon

parabolas

and

ellipses,

themselves

resolved

into

equations representing the same figures,
the

wliile

ice

;

Tommy

MathBut
was only the conductor punching my

said

"Tickets!"

while

upsetting

conductor,

//.

shark snatched my pencil from me.
it

the

who

came in with, "Next station, Haverford."
Bur/, 'oS.

Before settling down again after

ticket.

brief interruption,

the

window and caught sight of a small

I

In the Observatory

glanced out of

tliis

tower, brilliantly liglited, in which a man

THE astronomerFor two hours
his chair.

his eye

with shirt sleeves rolled up stood before

had been glued

to the eye-piece of the

a

row of huge upright levers.

to wonder, as

T

I began
dropped oflf again, what

sort of a life this fellow led in his lonely

tower
serted

;

but again the mathematics asitself,

and the blacklioard

linally

swallowed up everything.
The glare of the
I started up guiltily.
electric lights, reflected from a row of
huge upright levers, increased the temperature of the hot, stuffy
in sjiite of

room

zero weather outside.

—hot

I

took

shifted restlessly in

hours the dull "tickhad sounded monotonously in his ears. The narrow slit in

telescopes; for two

tick" of the clock

the

spherical

dome admitted

light of the full

the white

moon, and tiie soft glow

half revealed the objects in the circular

The telescope was fastened to
moon by the clock, so that for all
the motion of the earth, the moon was
room.

tile

always

in

the field of view; the astron-

omer was just as rigidly locked

to the

THE HAVERFORDIAN
locked

telescope,

satiable desire of

by the one

tliere

man

in-

—the longing "to

know."

The moon
turies,

is

Men

watch.

and

a

tiresome

it

to

So our astronomer shifted

unchanged.

and yawned.

restlessly,

object

have studied it for cenhas remained practically

right

:

down

crawled over that cavernous surface like
a bee

on an orange.

great

beast

yawn in half and gulped
unyawned portion, and all

reached

But when this
edge of the

the

moon, and began to lower itself off with
a heavy rope, insolently disregarding
the laws of gravitation, then our astron-

omer gasped

horror.

in

And just then something had to tickle

Suddenly, with

a gasp of astonishment, he sat bolt up-

•5

his

nose

He brushed at it impatiently,

!

he bit his

jealous of the slightest interruption

the

the tickling continued.

There
was a black object on the face of the
moon, and it was moving! Life on a
dead world
Life that must exist with-

thought of drowsiness left him.

!

out atmosphere.

And wliat a giant it

was
A good-sized town could be seen
on the moon, but this colossal object
must be at least twice as large as New
!

York City.

It

moved slowly across the

moon, drawing its circular body along
by six great legs, each as long as the
Delaware River. Its lumbersome bulk

;

but

was unendurable.
He drew his eye away from the
telescope, and saw
a tiny spider hangsilken
ing on a
cord before his other eye.
So this little speck was his great
giant
The disappointment was grievous.
But the spider had prepared its
own destruction a portion of the web
It

!

;

again tickled the astronomer's nose, and
a

great,

omnipotent sneeze blew the

giant to the other end of the universe

and startled the chronometer into losing
a

IV. S. £., '07.

tick.

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
Alumni Banquet

THE

nineteenth annual alumni din-

ner

was held

at

the

Bellevue-

Wood, '96, and Chester J. Teller, '05.
The oldest alumnus present was Cole-

man L. Nicholson, '50.

Stratford Hotel, on the evening of Feb-

ruary

About two hundred Haver-

16.

Presentation of

fordians were present.

The guest

of

honor was Dr. Henry

Churchill King, president of Oberlin College,

Ohio, who at that time was deliv-

ering the fourth annual series of Haverford Library

Lectures on the subject,

— Human and Divine." Dr.

t~\ N the evening of Friday, February
^^ 9th, the donors of the new dining
hall, to the number of about one hundred
and fifty, were entertained at dinner by
the Board of Managers and the Faculty,
magnificent room which has lately

"Friendship

in the

Rufus M. Jones was the toastmaster.
President King spoke on the influence
and power of the small college. President Sharpless spoke on the progress,
needs and ideals of Haverford College.
Others who responded to toasts were

become

Dr. Ernest W. Brown

tlinroughly

;

L. Hollingsworth

the New Dining Hall

a reality through their unflagThe tables were arging generosity.
ranged in the shape of a horseshoe, the
presiding officers and oldest alumni

being seated at the bend, near the door,
.^fter a delightful banquet had been

enjoyed by

all

the

guests

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN

i6

President Sharpless arose and announc-

style,

ed that there would be a few informal
speeches preparatory to a general in-

He ended with the hope that all alumni

to the delight of

all

his hearers.

should be able to consider the new din-

spection and critical examination of the

ing hall as a safe harbor of refuge in

wing by all those personally in-

time of need, and thus, by returning con-

In his introductory remarks

tinually to the scenes of their youth, be

entire

terested.

President Sharpless

commented on the

loyalty of the alumni in responding with-

kept always "within touching distance"
of the college.

He

The last speaker of the evening was

mentioned several individual cases which

Walter Carson, '06, president of the
Senior Class, who, on behalf of the un-

out hesitation to the call for funds.

exhibited this loyaltv with peculiar force.

He then summed up the details of construction

new hall,

connected with the

dergraduates, accepted the gift of the

He spoke in particular of the

alumni.

and gave the donors an accurate ac-

new system

count of the use made of their contribu-

has transformed the dining room from

tions.

an athletic

The president was followed by George
Vaux, Jr., who spoke on behalf of the
His remarks were of a general nature, interspersed with humorous
trustees.

He pointed out the fact that the
man was needed in the organcharities of the city, and made a

of self-government, which

field

to a comfortable

hall,

where the material wants of life may
be satisfied in peace and quiet.
At the conclusion of the speeches the
guests scattered to various parts of the

stories.

new building, and thoroughly inspected

college

every corner of the kitchen, cellar, halls

ized

and club rooms.

The company

finally

strong appeal to Haverford graduates to

adjourned, after a most delightful even-

take part in such work.

ing,

with the

their

seed had fallen on good ground

President

Sharpless then

introduced

sincere

conviction

that

Frederick Palmer, Jr., whose dining hall

and that their efforts had added another

new con-

valuable factor in the development of the

experiences under the old and

ditions made him an eloquent witness to

the

effectiveness

of

the

alumni's

new Haverford College.
5'.

gift.

G. S., 'oj.

He related his adventures in entertaining
fashion from his first introduction to a
Haverford meal down to his present life
of ease and prosperity under the selfgovernment system. His remarks im-

pressed the alumni anew with the fact
that the

dining hall had been a most

crying need.

As another witness to the remarkable
change wrought by the passing from the
old to the new, Dr. Bolles was called
upon.

He received a great ovation as

he rose to speak, and resi)onded with a
most telling address. He was followed
by James B. Drinker, '03, who repreDrinker
sented the younger alumni.
held forth in his usual George Ade

Baltimore Banquet

TWENTY-THREE

graduates

Haverford College met

at

of

dinner

the Hotel Rennert, Baltimore, on
Thursday, March i, to "consider the adat

formation of a local

visability

of the

Alumni
were

Association.

Those

President Sharpless.
Eli U. Lamb, 1856.
George V. Valentine, 1856.
John C. Thomas, 1861.

Prof. Marshall Elliott, 1866.

Prof.

Henry Wood, 1869.

Dr. Randolph Winslow, 1871.

Charles V. Thomas, 1871.

present

THE HAVERFORDIAN
James Carey, Jr.,

Dr. Winslow.

1872.

White, Jr., 1875.

-Miles

R. Henry Holme, 1876.

and an organization committee
was appointed consisting of Dr. Randolph Winslow, Mr. Carey Coale and
Dr. Dunton.
retary,

Dr. H. M. Thomas, 1883.

Francis A. White, 1884.
Ellicott,

Mr. Miles White, Jr., was
and Dr. Dunton sec-

elected president

A. Morris Carey, 1881.

William M.

17

President

1884.

Sharpless,

who was

the

John Janney, 1887.
Dr. W. R. Dunton, Jr., 1889.

guest of the company, then spoke on the

T. S. Janney, 1890.

ideals.

present conditions at Haverford, and its

His address made a very strong
impression, and the speakers who fol-

Carey Coale, 1891.

Henry S. Conard, 1894.
J. Leiper Winslow, 1901.
S. M. Whiteley, 1902.
Fitz Randolph Winslow,
George Peirce, 1903.

expressed

ideals

suggested.

for various

reasons

Dr. Winslow made a number of humor-

ous remarks on cricket.
Professor Henry Wood spoke of
Haverford as a college, and as an edu-

Ephraim Hopkins, 1858.
Joseph S. Hopkins, i860.
John E. Carey, 1870.

cator,

Francis K. Carey, 1878.

erford.

M. Tatum, Thomas K. Carey, Henry J.
Harris, Richard L. Cary and Alfred B.

whom expressed them-

selves as favorable to the formation of

a local Association.

The toastmaster was Miles \\'hite, Jr.,
who called on Dr. Dunton to state the
object of the meeting.

Dr.

Dunton spoke

while there

were

Haverford,

who were

of

sixty

the

fact

graduates

for

resident

in

formed.

Alma

that

Mater.

such

an

He therefore
Association

was then called upon
speak on music at Haverford.

to

George Peirce spoke briefly upon the
toward
the older Alumni and Professor Elliott
concluded the evening by remarks upon
the "Uplift at Haverford" and the backward gaze.
W. R. Dunton, fr., 'Sp,
feeling of the recent graduates

Secretary.

or

should be

their

Hav-

of

formed with semiannual meetings for the purpose of promoting good-fellowship among tlaverfordians and of keeping alive the love

moved

President

Haverford,

that

about Baltimore and Washington, and
while a number of them had been casually meeting, a still larger number had
met but seldom. He felt that an Association

commended

Professor Frank Morley, formerly of

Regrets were received from George

of

warmly

Sharpless' views for the future of

W. W. Handy, 1891.

all

the

of

old days at Haverford; following whom

they were unable to be pre.sent.

Morton,

approbation

Eli M. Lamb and George V. Valentine
then gave a number of reminiscences of

1903.

Acceptances were also received from
the following, but

lowed

be

This motion was seconded by

NOTES
'78.

selected

Cyrus

P. Frazier has just

postmaster

of

been

Greensboro,

N. C.

Isaac T. Johnson has resigned
'8J.
from the position of treasurer of the
John C. Winston Publishing Co. to take

charge of a large manufacturing establishment in Urbana, Ohio.

THE HAVERFORDIAN

i8

'94. A.

ver,

Mahlon Z. Kirk, of Den-

M.

Colorado, and

Mrs. Kirk visited

'OJ.

Marshall

E.

Scull

has

been

been elected treasurer of the John C.

College on February 8th.

Winston Co.

John S. Jenks, Jr., was recently elected a manager of Girard Trust

of the Wilmington Whist Club bowling

'02.

Ex-'98.

Company of Philadelphia.
'00.

& Lowry Company, fin-

ishers of cotton goods, and
in

team, which was recently beaten by the

College team on the College alleys.

Howard H. Lowry is treasurer

of the Coulter

W. Pusey 2d was a member

W'.

is

stationed

Greensboro, N. C.

'03.

The engagement

Ex-'05. John L.

John Thompson Emlen was
married on March 6, in Germantown, to
Miss Mary Carpenter Jones.

announced

enhaupt, of Ossining, N. Y.

the John
'00.

is

of R. L. Simkin to Miss Margaret Low-

C.

Scull,

who

Winston Co.,

is

is

with

said

to

have been the only non-union man who
could operate a monotype machine during the recent apprentice strike.

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Cnndiicted by

PRESIDENT SH ARTLESS recently

read a paper on "Presbyterian

and Quaker in Colonial Pennsylvania,"
before the Presbyterian Historical Society of Philadelphia.

been published
Professor

in

The lecture has

the Society's journal.

Gummere

contributed

an

article on "Originality and Convention in

number of
and Professor
Brown has an article in the January and
February inmibcrs of the Popular Science Monthly entitled "With the British
Association in South .Africa." The latter are illustrated by ])hotographs taken

Literature," for the January
the

Review

Quarterly

;

Dean

Barrett

books are for use in college
ondary school laboratories.
Dr.

Babbitt's Thesis

Society for

vertebrate animals and form a companion volume to

mals, published

one on invertebrate anisome time ago. These

annual meeting
in

its

in

May,

proceedings.

He has lately been elected a member of
Board of Directors of the ".American
Gynmasia," the i)ublication supported by

the

the

organization

for

Xational

Physical

lulucation.

The formal opening of the new dining
hall

occurred on Friday evening, Feb-

Boartl of

designed to be a guide to

its

and for publication

Ginn & Company have brought out
a book by Professor Pratt, under the
caption "A Course in Vertebrate ZoolIt is

on "The Nasal

been accepted by the American Rhinological, Atological and Lar^-ngological

ruary 9th.

the dissection and comparative study of

sec-

Turbinates as a Vasomotor Index," has

during the tour.

ogy."

antl

.\ dinner was given by the
Managers for the faculty and

donors of the building. \\ ith few
exceptions, the donations lor this latest
tlie

improvement in the college equipment,
were in comparatively small amounts,
and the subscribers' jist numbered about
three hundred and twenty-five.
The
great majoritv of these were ahunni of

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Tlaverford,
loyal

their

who

gave proof of

again

which the college is doing.
stantial

contributions

frienils

and

desire

support

to

educational

After dinner speeches were

Several sub-

made by

President

\'aux,

'84,

not

These

among the alumni.

their

projects.

were

neighbors

of

the work

of

appreciation

19

made

by

numbered
gifts

latter

were especially gratifying as giving evidence of the good-will of the donors and

Jr.,

George

Sharpless,

Dr. A. S. BoUes, Fred-

eric Palmer, Jr., James B. Drinker, '03,
and Walter Carson, president of the

Senior Class.

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
LIBRARY LECTURES

THE"Haverford

annual

fourth

course

Library

came on St. \'alentine's day the re-

tea
in

the

lectures"

freshments and decorations were

all

in

the shape of hearts.

Professor A. Schinz, of Brs'n

MawT

Henry
Churchill King, of Oberlin College. The
subject of this series was "The Laws of
Friendship, Human and Divine."
President King spoke of the funda-

before the "Cercle Frangaise de Haver-

mental rules of friendship which, he held,
consist in the laws of personal relationship both between man and man, and

versification in poetry.

was

by

delivered

President

College, delivered an interesting lecture

ford" on Tuesday, February 13.
He
spoke on the differences between the
French and English modern systems of

He explained

tions

the requisites of an ideal personal relaHe
tionship, either human or Divine.

ture

God and man.

between

said they were,
sonality,

then

first,

a significant per-

integrity,

community of

He illustrated his

lecture by several ver\- interesting selec-

from French

literature.

The lec-

was delivered in the new assembly
room. It is to be hoped that more un-

dergraduates
in

will

attend these lectures

the future.

interests, self-giving and, finally, respect

for the
other.

liberty

and personality of the

We generally receive from any-

thing exactly what we put into it
the

;

hence

more we give to our friendships the
we obtain from them.

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Haverford vs. Germantown

On Thursday afternoon, February 22,

better the results

the college won an interesting but rather

Our acquaintance with God is deepened
in exactly the same way as is an acquaintance with a human being. What

easy victory from

are the conditions that

must be filled in

order to bring a man into the closest relationship with

God and man? The an-

swer is association

— devote time to de-

veloping friendships.

The second of the annual faculty teas
year was held in the reading-room
of the gymnasium on Wednesday after-

this

noon, February 14. On this occasion the
guests were the Junior Class. As the

Germantown by the

score of six goals to two.

kicked off and in the

first

Haverford
few minutes

both sides had scored a goal. Haverford scored twice more before the half
ended, the score being 3 to

i.

The second half opened by an excellent exhibition of team work on the part
of the college forwards, but they could

not shoot well.

Pleasants, Rossmaessler
and Lowry played well for Haverford,
while Priestman excelled for Germantown. Line-up

:

THE HAVERFORDTAN

20

Germantown.

Haverford.

on Friday evening.

lege

G. Priestman

Goal

Phillips

D. Newhall
A. T. Lowry...Left full-back
Lister
C. T. Brown. ..Right full-back
Seeds
Taylor
Left half-back
Right half-back. .Shoemaker
Drinker
Pleasants
Centre half-back. .C. Newhall
Rossmaesslcr. .C. forward.. .A. G. Priestman
Sub.
Left inside
Spaeth
Kelly
P. W. Brown. .Right inside
Biishnell
Right outside
Reid
O'Neill
Left outside
Young
Goals Rossniaessler, 2; Brown, Spaeth, 2;
.

February 23,

1906, under the auspices of the

gymna-

sium department of the Athletic Asso-

The contest was well attended

ciation.

and went off on time in a way that was

.

.

O'Neill.

Kelly,

Reid,

Time— 35-minute

Referee— Waldron.

halves.

very creditable to the management.

A

dinner was given to the contestants

in

the (lining-room before the meet, and at
close most of the boys attended an

its

supper in the new assembly
There were 88 entries, from the

informal

room.

following

schools

Brown

Blight's,

:

De

Preparatory,

On Saturday, February 24, the college

-Academy,

Episcopal
Lancey,
Haverford,
Moorestown

team played the Merion C. C. first team
on our grounds. The score was 2-1 in
No score was made
Merion's favor.
during the first half until it was almost
over, when Lester shot a goal from
Almost imme]\Iifflin's pass to centre.

.\cademy,

Germantown

Haverford vs. Merion

diately after MifiBin scored a lucky shot.

Friends",

Friends' Central, Germantown Academy,

Lawrenceville,

St.

Luke's,

Swarthmore

Preparatory, Tome Institute and Yeates.

President Sharpless presented silver cups
to those winning first and second places
the

in

Lawrenceville

events.

different

That ended Merion's performance. In
the first ten minutes of play in the sec-

won the most points, with Haverford and

ond half Spaeth kicked a beautiful shot
from an outside pass to centre. Line-up

^Manager Sheldon, Carson and their as-

:

Merion.

Haverford.

:Morrice

Goal
Right full-back

Phillips

Lowry
Brown

...Hare
Thayer

Left full-back
Pleasants. .. .Centre half-back.
Left half-back
Taylor
Right half-back
Drinker

.

Rulon-Miller

Johnson

Wood
Lester

Episcopal close

seconds.

Dr.

Babbitt.

sistants dcser\'e much praise for the way

which the meet was conducted.

in

The events were as follows
220-yard dash

— Won by French, Haverford:

second, Johnson, Haverford.

Horse

Side
ville:

— Won by Annin. LawrenceWhitby,

second.

Lawrenceville;

third.

Rossmaesslcr ..Centre forward
Right inside
Doughten
Right outside
Reid

Thayre

Young

Sayros

second, Donaghy, Episcopal; third. Pearsall.

Morris

Yeates.

Left outside
Left inside

Spaeth

Mit'tlin

Soiider, Episcopal.

Flying Rings

High Jump — Won by
ville;

Professor F. H. Green, of the West

Chester Normal School, addressed the
Y. M. C. A. on the evening of Wednes-

— Won by Baker, Haverford;
Ingersoll,

Lawrence-

second. Van Dyke, Lawrenceville: third.

Eicli, Blights.

Parallel
renceville;

Bars

— Won by Fennessey,

Law-

second, Souder, Episcopal; third.

Haverford.
Club Swinging

Fritz.

day,

February

"The

Significance of

14.

was
the Life of John
His

subject

the Baptist."

second,

ford; second,

Interscholastic Meet

THE

nastic

\'eates;

third,

McCarthy,

Lawrenceville.

Horizontal

fifth

— Won by Pearsall. Yeates;

Willianis.

annual intcrschnlastic g\m-

and indoor

athletic

meet

was held in the gymnasium of the col-

ter,

Bar Won by Baker, HaverGraham, Episcopal; third. Win-

Lawrenceville.

Tumbling

— Won by Meade, Episcopal; see-

(Uid, StoufFer,

renceville.

Episcopal; third, Annin, Law-

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Dnsh — Won

20-yarfl

H.

by

Langsdorf.

third.

Hess,

L.

De Lancey:

Friends' Central: second. Smith.

De Lancey.

Chairman.

:

Dr.

A.

J.

Babbitt

judg;es of gymnasium events, Dr.

Messrs.

wick,

Ewing

ChadBushnell
and

Jenks,

judges of the athletic events,

:

Messrs. Cary, Thorn, Hopkins and Phillips ;

executive officers, F. G.

and

Walter

Carson

;

Sheldon

marshals, S.

G.

Nauman, R. J. Shortlidge, A. K. Smiley,
H. W. Doughton, Jr., F. D. Godley, W.
R. Rossmaessler, M. H. March, C. K.
Drinker clerk of the course, H. Pleas:

ants. Jr.

vania

:

;

starter, J.

the meet, winning the

star of

horizontal bar event and the tumbling.

Devan. of Rutgers,

Captain

The officials of the meet were as follows

was the

21

and Ed-

wards, of Haverford, also did well.

The Haverford team consisted of the

men

following

T. K. Brown, captain

:

Sheldon, manager
'06;

Shortledge,

Brown,
'08:

'08;

'o^;

Bushnell,

;

Cary,

;

'06;

Stratton,

Edwards,

'08;

Shoemaker, '08; Dr.

'08;

Scott,

Carson, '06

;

Babbitt, instructor.

Rutgers Team

:

Devan, captain

Hill,

;

manager Green, '06 Geis, '07 Heath,
'07 Thompson, '08 Morrison, '09 Dr.
Dodge, instructor.
;

;

;

;

:

;

Turner, of Pennsyl-

announcer, R. Scott.

Musical Association

'"T'HE musical

the

clubs will spend the
Easter vacation on a trip South,
giving the first concert at the New Cen-

gymnastic team of the college de-

tury Club, Wilmington, on Wednesday,

Gymnasium Meet

^

ON

Friday

feated

Rutgers team by the score of

evening,

March

2,

38-10.

A large crowd witnessed the event,

April

18.

The following evening they

will

give

a concert in Lehman's Hall,

Baltimore.

The entire itinerary has not

which was interesting, if somewhat one-

been

decided upon, but Washing-

fully

It

was

perfectly evident from
Haverford would win.
Captain T. K. Brown was handicapped

ton and Lancaster will probably be in-

start

that

cluded.

by a sprained wrist, but in spite of this
he did splendid work, winning second

for

sided.

the

place

on the horizontal

bar.

Bushnell

The management has also arranged
concerts at Germantown Cricket
Club, Manheim, March 2;^
Wayne,
March 30, and Tioga, April 3.
;

Breath of Spring.
Winter winds in the fir trees
Rustle, and endlessly sing

A dirge in the far-away northland;
And where is the breath of spring?

Summer winds in the pahn trees
Rustle, and soothingly sing

A love song in the heart of the southland;
There is the breath of spring.

A.
Yale

Literary Monthly.

T.

/.., '66.

EXCHANGES

AS

announced
selected

in

another cohimn, a

Haverfordian

of the

list

Exchanges will be on file in the north
wing of the lihran-, making them more
accessible
that
to

than

heretofore.

\\'e

trust

more men will take the opportunity

Princeton campus.
We
were much interested in the article and

grave on the

recommend that it be read.
The fiction is good in this number,
and we mention especially "Whose Way
is Hid" and "The Gates of Birth."

share a pleasure that has been too

exclusively held by the Exchange Editor.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MAGAZINE

With the thought of giving up this department, we appreciate more fully what
a pleasure

exchange work

is.

It

is

a

privilege to be able to review the many
exchanges that come from all parts of
this and from

some other countries, and

way to breathe the atmosphere of
so many and diverse institutions.

in

a

We have become more or less conversant with the pleasures, the sorrows

and the aims of many

grown

to

feel

colleges,

and

acquainted with editors

whom we know only as
More than all, and we blush to
say it, we have even lost our erstwhile

and authors
names.

bashfulness and hesitation

in

the pres-

ence of our women's college exchanges.

Gradually this paper has become one

our best-liked exchanges.

of

ways

It

is

al-

of interesting stories, credita-

essays and sound editorials.
We
would say, however, in criticism that a
magazine sold at its price should be
printed on better paper to do itself full

ble

justice.

best

its

The January number offers as
story

" 'Midst

the

Shadows."

The dialogue is forced at times, but the
"Uncle Jules" is a transfrom the French of Maupassant.

story is vivid.
lation

\Miile the use of a translation

may not

seem appropriate, it seems to us
that, where such judicious selection is
used as in this case, it is worth while.
"Some Virginia Mountain People," in
at first

\he

THE RED AND BLUE

full

Febraary number,

is

a well-written

study of these very interesting people.

Richard Mansfield has contributed to

"Kelly" and "The Strange Narrative of

number an article entitled

Dr. Talbot" are both interesting stories.

the February

"All the World's a Stage."

It is inter-

and because Mansfield

esting in

itself

wrote

The exchange review is well

it.

THE HARVARD MONTHLY
.An address by President Eliot

treated.

is

the

leading article in the February number.
In treating a question of local interest

THE NASSAU LITERARY MAGAZINE

President Eliot expands upon some top-

L'nder

the

title

Princeton Grave"

in

"The

Mysterious

the January

num-

ber is the explanation and contradiction
of

that

very tenacious yet unfounded

which has involved the good
names of .Aaron Burr and the unfortunate
young lady who occupied this isolated
tradition

of general interest to college men.
Bernard Shaw finds a warm defender
in the writer of a criticism of "Mrs.
Personally we
Warren's Profession."
have never taken Shaw very seriously,
although, with his unconventionality and
fertility of new and novel ideas, he does
ics

THE HAVERFORDIAN
seem to epitomize the present social and
intellectual

unrest.

with the author
is

We hardly agree

when he

says,

"Shaw

published by the \\'oman's College of
Baltimore, as a regular exchange.

WESLEYAN LITERARY MONTHLY

not fit for his public, they say, but in

truth,

it

is

they

who

not

are

fit

for

Shaw."
THE KALENDS

We are glad to receive this paper.

The story entitled "The Soul of the
Dog," in the January issue, has narrative interest and is well done for a story
of its kind.
"In the Darkness of the
Hold" and "A Start in Life," both in
the February number, are good sketches.

The Moontain Way
Upward along the rough-hewn mountain side.
Where briers tear and rocks bestrew the way,
.'K

pathway leads

— and there no flowers bloom

Or scarce may any living thing abide;
For through ravines, whose crags shut out the day,
Tt creeps on ever upward through the gloom,
And yet. if one but climb, as all men may.
With strength and courage like to those of old.
And win the summit he can see, they say,
The glorious blood-red sunset, and a sky all gold.

H.J. Auckincloss.
Yale Literary Monthly.

An Evening^ Prayer.
Sunset

— and yonder the moonlight

Pales on the silvery sea.

And with shades of the evening soon light
Will

shadow the

lea.

'Tis restful to go, while the

gleaming

Of twilight drifts through the glare
Of the day, on the riversides roaming.

Where meadows are fair.

Or to sit after struggles and sorrows
Alone in some dim cloistered way,
.\nA to weave in the maze of to-morrows.
S. B. L.
The hopes of to-day.

Williams" Literary Monthly.

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Haverford College
Volume XXVIII, No. 2.

April, 1906

CONTENTS
Editoriam

25

The First Mate

Haverford Alumni Poem

28

Jim Cleary

.

Our Library

29

Sketches

Triolets

30

An Idyll of the Grove

31

Winteisnacht

33

34
38

.

39

Facxtlty Department

41

Alumni Department
College Department
Exchange Department

42
42
44

::

DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

Association Football:

President
Vice President

D. Philips, '06
F. D. Godley, '07
H. G. Pearson, '07

Manager

C. H. Rhoads, '93

Assistant Manager

J.

Captain

DEPARTMENTS

W. Carson, '06

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

S. J.

Gummere, '07

M. H. March, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08
E. W. Jones, '07

Captain

A. N. Warner, '07
F. G. Sheldon, '06
Assistant Manager... W. R. K.ossmaessler, '07
T. K. Brown, Jr., '06
Captain

M. H. March, '07

Other Members— R. J. Shortlidge, '06;

J.

D.

Philips, '06; T. K. Brown, Jr., '06; R. L. Carv,
'06; W. Haines, '07 ; H. Evans, '07; I.

J.

'07.

'06
J. T. Fales,

'.

W. Carson, '06

President
Secretary

Dodge,

:

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager

LOGANIAN SOCIETY.
President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

W. Carson, '06
R. J. Shortlidge, '06
P. W.

Brown, '07

DEPARTMENTS

Track:

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager....
Assistant Manager

Captain

T. K. Brown, Jr., '06
P. W. Brown, '07
A. K. Smiley, Jr., '06
E. R. Tatnall, '07
'06
J. D. Philips,

Cricket

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager
Captain

D. Philips, '06
A. E. Brown, 'o7
F. D. Godley, '07
B. Windle, 07
H. W. Doughten, Jr., '06
J.

J.

D. Philips, '06

C. K. Drinker, '08
W. Shoemaker, '08

Treasurer

Manager
Manager

Leader

R. J. Shortlidge, '06
A. N. Warner, '07
W. B. Windle, '07
S. G. Spaeth '05

Tennis:
H. W. Doughten, Jr., '06
President
W. Rossniaessler, '07
Vice President
C. J. Teller, '05
Secretary-Treasurer
V. M. C. A.
President
Vice President
Rec. Secretary
Cor. Secretary
Treasurer

President

H. Pleasants, '06

Vice President

F. R. Taylor, '06
P. Elkington, '08

Secretary-Treasurer
Scientific

:

President
., Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

D. C. Baldwin, '06

Debating:
President
Vice President

M. H. March, '07

R. L. Gary, '06
I. J.

Dodge, '07

W. Carson, '06
C. K. Drinker, '08

CLASSES.

M. H. March, '07

Musical
President

Civics:

Secretarj'-Treasurer.

ASSOCIATIONS.
College:
President
Vice President
Secretary

Assistant

P. W. Brown, '07
H. Pleasants, Jr., "06

ADVISORY BOARD

Foot Ball:

Gymnasium

A. C. Dickson, '06
E. R. Tatnall, '07
S. G. Nauman, '06

R. J. Shortlidge, '06
A. E. Brown, '07
E. Jones, '07

1906:

J.

1907:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
190S:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

R. Scott
T. Fales

H. Evans
G. H. Wood
J.W. Nicholson, Jr.
K. J. Barr

G. K. Strode

W. R. Shoemaker
C. S. Scott
T. Troth

J.

1909:

President

B. L.

Vice President

Dodge, '07

Secretarj-

H. Evans '07

Treasurer.

I. J.

W. Carson
W. K. Miller

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

Dodge, Jr.

T. K. Lewis

R. L. M. Underbill
E. S. Shoemaker

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Vol. XXVIII.

SINCE

Haverford, Pa., April,

the adoption of student gov-

ernment in the dining hall, there
has been a growing sentiment in favor of
extending it to the dormitories, especially
Barclay.

student

Government
the

in

Dormitories

Came

This

movement

to a focus recently in

an infomial gathering of representative
men from all

classes, called together

by some of the

Seniors.

This meeting in itself was not very sat-

No. 2

1906.

embodying

the details of such govThese will be posted about
college so that everybody can see and
consider them before another meeting of
the Association. This to be done before
the question of student government itself
would be directly voted upon at all.

ernment.

What will be the result?
Instead of the motion for student government being put before an unprepared
College Association meeting and being

isfactory, because, as was to be expected,

blindly carried or defeated, this

there was a great deal of argument, pro

will

and con, of more or less desultorynature
that did not throw much light upon the

measure

difficulties

of

the

problem.

One very

was made, however:
namely, that whenever conditions seem

wise

suggestion

ripe for this matter to be

brought up

before the student body, this informal

committee.— which consisted of more than
ten men,
shall claim it.s privilege and a-sk
for a meeting of the College Association.

method

enable the men to see just what the
will

mean

to

them

— what the

rules will be. and whether or not they will

remove some of those innate prerogatives
so dear to the Haverford heart. Then, after
thoroughly considering the questions at

come together and vote
upon the separate rules, if the body is
issue, they will

then of the opinion that such student

government is feasible.

Now as to the merits of the question

When the matter has been explained to

itself.

the meeting a committee will be asked

tion of student government to replace the

if

granted by the meeting,

present faculty supervision of the dormi-

draw up

a tentative set of rules

tories

for,

shall

which,

There is no doubt that the adop-

would be a decided step upward,

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26

and as such should receive the serious
considerations of the men in college.

npHE date for the
*•

It

Oratorical

annual

Alumni

contest has

not been

would not necessarily mean the cessation

definitely fixed, but it will probably occur

of all those joyous activities with which

about the end of April.

the hallowed halls of Barclay occasion-

The Annual

^^

Aiumni

tie

ally

resound, and which

exist as long as

of

species

the

college

we hope

present

man

is

will

healthy

extant.

Personally, we are not sure that senti-

ment is yet ripe for self-government. We
should prefer to wait and see that a few
irregularities

of

conduct in

doggerel from "Alice in

Wonderland"

ontest

It

would aim primarily at the care of college
property, and then try to modify a few
of the existing customs which might well
be replaced by more rational conditions.

noticeable

Oratorical

The thought of

brings to our mind that lit-

..

jjj^^g

"j'j-ig

which

rvms

come,'

j^^g

the

Walrus said, 'to talk of many things, of
shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax
of
cabbages and kings.'

The public does not sufficiently appreciate

these "speaking" contests, mainly

because

of

well-worn

varied

the

subjects

and sometimes
But the

treated.

preparation this competition entails, with

the dining hall adjust themselves prop-

the personal treatment of the speaker,

But after hearing the sentiments
of the meeting and talking personally
with many men, we are rather surprised

turns such subjects into productions that

erly.

make

at the manifest approval of the measure.
It is clearly in

favor among the Seniors

well

it

worth the

undergraduates to attend

while

of

all

the contests.

But more important than the benefit to
the audience

is

the gain derived by the

and in a more conservative way among

contestants themselves.

the Juniors and Sophomores.

ous prize offered to the winner is a great

of the

tation

two

This hesi-

latter classes

should

stimulus

;

The very gener-

but every man gets a reward

not be regarded as a sentiment against

in

the measure, or even a lukewarm feeling

ing in the contest, and from systemati-

about it. and should not discourage the

cally working up some subject.

Seniors from keeping the idea alive.

the personal gain derived

from speak-

We hear everywhere the complaint

It

from an appreciation of the responsibility which these two classes will
have in maintaining the custom next year

time

—when the

Men in all walks of life are constantly

arises

If

the

real test will come.

measure

is

to be

adopted

it

that nowadays we
in

training,

do not spend enough

the good old-fashioned forensic

and there is a great deal in it.

being called upon unexpectedly to speak

should be adopted this spring, so that

in

the new class shall realize it as an exist-

upon the part of a college graduate if he

ing condition.
in the

It

public,

and

it

is

gross

carelessness

should not be adopted

has not trained himself so that he has

how-

command over himself and his thoughts.
W'e know with what added respect we
recently came to regard a business man

face of a strong minority,

its maintenance must depend upon the general sentiment of the
college body. And this is all it needs
public sentiment, which will place its
stamp of approval upon certain limits
of conduct, and then we shall have a
regime in Barclay which will be more
satisfactory than the present one and

ever, because

probably no more stringent.

of one of our cities.

While not possess-

ing a college education he had not neglected this phase of his training.

It

was

known there was graft in a certain municipal asphalt deal, and yet the measure

had passed the first reading in Council
and it looked as though it would go

THE HAVERFORDIAN
At the next reading he appear-

tliroHfjh.

mous

his

in

27
disapproval

of

it,

mainly

men so much,

ed as a rc]iresentative taxpayer, and. by

because

a logical exposition of faas, forced a

This is only a typical instance we cite

and thus limits close association, and
consequent close friendship,- -to small
groups of men. There is a peculiar friendship which is best derived by living in close

show

proximity to one's fellow-students, which

Council favorable to the measure to vote
against it.
to

that

every college

this

is

a

training which

man should possess when

he goes out into whatever walk of life
he may choose, and this training is most
quickly and most easily obtained from
practice in debate and extemporaneous
speaking.

EiXCOURAGED

probably

by

successful, resulting from the first oper-

we understand the management

Against a

^^^ hetn advised to perform

Proposed

a

Operation

Hall

upon Barclay

sccond one upon Barclay

—namely, to

erect a sec-

Qj^j dividing wall

which shall

separate entirely the north end from the
centre,

continue

the

is

lost if you have to descend and ascend

four flights

of stairs every time you
want to borrow their newspaper.
No. Rather than desecrate Barclay by

another partition

let us consider, along
with our student government, the question of removing the old one.

the

conditions, erroneously considered

ation,

separates the

it

present partition

down to the first floor, open a new entrance at the north end. and, as a result
of the awful dissection, have practically

"TN L RING the coming spring vacation
»—'
will be conducted the first concert
trip

of the Haverford College jMusical

Clubs.

Since it is merely an experiment,

The

it

only lasting about four days,

the iwusicai
Clubs

and Only going as far south as
Baltimore but it is important
;

as it may serve as a precedent for a new

Whether or not it will
become a custom will depend entirely
upon traditional conditions, and the recollege activity.

three separate dormitories.

sults of the trip

This is in accord with the ideal college
dormitory as now accepted, but we do
not feel that conditions here demand

phesy that

such a change.

In the larger colleges

and universities there is hardly any attempt made to cement together a group
of men as large as we have here, and it

be very extended.

will not

Spring Trip

it

;

but we can safely pro-

will

not only be a great

benefit to the members of the clubs

the Musical

and

Association, but will also

be helpful to the name and interests of
our college.

The clubs have had a very successful
season thus far, and

great credit is

due

would be impractical anyway but here
we strive for something different. Public

the management, the leader, and those in-

opinion places the close association of

they have made for the trip.

;

lerested.lor

the

careful

arrangements

Barclay and the other dormitories,

An enthusiastic spirit has been shown

high in importance in forming and main-

both by alumni and undergraduates, and

life in

taining our Haverford spirit in the past.

with the continuance and co-operation of

Everybody who has lived in Barclay
since the present wall was built is unani-

these interests a pleasant and successful
trip will surely result.

——

——

Haverford Alumni Poem.
(Written for the annual dinner of the Alumni Association of Haverford College,

February

i6th, 1906)

III.

I.

We are not many— we who stand
The sons

And

of

We

Haverford to-day.

fewer yet the

poet-band,

That barely fills that rare demand,
To add the tribute of a lay.
To help to while an hour away.

love to linger in thy shade,

To wander in thy Academe,
To feel our restless spirits laid,
Where once we loitered, laughed

and

prayed;

Again once more a boy to seem,

And be the better for the dream.

We are not many, nor as old.
Or famed, as other schools may be;
Scarce four-score years, less

five,

enfold

Haverford, we ask of thee,—
Despite the clamor of the day.

.\nd,

That yields to sports of low degree,

The utmost tale that can be told.
Of struggle and of victory
That mark our noble history.

But years and numbers what are they
Without the living fruitage fraught?
Achievement only gilds the day
And crowns with glory or decay;
And older, larger fields, less wrought,

Lay smaller claim to serious thought.

First place in college rivalry,

Put scholarship above mere play.
And let true culture hold the sway!

Do not inflate the youthful mind
With boasted feats of legs and arms;
Let thy ambition, more refined.
Aspire to see thy sons inclined
To seek the higher lore that charms.
And spurn the rude excess that harms.
IV.

II.

If

We love to scan thy modest past.
Dwell on the living and the dead,

The precious dead whose virtues last.
We will not name them. They are cast—

instead.
If not in costly brass
In grateful hearts they taught and led.

youth,

with older

And what the sure reward must be
Of brave, untiring

He loved. Of firm but gentle frame
No more — my words are lame.
Half praise the loving spirit jars,
And love the willing pen debars.

His ashes 'neath the box-tree rest.
We planted where we laid him low;
No more by cruel pain distressed.
No more by ceaseless toil oppressed;
And once again I hope to know
That faithful friend of long ago.

industry.

How quickly careless ease would fly.
And

aspiration

Those college

But no, dear Harlan* we must name!
His purity was like the stars

could see

eyes,

The fruitful sheaves that round them lie,

reach

days,

the

sky!

those college days.

What radiant tints their memory throws.
Like golden gleams of sunset rays.
That ever charm the backward gaze.

And make

thrice

blest

each

one

who

knows
That priceless boon that with them goes!

So while around thee shines the bloom
Of youth, compared with older Halls,

We bless the day that gave thee room,
And set thy candle in the gloom

A

living

light

from out thy walls.

To cheer the soul, whate'er befalls.
Thomas IVisler, Class of '58.

Joseph Gibljons Harlan, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Died 1857,

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OUR LBRARY
IT
but

avoid

impossible to

is

made, the world

the platitude altogether odious ?

is

truisms,

Platitudes,

have

appropriated

nearly all of the world's wisdom

the old

;

education was simply acquiring a wellselected stock of them

and they certainly seem to be better training for the mind
than

those

desperate

new

;

to

efforts

a

more crude.

my subject, and shall ask what

of excellence.

.\

It

is

far

harder for a

pick

to

his

way

from the metal, than it was when

library

pealed to a

poem or the novel apmore limited body of pur-

chasers and had to pass the test of a

classics

higher intelligence on the part of the

Charles Lamb, to be sure,

public.
That is one cause. The other
cause lies in changed methods of educa-

relation

themselves.

;

like those

the essay or the

used to be a collection of "clas.sics"
flanked with books which stood in a quite
ancillary

through the trash and rubbish, to tell the
tinsel

college work.

have changed.

It is not only the wallowing

young reader now

our own, under new conditions of

Libraries

it.

fatally popular books of Mr. B. Kidd
cheap essays, have obscured old ideals

use one ought to make of a good library
like

be better for

cheap criticism, cheap science

course

platitude about platitudes I shall apply
directly to

will

During the transition, however, there are
obvious disadvantages. The people have
risen to literature, but literature has been
forced to descend and meet them halfway.
Standards are lower and ideas
in poor fiction that counts in this process

think

which are dignified by the title of original work. This
along

When adjustments are all

tarj' change.

platitudes

when one writes on such a subject

towards the

included in his list of "books which are

About thirty years ago, when grad-

not books" all those works "without
which no gentleman's library is complete ;" and this whimsical and delightful

tion.

exclusion has been fortified in recent days
by a clever essayist who drew up a list
of "books which have hindered me." Yet

general plan from a modification of the

nobody knew better than Charles Lamb
what a classic really is. and nobody did
more to strengthen the hold of all good
books on the affections of the reader.
Two causes have contributed in modern
times to weaken the authority of the
English classics, undo some of Lamb's
best work, and promote that disease of
literary indigestion which was almost un-

jects,

known fifty years ago.

In the first place,

uate instruction really began in our universities,

American education shifted its

traditional

English

system,

— required

work in a uniform group of standard sub-

— to the Teutonic system of free

choice and specialized studies.

At first

this was applied mainly to graduate work,

but

it

soon spread to the colleges.

far as the library is

So

concerned, the effect

of this change was to blot out the old line

between study and reading. Under the
control of academic and comparativelv

methods

this

revolution

perhaps more gam

tlian

loss

rigorous

:

had

suddenly,

the centre of the library-readers' popu-

however, came the irruption of summer

one may use such a term, has

schools and extension lectures, the "sylla-

from the upper middle class to
Books are
lower middle class.

bus," the rapid "course of reading," and

lation, if

shifted

the

cheaper, more plentiful, more accessible

that deplorable half-baked culture which
persuaded hard-working folk that a sub-

;

and in the long run, this is a most salu-

ject like Medieval History or Italian Art

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THE HAVERFORDIAN

30

the name of criticism.

Here it is, as I

the

student in his

or Elizabethan literature could be mas-

in

few weeks of erratic reading,
catch-words and bewilmouthed
loudly
dering lantern-slides. You walk to-day
into a library which has been swept and

think,

tered in a

that

college

library ought to have great searchings of

heart.

necessities

"Scientific''

have

let

trampled over by these invasions of the

amount of literary trash under
the plea for literary "investigation." But

"cheap" reader, the topic-hunting scholar

there are

and the extension-person.

still

in a vast

the old uses of reading,

still

the old ideals of the permanent and

the noble in books.

and there is no need to strive and cry
on the streets over academic and literary
degeneration. Still, there are some quite
evil results of the movement which need

used to stand for

Haverford College
ideal, and her

A reaction, as I believe, is setting in,

graduates, wherever they went, bore the

reputation of well read men.
dents have an

Her stu-

even wider opportunity

In the long reach, the best is
now.
bound to win all this dust stirred up by
feet not yet familiar with the ways of

wisdom, all this chatter of little folk about
little writers, will disappear, and the old

Foremost is the lapse of
Not to waste time on the
the classics.
for Sainte
question what a classic is
Beuve sets us right there it is enough to
pointing out.

this

note the

fact.

Xo one need take Shaw

seriously

(it is

suggested that his name

;

classics,

with some new ones, will hold

But
and the

be spelt with a P)when he intimates half
in fun and half in earnest that his plays

as before the high places of letters.

are as good as Shakespeare's and Shakespeare's as poor as his; but the claim

clamor is still ripe, happy the man who

is

symplomatic.

George III

thought meanly of Shakespeare

;

let

down in order to meet modern

these

best,

these

classics,

himself

to follow them, and will not need to join

talent.

no disgrace for one to think
There
'Lorna Doone" good fiction, to prefer it,
even, to "Clarissa Harlowe' readers have
always had their whims, and trahit sua
quemque voluntas. The pity of it is when
the proposition is made and circulated
is

'

out

settling

still

but the

appreciably

Shakespeare

seeks

is

cleaves to them, leams to love them and

modern idea is that the critic, not George
III, shall

while the dust

the penitence and the renunciation
which are sure to come. He will have
fought the good fight, and followed
in

Goethe's fine old resolve

.

.

uns vera Halben zu entwohnen,

;

Und im Ganzen, Guten, Schonen,
Resolut zu leben.
!•.

B. Gutnniere, '~2.

Triolets

Her smile seemed for me.

Was

only a lip-smile?
'Twas full sweet, for a bee
it

(Tho' the smile seemed for me)

Brushed her lips in mad glee,
As we stood by the turnstile.
Her smile seemed for me;

Was it only a lip-smile?

Her smile was for me,
'Twas

a

heavenly

heart-smile

Fly away, foolish bee,

For the smile was

for

me,

You are robbed of your glee
By the glorified turnstile.
Her

smile was for me,
'Twas a heavenly heart-smile!
J.

T. r., '08.

^

AN IDYLL OF THE GROVE

AFTER

two

weeks

of

our

the countrj',

I

The lower branches

needles.

"Hush, Don !" she said

stay

had at last,
in my rambles, chanced upon the very
spot I had been seeking for the subject
of my next painting. It was a little group
of pine trees lodged deep in a thick wood.
Some seclusive soul had cleared a circle
in this grove, and time, with the aid of
the winds and the rain, had covered the
area with a thick, slippery mat of pine
in

of

the

in

a

quiet,

commanding tone, that brought a look
from the dog and a slight wag of his
tail.

With

rather

more of

hesitation

embarrassment than of ease, I said
beg pardon for this intrusion."
"I believed no one knew of my
treat here," she

and
:

"I

re-

answered, while flipping

a short whip she carried about the dog's
ears,

and then, looking up, "but for the

surrounding trees were cut away, but
beyond the growth was wild and close.
In the centre stood a quaint, rustic summer house, hexagonal in shape, made of
cedar, and the sides were close woven
with crooked twigs. The whole scene,
redolent with piney odors, was sunk in
a cool, shadowy gloom, and only here
and there the sun cast fantastic patches
of light, that were constantly changing
shape with the gentle, easy swaying of

sake of art I presume you must be suf-

In some such nook

and walked leisurely away with her hand
resting on the dog's head.
I
gazed after her, muttered some
phrase about a stately, graceful pine, and

the branches above.

the

ancient

druids built their

where now the
confession.
relieved

by

shrines,

priest of solitude hears

The quietness was barely
insinuating,

tlings of the leaves, while

subdued

rus-

now and then

fered."

"I

to urge

a

slender,

area.

maidenly figure

across

the

I

responded, "but

I

am sorry

my plea as an artist merely."

This was somewhat bold, perhaps, but
there was something indefinable in those
hazel eyes of hers that brought

it

out

unawares.

"Come, Don !" she said, and without
further

turned

remark, turned into the

to

my work

with

wood

inward

re-

proaches.

Every day thereafter I came to that

a squirrel would pass by or the deep,

mellow note of the wood robin would
roll through the trees.
The whole scene
was of that quiescent sort that is restful
yet oppressive, empty yet full, asleep,
yet pervaded by dreamy wakefulness.
[ brought my easel one day to begin
the sketch.
Alone in such living silence
I could feel the power and majesty of
the spot, and I tingled with a sense of its
beauty.
I had been at work for some
moments, and was entirely absorbed in
my task, when I was unpleasantly startled by a deep, grunting growl, that
seemed close on my back. I arose with
a jump and turned to see a great, lumbering mastiff standing by the side of

would be glad to have your per-

mission,"

bewitched spot to sketch.

I tried

every

hour of the afternoon, and would sit
in a restless, half-expectant manner, but
the longed-for interruption never came.
I

must acknowledge

I

had made more

progress in that first hour of work than
in

all

the rest combined.

That sweet

voice, gentle manner, shy, reserved atti-

tude, and spirited and expressive face,
haunted me strangely. Every shadow
grew into a maiden's form, and every
rustling of the leaves was the swish of
a maiden's skirt.

Almost despairing,

I

dropped sketch-

ing for a few days and likewise delicacy,

and looked into the history of the neighborhood. "Yes," said the owner of the
country store, "the Worths are an old

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32

mighty

and

family

esteemed

here-

abouts."

then

Just

might obey

;

seemingly each

but

blindly or open-eyed picks

mastiff of the pine

that

grove passed

road without the

the

in

window.

.And maybe,

would

I

"He belongs to Miss Worth and goes

A precious booty

with her everywhere.

beautifully flushed by her exercise, can-

tion,

a

but

I

she

asked.

name in some connec-

forget where or what

it

is."

"There's a little settlement about three

"She's a lady,

I

can

you," con-

niles from here of that name, and the

"There's not a

country round about is very picturesque

tell

my infonnant.

or prettier in the county.

like the filly she rides,

Spirited

Spirited,

and attractive."

and quite an artist,

too, I've heard tell."

"Very well," she assented, and we put
off.

no liner nor prettier lady in

the county, and quite an artist

;

that little

legend conveyed volumes.
enthusiastic

artist,

or

I

This was the

fear

that

and explanation of my afternoon ramblings, would not have been finished. But
at last it was, and I got it into the art

Of course, I shall not claim it
drew much attention, but no art ever
drew better for one day I was sitting in
one of the galleries, and I was suddenly
exhibit.

;

by a gentle voice inquiring of
one of the attendants concerning the sale
My picture and that
of picture No. "jj.
Was Miss Worth to be its purvoice
chaser?
I never felt such
tremulous
emotion in my- life, and I went out into
ihe street almost guiltily.
thrilled

!

II.

What little hope buoy will love not
Miss Worth, herself an artembrace
ist, had bought my sketch, and had she
any personal reasons other than that the
subject was her own silent retreat?
Love in its birth and development has
never yet obeyed any established law,
and no thought has evolved a law it

time

had visited

I

few days before, and

a

with lively emotions

my

now become merely an excuse

first

that section since the incident of the art
c;a!lery

At that time of my career I was a very

!

Pinewood?"

"Where's

"I've heard the

tered by.

painting,

was

"Beth, let's go toward Pinewood," I
hazarded one warm day when I was riding with my sister.

tinued

it

me to that pine

would see those hazel

I

Here she comes
now," he added, as Miss \\^orth. dressed
in a brown corduroy riding habit, and
he has to guard, too.

finer

soul

own path.

eyes and hope.

said.

I

think,

kindly chance that led

grove, and then

"That's a splendid dog,"

its

was

it

rode along.

I

"Why so fast?" Elizabeth remonstrated, as iny

eral

horse suddenly left hers sev-

necks behind.

"I guess a fly stung him," I answered,

trembling inwardly.

fear

I

I

had spur-

red him, however, for ahead of us, and

moving our way in a lively canter, came
a girl in a brown suit, riding a bay horse,
and a big mastiff was following.
I
looked at Beth and my heart complained
1

had not come alone.

ventionality and the

Alas, the con-

strong

propriety

stimulus of a younger sister's presence.

Hut

to

my great astonishment Eliza-

beth cried:

"Why, it's Mildred Worth,''

and before

I

the situation,
It

is

caught

could clearly comprehend

we had been

intensely

unawares

introduced.

embarrassing
in

to

be

any circumstances

you do not care to explain, but especially
in

a secret you scarce dare own to your-

self.

And with the thrill of the after-

noon's experience still in me, it was (|uite
disturbing to have Elizabeth break
the dinner table that night with

:

in at

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Tell

iiic,

you never meet

I'rank, dul

33

the tender sight

canu- upon at the pine

I

a

Through the door of the summer house I saw Mildred, weaving a
chaplet of daisies. Her back was toward

"Yuu would better confess you were

me, and perhaps I played unfair. Daisies

a beautiful girl before this afternoon?"

must

"I

beauty,"

1

confess

she

is

rather

replied.

tlustered," she returned.
.\.

few weeks

after

above took place,

I

grove.

strewn

lay

the

conversation

called one afternoon

all

around the rough bench

she sat upon, and
a

front of her

hung

was fascinating to see her

cool,

in

mirror.

the W'onh home.
Frequent visits
make fast friends or cold ones, but even
Don condescended to be quite intimate

white arms curve over her head as she

by

in

at

Perhaps he was a welltrained dog, and followed the footsteps
this

time.

of his mistress.

Re that as it may, this

time Mildred had gone for a ride, expecting no visitors, the maid said.

Re-

made my way through the
woods to the old pine grove. The spot
was rather more familiar now than in
turning,

1

It

thrust a daisy here and tucked one there

her bright brown locks.

The pretty

seemed the very expression of
exquisite, innocent life. "Don," she said
to the dog beside her, "would he like me
now ?" And for answer Don turned his
head toward me and, with a low cry, she
turned also, for in my eagerness I had
vanity

started forward.

When we left the grove the sun was

the days I sketched there, and I intended

The

was

to rest a while in reverie.

at

was never known as one given to
sentimentality, but I have come to believe all are capable of it on occasion.
Many laugh at the idea, and call it soft,
but I find such are usually endeavoring

the trees stood motionless.

I

the

setting.

air

still

and

From afar
wood robin

to entrench themselves behind their bul-

mellow note of a
Don walked ahead of
us, and now and then he would turn
and wait till we came up with him. I
thought I read a melancholy happiness

wark of scorn, only to be the worse cul-

in his eyes, as if he

prits when they are exposed to the temp-

secret.

tation.

off

the

broke the silence.

made a third in the
R.J. S., 'o6.

So pardon me if I try to picture

Wmtersnacht (Winternight)
[Translated from the German of Nikolaus I^enau.]

The air stands rigid in the cold.
Beneath my footsteps creaks the snow;
Thin sheets of ice my beard enfold,
And ever onward I must gn.

A festive stillness reigns through all,
The moonlight rests on fir and pine,
Which, longing ever for death's pall.
Their bent limbs to the earth resign.

O frost! Come thou into my heart,
My wild, hot heart, with thy cold might,
That /'i'arf therein may have its part

As here among the fields of night.
5. C. S., oj.

THE FIRST MATE

QUICK,

jump,

or

down

go

we'll

the other thought of a

ago, he thought would never see husband

sir!"

!

:

wife and two little children, who, an hour

with her."

"Aye! aye

awa}' her tears

And as the rolling ground swell thrust

or father again, and he breathed an un-

a white launch close to the sinking barge,

couth prayer to his wife's God and then

the last of the three men comprising the

felt

Hardly had the
graceful little tender got out of danger
when, with a groaning cough and then
a muffled roar, the rough old barge listed
to port and slowly sank, stem foremost.
The launch was tossed and twisted by
waves from the whirlpool which soon

ashamed of himself afterward.

But the mate of the barge felt welling

crew jumped aboard.

of the' old hulk save some immense bub-

up in his heart memories of a great
mother love, and he thought to himself
of his dignified mother in her New
York home, and of his father and an
erstwhile hardness in him was softened.
Awakening from his revery, he looked
up.
Now he could get a better view of
the yacht which had seen their signal

some

just in time to rescue them. Like a white

Almost with bated breath the sailors
in the launch had watched the boat turn
turtle and plunge to Davy Jones' locker,

swan upon the water it lay, and appeared
even more graceful than the hundred
others of her type he had seen. Above
the enameled whiteness of her stern were

subsided, and nothing marked the grave

bles,

which continued to

rise

for

time.

held by

the

terrible

fascination

such a sight possesses.

which

When the great

from the vortex reached their
craft it aroused them from their trance,
and the two parties looked at one another for the first time, and then began
ripples

the easy, flowing conversations of

ters of course

in

and only

think of them for a few minutes

the

when

moved. Even the rough bargeman's dress did not disguise his athletic
form and clear countenance, and he
to be

hardly be taken

lines,

of

New

the

bold

a

picture

the whole made
which caused him to tingle

stops and deck canvas

with a sailor's admiration.

Upon the deck was a group of people,
interested

in

the

drama they had

just

witnessed, and impatiently waiting the
return of the launch.

gold-braitled captain, stciod a girl, dress-

ed in a blue and white sailor suit.

sat apart.

He alone seemed quiet, and appeared

could

graceful

Upon the l)ridge, beside the blue-clad,

The mate of the barge, the last man
jump,

"Fenella,

letters,

Her

curves of bow and stern, gleaming white

they find they are safe.

to

gold

York."

men

of the sea who take such things as mattheir lives,

for

a

common

shipped upon an ore barge in tow
from Philadelphia to Savannah.

sailor,

Of his two companions, one realized
with an embarrassed kind of thankful-

With

her marine glasses she had lieen viewing
the

incidents

she

since

had

first

spied

the distress signal on the old barge, some

time before.

.As the laiuich

approached

the yacht she looked intently at the oc-

cupants, then,
in

as

her mind, she

if

settling

left

something
and

the bridge

joined the group on the deck, in time to
see the sailors climb aboard.

ness that a certain Mary would not have

Helen Forbes, with great surjirise, had

to read of iiis disappearance in the great

recognized, or thought she recognized,

storm of the night before, or if she did

the mate as Jackson Briggs,

read it, that he would soon return to kiss

had seen about a year ago when he was

whom she

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35

She had im

were being entertainetl on this cruise by

time to wijiuler how he g'ot here, but as

Mr. and Mrs. Forbes. Then he went
below to get into a change of clothes,

still

senior at

a

cullciio.

he climbed upon the deck she spoke his

name.
Briggs jumped as though shot
he heard

when

while the guests returned to their diversions as though nothing .so exciting
as a shipwreck

strange faces until they came to Helen's,

and a romantic meeting
had just taken place.
\\ ben Jack came on deck again it was

when

deserted, so he started to walk up and

it.

His eyes went about the

circle

of

gaze stopped and he realized
saw once again, and at such a
dramatic moment, the girl whom
his
roommate, Tom Hardy, had always
iiis

that he

down to compose his thoughts and to get

laughingly called his "Jonah."

he walked aft, and there he saw Helen,
standing at the stern, looking down at

Why?
Stanton's

The twin propellers churned up the
water in two furrows, which fought to-

New Haven, two years be-

gether for space with their white dragon

first

Forbes

musicale, in

time Briggs had met

was

at

Mrs.

and then united to pass off in a
trail of foam, which seemed to
stay like a blazed pathway on this limit-

Since he was not very fond of

teeth,

music, and they had several common ac-

white

fore.

quaintances to talk about, they had gone
into the

palm room, and there, just as

Jack had reached the point of professing
a

previous

unsusceptibility

to

girls,

a

less plain of water.

"Helen."

The girl turned at her name, and then,
down in a green

potted orchid had fallen from above and

without speaking, sat

him fairly upon the head.
was the deuce of a scene," he had
sworn softly to his roommate, after they
had restored him and carefully softened

rattan chair.

struck
"It

his shirt front with copious ablutions of

cold water.

Then

the

"Helen, I have been thinking that it's
about the luckiest thing in the world for

me that you happened to see us an hour
ago."

"Well, Jack,

had
clinched her reputation in Hadley's mind
was the fact that Jack had been entertaining Helen on commencement week,
when he got that peremptory letter from
second event which

that was, but

For pity's sake do

aboard."

passed through
mind as he was recovering himself and returning her greeting.
He met the assernbled people, who
were all friends of Helen's, and who
All this in a flash

can

understand

cannot understand

how
how

satisfy

a

person's

curiosity by giving a more lucid account
of it than you

own expenses.

I

you should be aboard a barge, out here

bills,

enclosing a check for those
"which because of their nature
must be paid,'' and telling his son that
until he had proved himself something
more than the idle spendthrift beseemed,
he preferred that Jack should meet his

I

off the coast, and a sinking barge at that.

his father,

Jack's

Then

the boiling wake.

Well, the

Miss

used to the rapid flight of events.

gave when you first came

"Oh, it's nothing so remarkable. You
know since last year I have been working in Savannah for the firm of which
your father is a member, and part of
my duty was occasionally to come up
north with the barges and direct their
placing at the ports. All that happened
was that in the fierce storm last night
our hawser broke and we sprang a bad
leak.
We were the last of the tow,

:

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36

and before the other boats realized we
were gone, we were separated from
them. Our one boat was so badly
smashed it- was useless, and we were
just going to launch an impromptu raft
when we saw that you had seen our

those refusals, but

I

did

manage to live

through them, because I did not know
then what life and love really were.

"Xow I know.
"My experience has taught me what

Jack and Helen found themselves again
on the after-deck, and left alone in the
manner which betokens strange chance

is. from its heights
its
to
and patience and waiting for the
time when I h.ad a real right to ask you
to marry me have taught me what love
is.
If only you had not smiled that time
when you told me that when I had actually done something in the world you
would like nothing better than to hear

or the machinations of romantic friends.

me say those things again.

The golden glory of the afternoon had
given place to the silver sheen of moonThe yacht was now in sight of
light.
shore, and was bound for its anchorage

I

They

talked

tor

some

time

about

the strange meeting, and then the party

was summoned to dinner.

in the

That evening

Hudson.

All the host of recollections that asso-

ciated

Helen Forbes with the best memwith Jack
life had been

ories of his

and he had long ago decided the very
weighty and embarrassing question definitely in his

at college, but, strange to say, for a year

who in his chemistry days had

been accustomed to read ahead to see

what the result would be, and put that
down in his notebook.
Not that he
rushed at conclusions. Did not the author know more about chemistry than

and was not a year's durability the

accredited test for love?

"Helen, when you knew me last I was

what I am now.
Then I was spoiled by the ease with
which things came to me. I don't wonder you used to laugh at me when I
would continually propose to you like
the soft-headed fusser I must have been.
a

I

child

compared

used to

feel

to

dreadful after each of

Then she

spoke, but

that

so quickly.

in

voice so different from her usual

a

laughing voice, in a voice that was warm

and rich.

"You might as well know right away
that

I

was

in

earnest then, Jack, and

that I feel the same way now, and more-

— —that you have done
—that you have changed durI feel

something

ing the last year, and that you are more
like

what I wanted you to be.
too.

have thought of you for the

last }'ear,

thought of you as you used to

of complete separation he had been in

love with her, and that was test enough

How often

have wished you had been in earnest."

over I know

mind.

He was in love with her.
He had had his "case" on her while

he,

;

He looked at her. She had bent over
and seemed to be almost sobbing. After
all he had been a cad to say a thing like

Briggs constantly during the past year,

for him,

really

life

depths

signal."

"I,

be, and thought of you as I imagined
you would be if ever you came back to
me, for I didn't know just how you
would feel about me after you had

changed.

Honestly,

I

didn't.

Jack."

She looked him full in the face now
for a moment, her eyes reflecting the
soft gleam of the moon. Then she looked

away over

the

streaming behind.
a

ocean,

so swiftly

They were silent for

moment, awed by that world-old pas-

sion that e.xists anew whenever two souls

discover each other.
Finally Jack spoke in a low voice
'"Helen, dear,
fable that savs

I remember an Eastern
when Paradise was fad-

:

:

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rose

was

sand,

saved and treasured by an angel,

who

employ of

ing

from

earth

tlie

a

single

gives to every mortal, sooner or later in
his

life,

a single breath of

flower, which

is

immortal

this

worth a thousand other

37
precarious

to a

"Well, dad, this
I

position

in

the

ship brokerage firm.

a

pretty sudden, but

is

think I shall consider it.

I

had already

accepted their offer, but I guess you can

up

Keen,

&

square

it

"The rose is here."

Forbes,

for

As soon as Briggs could excuse him-

mistaken you have had a watchful eye
over me ever since you told me you

breaths.

self

from the party

day, he took a
lather's office.

after

landing next

hansom and went to his
There was no formality

about his entering, for everybody recognized him at once with pleasure.
lie entered the private office and saw
his father bent over his desk.

dad."

••Hello,
'i

man wheeled around in his

he old

chair, a look of

proud joy in his face.

"Hello, boy."

These greetings and a firm handclasp
with a long look into each other's eyes
were all, but they sealed forever a year

A year

of suffering for them both.

whitened

which had

the

hair

of

the

mother and father a little, but a year
that had fulfilled the father's expectations and had made a man out of the boy.
Mr. Criggs finally sat down at his desk
after the first greetings were over, and

with

unless

I

little

while in

their

accident

his lather

humor,

Jack said
"But. dad, there is one thing

had not lost his old sense of
"•the boy" retained enough

of his college ideas to prefer a business
bringing in its annual twenty-five thou-

I

must

confess before I accept your offer and it

might change your mind. I have made
final arrangements to assume the lifelong captaincy of a certain little bark."

"No, I should not call her

lie hesitated.

that either.

I'd better call

her

my first

male."

"Her!
i.er

First

mate!
Boy, you are
your metaphors. What

do you mean?

"Well, dad

Come to the point."

Helen Forbes has con-

;

Mr. Briggs looked at him a moment,
then arose from his desk and again clasp-

ed his son's hand.

"God bless you, my son."
Then a gleam of humor came into his
and he continued
first mate?
Let me tell
If history lives up to its
you something
reputation and repeats itself, > on had hLitcr begin right now by calling her the
fine,

for

have just had

"But that will keep until dinner to-night,
w hen mother can shiver over it also. I
don't know whether you know it or not,
but mother and I have corresponded
pretty regularly since—"
"Yes, boy; I did know it."
Both were silent for a moment, then

s.nted to be my wife."

Evidently

I

employ," he continued.

and he tells me that after a severe trying
out you have proved yourself so efficient
they want to put you into the PhiladelBut I begin to think I need
])hia office.
an active partner here, and before you
answer them definitely I wish you would

my modest offer."

much

"Evidently you have not heard of the
pleasant

rather mixed in

Jack thought a moment.

Helbert
pretty

thought I could get a job there."

went through a file of letters.
"Here is a letter I just received from
Mr. Keen, of Keen, Helbert & Forbes,

consider

am

stern face,

•'Did you say
:

captain."

i^,^(e^^^ey<

/.

/. D., 'oj.

JIM CLEARY

MY

brother and I had been trudging

along

sunset

all

day,

we began

and as

to look

it

neared

about for a

our supper and sleep.
While we were debating the question
between us, a very respectable colored
man, with a neat turnout, drew near us
and as he came up we fell into converasked him if he
I
sation with him.
in the neighanywhere
barn
knew of a
place to cook

borhood for us to sleep in over night,
and it was from him that I heard the
We
little that I know of Jim Cleary.
the
came
to
were told to walk until we
and
right,
forks of the road, turn to the
we would soon come to a brick house

took the cup from the top of the pump,
but we were disappointed.

I

worked the

handle vigorously for a while, but no
water came, and upon looking closely
at

the cup

it

seemed probable that no
It was

water had come for some time.
the ordinary white

porcelain

cup,

so

common in the country, with little brown
cracks running all over it, like the county

boundaries on a map. It lacked a handle.
Furthennore, it had a deposit of
black grime inside of it, as if it had
caught some rain water and dust from

covers you'll find some horse blankets
in the stall by the door."

About one hundred yards
from us in a garden patch was an old,
bearded man, in a tattered, broad-brimmed hat and well-worn overalls, cutting
a very prosperous crop of weeds with a
scythe. We took him to be Jim Cleary.
In the hope of getting a drink of
spring water I approached the kitchen
door to inquire, noticing as I went the
worn-out appearance of the back of the

We did not go so far as Jim Cleary's

house, contrasting so strongly with the

house that night, but when we saw a
brick house ahead of us upon our left,
in the clear, warm sunlight of the next

front.
The typical farm house bench
stood on the porch against the wall, with

and a frame barn.
"You can go in there," said our negro
friend,

"and nobody

will

disturb

you.

Nobody lives there but Jim Cleary and
his sister,

and he is deaf.

If

you want

morning, both of us recognized it at
once as the place to which our guide

We were hot and
had directed us.
thirsty, and the anticipation of a cool
drink of well water delighted us.

The

side of the

house toward the road gave

an

passive

air

of

respectability.

The

fence was in good repair, and the house,
with

its

closed shutters, looked as well

preserved as any house

built

probably

the roadside.

wash basin and cocoanut shell of
The porch floor was composed of heavy boards, worn so uneven
that there were cracks an inch wide beits tin

yellow soap.

tween the pieces, and hills and hollows
all over it around the knotty parts of the
wood.

The sight that met my eyes when I
looked in the open door of the kitchen
was one

so strange that

never forget

it.

I

think I .shall

In the middle of the

about 1850. The long and tangled grass
in the yard brushed the dust from our

room upon a common kitchen chair sat
an old, gray-haired woman, with her

shoes as wc passed from the gate to a
pump standing in the shade of two mag-

back toward me.

nificent

ma])les by the dusty

roadside.

We were happy in the i)rospect of shade
and water after our hot and sunny
tramp of two hours. I raised the handle
to draw some water, and my brother

She was bent slightly
her hands one
of her knees, thrown across the other.
Her dress was a basque of the pattern
in vogue twenty years ago, with shreds
of the material hanging from it in short
forward, clasping with

streamers.

Her skirt was of a coarse.

THE IIAVERFORDIAN
chocked

texture,

ami

her

roughest kind of brogans.

shoes

the

Over her

39

we went away from

the place without

being seen or heard by the old

man in

shoulders was a thin shower of silvery
As she sat she rocked to
white hair.

the garden patch or his demented sister.

and fro, muttering unintelligible words.
"Can I get a drink around here," I
asked her. I received no reply, and so
rejieatcd my question, and still got nn

not

reply.

kitchen his

I

looked around me.

Evidently the

main part of the house had been added
to this curious little two-windowed kitchen. At the far side was an old-fashioned, open fireplace, with a big iron
crane.
It was filled with rubbish, to be
A
burnt, no doubt, when convenient.
modern cook stove, with no sign of fire
in

it,

stood by the wall near the door,

and upon it in belter- skelter fashion
were piled pots and kettles of various
shapes,
a

some

clean,

others not.

rough dresser stood another

Upon
pile

of

unwashed dishes, probably the accumulation of several meals, for there were
more than were needed in one meal for a
single couple.
Such were the old woman's surroundings in the old kitchen with

the blackened rafters.
Still she sat, keeping up her senseless
droning and ceaseless motion, in spite

of my third question to her.

Who and what is Jim Cleary?
The

know.

man's

colored

I

do

state-

ment of the evening before is all that I
ha\-c

even as a basis

imagination,

for

but to judge from what

must be

saw of the

I

of discomand unhappiness. One little knows
what stirring tragedies are hidden by the
humblest roofs, what soul-trying diffilife

full

fort

culties
lost

may have been met and won or

lost in the

insanity.
is

darkness of a driveling

May it not be that Jim Cleary

another

Charles

Lamb,

on

a

far

greater scale, living a life of toil and sor-

row in his old age, that was unknown to
\Vlio knows what
the pitiable old woman, croning over her

the cheerful essayist?

meaningless mutterings, might have been
in

her youth

!

Who can say what bright

prospects lay before her;

who can tell

whether hers was the fault that blasted
them? It is not only in the educated
centres of art and culture that one can
see heroic mastery of circumstances by
indomitable will. What loneliness must
be the portion of that old man, sitting
beside his

fire

in the

long winter even-'

There was

ings, his solitude increased and deepened

an atmosphere of strangeness about this

by a negative companionship, with no
prospect but another day of toil! Well

outward sound that
seemed uncanny to me, and I left the
door without trying to disturb her
again.
I returned to the pump and explained the situation to my brother, and
entire oblivion

to

it

is

for such as this old mountaineer

that rewards

are not limited

to

this

earthly existence.
F. R. T., '06.

SKETCHES
Signs of Spring:

TO

the

which

apparent or not.

philosopher the manner
ordinary

mortals

in

greet

must be extremely ludicrous.
Everybody feels so happy that he doesn't
care much whether his eccentricities are

spring

forgiven.

He is sure they will be

And these eccentricities are

as diverse and interesting as human na-

ture itself.

The first and most persistent type of
"unhibernator" is the poet whose spring

THE HAVERFORDIAN

40

not as a remunerative as the

poetry,

if

spring

millinery,

claims

rightfully

as

when someone tripped over a root. During our journey the sun had been stead-

No

ily

other identifications are necessary than

we

the absent look, the amble that is truly
of
rural and the frequent occurrence

which, fortunately for us, had been burn-

prominent

a position in the cycle.

"doves" and
poor man has been

descending and it was nearly set when
finally

came out upon the summit,

ed clean and bare, so that, unlike the

"shade,"

tops of most of the Adirondacks.

this

forded a clear view in all directions.

"maid"

and

"loves."

As

sufficiently

maligned in the past we will

As we came out upon the rocky clear-

pass on to the more subtle indications of

ing we saw below us the three Saranacs,

^^'hen

vernality.

who

he

habitually

af-

it

dotted with islands, shining in the sun-

— "burnished sheets of living gold."

growls about the unchristianity of an eight
o'clock breakfast sets his alarm for five

light

and really gets up when it goes off, and
goes out to watch over the ornithological

Cranberry Lake behind it, and oflf in the

destruction

spring

is

of

the

coming.

be girds up

storied

worm, then

When the athlete-to-

his loins

and indulges in a

pleasant two-mile jog before breakfast,

When

you would
rather see it melt than freeze, when you
would rather walk on the grass than on
spring

is

arriving.

Just beyond old Boot Bay stood with
distance the Tuppers

and

thread of Racquette River.

the

silver

Far away on

the horizon pufTs of black smoke betrayed

the existence of large towns

:

but they

were too far off to interfere with the
natural beauty of the scene, and we did

On our left the mounVermont were visible, the pale

not mind them.
tains of

when winter has

blue

ranges

been converted and then been baptized by
the pleasing little .\pril showers, then

sky.

A puff of white in the valley, a

the sidewalk

;

in

short,

spring is indeed here.
But a sharp lookout must be kept for
In
these signs, for they are transient.

little

nearly

blending

with

the

moving object and long afterward
and we knew a train was

a faint whistle,

passing.

We turned and looked towards the

three or four days the early riser leaves
the worms to the robin and returns to

east,

chops at eight. The athlete runs in the
.-Marm clocks are dispensed

setting sun.

Marcy and Mclntyre.

the

twin sentinels

:

Saddle Back and

the

afternoon.

and the whole countryside settles
down to a more rational and leisurely

where all was now in shadow save

the peaks shining in the Inst rays of the

with,

enjoyment of the spring fever.

Only the

poet never ceases.
T.

M. L., 'oS.

others

we saw

all

— Lake Placid, Pine Pond,

Lake Clear in the distance and .Ampersand Pond at our feet, which, as Dr. Van

Dyke has well

said.

"No lazy man has

ever visited."

And

as

light faded

we looked

the

and the shadows deepened,

one by one the mountains faded
away and the lakes were swallowed up in
until

Mt. Ampersand at Sundown
afternoon we had climbed up
ALLfrom
Round Pond
shore
the

of

along the hot. damp forest trail, the silence of which was broken only by the

humming of gnats and mosquitoes, and
thf occasional s(|uash of the wet leaves

the evening mists, until all had been lost

Amjicrsand Pond down

in

the valley, with the evening star in

its

to sight but

bosom, which alone seemed on guard,
watching over the wilderness as it slept.
.4.

L., 'og.

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
CoiuliK-lcil

THE

by

Leicester Ford, and they have since been

Modern Language As-

reprinted in one of the "Ariel Booklets."

tion of the

sociation of America contains an article
by Ralph \\'. Trueblood, entitled "Mon-

Average Man." The paper
makes an effort to show that the enduring popularity of the French philosopher

taigne

is

:

the

due, not to the unquestioned literary

influence and excellence of the essays,

but to the fact that they embody the comfortable and commonplace philosophy of
a

type hitherto unrepresented

ture
is

Dean Barrett

current iinmhor of the publica-

in

litera-

—the average man. The argument

continued to indicate, however, that

this characteristic of the essays

Montaigne himself

and of

much the

not so

is

expression of his natural turn of mind
as of his conviction that the truest philos-

On the title-page they are called "Poems
of Benjamin Franklin."

In the introduc-

tion the editor quotes Franklin's own re"I need not tell thee that many of
them are of my own making," and adds
that he has "been able to identify but
one or two pieces as from other pens."
Dr. Mustard points out that about eighty
jjieces
were clipped from well-known

mark

:

—Dryden, Pope, Thomson,
age, Lyttelton and Armstrong— and that
English poets

W alsh, Young, Prior, Swift, Gay, Sav-

more than fifty pieces were derived from
a humorous miscellany entitled "Wits
Recreations," which was published in
London in 1640.

ophy is to be found in the golden mean of

At the recent meeting of the

voluntary mediocrity.

Inter-

collegiate Football Rules Committee, the

The second edition

Dr.

of

Bolles'

"Home Library of Law" is about to apthe

pear,

first

having been

One of

ing of Mr. Walter Camp, of Yale; Prof.

the

field was written many years ago by

fessor

Parsons,

of

the

"Law for

Men."

book

Dr.

Bolle.s'

same

Dennis, of Cornell; Mr. Savage, of Ober-

Pro-

and Dr.
Chairman;
this Committee to act as a Central Board
of Officials and serve until December,
The purpose of this Committee
1906.

Harvard Law

School, and entitled

is

Business

broader

in

ing

and aims to state the leador more
general
principles
of

law

that

scope,

apply

to

all

stead of the old-fashioned

was practically

published

early in October of last year.

the earliest books covering

revision of playing rules

completed: and a special Central Committee of Five was appointed, consist-

classes.

In-

heavy vol-

ume, bound in sheep, the matter is pub-

Prof.

lin:

Fine, of

Babbitt, of

is

Princeton;

Haverford,

as

to ensure the proper interpretation of

rules,

and enforce the spirit of the Com-

mittee's work.

appoint sectional

will

It

geographical

committees

lished in six small volumes, well printed

for different

and easily handled.

the country, and, while for the present

ber of the Yale

contributed

an

In the

March num-

Law Journal Dr. Bolles
article on "How Law

Uooks Should Be Written."

serving

stand
and,

largely
as

a

desired,

if

in

Central

divisions

advi-sory

of

capacity,

Board of Appeal,

appoint

officials

for

college games.

Dr. W. P. Mustard has recently printed some interesting notes in the New
York Nation on the verses which served

football

"Poor Richard's
Almanack" (1733- 1758). These verses

cials, in

were collected and edited in 1890 by Paul

tion.

to enliven the pages of

will

It
ist,

communicate directly with,
and their presidents; 2nd,
managers and captains; and,

faculties

3rd,

all

known

efficient

football

offi-

fornuilating plans for organiza-

:

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
NOTES
'42.

City

Robert P.owne died in New York

March 4th, 1906.

*92.

Christian Brinton had an illus-

trated article in Appleton's Booklovers'

C. Linn Seiler composed another
comic opera, entitled "Billy B.," which
'02.

was given on March 29th and 30th by
the Dramatic Club of the Haverford
School.

Magazine for February, entitled "Russia,
through Russian Paintings."
Robert P. Lowry is employed by

'04.

The engagement of J. Henry
Scattergood to Miss Anne Theodora
'96.

the Oirard Trust Company.

Morris is announced.

E. P. West has been transferred

'04.

Richard C. Brown is in the employ of the J. B. Uppincott Company,
'97.

by

Westinghouse

the

Company from

Pittsburg to Philadelphia.

publishers, Philadelphia.

01.

W. H. Kirkbride had an article

in Pearson's Magazine for December, entitled "Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perces."

'02.

John R. Thomas and George
Maxwell
.\utomobile in Washington, D. C.
'04.

llclbert are the agents for the

Caspar Wistar has been appoint-

ed to serve next year as Professor of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences in the
Institute Inglese, at Santiago de Chile.

'05.

ried

to

Effingham C. Murray was marMiss Marie de Montalvo on

-March 26th in

New York City.

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Haverford vs. Penn
SATURDAY, March 10, witnessed
the

first

intercollegiate

soccer

It was played at
windy that accuon
day
so
a
Haverford
shooting
was imjiossilDle.
and
rate passing
score
of 2 to i.
the
Haverford won by
chose to
the
and
toss
Haverford won
The
ball
was in
kick with the wind.
Penn's territory most of the time, and
at last on a long wing pass Spaetli shot

game of the -season.

the first tally for Haverford.

Within five

minutes after Penn

kicked

had

ofif

Spaeth again ])ushed the ball into the
net. Tile half ended soon afterward with

the

ball

in

Haverford, 2

Penn's
;

Score

territory.

Penn, o.

The second half was mostly
but the splendid work

Penn's,

Lowry, C.
Brown and Philips, Haverford's two fullhacks and goal, kept them from scoring
till
near the close of the game, when
\ iddows tallied with a pretty shot. The
liall was out of bounds frequently and
was very hard to handle. Tlie lavcrford forwards played well together and
passed excellently, but they did not seem
Lowry,
to shoot as well as might l)e.
Pleasants and Spaetli played the best for
Haverford, while Widdows, Kane and
of

.

1

Morris excelled for i'rnn.

l,iiie-nn:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Kane
Hochin

Goal

Brown
Lowry

C.

.

.

.

The Ardmore Boys' Club
The Ardmore Boys' Club on April
nth successfully completed its second
>ear.
It was established in the fall of

Penn.

Positions.

?lavcrford.
Philips

Right fnll-back

Keating
Left full-back
Pleasants ...Centre half-back... H. Morris
Ewing
Left half-back
Godley
Shortlidge .. .Right half-back ... Schopback

Pepper

and this year had nearly fifty members,
with an average attendance of about

Inside right

Harris

twenty.

Outside right
Linesmen

Smith
Mont-

use the old Grammar School gymnasium,

Inside

left

Devvecs

Outside

left

Brown

P.

Rcid
Spaeth

Young
Referee

1904 under the auspices of the College
Y. M. C. A, for the boys in the vicinity,

Wiildows

Centre forward

Drinker

— A.

— Bishop.

gomery and R. M.

Time

Gummere.

of

halves— 35 minutes.

The college allowed the club to

and there, one evening a week, the boys
collected to play such games as carroms,

crokinole and checkers, with an occasional fifteen

The Lehigh Meet
concluded on the 17th ult.

Lehigh,

at

where the Haverford team won by the
The contest was
close score of 25-23.
Captain S. W.
very even throughout.
Brown, of Lehigh, did the best work for
his side, scoring twelve points

minutes of basketball.

A sav-

was also established in which
ten or a dozen boys had accounts varying from a few cents to a couple of dollars.
One or two evenings were spent

ings bank

The gymnastic season was successfully

43

;

listening

to

singing by a quartette of

followed by ice cream
and cake for the boys and workers.
college fellows,

Bushnell,

of Haverford, came next with nine.

The results were as follows:
Horizontal Bar— Tied for first place, S. W.

Mr. Nicholson, secretary of the Anti-

Brown, Lehigh, and Bushnell, Haverford.

Saloon League of Pennsylvania, lectured
before the Senior and Junior classes on

Flying Rings— First, T. D. Scott, Lehigh;
second, E. A. Edwards, Haverford.

Tuesday, March 30, in the new Assembly
Hall.
He explained the methods, aims,

Side

Horse- First,

Carson,

Haverford;

second, StoufJer, Lehigh.
Parallels— First, S. W. Brown,
second, C. T. Brown, Haverford.

Lehigh:

and results of the League's work and
put the matter before his audience in a

new and stronger way than that in which

Club Swinging— First, Shortlidge,

Haver-

it

is

usually considered.

ford; second, Frankenfield, Lehigh.
Tumbling— First, Bushnell, Haverford; sec-

ond,

S.

W, Brown,

Lehigh.

On Friday, March 23, State Senator

Football Schedule

The

football

management announces

the following schedule for 1906:
October 6— Medico-Chi, at Haverford.
October 13— Lehigh, at South Bethlehem.

October 20 Rutgers, at Haverford.
October 27— Ursinus, at Haverford.
November 3— Franklin and Marshall,

Algernon B. Roberts, Princeton, '96,
spoke on the "Corrupt Practices Bill,"
and gave an interesting account of this
measure which came before the Legislature at Harrisburg at the recent session.
He also gave his hearers an impressive
talk upon the value of personal interest

at

in local politics.

Lancaster.

November 10— Johns Hopkins,

at

Haver-

The Junior Class announces the even-

ford.

November 17— Trinity, at Hartford.
November 24— New York University,
Haverford.

at

ing of Friday, May 18, as the date of its

Junior Reception.

^

EXCHANGES
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oiirsels as others see us!"
sang Burns, and we always have his wish
in

mind when we review the magazines

that

We look through the

come to us.

exchange columns to ascertain how othand in our criticisms we try
to the hest of our ability to give our exchanges the opportunity to learn how
others see them.
In doing this we try
not to forget the Golden Rule, and always remember de mor/ias nil 7iisi bonum,
so that no matter how harshly we may
sometimes speak about a paper (for, you
know, to quote Bums again, "It's hardly
in a body's pow'r to keep, at times, frae
being sour") you may be sure that we at
least do not consider that paper dead.
ers see us,

THE REDWOOD
In the March number of this magazine
there

is rather a dearth of fiction.
Its
place is taken, in part, by verse, with such

varying subjects as "The Battle of the

Cats" and "The Prayer of St. Ignatius."

The Redwood
narrowed

possibly,

interests,

a

but

too
ought

little
it

closer together the hearts of the Boys of
the Present

and of the Past."

AMHERST LITERARY MONTHLY

The February number of the Amherst
magazine is full of interest. We apprecithe

verse

"Lonesome-

especially

The fiction is good, and as for

ness."

and

that philosophical treatise, "The Atheist,"

verv appearance makes us turn to it

although it could hardly be called a
"good, tight argument without a leak in

This paper
its

is,

its

certainly to accomplish its laudable purpose as set forth on the editorial page,
"To record our College Doings, to give
a proof of College Industry and to knit

ate

WILLIAMS LITERARY MONTHLY

in

is

tastefully arranged

among the first. Nor are its contents disappointing.
"The Summons" is, perhaps, a

trifle

too

melodramatic,

for.

though scarcely three pages long, it conmurder and a suicide as a criticism to this sketch and to "Through the
Night" as well we should like to mention Mark Twain's remark, "It is easier
to manufacture seven facts than one
tains a

it

anywhere,"

it

is

vividly told,

and

its

connotation sets one thinking.

;

A LULLABY.
Sail, httle

sea-nymph of mine.

Swift in your sea-coral boat.
Rocked on the foam of the ocean's dark

wave,

emotion."

On the sea of dreamland float.
THE HOLY CROSS PURPLE

Swing.

The stories and verses in this Massachusetts magazine are clever.

We com-

little

moonbeam of mine.

Soft in the

Rocki-d
In

in

tile

still,

starry sky,

cradle of moon's silver

realms of dreamland on

orti.

high.

mend "A Filipino Pearl," but we must
object to the statement, "Being .\meri!"

cans, and what is more, Bostonians
"William Wilson, alias Markheim," is a
well

written

similarity

article,

dealing

with

the

between these two stories of

Poe and Stevenson.

Sway, little rosebud of mine.
Sweet watch thy mother will keep;
Tossed by the drowsy winds, kissed by the
dew.
In

the

land

of

dreamland

sleep.

Thf Mount Holyoke.

W. S. E., '07.

i

THE HAVERFORDIAN

Frank H. Mahan

Medical
Carpenter, Builder

and Contractor

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OFFICERS
A.sa S. Wing
T. \\'istar Browti

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.
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Joseph Ashbrook, V.-Pres. and Mgr. Ins. Dept.
Trust OflScer
J. Rol)erts Foulke
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Actuary
David G. Alsop
Assistant Trust Officer
J. Barton Townsend
Treasurer
Samuel H. Troth
Secretary
C. Walter Borton .

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Richard Wood

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Asa S. Wing
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William Longstreth
Frederic H.Strawbridge
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HAVERFORDIAN

Haverford College
Volume XXVIII, No. 3.

May, I906

CONTENTS
Editorials

45

Erin's Prayer

60

Joseph Gibbons Harlan

48

61

The Loved and Lost
The Outcome
Tito, Tup^ and Don Pepe

50

The Veteran's Day
Faculty Dkpartmbnt
Alumni Department
College Department

.

51

53

63

64
65

:

DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

Association Football:

President

D. Philips, '06
F. I). Godley, '07

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

J.

J.
-.

Manager

Buslinell, 3rd, '08
C. H. Rhoads, '93

Captain

ADVISORY BOARD

Foot Ball:

Gummere, '07

S. J.

M. H. March, *o7
C. K. Drinker, '08
E. W. Jones, '07

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager

J.

Other Members— R. J. Shortlidge, '06;

J.

D.

;

'07.

LOGANIAN SOCIETY.

T. Fales, '06

A. N. Warner, '07
F. G.Sheldon, '06
Assistant Manager... W. R. Kossmaessler, '07
T. K. Brown, Jr., '06
Captain

M. H. March, '07

Philips, '06; T. K. Brown, Jr., '06; R. L. Cary,
'06
W. Haines, '07 ; H. Evaus, '07; I. J.

Dodge,

:

W. Carson, '06

President
Secretary

W. Carson, '06

Captain

Gvmnasium

S. G. Nauman, '06
P. W. Brown, '07
H. Plea.'sants, Jr., '06

Assistant Manager

DEPARTMENTS
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

A. C. Dickson, '06
E. R. Tatnall, '07

Vice President

W. Carson, '06
R. J. Shortlidge, '06

President
Vice President

P. W.

Secretary-Trea.surer

Brown, '07

DEPARTMENTS

Track:
T. K. Brown, Jr., '06
P. W. Brown, '07
A. K. Smiley, Jr., '06
E. R. Tatnall, '07
'06
J. D. Philips,

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager
Captain

Civics:

President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

J.

B. Windle,

07

H. W. Doughten, Jr., '06

Captain

R. L. Cary, '06

President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

D. Philips, '06

A. E. Brown, 'o7
F. D. Godley, '07

F. R. Taylor, '06
P. Elkington, '08

Scientific :

Cricket

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

H. Pleasants, '06
,

Debating:
President
Vice President

*

W. Carson, '06
M. H. March, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08

Secretarj'-Treasurer

ASSOCIATIONS.
College:
President
Vice President
Secretary

CLASSES.
1906:

J.

D. Philips, '06

C. K. Drinker, '08

W. Shoemaker, '08

Musical:
President

R. J. Shortlidge, '06

Manager

A.N. Warner, '07

Assistant Manager

Leader

.....W. B. Windle, '07
S. G. Spaeth '05

Tennis:
President
H. W. Doughten, Jr., '06
Vice President
W. Rossmaessler, '07
Secretary-Treasurer
C. J. Teller, '05

Y. M. C. A.

,

1907:
President
Vice President
Secretarj'

Treasurer
1908:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

J.

R. Scott
T. Fales

H. Evans
G. H. Wood
J.W. Nicholson, Jr.
K. J. Barr
G. K. Strode

W. R. Shoemaker
C. S. Scott
T. Troth

J.

1909:
I.

;

W. Carson
W. K. Miller

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer.

M. H. March, '07

Treasurer

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

Dodge, '07

I. J.

D. C. Baldwin, '06

J.

Dodge, '07

J.

B. L. Dodge, Jr.

President

H. Evans '07
W. H. Morris, '08

Vice President
Secretary
Teasrurer

P. Elkinton, '08

T. K. Lewis

R. L. M.Underhjll
E. S. Shoemaker

An Interesting Fact
About our prescription work, is, that none but the l>est
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Haverford, Pa., May,

Vol. XXVIII.

No. 3

1906.

SINCE the present Editorial Board

After the June issue we shall regularly

has had charge of the Haverfordian

discontinue the Exchange Department in

we have gnven a great deal of thought

the paper and in

to the question as to whether or not the

Alumni and College Departments. While

meeting the joint

the Haverfordian is primarily a paper for

conc.rning

P^per

the Policy

demands of undergraduates and alumni in the best

of Th«

Haverfordian

is

the

the

arrangement would be
bi-weekly newspaper, and

ed
to

print

a

change the shape of the Haverfordian,
making it more strictly a literary magazine.

But after careful consideration we

see that the college

is

not yet ready to

support two papers and keep them up to
the standards necessary to justify such a

They could be financed successfully, but the difficulty would be in sus-

change.

taining literary

support after the

first

interest of enthusiasm was passed.
Thus we have to give up any serious

considerations of this sort with the expressed hope that some near future year

such a change made, and direct
our own attention to the needs of the
will see

paper as it now is.

is

to

make it a common meeting ground for

manner. Previous

that a better

place enlarge the

the undergraduates, yet our policy

boards as well as our own have consider-

possible

its

Alumni and those in college where

former may by occasional articles
some of the experience they
have gained to those who are yet under-

contribute

graduates and may in return receive news
of

all

that

is

of each other.

happening in College, and
That the Alumni is inter-

ested in these things
fact

that the

is

indicated by the

circulation in

College

but a small per cent, of the entire
culation of the Haverfordian.

is

cir-

Therefore, in view of the change proposed for the magazine we solicit during
the next month from the Alumni and
undergraduates, suggestions of policy
and methods of improving either the
College or Alumni Departments so as to

make them more interesting.

We also

request that at all times the Alumni and
the secretaries of local associations send
in notes about members of the Alumni.

THE HAVERFORDIAN

46

JUDGING by the record of the Soccer

whom was largely due the team's success

Team during the past season, when
Haverford won the championship of the

this

Intercollegiate League,

which consisted

of Harvard,

officiii

Pennsylvania,

season, the management, and

men on the team

the

good
work in the face of a rather lukewarm
other

for their

support by the undergraduates.

Recognition

Columbia, Cornell, and Hav-

Assocution

erford—we have come to

Football

the decided conclusion that

evening not long
ONEFreshman-Sophomore
Debate, we

Association Football should be a recognized college sport and that the official

were more than usually oppressed with
our cares and were brushing off some

ago, after the

H. be awarded to members of the teams
under the usual conditions governing
such awards. The success of the team
this past winter has been of such importance as to rank it with any one of
the four recognized branches of athletic
activity

gymnasium, track and

football,

cricket.

The game has passed out of the stage
of trial, and is

—and should be— recoga

The reform

nized sport in this country.
in football

sudden

game

was partly responsible for its

increased
itself

but

popularity,

warrants

its

the

maintenance,

and beboth for the sport there
cause it is an interesting game to watch.
is in it,

Lately we seem to have lost sight of
the fundamental excuse for college athletics

—namely, that they furnish health-

ful exercise to the players.

If we should

be so old-fashioned as to think about it
we would see that soccer has this attri-

loose ashes and
An Unappreciated
Institution

carefully
,-,

.

exammmg
*=

our

mantle to see
it

if,

i

editorial

after

all,

was not woven of sackcloth,

when chance directed our footsteps toward the gymnasium.
When we arrived we were astonished
by the sight we beheld. Men from all
classes were gathered there and anticipation lit up all countenances.
There were staid and dignified Seniors
there the Juniors were represented, too,
and the ever-present Sophomores were
there, metaphorically licking their chops
:

for

this

the annual

was the time appointed for
Freshman Cake-walk. Yes!

That is the unappreciated institution.
Soon all were gladdened by the sight
of a mountainous cake at least three feet
in diameter being carried in by a troupe
of lusty burden bearers. Then the eyes
of everybody were glued upon the fateful
door in a manner that reminded us of

lasting all through the winter, it gives the


cus — the door from whence soon poured

best possible exercise without abnormal

the troupe of fantastically dressed fairy-

Following immediately

bute in its favor.

after the football season, as

taxation

physical

It is essentially a

to

does, and

it

those

who

game of skill

play.

—a game

where mere weight is no great advantage

—yet a game which may be played even
by the unitiated with enjoyment and benefit.

We
least

feel that

this question

should at

be brought up before a meeting of

the Athletic Association very soon, and

given a

fair

we wish

to

hearing, and, in conclusion,

commend

the

captain,

to

the Roman populace at a gladiatorial cir-

like

forms of the contestants.

How we should like to dwell at length
upon the sight we beheld.

What a host

of interesting characters

we could con-

But soon
jure up before your eyes.
came the most delightful time the climax when the successful contestants
cut the cake. It was a moment not soon

to be forgotten

!

To be sure, it might

have been done in a more orderly manner, hut we should pardon what we con-

THE HAVERFORDIAN
eluded was a sudden eas^cmess upon the
part of some
and be off about their studying.
But, as at most feasts, there was the
to get their small morsels

skeleton in

ever-present

the forms of

many Freshmen, who for some reason

47

ing from the knowledge that they were
abroad representing and advertising their
college that the Alumni took a renewed
;

work of the clubs and in
undergraduate activities in general and,
interest in the

;

Haverford was in a very
gratifying manner brought before the
finally,

that

And this is the real point of this editorial.

notice

of

We advocate that in view of the edifying

college

and its standards.

or another, did not go into the cake-walk.

many unacquainted with the

and stimulating influence of this exhibition more Freshmen shall be induced
hereafter, by moral persuasion or otherwise, to participate in it.

Then it will increase in interest, become even more enjoyable, and summon
others from the dark caves of worry, as
it

did us, so they, too,

IN response to a widelj' awakened inand character of

terest in the life

Joseph Gibbons Harlan, aroused by the
mere mention of his name in the Alumni

may go away

Poem, written by Thomas
In

Witli minds from care and sadness lifted

Memory' of

ttt-

'

j_o
JSo,

.\nd hearts which mirth had rendered gay.

Present

an

,

VVistar,

a Great

Personality

i,i
i
we are able
to

'

article

about

him written by the author
of the poem

AFTER the concert

trip of the Musical

who knew Harlan personThere was something very signifi-

ally.

cant in the

life

of the

man that made

we are able to
look at it from a perspective, we feel that
it has proved even more of a success than
The au^^'^^ anticipated.
The Results

him greatly loved and respected while
he was alive and sincerely mourned for
when he died, in 1857. It was because

of the

diences at Wilmington and

we have requested this article about his

Musical Clubs

Lancaster lacked something

life.

''"^

to be desired in respect to

Clubs

is

over and

though not in appreciation, but the
concert given in Baltimore was worth
the entire trip.
There it was that the
Alumni showed a most active and loyal
interest and by their co-operation with
size,

the

management made the concert

a

of this wonderful personality of his that

a

In connection with this we also print
poem written in memory of Professor

Harlan by T. H. Burgess, in 1857.

We

appreciate very much the contribution of
this

and as an exordium to it
words of the author introduc-

article,

print the

ing the essay:

great success.

The clubs felt the absences of several

"Replying to j-our request for a short
Haverfordian" on the
for "The
character of the late Professor Joseph G.

members, who were unavoidably prevented from going on the trip, but, despite

article

these circumstances the enthusiastic spir-

made

it of those who went carried the project
through as though no unexpected withdrawals had occurred.

The results of the trip are

that those

who went were bound closer together by
a new and pleasant responsibility result-

Harlan, particularly as to the traits which
hira so popular and respected with
the Haverford authorities and students of
his time, I feel that, after the lapse of

nearly fifty years since his death, I can add
little to the expressive notice of him
and the e-xcellent memorial minute of the

but

Faculty published in the History of Haverford College, pages 245 and 270."

JOSEPH GBBONS HARLAN
It is truly said

that great teachers, Hke

the poets, are bom and not made. Surely
no mere outward training could account
for the moral, intellectual

and

discipli-

nary powers of Thomas Arnold, Thomas

Beecher or Joseph G. Harlan.
it

We think

was not so much the rare intellectual

attainments, fine sympathetic nature and
acute perceptions with which these men

were gifted that made them great, but
rather that, combined with these faculties, it was an unusual endowment of
the spirit of grace that made them what
they were and constituted the "divinity
that shaped their ends." They were all
indeed great teachers, learned, dutiful,
self-denying, humble, kind, as being

teachers

—seemed almost

to take care of

itself.

While

at

teaching

Westtown,

Harlan, unaided, mastered the intricate
sciences of the higher mathematics and

astronomy.

Coming

directly

from

Westtown

School to Haverford, Professor Har-

and prohad preceded him, and was at
once confirmed and maintained in his
new sphere of service. Everybody at
Haverford loved and respected him, for,
while manly and dignified in bearing, he
was approachable to all, and of even,
consistent temperament, not without a
vein of quiet humor, but
lan's reputation for popularity

ficiency

themselves under the eye of the divine

"Ne'er roughened
breaks

Master.

That humor interposed too often makes."

Harlan, born and bred on a farm in
Chester County, Pa., was educated at
Westtown Boarding School, and was for
some years a teacher of the higher mathematics in that school, succeeding such

eminent teachers and authors in that
branch as Samuel and John Gummere,
Enoch Lewis and Samuel Alsop. He himself also was a successful teacher at West-

town and the idol of the boys from the
first.

His agreeable personality and nat-

ural dignity and sweetness of manner at

once claimed the confidence and won the
No one ever
heart of every pupil.
thought of disobedience or disrespect to
"Master Harlan." With him a slight

frown of disapproval, or a smile of approbation was all that was needed either
in the classroom or on the play grounds,
for at Westtown the teachers mingled

freely with the pupils out of school

and a significant glance from his expressive blue eyes was enough to suppress
any budding disorder. He demanded the
utmost decorum in the classroom, but
under his wise and tactful supervision the
discipline
that bugbear of so many

by

those

cataracts

and

While helpful and encouraging to the
student, he was equally lenient
and considerate with the less promising
and the dullard. It is safe to assert no
student ever had occasion to say to him,
as a boy once said to Dr. Arnold, of
Rugby: "Why do you speak angrily,
sir? I am doing the best I can." Whereupon, the famous Doctor relates, he was
greatly ashamed of himself. And, while
it
may be confessed there were some
"hard cases" among the Haverford students at this time, with Professor Har-

clever

lan,

one can hardly imagine the follow-

ing incident in the experience of Thomas

Beecher:
Beecher had recently come
from an Eastern college to take charge
of a ward school in Philadelphia, where
the discipline was at very loose ends.
"To give you an idea of the discipline of
that school," he said, "one day I asked
a boy. Brown, "Shut the door, please.'
Brown answered, "See you in h 11 first?'
'In that case," answered Beecher, sweetly, 'I will shut it myself,' and so he did.
This went on, getting worse and worse
for some weeks, until one day, on some

THE HAVERFORDIAN
insolence from one of the large boys, he

down, put his head in his
hands on the desk before him, and sobbed like a baby with discouragement and
"Then," he said, 'I prayed somegrief.
what after the manner of the shipwrecked sailor, "O Lord, if there be a
Lord, now is the time to put in your
oar."
Soon after this he had conquered. The pupils now intent on learning, there was no need of discipline, the
school disciplined itself." "Brown," he
adds, "got very fond of him and followed him about like a dog, thankful if
he could only see him now and then and
utterly broke

'

get a word. He turned out a good fellow and made a good man." Beecher,
too, became a great man, albeit in the
but

different

clergyman.

kindred

Both

in

profession

of

a

secular and relig-

ious affairs his influence with his people

was unbounded, and he was facile princeps in the town where he lived.
What
he sought to do was to educate his people, for

he was. as he said himself, first

of all "a teacher."

Professor Harlan's influence on those
about him, both older and younger, call
it the force of personal presence, magnetism, or what you will
was altogether
remarkable, and the distinguishing feature of his character. His firm but gentle spirit semed to per\-ade his classroom
and even the larger Assembly Hall when
he presided, and was felt by everyone
present.
Each student put on his best
behavior in that room and instinctively
wished to please that master but friendly
mind. There was not a student at the
college but would rather deny himself
than incur the risk of his displeasure, or
knowingly offer him the least affront.
Such a man is destined to be a leader of
men. Had Prof. Harlan been permitted
to fill out the allotted span of life, we
may not venture to estimate the bounds
of his usefulness, both as president of
the College and in the world at large.
Arnold Beecher Harlan
all born
teachers, men who, particularly the first
named, sacrificed much of worldly prom-

!

!

!

49

sake of their high and holy
men who chose the
profession of teaching and were not
ashamed of it, not as a stepping stone to
their ambition, but for its own sake, as a
means of the greatest usefulness. These
men knew and followed the secret of the
great Teacher Himself service. "Who
ise for the

calling as teachers

;

would be great among you, let him be
your sen-ant." With what double force
do these words apply to the teacher of
youth
He must first be in all things
a worthy mentor himself, and then willing to spend and be spent in the ser\'ice
of others. Such was our faithful friend
and preceptor, Joseph G. Harlan. He
died in harness, after a lingering and
painful illness.
It was pathetic to see
how bravely and patiently he struggled
on to the last.
First he relaxed, and
finally gave up the taxing astronomical
!

work at the observatory, which, it
was thought, had much to do with causing his decline. As usual, armed with
books and papers, he was seen to cross
the College grounds to and from his
night

classroom in Founders' Hall, to his residence, near the old P. R. R. Station,
until within a few days of his death. No
Haverford student of that day can ever
forget the sadness and gloom that followed the announcement of his untimely
death at the age of thirty-two years.
The thought of our "Loved and Lost"
one was all absorbing. Study was impossible.
A holiday was given. And
the students wandered about the College
halls

and campus singly, or

in

small

groups, as under the shadow of a great
affliction.
The Senior Class was ap-

pointed pall bearers, and tenderly they
bore their precious burden to its final
resting place in the neighboring meeting
Subsequently the writer
house yard.
had the satisfaction of planting a weeping box tree, which he had raised from
a seedling, over the grave as a last tribute of respect and affection to the be-

loved

and

honored

subject

of

this

sketch.

Thomas Wistar, '58.

;

The Loved and Lost
In jiifiuory

(»f

Joseph

('.,

Hnrlan, Professor in IlaverJ'ord College.

Wlien faded leaves were

falling
he fell as a
laded leaf;
The Reaper, with the autumn flowers, hath

bound him in his sheaf!
to die before the sun had reached
midday throne
Since God had called him ere the pride of
manhood's years had ffown;
'Twas fit to die in those calm days, when
spirit robes were flung
O'er hill and forest, where the pride of summer green had hung:
When low laments the waning year sang in

'Twas

fit

And

of

chirp,

cricket's

reigns

where he used to gaze
Long hours, to trace the backward course
of thousand trembling rays;
The very telescope seems sad, and now its
noble eye

his

tlie

save

silence

Died 1S57

Which if 'twere animate would weep, is downcast

from the sky;

The hands are

pulseless now, which
once
motions gave;
eye that saw the "brighter stars" is
closed and in the grave.
familiar

The

The dirging clock, like some lone guard, forever at his post.

wind's refrain

And all bright, beauteous things were changed lor winter's coming reign.

Slow beats the funeral march of time and
mcjurns the "loved and lost."

All save eternal lamps that shine in wide blue

heavens above.
Reflecting

down to

of light

and

Along the path where duty led his footsteps

lowly earth God's smile

love,

And tit it is for us to mourn the good, the
"loved and lost."

"Though he be dead, he speaketh

When melancholy nature mourns the ravage
of the frost.

But even while the warm tears
is

the sigh

A witness of the truth hath joined the whiterobed multitude,

A chain of love-links reaches up to bind our
souls to his,
of that briglit
pulse-beats throbs to this.

world

beautiful the dead appeared; that
grief-clouded day.

An if the soul's glad pinions stayed

the

first

fin-

gers of decay;

How pure that, look of hope fulfilled, radiance on his brow;
forehead so serene, as if 'twere
thinking now.
Rest, rest, thy problem thou hast solved, the
proud result we boast;
Go, leave the work behind for us. who mourn
thee, "loved and lost."

The

lofty

We walk about, or linger where wo nft were
wont to meet.
The class-room and the house (jf prayer have
each a vacant seat!

The windows
The

of

his

yet"

liis

all

we

'tis

We cannot ask

him from that home with

walls of amethyst,

Where looks he not on setting stars or fields
of stellar mist;

He gazeth not with wondering praise upon
the gorgeous might,

Dciwn which the love
llipw

deeds as fadeless flowers.
Arc twined a wreath of memory;
claim as ours.

fall,

halt-subdued,

like

ever trod.

One of the world's true noblemen is gathered
home to God!

room

are

books are all alone;
graveyard hath another
heart's a sadder lour.

closed,

his

moiiiid,

our

Where God

His majestic works
walks
in
through the heavenly height
Nor peers through ethers deepest blue,
where liglit oi planet wanes.
To ponder fires that feebly gleam thmugli
Heaven's far window panes.
Rut with his God, as angels do, he sees, he
feels, he hears
The glory of eternal works, the music oi tlie
spheres.

"The gentle and the good die

they're

first;"

crown;
They go up in a smile of Heaven, which we
fittest

for the

take for a frown.

Oh! may that smile fill up the void, lu ihoic

who miss him most,
.And take the place oi tears that
the "loved and lost."

ll.ivcrfonl

CiUU-ge.

iJlh

mo.,

fall

for him,

1857.

:

THE OUTCOME
Were you ever forced to wait for a
train at a station in

country

tled

district,

some sparsely setespecially in mid-

summer, during the dry spell? If not
and you wish to experience as lazy an
hour as this world can grant you, just

manage some time to drop into a town
like Redwood, about four in the afternoon on a day in August. Of course,
the railroad

must have but one

track,

II.

But to get back to the station. We
were there to meet Frank Akon. Frank
was an old friend of mine, a big, hearty
chap, with an
unassuming assurance
about him that pushed through with a
swing anything he undertook. He was

always the life of any party, and Katherine,

my sister Emily and I were look-

ing forward to a week of

the area usually given to a station plat-

good times.
Not that Katherine and Frank had ever

itself

form must be gravel, and the station
a small, one-story frame structure.

had described

Some such picture greeted Katherine
and me when we drove up to
meet the four o'clock train that Wednes-

And then, too, I had introduced them

T^Iorris

day afternoon.

The Morrises were spending

few
weeks at our place, as was their custom
in the summer, for our parents had been
friends in youth, and were good friends
still.
As for Katherine, most free cordiality marked our acquaintance, and she
seemed a second sister in our family.
a

But still, Emily and I
appearance to her to
the slightest detail, and she had seen
seen each other.

his

various pictures of him, as he of her.

over the 'phone one time.

So we all felt

pretty well acquainted.

This introduc-

had happened some time ago, and
was merely the prelude to a dinner engagement we had once had, which, by
It might be
the way, never came ofT.
tion

well to note, however, that in speaking

to Katherine some days later of the oc-

There was a certain jauntiness and
manner about the girl that was
contagious and dissipated any awkward
restraint when one first met her.
And
yet she had a rare combination of re-

currence the

serve with her frankness, that

to us as he alighted.

ease of

let

one

hard to characterize a personality in one word, but hers might be
It

is

For a
sweet charm was in her manner; a
strength of character that drew immediate respect was in her bearing and still
the life and vivacity of her every look
and movement dared one to try to break
through the circle that her indescribable
reserve drew around her. I had given up
called

deliciously

At last the train pulled in and Frank,
dusty but good-natured as ever, waved

"Got
first

a

river

his

"You'll have to do the best you can

I

answered.

"But let me present you to
whom you have heard."

Aliss Morris, of

Hat-tipping varies with almost every
It is often, I believe,

an un-

conscious revelation of character.

Here

individual.

comes one individual
hat well

now and had resolved to enjoy to the

and anyone
fond of the

the pleasure of the association.

Ned?" were

with a sun bath for a couple of miles,"

trying to solve the riddle for some time
full

near,

words, as he looked himself over in

abject dismay.

stimulating.

;

me

"I liked Mr. Akon's voice."

know she was not to be analyzed offhand.

thing she said to

first

was

who

lowers

his

down to the level of his waist,
will

guess he

ladies

;

is

somewhat

whereas, watch this

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN

52

man

carry his

hat

a

little

above the

height of his head, extending
the full length of his arm.

it

almost

He will hoki

there till he passes, with also a slight

it

bend of his body. This is the true ladies'
man, who feels his power over them.
Then a third advances who performs the
His thoughts
office as briefly as possible.
evidently are elsewhere, and the fashion
is

only a form anyway.

It is

possible to

view it from another point also, and take
it

:

as a measure of the man's regard for

the one he

is

addressing.

The method

intangible.

perfectly

ditions like these, and their friendship

the secret.

And so with our little group. Those
we passed

days of canoeing and riding
together were gone

But the inevitable week's end came at
and we found ourselves at the station again.
It was the morning train

and we were the only people
I was chatting with Frank

passes the lady, the energy he puts into
these help in fixing the sum total

of the regard.

But all this is merely incidental to the
fact that Katherine remarked to me that
evening she liked the way

Akon tipped

his hat.
I

had not been aware it was at vari-

ance with the method employed by others,

but it was evidently so from the fact

Katherine spoke of it.

Here, then, were

two things about Frank entirely favorhis voice and his method of raising his hat. A clear morning argues a
bright afternoon, and a bright afternoon
able

a pleasant evening:
jtarty

it

looked as

if

our

we

last

at the station.

all

almost before

realized they had begun.

this time,

is

once knitted closer together by some
subtle alchemy of which nature alone has

at

of tipping, the time he starts before he

it

youn^

two

Put

people into close relationship under con-

and Katherine was writing in the gravel
I saw that she was
with her parasol.
scratching Frank's
it

was not

till

name and mine, but

a few weeks afterwards

gave the occurrence any thought.
It was one evening in the September
following. We were in town again, and

that

I

I

was taking leave of Katherine after an

evening
hall,

we stepped

.\s

call.

into the

she startled me with the remark

"Frank Akon asked me to marry him
night."

last

"And you said ?"
"Would you have cared what I said?"
she asked me.
"[ have

was to be congenial all around.

no right to answer that

till

I

know what you told him."

am

"I

III.

to

tell

him to-morrow

after-

noon," she replied.

There is something about an open-air
makes friendship fast
and liearty.
There may be some
romance about it, but it happens in life
as well as in fiction that the words and
the hills and the streams have an influence on youth that is well-nigh incalcula-

"1 shall

fellowship that

ble.

The calm afternoon,

in

and seems, someinstinct
with
a
power
and life which
how,
not
can be felt and yet
analyzed.
The
fine night air is charged with an invisible
a|)i)eals

I

come at night to learn it, too.
I'll

answer

your

([uostion

then."

"Very well," she said.

"(lood-night."

Do you remember the idea

in

those

the midst

the best in everybody,

that

may.

lines

of some drowsy landscape, makes one see

activity

if

powerfully

liut

is

"Strange we never prize the music
Till

the swcet-viiiccd bird has tlown;

Strange that we should slight the violet
Till the lovely tlowers are gone."

This was surely

my case.

have, but do not valtic until it

We often
is

too lato.

!!

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN
When

I

home

reached

night

that

I

dazed.

Katherine on the point of

marrying!

The idea was so new it was

felt

astounding.

I

had thought her my best
had not really

lurid

light.

53

My steps led me in the

direction of the Morris home.

\Mien I
was opposite it a brilliant flash showed a
girl's

face in an open window, watching

friend for years, and yet

the storm in an intense reverie.

believed I loved her, but the idea of los-

was restive also? I returned to
my room with hope in my heart.
Next day Katherine met me at the
door. I knew w^hat her answer had been
without inquiring. But
"Well?" I said, calmly, yet with a

ing her shook me through and through.
It was a revelation of what she really
meant to me, and I knew it was love.

Perhaps at the station that day Kathwas comparing .\kon and me. I
had spoken in no way of love, but I knew
the decision was being made between
us, and where would it fall ?
That night I could not sleep. It was
after midnight when I arose and went
erine

She,

then,

nervous eagerness.

am still free, Ned," she answered.
"But no longer so," I interrupted, and
"I

she yielded to my embrace.

A thunder-

A few days later I met Akon. He
took my hand frankly and said
"Mine

come up and it was threatening rain.
Flashes of lightning would
burst into livid flame and waver off

was infatuation, old man, and will pass.
But it seems to have taken me to wake
you both up. Congratulations."

out into the streets to walk.
.storm had

:

across the sky in widespread sheets of

J?. /.

S., '06.

TITO, TUPE AND DON PEPE
Three Porto Ricaii Gamins

But somehow Tupe could not arrive at

CURIA.

L.\

I.

a clear conclusion in regard to the de-

Chug! Chug! Chug!

stroying capacity of the monster.

That

Tupe was coming down the rampla at
He had seen a strange monfull tilt.

iron barrel, the devil alone know'S all the

ster puffing noisily

by the market place.
It was a funny locomotive, with an iron

imagination came to his rescue.

barrel attached to

would put himself in the place of the
monster and act it out.
And he did.
He began to wave his arms and to throw

road, frijolcs!

And the way it

it.

moved and crushed

on the

the stones

—you couldn't beat that!

mischief it can do

his

legs

!

However, his vivid

backwards.

He

Then he put on

Tupe had stopped and looked with won-

the fiercest look possible under the cir-

der at the funny locomotive.

cumstances.

tainly

must have

thought.

"I

bet

a
it

fine
is

"It cer-

whistle,"

better than the

whistle of the Catano ferryboat.
toot, toot

—baa

!

he

Toot,

Of course it must be

And if it runs away without the engiAnd if it cuts big
neer pshew, anda
Don Manuel on his flour-bak stomach

Tat,

tat, tat, that

!

would be fun!"

Finally

he

started

down

the rampla as fast as he could go.

Chug! Chug! Ch—
The runaway monster struck something.

From a side lane a tall artillery

soldier

had emerged just

in

Tupe to ram with his head.

time

for

The man

had not heard the panting noise of the
run-away roller, neither had Tupe

:

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN

54

thought of the possibility of such a fearful encounter.
He swallowed the last

smiled approvingly and, casting his tat-

"chug" and tried to switch out of the
way, but the brakes were out of order.
The sudden concussion had unbalanced

tice a new set

tered coat and hat aside, began to prac-

of hand-stands.

Don Pepe would
would be

Tito and

him, and

see

they

jealous.

With a curt

And while Tupe was laboriously try-

oath the soldier rapped him on the head

ing to break his neck by dint of frivolous

The harm was done.

him.

first

and then sent him

flying into the

And

gutter with a well directed kick.

Tito

gymnastics,

appeared,

Don Pepe on his back.

carrying

was long be-

It

fore Tupe recognized their presence.

He

roller.

did not want them to think that he

was

As soon as the soldier was at a safe
Tupe came out of the gutter
and, placing his thumb on his nose, com-

showing ofif because they were there
At last he rolled over and came up on

menced to yell at the top of his voice

weakness on the part of his
enemy, so he considered himself entitled

do it a hundred, ten-sixty times if I
Hallo
wanted to. It's devilish easy.
there, Tito! Hallo, Don Pepe!"
Tito answered in a half-hearted way,
but Don Pepe did not take the trouble to
return the greeting. With his arms folded on his breast and a smile on his dark,
pock-marked face, he looked at Tupe.
Suddenly his arms fell from his breast,
his eyes twinkled and, taking a few run-

His next broadside of

ning steps, he executed a pretty head-

that was the end of the

runaway steam

distance

cursed Galician!"

Then, balancing himself on his toes, ready to run
"Patoii,

case the soldier should take his re-

in

marks

he awaited
developBut the soldier paid no more
attention to him. According to Tupe's
code of honor this was an unmistakable
seriously,

ments.

sign of

to the last shot.

insults, then, was a masterpiece of alliter-

ation.

He repeated it three times, and

his feet with a snap.

Having recovered, he looked

spring.

over his shoulder and addressed

own

then once more, that the retreating cow-

in his

ard might have no doubts as to its mean-

the

and purpose.
After that he felt
happy again. He had been kicked into

verda ?

ing

the gutter before, but this time he

got even.

grass

is

He began to whistle a popular

for flip-flaps,

fine

Now the steam roller was forgotten.
A black pavona flew dangerously near,
conical

He picked up the

hat crown which

served

him as headgear and resumed his way

down the rampla in a decorous manner.

is

Pepe!"
*

*

*

The three boys walked

they

and the

latest

discoveries

made in

the

haunted houses, Tupe could not keep
back his encounter with the artilleryman.
interrupted
Don
know who brought that mahere to La Capital, don't you ?

"Hey,

tunnel which leads under the walls and
into the cemetery he placed his first and

The result was a long,
shrill note, which was immediately answered by another in the distance. Tupe

one of the

After they had exhausted all
knew about the gossip of the town

Pepe, "you

middle fingers in his mouth and whistled

to the walls

in

Ironeras.

When he came to the opening of the

through them.

7io

Caiamba, you couldn't beat Don

and lodged themselves

but Tupe ignored it.

Tup

way: "Hallo Tupe!

peculiar

had

air.

soft,

" CfuiJJas, I could

chine

fellows,"

Why, the Yankees. Yes, the Yankees
make those fuimy locomotives. Rememjjcr

that

that big ship with three smoke-stacks

entered the bay

right

before

the

THE HAVERFORDIAN
war and

—pufF —got sent away soon

55

and that all of them, including C/<?zr/a«,
and Maquinley,CM\ do nothing but make

!

after? Of course you remember it, Tupe,

XXX flour to

was you,
of
package
dried sausages while I was diving under

Porto Rico. Maqninley used to make soap
and the King of Spain never did that, or

the sloop to get potatoes."

the

and you,

for

Tito,

too,

who

faaicldaj,

stole

lard and sausages and ship

it

the

Don Pepe stopped and tried to find the
way

best
tion.

"Cara —
Those Yankees are devils.
Padre Juan says that they don't believe
in God or in the Virgin Mary, and I
\

think he

right.

is

I

know

don't believe in cock-fights.
Felipe and

year

I

smokes ten
an adver-

won't be any use in my getting

that

guinea rooster that Felipe prom-

Kara-kara-kac-ka

— that rooster

certainly can fight, fellows

No, it won't

!

They'll stop bull-fighting,

Oh, but they can't take

too.

Rico.

two

were fighting

in

it

it

be any use.

Once last

Clevelan

saw

then

ised me.

they

that

I

Diablo, if they take la Capital

tisement.

launch his next informa-

to

Queen either!

cent cigarettes.

Chufias,

Porto

of course they can't!"

"Cai5w««," exclaimed Tito and Tupe.
They smiled then at their impudence.

3'oung cocks behind one of the ware-

houses in La Marina, and the devil take

me if one of those giraffe-looking, yellow-haired Yankees didn't come and put
his

hand

say:

sort of soft on

Oh,

malo.'

I

my head and

cock-fighting,

'Pickaninis,

inocho

wish you had heard him

Worse than the Italian who mends
old tin cans down in Luna street.
And
talk

!

another time

—oh, they

will all go to hell,

Yes, another time I
am sure, Tupe
saw one of them making eyes at Paquita,
Don Hilario's daughter, and saying nice

I

!

and

softly,

'

Margarita,

Margarita,

was one of those felReAnd the worst of it is that

viocho bofiito.'

It

The sun had gone down now, and the
short, tropical twilight was fast giving
way to the shadows of the night. The
dark silhouette of the massive walls of
JMorro Castle rose in the distance a veritable example of the grim power which

had held two-thirds of America within its
clutches.

No hospitable lighthouse shed

rays over the dangerous reefs of Isla
Cabra. Except for a few scattered red
its

lights

the batteries of San Agustin
Santa Helena, all the north and
in

lows who came in that coal steamer.

and

member?
when they

northwestern portions of San Juan were
plunged in the gradually increasing

say 'Margarita, Margarita,'

they charm the girls so that they go half
crazy.
1

the

It's

devil

that

helps them.

know."

1

Tito

and

These were the days of maragainst

law and "precautions

tial

the

Yankees."

There was a long silence. Tupe had a
sudden inspiration.
"But oye,
Don
suppose
that
the
Yankees take
Pepe,
Porto Rico
They are blockading La
Capital already.
There, don't you see
the smoke of their ships?
They have
been out there several days."
breath.

darkness.

Don

Pepe

caught

their

Then Don Pepe spoke hurriedly

:

"Oh, they can't do it. I know a soldier
who says that the Yankees can't fight.

The boys had been humming popular
As they rose to leave the ttonera
their attention was drawn by a light
moving outside of Morro Castle, at the
airs.

entrance of the bay.
"That is 'El Concha'

steaming out

watch for the night," spoke Tupe.
"Something is going to happen soon. I
guess I won't move from here to-night."

to

.\
tle,

naval battle outside of

Morro Cas-

with no danger for anyone except the

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN

56

Tupe had

why, it surely must be better than
a bloody bull-fight, or a street brawl
with sharp stilettoes. He wasn't going

and aroused a muffled response from the
dead vaults of the cemetery. Tupe woke
up with a start. During the thirty seconds of intense silence that followed he
thought he could hear a low rumbling
among the far hills of Bayamon something like an awful repetition of the

to miss that

bell's

combatants, that must be fun

once heard a bookish

!

fellow

litle

about Trafalgar and Lepanto
of ships
killed

talk

—hundreds
people

sunk, several million

;

When the trumpet of Morro Castle
sounded the third "taps" Tito and Don
Pepe left Tupe alone in the trotiera.

Exhaustion had overcome the little watchman,
and Tupe now lay sound asleep, his head
reposing between his knees.
Half an
hour after his companions had gone
away his eyelids had gradually begun to
grow heavy, and a feeling of great tiredness had crept over him. Between vacillating nods he had sworn softly, calling
himself an ass and a sucking babe because of his inability to keep awake. But,
try as he might, the drooping eyelids had
It

was

late,

almost eleven.

The lights of the

got the best of him.
blockading ships, the

roaring

waves washing the reefs of
Cabra,

watchdog re-echoing

in

the

of
Isla

bark

lugubrious

the

of

de

some

distance

the

sound, only more indistinct

;

but it

was nothing else than the tunnel, which
leads into the cemetery,

echo

within

finely

its

juggling

the

acoustic walls.

Then the second stroke was sounded, and
''Las
a cold drop ran down his back.

TUPE WATCHES.

II.

a7n'tnas,"he whispered, and then became

He had never heard this

silent again.

bells, but he knew
was the rousing call
the "purgatory souls" in need of

nocturnal

play

of

what it meant.

It

for

prayers and masses.

Yes, the "souls"

would now stream out of San Jose's
Church and come down th€ ramp/a in
two long lines. In white cloaks and
high, conical hoods, they would come
down the rampla mumbling some Latin
chant, shaking and rattling bones, ready
to pounce upon any sinner who happened to be awake and prayed not for them.
With red and yellow lanterns they would
scrutinize every nook and corner, and
woe to the wretch that fell in their
clutches
Tupe trembled as he thought
!

all

these things had, in their turn, held

his attention. Their charm, however, was

now dissipated. Tupe lay sound asleep,
dreaming the dreams of the outcast, rehearsing in his confused mind a thousand and one childish pranks, and longing now and then for a look at the face
of

that

unknown

of these things.

Had not Ana

Maria,

the old negress, seen them one night not

long ago?

Had not Canute, the orange

vender, been scared to death by a troo[)

of these ambulant "souls?"

The

stroke was sounded omiOh, if he could only remember
his ]irayers!
The good old Padre ]\\il\\
had taught him the
\ve Maria,
the
Credo, the Salve, and the Lord's Prater,
but he had forgotten them. He was no
goody-goody
But now he was sorry.
lie started " Ave Maria," but got hopethird

nously.

father

so

roundly

aljused l)y his mother.

.

*

*

*

;'.:

*

*

And along about twelve, when Tupe
was in the most distant realms of Dreamland, the large bell of San Josh's church
began to toll its nightly requiem for the
"souls in purgatory."

The first stroke,

deep, vibrant, immeasurably lugubrious,
sent its echo far beyond tlic city limits.

!

lessly lost.

He tried the Lord's Prayer,

but it had been so inadequate for bread-

winning

in

the past that he had laid

aside as useless.

it

And now those "souls"

!;

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN
He did not dare

were coniintj after him.

look out of the tronera,

but he could

hear their mumblings, the

rattling

of

he could

feel

bones and, oh, heavens

!

But just then the cursed lizard darted
ofif

he could see his high hood

;

and his pale lantern.
tried

his prayers

was awful

It

again, but

He

!

odd

the

snatches refused to be linked together.
use," he sobbed, "they've got

no

"It's

They will grab me with their
clammy hands, then kill me, and

me sure.
cold,

then

hell!

It's

Don

Pepe's

fault.

I

!"
could pray before I met him

The bell kept

on

tolling,

the

decided to sneak out to the opening of
to see

how far the "souls"

were, and to try to determine whether
It was
an awful resolution, and he was stupefied at his own boldness
Inch by inch,
straining every muscle to deaden possible
noises, he commenced to approach the
aperture of his hiding place on his hands
and knees. Without as much as breathing, he stopped now and then to .catch

or not he could escape by flight.

!

the sounds.

the

into the ironeia.

Now he sat down and commenced to
review his

Oh, but he was sorry

life.

that he had broken so many street lamps

he could only escape he would tell on
anyone he caught throwing stones at
them. He was sorry that he had upset
fruit and candy stands for pure deviltry
he was sorry that he had waged merciless war against all harmless cats and
dogs he was sorry he had cheated at
marbles and at dice
that he had persecuted and tormented the beasts of burden of jibaros "rubes" and beggars.
Ah, if it only were the devil who was
coming after him, then it would be difIf

A frightened lizard darted

ferent.
The devil he could scare away
by making the cross or sticking a pin
into the knot which he carried tied in his
pants below the knees. But the "souls"
you could not scare them away, unless
you were a "decent Christian" and could
rattle off all the prayers
unless you

;

could say the Pope's name without thinking of "potato," and unless you went to

church and believed
there

was no hope

in hell all the

for you.

close to his face and paralyzed moment-

had only known

movements. But he recovered
and continued his laborious approach.
Finally he got out far enough to feel

bones were growing

arily his

The cool night air played

the lireeze.

with
the

his

but

did

in

his

head.

again.

He

heard

curls,

volcano

listened

heavy, measured
ing a burden

;

tread

of

not

relieve

Then he
first

men

the

carry-

then he heard voices an-

swering in chorus to some unintelligible
chant, and then

The

shock sent him back

;

louder and

the tronera

of

;

and

more threatening,
keptTupe in a maddening terror. Made
desperate by the impending doom, he
echoes,

and landed on Tupe's neck.

reaction

the freezing stare of those glassy eyes

of the leader

57

—yes, he heard the froo,

Oh,

time
if

he

Espera! the chants and rattlings of
tened attentively.

fainter.

Tup

"Sure," he

lis-

said

to

himself, "they are under the tunnel now.

They are going to the cemetery. They
Then he
are not coming after me."
thought a little, and sank down again
in

despair.

"Oh," he exclaimed, "they

are going after bones and skulls.

They

They've left
have run out of them.
somebody watching there at the entrance.

froo,froo of starchy cloaks, and the rat-

Now I can't get away."

He did not dare
look, after all. They were too near. He
would not move. He would simply close

cession of white-cloaked, conical-hooded

tling of hollow bones

his eyes

and wait.

!

The bell had ceased to toll.

The pro-

and chanting "souls" had passed under
the tunnel

and disappeared among the

;

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THE HAVERFORDIAN

58

Tupe

avenues of the large cemetery.

which had so scared him, but he
felt

still

sure that the entrance of the tunnel

was being guarded by a "soul" armed
with a bone as big as an elephant tusk.
It was trying to remain there.
At last
he got up and looked stealthily over the
wall. Down in the cemetery, winding its
way toward the central chapel he could
distinguish a procession of red

lights.

He thought he saw coffins instead of
hoods, but
if.

"if.

"ie.

-^

i^

if.

TITO AND DON PEPE WATCH.

HI.

could not hear any longer the froo, froo

He had a good

Tito was superstitious.

reason for being so, for he could trace
maternal ancestry to the wilds of

his

Congo

—wherever

that country for "nigHis mother was superstitious
he knew that.
His grandmother had been a renowned "charmer''
and "pseudo-witch."
He wasn't sure
about the "pseudo." but there wasn't the
least doubt as to the truthfulness of the

gers" might be.
:

With such an ancestry to
back him up. he could not help being
melancholy at twilight neither could he
other word.

;

The

sky was

eastern

brighten up

beginning

to

when Tito and Don Pepe
lair and came down to
They were not surprised to

find Tupe.

him asleep, but they were rather
amused by the IcxDk of terror on his face.
When Don Pepe shook him Tupe rose
up and shrieked: "Suelia!" Then, rubbing his eyes, he asked whether the souls
were still in the cemetery. He recounted
find

the events of the previous night.

Don

Pepe's answer was characteristic

"You darned old idiot, did you

put

dog tears in your eyes before you went
They were no 'souls.' Ha!
to sleep?

Of course they weren't.

didn't see their cloaks, or their

you

didn't

hear a

little

bell

You

hoods

tinkling

the leader's bell
did you ?
What you
saw was a regular night funeral. Well,

not quite a regular funeral, but it was a
funeral

all

right.

Didn't you see those

who came from
They've all have got

sickly looking soldiers

Cuba last week ?

the yellow fever, and are dying by the

They bury them at night. It is
dangerous to do it by day. That's what
you heard. EI Padre Juan was chantbarrel.

ing his

'saecula saeculonim.'
!"

They were

no souls
"The devil." snapped Tupe. "I didn't
know that Hey, Don Pepe, let's break
some street lamps before the sun conies
I

out

!"

from catching uncanny
When the evening breeze made

his

noises.

night

left their

ha! ha!

keep

itself felt

ears

by its coolness and salty odor

then, surely enough. Tito would hear the

voices of his two uncles

—the slaves who

were drowned in the sloop "Conquista-

He would also hear the "soul"
grandmother Antonia whispering and blowing hot breath on his cheek.
That is why he and Don Pepe were
watching together that night when
But here comes the story.
dora.''

of

his

After trying every means to keep
awake, the two boys had resigned themselves to chance.

A

tronera

place to keep awake.

But

with his eyelids open.

You

is

a bad

was extremely important that Don Pepe should
not succumb as long as Tito remained
what might happen.
a

hell-bird,

a

fire

it

can't

tell

A ghost, a ditende.
ball

Curious things happen

—you
at

can't

night,

tell.

espe-

cially when one is a nigger with a witch
of a dead grandmother against
him.

Me caso eti — he was sorry he hadn't recome to watch for naval batMaybe it wasn't a funeral that
scared Tupe. They might come, the
fused to
tles.

and caramba, he was sorry he
was watching!
And now Don Pepe
would not keep awake. He could not see
"things," that's why he would not keep
awake and help his friend.
"souls."

!

:

:

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN
It was not long before Don Pepe commenced to snore. Yes, it was like him
to do such things when there was real
danger of his being mimicked by some
skulking devil. To make things worse
the sea breeze was blowing fast, wafting
from
along many and many an echo
Pena Para and other places, where hundreds of people had been drowned. Tito
moved uneasily and tried to wake Don

much

Pepe, but without

success.

His

snores and muffled hisses were becoming

59

dog, or perhaps an ambling cat.
But to him they were all either ancestors
a distant

or "skulking devils."

Heavens

Ramp ramp ramp

was that ?

!

!

Don Pepe consigned him to the lowest pit he

could think

and went

of,

Tito now decided to do like the os-

He would close his eyes and ears

trich.

come

like

those

The two little traitors
to

They had

!

now

watch, and were

upon them!
them, either

!

orously.

the "curia"

was degenerating!

He

Pepe woke up.
around and then spoke

shuffled

"Say, Tito, old idiot, you are the most

unreasonable fellow

I

ever saw.

can't do anything without

black ancestors.

If a cat

why don't you say 'Zape
will drive him away

!

You

seeing your

comes around
That
scat
!'

!

If the devils begin

to smell bad around you just stick a pin

your pants,
That will fetch
the devils away.
Tito, caramta, you are
not a deacon's boy
Deacons' boys are

If

they

focused upon the mouldy walls of Alorro
Castle, an "effect"

which made the old

fort sparkle like a huge, diamond in the

dark.

traitors

There was a short silence. Then Don
Pepe added half philosophically

!

display of eleven powerful searchlights

just like Tupeand I do?

not black, anyhow

And no funeral to scare
What a disgrace Chufias,

had stayed awake they would have seen
the gunboat "Concha" sneak back into
the bay when the blockaders had been
They
increased from two to eleven.
pyrotechnic
would have seen also the

in that knot you carry tied in

!

asleep

How scornfully would Tupe have looked

noises."'
He crawled on all fours to
where Don Pepe sat and shook him vig-

Don

to

sleep again.

have all sorts of cats and skulking devils
don't

Some-

that?"

— to keep the ghosts away.

They

what

!

one w-as walking in the tunnel.
"Don Pepe, Don Pepe, did you hear

more and more alarming. "If he don't
stop," thought Tito, "we are going to
hissing at us.

!

But they missed it.
Ah, chtiflasf

The two little

!

They slept.

In the morning, when the

mists were rising slowly over the sea,

and the copious dew had gradually filtered down to their bones, the two little
rascals woke up, and were surprised to
see the shadows fast disappearing.

"W'heq^the grass-hoppers chirp and the
mosquitoes buzz you don't have to drive
them away. They have nothing to do
with the animas.
They are only bad

"Caramba, Tito, you ought to have
awakened me. You are a cheat!" was

weather."

Tito gave something back in return, and

But again the night air moaned and
the reverberating echoes of the sleeping
city

disturbed the peace of poor Tito.

Don Pepe's salutation to his companion.
they both rubbed their eyes.

were gaping and
stretching their limbs, the sound of husky
•And

while

they

He would hear his name called now, and

voices reached their ears.

then he would hear

Surely, voices and guitars

some creaking like
Again

the tread of a "cloaked ghost."
it

would be a grass-hopper, or a coki, or

They listened.
They were
were
rampla.
They
coming down the

cheering.

!

Xo, they were singing again.

THE HAVERFORDIAN

6o

Now they

Nearer and nearer they drew.
could hear them distinctly.
the

of

yes,

it

So

was one

It

"Arrum-ban-baya, arrum-ban-baya
A que el Yankee aqui se encaya"

popular airs with new words;

was this,

showed their glowing admiration for the
floating wonders.

No, the batteries would not salute.

"Arrum-ban-baya, arriim-ban-baya,
Ahi viene el gran ^'iscaya."

No wonder, then, if the supposed Cervera fleet took

and

upon itself to remind
It formed

it

the fort of naval etiquette.
Apuesto un gayo, apuesto un gayo
Ahi viene el gran Pelayo."

que

itself in a

semi-circle and, steaming right

for the entrance,

it

emptied several tons

of steel and iron into the city before the

These songs were punctuated by vigorous "long lives" and "bravos" for Cervera and the Spanish fleet.
For, sure enough, those eleven

steel

compadres had time

monsters approaching Morro Castle so

— the long expected

fleet,

the

out of a neighboring

!"

Such a man, such a
Oh, well, it was too early. Spansentries and look-outs go to sleep

the

streets,

And then,

dismantled churches, unclaimed

property, un

the batteries could not begin the racket

It

while El Senor Gobernador was asleep.

ing!

— but that
;

is

Erin's

Prayer

Tliou, patron saint of brogue and bravery,

Benignly hear our prayers as they uprise-

As day-dawn vapours softly climb the skies.
Wink absolution on our roguish knavery.

O jovial saint, serene in thy calm reverie,
Look lovingly upon us, let thy sighs
Plead for us with the God of destinies;
keep us pure from taint of slavery.

Thus let thy people, innocent and free.
thousand years of happiness.
us humor quaint to bear the
Still let us, cliildrcn of the soil, aloud
Cry, not in vain, to thee; our isle still bless,
Well let us learn thy lesson, loyalty.
Fulfill a

grant

— morn-

j.p.roY.

On Seeing Parrish's Poster of St, Patrick.

Still

history.

was a memorable night and

Of course no; it was plain as daylight.

Still

is-

at the

Yankees
It was a memorable morning for Tito
and Don Pepe. Frenzied women in the
It"s

menced to salute.

sabe usted?

there

i)V7!C7-a

top of their voices, "Run for your lives.

fleet!

ish

!

sued two young scamps, crying

marvel of all the marvels, the eighth
wonder, the most
But, say, it was
comfunny that the batteries hadn't

at their posts,

their last

Great was their
dismay and hurried their retreat when
star-spangled banners

serenely, could they be other than Cer-

vera's fleet

to finish

Santo Cristo!
Fluttering above
the smoke, like the crests of fighting
cocks,
the compadres beheld
eleven
song.

cloud,

y. T. T., 'oS.

THE VETERAN'S DAY
The evening before

The Forty-ninth Regiment of Penn-

celebration

the

my native town the firemen bring their

sylvania Volunteers, containing the com-

in

panies enlisted from Great Oak County,

tall

were as fine a lot of men as could be
found among the first troops to answer
the call of Lincoln. In the Public Square
of Conwicks stands a shaft of granite

and wreathe the shaft in greens.

the ivy or the more airy spray of a fine-

commemoration of

leaved vine, and around the stone can-

forty feet high as a

ladders to the Soldiers'

Monument
They

soften the flinty features of the stone

Federal at the top with a

warm leaf of

The list of battles, twelve

non at the base and upon the steps of

number, in which they took part, fills
up one side of the tablet at the base.

the foundation are laid the contributions

Here is Shiloh, where their gallant Colonel Transome, who is still active in
State politics, lost his left arm.
Below
are Spottsylvania and the Battle of the
Wilderness, where many tough fellows
who farmed the Brandywine meadows

kinds, but every bunch tied

their services.
in

fell

;

again,

there

is

Port Hudson and

—how they must have fought

of the citizens, flowers of all colors and

remembrance of

up in loving

the stout fellows

who

Who knows

fought for our happiness.

what old lady may have gathered those
nasturtiums, and carefully wrapped their

stems in tin foil as she told the little bov
at her knee of a grandfather, more myth-

who was sent home from

Gettysburg

ical

march of their
r>wn homes! The list is ended with the
fall of Richmond, their services
completed at Appomattox Court House.
Show me the battleground where a stub-

Pittsburg to die with his young family

there, within a two-days'

than

real,

around him ? And as she wraps the yarn
around the stems, who better than she
can estimate the struggles against povare crowned in the person

erty which

her? Or is
woman in the land as

born fight took place under McClellaii
and its name will be upon their monu-

of the little grandson beside

ment, or where Meade rolled back an in-

she goes with him in the lengthening
evening to place the flowers upon the

vasion,

and

I

will

point

to

the

where the Pennsyivanian stood
shock of

They
Civil

place
in

the

battle.

are

grand

War veterans!

there a prouder

steps of the

to

old

fellows,

these

Our nation

has

As she reads

moniunent ?

him the list of battles here, the offion
and the personnel of the

cers there, the counties represented

another

side,

done well to set aside a date in the early
spring when everything is throbbing
with new life for a Memorial Day of the
conflict in which our country was reborn.
It has always seemed to me that it was

regiment upon the fourth, the little lad's

taken in the spirit intended for it.

ing sun. as he looks far

Our

Fourth of July has degenerated into a
debauchery of violence and noise. Our
religious holidays are even more sadly
abused because of their more sacred origin.

The two distinctly .\merican holi-

days are respected more
spirit

in

their

true

— Memorial Day and Thank.sgiving.

face grows serious.

Together they look
uniformed statue,
with his slouching cap and heavy cape,
his face glowing in the light of the wan-

up

at

the

curiously

away into that

freedom of
Silently they walk
which he fought.
home through the darkening streets, the
little lad awed by a sense of strangeness,
the widow intent upon her thoughts of
western country,

for

the

the past.
In the

morning the annual ceremony

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN

62
of

Veterans' march

the

performed.

is

amidst the awed silence of the specta-

When I was a boy, back in '91 or '92, I

tors,

can remember when as many as forty
honest citizens of every class marched
firmly up in their old worn uniforms of

their

blue and their battered caps and newly
tattered
oiled muskets, following the
silken flag of the

to the

company, to do honor

memory of their dead comrades.

The Colonel, with his left sleeve pinned
up out of the way the worthy green
grocer, more portly now than when he
wore that suit for a sterner purpose
:

then comes the little old car-cleaner, with
in

the Wil-

Pennsylvania

Railroad

an honorable limp, gained
derness.

The

would go far before it could find a more
faithful servant than he.

the worthy chaplain.

Then there is

He keeps a grocery

store and has a little church outside the

town where he preaches to the country
folk.

In '92 all the veterans marched

per-

;

and asks a divine blessing upon
comrades who fell in the wars, for
those whom the passing years have removed, and for the small remnant that
held together.

is still

In previous years

the march was continued to the bur}-ing

ground, where most of the

dead

lie

Nowadays the short journey is

buried.

made in carriages, and the crowd follows
the

dignified

hurry.

procession in

Under the

large

respectful

trees

of

the

Cedar Hill Cemetery, where the mosscovered graves are ranged in rows, the
old men form silently into a short line.
A word from the Colonel and the rifles
click, another syllable and the old arms
stittly aim them, a subdued command
of "fire," and the dead salute breaks out
under the oak trees they repeat the action and again the hills send back the
echo.
A third salute flashes forth and
:

then

the

smoke

floats

dreamily

away

haps they did in '93, bvit they only num-

among the tree tops, leaving the dead to

bered thirty-eight that year.

another year of unbroken solitude.

In

'94

there were thirty-two in the procession,

The soldier upon the monument still

and two rode behind in a carriage. The
next year the carriage was not there, but
its occupants did not march, and the little
band only numbered twenty-nine.
Last spring only nineteen old men, with
snow white beards and slow steps marched to the music, while the spruce youngsters of Company N, N. G. P., who
hardly smelled powder in '98, marched
behind in natty khaki. Proud was he
who in a khaki suit could march among
the blues with a father upon his arm.
The little band files up to the flowerstrewn monument and the hoary chaplain faces his uncovered comrades in the
full, strong glow of the morning sun.

confronts with his granite face the soft

*~v

evening light of Memorial

Day or the

whirling snow on the northwestern wind
his hairs

grow no whiter

the bitter blast cannot fray

his

;

:

;

uniform

but his pro-

totype will soon be a thing of the past.

The sons in the khaki uniforms will in
dead salute over the
moss-covered graves beneath the cedar
their turn fire the

trees in the cemetery.
will

Then they, too.

be gathered to their fathers, and

other hands will perform the ceremonies
until

wars

and

fightings

shall

cease.

Then shall the children of that generation say, "What manner of men were
these,

v^

our sires?"

F. R. T., '06.

'

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Cnnilucted by

a Fellow of the Philadelphia College of
Physicians.

library has

lately

received

Barrett

Many substantial citizens of Delaware
County have urged President Sharpless
to become a candidate of the Lincoln
Party for nomination looking toward a
seat in the Lower House of the Penn-

Dr. James A. Babbitt has been elected

The

Dean

from

Miss Anna Morris, of Philadelphia, a
complete set (one hundred and fifty) of
the double-folio plates of Audubon's
"Quadrupeds of North America ;" also
a set of Xuttall's "Xorth American Syl-

sylvania

va."

cipal

Legislature.

If

successful

in

securing the nomination at the Media

convention of this party on
stand

will

election

for

May 10, he

on the regular

in

Xovember. His prinbecoming a candidate is

his

share in the attempt to

election day, next

motive

assume

to
in

break up the political ring in this county

the Electrical Laboratory have been en-

and thus better to secure purity in pol-

The

facilities

and scope of work

larged this spring by the addition of a

itics in this

communitv.

7I :; horse power, 200 volt, 3-phase, W'est-

inghouse induction motor and auto-starter.

The W'estinghouse representative in

the transaction was Mr. E. P. West,

"04.

By means of this and other new equipment, many important tests with alternating: currents mav now be made.
Professor Frederic

Palmer,

Jr.,

has

been granted leave of absence for next
year,

in

order to pursue his graduate

Philadelphia was the natural centre of
a very wide-spread interest in the Franklin

Bi-centennial celebration, which took

place during the week beginning April 16.

Prof. F. B. Gummere and Prof. E. \V.
Brown were prominently connected with

various features of die week's proceedings, while

many other members of the

Faculty attended some sessions.

Prof.

work in physics at Harvard University.

Gummere read a paper on "Repetition

Alpheus

Bowdoin College, and is a
candidate for the Harvard degree of
Ph. D. at the approaching commence-

and \'ariation in Poetic Structure." Prof.
Brown, with Sir George Darwin, was a
delegate for the Royal Society and he
also was the delegate for the Royal Astronomical Society for which he presented an address.
Sir George and Laily
Darwin were entertained for several days
at Prof. Brown's house, and while here
Lady Darwin planted an oak in front of

ment.

the gvninasium.

\\".

University of

Smith, a graduate of the
\\ est

\'irginia,

and

for

four years a graduate-student at Harvard, will have charge of the

Physics

Department during the absence of Prof.
Palmer.

^Ir.

Smith is now an instructor

in physics at

Oh, Maiden!
Voung and

fair

and sweetly cliarmin^

By thy countenance disarming.
Every tear of hurt and harming,
Every thought of earthly care;

May thy virtue shine forever
And may Time's hard trials never
Stain thy purity or ever
Dim thv matchless beautv rare!

;

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
Alumni Day
THEyearprogram
much
same
for

this

as that

the

is

adopted last year. The details have
not all been settled upon by the committee in charge and will be announced
by a circular letter, which will be
mailed the latter part of May. A special train will, if possible, be provided,
leaving Broad Street at lo.io A. M., and
arriving at Haverford in time for those
it to get in line for the Commencement Exercises. The afternoon
Cricket game this year will be between
two Alumni Elevens, instead of between the Alumni and the College
Eleven. The Captains of these teams
will be announced later. A number of
Alumni who considered themselves too

taking

unless a large number of
Alumni make a whole day of it. It is
believed that Haverfordians are coming more and more to regard Alumni
Day as a legal holiday, when their
place is at the College. During the past
years strong Alumni organizations

success

have been formed in neighboring cities,
and it is hoped that large delegations
will come on from Baltimore, New
York, etc., for the entire day.
It is
urged tliat each Class Secretary see to
it

that his Class

is

well represented in

the line which will be formed in front
of Founder's Hall at 10.55 A.

M.

//. S. Drinker,

igoo.

Chairman.

expert to play on the duffer team and

The fifth annual dinner of the Haver-

who did not get places on the Alumni

ford Association of New York was held

Eleven last year will thus be enabled

at

to play.

lows

The program will be as fol-

:

—Special train leaves Broad

lO.io

— Commencement Exercises
Roberts Hall.
12.15 — Presentation of Cricket prize
front of Founder's Hall.
12.30— Lunch on the campus.
2 — Cricket game, Cope Field, expert

in

II

in

(captains

to

— Duffer Cricket game, Walton
Field.
2.30— Alumni Baseball game, E. B.
and A. C. Maule,

'99,

No. 54 West
City, on

M. Twenty-five
The dinner was

Association, and a very keen interest in

Haverford and her future was manifest.
Abram S. Underbill was the guest of
the evening, and delighted his hearers
with his reasons for sending his son tq

Haverford.

Speeches were also made by James W.
Samuel Parsons, '61
'59

Walton Field.
Alumni Committee meeting in
5.30

Roberts Hall.
7 Supper on the campus.
Alumni oration, by Francis R.
8.15


1900, Roberts' Hall.
Cope,
9.15 — Undergraduates' concert and
Jr.,

illumination on the campus.
a thorough

;

James Wood, '58 J. Stuart Auchincloss,
'90 John Roberts, '93 Alfred Busselle,
;

;

;

and Walter C. Webster,

'94,

cap-

tains,

Alumni Day cannot be

1906, at 7 P.

6,

Cromwell,

2.30

'05,

April

members were present.

be an-

nounced later).

Hay,

Club,

New York

street.

the most enthusiastic ever held by the

Street for Haverford.

Alumni Elevens

the Republican

Fortieth

Officers

for the ensuing

elected as follows

Cromwell,
L.

;

were

President, James W.

vice

'59;

P. Collins, '92

:

'95.

year

president,

Minturn

secretary and treasurer,

H. Wood, '96.
was urged on behalf of the Associa-

It

tion that every llaverfordian resident in

or near New York, or knowing the name

and address of any llaverfordian so residing shoukl send the same to L. Hoi-

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN
lingsworth Wood, secretary of the Asso-

New York City.

ciation, No 2 Wall street,

Those present were James Wood, '58
James W. Cromwell, '59 Samuel Par'61
Haviland, '65
Arthur
sons,
:

;

;

;

Thomas Woodward, '66; E. D. Thurston,

'/i;

Smiley,

Daniel

'78;

Stephen

W. Collins, '83 J. Stuart Auchincloss,
'90; J. N. Du Barry, '90; Minturn Post
;

Collins, '92

F. F. Davis, '93

;

;

John Rob-

Alfred Busselle, '94; D. S.
Taber, '94; Walter C. Webster, '95; G.
Raymond Allen, '96; William K. Alsop,
'93;

erts,

•96; L. H. Wood, '96; Elliot Field, '97;
John Storey Jenks, Jr., '98; Frederick
'02
Swan, '98
J. Bernard Haviland,
;

;

Parke L. Woodward, '02;

S.

Marshall

Busselle.

NOTES
'80.

White,

Richard

of

Baltimore,

has recently returned from an extended
tour of Southern Europe and Egypt.

April

entitled

"A

Sculptor of the La-

bour, Constantin Meunier."

Edward Thomas sailed for Liv-

'97.

erpool in the steamship Merion, April 14,
'8J.

A. Morris Carey, of Baltimore,

made a brief call on April 16.

He had

not been at the College for a

number

for a five-months' stay, chiefly in

*98.

of years.
ried

John Cowgill Corbet, Jr. was instantly killed in alighting from a train
at Spring Garden Street Station, Philadelphia, on March 31.
Mr. Corbet had
been employed since graduation by the
Haines, Jones & Cadbury Company.
'88.

*92.

trated

Christian Brinton has an illusin

article

"The

Century" for

Eng-

land, in the Lake District.

to

Thomas Wistar, Jr., was marMiss Mary Beatrice Starin in

Germantown, on April 21. Among the
ushers were J. H. Haines, Dr. Samuel
Rhodes, S. R. Morgan, A. G. Scattergood, F. R. Strawbridge and M. M. Lee,
:

all

of '98.

Ex-'OO.

Lieutenant

Mallei

Prevost

Grayson Alurphy, U. S. A., was married
to Miss Maud Donaldson in Philadelphia
in Easter week.

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
ASSOCIATION FOOT BALL

in

On March 31 Haverford met and defeated

ing game.

This match was the second

of the intercollegiate series and

drew a

crowd to Walton Field in spite of the
weather.
Haverford was
very strong on defence and rather weak
on offence, while just the opposite was
threatening

I,

Harvard o.

star

who

Haverford
Philips

Lowry
C. Brown
Drinker
Pleasants

Godley
Reid
P.

true of Harvard.

goal,

Harvard's territory.

ford

the ball

Score— Haver-

Han-ard by the narrow margin

of I to o in a close but rather uninterest-

The

The game ended with

shots.

Harvard Games

of

game was

five

times

Philips,

stopped

at

difficult

W. Brown

Rossmaessler
Spaeth

Young

Positions

Harvard

Parker
Goal
Right full-back. .McLaiirin
Kidder
Left full-back
Bird
Right half-back
Centre

Squires

Left half-back.. Thackaray

Outside right
Inside right

Centre

Mayer
Gordon
Osborn

Inside left ..A. W. Reggio

Outside left ..A. N. Reggio

THE HAVERFORDIAN

66

The Cornell Trip

Amid the enthusiastic applause of sevand spurred on by

eral waiting engines,

high Valley Railroad, of the agony endured by the faithful ones while waiting
in

awful doubt for the tardy diners, and

the pithy comment of Manager Xauman

of the accommodating train which waited

and the delirious evolutions of Captain
Spike, the Haverford Soccerites left the
train-shed of the Reading Tenninal in

need be said.

good order, on the morning of April
6.
The trip to New York was uneventSeveral

ful.

over

trips

the

entire

Subway and L systems of New
York finally landed the company at
Morningside Heights.
Here they sepvarious

arated

to

lunch,

and

later

at

the

houses

"frat"

for

somewhat

reassembled

An

gymnasium.

endless

trolley ride followed, and the eleven were
at their last gasp when the Oval was fin-

reached.

ally

The

cheerful

news was

soon spread abroad that the suit case
containing the uniforms of "Art" and
"Smith" had been left on the vengeful
trolley.
While the rest of the team sat

15 minutes for those great men. nothing

ten

in

an

All troubles were forgot-

exclusive

sleeper,

inhabited

by none but the sacred team, and Ithaca

was reached

in

the early hours of the

Our hosts, who met

following morning.

us at the station, represented a variety
of nationalities, and

we

spent most of

the morning learning to pronounce their

names and viewing with them the beautiful campus and buildings of the UniThe game itself was exciting
versity.
from start to finish. The "Cosmopolitans" showed a good knowledge of soccer, and, with a little more team work
and training, would probably have won.
It is only fair to them to state that their
star full-back, Douglas, was injured very
early in the game and was thereafter

in stupefied silence (all except "Smith").

practically useless, although

Art desp>atched a mounted policeman in

continued playing.

pursuit of the elusive car, which was mir-

nellians

aculously caught and brought back

first

he pluckily

As it was, the Cor-

spite of its determined struggles. Of the
game little can be said which would not

had the lead at the end of the
The secby
i
to
O.
under
way
before
ond half was well
the complexion of the game changed.

border on the uncomplimentary.

The lucky "Ham" suddenly

playing in fairly good

strong wind, in the

style

in

After

against

half,

sent

in

a

a

long shot and, to the surprise of every-

and scor-

one, the ball rolled first through the legs

ing a goal through a beautiful shot by
"Smith," the team slumped miserably in

those of the Dutch full-back and finally

and failed to break the

past the hands of the Greek goal-keeper.

the second half
tie

first half,

which Coluinbia had created by a

score

shortly before

half

fault lay mainly with the

time.

The

forwards, who

of the Scotch half-back, then through

With the score a tie, Haverford worked
The "Ham" again
came to the rescue, and a second shot
hke fiends for victory.

had dozens of chances to score, but in-

slipped just inside the post, being

Not disheartened by tills unsatisfactory ending, however, the team left New York that even-

bled by the well-greased Achilles.

variably missed the net.

ing with the determination to beat Cor-

and clinch the championship anyOf the little misunderstanding
about the ferryboats, of Manager Nauman's crafty manipulation of the Lenell

way.

out any abatement in

tlieir

fumWith-

speed, the

Haverford forwards continued to bang
away at the goal, until "Smith" made
a third tally by a neat and well-executed
Time was called soon after, leavshot.
ing Haverford the victor by 3 goals to
I.

Too much praise cannot be given

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Captain Pleasants for his persistent stir-

son closed at the end of the last quarter.

ring up of the team and for the fine ex-

Bushnell,

ample he set by his own brilliant playing.
The result of the game left Haverford

next vear.

the champion, with a score of 7 points,
three games having been won, and one

67

'08,

was elected captain

for

On Wednesday evening, April 25, Professor

Le Baron R. Briggs, of Harvard

Special mention should be made

University, gave an extremely interesting

of the able management of Nauman, and

and instructive lecture on Dryden. This
the second annual lecture of the
is
Thomas Shipley Memorial Fund.

drawn.

of the unflagging hospitality of the Co-

The line-up

lumbia and Cornell men.

was as follows
Haverford

Cornell

Positions

Chrysseidy

Philips
Goal
C. T. Brown Left full-back

Vander Dose der Bye

Lowry

Right

...Douglas
Wilson
Reinecke

full-back

Rossmaessler. .Left half-back
Centre
Pleasants
Lawson
Right half-back
Drinker
.Dragoshinoff
Young
Left wing
Delcasse
Left inside
Spaeth
P. W. Brown Centre forward Van Byrnefeldt
Zerallos
Right inside
Smith
.

.

Reid

Referee— S. W.

.

McDonald
Right wing
Mifflin, Harvard.

Time of halves — 35 minutes.
Goals — Spaeth, 2; Smith, McDonald.

The annual spring reception to the college by the Y. AL C. A. took place on
Thursday evening, April 12, at 8 o'clock.
The speaker for the evening was Dr.
Comfort, who gave an interesting and
helpful talk on the place the association

should take in each man's life and actions.
Shortlidge,

'06,

the

president,

retiring

made way for the new presiding officer,
I.

J.

Dodge, '07, and the evening closed

with a reception, at which refreshments

were served.

The past year has been
we

productive of many good results and

The soccer season has been a successone although we did not win the club

ful

:

the

that

feel

Society

is

a

great

help

to the whole college body.

championship again, we have won something we value more.

The intercollegi-

ate cup presented to the league by

Cap-

tain Milnes, of the English Pilgrims, who

country

played

in

in the

trophy room

we

this

hope, for

last fall, will

this

be

next year and,

many to come.

Captain

Pleasants is to be congratulated on hav-

ing developed a team from practically
raw material, which none of the college

teams defeated.

Pleasants

The Sophomore
contest

Freshmen

for the Everett

speaking

Society medal

took place on Tuesday evening,

May i,

and was won by J. Carey Thomas, '08.
Drinker,
Those who took part were
'08; Troth, '08; Thomas, '08; Elkinton,
'08
Dodge, '09 Killen, '09 Loewen:

;

;

stein, '09

;

;

Phillips, '09.

entertained

the soccer team at the Hotel Colonnade,
at the close of the season, and, we believe,

Track

from all accounts that have reached us,
that the dinner

Following is the schedule for this season's track work:

ed captain for next year.

May 12.

was a great success in
every way. Rossmaessler, '07, was elect-

Meet, Wesleyan University at Middletown,
Intercollegiates

The gymnasium team, under the leadT. K. Brown, '06, made a very
The seacreditable showing this year.
ership of

at

Harvard,

May 25 and

26.

The Inter-class
1906.

sports were

— Results were as follows:

won by

THE HAVERFORDIAN

68

Shot-ptit— First, A. T. Lowry, '06; second,
Birdsall,

E. F. Jones, '07; third,
tance, 33 feet, II inches.

Dis-

'07.

220-yard hurdles— First, T. K. Brown,
second, Bushnell, '08; third, Myers,
Time, 29 minutes and 4 seconds.

'06:

Hah-mile run— First, E.

C

W.

Frank-

May 5, Alumni at Haverford.
May 8, next 15 at Haverford.
Saturday, May 12, Moorestown at MooresSaturday,

Miller, '06;

Time,

sec-

Philips, '06;

Height,

'08.

Tuesday,
town.

Thursday, May 17, Philadelphia at Wissahickon Heights.
Saturday, May 19, Germantown at Haverford.

'o5;

second, Birdsall. '07; third, Ramsey, '09. Dis-

23,

Harvard

at

Haver-

May 26,

Cornell at Ithaca.

Wednesday, May 30, Pennsylvania at Hav-

First, T. K. Brown, Jr., '06,
220- Yard Dash
and P. W. Brown, '07; second, W. Kennard,
'06, and J. P. Magill, '07.

Dash

Wednesday, May
ford.

Saturday,

tance, 102 feet, 10 inches.

— First, Brown, '06; second,

Magill, '07; third, Rossmaessler,

'07.

Discus Throw — First, Jones, '07; second,
Wood, '07; third, Lowry, '06. Distance, 99

erford.

Saturday, June

2,

All Scholastic at

Haver-

ford.

Saturday, June 9, Merion at Haverford.
Friday. June

15,

Alumni

vs.

Alumni.

SECOND ELEVEN.
Saturday, April

28,

Frankford

Haver-

at

ford.

feet 5 inches.

Race

at

ford.

Hammer throw— First, A. T. Lowry,

Relay

Frankford

April 28,

'09.

5 feet 4 inches.

100- Yard

that of the third is not here inserted.

Saturday,

Mott,

K.

ond, Gary, '06; third, Bushnell,

fol-

FIRST ELEVEN,

second, Reid, '06; third, R. Scott, '06.
II minutes 5 seconds.

High jump- First, J. D.

'09.

Manager Godley announces the

lowing schedulesfor the first and second
cricket teams.
Owing to lack of space

'07;

Tatnall,

second, Reid, '06; third, R. H.
Time, 2 minutes, 20.2 seconds.

Two-mile run— First,

Jr.,

Cricket

— First, 1907; second,

1908;

Saturday,
heim.

Tuesday,

third, 1909-

Run — First, Tunney, '06; sec-

Quarter-mile

ond, Kennard, '06; third, Warnock, '08. Time,
56 seconds.

Saturday,

May 5,

Germantown

at

Man-

May 8, 1st XI at Haverford.
May 12, Wissahickon at Haver-

ford.

Thursday,

May 17, Haddonfield at Haver-

ford.

120-Yard High Hurdles

— First, Brown, '06;

second, Rossmaessler, '07; third. Brown,

'08.

Time, 17 i-s seconds.

Broad Jump

Saturday,

— First, Brown, '06; second,

Jones, '07; third, Rossmaessler, '07.

Distance,

20 feet 8 inches.
Mile
ler,

'06; third,

Young, '06.

May 19, Philadelphia at Haver-

May 26, Glenside at Haverford.

Saturday, June 2, Linden at Camden.
Saturday, June 9, Gibbsboro at Gibbsboro.

CLASS GAMES.

Run— First, Tatnall, '07; second. Mil-

49 4-5 seconds.

Saturday,
ford.

Time, 4 minutes

April 24-25, 1908 vs. 1909.

May 1-2, 1906 vs. 1907.
May 14-15, winners play for championship.

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HAVERFORDIAN

Haverford College
Volume XXVIII, No. 4.

June, 1906

CONTENTS
Editorials

.....

The Prodigal

69
71

Educational Conditions in

New Mexico
Early History of Haverford School
The Year's Work in the Y.M.C.A.

The Vespers
Faculty Department.
.

78
81

Repercussus Horatii

82

72

Triolet

82

74

Alumni Departjient
College Department

77

.

83
84

:

DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

Association Football:

D. Philips, '06
F. D. Godley, '07
"08
J. Busbnell, 3rd,

Pre«ident
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

J.

C.

H. Rhoads, '93

Manager

ADVISORY BOARD

foot Ball:

W. Carson, '06

Gymnasium

Gummere, '07

S. J.

M. H. March, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08
E. W. Jones, '07

Captain

J.

M. H. March, '07

Other Members— R. J. Shortlidge, '06;

J.

D.

Philips, '06; T. K. Brown, Jr., '06; R. L. Cary,
'06; W. Haines, '07 ; H. Evans, '07; I. J.
'07.

LOGANIAN SOCIETY.

T. Fales, '06

A. N. Warner, '07
.F. G. Sheldon, '06
Assistant Manager.. .W. R. K.ossmaessIer, '07
T. K. Brown, Jr., '06
Captain

W. Carson, '06

President
Secretary

Dodge,

:

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager

P. W. Brown, '07
H. Plea-sants, Jr., '06

Assistant Manager

Captain

DEPARTMENTS
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

A. C. Dickson, '06
E. R. Tatnall, '07
S. G. Nauman, '06

President

Vice President

W. Carson, '06
R. J. Shortlidge, '06

President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

P. W.

Brown, '07

DEPARTMENTS

Track:

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager
Captain
Cricket

T. K. Brown, Jr., '06
P.

W. Brown, '07

A. K. Smiley, Jr., '06
E. R. Tatnall, '07
'06
J. D. Philips,

D. Philips, '06
A. E. Brown, 'o7
F. D. Godley, '07
B. Windle, '07

Chairman
Vice Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

J.

H. W. Doughten, Jr., '06

Captain

Civics:

President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

R. L. Cary, '06

President

Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

Dodge, '07

I. J.

D. C. Baldwin, '06

Debating:
President
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer

W. Carson, '06
M. H. March, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08

CLASSES.
1906:

'06
J. D. Philips,
M. H. March, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08
W. Shoemaker, '08

President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

R. J. Shortlidge, '06
A. N. Warner, '07
W. B. Windle, '07
S. G. Spaeth '05

1907:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

Tennis:
President
H. W. Doughten, Jr., '06
W. Rossmaessler, "07
Vice President
Secretary-Treasurer
C. J. Teller, '05

1908:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

Treasurer
Musical:
President

Manager
Assistant Manager

Leader

Y. M. C. A.
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

F. R. Taylor, '06
P. Elkington, 'oS

Scientific :

ASSOCIATIONS.
College:
President
Vice President
Secretary

H. Pleasants, '06
,

.W. Carson

W. K. Miller
J.

R. Scott
T. Fales

H. Evans
G. H. Wood
J.W. Nicholson, Jr.
K. J. Barr

G. K. Strode

W. R. Shoemaker
C. S. Scott
T. Troth

J.

1909:

I.

J.

Dodge, '07

H. Evans '07
W. H. Morris, '08
J.

P. Elkinton, '08

President

B. L.

Vice President
Secretary
Teasrurer

Dodge, Jr.

T. K. Lewis

R. L. M. Underbill
E. S. Shoemaker

An Interesting Fact
About our prescription work, is, that none but the best
and purest drugs are used

in filling

them.

Men with

the practical experience of years and who are graduates
of the best College of

do our dispensing.

Pharmacy in the United States,

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stationery or stamping

Wedding Invitations
Annocncements
,

Church. At Home and
Calling Cards.

We

mail

you

samples

upon request.

Flashlight Work a Specialty

The HosKins Store
908 Chestnut

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Special Rates to Students

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TENNIS

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The Session begins Wednesday, October 3, igo6, and
continues for eight months.
For the annual circular
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advanced standing, graduation, and full details of the

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in -wide selection.

course, address Dr. Egbert lycFevre. Dean, 26th Street

and

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N. B. Ask for Student rates.

A Sound Mind in a Sound Body
is

an achievement of which a man may be justly
This condition is brought about only

proud.

by the use of the right food.

We make a specialty of Canned Goods

in

gallon tins for institution needs.

Alfred
Importing

Lowry & Bro.

Grocers

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We are showing over 700 styles of goods this Spring—
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Haverford boys are especially invited to call.

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hing done in a first-class manner.
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Write for Estimates.

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Theatrical Outfitters,
Amateur Theatricals Furnished with

Spectacles

Stylish

Price

Glasses

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Removal Notice,

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We now occupy our new building.

Complete
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Town and
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rli

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Old Address.

1

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Manufacturers of
All kinds of Frames

Coal 2240 lbs to ton
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Ira Jacob Dodge,

1907,

Editor-in-Chikf.

DEPARTMENT EDITORS
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Thomas C. Desmond, 1908

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Vol. XXVIII.

Haverford, Pa., June,

No. 4

1906.

IT is with hesitation and diffidence

of this culmination of the college course.

our feelings at this commencement time.
We should rather not voice the complexity of emotions that fills
H.wM.mb.r.^g

here at Haverford than it does at insti-

that we attempt to put into words

Et this season.

The sev-

of Haverford

erance of undergraduate re-

Alumni

lations
class is

with the graduating

our predominating thought, and

we should prefer to leave our sentiments
to

feeling,

nevertheless

we could not

close the year without wishing bon

voy-

age to 1906.

Commencement means more
tutions where

us

to

men don caps and gowns

business

after

the

over,

and receive

of

examination

is

their

sheepskins

in

company with men they may never have
seen before.
The close associations at
Haverford make it an unusual event both
for those who go and those who stay behind. But this very association keeps it
from being anything more than the substitution of business or professional life

All

commencements are very much

for that of college, for the graduate steps

alike.

Classes graduate and leave col-

out into the ranks of the alumni

lege with mingled feelings of regret and
anticipation.

Other

them with a touch

classes

look after

the welfare of the college.

As the Senior Class steps into the fraHaverford graduates it may

of sentiment, then

up into their places, and affairs go
on pretty much as usual. And yet commencements are ever
new, because
the actors
are
always changing.
How we wish we could offer some new

ternity of

thought at this time, but, failing in that,

a

we can only look at the practical aspect

for the class of 1906.

step

who

are actively and materially interested in

well look back upon its course with satisfaction.

In scholarship, athletics and

college activities in general

tinguished
criterion

itself,

we

and

if

it

has dis-

past records be

anticipate great success

THE HAVERFORDIAN

70

Tllli spirit at Haverlord at present
ress.

is

prog-

that of healthy

noticeably

The new buildings and equipment

place as well suited to those from a

a

from this immedi-

distance as to those
ate vicinity.

should see that reason-

It

show the visible advance that is being

able care is exercised to render Sundays

and those who have
Conditions
Conducive to read the recent alumni adGrowth
dress by our President know
ini^umbers
^j^^
jj^^j toward which the
College is steadily progressing under his

as

rnade,

guidance.

Intellectual

gains

are

also

being achieved by the development of
the curriculum

;

the unwonted use of the

pleasant as possible

who

for those

from force of circumstance remain at
the College and there is a general sentiment that it is unseemly with our fair
dining hall that men should, on Saturdays and Sundays, be forced to compete
for sustenance under the Darwinian law
;

of the survival of the fittest.

And then,

library upon two occasions this year, by

again,

men who

made, so that students might be accom-

had been strangers there be-

should

it

see

fore, serves as

an index of the remarkable change wrought by simply varying

modated

a course hitherto manifestly safe and in-

cause of distance,

nocuous.

them to travel home.

But those who were fortunate enough
box"

that

provision

is

for a reasonable remuneration
during the vacations of the year, if, beis

it

unfeasible

for

certain that as Haverford grows
bound to have more students from

It is

to hear the informal "question

it

held during the recent reception to the

other States, and conditions should be

United Charities Association upon the
College campus must have been impressed by two facts, namely, first, that
we have much to be proud about here

made as favorable as possible for them

Haverford, and, second, and more
important, that people from a distance

at

knew very little about the institution.
The policy of Haverford is wisely conservative,

and a large college is not de-

sired, but a small college with a
list is

waiting

better off than a college which has

not its maximum number.
college

is

less

provincial

come,

to

when its

stu-

for,

as

it

certainly

is

while for a student to

worth

come to Haver-

ford from any distance,
it is

however great,

also of a certain value to the college

to have him come.

IT

is

at all

times interesting to read

contributions by alumni of exper-

ience and prominence, but to those who

expect to teach and

Then, too, a

dent body embraces representatives from
all

is

in

who are interested

educational work, the arti-

entitled
A Record of ^le
Achievement Conditions in

over the country.

"Educational

New Mexico"

will be of exceptional interest.

Just now, at the time of advancement,

And in dealing with his subject the au-

the time for alumni and undergradu-

thor has given a very clear idea of what

is

what they can to help in the
growth of the college. A committee is
quietly working along these lines, disseminating information about Haverford
but they need co-operation and encouragement especially from graduates who
ates to do

reside

in

other States.

And it is the

conditions
tnrv.
is

in

general are

in

the terri-

Hon. Hiram Hadley, the author,

superintendent of public

instruction

and one of the pioneer educators in New
Mexico. He graduated from Haverford
in 1856, and has devoted most of his
For twenty
life to educational work.

New Mex-

duty of the college, if it desires to pro-

years he has been located in

gress in the direction of numbers and

and is an authority ujion the subject
about which he has written.

widespread infitiencc, to make Haverford

ico,

——

THE HAVERFORDIAN

OXE

Barchiy

viding^ wall in

is

that

new di-

necessary

interviews,

would

shoulil be

made with

it

mitigate the careless usurpation of other
Careless

men's time, which, according

Usurpation

to

of other

^.j,;]^

People's Time

These do not include social calls and

the main arguments brought

to hear in favor of the

Upholders,

its

^j

now

pre-

WC SCOUtcd

f^^st

i

,

1

1

such an argument as lackmg

weight, but observation has led us to
believe that this

is

really a potent issue.

Even at college men have to devote some
time to study and reading, and during
the evening, while this needful but de-

pressing ordeal

is

being performed,

it

takes very little to subtract a half hour

of studying.

71

This time must either be

the other man's

even these
due regard for

but
a

time and,

not

during the accepted

The

fellowship

if

possible,

study

hours.

and good comradeship

that we have here are the strongest
arguments against the proposed wall,
hence we should hesitate about abusing
it,

so that it might serve as an argument

for the wall.

But, after all, the time that might be

saved per individual with the wall would
not be worth the fellowship and spirit
that would be lost.

Besides, a sentiment

made up later, or, as is usually the case,
not made up at all. And we all are too
prone needlessly to interrupt other men

along this line will do more than a wall

during their solid hours of study, upon

only preserve, but refine the sociability

the most trival and insignificant pretexts.

which college

to prevent this thoughtless waste of time,

and with the sentiment we should not

men essentially possess.

The Prodigal
Crowned with a crown of calm inscrutable.
Fate sits enthroned within the court of chance.
While I, Fate's fool, kneel at his feet and hold
The golden goblet given me of God,
Within whose crystal chalice Fate doth blend
Small gains of time and ruby wine of life.

— And like as thirst-mad
Ravish the desert pool

lips, insatiate.

— drain the draught.
I

And now it flows my veins a liquid fire!
— mad — mad! In pure, unchecked excess

I'm mad

Of madness crying out aloud; the cup
Collapses in my fevered hands! Once more
Unto my lips I press its lips Great God,
What foul and filthy dregs are these! That fire
From those veins vanishes I grow acold
The madness leaves mine eyes — I see but dim

This body draws together softly shrinks
Melts and is seen no more, and naught except
A gray damp mound of burnt-out ash, to tell

Where

lately

stood a lordly citadel.
/. T. T., 'oS.

EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS IN NEW MEXICO

HAVING been invited to prepare an
article

on

educational,

political

tized.

For 200 years, without opposi-

tion,

save from the tribes they sought

and economic conditions in New Mexico,
having special reference to the fitness of
New Mexico for Statehood, I decided to

other missionaries, these intrepid bearers

confine this article to a truthful exhibit

ing that time they gained almost abso-

of educational conditions, as I view them

lute and undisputed control of the minds

to convert, and without competition from

Dur-

of the Cross pursued their work.

after nearly twenty years of active con-

and the hearts of the

nection with the education of New Mex-

of what now constitutes New Mexico.

In

ico.

my treatment of this topic, I

shall not permit

myself to be influenced

by a consideration of what

my

efTect

statements may have in creating a senti-

ment favorable or unfavorable
fitness of the territory for

the

to

Statehood.

The origin and civilization of the peowho inhabited this region previous

ples

to the

coming of the Spaniard is one of

At that time this people believed that
education was chiefly the prerogative of

comparatively

small

number of their more favored young
men were sent to existing colleges, became well eduQated for the times, returned and became dominant factors in
all kinds of administration. But the mass

common people were illiterate.

of the

This was the people and these were
conditions that

the

New Mexico

A

Church.

the

the perplexing problems of the archaeologist.

entire population

United States

the

nating with the treaty of Westphalia in

became possessed of as a result of the
Mexican War. At the date of 1850 few
Americans were in New Mexico. Much
as I regret to say one word against the

1648, all central and western Europe was

paternalism of our great Government,

antagonism existing between the Church of Rome and
During this
the followers of Luther.

cannot be honest and say less than that

Coronado

entered

in

1540; Martin Luther died in 1546. During the succeeding hundred years, termi-

violently agitated by the

exceedingly turbulent period Spain re-

its
it

Government has ignored

National

the

duties to these wards of hers.
that they

t

were ignorant

;

Grant

the Govern-

mained loyal to the Mother Church.
In New Mexico during the same
period, with varying successes, the struggle for mastery between the Spaniard
and the native people was carried on,

ment until very lately has done nothing

with the general result of victory for the

and thirty-sixth sections of laml, and permits the proceeds from the leasing of
these to be used
foster
connnon
to

Spaniard.

It

was perfectly natural and

accord with

human

gress gave to

what she would naturally be entitled to

exijerience

that

come

schools.

and

senti-

anil

saturated

with the

feelings

ments that then prevailed in Spain. They
brought with them the zeal for the propagation of their religion that has ever
characterized the devoted Fathers of the
Roman Catholic Church. So zealous
were they that by 1617 eleven churches
had been built and 14,000 natives bap-

New Mexico, in lieu of

when she becomes a State, the sixtocuth

the early Spanish invaders should

in

In 1898 Con-

to correct this condition.

In this country of plateaus
mountains, frequently these sections

are without value.

Yet, by careful man-

agement, from

source the

schools

are

stantial aid.

the only

dered
its

this

common

beginning to

receive

So

know,

aid the

far as

I

sub-

this is

Govermnent has ren-

common scliool education during

more than half a century's possession.

;;

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN
If

the people arc

illiterate,

who

is

to

Maine? If tlie Government had shown
the same paternal interest in New Mexico that she has manifested toward the
Porto Rico, the cry of

Philippines and
"illiteracy"

wonld have ceased a quarter
She acquired by con-

of a century ago.
quest

a

people comparatively helpless,

them to struggle alone in
helplessness
and inexperience,
their
when every interest of patriotism and
humanity has demanded the reverse.

and has

left

Following the termination of the ^lexIn
ican War the Americans poured in.
1880 the A. T. & S. F. R. R. was built.
The newcomers brought with them the
education

firmly

own minds.

They

idea of free, popular

established in their

first

73

two have been developed into good

institutions

doing substantial work, and

the third has

done

well.

It

but fair

is

to sa\' that the second has received

Gov-

erment aid, as usually accorded to such
colleges in territories.
In 1893 two

Normal Schools and a Military Institute
were created and provided for. These
have all been developed into most creditable institutions and are doing as good
work as is done by similar schools any-

A school for the deaf has just

where.

been opened, and one for the blind will
be opened in September.
In

1891

Legislature revised the

the

existing inefficient school law.

made provision

vision

Board of Education

;

This re-

for a Territorial
created the office

met here the idea that education was a
function of the Church and belonged ex-

of Superintendent of Public Instruction

clusively to

series of text-books

it.

Soon several Protestant religious denominations began to plant their misThese did
sions and establish schools.
a great work,

them.

But

and much credit

these,

too,

failed

the masses, although they did

is

due

provided for the adoption of a uniform
increased the powand duties of County Superintendents
and made provisions by which
funds for the support of schools could
;

ers

;

be raised.

reach

The cause of the common school re-

much to

ceived a great impetus, and schools were

to

foster educational spirit.

established in

all

parts of the territory.

number, in addition to contending with
and overcoming the difficulties incident
to the making of homes among a practically foreign people, have been com-

Those of the towns and cities are sustained nine months annually, are well
graded, and people from the East who
patronize them pronounce them equal, or
superior, to what they have left behind.

pelled to plant the seed of popular edu-

The

The newcomers, comparatively few in

cation, attend to

nurse the

plant.

its

germination, and to
Public

sentiment

in

schools in

New Mexico, as

elsewhere, are not so

good as those of

rural

the cities, but every school district sus-

favor of free schools had to be created

tains

from limited individual resources means
had to be provided for sustaining them
legislation had to be secured and organ-

months, ai^d the average length of term

a

school

for

from three

to

six

of all the schools in the territory for the
past year was 114 days.

ization for administration effected.

I vi'ish space
permitted me to go more into details.

Under these adverse conditions, New
Mexico can show educational progress,

guage taught

which she feels much gratification.
In 1889, by act of the Legislature, the
University of Xew Mexico, the College
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and
the School of Mines were created. The

at

The English language is the legal lanin

No pro-

the schools.

vision is made for teaching the Spanish.

Our law requires that all teachers must
understand the English language.
Of
the 600 schools in the territory,
it

not improbable that

in a

I

think

very small

THE HAVERFORDIAN

74

number more Spanish than

Ensjlish

is

Educational

spirit

and enthusiasm

is

in

the atmosphere, and the native people

But this condition is ahnost exNearly
tinct, and will soon be unknown.
all the children and young people among
the natives understand and use the Eng-

have caught these and are clamoring for
more and better educational advantages.

Of course, a large por-

teaching I have not known more tracta-

taught.

lish

language.

and

tion of the old people, the fathers

my half a century of experience in

In

more faithful, or more efficient stu-

l.ile,

tongue, but many of these with gray hair

Neither have I ever known any
among American young men who, with

are picking up the English.

no greater opportunities, have attained

mothers,

hold on to their mother

still

Experience shows that the young man

dents.

more satisfactory success in life.

who has a knowledge of both Spanish
and English possesses the educational
qualifications of greatest immediate comAll the former distance
mercial value.
and apparent antagonism, the result of a
difference in nationality and religion, has
passed away, and harmony and cordial
co-operation

Briefly,

it

my conviction that New

is

Mexico, during the past fifteen years, has

known a greater and more satisfactory
than that exper-

educational progress

ienced in the same time by any other portion of the civilized world.

Hiram Hadlcy, 'j6.

educational affairs exist.

in

EARLY HISTORY OF HAVERFORD SCHOOL

THE

following extracts from the let-

one of the
most interested and helpful founders and
ters of Isaac Collins,

supporters of the institution

now called

Much will depend of this selection, and
I

hope we shall be favored to find a per-

who

son

possess

will

qualifications,

and

Ilavcrford College, have been furnished

and

by his son, Stephen G. Collins, of the

Society at large.

They explain the sort of

class of 1856.

school

they

desired

establish

to

and

some of the difficulties of its infancy.
Phila.,

I

mo. 3d. 1831.

Saml. Parsons.

Esteemed Friend

:

—The stockholders

of the "Central School" having adopted
a

constitution and elected their officers

will

all

who

enjoy the

is

the essential
well

confidence

known
of

the

The experiment is at last about being
whether the Society of Friends in
country are in favor of and will sup-

tried,

this

port

a

college

planned and conducted

as a sectarian institution.
the benefits

If

successful

resulting to our Religious

Society will be numerous and extensive,
and if unsuccessful I apprehend it would

and managers, and emi)owcred the latter

not be attempted again for manv vears.

to select and purchase a

Well knowing the deep interest thou
and how much will
depend upon the due administration of

farm for a site,

and to erect suitable buildings for the
institution, as well as to solicit subscrip-

tions to the full

amount

stock ($60,000), for

all

of the capital

which sub-com-

mittees have been ai)pointed, the next
most importrmt business will be to obtain
the consent of and elect a suitable Friend
to ])lace at the lu'ad nf

tlu'

institulinn.

feels in this project,

the

institution,

more

especially

for the

year or two, it has occurred to me
that there is no person in our Society
so
first

eminently and entirely qualified to discharge the important duties devolving
ii|"'ii

ilie

superintendent as thyself, and

THE HAVERFORDIAN
risht, and among the possibles, to

if it is

prevail on tlicc.

I

know

it would gratify

the stockholders, and in their opinion en-

of the capital stock and,

sure the

filling

in

establish

fine,

friends and

the confidence of

effect our object.

\\'e should be pleased
have
thy
opinion
of the persons I have
to
named, and of the probability of their

accepting our offers.

We are informed that Richard Mott is

its

of the Society at large, in

the success of the experiment.

/3

now very desirous of selling his mills
and farm and removing from Mamaro-

Considering the numerous and important relations thou now holds with

neck. and

the Yearly Meeting of New York, I con-

sequestered spot.

fess

do not

I

very sanguine that

feel

the proposition

now made would meet

thy acceptance, and indeed

I

fear that

it

does appear to us as if he

should no longer bury his talents in that

has

It

suggested

been

us that

to

Jos'h Bowne and wife might find it their
places to accept such a situation.

thy services and influence in the present

managers w-ould be will-

believe the

I

trying situation of that Yearly Meeting

ing to give $1000 or $1200 and find the

could not be dispensed with, yet

family everything except clothes.

I

felt

We have applications from

willing just to state the wishes of the

stockholders and friends of the Central

young men

School here.

teachers

Thy sincere friend,
Isaac Collhis.

several

of

the office

for

classicaf

one of them a son of George
Sherman, of Trenton, who is now at
Yale College, about 19 years of age, is
said to possess superior talents.

Phila.,

4 mo. 25, 1833.

*

5(:

My dear Friend — I feel inclined to
write

thee

difficulties

ford

a

few

lines

persons to

fill

in

obtaining

si:itable

the various offices of su-

:(!

4 mo.

it:

1st,

1836.

My dear Friend — As the examination

respecting the

the managers of the Haver-

School find

^

:J:

Phila.,

:

:

of the

students

at

Haverford

School

commences on 5th day next, I hope we
shall have the pleasure of thy company

matron and teachers all
our inquiries have as yet proved unavailing, and it really seems at times as if

and that thou will stop with us while at
our house when they leave the School,
on fourth day after the examination

we should utterly fail.
We had some hopes

closes.

perintendent,

that

William

Evans and

his wife would be willing
and find it their place to go and fill the
offices for superintendent and matron,
but upon mature reffection they have

it

probable that

mo.

17,

arid

to

1836.

P.

:

Cope

myself have addressed a joint letter

Humphrey Haviland soliciting him to

subscribe again to the stock of Haver-

finally declined.

Is

Phila., 5

My dear Friend —Thomas

we

could induce

William and Ann Willis, or Joseph Tal-

ford School.
letter

Will thou please hand the

to him,

he should be

if

in

New

York during

the

or Samuel

Meeting, or,

if

of

Joseph Talcot or some other friend who
mav reside in his neighborhood. If he

cott and wife, or Richard

Mott and wife,

Adams and wife, to accept
appointment? We think it is
quite time an engagement was made with
this

some persons, if the institution is to be
opened this fall and winter, and we must
continue to make offers to all whom our
friends mav consider suitable, until we

is

in

sitting

of the Yearly

not, send

it

to

him by

New York do have some conversa-

tion with him and urge him to give us a

he cannot conveniently
us money. The Legislature have

tract of land,
a;ive

if

THE HAVERFORDIAN

76

Association to increase

authorized the

the capital stock from

60 to 100,000
dollars, and we are very much in need
of more funds to raise the water from
Cobb's run to give the school and
grounds a full supply of excellent water.

We

should

erect

some

more.

Will any of our stockholders

Our friends here are generally pretty
well,

and from

accounts

last

All these require

Thy sincere

Isaac Collins.

money, and we now

We have 73 students entered, amply
pay

to

all

our

current

ex-

penses.

George Hamilton, of New Bedford,
and H. H. Holinshead, have subscribed
$1000 each to our funds very recently.
Still we require more and must have it.
Has J. S. Shotwell returned from
France and when are we to receive the
legacy of

M. Smith's of $500?

Sincerely

remain

I

Thy friend,
Isaac Collins.

riiila.,

6 mo. 21st, 1836.

My dear Friend: — Previous to your
Thomas P. Cope
and myself wrote a letter to Humphrey
late

friend,

apparatus

Phila.. 7

owe $10,000.
sufficient

were

With love to thee and thine I remain

buildings and increase our library and

and philosophical
and improve the lawn, etc.

all

well at the School.

additional

chemical

in

New York give us a lift?

Yearly Meeting

mo. 6th, 1836.

My dear Friend At the last annual
meeting of Haverford School Association a resolution was passed directing the
:

Managers to endeavor to obfrom all the stockholders a relinquishment of any dividend or interest
that might accrue to them (by the bye,
such a state of the funds of the Association will never probably occur) and
accordingly a form was prepared, bound
in a book, and most of the stockholders
here have already entered their names,
and all no doubt will. It was intimated
by S. Bettle and George \\ illiams at the
annual meeting that if this release was
effected the institution would receive
some legacies in due time and I conPioard of

tain

sider

both

jjledged

those

persons

as

to leave

funds by

will

virtually
to

the,

School ;'" not having heard from thee or

At the last meeting of the
managers this book was directed to be
sent to New York, and Samuel Parsons,
W. F. and L. F. Mott and others were

from II. Mavilaud since, we feel desirous

appointed to

of knowing whether our letter and the

city

Haviland, and sent with it to thy care a

copy

of

"History

the

of

Haverford

book were delivered or sent to H. H.
We need much more funds for some additional improx'cments at the School, and

institution.

stockholders

solicit

Mott, biu

'lis

of town, and

wealthy and

liberal

to attend to this business.

necessities.

t)nr

jniblished

and

will

l;ist

annu.'d

report

be sent to our

is

New

^'ork friends.

rounding the school we have subscribed

$2000 and

will

])robably

require

$500

if

so,

it

will fall ujion thee

Please turn over thy bundle of letters
and see if there are not several from me
that

To improve the lawn and gmunds sur-

the

repcjrted that they are out

are therefore looking around among our
friends to meet our

in

and State of New York to subscribe
to it.
The book has since been forwarded to New York to W. and L.

await an answer.

,\lTeeti()uately

1

remain

Thy friend,
Isaac Collins.

THE YEAR'S WORK IN THE Y. M. C A.
IN a review of an institution such as
the
ciation

it

To turn to a brief resume of the past

Young ^[en's Christian Asso-

year.

The

fasten to

while

the

very

is

difficult

to

tangilile facts by which to measure its
growth or increase. In the development
of stronger manliood toward wliich it

may say, "It has
done me good," but there is no way to
find the sum total of such good that may

enrollment

average

been

has

attendance

at

96,

the

Wednesday evening meetings has been
The Sunday evening attendance

41.

has averaged 24, partial explanation of

strives, the iiuHvidual

which

have been done throughout the collegiate

men absent from college over Sunday.
A few outside men have addressed these
meetings, but for the most part we have

body.
prise

Numbers oftentimes, in an enterthis, are misleading.
The

like

depth of purpose of the few

is

always

hati

is

found

student

in

the large

number of

Many

leaders.

of

these

meetings have been marked by a deeply
spiritual tone.

It

may be well to note

more vital than the lukewarmness of the
many, and nowhere is that more evident
than in the Young Men's Christian As-

the subjects of two that were most con-

sociation.

life,

It

has been a common remark at Hav-

spicuously

so.

One

conversion and

its

dealt

with

Paul's

application to daily

while the second was based on the
Student \'olunteer Convention at Nash-

meet enough opposition to become really

ville, to which we sent two delegates,
who seemed to have brought back some

erford that the Y.

M.

C. A. does not

The subject of the mis-

strong, that to join the Association

is

real inspiration.

the custom which

all

in

sionary spirit in daily life aroused hearty

a measure true.

But no one can deny
abundant opportunity

ber of fellows present at that meeting.

that there

is

still

adopt.

for real, live enthusiasm.

This

is

A man does

response on the part of the large num-

The Bible classes this year have been
This work is often

not always need the prospect of a track

largely attended.

meet to make him take proper exercise,
though this is an undeniable stimulus.

of an Association, though numbers here

The man who exercises diligently, sim-

are not so

ply out of respect for his physical na-

tion and study.

The average attendance

in these classes

has been 51, while the

ture, deserves, on the other hand, higher
praise.

And so in our spiritual life. To

keep a careful regard for the highest
things of life should be a pre-eminent
ambition in the heart of every individual,
even in the absence of any opposition.
The strength of any Christian work is
due to the sincere consecration of the
individual.

It

is

the

man-to-man

influ-

ence which will count in work of this
kind, and if there is one thing above an-

other on which

we would lay emphasis,

the fact that this personal influence

it

is

is

the one thing to bring men to an en-

thusiastic

support of things good and

things true.

taken as the register of the spiritual tone
significant

as daily applica-

enrollment has reached 88.

The attendance at mission study has
been much less than this, averaging 11.
\\'hat might be called the Home Missionary work of the Association has been

The work at
Coopertown is reported more prosperous
attended with success.
this

year than ever before, while the

Preston work has about maintained its
average. The leaders of this work have

emphasized the fact that the people of
Preston seem to need older men in the
leadership, and have asked that a general appeal be made to the college com-

munity to support

this

work.

Not the

THE HAVERFORDIAN

78

good we do ourselves as much as the
good we do others is what counts. Let

body, and over eighty of the one hun-

the next administration meet this need

been subscribed to date. The canvass for

Preston.

in

this

The Boys' Club, held in the old gymnasium
its

Merion Cottage, has stopped

at

dred dollars necessary for this work has

work for the year.

It

has been very

money continues until

this year,

and it

is

hoped

the
to

end of

make the

sum up to $125, in order to pay for the
deficiency of last year, which was made

Sixty

up by some friends in the community.
The alumni membership, begun three

dollars are in the treasury to continue

years ago, has reached 23, which number

the club next year.

is

successful,

with

an

enrollment

of

and an average attendance of 20.

The boy whom

the

45,

Association has

been supporting for some years in Ramallah, has graduated from the school
he was in and has taken up the profes-

In a financial

gradually increasing.

way

the Association

is

good condi-

in

tion, as the treasurer reports a balance

of $246.23.

Trusting

in

Him to whom we look

for our guidance and help, we pray for

sion of carpenter.

The Haverford School, at Hoshanga-

constantly growing success on the part

Young Men's Christian Associa-

bad, India, a trade school, attended by

of the

80 boys is still supported by the college

tion of Haverford.

R. J. Shortlidge.

THE VESPERS

ALONG a vague wood-path beside a

locks in the June breeze, and the murmur

boy was
His
surprising agility.

of the stream, now and then rising to a

clear, flashing stream, a

walking

with

dress was of deerskin, except for a curious

litle

red woolen cap and a coarse

jean shirt beneath the coat.

His outer

garments showed wonderful nicety of
fit and care in construction.
The beaded
moccasins would indicate that his journey was neither' far nor

difficult.

He

glided noiselessly along with a swift but
perfectly natural gait,

making no

at-

tempt at concealment, and whistling as
he

went the

air

of

the

"Te Deum

The sun flecked the floor
of the woods with numerous patches of
golden light, shining now and then upon
Laiidamus."

swish

and gurgle, and then a long,
smooth, green glide below a short waterfall.

The boy was happy

;

there could

be no doubt of that from his actions.

He followed the course of the stream,
going up the right bank by the vague
footpath, crossing and recrossing by the
red stones until he came to the
rude door of a log hut, built against the
large

steep side of a

hill.

Without knocking

he drew the deerskin thong and pushed
the door open.
Inside there were two

couches with rough sides, raised a few
inches above the floor and covered with

the face of the boy radiant with health

hemlock boughs and blankets. A cupboard of rough-hewn boards stood in one

and good spirits. The surroundings were

corner.

harmony with his youth, the fresh
and fallen
green moss on the rocks
trunks, the gentle swaying of the hem-

the logs the sun shone

in full

Through

the small

window

upon the

in

floor,'

around the beds with moccasins,
pouches, stray bits of leather, and a net
littered

THE HAVERFORDIAN
home manufacture. Upon the wall
hung skins and hides of difTerent aniof

79

Such negligence

and you must
your books as
Throughout the morning
is

sinful

spend an extra hour

at

mals, a couple of heavy douhle-barreled
flint-locks, three powder horns and as

penitence."

many leather bullet bags. The boy walked across the room under some dried

through large pages of Latin,
and frowning over Church history while

venison and skin stretchers hanging from

the sunshine

the ceiling to another door cut low in

stream laughed at

wooden wall, over which was a
rough woodeu cross. He cautiously open-

times

the

the boy

worked at his books, painfully

toiling

fell

aslant his page and the

him

At
him and

without.

the hermit would help

then hear him recite; then, again, he

ed it a crack, peeped in and quietly with-

would spend long periods upon his knees

drew

at the shrine, wrapped up in divine medi-

where
he sat down upon a log bench and dangled his feet. Finally from the interior
came a low, monotonous chant in a rich
masculine voice, that started the boy to
his feet again.
As it ceased he pushed
open the interior door, and entered a
low cave, lighted only by two candles on
each side of a shrine, above which stood
Before
an effigy of the Virgin Mary.
this, his hands crossed upon his breast,
and his eyes gazing, intently upon the
to the outside of the hut,

face of the

statue, knelt a figure in a

brown robe and

cowl, with a golden
hanging from the cord at his
waist.
The back of the small cave was
in darkness when the boy closed the
door and he remained motionless by the
rough earth walls in the obscurity. Ficrucifix

nally

the figure

at

shrine

the

relaxed,

tation

At one time he

and seclusion.

broke into audible prayer, earnestly beseeching that he be given strength to

meet a crisis on the morrow. "O, God I"
he continued, "do Thou help me to tell
this youth, when he shall attain his seventeenth year to-morrow, everything as
his father directed about his birth and
rank. And do Thou pardon the iniquity
of his parent against Thy anointed repre-

our holy King Charles."
While the good Father was thus engaged the boy would let his book slide
between his knees and look out of the
window, as much absorbed as was his
sentative,

teacher within the cave, until the herrecalled

mit's

return

"You

grow dilatory,

him

to his

task.

my son," the monk

remarked, as he entered upon such a

"To at-

crossed himself and turned toward the

scene as this for the third time.

boy.

and
knowledge
must
the history of the Holy Church one
take his mind off all carnal affairs of the
world and concentrate it upon the writings of the Holy Fathers only. Can you
now tell me what led up to the exconimunication of Henry IV of Navarre?"
And so the Father scolded the boy and
the book grew heavier every moment,
the sunshine was brighter and warmer
and the stream really sang as it flashed
wavering gleams through the cracks in
Again the Father withdrew
the door.
for his prayers, and the boy looked out
So
of the window until he returned.
the morning wore away, and one hour
tain the

"Why do you interrupt my orisons,
my son?" said he in a grave and measured tone.
before

I

"I thought you had ended
entered,

my

Father,"

replied

"You have been very slow,"
continued the Father. "What detained
you so long upon your way did you
the boy.

;

have difficulty?" " None, Father;

I

did

your errand and was returning, but the
birds sang so sweetly and the sunshine
was so bright that I lingered to enjoy
them."

"You did wrong, my son, to let

these material things interfere with the
spiritual,

and here have

matins, and vou only

I

finished

now

the

returned.

of the divinities

THE HAVERFORDIAN

8o

later than usual the hoy laid aside his
book and entered the cave for noonday

twittering of the day birds ceased, the

prayer in the light of the wax candles.

hawk greeted him, and a whip-poor-will
began to moan upon the opposite slope.
Once more he must return to the cabin.
With slow and loitering steps he crossed

After a simple meal the hermit with-

drew again

to

the

leaving the

shrine,

hov free for a time. Once outside ecclesiastical history and Church Fathers were

and the boy was again as
active as he had been in the early morning. He ran along the bank he stripjied
into
the
oflf his clothes and plunged
water he sang a hymn from pure deforgotten,

;

;

and then he lay flat upon a sunbaked rock in midstream and drew in
Somehow he
the congenial warmth.
light,

seemed

to

know

the

stream.

It

could

him and tell him of vast forests
source and great ships and
houses near its mouth. He loved it and
felt that he could trust it for it was a
part of his life, a close friend and comAnd then he would lie in the,
panion.
shade upon the grass and watch the
talk to

near

anxious cry of the wide-mouthed night-

the familiar threshold,

he

that he entered for the last time.

my

son,

had

my

"Oh,

"Come,

Vespers," said the hermit.
Father," broke out the boy,

to

"My son!"

"'tis so beautiful outside."

sternly began the holy

man.

It

was

enough, and together they entered the
shrine, the hermit kneeling before the
candles and the boy in the gloom of the

door.

Slowly the Father began the evening

its

service in clear, earnest tones,
totally

absorbed

becoming

in his religious revery.

whip-poor-will wailed out his note back
of the hut, above his very head, the bov

.A.

thought,

nesting of the birds until the time came

away.

once again to return to his book. The
afternoon dragged wearily and the monotonous variation from Latin to his

the

mother tongue made the boy drowsy.
Still the hermit continued the unending
succession of prayer and work, work and
chant, and the afternoon wore away.
The boy was finally summoned to help
prepare the evening meal. It was eaten
in silence, the Father wrapped in deep
meditation and the boy intent upon his
venison. Another hour of freedom took
the boy once more outside and he sat
upon the top of the hill and watched the
glorious, red sun set behind the mountains of hemlocks
and spruces. The

which

known for years, and little did he realize

and

Father droned

the boy

swung open

door and

slipped

Taking

flintlock,

cave

through.

the

still

Stealthily

a

noiselessly

powder

horn and bullet-bag, he left the hut like
a shadow.
fully

He paused a moment doubt-

upon the threshold

and looked
back into the room, and then at the great
full

far

moon,

rising over the

hill.

From

down the valley came the song of a

vesper-sparrow.

He hesitated no longer,

but drew from under his shirt a small gold
locket, attached
string,

and,

silently stole

it

to the deer-skin latch

shouldering

his

musket,

away down the valley by

the side of the rippling stream.
F. R. T., 06.

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Ciimluctcd by Dean Barrett

Professor

L.

V>.

Hall

will

probably

spend the summer in New England.

Gummere has taken

Professor F. B.

a cottat;e for the summer at

South Dart-

mouth, on Buzzard's Bay, Mass.
Professor W. W. Comfort and Secretary O.

M. Chase will remain at HavMr. W. H.

erford during the summer.

Rufus M. Jones will spend the summer working on the extensive history of
the development of Quakerism, of which

is

Harvard Commencement,

will

go to northern Indiana to camp for the
remainder of the summer.
Professor A. E. Hancock has taken
the house of one of the Harvard professors and expects to spend the summer in

Cambridge.
Professor D. C. Barrett

will

be

English

Summer

spend the latter part of the vacation
northern

New England.

Professor H.

S.

Pratt will be at the

Marine Biological Laboratory, at Cold
Spring Harbor, Long Island, for six
weeks, beginning July 2. Afterward he
will go to Casco Bay, Maine.
Professor A. C. Thomas sailed from
Philadelphia June 2 for Liverpool. He
expects to spend most of the summer in
Kendal, in the Lake District. He may
do some work in English History.
Professor W. P. Mustard and Mr. F.

Palmer,
vacation.

Jr., will

School

and

Dr. J. A. Babbitt expects to spend the
professional work.
in the

delphia to organize the Central Board of

Football Officials and to adjust schedules.

A general conference of officials

on interpretation of rules will be held
under his direction about September 25,
in New York.
President Sharpless expects to remain
the College until July 17, when he will
make a trip to England, on college busiat

His principal destination will be
Cambridge.
He will return on the

ness.

"Campania," leaving Liverpool on September I.

The Board of Managers has sold some
West
Philadelphia for the sum of $1 t6,ooo.
The proceeds will be placed in the general endowment fund.
The land sold is

sixteen acres of its land located in

on the Jacob P. Jones estate, of which
about sixty-five acres, equally valuable,
remain in the hands of the College.

go to Europe for the

The former will travel in Italy

He will return early

autumn to New York and Phila-

Unfortunately for Haverford, ProfesW. Brown has decided to sever

sor E.

and France and the latter will spend the

his connection with the College.

time

accepted

in

Zurich, studying in preparation

work next year at Harvard.
Mr. L. H. Rittenhouse will be engaged

for his

sity.

He will, however, remain at Havsummer of 1907. He

erford until the

for an engineering cyclopedia.
Later he will devote some time to the in-

came here in

articles

new power-plants and reworks in and about New York

lated
Citv.

of

He has

an appointment to a professorship of mathematics at Yale Univer-

during the early vacation in writing some

spection

give a

course of lectures.

in

Cambridge for a few weeks, and expects
in

now nearly half

In August he will attend an

summer at Chautauqua in scholastic and

Professor W. W. Baker, after attend-

to

personally writing, is

written.

Collins will also be here, except during

the rnonth of July.

ing the

The first volume, which he

he is editor.

1

891 and was a fellow of

Christ's College, Cambridge,
to

1895.

from 1889

He is a fellow of the Royal

Society of England

of the Royal Astronomical Socictv, and a rnember of the
;

THE HAVI'IRFORDIAN

82

American Mathematical, the American
He
Philosophical and other societies.
years
in
for
many
a
engaged
has been
moon,
motion
of
the
of
the
new theory
which

is

-now

nearly

completed.

Yale

be constructed from this theory.

American

Mathematical Society to be
New Haven during the first

University has undertaken to supply the

held

form and publish new tables of the moon's motion to

week of September,

assistance necessary to

Pro--

Brown will spend the summer at
Xorth Edgecomb, Me., and will probably attend the summer meeting of the
fessor

at

Repercusstjs Horatii
I

want no home of sordid wealth.

I

want no tow'r or marbled dome,

No nian.sion wish of gilded pride;
No echoing halls or portals wide.
me a home 'neatli the forest trees
Where the woodland vines are clinging;

Build

Here let me live, where the violets bloom.

And the wild wood-thrush is singing!

O the smell of the blossoms sweet on the air,
And the boughs that wave in the breeze;
The dancing ferns and the velvet moss,

And the cool, green shade of the trees!
Where, in every nook of woodland dell.

The May apple's shoots are springing;
Here let me live, where the violets bloom
And the wild wood-thrush is singing
!

Thine be the searching for wealth and power,
Thine be the cities of hate and strife;
Thine be the toil for the treasures of earth;
Thine the rewards of a barren life;
-But let tne live where the violets bloom.
And with Love the woods are ringing:
Where Love is the King that rules all hearts,
And the wild wood-thrush is singing
!

T. C. Z)., 'oS.

Triolet

Adorable

Dora—

Shitre ye've wan kiss for Barney!

Lass, give it— bcgorra,

Adorable Dora,

It's oft tlint

yc'vc swoic

I

Was fine at the lilarney!
Adorable Dora,
Shure ye've wan kiss for Barney?
-/. T. T., 'oS.

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
NOTES
•52.

William E.

May

Newhall died

'65.

Benjamin E.

Vail,

of Railway,

Judge of Union County, was appointed by Governor Stokes, of New
Jersey, a Judge of the Circuit Court.
X.

]..

'76.

H. Taylor has recently

F.

street.

re-

Philadelphia.

J.

Henry

Scatter-

was best man. Among the
ushers were Benjamin Cadbury, '92; W.
S. \'aux. '93
L. Hollingsworth Wood
and C. H. Howson, both of '96.
good.

2d, 1906, as die result of a fall.

'g6,

:

E. B. Taylor,

'00.

Jr.,

who has re-

cently been connected with the

Western

signed his position as second vice presi-

branches of the P. R. R.. has received a

dent of the Westinghouse Electric and

promotion and takes up his new work in
and about Pittsburg.

Manufacturing Company. But a short
time ago he returned from an extended
trip through JMexico.
He expects soon
to travel through Europe.
'85.

The engagement

is

announced

Robert Louis Simkin was marMargaret Lowcnhaupt on
^lay 1st. at Ossining. N. Y.
'03.

ried to Miss

of William F. Wickersham, principal of

\\'csttown

Boarding

School,

Miss

to

\\"inona Crew, of Friends' Select School.

Miss Crew is a sister of
Prof. Henry Crew, who was Professor
Philadelphia.

O. E. Duer.

'03-

is

connected

trict office in

San Francisco, fortunately

escaped injury during the recent earthquake.

Physics at Haverford from 1888 to

of

Ex-'89.
lii.s

ler.

Cornelias

Jansen

announces

engagement to Miss Christine Foss-

The engagement has been

partment of the \\'estinghouse Company, has recently been elected a junior

member of the American Society of Me-

of Lincoln, Nebraska.

'92.

Bernard Lester, of the Sales De-

*04.

1891.

an-

and an associate
American Listitute of

chanical

Engineers

member

of

the

nounced of William H. Nicholson, Jr.,
to Miss Kathcrine Leonard Lea, of Phil-

the

adelphia.

which he is an officer.

'92.

Electrical Engineers.

Walter M. Hart spent a few days

in Philadelphia

to

who

with the Westinghouse Company's dis-

during May on his

Cambridge. Mass.

vote the

way

He expects to de-

summer to study in the Har-

vard Library, before

returning to

h'm

Amber Club.

He is located at

Pittsburg.

Pa.,

of

'04.

E. P. West, who has been located

in the

Philadelphia office of the Westing-

left that company
work for the L. T. Edwards Engineering Company.

house Company, has
to

home in Berkeley, Cal., where he is instructor in English in the University of
California.
'96.

George H. Deuell died May 5th,

1906, of pneumonia.
'96.
Paul D. L Maier was married
on April 28th to Miss Anna M. Shinn,
at Friends' Meeting House, Twelfth

Alexander is with the
Jones & Laughlin Steel Works in Pittsburg, where he is connected with the
'05.

A.

E.

engineering department.

H. K. Stein is taking the apprentice course at the Westinghouse Company's works in Pittsburg.
'05.

:

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
The annual

exercises

of

the

i8, at
its

8 P. M.

The hall was packed to

utmost capacity, there being about a

The entertainment consisted of an original play, entiThe
tled "Woman and Superwoman."
"Mike Newcomb"
plot was as follows
and "George Mendel'' are to have a tea in
their rooms on the afternoon of a cricket
match with Cornell. A telegram arrives
thousand people present.

:

for George, saying that his aunt, who
to chaperone
until late.

the afTair,

will

is

not arrive

At this point "Jack Reade"

bursts into the room, dressed in the cos-

tume he is to wear to a mask ball. He
is captured and imprisoned and made to
take the part of George's aunt.

Cricket Chorus

Junior

Class were held in Roberts Hall, on May

The girls

C.

Birdsall,

— Edward C. Tatnall. Joseph

George

B.

Comfort. Walter L.

Ernest F. Jones, James P. Magill, T.
Cornell B. March, George H. Wood.
Cat Quartet— K. J. Barr, Paul W. Brown,
T'dui W. Nicholson, Jr., Edward C. Tatnall.
Croll,

POSTSCENH CURATORES.
Arthur E. Brown, William S. Eldridge.
Room of Mike and George at Col-

Scene:
lege.

Time:

Afternoon

of

cricket

game

with

Cornell.

Haines,
Hamilton
Committee Wilbur
chairman; Ira Jacob Dodge, Harold Evans,
Samuel James Gummere, Michael Henry
March, John Whitall Nicholson, Jr., Howard
Hey Shoemaker.

The quadrangle

of the campus was

strung with Japanese lanterns and there

arrive and Jack is in the midst of his
chaperoning when the real aunt appears.

after

Curtain.

near the sun-dial furnished music.

refreshments were served to the guests
the play, while a band stationed

The
gymnasium was tastefully decorated, the

The cast was as follows
Muriel Nelson, George's Aunt, the Woman

prevailing colors being green and white.

Emmett R. Tatnall
Jack Reade, the Super-Woman,
Samuel J. Gummere

tractive by the musical numbers, written

Rastus Washington, Janitor,

Jnhn W. Nicholson, Jr.
George Mendel, A Junior. George C. Craig
Mike Newcomb, George's roommate.
Michael H. March

Howard Newcomb, a Freshman, Mike's
Brother
Howard H. Shoemaker
Van Tuyl Livingston, Jack's roommate,
Ira J. Dodge

The play was rendered especially atby J. W. Nicholson, Jr.

The Alumni Oratorical Contest

for

Seniors and Juniors was held on Tues-

day evening,

May 22, in Roberts Hall.

The speakers and their subjects were as
follows:

Alex. Miller, a visitor from Cornell,

1.

A Roman Stoic.

Alexander N. Warner
"Buck" Herbert, a Junior... Wm. H. Haines
Buttons, Valet to Mike and George,

2.

The Torch Bearers,

3.

Modern Despotism,

4.

Walter Carson
Stephen A. Douglas Patriot,

Jose

Elliott

Padin

Harold Newcomb. Mike's Uncle and an
old lover of Muriel Nelson's,

5.

Francis D. Godley
Marian Baker, Jack's girl..W. lUitler Windle
Alice Smith
Wm. R. Rossmaesslcr
Molly liaird
Karl J. Barr
Eliza Johnson, a Washerwoman,

Paul

W. Brown

.

.Harold Evans

Bartram Richards

Warren Koons

Harold Evans
Betty Miller, Sister of Alex.,

.

Miller

The Golden Rule,

Donald Cornog Baldwin
The Strength of the Hills,
Ira Jacob Dodge
The contest was won by Harold

6.

Evans, '07.

:

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN

85

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

CRICKET— 1906

B.

M,

R.

W.

Pleasants

108

5

38

4

Godley

96

I

12

o

47
8

o

Whh an eleven considerably weakened
by the loss of C. C. Morris. R. L. Pearson and others who left last spring, the
season was opened on Saturday, April
28th, at

Brown

A. E.

2

Frankford, when the Country
First XI vs. Alwmni

Club won by 4 wickets and 3 runs. With
the exception of J. P. Magill and A. T.

Lowry, Haverford seemed unable to
master the bowling of the Frankford
team, particularly of W. S. Evans, who

On Saturday, May 5th, we again had
acknowledge defeat by Dr. Lester's

to

picked team of Alumni.

A glance at the

Hilles played a careful innings for the

however, and the names of our
opponents will show that the playing of
the undergraduates was not at all dis-

home team.

The score in detail

creditable.

HAVERFORD.

that

A. L.

obtained six wickets for 34 runs.

I— F. D. Gndley, c. Winter, b. Potts

— A. T. Lowry,

2

4— J. P. Magill,
S

Winter,

c.

— E. A. Edwards,

3

!.

o

Evans... 23

b.

Potts, b. Evans...

c.

w. Pacey

b.

— H. W. Doiighten,

Jr., b.

— S. Giimmere, Pacey, b. Evans....
—T. S. Evans, b. Evans

o

7— H. Evans, b. Evans
8—J. D. Philips, c. Potts, b. Evans

o

9

— H. Pleasants,
Pacey
10— C. Brown, not out
— A. E. Brown, Hilles, Pacey

7
12

Extras

7

6
7

c.

J.

6

Jr., b.

II

were scored

11

Total

96

them boundaries)

(five of

the

for

eleven

first

the features of the game.

were

The score

HAVERFORD COLLEGE.
I— F. D. Godley, b. Patton

10

2— A. T. Lowry, b. A. C. Wood

11

D. Philips, run out

16

4—J. P. Magill, b. A. C. Wood

4

3

5

J,

— E. A. Edwards,

c.

Sharp, b. Lester. ...

6— H. W .Doughten, Jr., c. Wood, b. Patton
7

b.

c.

o

Lester's batting and the fact

30 byes

3

25
2

Evans

score,

7

— C. T Brown, run out

2

— H. Evans, run out
9 — H. Pleasants,
and
10—
Gummere,
Sharp,
— A. E Brown, not out
8

3

Jr., c.

b.

Lester.... 29

c.

b.

Priestman

S. J.

M.

R.

78

6

36

I

W. S. Evans

90

34

6

Pacey
Heston

51

6
o

15

3

I— W. W.

6040

Foulkrod,

Jr.,

c.

.

Lowry,

b.

Pleasants
2
3

26

— W. S. Evans, Pleasants
— Pacey, Pleasants
b.

— A. L. Hilles, not out

6

— B. Saddington, not out
9— A. G. Singer, did not bat
10— C. H. Winter, did not bat
II

— C. B. Heston,

Jr.,

Extras

Total

.126

BOWLING ANALYSIS.
Priestman
Patton

.

.

30
8
I

R.

I

17

I

I

3i

2

48

o

15

2

78

3

30

2

HAVERFORD ALUMNI.
I— C. C. Morris, c. Magill, b. Pleasants. 5
2— H. H. Morris, c. Evans, b. Godley... 23
3— R. H. Patton, c. Godley, b. Pleasants. iS
4_A. C. Wood. c. C. T. Brown, b. A. E.
18
Brown

J.

A. Lester, retired

45

6— A. G. Scattergood, b. A. E. Brown...
7_S. W.
6

Mifflin,

c.

99

Edwards,

b.

A. E.

Doughten,

b.

A. E.

Brown

8— J. W. Sharp, c.
Total for six wickets

M.

Lester

5

did not bat

W.

B.

44
48

Wood
i

20
4—J. W. Potts, b. Godley
5— F. R. Hansen, st. C. Brown, b. Godley o

8

31

7

b.

7— R. W. Hilles, c. Magill, b. Pleasants.

Extras

W.

B.

Potts

FRANKFORD C. C

8
2

II

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

3

Brown

l

'7

'2

:

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN

86

— A. G. Priestnian,

9

b.

Pleasants

lo—J. H. Scattergood, not out
II

.

— A. L. Bailey, not out

Extras

— F. D. Godley,

o

I

9

2—J. P. Magill, c. Smith, b. Wood

15

i

3

11

3

4— H. W. Doughten, Jr., c. Richie, b. Ma-

c.

Smith, b. Marien

26

— E. A. Edwards, run out
rien

I5^

Total for 8 wickets

M.

i

— S. G. Spaeth, not out

W.

R.

Pleasants

96

i

59

3

Godley

36

o

33

i

54

i

— H. Evans,
w. Smith
— C. T. Brown, Wood, Smith
9—
Gummere,
Smith
10— H. Haines,
Smith
Roberts,
—A. E. Brown, Smith
b.

24
o

b.

o

Extras

6

Total

131

7
8

Brown

57

4

o

b.

1.

c.

S. J.

b.

c.

A. E.

48
o

6— H. Pleasants, Jr., b. Smith

BOWLING ANALYSIS.
B.

5

II

o

b.

First XI vs. Next XV

The second team in the annual match

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

defeated the first eleven in a close match

Cope Field, May 8th. Pleasants, with 50, made almost half the first

B.

M.

R.

W.

Smith
Marien

112

7

6

66

2

34
26

W.

30

I

29

o

o
o

9

I

22

o

played on

Next Fifteen.

God-

Wood

12

Guest

18

Score

ard.

:

First

XI,

102

;

Second

NEXT XV.

Godley
Godley

W. Kurtz, 2d, b.
J. W. Nicholson. Jr.,

1.

b.

Edwards, b. Godley
c. Godley
J.
C. K. Drinker, c. Evans, b. Godley
E. F. Bainbridge, c. A. E.
Brown,

4

— Smith,

5— W.

Lowry

o
4
b.

Brey, not out

3

o
18

A.

E.
21

b.

H.

Godley

Richie,

5
i

c.

C.

T.

Brown,

b.

5

3
16

o

10
1

11

b.

6— E. R. Richie, b. Godley
7— A. E. Marien, c. Magill, b. Godley
8— D. H. Roberts, b. Godley
9—J. S. Stokes, c. Magill, b. Godley

8

E. Wright, b. Pleasants
Myers, c. Philips, b. Brown
F. C. Bailey, b. Godley
J. C. Thomas, b. Godley

2

Edwards,

c.

Pleasants

i
i

B. Clement,

Pleasants

Brown

5

w. Pleasants...

b.

Richie,

3— A. C. Wood, Jr., c. Evans, b. Godley.

2

C. F. Scott, c.

1

W. Nicholson, Jr., run out

J.

— G. McAllister, not out

5

o

i

Extras

5

Total

64

14

First XI vs. Moorestown

This game, played at Moorestown, on
1

— E. Guest,

I

2— D. R.

S. G. Spaeth, c. Edwards, b. A. E. Brown 37
W. H. Haines, c. Doughten, b. Pleasants..
P. W. Brown, c. Philips, b. Godley
3

T. K. Sharpless, b.

2

MOORESTOWN FIELD CLUB.

XV, 117.

May

Richie

bowling was fully up to his stand-

careful 37 for the
ley's

Spaeth batted a

while

score,

eleven's

2th, resulted in a decisive victory

BOWLING ANALYSIS.
B.

M.

R.

W.

Pleasants

72

5

26

2

Godley

94

8

18

6

24

o

14

i

A. E.

Brown

for Haverford, notwithstanding the fact
that five wickets fell for "ducks." Smith,

cf Moorestown, secured six wickets for
34 runs, but Godley put his efforts in
the shade by obtaining the same number
for a total of 18.

Spaeth batted well,

hitting eight balls to the boundaries for
four,

'i'he

score

First XI vs. Philadelphia C.

C

Haverford defeated Philadelphia at
Wissahickon, May 17th, by the score of
itK) to 65.

Lowry and Pleasants made

the most runs, with 57 and 45 respectively to their credit.
The score

THE IIAVERFORDIAN
HAVERFORD.
F. D. Godloy,
J.

P. M.igill,

c.

ted a magnificent 55. and the howling of

Welsh
Norris, b. Welsh
Harris,

c.

8

Godley and

14

order.

b.

A. T. Lowry, c. Dixon, b. Norris
E. A. Edwards, b. Norris

57
2

H. W. Doughten, Jr., I. b. w. Norris
Spaeth, 1. b. w. Norris
C. T. Brown, c. Clark, b. Norris
H. Pleasants, Jr.. b. Woolley
J. D. Philips, c. Mason, b. Gray
H. Evans, c. Dixon, b. Norris

9

S. G.

o
45
o
11
i

Extras

13

160

H. Pleasants,

51

6

A. E. Brown,

Welsh

48

I

36

2

Extras

H. L. Clark

24

o

21

o

Gray
Woolley

36

o

15

i

36

2

15

I

5
3

Philips, b. Pleasants

10

H. Mason, c. Godley, b. A. E. Brown..
S. Welsh, b. Godley

J.

L. Gray, run out
Graham, b. Pleasants

Tripp,

b.

Middleton.. 16

w. Clark

o

b.

7

26

Green

o
t:

•155

5
i

H. Clark
F. .A. Greene
Middleton
P.

Mann

B.

M.

R.

W.

126

4

38

(5

94
66

2

41

I

I

57

4

18

o

13

o

19

C.

T.

b.

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

H. L. Clark, c. Magill, b. Pleasants

C.

c.

Jr.',
1.

w. Middleton

7

G. Woolley, c. Lowry, b. Pleasants

c.

53

Total

PHILADELPHIA C. C.
T. H. Dixon, c. Lowry, b. Godley

Smith,

Clark

H. Evans, c. Jordan, b. Middleton
J. D. Philips, not out

W.

S.

b.

1.

Brown,

R.

J.

b.

14

3

c.

Jordan,

c.

G. Spaeth,

M.

E. Norris,

Ger-

ton

B.

L.

high

Magill. b.

92

S.

a

155;

'3
Green
A. T. Lowry, c. and b. Clark
14
E. A. Edwards, c. Middleton, b. Clark...
o
H. W. Doughten, Jr., c. Jordan, b. MiddleP.

J.

C. T.

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

Haverford,

HAVERFORD COLLEGE.
F. D. Godley.

S,

Total

was of

Pleasants

Score:

mantown, 17.

o

A. E. Brown, not out

Norris

87

I

Brown,

b.

A.

Germantown C. C.

E.

Brown

2

M. Harris, not out

9

W. Logan, b. A.. E. Brown
Extras

o

II.

65

7

A. Greene,

F.
3

Total

N. Middleton, c A. E. Brown, b God-

Icy
ct

C. T.

Brown, b Pleas-

ants

o

T. C. Jordan, c C. T.

Brown, b Godley...

B.

M.

R.

W.

Pleasants

90

4

33

4

H. Clark, c S. G. Spaeth, b Godley. ...
L. E. Madeira, b Pleasants
W. B. Mann, b w Godley
A. W. Goodfellow, c and b Pleasants

Godley

54

i

lO

2

W.

33

o

10

3

P.

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

A. E.

Brown

Germantown C. C.
Considering the fact that Manheim
First XI vs.

had four teams playing Saturday, May
19th, and that only nine men turned up

1

B. Mellor, b

Lowry

;

the disparity in the scores.

Godley hat-

o
2

o
o
o
o

H. Tripp, b Pleasants
R. H. Spaeth, b Pleasants
A. B. Morton, not out
Extras

o
2

Total

17

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

on Cope Field to play Ha^erford, it is
not surprising that the College should
win but there is no apparent excuse for

3
3

H. Pleasants, Jr
F. D. Godley
A. T.

Lowry

B.

M. R. W.

36

3

9

5

30

i

7

4

2

o

c

I

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THE HAVERFORDIAN

88

TRACK
The results of the track meet between
Haverford and New York University
on Walton Field, May 4th, were as fol-

Results of meet with VVesleyan, at Middletown, Conn., May 12:

100-Yard Dash

—Won by McCormic, WesTime, 103-5

leyan; second, Kent, Wesleyan.

seconds.

lows

:

hurdles

i2C)-yard

ford; second, Sullivan, N. Y. U..

Run Won by Smith, Wesleyan;
Gray, Wesleyan. Time, 2 minutes,
14 seconds.
Half-mile

— First, Brown,

HaverTime, 16 1-5

second.

seconds.

Half-mile
second,

— First, Banderman, N. Y. U.;
Haverford.

Reid,

Time,

2

minutes

4 4-5 seconds.

onds.

erford.

Time 173-5 seconds.

— Won by Miller, Haverford;

second, Benson, Wesleyan.

Time, 10 minutes

23 seconds.

Two-mile

— First, Miller, Haverford; sec-

220-yard dash

220-Yard Dash Won by McCormic, Wessecond, Kent, Wesleyan.
Time, 24

leyan;

seconds.

ond. Smith, N. Y. U.

— First, Sullivan, N. Y. U.

second, Tonsor, N. Y. U.

Time, 234-5

sec-

One-Mile Run

— Won by Tatnall, Haver-

ford; second, Gray, Wesleyan.

Time, 4 min-

utes 44 4-5 seconds.

onds.

One

120-Yard Hurdles Won by T. K. Brown,
Haverford; second, J. Bushnell, Jr., Hav-

Jr.,

Two-Mile Run

dash First, Sullivan, N. Y. U.
second, Tonsor, N. Y. U. Time, 102-5 secloo-yard

mile

— First, Tatnall, Haverford; sec-

ond, Hyatt, N. Y. U.

Time, 4 minutes 49 35

seconds.

220-yard

220-Yard Hurdles
an;

second,

— Won by Kent, Wesley-

K.

T.

Brown,

Haverford.

Jr.,

Time, 26 3-5 seconds.
hurdles

— First, Brown,

Haver440-Yard Dash

ford; second, Johnston, N. Y. U.

Quarter-mile

— First, Craigin, N. Y. U.;

second, Tonsor, N. Y. U.

— Won by McCormic, Wes-

leyan; second, Moore,

Jr.,

Pole Vault— Won by A. T.

— Tie for

High jump

Bushiiell,
first

between J, Phil-

Haverford,

Jr.,

tied

Lowry and J.
at

9

feet

6

inches.

Haverford, and Wylie, N. Y. U. Height,

5 feet 6 inches.

Broad jump

Broad Jump

— First,

Brown,

second, Tippett, N. Y. U.

Haverford;

Distance, 20 feet

— Won by Kent, Wesleyan;

second, T. K. Brown,

Jr.,

Haverford.

Dis-

tance, 21 feet 2 inches.

7J4 inches.

Pole vault First,
Bushnell,
Haverford;
second, Lowry, Haverford. Height, 10 Icct
Vi-inch.

High Jump Won by Philips, Haverford;
second, Gatch, Wesleyan. Height, 5 feet sJ^
inches.

Shot Put

Putting shot— First, Schwartz, N. Y. U.;
second, Jones, Haverford. Distance, 36 feet.

Throwing hammer First, Lowry, HaverBrown, N. Y. U. Distance, 113

— Won by Dearborn, Wesleyan;

second, Jones, Haverford.

Distance, 39 feet

6 inches.

Hammer Throw — Won by Jones,

ford; second.

ford; second, Dearborn, Wesleyan.

feet 3 inches.

119 feet 9 inches

Total points— N. Y. U., 64; Haverford,
Bushnell, of Haverford, made a
lege record of 10 feet ^-inch in
vault.

Time,

Wesleyan.

55 seconds.

Time, 53 2-5 sec-

onds.

lips,

vs. Wcsleyan

Haverford

Haverford vs. N. Y. U.

new
the

56.

col-

pole

Discus Throw

Haver-

Distance,

— Won by Dearborn, Wesley-

an; second, Jones, Haverford.

Distance, 117

feet.

Score:

Wesleyan, 64; Haverford,

48.

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HAVERFORDIAN

Haverford College
Volume XXVIII, No. 5.

October.

1906

CONTENTS
Editorials

89

The Charles Roberts Autograph Collection

Alaska

Haverford College Athletic Association

loi

91

Faculty Department

104

93

In the Desert

104

Plans for a Haverford

105

The Mill Never Grinds Again With
the Water that is Past
96
The Ruins of Floresvivas
98

Alumni Department

105

College Department

107

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DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

ADVISORY BOARD

F. D. Godler. 't^
B. Oemenl, 'oft
M. H. C. Spcrs, '09
C. H. Rhoade*. Vs

President
Vice-President

J.

SecreUry
Treasurer

DEPARTMENTS
Foot Ball

Other Members— I. J. Dodge, '07; E. F.
Jones, '07; M. H. March, '07; J. H. Wood, '07;
Drinker, '08; J. P.
C. T. Brown, '08; C.
Elkinton, '08.

K

W. Brown, •07

Chairman

P.

Vice-ChairmaB

GL K. Strode,

Manage!

M. H. Marc*. '07

Aswtant Mmaga

C. K. Drinker, 'o»
E. T. Jones, '07

Captain

LOGANIAN SOCIETY

W. H. Haines, •07

Vice-Chairman

Manager
Assistant Manager

E. A. Edwards, '08
W. B. Rossmaessler, •07
W. R. Shoemaker, '08

Captain

DEPARTMENTS

N. W. Knftz,
Tatnall,
E.
W. Sargent, Jr^
E. C. TatnaB.

Scientific

Brow^

Debatinc:

R

Cricket

Captain

J.

P. Elkinton, 'cM

A. E.

College
President
Vice-President
Secretary

A. E. Brown, '07

M. H. March, '07

President

W. H. March, 'or

Vke-President

C.

CLASSES

R

W. S. Eldrid^
G. C. Craig

SecreUry

E, Wright
Bushnell, 3d
C. F. Scott

Treasurer

Gt W. Emlen, Jk

J.

1909:
President

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

A. E. Brown,' 07

M. C. A.

SecreUry
Treasurer
ipoS:
President
Vice-President

Tennis
President

G. H. Wood
E. F. Jones

President
Vice-President

T. K. Sharpless, •09

President and Manager... W.
Windle, '07
Assistant Manager
F. O. Musser, '08
Leader
J. W. Nicholson, Jr., '07

K Drinker, 'oi

M. H. C. Spiers, '09

1907.'

M. H. C. Spienh 'o»

Treas«rer
Musical:

Dodge, '07

D. C. Baldwin, '06

Secretary-Treasurer

E. R. TatnaB,
J. B. Clement,

W. R. Rossmaessler, '07
ASSOCIATIONS.

I. J.

Secretary-Treasurer

C

P. W. Brows, 'V
C. K. Onaik^T,

R L. Cary, '06

President

E> A. Exlwxnli.
J. W. Nicholson, Jr^
K. DrUeer, '08
F. D. Godky, •«7

Chairman
Vice-Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

Y.

W. Brown, '09

Vk*-Prcsident

Association Foot Ball

Captain

P.

E. F. Jpacs,

Captain

Chairman
Vice-Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

H. Evans, 'ot

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

Track:

Chairman
Vice-Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

Not elected
Not elected

Civics

Bushnell, 3d, '08

J.

y P-Magfll, '07

Ptesideot
ViccPresttlent
Secretary-Treasurer

Gymnasium
Chairman

H. Evans, 'oj
G. K. Strode, 'dt

President
Secretary

E. E.

Marck
Bard

G. S.

^

R. S. M. UnderhiS
J. C. Greea

1910:
Etodge. '07

President
'>nee-Pres»deat
Secretary

H. Evans, '07
W. H. Morriss, '08

Treasurer

J.

I.

J.

P. Elkinton, '08

President
Viee-PresidesC

SecreUry

Treuurer

.....,M.

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Frost

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FOOT BALL

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Vol. XXVIII

Haverford, Pa., October, 1906

No. 5

TT is with a marked degree of pleasure

mer, but no extensive alterations were

*

made.

that we resume our editorial pen af-

The fact that all the accommoda-

Naturally

tions for students are crowded to the limit

our chief interest about this time lies in

brings before us the fact that increased

ter the lapse of three months.

the prospects for the ensu-

dormitory room must soon be considered

We are glad to

with a new Science Building,
which at present is the crying need of
Haverford.
In greeting the new men in college, on
behalf of the undergraduate body, we
would say that we are glad they have decided to come to Haverford, and in their
growth into true Haverfordians we know

Incidental
to the

ing year.

Opening of

inform our graduate read-

College

that

ers

the

Freshman

Class is the largest in the history of the
college, and the total number of students
is

greater than ever before.

The number of Seniors is swelled by
eight new men, graduates of other colleges, who have come to take the Senior

along

that they will get a training that will

year at Haverford.

make them

As soon as the college year ended last
June, work was begun upon the new

decision theirs has been.

power plant. This is not yet finished, but
work is progressing rapidly upon it, and
when it is completed it will be thor-

be said to Freshmen that might aid them

oughly

ticular

adequate

demands upon

it

for

the

increasing

for

many

years

to

come.

The dormitories underwent the usual
improvement and repair during the sum-

realize

what an invaluable

There are many things that could well
in getting definite objects in college

in

life,

but

and

we refer them for their par-

problems to the Faculty and reupper classmen, who are always
glad to aid, in any manner, new men in
college. We can sum up our own sermon
in this general motto, "Don't drift." Get
liable

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about your course

definite ideas

in

col-

Desmond has gone to Harvard to study

We take this oc-

lege and in the very beginning get be-

technical

fore you definite objects and ideals as to

casion to invite all men in the three lower

your

physical,

social

intellectual,

and

classes,

chemistry.

desiring to do so, to enter the

competition

spiritual lives.

vacancy

the

for

on

the

Board.
vitally in-

The Editor-in-Chief may be consulted

terested in foot ball just at present

about requirements deciding election at

NATURALLY we are

all

new rules and in
As usual, Haverford

in the success of the

our own prospects.
will
Football

have a light team, and

any time.

LAST year,

assurance and speed must

For the Fun
of It

and

the year,

a winning team.

the Library was not open in the evening.

Eight of

we heard complaints because
Not only is it inconvenient

Merely

ing material among a few of last year's
scrub and the
will

mid-years

but all through

be relied upon to develop

the old team are back and there is promis-

dates

about

finals particularly,

new men, but the candi-

not approach in weight the

men whom the team has lost.
Coach Thorn

is

greatly missed from

su

to

about eight

realize

in

^^ evening that a book or

estion

reference needed the next
day is then securely locked in the Library,
which closed its doors at six o'clock, but

engaged

also the Library offers an excellent place

almost

to study quietly without interruption, and

impossible for him to get here for the

to study with all necessary books at hand.

the field practice, but as he
in business in

Philadelphia

is
it

is

work, and any time devoted to it during

No other place on the campus offers such

the day will be at great personal sacri-

a

His energy and spirit of leadership
are felt among the team, however, and
much benefit will be derived from the

study as the Library,

fice.

technical coaching he will give the

men

during the season.

He has adopted this very wise but unusual policy as the basis of foot ball here,

"To play the game for the fun
there is in it."
With this platform,
whether we win or lose our games this
season, we shall, here at Haverford, lift
the game to the level of a true sport.
that

is,

scholarly

atmosphere

conducive

to

—not even Barclay

Hall.

Perhaps the need is not urgent enough
warrant it being open during the
evenings throughout the year, but it certo

tainly

is

for the

mid-years and

month preceding the

finals.

And yet we are

and believe that the "Open
Library" would be appreciated and used
nay more, that we might look forward
to the day wiien its influence would be

optimistic

so potent that a

new species of student

might be developed here, which, eschew-

Board
THEnoimce
C.

of Editors regrets to an-

ing theatres, society and other ordinary

the withdrawal of Thomas
Desmond from college, and his con-

would spend their
academic ramblings among the books in Alumni Hall.

sequent

resignation

from

7'

the

Board.

collegiate

pursuits,

evenings

in

scholarly,

;

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world there are representatives from the

Clymer, Henry Laurens, Robert Morris,

earliest colonial times to the present, a

the Lees, and Livingstons,

famous

characteristic letter of the once

Lorenzo Dow being among them.

Of

and

in later

times, Abraham Lincoln, are represented

by letters of great historical value.

the European prelates are letters of Car-

In one of Clymer's letters the servant

Manning, Newman and

question is discussed at some length, and

dinals Antonelli,

in one of Henry Laurens' he writes wish-

Wiseman.
In literature the collection

is

many

most in-

ing to engage an English master, giv-

of

ing the branches to be taught and the

from Dryden
to Swinburne, prose writers from Francis Bacon to John Ruskin, novelists from

necessary requirements, quite interesting

Richardson to Sir Walter Besant, are all
America's poets, prose
represented.

Benjamin Franklin.

writers and novelists are well represented,

most entertaining letters are those of
Martha Washington, wanting her miniatures set on bracelets,
and Abigail

teresting,

containing

great value.

letters

British poets

and also many foreign writers of note.
Among the most interesting letters of
English poets are those of the Brownings, Robert Bums, Lord Byron, Cowper, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. Burns'
letter

is

from an educational standpoint.
Deane's

letter

the

extols

Adams,

referring to a friend suffering

with St. Anthony's fire, and Rachel Jackson, speaking of

New Orleans.

One more letter needs special mention,

ing with "I always remember Mrs. Ham-

that of the unfortunate

and Miss Kennedy in my poetic
prayers, but you both in prose and verse.

dre.

Major John AnThe specimen in this collection is

unusually fine and
It is

"May cauld ne'er catch you but a hap,
Nor Hunger, but in Plenty's lap
Amen!"

extremely valuable.

written in 1778, from Reading, to

Caleb Cope, in Lancaster.

Those interested in philosophy, science,

much profit in remany specimens repre-

or art will also find
ferring

to

the

The letter of John Keats, written to
Fanny Brown, is possibly his most pas-

senting these classes.

sionate love letter, and is the one referred

of

to

by Matthew Arnold in his Essay on
Sidney Smith's and Dean Swift's

Keats.

letters are conspicuous for interest among

the prose writers of English literature.

Letters of
fields

of

Of the President's wives, perhaps the

particularly characteristic, end-

ilton

Silas

character

interest

especial

in

other

are those of John Bright, Piron,

The result of Mr. Roberts' forty years
untiring

labor

passed by few

is

a

collection

sur-

any private collectors.
Haverford College is greatly enriched by
if

such a collection as it now possesses
through the kindness and generosity of
Mrs. Roberts.
So, in a spare hour, anyone may sure-

IV and
Mary II, of England William IV writ-

old letter which takes

ing to a Quaker, using the Friends' lan-

before the telegraph and telephone, be-

Racine,

William

Melancthon,

;

guage

;

and Mary

II,

writing

when a

ly find

something to interest him in some

fore steam traffic

him back to days

and automobiles,

—to

when the "express" was waiting

child to her mother.

times

American history such men as
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, Patrick Henry, Silas Deane, George

while he was writing the letter, and it
must go by that post or wait a week or

In

perhaps a month for the next conveyance.

;

THE CHARLES ROBERTS AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION
In 1903, Haverford College received
from Mrs. Charles Roberts the gift of
her husband's famous collection of autograph letters. Mr. Charles Roberts was
a graduate of the college and for thirtyyears a member of its Board of Man-

Convention, 1786; framers of the United

The letters are kept in a fireproof room especially built for them in

dents of the United States

agers.

States Constitution

Congress

;

members of the first

Generals of the Revolution

;

Washington's aides-de-camp

the

;

Brit-

ish and the French Generals in the Revo-

lution

Presidents

and Vice-Presi;

Cabinet offi-

Senators and Congressmen.

cers,

Roberts Hall.

the

;

In other fields the collection represents

Mr. Roberts made his collection between the years i860 and 1900, and his
aim was not merely to possess the letter,

English royalty from Henry \'^II to Vic-

but that the letter should be a characteristic one of its author, hence there are

ary Vvriters of all countries, theologians,

English statesmen and premiers from
William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, to Gladstone and the Marquis of Salisbury.
Prominent in this set are Edmund Burke,
Richard Cobden, John Bright, Benjamin
Disraeli,
William Gladstone, Warren
Hastings, Lord North, Sir Robert Peel,
William Pitt, Lord Palmerston and Sir
William Temple.
In French history nearly all the French

European

kings are represented, from Louis XI to

many letters of rare interest and value.
During the last year Mrs. Roberts had
thousand or about one-half the
whole number of these letters catalogued.
four

The collection, while especially strong in
American history, by no means confines
but includes

itself to that subject,

bishops,

clergymen,

royalty

and

artists,

liter-

excepting only Edward VI and
Mary the Catholic; the most prominent

toria,

ad-

Louis XVIII, and the most prominent

In American history the most valuable

French statesmen among them being the
Due de Sully, Colbert, Cardinal Mazarin,

statesmen,

generals,

mirals, etc.

collection

;

that of the signers of the

is

Declaration of Independence, there being
only

other

three

complete sets

in

impossible to obtain

;

men being almost

for instance, that of

Thomas Lynch, Jr., who was drowned
at sea

while still a very young man.

There are also complete sets of the
to the Albany Convention,
of the Stamp Act Conmembers
1754;
gress, 1765 members of the Congress ot
1774; the signers of the Articles of Confederation
all the members of the old
Continental Congress, and the Presidents
of Congress delegates to the Annapolis
Delegates

;

;

;

Besides the French and English there

the

country, the letters or even the signatures of some of these

Louis Philepeaux, Rumusat, Talleyrand

and Thiers.
is

a good representation of the sovereigns

and statesmen of the other European
among them Catherine II, of
Russia Charles V, of Germany Charles
XI and XII, of Sweden, Ferdinand and

countries,
;

;

Isabella, of

of

Spain

Prussia;

Sweden

Frederick the Great,

;

Gustavus

Adolphus,

of

John De
Witt, John of Austria, and Louis Kos;

Paul

I,

of Prussia

;

suth.

Clergymen of all creeds and countries
form a large and interesting part of the
collection.

In

the

American

religious

ALASKA
The conception of Alaska in the minds
from my own of a year ago, a very hazy

Juneau is through these inland waters,
which never feel the swell from the
Beautiful snow-capped mounocean.

The average person has heard of

tains, their sides densely wooded with fir,

of the general public is, I think, judging

one.

the Klondike gold mines, the seal fish-

spruce, and pine, shut in the passage on

and the rigors of the climate, but
that is about as far as his knowledge
goes. The Portland fair has done much

both sides for nearly
All the

to bring Alaska before the eyes of the

brown

eries,

people.

During the summer hundreds

very full of game, such as deer, black and

and goats, but especially
which there are thousands. It

bears,

deer, of

of persons took advantage of the reduced

is

excursion rates and made the trip. There

them through the forests.

are at present two important steamship
lines which run boats on a regular sched-

from

ule

Seattle

and

San Francisco;

these are the Pacific Coast and the Alas-

kan Steamship Companies.

Some of the

steamers carry only passengers and mail,

days

—for my

I

letters to

reach there from Alaska than it does now

from San Francisco, which is about six
These steamers make it just as
easy and almost as cheap to buy all
days.

of

fruits,

stocked with fish

and halibut.

such

as

cantaloups,

full

of

wild

—salmon, rock cod, bass

The very cold water makes

the flesh of the fish especially fine and

Hair seal are very plentiful, but are

firm.

a whale was in Alaska.

time

kinds

of the bays are

often took a shorter

it

five

Many

geese and ducks, and the waters are well

scarcely ever molested.

from home that

—about

almost impossible, however, to pursue

hear

while others take also freight.

whole length.

its

many dense Alaska forests are

My first sight of
We saw a great

many of them sporting together in the
different bays which we were surveying.
Mining copper and gold is the chief inThere was

dustry of southeast Alaska.

hardly a port at which

we stopped that

did not have its copper or gold mine. The

in

supply of copper on the large Prince of

Juneau as in Seattle. Many articles of
merchandise sell at the very same price.
I visited only southeast Alaska, going
as far north as Juneau, the capital, which
is about three hundred miles north of
Seattle.
The whole coast line is very
rugged and broken. It is just as if, at
some pre-historic time, great masses of
lava had flowed into the sea, and on coming into contact with the water had
cracked up into thousands upon thousands of small, jagged islands with many
deep and narrow ship passages between.
Except for a stretch of some twenty-five
miles, the whole voyage from Seattle to

Wales Island is apparently without limit.

peaches, oranges, plums, pears,

etc.,

You see signs of copper in almost every
stone

;

there are dozens of mines over the

island, but they are

still

stages of development.

in the

very first

To open a cop-

per mine requires very expensive machinery, so that only very wealthy per-

sons or corporations can afford the initial
outlay.

Two large mines which we vis-

ited had already spent over $400,000 each

for bis: smelters, modern mining machinery, tunneling, etc., and only one of them

was just then beginning to receive any
returns.
The two most common kinds
of ore are the glittering yellow copper

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94

sulphide and the beautiful green copper
sulphate, which, before being exposed to

the weather, looks just like green bottle

The top of Copper ]\Iountain, the

glass.

most of the canneries, maintains several
hatcheries of its own.
That at Loring
hatched during the summer over
000 eggs.

1,000,-

peak (about 4,000 feet), on
Prince of Wales Island, is composed al-

dustry, but no lumber

most

entirely

taken out of Alaska. The whole of Prince

New

claims

highest

of

this

green

sulphate.

Lumbering

is

quite an important inis

allowed to be

being registered

and

staked out every year, but there are

still

ment forest reserve, and no timber can

There are also many
gold mines, but few of them have begun
operations.
The Treadwell mine, near
Juneau, is, however, an exception. It is
about the largest gold mine in the world
last year it cleaned up over $2,000,000
worth. It contains a very low grade ore,
but the owners have installed the most
modern machinery and are able to make
the mine pay enormously. At present, in
this part of Alaska, there is no placer
mining done.

be cut for any purpose whatever, except

are

a great many left.

Next

to

mining, the most important

of Wales Island has been made a govern-

by special permission from Washington.
This has very much retarded the growth
of mining, but will preserve for all time
the deer and other wild game, as these
forests are almost impenetrable

for the

white man.

The very rough and mountainous nature of the country in southeast Alaska
will, I think,

prevent any very extensive

agriculture.

Garden truck, however,

is

grown very successfully. The long hours
of sunshine in the summer months make

industry is the canning and the salting of

such products as potatoes, turnips, rad-

There is hardly a town which
does not have its cannery or its saltery.
The largest cannery is at Loring. Every
summer during the two or three months
of the open season it puts up 80,000 cases,
It emfour dozen cans to each case.
ploys about 135 men, mostly Chinese
from San Francisco, a few Japanese and
some Indians. Most of the canneries use
only modern up-to-date machinery, which
shows many very ingenious inventions
for cleaning, cutting up, washing, and
canning the fish. The whole process is as

ishes, lettuce, cabbage, peas, and all kinds

salmon.

clean as

is

possible to make

fish enters the cutter,

it;

after the

only the steel

gers of the machines touch

it,

fin-

while a

strong jet of cold water, brought from
some nearby mountain stream, plays on
The mountain
it and washes it clean.
stream as a rule also runs all the machinery.
There are several government

of

berries

mature

very

quickly.

In

Juneau, on the longest day, the sun rises

about 2.50 A. M. and sets about 9.10
P. M.
The salmon berry, much like a
very large raspberry, grows wild every-

The straw-

where in great abundance.
berry also grows wild, but

is

not nearly

so widely distributed. Wild flowers, such
as

lilies,

columbine,

blue

asters,

bells,

and a host of others, whose names I did
not know, grow in wonderful profusion
wherever there is an open space in the
forest.
On all the mountain tops above
the timber line they cover the ground
with a most beautiful carpet of many
colors.
In most of the important towns,
such as Ketchikau, Loring, Wrangell,
Juneau and Sitka, the Indians maintain
very attractive flower gardens.

however,

mostly

imported

In these,

flowers

are

hatcheries to keep the rivers stocked with

grown.

young salmon.

In all the towns we visited, except
Juneau, the Indians furnished the bulk

In addition to these, the

Alaska Packers' Association, which owns

THE HAVERFORDIAN

95

They Hve mostly in

The animals most frequently seen are the

These are gen-

bear, the seal, the beaver, the whale, the

by
the smoke from which escapes into the
room, as only a very few houses have

grampus, the eagle, etc. Now that the
Indians have come in contact with the
white man, they often erect plain marble
shafts. In one place I saw, waving over

of the population.

two-story frame houses.

an old cast-iron stove,

erally heated

The interior of the average
Indian house contains many evil smells.

chimneys.

the grave of quite a prominent chief, who

As quite the natural

had just been buried, a large, brand new
American flag. Evidently he considered
As is common with
it a powerful totem.
most of the Indian graves, this chief had

consequence these Indians suffer a great

built over his a pretty little grave house,

deal from skin diseases. There are several notable exceptions, however, the

while scattered around

All

the

waste

from

the

cooking,

old

bones, and even sometimes the ofFal of

slaughtered animals

is

the floor and decay.

allowed to lie on

most striking of these being the Metlakahtla Indians.

The men are fine, strong,

handsome people, and the women and little children are really very pretty. These
Indians, through
ter,

the aid of their minis-

a Mr. Duncan, with whom they emi-

grated from British Columbia to their
present

have

location,

become

highly

It is said they never smoke,
swear or drink. There are some si.x or
seven hundred of them, and they have a
fine church, a school, gymnasium, fire
and water departments, and own and

civilized.

it

and nailed to

its sides were many of his personal beOne of our men got from a
longings.

grave totem, in a deserted Indian village,
what had been, before the weather rusted

good Winchester rifle. The totem
poles which the Indians erect in front of
their houses are generally more elaborate
it,

a

than the grave totems.

They are often

30 feet or more in height and about 2
feet in diameter at the base. These poles
tell

the history of the

man and his family.

At the top of the

are supposed to

pole is his distinguishing totem, a beaver,
bear, eagle, or some other animal, and be-

for study in connection with the Alas-

low is a long series of elaborate carvings,
showing the family's lineage, often tracing it all the way back to the Raven,

totem poles which

which, according to the Indian legend,

operate a large cannery.

One of the most interesting subjects
kan Indians

is

the

The Indians

they erect in front of their houses and

was the origin of all life.

The grave totem is
generally a very grotesque carved wood
representation of some animal, which is

often carve out of black stone miniature

the distinguishing totem of the family or

house.

over their graves.

tribe

;

every family

is,

or at least was,

supposed to have its own peculiar totem.

totem poles from eight to thirty inches
in

height.

These are kept

inside

the

They can be bought, but are quite

expensive, the regular market price be-

ing one dollar an inch.

Arthur CrozvcU, 'of.

'THE MILL NEVER GRINDS AGAIN WITH THE WATER

THAT IS PAST"
The old cotton mill along Cobb's Creek

He had noticed my presence with a turn

is a most facinating place, on account of

of the head, and then had sunk back into

unusual surroundings.

its

The row

of

houses, evidently built for the use of the
mill hands, the corner stone

by the old

William Penn mile stone, the Catholic
Church and Friends' Meeting House
all give evidence of a former bustling
activity that had long ceased to exist before the scream of the modem trolley
whistle echoed in and out of the sashless
windows. In the rear of the building is
the old wheel house. A luxurious growth
of grass and weeds clings desperately to
the soil of the rotting shingles, destroy-

ing by its own weight the foothold upon

which its life depends. The remains of
old wheel have long ago crashed
through the rotten wood work, and lie,
a twisted mass of oak and iron, in the
swampy pit below, from which a tiny

the

stream trickles out into the old tail-race

and

is

lost

among

the tussocks.

water arch has caved in

;

The

the plaster

longer holds the stones together, and

no
it

seems only a question of time till the
whole structure will crash down into the
black silt and mud.

his

reverie,

interest of

completely absorbed by the

own dreamy intentness.

his

He was a well-dressed and intelligentlooking

man

seventy-five or

of

eighty

and heavy eyelashes
upon his deeply wrinkled face. His forehead was so furrowed that at first sight
he seemed to be a misanthrope of the

years, with a beard

darkest kind, but the

little

circular lines

from his nose to the corners of the mouth
made such an idea impossible. His face
was now at rest and had that far-away,
dreamy look of one whose thoughts are
back in the past or else void of sensibility.
I had only read a few pages when I
realized, more by instinct than by actual
sight, that he was looking at me, and
by force of habit I raised my eyes and
met his squarely fixed upon my face. My
susceptibility to embarrassment immediately overthrew me and I returned to
my book rather confused.
His calm
glance had such a mixture of pathos and
firmness that I compelled my eyes to stay

upon the book, although I knew he was
looking at me.

go to this place to read

"Do you know the history of this mill,

and muse or dream, as the fancy strikes
me, listening to the trickle of the water or
the songs of the birds, and surrounded by
that damp and musty smell of stonework

young man?" said he, breaking the silence
that was beginning to make me desperate

in the hot sunshine.

a cotton

One afternoon, as I came around the
corner, I saw an old man sitting in a
dilapidated window sill looking down into
the pit. I sat down a little beyond him

other facts as

and opened my book, but did not read
until I had looked him over carefully.

looking at him and waiting for his ne.xt

I

frequently

under his stare.
I

replied that

building

inill

I

knew only that it was

long out of use, and such

itself.

I

could pick up from the

My answer seemed to

satisfy him, for he

thought about

it

si-

lently for a time, while I sat expectantly

venture.

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"\\'ell, I

could tell you a lot about it,"

was superintendent
here when the old place was doing its
best.
I lived in that house yonder where
you see those chickens. It was a good
home, but that's all past now, thirty-eight
long years ago, and I haven't been here
since," and he relapsed into silence, while
I began to read again, thinking his communicative mood was ended.
I had almost forgotten him, when he
interrupted me again. "Do you live near
here?" "A half-mile up the pike, at the
he began again.

"I

corner of the road," I replied.

"Why, is

your name Roberts?" he asked with re-

newed interest,
bility

half eager at the possi-

of meeting with a familiar name.

"Yes, Roberts," I answered, "Cecil Rob"Cecil Roberts," he mused, "you
must be named for your grandfather;"
and without waiting for a reply, he rattled on in a half-childish way, "I used to
know Cecil Roberts he was one of the
best farmers in this locality. His father
sat head of the meeting up here on the
hill.
I was a Friend, too, in those days,
though I don't look much like it now."
This remembrance of my grandfather interested me, and I asked him more parerts."

;

ticularly about him, for

my own father

blessing,

97

my boy," he said in the kindest

of tones, "in having no father to direct
you, and yet," he added in a lower tone

and as if to himself, "some fathers might
be happy to die when their sons are

young." I did not understand what he
meant, but a silence ensued that was only
broken by the old man's farewell as he
walked off with a feeble step, leaning
heavily upon a stout cane.

That evening my mother told me what
she had known of him through my
father. He had risen rapidly in the millwork as a young man, and at 21 he had
married and settled in the little stone
house. My mother believed that his son
and my father had been exceedingly good
friends during their boyhood and part
little

of their college course.

In the last years

young Reynolds (for such was the old
man's name) had been spoiled by his
father's money and lack of training. He
had gone from bad to worse, until my
father, to his great sorrow, had parted
with him forever. My mother knew little
more than this about the young man, for
my father had been extremely reticent

about it all his life, but she believed the

son disappeared

heard from since.

and had never been
The blow killed the

had died when I was a baby, and I knew
very few of those anecdotes that fathers

boy's mother and broke his father's spirit

delight to tell their sons about their an-

position and went west.

cestors.

knew nothing.

The old man had secured a pleasant

to so great an extent that he gave up his

Needless to say,

Beyond that she
haunted the mill

I

topic, and his moodiness fast disappeared

pretty steadily for a while in hopes of

as he brought back to mind those days of

seeing him again, and

his youth.

"My father lived on the ad-

joining farm, and your grandfather and

grew up together. We attended the
new school together over there across
the fields when it was opened, in '33."

my patience was

rewarded in about a week. As I came up
to him he was standing on the other side

I

of the building, but looking down at the

And so he rambled on until he came to

and said, "You seem to be fond of this old
place." "I am," I replied, "it's so quiet,
and then I used to play around here so

my father. "Your father was a fine
young fellow and a good farmer. I've
often seen him here at the mill when he
was a boy. You certainly lose a great

wheel pit as before.

He recognized me,

much that I feel as if I knew it like a
person."

"Your

father

played

in

the

same with my son when they were chil-

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98

"Were my father

dren," he continued.

and your son very intimate?" I asked, to
"Yes, as

keep the conversation going.

loving as brothers until after they were

through college

;

they saw very

each other after that."
be cruel to go further,
again, and the old

I

little

of

knew it would
so I was quiet

man resumed his de-

Not having opened
my book, I stood by him in silence. "You
are very much like your father was at
your age, and I hope you are as steady,"
he began again, "but any boy must miss a
father's care," and he sighed as if he had
spondent expression.

He

experienced the truth of his words.

started to leave the banl< of the old tail-

upon

which

we were

"Would to God that my own dear

eyes.

son were your age again, and
start him right

able to

I

but the mill never grinds

;

again with the water that is past," and so

he walked feebly away by the side of the
building

old

thin,

his

;

white hair and

wrinkled face lit up intermittently by the
red

light

of

the

setting

shining

sun,

through the empty windows of the building that had seen the best years of his
activity.

He

passed up the road and by the

meeting-house,

and

saw him

never

I

again, but his last sentence remained infixed

delibly

my mind,

in

nor have

I

ever heard a sadder e.xpression of lost

standing.

opportunity than the old man's as he

my young friend, my son,"
His voice
said he, as he held my hand.

bade me good-bye on that beautiful summer evening, "The mill never grinds

was

again with the water that is past."

race

"Good-bye,
thick,

and he did not attempt

to

conceal the tears that were starting to his

F. R. T., '06.

THE RUINS OF FLORESVIVAS
The sunset had been glorious.

Upon

a

background of pale

countless gold-fringed clouds

lay

the imposing chimera.

amber
scat-

tered, forming a huge archipelago, whose

ample bays and sharp capes accentuated

And later, more

frowning clouds rose from the
southwest and commenced to race madly
toward the east, expanding and concentrating their masses so that they formed
dark,

the wild irregularity of its contours. Be-

innumerable fantastic objects.

low, the Caribbean, calm and unrippled

their

except by the occasional plunge of some
fleeting gull, completed the duet of smil-

saturated

with

Later the

full

ing sky and calm sea so common in the

eastern hills and

But with the approach of night
the golden fringes faded and the sharp
A tremendous
outlines were blurred.
black cloud, shaped like a dragon's paw,
emerged from below the horizon and

a

tropics.

spread

itself

slowly

over

archipelago, hiding under

the
its

aerial

blackness

wake

there

came a

the

And in

cool

odor of

moon struggled over the
was soon overtaken by

huge, bull-hcad-shaped cloud,

hid

its

breeze,

seaweed.

face almost entirely.

ant relented and the

which

The assail-

moon peeped at us

from behind its horns, but it was not long
before another, and still a third cloud
came and hid it for the rest of the night.
And then more clouds rose from the

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THE HAVERFORDIAN
northwest, and they, too, began to race

The tamarind-trees were swaying gently

;

the fan-Uke opening and closing of

the palm branches could be heard distinct-

banana leaves were
.The tiny life of the
flapping violently.
chaparral was silent few fire-flies ventured abroad the glow-worm had sought
.The odor of seashelter for the night.
weed had become stronger. Already a
pale flash, accompanied by a muffled
booming, had lightened the northwestern
ly;

the

shallow waters of Floresvivas, where we

had

eastward ....

broad

.

.

;

;

.

.

99

to pole

Then, suddenly, as the
devil
would have it, Caracoles, it
got dark, and dark dark as a wolf's
guzzle, and before we knew it down came

the

Cristianos,

rain.

Now the breeze ceased its sighing. This
was howling.

The torrential fury was

—worse

down from heaven to drown Cain's tribe
having stolen Abel's sheep.

for

every

And what

worse.

bit

Mateo do but say:

Yes,

did

Tio

"Quick, let us pole

Floresvivas and take shelter in the

to

We'll get drowned if

we don't." "Tio Mateo," I jump up and
answer

;

"Floresvivas ?

cursed place.

coming.

figurense

than the holy deluge that Moses called

ruined bell-tower.

sky.

among the man-

the boat

grove channels.

Floresvivas is a
Haven't you seen the ugly

its swampy soil and the longnecked birds roaming among the reedy

crabs in

Periquin sat in a corner watching the

Tio Mateo,

approach of the storm and beating back

grasses?

with thick clouds of smoke the advance
guard of foraging mosquitoes. At times
he would twirl his moustache and bite
his cigar as if he were struggling with
some irresistible temptation. These were
the symptoms. Come, Periquin, spare us

drowned."

"Ca-ram-ba!" burst out at last our old
"There is going to Le enough
friend.
rain to drown Sena Fifa's seven cats.
The ten thousand devils from the ten
thousand pits are coming upon us on all

Rain?

prefer to get

But Tio Mateo had a thicker crust than
We had to pole to Floresvivas and hide in the cursed tower. And
a rusty shark.

the worst of it is that when we got there,

he took off his wet clothes and made himself comfortable to sleep, saying:

further waiting.

fours.

I

And thundered?

there will be enough to

kill

wake me when the storm
Ah, Tio Mateo had a crust
thicker than that of a rusty shark. Soon
he commenced to snore like a steamship
whistle that is out of order.
It was
"Periquin,

blows over."

Why,

fierce.

Sena Fifa's

seven

seven cats, as I said before."

Enough

scare

to

Suddenly, when

Sena

Fifa's

was not thinking

I

was a night like this
Rain, flashes,
thunder, mosquitoes— a night that would
scare Sena's
Well, it was a bad night,
anyway you look at it. And if you consider what I saw
well, I guess it was
worse than this. If you don't believe it,

about anything particularly, unless it was

listen.

be.

It

:

Tio Mateo and I had been fishing all
day.

Well, at the approach of night we

home, like good Christians, well
with our luck. We rowed under
San Anton's bridge, and came to the

started

satisfied

the ugly crabs who,

feared,

I

a hole through the boat

might bite

—suddenly, as

I

heard a queer noise about me.
There was a winding stair in the tower
said,

I

which led up to where the bells used to
Well, I was leaning against that,

when I heard the queer noise. I listened,
shuddering. It wasn't Tio Mateo or the
Caracoles, someone was coming
rain.
down the rotten stairs Ramp Ramp
!

R-r-ramp

!

I

!

could hear them creak, too

!

——

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN

lOO
I shut

my eyes, and as quietly as possible
my face was close

I let myself drop until

place

you could

;

by looking

that immediately

tell

him.

at

asked him

I

if

he

lieve it, I heard a rattling noise, like that

heard the ora pro nobis.
He had not
"Something queer about this
heard it.

made by a sprinkler, and my face was

cursed tower," he added, and listened at-

soaked with a shower of cold water?

tentively.

Then, would you be-

to Tio Mateo's.

I

crossed myself, and as I finished I heard
distinctly a Dominius nobiscnm, ora pro

Then, above the din of the storm,
clear, infernal laugh coming

nobis!
I

heard a

from the mangrove channels.

It

wasn't

swamp bird.

It

was a

the squeak of a

laugh

—a

hellish laugh.

Then came the worst.

satisfied with his exploration.

by a dying man Then the deep tones of
a bell began to be heard right above us.
A bell ringing right above us Santo
Dios dc miscricordia! Tong! Tong!
Tong The knell of the dead Deep and
Right above us
Tonglugubrious
Tong-golonk
Right above us,
golonk

!

!

!

A cold sweat ran down my back.

I

!

!

compadres.

was exhausted.
Then I tried to awaken Tio Mateo.
Cristianos, nothing on earth could budge

or to speak.

that man.

I

When he slept, he slept. He

must have known that the storm wasn't
quite over.
Tio Mateo was wise, even

Then suddenl}-

dc buenas a priiiicra

ruin.

:

terrified; stayed there as

— knees

the storm seemed to concentrate around
that

was long before we dared to move
Then Tio Mateo grumbled
"Something wrong
between his teeth
Something
about the infernal place.
Then we stayed there as if
wrong."
It

the floor

in his sleep.

Flash

after

flash

thunder after thunder— cielos!

peal

;

I

the end of the world was near.

of

thought

And the

!

my prayers many times over and

crossed myself until

A deep sigh, as if uttered

peat this tale.

!

Then I heard the steps creaking again.
Whoever he was he was going upstairs,

said

First there was

a deep sigh uttered upstairs. Ah, conipadres, my hair stands on end as I re-

if

petrified to

then my
my waist felt cold

feet felt cold

]\Iy

!

felt cold ; then

;

but I thought it was fear petrifxing one
to the floor.

Then I

Suddenly Tio Mateo pulls me by the
"Periquin, the place is
arm and yells
:

creaking on the stairs began again. Down

flooded.

came the footfalls and I closed my eyes,
and didn't breathe.
"Dominns nobiscum, ora pro nobis
Amen," and I got- sprinkled again. Was
it blessed water
agua bendita? I could
tell
not
I was so frightened.
Then, in

the boat and let the devil take the in-

;

the distance,

there sounded

again that

mocking, hellish laugh.
"Tio Mateo Tio Mateo !" I whispered
"Por la Virgcti del Carmen, do wake up
!

there

is

something wrong in this cursed

Floresvivas

is

Run to

going!

Tio Mateo was a

truder and his bell."

You could

wise man, even in his sleep.

not petrify him, and you could not drown

him even if you petrified him.
Out we plunged, the water to our
waist. The rain lashed our faces and the
soft soil yielded

under us.

"Pull, Peri-

quin !" screamed Tio Mateo.
like a red

surelv

!

demon.

pulled

I

The place was going,

And that bell still kept on toll-

Tong!

—Tong!—Tong! But

place."

ing.

He woke up and put on his wet coat.
He snifl'ed the air and numbled: "San

not petrify

me

!

Not

as

it

could

long as there
last

we

The mangrove

to

At

was danger

of drowning.

Quintin, there is sulphur in the air."

Tio

reached

boat.

Mateo knew a great

that

which it was tied was under water; but

deal

about

the

.

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
We jumped
The boat was full
of crabs and swamp reptiles. They had
it

held the boat safe enough.

in.

Sa)ito

Crist o!

escaped the flood and had sought shelter
Huge hairy crabs, with large
there.
nippers

and bullet-shaped eyes

alacranes
full

:

small

of them.

snakes

water

;

were now under San Anton's bridge. In
the distance I heard the mocking laugh
Then a band of birds of prey
again.
whirled around and flew toward the sinking ruins. I crossed myself, and so did
Tio Mateo.

—the boat was

There was no time for

lOI

"The

Then he said

sacristan of the old church of

Floresvivas once

pawned

a

holy sprin-

finicalness, however, and we rowed away,

kler and Saint Peter punished his soul to

with our infernal load.

make
now?

"Narrow escape," said Tio Mateo
when we were at a safe distance and I
;

crushed a crab with my foot.

"Narrow

escape,"

crushed another crab.
but

I

answered,

how do you account

for

and

escape,

all

silent.

One may hear

but it is forbidden to tell about it."

was enough to petrify Sena

It

Fifa's

those

The storm was now upon us and Peri-

He placed his first finger over his lips
to keep

chiton!

seven cats!

queer things that happened there?

and beckoned me

Understand
Never

apparitions.

And that laugh

speak to anyone about it.
it,

Narrow

nightly

quin would not speak another word.

We

/.

P., '07.

HAVERFORD COLLEGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Financial Summary, CoIIegfe Year J 905- 1 906

GENERAL FUND.
Br.
Deficit.

To Dues from Undergraduates
$
To Dues from Alumni
To Interest on Deposit Account
To Special Contribution
To Appropriation from Skating Pond Surplus..
To Deficit
,

697.50
210.00
26.59
3.50

150.00
176.38

$1,263.97
Cr.

By Appropriation to Football

$

185.00

Cricket

370.00

Gymnasium

185.00

Track

185.00

$176.38

Surplus.

102

THE HAVERFORDIAN

By Expense Interscholastic Meet

150.91

Bj' Printing-

3.50

By Deficit former years

184.56

$1,263.97

FOOT BALL.
Dr.

To Balance
To Gate Receipts and Guarantees
To Appropriation from General Fund
To Miscellaneous Receipts

$ 856.35
684.15
185.00

25.90

$1,75140
Cr.

By Traveling expenses, Guarantees, etc

By Equipment
By Medical and Special Supplies
By Officials
By Cost of Grandstand
By Expenses Intercollegiate Rules Committee. ..
By Miscellaneous Expenses
By Balance

$ 633.44
447-56
124.08

73-00
141-92

75-00
171.28

85.12

$85.12

$1,751-40

CRICKET.
Dr.

To Balance
To Balance Shipley & Vaux Donation
To Appropriation from General Fund
To Appropriation from Trust Fund
To Special Contributions

$

127.86

48.23

370.00
50.00
52.50

$648.59
Cr.

By Equipment
By Traveling Expenses
By Prizes
By Miscellaneous Expenses
By Balance
By Balance Shipley & Vaux Donation

$

71.98
147-43

33-00
43- 10

304-85

304-85

48-23

48.23

$648-59

THE HAVERFORDIAN

103

GYMNASIUM.
D

r.

To Balance
To Receipts from Exhibitions

S

35302
506.25

To Appropriation from General Fund
To Miscellaneous Receipts

185.00

3700
$1,081.27
Cr.

By Equipment
By Share due Musical Association
By Guarantees

$

5905
118.37

80.00

By Traveling Expenses
By jNIiscellaneous Expenses
By Balance

1 10.48

184.48

528.89

528.89

$1,081.27

TRACK.
Dr.

To Balance
To Gate Receipts and Guarantees
To Appropriation from General Fund

$

.42

i73-8i

185.00

$359-23
Cr.

By Equipment
By Guarantees
By Traveling Expenses
By Prizes
By Miscellaneous Expenses
By Balance

$

13.50

85.00
150.32

57-40

43-66

9.35

9.35

$359-23

Cash balance

800.06

$976.44

$976-44

Respectfully submitted,
C. J. Rho.vds,

Treasurer.
Philadelphia, October i, igo6.

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Conduc'.ed by Dean Barrett

AT

the date of

writing (October 2d)

the student-body for the present

tions to
total

upper classes give an increased

year will, apparently, be made up as fol-

dormitories

lows:

commodate all.

Graduates

4

Seniors

32

Juniors

26

Sophomores
Freshmen

47

39

The

enrolhnent.
is

capacity of the

not quite sufficient to ac-

There have been few changes in the
In the department of physics,
Dr. A. W. Smith, last year an instructor
Faculty.

in

Bowdoin College, will take the place

I\Ir. Frederick Palmer, Jr., who has
been granted a year's leave of absence.
Thomas K. Brown, '06, and Roderick

of

Total

148

The actual number of Freshmen who
have taken up their work at the present
time

is

forty-four, but there

is

a strong

more will register

probability that three

Scott,

'06,

remain

teaching fellows

;

at

the. College

as

and Richard L. Cary,

'06, will act as assistant in

the chemical

before this number of The H.werford-

laboratory.

IAN is issued.

During the summer some improvements have been made.
Chief among

The increase in the number of Freshmen makes the entering class the largest

these

the College has yet had, and several addi-

ing plant, erected at a cost of $25,000.

In

The

Desert

is

a new central heating and light-

(In Der Wuste)

[From the German of Nikolaus Lenau.]
not a vain and hopeless thing.
Plodding through the desert sands of life,
Stumbling toward the far horizon's ring.
Ploughing out a course with toil and strife?
Is

it

Even if our feet, amid the dust.
Scatter traces of their rambling path,
Storms, pursuing with a vulture's lust.
Soon devour them in exultant wrath.

Singly and in caravans we go
Toward the far-off land of rest and peace.
While a thousand banners, drooping low,
Tell us that our efforts must not cease.
I

am plodding likewise, weak and slow,
Blindly guessing, struggling in a dream;
the redhot gleaming desert's glow
Kindles longing for some cooling stream.

And

mc get away from this dry land.
Full of longing hopes and sudden fears,
Where the ever thirsty, gaping sand
Lifts its panting mouth to drink my tears.

Let

i".

C.

5.,

'05.

PLANS FOR A HAVERFORD MISSIONARY
Robert L. Simkin,
preparation

for

missionary

foreign

'03,

religious

continued his

the Christian Association, met last spring

a

to consider the advisability of undertak-

last

ing to contribute toward the support of

service

as

by graduating

spring from the Union Theological Sem-

New York.

During the summer he has been in England, making the
inary, in

acquaintance

of

their mission-

To those of us who knew Simkin personally and who believe in the generosity

many meetings.

of Haverfordians, the moderate plan pro-

He finally secured an appointment from
London Yearly Meeting to go out

to

China this winter as a supported representative of that meeting.

He has also

won the approval and support of his
own Xew York Yearly Meeting in undertaking his life-work.
It

in

English

prominent

Friends and addressing

Mr. and Mrs. Simkin
ary labors.

appears that throughout his years

seems easy to accomplish.
An
Advisory Committee of twelve graduates and undergraduates has been seposed

lected, to be in

ever

charge of raising what-

sum may be decided upon as prac-

ticable for the first year.

In assuming such a responsibility,
Haverford will be but following in the

many larger institutions, which

of preparation Sim.kin has cherished the

steps of

hope that, whatever other organizations
he might be chosen to represent in China,

have realized the great deepening of mis-

might also be chosen to represent
Haverford College as a Haverford mis-

appointm.ent of an Alumnus to such ser-

he

sionary.

Upon learning of this deep per-

sonal
solicitude
upon Simkin's part,
some of his friends hereabouts took steps
to fulfil his desires.
A number of past
and present Haverfordians, representing

sionary interest which has come from the

vice.
let

When the occasion presents itself,

us at Haverford give Simkin such

support

as

will

Haverfordians

convince him that
are

behind

him

all

in his

noble undertaking.
JV. IV.

Comfort. '04.

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
NOTES
'49.

The degree of Doctor of Laws,

'77.

George G. Mercer died in Phila-

May 28.

rarely given by Haverford, was conferred

delphia on

upon Albert Keeble Smiley last June,
in recognition of his work in the interests

at Haverford,

or International Peace.

at

'60.

James Tyson, M. D., of the Fac-

ulty of Medicine, University of Pennsyl-

vania, delivered the

commencement ora-

tion to the Class of 1906.
'70.

Thomas K. Carey died in Balti-

more on jMay 29.

After graduating

Mr. Mercer studied law
at University of Pennsylvania, and then
Yale, receiving his Doctor's degree

He was
from the latter institution.
Alumni orator, 1889, and member of Phi
During his entire
Beta Kappa, 1898.
professional

career

in

Philadelphia

he

was prominent in political and economic
movements.

THE HAVERFORDIAN

io6

George H. Deuell, editor of The
Phi
Beta
Ha\trfordian,
1895-96,
Kappa, 1899, died on May 28.
'96.

H. Hodgin and Miss
Olive L. Jenkins were married in Richmond, Ind., on August 22d. They are
living at Guilford College, N. C., where
Samuel

'98.

Hodgin is teaching English.
Dr. Samuel Rhoads

'98.

'02. E. W. Evans is entering the second year at the Law School, University

of Pennsylvania.
'02

is

acting as

Gummere expects to re-

Greek and Latin
Harvard next spring.
Ex-'03.
his

one of the registrars in his division in
the Twenty-second Ward, Philadelphia.
He was appointed under the new per-

R. M.

ceive his Ph.D. in

at

A. G. Dean has announced

engagement

in

marriage

Miss

to

Therese Holland.
'03.

C.

W. Davis has resumed work

as an instructor in Oak Grove Seminary,

Vassalboro, Me.

sonal registration law.
'03.

Swan was married
to Miss Helen A. Wood, of Boston, on
Frederick A.

'98.

August

29th.

F. E. Barr is engaged in the prac-

of law. with an office at 904

Land

Title building, Philadelphia.

They were married by

Friends' ceremony in the Flower Hospital,

tice

New York City, where Swan had

been taken a few days before, owing to
a severe accident which happened to him
while riding on a crowded trolley car
which was run into by an automobile.

He is at present recovering rapidly. His
business address is i W. 34th Street,
New York, where he is associated with
M. P. Collins, '92, in the Bankers Invest-

'03.

E. F.

Hoffman has been trans-

ferred to the pastorate of a Methodist

church in Hamburg, Pa.
Ex-'03.

C.

W. Kelsey has for some

time been general sales agent

the

tour he obtained one of the trophies.
'03.

R. L. Simkin has been appointed

to the Freinds' Mission at

ing Company.

for

Maxwell automobiles, with offices at Tarrytown, N. Y.
In the recent Glidden

Chungking,

China, and will leave for his post in No-

Robert N. Wilson has returned
and physics at

'98.

to the chair of chemistry

Guilford College, N. C, after a valuable

He was married, May ist, to

vember.

Miss Alargaret Lowenhaupt, of Ossining,
N. Y., who will accompany him to China.

year's work along those lines in the Har-

vard Graduate School.

Walter Hinchman is again teach-

'00.

ing at Groton School.

'03.
I. S. Tilney is with N. W. Harris
& Co., Pine and William Streets, New

York, learning the business of the bond
broker.

has been
Henry S.
'00.
convalescing
months,
abroad for several
from a severe nervous breakdown.

Drinker

Arthur R. Yearsley has anhis engagement to Miss Elva

'OJ.

nounced

'03.

S.

N. Wilson has been appointed

instructor in mathematics

in

the

West

Chester High School.
'03.

F. R. Winslow is a resident phy-

sician at the hospital of the University of

Ashe, of Coatesville, Pa.

Maryland, Baltimore.
'02.

A. G. H. Spiers

is

Harvard for his doctorate
mance languages.

studying at
in

the

Ro-

'04.

H. N. Thorn is again head coach

of the foot ball team.

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
W. S. Bradley announces his en-

'04.

gfagemcnt to Miss Remington, of Phila-

Harold

'04.

Morris

H.

is

entering

upon his third year of medicine at the

He spent

University of Pennsylvania.
last summer in

England and Scotland.

M.

Commencement last June.

at

Princeton.

'06.
J. D. Phillips is with the Bell
Telephone Company in their German-

ent in the employ of the Jones & Laugh-

Company, of Pittsburg.

lin Steel

He and

H. K. Stein are living together in Wilkinsburg.

R.

the

in

is

purchasing department of the Baldwin

Locomotive Works.

Ward Fleming

M.

first

has

Law School. He has been made a member of the Sharwood Law Club.
Jr., was mar-

ried to Miss Mabel Craven at West Chester on the 19th of last June.

is

teaching at

S. G.

Nauman is teaching tem-

Pa.
'06.

A. T.

Lowry

is

in

the

lumber

business in West Philadelphia.

He is as-

Thorn in coaching the

foot ball

team.
'06.
James T. Fales is studying law at
Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.

com-

year in the Pennsylvania

Albert K. Smiley,

Shortlidge

J.

porarily at the Yeates School, Lancaster,

sisting

Benjamin Eshleman

pleted his

'06.

the West Chester Normal School
'06.

Charles A. Alexander is at pres-

'05.

'06.

M.

town office.

He is now an instructor in German at

'05.

the degree of A.

S. G. Spaeth received the degree

'05.

'05.

'06.
W. C. Carson, Clementine Cope
Fellow for 1906, is studying at Harvard.

E. B. Richards is also there, studying for

delphia.

of A.

107

They spent

the summer at Lake Mohonk, N. Y.
'06.
W. K. Miller has entered the
Law School of the University of Penn-

sylvania.

'06.
Gordon H. Graves is teaching at
George School, Pa.
'06.

Henry

Pleasants,

Jr.,

was with

the Haverford delegation at Northfield
last

He has entered the Medical

June.

School of the University of Pennsylvania.

'06.

W. H.

nounced

his

Haines,

has

Jr.,

an-

engagement to Miss Alice
Janvier, of Orange, N. J.

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
Foot ball practice started on Monday,
September 24th. H. Norman Thorn,
'04, will again be head coach.
This year,
however, he will be unable to get out in

the afternoons.

A. H. Hopkins, '05, and

A. T. Lowry, '06, will be the field coaches.

Thorn will come out every night and to
every

game,

and

thus

keep

in

close

touch with the work.

Freshman

Class,

Captain Jones should

have no mean team this fall.

The schedule is as follows

—Medico-Chi, Haverford.
—Lehigh, South Bethlehem.
Haverford.
Oct. 20— Rutgers,
Haverford.
Oct. 27 — Ursinus,
Nov. 3 — Franklin and Marshall,

Oct. 6

Oct. 13

at

at

at

at

at

Lancaster.

—Johns Hopkins, HaverHartford, Conn.
Nov. 17—
Nov. 24— New York University,
Nov. 10

The team

will

greatly miss the ser-

vices of ex-Captain Lowry,

Brown, Reed
and Smiley, but with all the rest of the
men back, and possible material in the

at

ford.

Trinity, at

at

Haverford.

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN

io8

The annual cane rush took place on the
The
cane men were Bard, Ramsey, Green for
afternoon of the day college opened.

Ayer for
Those having two hands on the
cane were Marsh, Ramsey, Bard, Spaeth,
Green, of the Sophomore Class, and
Ayer and Frost, of the Freshman Class.
The Sophomores won by the score of 14
1909, and Wilson, Frost and
1910.

to 12.

Hames

the chief speaker.

Refreshments were

W.

Class '85 prize bat to S. G. Spaeth, '05.

W. H. Haines,

Class '85 prize ball to
'07.

Class '85 prize belt to P.

W. Brown,

'07.

OTHER PRIZES.
Improvement bat to J. B. Clement, '08.
C. R.

The annual Y. M. C. A. reception to
new men was held Thursday evening,
October 4, at eight o'clock, in the new
Assembly Room. R. L. Simkins, '03, was

H.

prize fielding belt to

Doughten, Jr., '06.
Second Eleven.

average

Hinchman prize bat for highest
in intercollegiate

matches to H.

W. Doughten, Jr., '06; average, 66.
Christian Febiger prize ball for best
bowling
averages
in
intercollegiate
matches to H. Pleasants, Jr., '06; aver-

served after the meeting.

age, 10 2-7.

At the commencement exercises, held
on June 15th, 1906, seven men were

cricketer, F.

granted the degree of Master of Arts,

T. K. Sharpless, '08.

Prize cup to best all-around Freshman

twenty-nine the degree of Bachelor of
Arts, and eight the degree of Bachelor of

Myers, '09.

Prize bat to best

Freshman batsman,

Prize belt to best Freshman bowler, T.

Lewis,

'08.

Class of '85 prize ball, for interclass

Science.

championship. Class of 1907.

The following athletic announcements
were made on commencement day last

ber of points during the year, T.

June:

New records made

Cricket— F. D. Godley, '07.
Track E. C. Tatnall, '07.


Soccer— W. R. Rossmaessler,

K.

Brown, Jr.

Captains for year 1906-7:

120-yards hurdle
'07.

Prices Azvardcd.

CRICKET.
First Eleven.

Colors to J. D. Philips, '06; J. P. Magill,

TRACK.

Walton cup to man scoring most num-

'07.

Brown, Jr., '06.
Two-mile run

— 16 m.

— 10 m. 22

I

T. K.

s.,

W.

s.,

K.

Miller, '06.

Discus throw

—99

ft.

5 in., E. F. Jones,

'07.

Pole vault— 10

Cope prize bat for best average to A.
T. Lowry, '06; average, 25 4-5.
Congdon prize ball for the best bowl-

'09.

ing average to F. D. Godley, '07; aver-

T. Lowry, '06

age, 8 21-45.

Rossmaessler, '07.

ft.

Yi

in.,

J.

Bushnell,

SOCCER.

H's awarded to H. Pleasants, '06; A.
;

J.

D. Philips, '06

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W. R.

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T. Wistar Brown

Samuel R. Shipley
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Roberts Foulke

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President

Vice-Presideitt
Joseph Ashbrook..V.-Pres. and Mgr. Ins. Dept.
J.

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Actuary
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J. Barton Townsend ... Assistant Trust Officer
Treasorer
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C. Walter Borton

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James V. Watson

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HAVERFORDIAN

Haverford College
November, 1906

Volume XXVIII. No. 6.

CONTENTS
Editorials

109

Dea Ex Machina

120

Terra Incognita

in

Alumni Department

124

The Heidelberg Student

112

College De^kktment

126

The Latest Thing in Rubaiyats

119

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DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

ADVISORY BOARD
'07

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

F. D. Godley,
B. Qement, *o8
M. H. C. Spiers, '09
C. H. Rhoades, '93

Foot Ball
\8ice-Chairn)an

P. W. Brown, '07
G. K. Strode, 'oS

Manager

M. H. March, '07

Assistant Manager

C. K. Drinker, '08
£. T. Jones, '07

Cftptain

G. K. Strode, '08

Other Members— I. J. Dodge, '07; E. F.
Jones, '07 M. H. March, '07 J. H. Wood, '07
C. T. Brown, '08;
K. Drinker, '08; J. P.
Elkinton, '08.
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DEPARTMENTS

Chairman

H. Evans, '07

President
Secretary

J.

LOGANIAN SOCIETY
President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

Gymnasium

P. Magill. '07
Not elected
Not elected

J.

W. H. Haines, •07

Chairman
Vice-Chairman

E. A. Edwards,
Manager
W. B. Rossmaessler,
Assistant Manager.
W. R. Shoemaker,
Captain
J. Bushnell, 3d,
.

.

.

Track
Chairman
Vice-Chairman

'08
'07
'08

R

Assistant Manager

Captain

H. Evans, '07

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

'08

E. F. Jones, '07
W. \V. Kurtz, '08
Tatnall, '07
E.
W. Sargent, Jr., '08
E. C. Tatnall, '07

Manager

DEPABTMENTS
Civics
P.

W. Brown, '07

J.

P. Elkinton, '08

Scientific

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

R. L. Gary, '06

Dodge, '07

I. J.

D. C. Baldwin, '06

Cricket

Chairman
Vice-Chairman

A. E. Brown, •07
E. A. Edwards, 'o3

Manager

J.

C. K. Drinker, '08
F. D. Godley, '07

Captain
Association Foot Ball

P. W. Brown,
C. K. Drinkisr,
Tatnall,
E.
J. B, Clement,

Chairman
Vice-Chairman^
Assistant

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

W. Nicholson, Jr., '07

Assistant Manager

Manager

Debating

R

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Manager

'07
'08
'07

CLASSES
1907:
President

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

'08

W. R. Rossmaessler, '07

Captain

ASSOCIATIONS.
College
President
Vice-President
Secretary

A. E. Brown, '07

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

T. K. Sharpless, '09

M. H.

C Spiers, '09

President and Manager... W. B. Windle, '07
Assistant Manager
F. O. Musser, '08
'07
Leader
J. W. Nicholson, Jr.,

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

Assistant

A. E. Brown, '07
C. L. Miller, '08

Manager
Y. M. C. A.

Wood

E. F. Jones

W. S. Eldridge
G. C. Craig

E Wright
J.

G.

Bushnell, 3d
C. F. Scott

W. Emlen, Jr.

1909:
President

Tennis

Manager

G. H.

1908:
President

M. H. March, '07

Treasurer
Musical

M. H. March
C. K. Drinker, '08
M. H. C. Spiers, '09

C.

E.

Marsh

G. S. Bard

R. L.

M. Underbill
J.

C. Green

1910:

Dodge, '07

President
Vice-President
Secretary

H. Evans, *07
W. H. Morriss, '08

Treasurer

J.

I.

J.

P. Elkinton, '08

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

M. O. Frost
F. Wilson
E. Cadbury
M. Eshleman
J.

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KEXIBIE FDfEU

TheSled OatSteers

EATS every other sled
the
B"because
curves the

steering

bar

spring

This steers

steel runners.

We have them. Maintain a separate factory
in Xew York city and
a special organization

the sled without dragging

to malie

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runner sidewise, so it goes

Every garment

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a

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deal

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safe

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finished.

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Patcniees and Manufacluren

Young

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— selling to

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When you are ready
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and overcoat. See the
broad and handsome
itock we are showing
prices that range
from $10.00 to $27.50
at

OBf cirdboard model sled will ihow you juit how it
works and gire yoa lots of fun. Sent free by mail
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regarding lizej and pricei.
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for

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built

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embodied in it.

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each month during the college year. Matter intended for insertion should reach the Editor not later than
the twenty-third of the month preceding the date of issue.

Entered

Vol.

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Havcrford

XXMII

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Haverford^ Pa., Xovexiber, 1906

ORIGINALITY

is

an element of suc-

cess in every field of achievement,

and colleges should be striving to train
men in this as well as to educate them in
the fields of academic learn'•

'*

They not only should

ing.

Originality
that counts

through the mails as second class matter.

No. 6

the schools and colleges as it is that of the
tradition

which

exists

in

those institu-

tions that students should quickly learn

to

conform

certain

to

thought and conduct.

standards

of

Nowadays, when

a man enters college with individual char-

have at their command facts

acteristics,

that have been true in the

college body that his "peculiarities" shall

past or at present

;

they should be able to

go further and to reason out from their
knowledge of well-known truths, new
theories or conditions.

New inventions

it is

generally the pride of the

be rubbed off by the end of his Freshman
year.

And the process is generally so

successful that he soon becomes a "typical college man,"

and it is often possible

constantly impress one with their sim-

to

and we wonder "why we never
thought of that."
The principles were

clothes or the

familiar enough

almost as surely as the dialect betrays

plicity,

—what we lacked was

the ability to visualize

something that

was not.

tell

a man's college by the cut of his

way he combs

his

hair,

while his speech reveals his Alma Mater
a Yankee or a Southerner.

Now this system is wrong in the main.

—every Certainly we have follow accepted
phase of
—evolves as men come custom many
but men should
forth who have
maintain

be encouraged
Science, literature, art, music,

to

activity,

in

original

which seem

ideas

ideas

to be in every conceivable

case merely a fresh combination of well-

known elements.
But if conventional thinkers are being
produced it is not so much the fault of

things,

to

their

indi-

and not be compelled to live
according to the mind of the crowd nor
forced into common moulds of habit and
viduality

We need more faith in the
freedom of a man's own will to choose.

convention.

THE HAVERFORDIAN

no

a shame

Less of precept and more of practive.
The times do not demand dreamers or

that such men should have to feel a diffi-

They demand those who have

dence about extended personal conversa-

the stamina and the training to advance

tion with a professor, which is exactly the

a httle further than those around have

condition that now exists in College.

idealists.

They

progressed.

demand

ized the needs of the men.

And it is unjust to the professors.

original

thinkers.

It is

It

on them that public sentiment

a slur

is

should not realize at once that they are
capable of deciding a man's

perfectly

IF

there

is

a small, unwarranted, per-

nicious influence in our College to-

day it is the attitude taken by the students regarding what is called "bootlicking." Within the memHarmful

ory of the Senior Class this

Influence of
a Word

word has been introduced

Tfie

Although at first
used in a mildly humorous way, it has
lost all its original harmlessness and is
undoubtedly destroying what was one of
the most pleasant features of Haverford
the close and inspiring relationship
life
between the students and the able men
who compose our faculty.
here.

It

not necessary to point out the

is

true value in class.

fessors placed in a peculiar position about

any

relationship

—scholars who have been

undergraduates

with

outside of classes.

is

Now this matter has gone too far.

It

time for College sentiment to take

it

up.

It

is

time for every

man to rebel

against the false sentiments that cluster

about the word "boot-licker."

It is

time

for the personal influence of professors

over students again to be as helpful as it
used to be in the past.

THERE are many encouraging fea-

invaluable gain to undergraduates to be

derived from personal contact with the

If men feel diffident

about approaching them, so also are pro-

tures

campaign,

about

the

although

recent

the

Reform
have

people

professors here

voted their willingness again to slum-

chosen as much for their broad manhood

Th.
i^ii
I tie influence

ber under misrule and dis-

as for their specialization in their sub-

of College

honest government in this

Men

The ReCommonwealth.
form Party about Philadel-

jects.

This relationship, so potent here

in the past,

and

one of the chief advan-

in Politics

tages of a small college, we are allowing

phia was led almost entirely by college

to slip from us because of the power of

men, and this general awakening of such

cowardly epithet "boot-licker."

men to their duties of leadership is the

this

Do not be

are hoodwinked by men

who are merely

most hopeful feature of modern politics.
ethical training, the knowledge of
economics and history they receive and

marks and

exliibiting false

their

interest to attain them.

They can pick

graduates to take the lead in politics and

It is unjust to the students.

deceived

into

striving for

out the

thinking

men who

are

that

really

professors

interested

The

to

broad aspect of

life

equip college

keep pure and healthy the life of the

and who are striving to get the most out
of their work. There are many men who
desire to go deeper into subjects than is
possible in class.
There are men who
have doubts and problems whom profes-

nation.

sors could greatly help

to accept the trust of public offices,

if

they only real-

It

meant something for our honored

President to allow himself to be
as a candidate to the

named

Legislature, yet,

when such men express their willingness
it

is

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
the

omen of the approach of new and

better social

and

conditions in

political

the University until he

Colleges are social institutions, and no

man who leaves college does so without
assuming definite social obligations that
he must fulfill. He owes it to society to
strive by his best influence to improve
its condition and at least to guarantee
his vote and endeavor in the cause of
clean and honest government.

went abroad to

study several years ago.

Haverford Dr. Coca was
work and athletics
prominent
was
a
member
and
of the Cricket Eleven
English Tour, 1896.
His life in Ger-

While

this country.

III

at

in literary

many has well enabled him to paint the
picture of German student-life which we
publish in this issue.

The following letter is one that will be
Haverford readers. The

interesting to

author, "Caleb," after a long period of

MEDICINE to-day offers itself as
something more than a mere profession,

it

offers

itself

as a science to

which men may devote their entire skill.

Few fields of research afMedicine as

iord discoveries which are

a Science

SO Valuable to the race as

service here as mail carrier and driver of

the College wagon, retired from active

work last September.

— 1906

2d Day loth Month 29
Isaac Sharpless

that of medicine.

is

Dear Friend
Cannot Express my Feelings Towards
my Friends at Haverford College for ther
Kind Rememberance of me thee Will
Kindly thank them for me
I

at present devoting himself

After
to research work in Germany.
graduating from Haverford he studied

I

Caleb Worrall

vania, and from 1897-99 also did special

Hear from the College ask My Friend
if he Has time to Let me JCnow

Pratt, re-

Chase

ceiving the degree of Master of Arts here
in 1899.

am thine Very Respectfully

am sorry I Cannot Help thee on thy
Way To Harrisburg as I Will Love to

medicine at the University of Pennsyl-

work in histology under Dr.

How things is going on How -Is Old Bill

He served as an instructor in

Poor Old Bill He May Miss Caleb.

TERRA INCOGNITA
When Daphne plays, I know not why,
But woven
I

in the

through Presi-

dent Sharpless:
1500 North nth St. Reading Pa.

Dr. Arthur F. Coca, '96, the author of
the article entitled, "The Heidelberg
Student,"

He recently wrote

this letter to the College

harmony

hear a deeper, softer tone.

Apart from other chords, alone;
A strain that starts to lilt and play
Like laughing brook in sunlit May,
But always ends with wistful sigh

When Daphne plays.
And yet 'tis all in vain I try
To penetrate the mystery
Of that fair, unknown world which lies
Behind the sapphire of her eyes
That land whose borders I descry

When Daphne plays.

M.

O. F.,

'10.

;

THE HEIDELBERG STUDENT
When the student comes to Heidelberg
he comes to the oldest university, and to
the most beautifully situated university

with a

the four years with his Alma Mater.

As shown by

town in Germany.
narrow valley
cf the Neckar, just at the point where
the river, emerging from the mountainous Odenwald, guarded on the left by the
Gaisberg and Konigstuhl, and on the
right by the Heiligenberg, flows out upon
the level plain across which it winds to
join the Rhine.
Nestling in the broad
Heidelberg

lies

in the

lap of the Konigstuhl overlooking the

fond recollection

of that

little

with which the Haverfordian remembers
the

autograph, "Stif-

the

founder,

tungsbrief,"

of

Ruprecht

which

I,

is

Kurfurst

perhaps the most

treasured relic of the library collection of

manuscripts, the university was founded
in 1386.

In view of the seniority of the

institution,

it

is

not surprising to learn

that many of the customs in vogue among

German students have arisen here and
are here most devotedly cherished.

The first business of the student is to

town, and thrown into strong

relief

by

a background of heavy foliage,

lies

the

find a lodging,

the

simply into a question of funds and of

picturesque castle. To attempt a descrip-

choice; for in his search for rooms he

most striking object of the town
tion of the

many natural attractions of

the spot would carry us too far from our

We can only add that the pano-

subject.

rama that stretches before the traveller
as he stands upon the heights behind the
castle

—the broad

fertile

plain

of

the

Rhine bounded on the west by the Haardt
moxuitains, which are plainly visible on

clear days ; to the northwest the busy,

the southwest, the

ancient

city

of

Speyer, famous as the burial place of the
early

German

rulers;

hamlets here and there

little
;

feet the original of so

towns and

and right at his

many photogra-

cheerfully aided by a half dozen or

:s

more of free agencies, conducted by
book stores, etc., throughout the town.
The lodgings are almost always furnished, and many consist of one or more
rooms. A breakfast of rolls, butter and
coffee is commonly included, but as a
rule the other three or four meals are

taken at a restaurant.

modem city of Mannheim on the Rhine
to

which task resolves itself

For about a month it is permitted to
attend any of the lectures free of charge.

Before a fixed date, however, the student
is

required to matriculate and to pay the

fees for the courses which he has elected.

Since the university authorities take no

^the pretty

notice of the student's actions beyond ex-

village of Heidelberg itself
such a scene
produces an impression not soon to be

acting the payment of fees and attend-

forgotten.

beginning his university career, and

vures, etchings and paintings

To those who have remained in the

ance upon practical courses, if he is just
the

allurements

of

society,

if

duelling,

place long enough to become familiar

travel, or

with its charms, it were no wonder that

strong for his powers of resistance, an

the Heidelberg student in his riper years

»hould

contemplate

his

sojourn

there

entire

doing nothing at

semester

may

pass

hearing a single lecture.

all,

be too

without his

And this is a

THE HAVERFORDIAN
very

common

experience,

—the experi-

ence, by the way, of one of the present

professors.

The examinations are given orally and
is, any one may attend
them as a spectator. The advantage of

"3

many other features of the same sort
must impress .upon even the most casual
observer the high regprd in which the
beautiful- in nature is held by this people.

The wjiole mountainous district, desig-

in public; that

nated as the Odenwald and the Schwarz-

he

wald, extending from Darmstadt to the

may learn in advance what is to be ex-

borders of Switzerland, is traversed in all

pected of him in any subject; the disad-

by footpaths which are kept
good condition and plentifully furnished with good sign-boards by so-

this

custom

to

the student

vantage, to any one

is

that

who can recall the

mental anguish which precedes -the ordeal even when it is to be endured -in
relative privacy,

is

:-

obvious.

>-

We have referred to the environment
of Heidelberg as influencing the lifeiof

directions
in

called

"Verschonerungs-vereinen"

so-

cieties whose purpose is indicated in their

name.

Under

";Vereinen"

the

direction

guide-books

are

of

these

published,

may

with the aid of which a perfect stranger

for granting

may walk from Heidelberg
the advantages of the river for aquatic

the highest peaks apd through the finest

sport, in what way can a mountain range

parts of the region- with practically

the

student,

and the relationship

seem, at first, a slight one

;

no

risk of missing the way.

with

good

roads affect the life of a student?

The

Furthermore; after having contributed

answer to this question is not hard to find
when once we understand what these
•*;
mean to the German.

s6 largely to the cause, it may be, indeed,

on account of having so contributed, the

bom lover of the
beauties of nature, wherein he may be

of reimbursing himself, and on every
opportune occasion flies from his "nar-

or a rural

plain

The German

is

provided

a

said to differ little

from the American;

German adopts the only logical means

row cages" into country and forest, over
and vale, with his knapsack on his

but he must be given the credit of exhibit-

hill

ing, as evidence of his devotion, a higher

back, a stick in his hand, and a feather

degree

in his cap.

of

Everywhere,

public-spirited

generosity.

And to many a student this

town, country and

respectable variety of tramp-life seems to

same high purpose is evident
all the grand and
beautiful works of nature as well as that
of embellishing by art those places which
lack natural charms.
Everywhere the
public parks, squares and gardens, ar-

offer greater reward, for the moment, at

designed, richly provided with

elberg offers a convenient starting-point

in city,

forest, the

^that

of preserving

tistically

any rate, than the tedious lecture hour.
In addition to the innumerable short
walks in the immediate vicinity, by any of

which a totally new impression of the
neighborhood may be obtained, Heid-

trees, flower-beds and fountains, and kept

for

constantly in perfect order; the many,

Odenwald

lofty, substantial towers, situated, often

at a great distance from the towns, upon

which towers have
been erected solely for the purpose of
giving travellers the advantage of a perfectly
unobstructed view these and

to

the

either

into

the

north,

FRATERNITY LIFE.

particularly fine,

excursions

westward
through the Neckar valley, or southward
into Schwarzwald.

high elevations from which the outlook
is

longer

The whole complexion of the social
life

of the student depends upon whether

he is or is not a member of one of the

,

THE HAVERFORDIAN

114
incorporated
question

which latter
measure determined

fraternities,

in large

is

or have some
At certain seahowever, they may be more fre-

to attend, unless he be

student fraternities are

sons,

every night during the first

distinctly classified into the "Corps," the

quent,

and the "Turnerschaften," all of which are incorporated
and have adopted distinguishing colors
and shape of cap and into a motley array of sectarian, scientific and other societies, some of which ape certain customs of the first three, none of which,
Most of these
however, wear colors.

week of May.

"Burschenschaften,"

;

classes are represented in

all

the large

it

is

to indicate its purpose, but internally it

entrance hall

is

very large, and its walls and ceiling are
decorated with tasteful frescoes.

A flight

of stairs at the right leads to the second

common interests.
The "Turnerschaften" are gymnastic

way

The "Bur-

The

characteristic.

floor,

fighting.

g.,

The fraternity house stands at the foot

and annual conventions of
delegates from societies of the same class
are held for the purpose of discussing

little

e.

of the Konigstuhl, directly beneath the
castle. Externally, there is nothing about

universities,

clubs and do

ill

other very good excuse.

by his social status.

The German

twice a week and every member is obliged

on which are the executive rooms,
toilet and coat rooms, and several bedrooms. A short passage beyond the stairleads

the

to

apartments

On the

"Hausmeister."

left

of

the

are

two

large rooms, the "Kneipe" room and an-

The former is

schenschaften" are the descendants of the

other used for dinners.

student political organizations that took

carpetless

such active part in the politics of the
country during the revolutionary period

heavy wooden tables placed in the form
of the letter U, wooden chairs and a

which ended about the middle of the last

piano.

century.

a number of huge porcelain pipes, on

The "Corps" are the oldest of the fraternities,

and have always been purely

social organizations.

One of these, the

;

its

furniture consists of three

On the wall by the entrance han^

each of which

is

recorded the fact that

they are gifts from departing members
to those left behind.

The walls behind

"Saxo-Barussia," is composed almost ex-

the tables are covered with photographs

clusively of nobility ; its color is white.

of former members, taken individually

Since practically

the social inter-

and collectively on special occasions the

course of university students takes place

oldest of these are daguerreotyi>es, and a

through the
the

all

fraternities,

an account of

number of others represent the "Men-

doings of a typical

representative

sur."

will be of especial interest to the

can collegian.
I

;

Ameri-

Standing upon a ledge which extends

almost around the room, and arranged in

Through my friend, R

have twice had opportunity to look in

upon the "Allemania," one of the "Burschenschaften ;" first at one of the regular

meetings and again at the "Mensur."

THE "kneipe."

My visit to the "Kneipe" occurred
April 30th, on which evening is held the

"Maifest," or celebration of the advent

of May.

The regular "Kneipe" is held

the order of seniority,

are the photographs of the present active members.
Light is supplied by a large chandelier
suspended from the ceiling. From the
ceiling

hang also several genuine drink-

ing horns, long since out of use, but
treasured as relics of an honorable and
important history.

Before describing these characteristic
official

assemblies, it will be well by way

THE HAVERFORDIAN
of

preliminary

explanation

to

outline

more important regulations
to which the members are subject. After
the

briefly

qualifying socially the prospective mem-

unusual responsibility, he begged me not
to call for him till ten o'clock.
the way,

is

R— by
,

an interesting and, I believe,

an exceptional specimen of the class we
a handsome young Ger-

ber must give his word of honor to re-

are considering

main in Heidelberg at least three semesters he must take two hours sword practice daily, and he must attend
every

man, a crack swordsman, member of an
eight-oar racing crew, a clever and enthusiastic violinist, a natural orator, and
apparently the most popular member of
but at the same time a
his fraternity
most industrious student and unassum-

;

"Kneipe," or regular meeting of the so-

At the end of each month the en-

ciety.
tire

expenses

the

of

society

for

that

:

;

month are ascertained and divided equally among the members. The average individual levy is between ten and twelve

that he has paused in the middle of his

Upon entering the so-

passed the "Physicum," to take his Ph.D.

member presents a song-book
and a beer-stein, each inscribed with his
name and the date of presentation, both
of which remain in the permanent possession of the society. Within six weeks

For the first semester of membership he is given the name of "Fuchs," and

which he will
He wrote
the five-minute oration between eight and
ten o'clock that evening and met me
promptly at the appointed hour.
We passed through a capacious vestibule, at one side of which the "Hausmeister" and his son were busily engaged
in filling steins from a large cask of beer,
and entered the "Kneipe" room. With

during this period does no actual fight-

a loud voice

ing, but devotes

associates,

dollars per month.
ciety each

after his admission each new member is
expected to choose one of the elder men

as

"Leibbursche," or personal

his

ad-

viser.

himself exclusively to

sword practice, under the instruction of
the university "Fechtlehrer."

At the end

of the semester he may take part in the
.

"S

ing to a fault.

medical

I

course,

was astonished to learn
that

is,

after

having

in natural science; after

complete his medical studies.

rules

R— introduced me to his

and in accordance with the
governing this formality, recom-

mended me to their hospitable treatment.
As he finished, they all rose, shouted the

"Mensur," his opponent, naturally, being

appropriate response, and after raising

also a "Fuchs."

their

After having fought

well on two separate occasions he becomes

a

"Bursche,"

and

in

addition

to

the

"Mutze" or color-cap, is permitted to
wear his colors in a ribbon or band
across his breast.

steins

to the level of their

eyes,

banged them recklessly upon the table
again, whereupon I was conducted to a
seat and provided with stein and songbook.

As in all the incor-

The aimlessness of pure conviviality is

porated societies, the members of "Alle-

relieved, in these meetings,

mannia" are bound to be strictly honor-

duction of an informal musical program

able in

further-

consisting of alternating vocal and instru-

more, if one is suspected of a dishonor-

mental solos, each of which is followed
by a song from the song-book, sung,
without accompaniment and in unison,

all

their dealings, and,

able action or of immorality in

its

nar-

rower sense, he is liable to investigation,
and if found guilty, is expelled.
It happened that on the occasion of my
visit R
had been chosen to deliver the
oration, and pleading the excuse of this

by the intro-

with the greatest enthusiasm.

While conversing with

my neighbors

made mental note of the scene and the
actors in it. The members were marked
I

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ii6

by

a

uniform

smoking

'jacket

and

"Miitze" or fraternity cap, while the few
guests from other fraternities wore their

own caps. There was one other beside
myself who wore ho cap, and he was
destined to furnish the chief amusement

of the evening.

My attention having

been drawn to him by circumstances
which will be duly related, I was in-

formed that he was a first semester stu.~dent who had made himself obnoxious
,'by reason of his self-conceit, and who
""imagined that the invitation which had
been sent him for this evening was but
preliminary to his election as a member.
I do not doubt that to this day he is
,

serenely unconscious of the fact that he

was the Joke of the occasion.

A favorite custom at these meetings is
for two members to lock arms and at a
single draught to empty a stein of beer.
1

have not been able to discover whether

performed as a marie of mutual esteem, or upon a challenge from
one to the other, but whether from one
or both considerations, the woiild-be candidate felt it incumbent upon his honor

this rite is

the

ceremony of welcome to May, the

"Lieblingsmonat" of the German calendar.
After a rousing song, each one
seized his stein, which, in the meantime,

had been refilled, and took his place in
A few moments later a
line of march.
single file of hatless men, most of them
in gold-braided smoking jackets, each
holding before him a stein of beer, could

have been seen winding silently through
the narrow streets toward the market
place, where, upon our arrival, we formed

a circle about the large stone fountain

which stands in the middle of the square.
The few spare minutes were utilized by
the company for brushing up their memory of the lines of the song of welcome,
and as the last note of the hour died
who had
away a signal from R

,

mounted the stone base of the fountain,
brought forth the opening line with a
precision and enthusiasm that was truly
The song was followed by R 's
fine.
oration, in which he recalled the discom-

forts of the winter season in

much the

were showered upon him by the conspirators, who, by this and other means,
endeavored to warm up the poor fel-

same vein as Ulysses did the hardships
of his wanderings, and after describing
with glowing language the delights of
summer, he called upon his companions
to rejoice with him upon its return, and
to signify their satisfaction by emptying

low's feeling of self-importance to the

their steins in the usual manner.

to accept the invitations to drink which

This done, we retraced our steps to the

bubbling point of loquacity.

Within the hour after I began to count
the number of times he took part in the

ceremony
less

just described, he drained

than

eight

finally, after

half-liter

steins,

fraternity house,

and soon after were on

our way home.

no

THE "mENSUR."

and,

maudlin nonsense had suc-

My visit to the "Mensur" was one of

and he was no

those experiences which, by reason of

longer able to co-ordinate his movements,

their startling contrast with the ordinary

much less his ideas, he was led away by

events of the "simple

two of the younger members amid the

them a lasting impression.

mingled jeers and feigned regrets of his

Friday afternoon R

tormentors.

would like to attend "a German bloodfeast," accompanying the invitation with
a few suggestive passes; and upon my
ready acceptance he appointed the "Old

ceeded noisy

It lacked

hilarity,

I

now but a quarter of an hour

to midnight, and the signal was passed to

prepare for the climax of the evening

life,"

leave behind

On a certain

— asked me whether

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117

Bridge" as the place, and nine the next

heavily padded

morning' as the hour.

with a soft but thick leather glove, rein-

Promptly

at

9.15,

therefore,

after

a

and the hand covered

forced in the back to the finger tips with

short walk up the Neckar valley, we en-

metal plates.

tered the door of the time-honored inn

heavy metal goggles with no glasses in
the apertures, and so arranged that the

on the Hirschg^sse and proceeded at once
the scene
to the two large rooms above

of action.

After a most ceremonious in-

troduction to the officers of the day, fol-

lowed by presentations to the other members of "Allemannia," I began to look
about me.
The smaller of the two rooms, both of
which were carpetless, served the double
purpose of dressing-room and surgery;
on one side the tables were covered with
weapons, and protective coverings for
€yes, neck, body and arms, while on the
other were wholesale quantities of mafor surgical dressings, antiseptic

terials

solutions, instruments, etc.,

and before a

window a crude imitation of a dentist's
chair.

purposes

wearer's glasses can be adjusted to them
and protected by them. The face and top
of the head are thus left unprotected, and
against these parts that the attack

it

is

is

directed.

To

the

;

and here

here the combats take place,

>

uninitiated

the

weapons are

heavy affairs, possessing a
which
almost completely encloses
guard
the hand, and is decorated with the German national colors. The blade measfearfully

ures about a yard in length, three-quarters of an inch at the hilt and one-third of

an inch at the tip, and its double edge for
about a foot from the tip

is

sufficiently

sharp.

As usual, two fraternities were represented,

The larger room likewise served two

Over the eyes are strapped

and R

"Allemannia" and "Frankonia,"
as it happened, was serving as

,

second for his

fratri.

The two principals

were displayed copious
quantities of sandwiches and wine, together with cigars and cigarettes. The
furniture was limited to a half dozen
tables, a few benches and two or three
dozen wooden chairs. Countless blood
splotches on the floor of both rooms told

to be an essential item of property in the

the story of previous encounters, and on

the two appear for several minutes to be

the walls hung other evidence in the form
of photographs of similar assemblies, one
of which bears the date 1857.

endeavoring simply to stare each other

also

We arrived just as the first pair

support the back of a chair, which seems
scene to be enacted.

upheld

a horizontal posi-

tion by his comrade,

and in this attitude

is

out of nerve.

The seconds now appear, each with a
weapon and clad like the contestants, but
leather, looking

clothing above the waist is removed and

bonnet.

a white muslin shirt put on, over which
are placed padded shoulder guards, and
the whole covered with a heavy apron.

The neck is thoroughly protected by a
troad padded band wound around several
times and extending almost to the point
of the chin. The fighting arm is also

The fighting arm

in

of each

seven w-ere entered for the day's program were preparing for the fray. All

take their places

opposite each other, each using as a half

further

protected

by a head-dress of

much like a rural sun-

The combatants, still wearing their fraternity

caps,

approach each other and

raise their weapons, with the arm in rigid

extension, till the blades point full at the
zenith

;

the other hand rests in a leather

ring attached to the belt at the back.

The seconds, after assuring themselves

—a

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ii8

that the interval between the men is exactly a sword's length, take a crouching

a fearful wound reaching from the left
ear nearly to the corner of the mouth;

position on the side opposite the fight-

whereupon the judge, a

ing arm, each with one foot placed before

band-headed veteran, decided that he had
been sufficiently punished and turned him
over to the tender mercies of the sur-

the foot of his principal, and only the
signal

is

wanting to precipitate the con-

battle-scarred,

geon.

flict.

At the word "los," shouted by one of

the whole head, at least a considerable

The poor fellow seemed quite dejected,
and with better reason than appeared
upon the surface, for it was said that
the judge had also decided that he had
not shown sufficient fortitude under his

segment of

injuries

the seconds, I am obliged to confess that
I withdrew my gaze for a moment

from

the scene, for I was convinced that if not

it

must be

lost

by one or
blow.

After removing his blood-soaked cos-

The signal, however, was followed only

tume, which was delivered to a "diener"
to be sponged off, the unlucky "Frank-

other of the duellists at the

first

by a preliminary formality, which consisted in the crossing of the weapons
above the head a few times, and the sub-

onian" proceeded to the dentist's chair,

where the surgeon awaited him.

Here,

was

sequent removal of the caps.

in

The positions above described were
once more assumed, and at the second

sulted, however, to the immense relief of

quickly made whole again, and it is the
writer's humble opinion that he retrieved
by his absolutely unflinching behavior under the merciless needle of the none too
gentle surgeon, all that he had lost before

the writer, in nothing more fearful than

the blade of his opponent.

signal the battle

began

in

earnest with

three or four mighty sweeps, which re-

the midst of his comrades, he

of his principal in such a position as to

The dressing had barely been applied
and the plain black dressing cap put on,
before the second pair were glaring at
each other from their respective chair-

intercept any subsequent blows

backs in the next room.

the loud clanging of steel.
"halt," also given

At the word

by the second, each

second thrust his weapon before the face

opponent.
tions

were

Hereupon

from his

the original posi-

immediately

assumed,

the

usual signal given, three or four blows
again exchanged and the combat again

This conflict

came quickly to an end, for the two were
unevenly matched, the victor, who was a

member of neither fraternity, having been
invited to "take part."

He took part with a vengeance

interrupted.

The time occupied by these two acts
from the first "los" to the second "halt"
was less than fifteen seconds.
At intervals of from two to three minutes such a scene was repeated until
finally
the
younger of the two

"Frankonian" of about nineteen years
having had his skull laid bare by a slash

:

in the

first

half of the first encounter, that is, in

less

than

five

seconds,

he

had twice

reached his opponent's skull, while a few

minutes later he cut an almost perfect

Greek cross in the other's left cheek, from
which the blood spurted so furiously that
he was compelled to withdraw, defeated,
of course.

of three inches, from which the blood was

The third event, on the contrary, was

streaming down his back to the floor, his

a very long one, lasting three-quarters of

face bathed in blood from several minor

an hour, and, finally, after each principal

"scratches" of one or two inches, received

had received at least half a dozen wounds.

!

:

:

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN
goes

toward

match,

ing out the bent blades of their weapons,

facial disfigurement,

At this point the novelty of the business began to wear

off,

and since the

remaining four pairs were said to be only
tolerably skilful,

and as they were total

strangers to me, I paid

my respects to

my host and withdrew.
From conversations which I have had
•with several past

sport, I

masters in this gentle

can say that the sensations

tendant upon participation in

at-

corre-

it

spond precisely with those experienced

by the batsman in an important cricket
pain enters as

little

into the latter.

The parallel may be par-

ticularly

observed

into the

in

the

former as

fact

that

a

far

getting

one

"set."

As to the danger involved in these enfrom the almost certain
which, by the way,
is considered no misfortune, serious injury to important structures is by no
means uncommon, and death, though
counters, aside

rarely, does sometimes result.

We arrive here, not at the end of our
but at the self-imposed limits

subject,

The writer

of its present consideration.

has only to add the apology which is due
the chance reader of what he has presented.

In accepting the invitation of the

The Haverfordian

Editor-in-Chief of
to "write

up" the student-life at Heidel-

berg, no thought has been entertained of
telling the

lected

match, and that actual fear of physical

119

none of which, however, was of major
seriousness, it was declared a draw. The
men were both heavy, and in the intervals
their friends were kept busy straighten-

which they held, not with bare hands but
in sterile gauze moistened with alcohol.

!

whole

story,

paragraphs,

and

being

if

the se-

with

those

which the writer found himself personally acquainted, will be able only to give an
honest picture of the German student,
drawn as it is with a hand so unused, and

"scratch" in the one, like a "chance" in

in colors so plain, the result attained will

the other, if it comes to one early in the

not fall short of his expectations.

Arthur F. Coca, 'p6.

THE LATEST THING IN RUBAIYATS
Wake for the Muse, who did one Time inspire A Rhyming Dictionary 'neath the Bough,
Omar Khay>'am with an undying Fire,
A Pen in Hand, a Pot of Ink, and Thou
!

Drives off Originality and strikes

Each Poetaster with a mad Desire

Beside me, Omar, in the grateful Shade
Such Inspiration were indeed enow

Think, in this battered monthly Magazine,
Whose Covers are alternate red and green.
When Rhyme and Metre are prepared for you, How Poet after Poet with his verse
Why need Things never used before be tried ?
Abode a While and then no more was seen

Before the Phantom of true Poesy died,
Methinks a Voice within the Poet cried

;

Now the new Era, bearing new Desires,
The thoughtles Soul of Parody inspires;
While the glad Hand of some fool Editor

I

You, gentle Reader, glancing at this Verse
How oft hereafter will you read and curse;

How oft hereafter, sneering, speak of me
It has filled my empty Purse!

Puts out, and Authors send him Stuff by Quires. What matter!
Shakespeare, indeed, is gone with all his Plays;

And when you, too. Posterity, shall look

On Parodies of these no more we gaze.

Amidst the Dust in some envolumed Nook,
And in your studious Errand reach a Spot

Still

Imitation kindles in the Mind,

And many a Donkey "after Omar" braya

Where lies this Scroll—pick up an unread Book.
J.

C.

T. '08

!

DEA EX MACHINA
We all knew Hadley well, and when
he blew in on us the other evening at the
club we could tell at once that he was
brimming over with one of his good
stories.
We were comfortably seated in
those big leather chairs in the smoking
room.

Across the

hall

could be seen

groups of men sitting in the
grill
room, and beyond them were
tables, bright with green billiard cloth,
around which were young well-dressed
fellows in their shirt sleeves. Amidst the
click of the ivory balls a hearty laugh
several

would often come from them that was
pleasant to hear.
It did

not take very much to get Had-

ley started, and he soon told his story.

ing intervals of supine application on the
part of my friend.

examination

begone face, and swallowing great
mouthfuls of clear mountain air, Holton said we should have to walk.
"'Walk?' questioned I. 'Walk?'
" 'Unless something comes along that
will give us a lift,' he answered.

"Then it was my turn to gasp.

way it began was with a

whiz-z-z-z and a crack, and then with a

sound

that

resembled

the

despairing

sigh of some lost soul in Purgatory, the

big touring car in which Holton and

I

were ascending a foot-hill of the White

My friend made a

Mountains, stopped.

hurried, fervent ejaculation, and then as

though taken aback by his language, its
motive power spent, the big machine

started to

retrace

its

footsteps,

marks, to be more exact.

or

tire

Holton pressed

Walk

We had started early that morning from
Tom Dunlap's lodge on Sunset Crest,
bound

Blue Mountain

House,
where I had promised
Helen Wright and her aunt I would meet
them by dinner time that day. It was
now two o'clock; we had made the trip
for the

sixty miles away,

because of the grades,

very leisurely,
"Well, the

But this time a brief
and with a woe-

sufficed,

and even stopped to whip a couple of
likely looking trout streams, so we were
yet twenty miles from the hotel, as
closely as we could judge, from the disWell, I imagine I
tance we had come.
looked rather woe-begone myself when I
because Holton sudrealized all this
denly burst out into guffaws of fool
laughter, so that he had to sit down on a
rock by the roadside and get his breath.
"'Rather hysterical, aren't you?' I
snapped, and with that he was at it
;

certain foot-levers in great haste and
brought the car to a stop, and with much
thankfulness I climbed out and cast my
eyes back over the rocky incline up which
we had come, while Holton rambled and
muttered about 'Differentials bad break

again.

reading what

is

up against it,' etc.
"Evidently something had happened.
This Holton finally made me realize by

which

I shall

show

finish

my story.

his trenchant, decisive language.

Sever-

about girls and thought I made a fool of

times before had

we had our difficul-

myself over Helen, but he doesn't under-

ties, but they always

vanished after vary-

stand how deeply a fellow feels when he

al

"Now, ordinarily, I can take a joke, but
I couldn't see

so I

anything funny just then,

am rather glad of the fate that he

has met, which I have just learned from

"You

see,

he

in

this

envelope, and

you fellows

was

when I

decidedly

blase

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121

I

evening clothes, and besides, Helen's aunt

knew how precise Helen was about keeping dates, and I knew how the dear girl
would worry if I did not arrive when I
had said I should. Why, she might even

was always warning her against men who

is

at least

he didn't then.

did not follow the strictest conventions,

have thought that there were bears in the

saying, 'The dear only knew' what they
would do after marriage if they did not
preserve the most perfect respect for

mountains, or that there had been a cloud-

their fiances before.

burst, or anything,

happened

to

—even

think that

if

I

she never

might have

made the trip in an auto (creations, by
the way, against which her aunt was al-

ways warning her).
"However, when he got through
laughing, and I realized that we should

So I carried a suit

case!

"Well, to shorten a long story, we
walked four hours before we met a person or saw a dwelling, and although we
had rested often, and I had many times
thoughtfully lightened Holton's flask, I

was just about ready to open the lunch

we sorted

basket, namely, a can of pressed turkey,

out the impedimenta that we would actu-

and camp for the night, when, afar off
in the middle distance, we descried a
man.
Columbus discovering America,
Balboa the Pacific, or even a Maine
farmer a speak-easy, could never have

have
ally

push ahead on

to

need,

and then

foot,

with great labor

pushed the automobile out of the road
into the thick underbrush beside it, and
covered it with a big tarpaulin that we
had been using occasionally as a tent
during our past three weeks of touring.
Now it was serious business upon which
we were embarking, and as I look back
upon it I congratulate myself that I
showed the stuff of which heroes are
made. I believe I made some such remark to Holton and likened myself to a
martyr, whereupon he started his assinine laughter again and agreed that I
was like most martyrs, because like them
I had a flame at the end of my journey.
We had ridden at least ten miles since

experienced the exquisite joy that

me

at the sight of that

filled

homo sapiens.

Even Holton remarked at it and said he
would not have been so surprised had it
been a girl.

"When we approached and got a good
view of him, neither one of us was so

knew how far we should have to walk
before we should meet even man or
beast let alone a human dwelling place,

happy as before. He was rather shabbily
dressed, though his clothes bore the aspect of having once been of good quality.
He wore an old brown slouch hat, but it
was his face that filled me with apprehension. It was too shrewd for the man's
garb. There were no bad lines in it, in
fact it was a strong face, but even its
strength looked out of place there. 'Something wrong,' I said to myself as I drew

but

my belt tighter.

seeing a habitation,

and heaven alone

after

carefully

possessions that

we

concealing

all

our

did not need, and

blazing the trail of the decrepit car,
started

on up the hill.

light, in fact, I think

we

at

House without mv

one of those dry 'leatherstocking' laughs.

pressed turkey,but I just had to lug a bag

— couldn't think of being there
I

the Blue Mountain

man, can you direct us to
some place where we can spend the night,
and get something to eat?' questioned
Holton as soon as the stranger had
reached us; and then, in answer to a
searching look from the man, he weakly
burst out into a recital of our mishap.
The man heard it through, and then gave

Holton traveled

he only stuffed his

tooth-brush and pipe into his pockets,
along with a flask, and two boxes of

along

" 'My good

THE HAVERFORDIAN

122

room, there were more useful and

as though he, too, like Helen's aunt, had

this

a grudge against automobiles and gloried

satisfying things to be seen.

"Well, we had not much more than got

But more important
and far better was the invitation he gave
to come and spend the night with him,
with the added comfort that there would
be a weekly provision wagon along the
next day, upon which we could probably

outside a door that appeared to lead to a
pantry or the kitchen. 'They must have

ride to our destination.

the fairest girls

"We started. Holton and the stranger
walked ahead, retracing our steps until
they reached a wagon track that led up

ton and I both rose, hardly noticing that

the mountain.

fles,

in their downfall.

even

the

poor

I

followed, thinking that
this mounwould be acceptable,

hospitality

taineer could offer

and admitting to myself that my sushad been unfounded and were
due largely to the old brown slouch hat.

picions

before

started

heard light footsteps

I

a servant, after all," I ruminated, and just
then there appeared in the room one of

have ever seen, she
made me think at once of Helen. HolI

was carrying a platter of wafand it would have been a pretty howto-do had she really been the maid; but
she was not; we were presented to Miss
Wildes, the daughter of the house, who,
the girl

it

appears, had been the artist who con-

cocted the royal banquet of which

we

After walking for about twenty minutes

were

had

we reached his house and I was agreeably

known we were there, for she was not so

partaking.

Evidently,

she

was ideal for

embarrassed as Holton or I, and kept a

view, and the white cottage attractive in

very demure demeanor for a poor lonely

surprised, as the situation

its setting of trees and

shrubberies. There

country

girl.

We finished the dinner,

—supper they called —and went

was a bracing odor of balsam and ozone
up there, and as we got nearer I detected
the still more bracing odor of a broiling
beefsteak.
The house was rather well

finally,

up and a good library of books
graced the big living room, which sur-

Mr. and Mrs. Wildes and went off to
Well, fellows, you would
have died at Holton, he could only babble about Juno, violet ej'es, June roses,
etc., etc., until I was thoroughly disgusted.
After all, this was the time I
should have been with Helen, and as
darkness fell around us, slowly dimming
the green mountains, and as we heard the
mournful chirp of crickets and tree-frogs,
my hard luck was forced home to me.
But as for Holton, he was a perfect idiot.
I had never seen him so foolish.
You
see, this girl's beauty, which could not
be denied, stnick him forcibly, at the
psychological moment, as Jack Reade
would say, it was like finding a jewel
among pebbles, or an orchid on the
prairie, to find her there,
I am poor at

fitted

prised us, and, as I afterward remarked
to Holton, hinted of University Extension and home-reading courses.

But sur-

prises seemed to be increasing, for later,

when the mountaineer introduced us to
we saw a very sweet middle-

his wife,

aged lady w'ho would have graced a city
drawing-room better than this lonely
mountain dwelling. We both thought her
verj- attractive, and I was thinking with
pity what her life must be here, nothing

more than a scant living, snowbound in
winter, and a slow, tedious existence,

\vhen the mountaineer, whose name was

Mr. Wildes, by the way, appeared and led
us to the dining-room.
Iv

I tell you, I hard-

took time to notice the tastefulness of

it,

outside to the porch which looked out

over the irregular green valley.
awhile Holton and

I

After

broke away from

take a smoke.

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
you see what I mean, and
Holton was hard hit, I can tell you. As
luck would have it, when we got back
there. Miss Wildes was through with the
dishes and it was not long before I was

similes, but

entertaining

the

old

while

couple,

Launcelot was out strolling with Elaine.

Worse and worse, the moon came up,
pretty soon giving us a magnificent scene,

and that just about fixed poor Holton.
While I landed nothing more than eight
mosquito bites, he seemed to have got a
shaft fairly between his fourth and fifth
ribs.

"When we retired that night, I twitted
him about his conquest, and Holton, the
cold,

unsentimental,

the

supposed

the

woman-hater, actually blushed.

"The next morning he was up when I
awoke, and when I went down stairs to
see if I could be of any service, I found
Holton,

immaculate,

the

Harvard
This was al-

the

graduate, peeling potatoes.

most too much, and I had to laugh when
I saw it, much to his apparent embarrassment. But when breakfast was over
he gave me news that fairly extirpated
all breath from my body, by announcing
that he was afraid to leave his auto so
long, so he had been invited by Mr.
Wildes to stay there while I rode to the
Blue Mountain House on the rural provision wagon and brought back the necessary parts

for

repairing the machine.

:

123

I explained things and we finally
made arrangements with a blacksmith,
who also ran a sort of garage, to send
down the parts necessary with a man to

Well,

adjust them.

I

did not go, I

felt

like

washing my hands of Holton entirely for
his perverseness, and when Helen asked
me to go to Mirror Lake for a few days
with a party that was starting, I left with
no compunctions.
"Holton fixed his auto all right and
came to the hotel, where I found him
upon our return. He was serene and
happy, yet repentant for what he had
done, so I forgave him and we finished
our trip together. I could never get him
to tell me any more about his visit, so I
came to the conclusion that he had been
disillusioned, and really felt ashamed for
what he had done. That was where I
was fooled
Just listen to this"
With that Hadley drew from his
pocket an invitation and read as follows
!

"Professor and Mrs. J. Mason Wildes
request the honor of your presence
at the

wedding of their daughter,

Grace Elizabeth Wildes,
to

Walter Willits Holton,
Friday evening, June the twentieth."

We all knew Holton and immediately
flooded Hadley with questions.

"Well, I'll tell you," he said, "appear-

—deceived

Nerve! Why, I should have thought
Holton would have had more sense; but
he was immovable. I coaxed and pleaded

ances deceived us

him not to give up so weakly, to be a
man; then failing in that, I pointed out
the wrong he was doing all around, I re-

after all.

called the innocence of this country girl,

Francisco earthquake. He and his family

but it was all unavailing, stay he would.

seek the simple

So I made the trip alone.

I

and we

just struck

pause over

they

plicity.

I was fooled, and so

its

details,

for

shall not

were

me, at any
yours truly.

rate,

Helton's eye wasn't so bad,

It seems that Wildes is that big

geologist up at Yale that just put out
that

wonderful theory about the
life

many.

We made forty professional visits

have been

before

that

won out in the end.

traveling

brought me to the hotel,

market house
and to Helen.

for once,

and the drinks are on

all

year,

also,

San

during the summer

them

in

their sim-

may Holton

but he didn't care and

He's been hard hit
and I think his business inter-

THE HAVERFORDIAN

124

ests will pick up when this is over.
is

funnier

is

still,

that

this

What

Elizabeth

Wildes had graduated in Helen's class at
Smith the June before we met them, and
if the family had not been so secretive
about themselves we should have known
it at once instead of supposing them

mountaineers.

Here, boy,

However, all's well that—
a hansom for me, will

call

you?

"So long, fellows
the twentieth.

;

I shall see you all

on

I'm to do the duties of

best man, you know."
I. J. D., '07.

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
CLASS OF 98 REUNION
The eighth annual reunion of the
Class of '98 was held at Haverford on
October 27th. After the Ursinus game
several of the members took a long walk
along familiar roads, returning to an excellent dinner, in the new assembly room,

Those present were:
Dr. W. W. Cadbury, J. G. Embree, J. H.

at seven o'clock.

Haines, A. S. Harding,
J.

S.

Jenks,

W. C. Janney,

M. M.

Jr.,

Lee,

Dr.

S.

Rhoads, A. G. Scattergood, F. R. Strawbridge,

J.

W, Taylor, T.

Wistar and

President

Scattergood

took the chair and read letters from O.

I.

J.

Sterner,

F. A. Swan, Dr. W. J. Taylor and P. N.

who regretted that they could

Wilson,

not be present.

After an informal dis-

cussion

business

of

Haverford

class

interests,

matters

and

and a Class Day

chorus or two, the meeting adjourned to
the comfort of a Lloyd Hall study, until

the inevitable handshaking time arrived.

The general feeling is that considering
the gymnasium, Lloyd Hall, new dining
hall,

R. D. Wood.

After dinner.

P. Moffitt, P. Stadelman,

'98

Roberts Hall and cricket pavilion,

ought to have another term of four

years.

NOTES
'8t.

John C. Winston, Chairman of

'92.

Augustine W. Blair was in Phila-

the Committee of Seventy, is doing active

delphia for a few days during August,

work for the Lincoln party in Philadel-

visiting his friends

phia.

the chemist of the Experimental Depart-

and relatives.

He is

ment of the Florida State University.
'65.

Rufus

M.

Jones

course of lectures at a

delivered

a

summer school,

held by English Friends, at Bakcwell,

'95-A.M.
in the

A bronze tablet was placed

Law School of the University of

Pennsylvania on Alumni Day, June il,

England, during August

1906, by the Class of 1898,

cated to
'92.

Stanley R. Yamall is acting prin-

murdered

May 20,

Germantown

graduated

from Earlham

of

the

Friends'

Law, dedi-

Roy Wilson White, who was
1900.

Mr. White

School during the absence on leave of the

1894, received his Master's degree at Haverford

regular principal, Davis H. Forsythe.

in 1895, and the degree of LL. B. at the

cipal

in

THE HAVERFORDIAN
He was
Law School, 1898-1900,
and was a student of the Civil Law Uni-

University Law School in 1898.

a fellow in the

Miss Frances Lillian Taylor, at Lansdown, Pa., on October 17th, 1906.

Guerney Newlin is engaged
law in Los Angeles,

Ex-'02.

versity of Paris, 1899-1900.

125

in the practice of

Henry Scattergood was married to Miss Anne Theodore Morris on

Cal.

the 13th of last June, at the bride's home,

of the editors of the Law Review of Har-

'96.

J.

Nova.

in Villa

'02.

W. P. Phillips was elected one

vard University.
fine

'98. Fred. A. Swan was married on
August 29th to Miss Helen Wood, of
Boston. About a week before the wedding he met with a serious accident on a
trolley car which was run into by an

automobile, resulting in several broken

The wedding ceremony took
place in the hospital in New York City.
bones.

Dr. Wm. W. Cadbury, '98, and W. Bat-

Phillips

record in the Harvard

'03.

S.

has

made a

Law School.

N. Wilson is teaching at the

West Chester State Normal School, West
Chester, Pa.
'04.
W. P. Bonbright is with the Yale
& Towne Manufacturing Company, 242

Fifth Avenue,

New York, where he is

at home to all Haverfordians.

tey were ushers.

The engagement of John L.
Mary Elizabeth Bettle, of

Ex-'05.
Ex-'98.

C. A.

Vamcy is engaged in

the mining business in the State of Wash-

Scull to Miss

Haverford, has been announced.

ington.

Ex-'06.
'00.

Frederic

C.

Sharpless

is

now

C. J.

Malone is in the Penn-

sylvania Law School.

practicing medicine with Dr. Branson, at

Bryn Mawr.
'OJ.

'06.
J. Monroe is in the Engineering
Department of Cornell University.

E. C. Rossmaessler

is

receiving

congratulations on the birth of a son.

'06.

F. R. Taylor and J. Tunney have

entered the Pennsylvania Law School.
'01.

W. W. Woodward

graduated

from the University of Pennsylvania
Medical School last June and is now at
the Episcopal Hospital.

K. De Armond was married
Emily Janney, at the Friends'
Meeting House, 15th and Race Streets,
on October twenty-seventh.
'01.

J.

to Miss

"Brigham" Young (W. A.) is
Oak Grove Seminary,
Vassalboro, Me.
'06.

teaching at the

'06.

R.

Friends'

W. Sands is teaching in the
Academy

W. H. Kirkbride is in the employ

of the Lewiston Clarkston

Company at

Locust

Valley,

H. P. Fritz is living in Phila-

Ex-'07.
'OJ.

at

Long Island.

delphia.

He is fully recovered from a se-

vere illness.

Qarkston, 111.
Ex-'07.
'02.

Norris A. Scott was married to

C.

J.

Claassen

is

the State bank, Jansen, Neb.

cashier of

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
FOOT BALL SCHEDULE
Nov.

the

—^Johns Hopkins,
—Trinity, Hartford, Conn.
— New York University,
at

lo.

ford.

Nov. 17.
Nov. 24.

Haver-

at

at

Haverford.

SOCCER SCHEDULE (Not Complete)




Haverford.
HaverDec. — Germantown C. C,
ford.
HaverDec. — Philadelphia C. C,
ford.
Dec.
— Pennsylvania, Franklin
Field.
Dec.
—Columbia, Haverford.
—Merion, Haverford.
Dec.
Nov. 6. Belmont C. C, at Elmwood.
Nov. 28. Cornell, at Haverford ?
Nov. 30. Boys' Club of New York, at
I.

at

8.

at

at

12.

at

14.

15.

Dec. 22.— P.

at

Jan.

C.

C,

at

—Belmont, Haverford.
—Princeton, Princeton.
—Germantown C. C, Ger-

Jan. 19.

Jan. 26.

at

at

combines

;

Played at Haverford, October 6, 1906.
1906.

The line-up:
Haverford.

Medico-Chi.

Edwards

I.

e

Bradlier

1.

t

Lowrie

Wood

!.

g

Bucket

Killen

c

(Ayer)
(Frost)

Sautee

(Thompson)

at

mantown ?
Feb. 2.— P. & R. Y. M. C. A., at Tabor.

it

HAVERFORD, 4 MEDICO CHI, O.

St.

Martin's.

because

FOOT BALL

Green

5.— Philadelphia

Jan. 12.

mainly,

which the college and university settlements do not do.
Mr. Bates' talk was in part a practical
talk on social conditions as they are
found in New York City, and for the rest
an appeal for enough Christian influence
to regenerate the dwarfed lives of the
class of society to which he has given
up his life.

& R. Y. M. C. A., at

Haverford.

city,

Christian teaching with practical charity,

r.

g

Haggert

r.

t

O'Toole

Jones
(Leonard)

r.

e

Meyer

Haines

q.

b

Christ

r.

h.

b

Cooper

1.

h.

b

Blocker

f.

b

Birdsall

(Wright)

Ramsey
(Jones)

Rev. H. Roswell Bates addressed the

Y. M. C. A. on Wednesday evening, October ID. Mr. Bates is the pastor of the
Spring Street Presbyterian Church in the
lower west side of New York, and in
connection with his church maintains a
settlement house.
This "Neighborhood
House," as it is called, has the reputation
of doing as much lasting good among the
tenement dwellers as any settlement in

(Magill)

Bard
(Miller)

A.
C.

Brown
Brown

Time

of

Halves

Redan

— 15 minutes.

Curtis, University of Pennsylvania.

Hitchener, Rutgers.

Haverford.

Referee

Umpire^

— Brown,
—Haines.

Head Linesman

Goal from Field

:

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
HAVERFORD,

5

LEHIGH,

;

Trevorton,

O.

127

Touchdowns

Lehigh.

—Jones,

Haverford.

Played at South Bethlehem, October

HAVERFORD, O; RUTGERS, O.

13, 1906.

About

accompanied the team to Bethlehem and were
repaid by seeing it win from Lehigh 5 to
The game was an exciting one to
O.
watch.
Lehigh fumbled often, and a
red and black jersey generally covered
the ball. On one of these fumbles Tatnall secured the ball on Lehigh's 20-yard
The next few plays yielded subline.
stantial gains and Jones took the ball
over for a touchdown. C. Brown would
have scored another touchdown in this
half if Referee Smith had not penalized
Haverford fifteen yards for a questionstudents

seventy-five

able decision of hurdling.

Played

at

Haverford,

October

20,

1906.

The heavy Rutgers team, aided by a
very slippery field, kept Haverford from

Rutgers had a good heavy line,
which Haverford was not able to pierce
consistently. The strength of the Haverford team lies in its fast end runs. The
condition of the field and poor interference kept them from being effective.
scoring.

Several attempts at field goals failed.

When two teams are nearly equal this
year's lo-yard rule
difllicult

A field goal

makes it much more

for either to score.

The line-up

after this penalty failed.

In the second half Haverford completely outplayed Lehigh and had the ball
in their territory practically all the time.

Haverford used the kicking game large-

Haverford.

Rutgers.

MacNeil

Leonard

1.

e

Tatnall

1.

t

Wood

1.

g

Leslie

Cox
Good

Spaeth

c

Brown well outkicking Sheridan.

Birdsall

r.

g

Black

But the lo-yard rule, with a little aid from
Lehigh's defense, kept Haverford from
scoring. An attempt at a field goal was

Ramsey

r. t

Thomas

Magill

r.

Haines

q.

b

unsuccessful.

Bard

1.

h.

b

r.

h.

b

f.

b

C.

ly,

(A.

The line-up
Haverford.

Lehigh.

Troutman

e

1.

(Magill)

C.

Brown

1.

t

Wood

1.

g

Spaeth

c

Burlingame
Sheridan
Westerbeck

Birdsall

r.

g

Shaikley

Ramsey

r.

t

Street

Jones

r.

e

(Wallover)
Bakewell

Haines

q.

b

(Haug)
Hoppin

1.

h.

b

Lawyer

r.

h.

b

Spiers

f

b

(Wigten)
A.

Brown
(Miller)

Bard
(Hutton)
C.

Brown

.

— Smith, Bucknell.

Mercur

Umpire Lamson, University of Pennsylvania.
Linesman
Referee

(Nutt)
Fisher
Corbin

—Gillender, University of Pennsyl—

Referee

Umpire Wallace. Linesman Brown,
Haverford. Time of Halves 20 minutes.

vania.

Tatnall

Thorpe
Booze

Brown)

Jones

Ayer

Nutt
(Wallace)

e

HAVERFORD, 23 URSINUS, 16.
;

Played

at

Haverford,

October

27,

1906.

Haverford won a very interesting
game from the Ursinus team, which had
held Dickinson to a 4 to o score the Saturday before. Haverford's team work,
that had been lacking in former games,
was more in evidence. The Haverford
'Varsity found Ursinus weaker than was
expected and outplayed them at every
point.
Ursinus scored a touchdown in

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN

128
the first half on a trick play.

used mainly straight foot

Haverford
Bard,

ball.

however, scored a touchdown on a cleverexecuted forward pass.

ly

:

with many good individual plays.
Ramsey, Bard and Spaeth played well
for the Sophs, as did Frost, Hutton and
Langsdorf for the Freshmen.
filled

Ursinus' other two touchdowns were

The line-up

made against Haverford's second eleven.
Jones and Haines were the only regulars
who played through the whole game.

The last touchdown by Ursinus was afwas up, the timekeepers being

Sophomores.

Freshmen.

Lewis
Green

Ayer
Wilson

1.

e

1.

t

g

Marsh

1.

ter time

Killen

c

tardy in communicating the fact to the

Thompson
Watt

r. t

Frost

Sharpless

r.

e

Shoemaker

Myers

q.

b

Ramsey

1.

h.

b

Bard

r.

h.

b

f.

b

Brown
were excellent ground gainers for Haverford, and Ramsey and Spaeth played
Captain Jones and C.

referee.

well on the defense.

Time
Haverford.

Bard

Ursinus.
1.

e

Alspach

1.

t

Quay

Wood

1.

g

Ellis

(Green)
Spaeth

c

of

Halves

Umpire

Lowry.

Sholan

g

r.

Spaeth

The line-up

Morris
Schultz

Judkins

Hutton
Langsdorf
Martin

— 15 minutes.

Referee

—Jones.

(Leonard)
Tatnall

(Frost)

Cook

(Killen)
Birdsall

r.

g

Heller

r.

t

Hoover

(Emlen)

Ramsey

r.

e

Abel

(Ayer)
Haines

q b

Paist

Sophomore-Freshman

annual

tober 15, was won by 1910, 44 points to

One Hundred Yard Dash

— First, Frost, '10;

second, Roberts, '10; third. Palmer,

Brown

1.

r.

h.

b

Roth

h.

b

Hain

I -5

f.

Kerschner

b

Brown, Bard, Roth, Hain.
downs Haints, 3; Paist.

Goals from touch-

Two Hundred and Twenty Yard Dash
Warnock, '09.
third,

Time, 26 seconds.

Schultz,

'10.

One

Hundred

and

after rushing the ball consistently to the

Freshmen's 2-yard
line,
the
Sophs
fumbled and a Freshman got the ball.
interesting,

lump

Twenty
'09;

being

feet

Yard

High

3

second, Cary,

'10.

— First, Judkins, '10; second.

Spiers, '09; third, Bard, '09.

The Sophomores deserved to win the
foot ball game with the Freshmen, but

—32

Distance

inches.

High

The game was very

Palmer, '10; third,

— First, Ramsey, '09; second, Green,

Hurdles First, Bard,
Time, 19 4-5 seconds.

1909, o; 1910, O.

Time,

'09.

2 minutes 10 3-5 seconds.

'09;

Referee Gillender, U. of P.
Umpire
Teas, U. of P.
Touchdowns Jones, 2; C.

Time,

Langsdorf, '10; sec-

First,

ond. Baker, '10; third, Thompson,

Shot Put

(Clement)

'10.

seconds.

First, Roberts, '10; second.

(Miller)

Brown

II

Half Mile Run

(Hutton)
Jones
C.

The

Athletic Meet, held on Walton Field, Oc-

27.

(Jones)
Magill

A.

SOPHOMORE-FRESHMAN TRACK AND
FIELD MEET

Height, 4

ft.

II

inches.

Four Hundred and Forty Yard Dash
Langsdorf, '10; second, Warnock,
Mott, '09. Time, 54 1-5 seconds.

Broad Jump

First,

third,

Langsdorf, '10; second.

Bard, '09; third. Spiers, '09.

S% inches.

— First,

'09;

Distance, 18 feet

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DREKA
Stationery and Engraving House
1121 Chestnut

Street,

Philadelphia

COLLEGE INVITATIONS
FRATERNITY MENUS
BOOK PLATES
RECEPTION INVITATIONS
MONOGRAM STATIONERY

Those who bring- pictures to us
know that our mouldings comprise
a large variety. And it is becaust
we know how to use the experience

DANCE PROGRAMS
ENGRAVINGS FOR ANNUALS
VISITING CARDS

that our frames
please patrons
and do the subject justice.

The little Art Shop

WEDDING INVITATIONS

Sround the Corner

FRATERNITY STATIONERY
Coats of Arms Painted for Framing
Heraldry and Genealogy

Otto Scheibal '«N-^«hst.

Williem Diiiicen
Haverford,

and Salt MCfltS
Pr ovisions, Poultry, Butter, Eggfs

F*a.

and Lard

OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME IN SESSON

Exceptional

TeMerlug
FoE" C©IEege

Men

BOYD & ZELLEU
I024 WaJnul Street
Philadelphia
»

and the

Reeds' CollegeMan'sClothes
acquainted with Reeds' and
ARE you
College Men's Cothing?

Do you

"Careful Handling and
their

realize that their College busi-

ness is probably the largest of any outfitting

house in the country?
success
Nothing is gained without effort
breeds success. The right kind of goods at fair

prices

have made this great business possible.

Quality"

WILSON LAUNDRY
Bryn IViawr, Pa.

Autumn Suitt *nd Overcoal$, Furniihings, Headvlear
and outtittings generally are ready

Messrs. Hamilton, Jones

1424=1426 Chestnut Street

PHILADELPHIA

& Wood, Agents.

THE HAVERFORDIAN

ILE

ORIGINAL

mNli

1884

1906 M

In the
Battle of Competition

Merit wins

The

Hammond Typewriter
Has repeatedly demonstrated that it
do everything done by other
typewriters, do it better, and in addition do work impossible on other
writing machines.
will

The Hammond Typewriter Co.
FACTORY AND GENERAL OFFICES

69th to 70th Sts. & East River
NEW YORK CITY

PHIUD'A BRANCH

33 Sk 35 S.

1

0th St.

PHILADELPHIA

THE HAVERFORDIAN

FENNER

E. M.

Eugene C. Tillman

Confectioner

Shirt Maker

29 North 13th St.e-t

Importer

BRYN MAWR, PA.
Win. F. Whelan

ARDMORE, PA.

Telephone 52

P. J.

Whelan

Wm. F. Whelan & Bro.
Practical

Plumbers,

Gas

and

Steam

Fitters

ARDMORE, PA.
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished
Jobbing Promptly Attended to

Lyons Brothers
Lawn Mowers
Sharpened and Repaired
BICYCLES and Repairing
Brj-n Mawr and Ardmore,

Pa.

Van Horn & Son

Fine Shoe Repairing:

YETTERS

Anderson Avenue
Ardmore. Pa,

B. Sta^hl

and

*+*+4>+**++<"M"

**

Decorator

27 S. Eleventh Street
Bell Phone Walnut 52-26

Philadelphia

Keystone Phone Race 71-19
Mail and Phone Orders promptly attended

to.

Ardmore Tailoring Co.
SUITS MADE TO ORDER, also

Philadelphia
to hire for College Entertainments,
Theatricals and Tableaux.

Cleaning, Altering and Pressing

Lancaster Ave.,

Ardmore, Pa.

FOR

FRANK BRINKERHOFF

J.

Florist

Kaplan Bros,

North Ninth St

Costumes

Pa.

Take Shoes to room 43 Barclay Hall, either Monday,
Wednesday or Friday, and we will have them neatly
repaired and return the second following evening,
BCRTT and LONGSTRETH, College Agents,
Shoe Repair Shop

COSTUMERS
121

Philadelphia

Men's Furnisher

Optician and Photo Supplies

Shoes and Shoe Repairing

Developing and Printing for amateurs,

GO TO

4229 Lanc&iter Avenue

Philadelphiik, Pa.

L. A.

ROUNTREE'S, ARDMORE, PA.

BUSINESS

UILDERS
We are Printers, makers of Stationery, Booklets,

Reports and all kinds of

PRINTING
ARDMORE PRINTING CO,
Ardmore, Pa.

Merion Title Building

Henry J. Norton
and Steam Fitter
Lancater Pike above Anderson Ave.
ARDMORE, PA.

Practical Plumber, Gas

Ventilation, Drainage and Hot Water Heating
specialty
Water Wheels
Wind Mills

a

H. S. STILLWAQON
MAIN LINE REAL ESTATE
and Insurance Broker

Rosemont
Phone SS

-

and

-

Ardmore

Pbone 103

JOHNS. TROWER,
CATERER AND
CONFECTIONER
5706 Main Street

Germantown, Phila.

TELEPHONE

K. C. & B. F. HcCABE
Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings, Notions,

Dry Goods, Art Needle \\'ork, Knife and
Accordeon Pleating, and School Supplies
A&ents for Sin&er and Wheeler & "Wilson
Sewing Machines
Philadelphia Store

;

134

S,

Fifteenth Street

Chas. W. Glocker,Jr.
Confectionery Caterer
Bryn Mawr Avenue
Telephone Connection

BRYN MAWR, PA.

THE HAVERFORDIAN

FINE CANDV
Bon Bons

— Chocolates

Made In Philadelphia, fresh every day

Guaranteed Alisolutely Pure

The Arcade Stationery «^ Book Show
9 Lancaster Ave.

"Eat Colonial Biscuits'

Ardmore, Pa.

Try a package of

Colonial Jessona Crisps

Sharpless &aSharpIess
MEN'S FINE FURNISHINGS
18 South Broad St.

19 Souih I5fh St.

loo yards sourh of Broad Srteet Station

Haverford Laundry
Wyoming .\venue. Haverford
PERSONAL SERVICE

PROMPT DELIVERY

Philadelphia

ii8 S. I5TH Street

The Best Printing
Perfect Service
Reasonable Prices
t combination that's hard to beat.

Building Stone and Sand furnished.
Excavation of all kinds done.

" Maltn ol the Beaer KinJ o( Printing"

Both Phonei

PhilaJelpliia

BRYN MAWR HARDWARE GO.

Hauling and

WM. A. HAYDEN

Try ai

The Leeds & Biddle Company, Inc.
1010 Ckerry St.

Yarnall

Manufacturinii Optician

R. T. BURNS, Prop.
Special Rates to Students

Make

William S.

CONTRACTOR

Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Grading and Road Making a Specialty. Cellars
and Wells Dug.
Cesspools Dug and Pumped.
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.

EDIV^RD CAMPBELL
Landscape ^rchiteci

Hardware, Cutlery and House FurnishIng Goods

ARDMORE TA

BRYN MAWR, PENNA.

Gardens Designed and Planting Plans
Prepared

CLOTHING

ARMSTRONG STUDIO

Ready made and to Measure

JOSEPH F.WALLS
With WM. H. WANAMAKER
Market and I2th Streets

ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER
814 Arch St., Phila.

Philadelphia

SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS

Gentlemen's Wardrobes Kept in Good Order on Yearly Contract'

A TA LONE
.

Rhone

TAILOR

Ardmore, Pa,

S. P. FRANKENFIELD SONS

Successors to

UNDERTAKERS

Josiah S. Pearce
33 E. Lancaster Xve.

ARDMORE, RA.

Phone, Ardmore 9

THE HAVERFORDIAN

Pre-eminence in Quality
at

Moderate Price, our Standard

LITTLE & GOLZE,

116 5. 15th Street,
LEADING TAILORS TO COLLEGE MEN

Phila.

'IVE MAKE THINGS RIGHT'

Our New Store
Increased

Laundry

Mary's

St.

ARDMORE

1520 Chestnut St.
facilities

Wants your family wash.

Reduced expenses

Is in a position to
Calls for and delivers clothes from
Gentlemen's Linen
to Philadelphia.

handle it.

Lower prices ^ ^

Devon

given domestic finish and all flatwork guaranteed to be done satisfactorily. Only Springfield
water and best laundry soap used on clothes.

E. Bradford Clarke Co., m.

GROCERS

PHONE i6 A, ARDMORE

Standard

OUR SPECIALTY
First Quality

Typewriter Exchange

,

XOOIvS Typewriters ^
For Wood Working and
Metal Working Machines

"WILLIAMS" AND No. 2 "SUN"

,022 ARCH STR^irTpHILA.

1233 Market Street, Philadelphia

Bell, Filbert 4482 A

Keystone, Race 4600 A

Window Qlass

Plate Glass
Skylight and Floor Glass.

Rented

AGENTS FOR

jt

WILLIAM P. WALTER'S SON'S,

Sold,

Repaired, Inspected

Rolled

Cathedra!,

beautiful

tints.

Em-

A full stock of Plain Window

bossed,

Enameled and Colored Glass.

Class.

Every variety for Architects' and Builders' Use.

A full line

of Gkiziers' Diamonds.

Benjamin H. Shoemaker
205-207-209-2n N. Fourth SI.

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PHILADELPHIA

The Provident Life d^nd Trust Compdoiy
of Philadelphia^

ASSETS

$73,263,086.72

Surplus and Undivided Profits
belonging to the Stockholders

4,701,293.84

Surplus belonging to Insurance
Account not including Capital

Stock

!•

ft*

i>

K

7,495,933.28
DIRECTORS:

OFFICERS:

Thomas Scattergood

Asa S. Wing
T. Wistar Brown

Samuel R. Shipley
T. Wistar Brown

Roberts Foulke

Richard Wood
Charles Hartshome

Robert M. Janney
Marriott C. Morris
Frank H. Taylor

Asa S. Wing
James V. Watson

Jos. B. Townsend, Jr.
John B. Mora;an

President
Vice-President
Joseph Ashbrook..V.-Pres. and Mgr. Ins. Dept.

J.

Trust Officer

Actuary
David G. AIsop
.Assistant Trust Officer
J. Barton Townsend.
Treasurer
Samuel H. Troth
Secretary
C. Walter Borton
.

Office,

William Longstreth Frederic H. Strawbridge
Joseph Ashbrook

409 Chestnut Street
SaJe Deposit Vault.r

J. F.

GRAY

29 South

Men's and

Young Men's Suits

Eleventh Street
Single and Double BfC«ste4

Near Chestnut Street

PHILADELPHIA

$J5, $16, $J8, $20, $25, $30

Our

right-ready-to-piit-on

equalled by best tailors,

j< ji jt

Suits

are

only

who would make you

wait a long time, charge you from half again

HEADQUARTERS FOR

A.

G. Spalding and

to twice as much as

Bros.

SUITS WILI
ityle

MacDonald
.

Athletic

and Golf

.

.

Goods

<:L'RP.4SS

ours in

and qual:

TRADE MARK
.

we do, and then THEIR

y^r

& Campbell

1334-1236 Cliestnut Street

PUl&dclphu

Wm. G. Hopper,
Member

Harry S. Hoppe*,
Member Philadelphia

Philadelphia

Stock Exchange

Sorosis Shoes

Men

for

Stock Exchange.

Wm. G. Hopper & Co. Sorosis Shoe Co.
of Philadelphia

Bankers ^ Brokers

When your shoes are ill-fitted sooner
or later your feet will hurt.

28 South Third

Street

Bailey, Banks

&

SOROSIS
STAG SPECIAL

$5 oo

STAG

3 50

4 oo

College

Biddle Co.

Photographs
Jewelers

Diamond Merchants,

Finest

Stationers

Work

Prompt Delivery

The Stationery Department supplies the

Special Rates to Students

highest grade of

College and Fraternity
Stationery
Pro^ammes,

Dance Cards

Class Day Invitations
Class Cuts,

Menus, Etc

Sp«ciil Deiign* and E»tJinat«» aubmifttJ free o(

1218-20-22 Chestnut St.

Our

shoes are not shoes with good soles or
;

Telephone
Connection

Keystone, Main 12*74

be insured against this mistake.

good this and that they are entirely good.

Long Distance

Bell, Lombard 365

centered on more important matters.

Get a SOROSIS FITTING now and

Orders for the purchase and sale of Stocks
and Bonds promptly executed.
Local Telephone!

on your mind, which

the encroachment
is

Philadelphia, Pa,

Perhaps, too,

at a period in life when you cannot afford

cli»rj«

\3\3 Chestnut St

Philadelphia
Take-the-Elevator

pusi or wiimooK TXtUunuta co., PBaADSuHiA

:

Christmas Number

15he

HAVERFORDIAN

Haverford College
December, 1906

Volume XXVIII. No. 7.

CONTENTS
Editorials

129

Heroes and Martyrs

The Conquerer

131

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College Gymnasium

132

Toast

141

143

The Pity of It All

144

W'liy the Lips are Red

145

Grandfather Higgins' Escape

135

Faciltv Departme.vt

146

A Highland Tragedy

138

147

The Quest

140

Alumni Department
College Department

148

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DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

ADVISORY BOARD
'07

D. Godley,

F.

B. Clement. '08
H. C. Spiers, 'og

J.

M.

C.

J.

Rlioads, '93

DEPARTMENTS
Foot Ball:

Chairman

Other

07
08
M. H. March. 07
C. K. Drinker. 08
E. T. Jones. 07

Manager
Captain

Chairman
W. H. Haines.
Vice-Chairman
E. A. Edwards.
Manager
W. B. Rossmaessler,
Assistant Manager. .. .W. R. Shoemaker,

E. F. Jones,

;

E.

F

P. Magill,

J.

07

Not elected
Not elected

DEPARTMENTS
Civics

H. Evans.

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

Kurtz, 08
07
W. Sargent, Jr 08
E. C. Tatnall, 07

Scientific

07

P.

W. Brown. '07

J.

P. Elkinton. '08

A. E. Brown,
E. A. Edwards,

Debating

R. L. Cary. '06

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

E. R. Tatnall,

.

Captain

'07

07

W. W.

Assistant Manager

Dodge,

J.

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

:

Manager

I.

07

08
07
08
J. Bushnell, 3d, 08

Track
Chairman
Vice-Chairman

LOGANIAN SOCIETY

Gymnasium

Captain

Members

Jones. 07; M. H. March. '07; J. H. Wood, 07;
P
C. T. Brown, '08; C. K. Drinker. '08; J
Elkinton. '08.

G. K. Strode.

Assistant Manager

'07

G. K. Strode. "08

W. Brown,

P.

Vice-Cliairman

H. Evans.

President
Secretary

I.

Dodge. '07

J.

D. C. Baldwin. '06

Cricket

Chairman
Vice-Chairman
Manager
.'\ssistanl

W. Nicholson. Jr.,

J.

Manager

C. K. Drinker,

Captain
.Association

07
08
07
08
07

F.

D. Godley.

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

Foot Ball
P. W. Brown.
C. K. Drinker.
E. R. Tatnall,
J. B. Clement,

Chairman
Vice-Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

07
M. H. March, 07
T. K. Sharpless. 09
M. H. C. Spiers, 09
.

Manager

Leader
Tennis

.W. B. VVindle, 07

G. C. Craig

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

J,

W.

A. E. Brown,

Manager
Y. M.

I.

J.

Dodge, 07

W. Emlen. Jr.
C.

R.

L.

E.

Marsh

G. S. Bard
M. Underbill
J.

President
Vice-President
Secretary

H. Evans, 07
W. H. Morriss, 08
J. P. Elkinton, 08

Treasurer

Bushnell, 3d
C. F. Scott

C. Green

1910:

C. A.

President
Vice-President
Secretary

G.

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

07
08

C. L. Miller,

Wrieht

E.
J.

1909:

O. Musser, 08
Nicholson. Jr.. 07
F.

Manager
Assistant

W. S. Eldridge

1908:

A. E. Brown.

Treasurer
Musical
President and Manager.
.'\ssistant

G. H. Wood
K. F Jones

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

07

ASSOCIATIONS.
College
President
Vice-President
Secretary

.

1907:

08
R. Rossmaessler, 07

W.

Captain

.

March, '07

H.

.M.

..C. K. Drinker. '08
M. H, C. Spiers. '09

CLASSES

07

08

.

.

j

M. O. Frost
F. Wilson
E. Cadbury
M. Eshleman
J.

Treasurer

R.

AN INTERESTING FACT
.\b()ul

our prescription work,

and purest drugs are used

in

i.'^,

that

fillinjj

practical experience of years and

iionu

tiieni.

but

the

liest

Men witii the

who are graduates of the

BEST College of Pharmacy in the I'niled Stales, do our
dispensing.

Phone, 13 Ardinorc

Come aufl visit us.

The Haverford Pharmacy
WILSON L. HARBALGH, Proprietor

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THE HAVERFORDTAX

I

GILBERT & BACON

?

1030 CHESTNUT STREET

Calling

C
?

Cards

X

\
-

LEADING PHOTOGRAPHERS I

Tea Cards
everything

pertaining

to elegant

stationery.

I

I

We engrave dies and

6

stamp your writing
paper par excellence.
Send for our samples of
stationery or stamping

I

I

6

Wedding Invitations
.\xnouncemexts
Church. At Home and
Calling Cards

I

I

We mail you samples
upon request.

Flashlight

Ttie Hoskins Store
908 Ckestnut Street

Work a Specialty

Special Rates to Students

PhilaJelpMa, P..

KEXIBIE FDTEIL

neJIed that Steers

^ T") EATS cTcryother

sled

ij because the steering

-i

bar curves the spring

This steers

steel runners.

The Suits and Overcoats
that Young
Men Want
We have them. Maintain a separate factory

in New

York city and

the sled without dragging
the toot or scraping the

a special organization

runner sidewisc, so it goe^

Every garment

to make

them for us.

and
much farther. Draws like anv

especially

other sled but

and twist
embodied

a

Is

safe

great

easier.

deal

is

faster

lighter

and

Steering makes it



With

from accident

saves

.M«]i,

prevents

wet feet and colds.

spring

built

Young

with every turn

Result

its

cost by saving sho«

for

of
in

fashion
it.

— selling to

more young men than
anyof her store in town
'V hen

steel runners, pressed steel sup-

you are read v
your new suit

ports, second growth white ash seat and frame, it is

to buy

light yet practically indestructible, and handsomely

and overcoat. See the
broad and handsome
stock we are showing

finished.

It is the only sled that girls can properly

Ask at your dealer's, and don't take
anything else. If they don't keep it, let us know.
Control.

Model Sled FREE:

Our cardboard model sled will »how you tust how ii
works and give you loic of fun. Sent free bv mail
with illustrated booklet giving tull information
regarding sizes and prices.
S. L.

ALLEN & CO., Bex ilME. PhlMelpbIa, Pi.
Patenrees and Manufacturers

at

prices that range
from 110.00 to $27.50

William H. Wanamaker
Clothing Manufacturer

Twelfth on2 Market Streets

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THE H.WERFORDIAX

F.

WEBER & CO. Do you wear

Spectacley*

because eye-glasses won't
stay on ?
Try the

Shu r-O n

They look right, hold tight without
Engineers'

and

Draughtsmen's

Supplies

feeling tight.

Blue Print Papers and Blue and Brown
Printing, Drawing Boards, Tables etc.

Daniel E. Weston

ARTISTS' MATERIALS GENERALLY
Philadelphia

1125 Chestnut Street,

Merion Title and Trust Co.

We Made It, It's Right."
Diamonds

Watches
Class Pipes

Class Pins

Medals

ARDMORE, PA.
Capital authorized. S230,000
Capital paid, SI2S.OOO

Jewelry
Fraternity Pins

Cups, Etc.

Official Jewelers of the Leading Colleges, SchooLs

and A.ssociations

1123 Chestnut Street,

Philadelphia, Pa.

THE

DIEGES & CLUST
"If

OPTICIAN
1705 Chcstnot St.,

Receives deposits and allows Interest thereon.
Insures Titles, acts as Executor, Trustee, Guardian, eta
Loans Money on Collateral and on Mortgage.
Safe Deposit Boxes to Rent in Burglar Proof
Vaults, $3 to J20 Per Annum

Philadelphia

JOSI.\H S. PEARCE,
President

FOOT BALL
Department.

fledical
-Session of

Thp Uni-

H. W. SMEDLET,
Secretary

SOCCER

SWEATERS

Wood & Guest

versity
and Bellevuu
Ho.spital Medical College.

43 N. Thirteenth Street

1906-1907-

The Session begins Wednesday, October

PHiLADELPHIA
3,

For the

months.
1906. and continues for
annual circular giving requirements for matriculation, admission to advanced standing, graduation, and full details of the course, address Dr.
Kgbert LeFevre, Dean, 26th Street and First
Avenue, New York.
eiglit

We are the largest importers of Asso-

Soccer:

Foot Balls and Boots

ciation

in

America.

Boots. $2.50. $3.00, $3.50, $4.00; Balls, $2.50,
$3.50. $4.00.

Sweaters
at

:

$4.00,

Ask for our special Coat-Sweater
equal to those sold at $5.00 else-

where.
N. B. Special Student rates.

A Sound Mind in a Sound Body
a man may be

is an achievement of which

This condition is brought
about only by the use of the right food.
Progressive merchants recognize the virtue of Tartan Brands and wisely keep
justly proud.

(

80-39=41 Saved )

tliem in stock.

We make a specialty of Canned Goods
in

gallon tins for institution nccfis.

ALFRED LOWRY 6 BRO.
Importing (Irocers and Coffee

23 S. Front St.

Market « 12th Reading Terminal
and I2NI23-I25 North Eighth St.

I\o;isters

PhUadelphia

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THE HAVERFORDIAN i, Prim.J by the
Westbrook Publishing Co.

GUARANTELD

Publishers of School and College Periodicals

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

6 Nor4 ISOi St.

STRINGS & SUPPLIES

<-

PKiladelphia, Pa.

H. A. Weymann & Son
923 Market St.

Phlla., Pa.

WESTON & BRO.
Merchant Tailors
920 Walnut Street

PHILADELPHIA

Are making good quality

Suits

't

will

for

Overcoats

*'

Trousers

"

$25.00
25.00
5.00

pay to call and examine our stock

STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED

A.

M.

BUCH & CO.

Nowadays

Tkeatrical Outfitters,

<?

Amatcar Theatrica.li Furaithcd with

WIGS
and Costumes.
EvtrytUn^ done ia a
reasonable.

II

first-class

m&nner.

^^^USHro,^^

QUALITY

HATS
BROAD AND

PricM

Write for estimates.

9N.9TH. Street, Phila.

CHESTNUT
STREETS

PHILADELPHIA

10 per cenLdiscoant to

ail

Haverford Students

THE HAVERFORDIAN
GAS AND ELECTRICITY FOR
LIGHTING
HEATING
.

.

.

.

.

.

COOKING

THE MERION AND RADNOR
GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
ARDMORE, PA

WAYNE, PA
Telephone.

{

Ardmore
i8
;\r*
ne 47

>*o<

H. D. REESE
S. W. Cor. 12fh

I
I

and Filbert Streets

Philadelphia

A FULL LINE OF
FIRST-CLASS JVl

EATS

ALWAYS ON HAND

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PROMPT DELIVERY
_
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED

TELEPHONE CONNECTION

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Ryle^ Innes &- Bar b ier i

COLLEGE TAILORS
UI7 WALNUT STREET

We are showing: over 800 styles of g:oods this Fall —all new.
is

very favorably

known

at

all

the nearby Colleges

Schools, and the Haverford boys are especially invited to call.

SUITS AND OVERCOATS $25 TO $40

FULL DRESS AND TUXEDOS, $35 TO $60

Our work

and Preparatory

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Agents for

Engraving, Printing, Stationery

The Atlas Series of Science Tablets

Business and Omce Furniture

HOSKINS ROSTER should be in the room
of every student.

It

is

free.

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the IlaveriorJ

at

Vol. XXVIII

WITH

Pist-OfFic-,

fir

transm'ssion

ver>-

of

stances

into

just

pride

may Haver-

Then there is great credit due to ManaMarch for the smooth and well-

ger

planned progress of the season.

college

displayed foresight and

jj^e

responsible

for a

winning

This year, Coach Thorn

foot ball team.

was unable to be present on the field
more than once a week, but he has

men the theor}- of the game

by occasional lectures in the evening,
and has worked out the new plays. Hopkins has ably assisted Thorn and has
developed

No. 7

circum-

Naturally we look to the coaching sys-

taught the

matter.

the

analyze them.

as

second class

all

most Satisfactory seasons it has ever had, and
1006
yet so many elements have
entered into its success that it is hard to

first

as

Taking

has just completed one of

tem

mails

consideration,

igo6.

The Foot Ball
Season of

the

Haverford, Pa., December, 1906

ford look back upon the foot ball

season

through

into

a

very

successful

field

He, in turn, has been assisted by
Lowrv and Hayes.
Captain Jones has been a quiet, but

coach.

tive ability in

He has

marked execu-

arranging minor details of

the trips, which have contributed

much

to the comfort and condition of the men
on the team.
W'e began the season with prospects
of a very light team, and the aim of the
coaches was to develop fast, quick play.
That they succeeded was apparent to
those who saw the speedy, systematic
work of the team in the last few games.
We were fortunate, since our team had
many light players on it, that the men
were all ver)- near the average in weight.
As a result, there was a balance and
uniformity to the team that enhanced
speed which could not have been attained with a less uniform distribution

of weight.

There is no doubt the new rules have

masterful leader for the team, and has

given great advantages to lightness and

maintained a team spirit on the field that

speed in comparison with the past, and

has gone far

in

securing our victories.

so

they

have

distinctly

benefited

the

1

THE HAVERFORDIAN

3D

game here at Haverford. The rules have

ment must take a decided position against

had a thorough trying out, and it is the
popular decision that they have greatly
improved t'Jie game.
It is encourag-

the prevalent spirit of carelessness, and

ing to know that not a serious accident

must raise the present standard of conduct, which is below that agreed upon
when the college body adopted the sys-

has occurred to a Haverford player this

tem.

season.

It

The team will lose four or five men,
but the prospect

would be well for classes and tables
over and let us re-

to talk this question

next year seems

new the spirit of a sensible discipline in

for this year at the

the dining hall, instead of weakly allow-

The squad had
many promising men on it, who ought to

ing such a beneficial institution to lapse

better than

for

was

it

beginning of the season.

develop into good players next year, and

into a fatal stage of

degeneracy and de-

cline.

seems a reasonable statement that the

it

season of 1907 need not
of 1906.

below that

fall

THEbegan

soccer foot ball season definitely

just as necessary occasionally to

IT revivify and re-establish
is

lutions in our lives

make such

to

good resoand conduct as it is

constructed
Reiuvenaiing

Good

a

Resolution
fulfill

We are so

resolutions.

individually

that our resolves

come habits before we can
be certain we shall always

them.

is

the proper course to follow,

and

much

en-

throws himself into

it

with

thusiasm, but gradually loses his grasp

upon it through lack of interest or "stickwe generally credit him
with lack of stamina and staying powers.
A group of men thinks and acts very
much like an individual, and in our college body, good resolutions must become habitual customs without exceptions
before this permanence can be asto-it-iveness,"

sured.

While no decided breach of the rules
has occurred that has not been reported,
there has of late been a decided falling

from the spirit of student-government in the dining hall. If this institution is to stand, and the college body has
off

decided that

it

is

to stand, public senti-

with the victory over Cor-

which occurred on Walton field the

Wednesday after the Rugby foot ball season closed.
The Soccer
Season
Now Open

must be-

When a man realizes a course of action

nell,

ning

We were par-

fortunatc in win-

ticularly

our first intergame, as soccer
abeyance during foot
that,

collegiate

had been held in
season and the regular training had
hardly commenced.
Since the game with Cornell, Haverford has defeated Harvard, at Cambridge,
and University, on Franklin Field. Columbia, the only remaining member of
the League, forfeited her game to Haverford and thus gave us the intercollegiate
ball

championship.

While with the close of the Intercollegiate League games the real season
ends, association foot ball will continue
all

winter by games

with

neighboring

teams.

Soccer no doubt furnishes one of the
most rugged and enjoyable forms of exercise possible for the late fall and winter months
that it is appreciated is attested to by the fact that Captain Rossmaessler usually has four full teams on
;

the
field

for practice
two on Walton
and two on Merion.

field

THE HAVERFORDIAN

ONLY within recent years has gymnastic

been

exercise

a

Still

the plan,
Cymnasllcs
a part

sical

more recent is

to

so-

in phy-

him mentally.

In order that

this theory may be better and more wide-

now adopted by
throughout

ultimately

—of developing him

health and strength as well as of

training

^^^ ^^^' collcges and universities

oi the

himself but

ciety at large

part of the first two years training in the
first-class colleges.

man

the

required

131

this

ly

understood, Dr. Babbitt has consented

to

write the

article appearing in this
under the caption, "The College

issue

Curriculum

country, of making g>'mwork not only required during the
Freshmen and Sophomore years, but of

Gymnasium."

nastic

nasium Directors, was so unprecedented

The Editorial Board takes pleasure in
announcing that Howard Burtt, '08, T.
M. Longstreth, '08, and Winthrop Sargent, Jr.. '08. have been elected members
of the Haverfordian Board.
The next

that at first it was received as too radical

elections will be held about the first of

grading men
course.

in

it

as in

any scholastic

This proceedure, which was ad-

vocated by the Society of College Gym-

a step.

Now public opinion has swung

Februars', 1907,

when new members will

around, and it is general! conceded that

be elected to replace the retiring Senior

colleges have the obligation primarily to

editors.

THE CONQUEROR
If

thou wouldst be profoundly wise

Seek not the truths that volumes hold.
But read within a maiden's eyes

The love of ages manifold.
At all the sages long I scoffed,
Nor deemed it truth they strove to show.
Till
I

"All

spake

my love, serenely soft,

know it is, because

— know.
I

men are fools," the sages cried,

"Deny you may, but cannot prove,"

And so, although I know they lied,
I

took it baffled to

my love.

"Who loves," quoth she, "is not a fool,

Who does not love is not a man.
And hence by well established
There are no fools,"

rule

— dispute who can.

So they who came my love to meet.
With weighty words and logic grave.

Sank with a smile before her feet

To hear the teaching that she gave.
/.

F.

IV.,

'10.

:

THE COLLEGE GYMNASIUM
The

College

course

more

the

student

curriculum
variously

mind than

no

its

in

pation in college government as a mem-

of

that

pre-

Now a center

icribed gymnasium work.

director given full and active partici-

offers

estimated

This but evidences
an increasing tendency from a pedago-

ber of the faculty.

of enthusiasm, now an object of slander,

gial

always occupying an intermediary "after

par with mental training.

hours''

position

in

the

student course,

standpoint, to place physical on a

As it is always more practical to con-

holding a position of importance only

sider

relative in both faculty and student mind,

principle, the following are suggested

and for

status should be reassured,

its

that purpose

it

here reviewed.

is

gymnastic

Primarily,

or

calisthenic

work was adopted as a relief from mental
strain, a safety valve for pent

in large

degree a disciplinary measure.

How-

ever, with the rapidily increasing Ameri-

and

popularity

phy-

can

respect

sical

development, and an awakened re-

of

cognition of the importance of physical

work and

upon mental
progress scientific principles were gradually introduced, and gymnastic systems
based
developed,
upon physiological
and psychological laws; in other words,
gj^mnastic work became a science, and as
such, deserves its proper place and dethe

influence

abstract

Gymnasium

grading

and ex-

amination.

The vital importance of physical

(d)

work in the college life.
Each year nearly fifty new stu-

(a)

dents are launched upon Haverford

life,

from

and

varying

equally

school

conditions

degrees

of preliminary

diverse

physical training.

Inasmuch as the gym-

nastic team has been a necessary and per-

outgrowth of the gymnastic
course (a mute evidence again of the
varying- degrees of muscular control and
haps

evil

preparation and qualification, (this

large groups), it seems wise, at the beginning of each year, to hold prelimi-

degree here, but of vast import

nary tests as a basis of selection for ad-

Its national significance, as a factor in

in large

in certain foreign countries)

is

but an-

vanced classes.
Repeatedly has

other evidence of growing esteem.

In

than

impossibility of planning similar work for

monstration.

Army

topic

training.

(c)

it

concrete

(a)
The purpose and function of
gymnasium work.
(b)
The scope and place of physical

up physi-

— must be admitted

energy

cal

by

most

American

colleges

at

the

present time, gj'mnastic work has been

given a regular place upon the curriculum with proper credit in grading; its
period of

work has been blended with

the regular college recitation period, and

this

proven the occa-

interested audience, one

most
amused and entertained by the
sion of a

or

futile

nastic

efforts

work,

to

of beginners

in

feeble

gym-

perform some of the

most simple feats of bodily co-ordination,
set as gfAmna.stic tests.

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Many an entering Freshman is unable
from underto chest dip between

to raise his toes to the bar

hanging position
tile

:

parallel bars, to turn a simple

sault or even

somer-

support the body weight

After

133

careful

examination,

physical

proper assignment may be made, and no
student, without grave organic defect,
need fail to find some course of gymnastic

both

prescription,

safe

and

valuable.

We do not desire acrobats, we do not

from one hand, beginning sophomores
evidence an ahr.ost amazing change in
relative ability, and at the end of two

desire

years' prescribed work, such an exhibi-

arterial coats and thickened cardiac walls

tion

would be almost an impossibility.

To be sure, the audience above alluded
to, now and then, contains some recalJunior triumphing over his esfrom physical thraldom, but his

citrant

cape

presence

inconsequential.

is

These

tests

more

answer

Bodily co-ordina-

handle

tion

and

self

readily

and

easily,

body

and

grace,

an

erect

figure,

the

the

to

ability

one's

power to fall
and chest
body position, or stand
unusual strain minus injury to bone and
tendon uniform conditions of digestion,
skin circulation, lung capacity, and genshoulders,

with

bodies, capable of resistance alike to ex-

posure and strain, a clear eye and athletic
a

skin,

:

natural

;

eral vitality; all these evidence the pur-

gymnastic mental training for

and muscular reaction
and at Haverford such opportunities are
response

provided and

deserve

due respect and

credit.

elasticity

broad

stifT

beyond a student's years a hastened old
age we want rather firmly 'Knit, resilient

quick

than

question of the topic.

Sandows, we do not want over-

development of fibrous tissue with

In the

(c)

same pioneer

with

spirit

which physical educators have evolved a
scientific system, combining both mental

and

have

development,

physical

endeavored

to

they

establish adequate stand-

ards upon which to examine and grade
proficiency

in

gymnastic work

—a task

by no means

light.

pose and importance of this work.

be given

appropriate place in class

retrograde changes

grading, its mark must be commensurate

The
we obser\'e in many

its

individual cases at senior graduation, and

with those

after two years of idleness, but strengthen

it

this

argument.
No uniform course of two years

(b)

in

If this

department

any other department, be

language or science.

A group of most earnest teachers in
this

branch, department heads in their

grading could meet the physical demands
For one group
students.
all
of

of College

body building and "setting up" exercises

cently

are absolutely needed, for another, cor-

study, namely, the acquiring of an ade-

rective

gymnastics,

for a

third

group,

involvmg mass muscular
movements and sufficient exercise for
previously trained gymnastic mind and
extremities. In the Swedish National Educational system as adopted for American

team

work,

we find an adequate course to
meet the demands of the first group,
and for the second, lighter work of the
American system and individual and pricolleges,

vate direction are arranged.

respective colleges, known as the Society

quate

Gymnasium Directors has remade this a subject of special

basis

upon which

gyninastic grading.

to

determine

In other branches,,

such marking depends upon actual

quirement of

knowledge,

ac-

improvement

and progress as noted in daily recitation
work, possibly in minor degree to class
deportment, and finally upon a student's
practical ability to handle the subject in

hand. It therefore has seemed rational to

make the gymnastic grading an examination depend upon a four fold test.

First

THE HAVERFORDIAN

134

upon natural elements of gymnastic abil.
ity possessed by the candidate at the ex-

tinct

—these being evidenced bv

itself, and represents a type disfrom any other athletic individual.

The

physically erect,

amination time

make and re-

the general factors, which

cant in

broad-shouldered,

deep-chested, sound and strong college

and strength and

man is the man of influence in college,

are proven by the physical examination

and where athletic jurisdiction and influence from faculty quarters is sufficiently
strong, his mental and intellectual influ-

physical

veal

health

and routine strength tests secondly, upon
a concrete knowledge of gymnastic
science and principles involved in the
system this being by written or oral test
on the floor; thirdly, by a series of tests
;

representative

ment,

tests

gymnasium improve-

of

involving

of

co-ordination

ence may be equally potent.

The

gymnasium work

systematic

one-half

the

college

arms,

to skate in summer and

constantly directs brain

tinued to exhaustion pomt.

toward
provement.

This endur-

ance test is, of course, a difficult one to

The

obtain with any precision.

system

is

entire

cumbersome, conHaverford its elaborate
and is already, modified,

necessarily

sequently,

at

activity

swim in winter,"
and nerve

cell

bodily

calisthenic

im-

Again the necessar\- discipline of class
the military response to command and quickening of nerve and
drill,

muscle reaction, are a mental as well as

gradually

Finally, it must not
be forgotten that, in the period of relax-

add

ation from foot ball, athletics and cricket,

In many colleges physical work is still

when inclement weather menaces outdoor exercise, the gymnasium affords an

series will be,

and

system

abbreviated

substituted,

which

will

is

eventually

respect to the department.

physical stimulant.

embryonic and has not reached faculty

outlet

co-operation and esteem, and we consider

energ}-,

this

to

be

due

largely

to

inadequate

means by which to gauge proficiency.
(d)

As

a concluding tribute to the

collegiate importance of gymnastic work,

consider for a

moment its probable and
upon college

possible influence
tone.

a

for

constantly

pushes this influence to the front, and,
as in the trite statement "a man learns

finally

limbs, and both combined, and
by some form of vitality test, an
exercise involving mass effort and con-

year

and

For two years of his college life,

student

work

life

attends

prescribed

regular

for

periods

developing

of

those

elements in his being which constitute
his ideal of a college man.

The "college athlete" is a term signifi-

for pent-up

and

physical and mental

directly elevates

moral ten-

dencies in student life.

At Haverford the gymnasium does,
and must represent an integral part of
the college

life.

due curriculum

As its work
credit,

its

proficiency, largely based

ment,

must

be

receives

standard of

upon improve-

consistent

with

other

courses of work, and finally, must prove
to loyal alumni,

tributed the

who so generously con-

handsomely equipped build-

ing, that its work is absolutely essential to

Haverford.

Dr. James A. Babbitt.

"


;
!

!

GRANDFATHER HIGGINS'S ESCAPE
Grandfather Higgins was dead there
was no doubt about that. Yes, he was
dead, and the anxiety about his health,
and the conjectures about his wealth
were over.
Grandsons and granddaughters found from the will that the
suspected miser had nothing to leave,

and

except a paltry thousand dollars.

necks met his eyes.

;

His

house, of course, had gone to his brother

everybody had expected that.

But what

had become of his money? He did once
have money; surely the reports of his

dragged out a large

pulled

it

chest.

He

over to the fireplace, and sat

down and rested a bit

"Davie said

I

was to have the chest," he muttered, and
v.ent to work with the keys again.
At last the lid was opened. A row of
curious-shaped bottles with long, twisted

Each contained a

liquid of some vivid hue

sparkling

red,

;

brilliant green,

flashing yellow, bright

Fastened to the lid by a red wafer

pink.

gold were not without some foundation

was an envelope, addressed to "Ezekiel
Jonathan Higgins, Esq.," and Ezekiel

And what could an old man like him

tore

have done with it?

"To My Brother Ezekiel:
"By this time you and all the rest will

Ezekiel

Possibly his brother

knew more than he was willing

all, Ezekiel was a queer
and would soon be another
"Grandfather Higgins."
"Grandfather's money would have
been such a help," complained cousin
John. "I can't imagine what he did with
it.
I know that he had at least
" then

to

After

tell.

stick,

too,

another conjecture

And the new Grandfather Higgins
what did he do? Well, when the funeral
was over, and they had all gone home, he
sat there in his inherited house, and
chuckled.

"Ye

I

have nothing to

You alone, Ezekiel, will have
You
a legacy that is worth anything.
did not know, Zekie, did you, that Davie
was a scientific experimenter? Well, he
was, and the money he used to have has
gone for knowledge. The results of it
all is in this chest.
I leave it to you with

my blessing."
This quaint letter, with its mingling of
the

first

and

third

persons,

caused

Waiting' for

poor, unoffending, helpless bo.x, and then

something of the humor of it must have
caught him, for he broke into a crack-

lad,

ye

might

'a'

He broke off, muttering.

because

death,

leave you.

Wishin' for your

left

your brother some' at along with this old

wonder what

my

He, he!

money, hey? Well' 'everything comes
to them as waits,' Davie. He, he !" And
he winl»-?d slyly at the old painting of his
brother over the fireplace.

house."

know that you need not have wished for

gran'ther Ezekiel to drive a kick at the

ye tu- Hee, were they?

Davie,

open, swearing softly.

fooled 'em, Davie, lad.

Ye fooled 'em.

"But,

it

'e's

done with

's

"I

money?

Could he a'
Struck by a sudden thought, the old
man rose and hobbled across the room
to the closet. After much fumbling with
some old keys, he got the door open,

His long, skinny hand
up the bottle with the yellow
liquid.
"For reducing flesh one spoonful after meals," he read, and replaced
the bottle with an oath. The pink stuflf,
so the label announced, was to be taken
by all who wanted to "grow fat." There
ling

laugh.

picked

were labels "for chills," "for baldness,"
"for indigestion ;" and then some odd
ones, "for hunger," "for dreams," "for
religion,"
cal

than

and one label, more nonsensiall

the

others,

"for transpar-

THE HAVERFORDIAN

136

The label to this bottle bore the

ency."

message
"This preparation
renders one transparent for
" and then

additional

:

unfortunately, a great blot covered

up

"What

a chance!"

If the stuff really

grinned Ezekiel.

"I

head.

where he pleased without spending a
He could ride on cars, he could
go "dead-head" wherever fares were
;

he could

—heavens

He could

!

enter any house and walk off with what-

For transparency was

ever he pleased.

only another word for invisiblity.
"I must try it and see

if it

heritance, after

If

all.

What

a dunce he

was to die poor with a bottle of this !"
He stood the bottles in a row on the
In a row there he placed
lid of the chest.
them the yellow bottle "for reducing
;

the

one "for dreams." the

red

green one "for transparency," the blue

one "to cure gout," and all the others.
"For dreams" caught Gran'ther Higgins"s
"I wonder if that means to get
eye.
dreams or to get shut of them? But I
must try this transparency."
He walked away, picked up a tin cup,
and, by the faint light of the fire, pored a
draught.

Am

getting

I

sank

back

into

chair

his

and

The logs kept blazing, and the

dancing flames quivered and flashed in
the rows of bottles.
A knocking at the door startled Grandfather

Higgins.

viseetors,"
out.

ye not t' yell so; you hurt my
Are ye blind, ye fool? I tell ye,

tell

"He must 'a' stepped out a bit," Harry
"Well, I'll go in and wait."
"The drunken mole," grunted grand'ther Higgins
following his guest. But
gran'ther was much slower, and before

grumbled.

;

son was already examining the precious

Gran'ther grew nervous.

bottles.

"Here, put that down," he said; and
receiving no

"What

grumbled,

he

a

and

time

for

hobbled

He opened the door, and met the

bewildered gaze of his eldest grandson.

"Come in, Harry," he said.
the dev'l did that door
"Now how
i'

get open?" muttered Harry.

been the wind."

"Must 'a'
"Ho,

He stepped in.

granddad !" he called.

answer,

"Put

down,

it

I

say," he repeated, and snatching the bot-

away placed it on the mantel.
Harry looked startled.
"What all," he began
then, "I
fired contrivance
Still,
it's
a rum
must be dreaming.
place."
He rose nervously from the
chair, and walking towards the door,

tle

crashed

He

right

stopped,

denly.

into

;

Higgins!

Gran'ther

catching

breath

his

sud-

"What on earth's the matter with

me?"
"Ye're drunk
with

that's

ye

you,

what's the mat-

clumsy

gran'ther, and then stood

mouth open.

transparent?"
waited.

!

here I am."

ter

"Yeh, what a dose.

He

What is it?"

hear ye, boy.

he reached the fireplace again, his grand-

works.

does, Davie's left me a pretty good in-

flesh,"

!

worked, he could go

cent.

it

I

"Guess he's asleep or out. Ho, grandwhat did you leave the door open
dad
for?"

the rest.

charged

"I'm not ez deef ez Davie uster be,
Harr)'.

ijit,"
still

began

with his

Harry's collision with him

had pushed gran'ther before a great
oaken sideboard, and left him staring
into its mirror.
He saw the started expression of his grandson, he saw the
whole dimly lighted room but he could
For a moment he could
not see himself
do nothing but gasp and gasp. Then he
remembered and laughed softly. This
was fine. But the image of Harry in the

!

glass caught his attention.
tles

again

!

At those bot-

He turned around with a

savage snarl on his lips, and rushed over

—but paused and watched.
reading

a

label.

Gran'ther

Harry was
listened:

——

THE IIAVERFORDIAN
"For

This

transparency.

"No, no, not forever.

He

was

think

Let

rocked his invisible body back and forth.
"Forever!"' he groaned, and clenched

me

Harry

snatched the bottle.

and

"It will last forever!" he wailed,

"Forever!" screamed Gran'ther Higsee."

he could

that

"forever, forever."

renders one transparent forever."

gins.

All

ness.

preparation

137

jumped back, and stood for a moment
with his eyes on the bottle, fascinated.
Then he turned and bolted from the

the hard arms of the chair till he fancied

room.

sighed

"Wait,

wait.

Oh,

Harry,

wait

he could see the nail prints, yet he could
not

'forever.'

He

no salvation.

see

Not 'forever,' boy, tell me, not

!

the

label.

Confused, and feeling unutterably alone,
grandfather closed his eyes to keep off

"This preparation renders one transparBut
" and then that blot.
ent for

head would keep
swimming, and he sat there, groaning

;

softly.

At length he

He tried to think calmly. No one could
(remembering Harry's actions) hear him. They would divide his
bag of gold they would sell his home
and his possessions his pipe, his favorWhat good would
ite chair, everything
He
the power to steal do him now?

would think he was dead. Where could
Nobody would make room for
He
him.
He would starve, too.
shrieked aloud his knees gave away, and

he live?

;

The rotten
fell against the chest.
wood smashed in, and the glass bottles

he

shattered.

—a

self faintly

.

hobbled
ah

breathlessly

again
as he

!

ers

and that wrinkled
in his life.
label, then,

broken myself," he wailed.
to

his

chair,

and

He limped
sat

down,

mirror

be proud of, surely, those curved should-

That

myself,"

the

He was opaque

Pure delight took hold of him
saw his bent form. Not much to

happier

painfuly

to

he was restored.

!

gran'ther. "I am made of glass, and I've

broken

!

face,

father Higgins rejoiced.

have

He caught

sort of mist?

and watched. Yes, yes his
He could
knees they were appearing
still
see through them, as one sees
through a fog but they were certainly
growing niore solid. His hands, too. He

screamed

"I

Was it

his breath

They

and ven-

calmer,

a delusion, or could he really see him-

;

could keep nothing after he got it.

felt

tured to open his eyes again.

see him, nor

!

Still his

the dizziness.

was it
"forever?" What would he do? He was
dead worse than dead. A mere ghost.
Harry's eyes were better than his

Suddenly the unnatu-

room seemed to be whirling around.

the

tremulously at

leaned

ralness of his invisibility struck him, and

"

peered

he

back in his chair and tried to think what
he could do. But the situation was too
complex for his simple ideas. He could

screamed Gran'ther Higgins. The front
door banged.
"Don't leave me now,"
gran'ther wailed piteously. "Don't leave

me now

he

—almost a sigh of resignation;

becoming more calm,

and,

!"

"Forever!"

fingers.

his

see

"forever,"
fore.

for

yet

Grand-

He was never

could not have said
he was as solid as be-

He reached for the bottle on the

—the only unbroken one.

The

groaning.

mantel,

was odd, sitting there in the easy
chair, and looking right through his
knees to the green-plush seat. Rut the
oddity of it did not appeal to Grandfather Higgins neither did the uncanni-

green liquid blinked slyly at him. The
blot on the label was as black as ever.

It

;

Then he noticed that the botte was tightly

corked,

and that the

stopper was unbroken

!

seal

over the

He peered into

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN

138

the tin cup, and a drop or two of red

reflected

liquid met his excited gaze.

The face was wrinkled and yellow

Great Scott

He had taken the wrong- stuff! He had
from

"For
Dreams." Yes, the red bottle, smashed
on the floor, was uncorked.
Laughing
confusedly,
grandfather
Higgins stared at the wicked green fluid.
He remembered his plans, and started to
uncork the bottle then he saw himself
taken

a

dose

the

bottle

in

the

green

brilliant

shoulders were bent

but,

still,

liquid.
;

the

was his

body not better than no body at all ? Suppose the transparency were to last forever. Then all of the dream flashed across
his memory, and he seized the queershaped bottle savagely, and dashed it to
the floor with the others.
JV. S. E., 'oj.

;

A HIGHLAND TRAGEDY
At last we were going to the Natural
The younger children had been

Bridge.

clamoring for the
week,

— for

trip

events, indeed

all

Piney

Little

the previous
picnics

were

woodland and views of clear
mountain lakes, the trip would have been
pleasant even if there had not been the

of thick

children's endless tattle to enliven

it.

In

—and those of us who were due course then we reached the Natural

older were nothing loath either. 'To be

Bridge, a geologic formation of sufficient

splendor of

splendor and uniqueness to justify even

mountain day, we were not

that name printed in capitals on the U. S.

going to have as good a time as if we had
gone last week, when there would have

end of the lane through which you must

been with us a certain maiden, now ab-

pass to get to the caves, and here we left

more than one member

our mules, for a small consideration, and

not in the

accepted the services of James, the son

sure,

despite the autumnal

this glorious

sent, but dear to

of the party

—but then that

is

survey maps.

There

is

a

farm

at

the

and heir-presumptive, as personal con-

story.

So we put our books aside for the day

ductor.

—legitimate holidays being always
But
not of that chasm, or those
lowed— and bundled
caves, or the whirlpool where the endless
the market
al-

it

is

into

wagon, three on a seat, with our lunch
in, too, and trotted of? eagerly, behind
the brown mules.
The trip, some three
hours long, was uneventful and uninteresting, therefore,

to

record,

ticipating.

L

for one,

but at the

who were par-

time jolly enough for us

had never been

over these roads, so that the children vied
with each other

in

pointing out to

me

falling water is beaten into tangible foam,

meringue on a lemon pie
no, it is of none of these that I shall
tell you to-day.
Nor is it of the picnic

that looks like

itself, the

excellent sandwiches, the tooth-

some sardines, the peach jam and the village ginger-ale,

fit

substitute

for

luke-

warm spring water.

No, nor is it of the

up-and-down-stream

rambles

that, fol-

the features of the country and since the

lowed, when we skipped nimbly, some of

monotony of the deep, dusty sand roads
was continually being relieved by patches

boiling current, with scant mi.shap,

us gracefully, from rock to rock over the
for

THE HAVERFORDIAN

139

we had come prepared and wore sneak-

to be had for the asking.

ers or spiked shoes.

of paper

der their sunken, listless eyelids.

open in summer for better ventilation,
something sadly needed even in the more
substantial farm houses of the country.
The vines which once strove hard to hide

No, the one thing
which left the greatest impression on us
was that farm house and its barn, where
we housed our mules, and its inhabitants,
who looked curiously out at us from un-

Go forward
reader, to the

with

me,

then,

gentle

Perhaps the scene T

fall.

am about to describe is taking place today,

grandmother,

for did not the old

who had come from Virginia "before the
war,"

say

granddaughter

her

was

to

come back in the fall?
It is

where glass once was, but which are left

boards

pier flowers.

just as shiftless as ever, with

its

patched

fence and rude gate hung on ropes.

wind whistles through

The

of holes that the
it

and makes

its

timbers rattle like dry bones, while the
solitary red

cow looks on listless, blear-

eyed, and the three white pigs, long since

grown

brown with a summer's
accumulation of mud, huddle against
each other, squealing joylessly. A buggy
a dirty

and a Dearborn in the middle stages of
decay seem vieing with one another as to
which shall look the most dilapitated,
and a rusty harrow leans disconsolately
against the fence, mute protester against
the

common

farmer's

extravagance;.

Scrawny, shivering chickens wander aimlessly to

and fro.

The farm house itself

—one room downstairs and one up, and
a lean-to kitchen — another indicator of
is

what

among

Inside, the

room is warm,

but still not cheerful, for the stale air of

be

you can taste it and smell it as
Ornaments are few, though there

felt,

enlarged to

full

the

and

tember are gone the way of many hap-

and the poor worn-out dog shivers uneasily by the porch. The barnyard looks

so

of

withered,

we saw in Sep-

those poor nasturtiums

well.

is

long since

have

decades is there and the heat cannot only

a chill afternoon in late October.

itself

grayness

rain-worn

bleak

the

The dry cornstalks rattle in the stiff wind

barn

Rags and pieces
windows

the spaces in the

fill

is,

of course, the inevitable photograph

through some col-

life-size,

lege-boy agent working his way by sum-

mer toil
gilt

—always

be found in a great

to

frame, commemorating some other-

wise long-forgotten relative.

Rag car-

pets or frayed oil-cloth cover the uneveti

and the stains of tobacco juice are

floor

But the people among the
poor are always more interesting than
everywhere.

their houses, just as

among the rich the

mansions more often hold your attention
than the gilded butterflies within. Therefore, look for a few moments at the
ily

collected

heat-burdened

their

in

fam-

James, the boy with matted hair
and the inevitable suspenders for you

room.

can always

tell

the farm boy from the

gentleman's son by the ever ubiquitous
suspenders of the former

—who showed

us around the caves last September, is no

where in sight.

Indeed,

I

believe he has

Adirondack
farmers, for thrift, though it seems much
more like waste. For the slabs that serve
for shingle and clapboard have never
been painted save by wind and weather.

gone to the station to meet his returning
sister.
His mother, whom we remember
seeing at the door as we drove by on that
masculine, the sort of

woman who has

A can of fresh paint is a luxury.

dropped long ago

signs of age and

passes

the

It is

never-to-be-forgotten picnic, stolid, dull,

all

cheaper to go to the mill and pick up the

who may be thirty or sixty, as the fancy

abandoned by the scornful jaws
of the hungry saw, lying in the road, and

strikes you

slabs,

is

— indeed, probably she herself
— strange as may

not quite sure

she,

it

THE HAVERFORDIAN

I40

appear, sits quietly by tlie Franklin stove,

"befo' the war," or maybe she recalls the

for the work in a farm house never seems

present writer, a

to get done

young man, with strange yellow "pants"
and a flannel shirt and very old shoes.
But if so, it is only for a moment, for is

all

through

but this time the chores are

;

for is not the occasion of the

;

home-coming a great one? Her youngest daughter, brown hair uncut, untrimmed and unbrushed, eyes listless, expressionless

face dull and ignorant,

;

lies

afore-mentioned,

dred years old, rocks quietly in his chair

years ago

and seemingly receives as little attention
from the family as the chair itself. The

Troy,

person

lively

mother, v.ho

is

is

the

grand-

old

bustling about and put-

The same old black

ting things to rights.

has

gone

to

Riverside, a station on the D. H., fifteen

sister,

only

red-haired, hatless

not that the sound of wheels outside?

James,

The old man, who
was pointed out to us as being a huncurled up at her feet.

tall,

miles from the farm, to meet his older

who went away to school eight
"to a young ladies' school in

grandmother told us
is coming home now.
Even if that school has not been a young
"

as the old

with pride

—and she

ladies' school,

still

the girl has seen too

much of the bright and the good side of

bonnet which greeted our approach that

life

bright September day,

farm of her childhood or the "folks at
home," who have starved and pinched
themselves to keep her at school with
the fond hope of her returning to relieve
their last years.
That meeting after
slattern
separation—of
eight
years

still

conceals the

wisps of gray hair, and the same grimy

corncob pipe rests lovingly in the corner
of her mouth.

She is as garrulous as she

was that day, when, in the kindness of
her heart

— believe she has one
I

—she charged us only
rent for our mules

!

still left

thirty cents stable-

Perhaps she is even

now reminiscing about the "ledy" from
' 'Ginia," who paid her that little sum
and who came from the same part of the
State

whence she

herself

to

be any longer content with the

mother and well-dressed daughter, of ignorance and education it is too touching, too full of pathos, for the rude pen
of the present author. Allow him, there-

fore, gentle reader, to

draw the curtain.

had migrated

R. S., '06.

THE QUEST
My Lady of the Changeful Moods doth say
That I, who of her winsomcness have sung,
Have sung in praise of others, and among
The maidens I have met along life's way,
She is but one of many. Tell me, pray,
Could I have known how fair she was, had I
Not looked upon the maids who passed me by.
And looking, found her fairer far than they?

Why can she not perceive that while wove
A wreath of song which vagrant fancy brought
I

To many a

chance-met maid, before I knew
it
was her I sought.
Building dream-temples to her, far above
My shrines to others, long since lost to view.

Of her existence,

M.

O.

F.,

'10.

HEROES AND MARTYRS
It

was late in the afternoon.

In front

towards Santurce-Arriba.

of one of the thatched hovels, which in

hand he carried a

times past lined the Military Road along

left

suburb of

the

Santurce,

there

family group which would have
the

attention

naked
with

tots.
all

of

any

grave mission to perform

the restlessness of their years,

her eyes with

her hand, gazed intently down the dusty
road, as

if

her salvation were coming

from that direction.

A picture of object

poverty and the hunger that drives the

most resolute soul

into

madness

last rays of the setting sun

fell

!

on

One might

have thought that the youngster had a
world.

in this

As he walked along, he seemed conscious
of his importance and responsibilities.

This youngster was Pimpo, Ramona's
eldest boy.

Pimpo was the man of the

house, the hope of the home to which no

Every

father had ever brought bread.

walked five miles to the
district jail to beg food for his mother
and brothers who were too poor to buy
afternoon he

who

any.

guard over the prisoners liked him because he was such a manly little fellow.
He brought cigarettes and did all their
errands without a murmur.
So every
afternoon one of the soldiers would take
Pimpo's tin-pail into the prison's courtyard to have it filled. There, placed in
a corner, it was often filled to its brim

if

there may be "death in life."

"Will

he come?"

And the tots tugged and pulled and
begged bread until the patience of the
woman was exhausted.
"Mamense cl dco, chiqnillos!" "Suck
your thumbs, brats," she said harshly,

The Spanish

soldiers

the }ard.

in

What mattered if it was

only leavings off the plates of criminals,

some of them with diseases ?

Ramona, such was her name, was
growing nervous.
She paced up and
down in front of the "hovel, fingered the

tered

kerchief around her head, scratched, mur-

mured and tried to shorten the distance
which separated her from the object of
her restlessness by sheer straining of the
While running her fingers over
eyes.
the kerchief around her head, she found
a cigar stump which she had put in one
of the folds. She knocked off the ashes
and stuck it in her mouth, to soothe her

And she waited.

Just before sunset, a dirty, ragged little

boy of ten crossed San Antonio's bridge
and made his way along the road

kept

by the leavings of the prisoners who ate

but did not mean a word of it.

nerves.

his

this

emphasize mockingly the truth that
"Dios imo," sighed the mother.

in

The

group, and their rich background, as
to

and

A serious look

Two

passerby.

shielding

a roll of black bread.

was upon his youthful face.

long-headed and big-bellied,

She,

In his right

pail,

was a
drawn

were making life miserable for a ragged,
care-worn
woman, apparently their
mother.

tin

if

What mat-

the stuff he got every afternoon

was only rice boiled with salt and bacon
Mother and brothers
were at home hungry and did not care?

into a vile paste?

Pimpo received his pail and thanked God
that there was a prison where he could
go for food.

"Por Dios, Pimpo, what kept you so
was the mother's exclamation of
relief when, at last, the boy entered the

late?"

hut with the pail.

"Mother, I had many errands to do for
the

soldiers.

That kept me.

I

have

brought enough food for you and the
brothers."

"

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN

142

They all gathered in the middle of the
Ramona filled two shell-dishes and gave them
hut and sat on the damp ground.

younger children who devoured
the stuff voraciously.
She removed the
tobacco from her mouth and ate a spoonful.
Then she gave the rest to Pimpo,
and replaced the tobacco.
"Mother, why don't you eat?" protested Pimpo.
Here, if you don't eat, I

to the

don't

"Hijo, answered the mother." I had
enough with a spoonful. It fills me to
see you eat. If my children are satisfied,
I am satisfied.
Be a good boy, Pimpito
eat that and run down the store to get
me some rum. My tobacco and my rum
are enough."

That night she put the
early.

I

tots

to

bed

bugs

of

all

descriptions

—ugly,

creeping creatures. Pimpo himself, brave
little

"Mama, do you hear a noise out
Pimpo's

kitchen?"

the

scared

Pimpo, dropped asleep

at the

feet

of his mother, as Ramona bent over the
ironing table.

sounded in the darkness.

"No, dear, I do not hear anything.

Twice

he

protested,

but

twice

was close to twelve o'clock.

mona kept on ironing.

By the

She was behind

As long as

her work and must finish it.
candle

lasted

she

had

to

work.

There was a look of dogged determinaNature retion on her haggard face.
belled against the task of hard work and
no food, but that mother was stronger
than nature. She was giving the lie to
the often
is

made assertion

indolent and

fice.

his

mother gave him the same answer.
"I'll bet," he said to himself, "that she
left those shirts of Dona Urraca out
kitchen

there in the

and they

will

be

stolen."

"Mother, did you bring the
night?"

shirts in

last

But he got no answer.
Something came to his throat and
chocked him.
He felt impending disaster.

At noon

the

next day the hut pre-

The mother had
some expensive linen in the kitchen,
and it had been stolen. Twenty shirts
at five dollars a piece
Ramona had not

sented a sad picture.
left

stopped to figure

uncertain light of a tallow candle, Ra-

the

Go

to sleep."

it

Last year a

out.

She had

similar theft had ruined her.
It

in

voice

should not say "to bed," for

they slept on the ground on a heap of rags

with

She was soon asleep from sheer exhaustion.

in

And now there came this second

calamity.

Wild, her hair in disorder, she

bolted out of the hut and ran

—what? The
— what?

road

to

thief,

the shirts,

find

down the

police,

the

But let us go back to the hut. The
two tots are crying their eyes dry and
their throats sore.
Poor Pimpo sits in
a corner, his

fists

clenched in impatient

rage.

incapable of self-sacri-

her

fight.

rum kept her alive.
The candle burned

Tobacco and

"God, when
strong I'll—

I

I'll

grow
shoot,

and

to

be

big

I'll

kill,

I'll—."

And he drove his fists into his mouth
itself

to nothing.

Groping in the darkness, Ramona closed
the windows of her hut, and in the stifling atmosphere, dropped by the side of
her children.

debt.

that her race

Her peculiar nervous organization

upheld her

been washing her hands off to pay the

from sheer rage.

That afternoon. Dona Urraca, the
owner of the linen came to the hut. She
was a rich, fearful Spanish lady, and
Pimpo always trembled in her presence.

THE HAVERFORDIAN
"Here, brat, where is your thieving
mother! The shirts were stolen, eh? I
know the httle game of your thief of a

Not home, eh? She will produce the linen if it takes the rack and
the thumb screws to do it, by all the
mother.

Saints!"

She went away, and
with

Pimpo sighed

strange light in her eyes, and then the

whole truth dawned on him.

Ramona mumbled some unintelligible
words and threw herself on the rags.
Suddenly she turned around.
"Pimpo, go to the store and get me
rum." It was a sharp command. Pimpo
left

the hut with the bottle mechanically.

relief.

When Ramona came home that night,
presented

she

143

The rags

that

a

heart-rending

sight.

had covered her were

That was the last he saw of her. Two
weeks later, at the orphan asylum, where
he and his brother had been taken, he
was informed by a priest that the body

By the odor of eggs and
on her head, Pimpo became

of his mother had been recovered in the

painfully aware that his mother had been

waters under San Antonio's bridge; that

—-probably by street boys in the

he should forget her, because she had

tatters

the

now.

filth

abused

He almost suffocated at the sight.
He noticed a
only he were big!

city.

died a suicide, and her soul had gone

If

to hell!

/.

A TOAST
to the smart set that studies and
crams
Beforehand in diligence thrifty.
But a health to the knight of the make-up
exams,
Who howls with delight at a fifty.

Success

They have given the college their labor

—and

we,

Who were never intended for scholars,
Have as cheerfully given the second flunk fee
Of five of our much needed dollars.

We

furnish

the

sinews

—they furnish the

brain,

So let the professors all damn us;
Their motto

is,

"Labor with

infinite pain,"

And ours, "dum vivimus vivamus."
;.

F.

w., -w.

P., '07.

;

THE PITY OF IT ALL
The

earth

Christmas.

was being decorated

for

The first real snow of winter

was whirling along the sidewalks and the
wind was rattling the shutters of all the
houses along Pembroke Street.
The snow was damp and covered all
the lamp-post and housefronts with its
moist whiteness.
Even a black crape,
hanging upon the door of one of the
houses, was not proof against it, and its
solemn color was fast disappearing under a coating of snow as though nature
were trying to stifle its message and

life

had been beating with cruel vigor

against this house for years and nobody

had ever noticed that before.
Inside the house one would pass, with

only a quick glance over one's shoulder,

opened into that dimlyroom where drafts of air

the door which
lighted front

stirred the white draperies of a couch.

One would hasten on and enter the other
room, which, despite

its

the

dwarfed life of the house for years.

A woman sat before an open fireplace

wished to hide all traces of grief at this

in this room, gazing into

embers,

Only a few people were passing on the
street, for it was nearly midnight.
Did
any of them notice that the wind seemed

charred log.

draped

house

with

unusual

vigor.'

unhome-

appearance, had been the center of

glad Christmas time.

to be striking the shutters of this crape-

tense,

like

across

which

a mass of dying
rested

a

half-

A bright fire would have

been incongruous here

would have

it

much of hope and joy of
passion, where now all was cold but the
savored too

;

red glow of the ashes lent

its

dim illum-

Surely not that young man and girl who

ination only to enhance the tragedy of it

were just passing; their minds were too

all.

full

of the future to notice that.

did

the

soon

after,

Xor

who passed

Occasionally a

would

start

and

feeble,

try to

blue

flame

kindle the log,

grandchildren celebrate Christmas eve

woud soon die out defeated, like
vainly striving to expand when
bound down by shackles of circum-

they were too reminiscent of the past,

stance, or a bit of falling ashes

elderly

couple,

returning from seeing their

youth of years ago scarcely

and

in the

felt

the cold, sharp wind,

ticed a house

ceptionally

let

alone no-

whose shutters seem ex-

loose.

A cab driver drove

by on his hansom, and, although he did
notice the crape', he
est

or pity.

And

no special interyet, why ramble on
felt

and describe all who passed? Are people usually so ready to lend interest to
passing sorrow that these belated pleasure-seekers should be held up and
scanned. No, nolxjdy wondered that night
why the wind seemed to pick out this
spxDt as a playground for its boisterous
And what was more natural than
sport.
that they should not,

for the gales of

but
a

it

life

would

make the light fitful as it fell upon her
and deceived one into thinking that
now and then;
but she was not living in her body then
her soul was in the past.
A brooch lay in her lap and it gleamed
against the black folds of her gown.
Her hands had been nervously fingering
it, but now they had dropped down at
her sides as she gazed gazed ^gazed
face

her expression changed

into the

fire.

She thought of the years of thankless
service she had given to her father,

who

was now lying in the other room wondering how she had ever endured her
life as it had been.
Oh, if only she had

!

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN
been appreciated!

If

he had only real-

ized that her devotion to

a

sacrifice,

him had been

and had not taken

it

matter of course that a daughter's

as a
life

145

And now they were over.
Her duty had been fulfilled only her
love ren'.ained but now that was differand duty.

:

W'ith the passage of the years,

ent.

it

and, despite the hopes she had had

had changed and ripened.
No longer
was it a thing of warmth and color now
it
was a cold, ethereal, abstract devotion that was to the love of the years
gone by as the moon is to the sun.
And he? Other interests had en-

then for the fuller fruition of her

own

gulfed him, for men are more fortunate

she had assumed the burden

and

than worr.en, and

the
father.
and
soul
belonged
to
Things might have been different had
her mother lived, but when she died the
responsibility of the invalid father had

been shifted upon the daughter's shoulders,

life,

;

adding the weight of each
year, was now bent and faded beneath it
all.
Only that one time had she wanted
to change. If only her father could have

this

realized one hundredth of her suffering

herself.

gradually

then,

the care of him, instead of devot-

but

burning

Oh, she was bitter, bitter
She picked up the brooch unconsciously and held it with quivering fingers. Again she saw him who had been
the love of her life as he had sat there
beside her at this fireplace those

long

She remembered how he had
asked her to keep the trinket he had
given her, despite the fact that she had
vears ago.

him her decision. And then
and lived over again the
remembered
she
Oh, had it been
his
going.
agony of
the fire had
course?
How
the right
She
had seen
night
mocked her that
all the
the
flames
consumed there in
then
heart
and
hopes of her womanly
just

told

The

.

log that had been

;

with their endless strifes

between love

all

suddenly

sometime,

for

The light filled the
room and brought out the pictures, the

crackled into flame.

furniture, the well-worn books that she
had been used to for the past years. As

room she

she gazed about the

Empty

!

Then

She bitter?
ion ?

the

instinc-

looked toward her father's chair.

tively

Xever
room,

she

caught her breath.

She had made a false decis!

Quietly she moved out of

through

passing

and,

the

chillv hall, where the rattling of the shut-

ters beat

an accompaniment to her steps,

she went to where he

was lying.

Only

a moment did she stand there gazing on

!

she had plunged into the engulfing years

Her

a mistake.

How different would life have

if

ing it to the love and desires of her own

made

Yes, she had

decision had been false to nature and to

been

heart.

known

the truth be

one memory of a crowded life.

when she finally yielded her whole

life to

if

woman was to him now but

lonly

the peaceful face

—softened now by
—then
lines

which it had not known for years
she

bent

over and kissed one of the

folded hands.

/.

/.

D.,

'oj.

WHY THE LIPS ARE RED
(From ''The Vintage")
Love, at the living wine-press of the lips,
Stands master-vintner, while the purpling grapes

Of mutual desire, without delay.
The tender pressure of His feet obey.

And lo, love's wine's divinely soft caress
Has left a crimson stain upon the press
/.

T. T., ex-'o8.

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
Edited by Dean Barrett.
Several

members of

the

faculty

ex-

pect to attend sessions of learned socie-

during

ties

Professors

Christmas

the

vacation.

Gummere and Comfort will

go to New Haven for the annual meeting of the

Modern Language AssociaMustard

Professors

tion.

Philological

Association, to be

held

in

Prof. Mustard has

Washington, D. C.

methods

sessions.

Prof. Bar-

officiating,

among the details dis-

President Sharpless has

made a num-

ber of speeches during the autumn, prin-

on

cipally

He

subjects.

political

ad-

dressed Tea-meetings at Haverford and

Germantown on the subject of "Adult
in England," and on December
nth he addressed the Civics Club of

the

its

in

new rules and

cussed.

Institute of America, in
Washington.
Prof. Pratt is Secretary
and Treasurer of the American Society
of Zoologists and will go to Columbia

L^niversity for

in the

for securing uniformity in in-

terpretation were

at

Archaeological

difficulties

suggested changes

requested to present a paper on
some classical subject at this meeting
and will also attend the meeting of the

been

Present

tee.

Baker

and

meeting of the American

will attend the

Middle-Atlantic Commit-

spices of the

School

college on

"Political

Conditions in

Pennsylvania."
In the annual report of the President
to the

Board of Managers, several inter-

esting

points

are

Among

discussed.

go to Providence for the annual meeting of the American Economic

them is the policy of the college relating
to special students.
Haverford endeav-

Association.

ors to keep this class of students at the

rett

will

On November

Prof.

Hancock

Alumni address before the

delivered the

Central

23rd,

High School, and is, during the

cial

Of the fifteen spe-

point possible.

lovi-est

students of last year, six found

it

advisable not to return, five became regu-

present winter, giving a course of five

lar and the four

lectures on Shakespeare before the Wil-

dents with serious purposes.

mington Century Club. Prof. Comfort
had an article in the publications of the

of a science hall to be built for about

Modern Language Association for June,
1906, entitled "The Character-types in
the old French chansons de gests." The

sightly

Physical

laboratories,

American Economic

tention

drawn to the fact that an in-

publications of the

Association,

containing the papers and

discussions of

has

a

the

paper on

last

annual meeting

"Railway Rates," by

Prof. Barrett.

$150,000,

remaining are good stu-

and the removal of the unwing of Founders'

temporary

now used

Hall,

is

proportion

dents

taking

is

courses and

is

it

tendency

is

the

for

creasing

this

The need

Chemical and

are

urged.

of Haverford

technical

Atstu-

engineering

suggested that, unless
counteracted, the char-

On November 30th, Prof. Babbitt pre-

acter of the college as an institution pri-

Board

marily for training in and by means of

sided at a meeting of the Central

of Officials of the American

Inter-col-

Foot Ball Rules Committee, held
at the Bellevue-Stratford, under the aulegiate

marked degree.

will be changed in a
Perhaps the most inter-

esting point, in

many

the

liberal

arts,

respects,

enunci-

THE HAVERFORDIAN
ated in the President's policy, is thai relating

to

faculty.

system

pension

it.

The Board

in

the

for

charge of the

147

foundation.
The prospect of a
comfortable and secure old age, which is
this

offered

professors

to

those

in

institu-

Carnegie Foundation for the Advance-

tions

ment of Teaching has issued its plan for
pensioning professors in colleges and

Carnegie fund, will

advantages of the
cause the best men

to acept positions

such colleges and

receiving

universities.

The provisions of this plan

universities.

are

but they do not apply

tion,

liberal,

to

Denominational institutions

Haverford.

requiring a majority of their trustees to

the

in

As a result of this situa-

Haverford must either provide a

pension scheme equivalent

value to

in

that of the Carnegie Foundation, or find

hold membership in a particular denomi-

itself

nation are exempt from the benefits of

cient and

gradually bereft of

most

its

effi-

most promising men.

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
The first of the Alumni reunions for
the current year came off on the evening
About seventy-five old

of N'ovember 2^.

Haverfordians were present and voted
the evening a grand success.
the

evening before the

final

dent,

Morris,

'04,

and Henry

Great enthusiasm was evi-

and the new foot ball songs went
a dash and vigor that boded

off with

well for tlie spirit in college.

foot

ing closed with a "long and fast" for the

ball

Alumni

and undergraduates was held in Robert Hall.
Eshelman, '05, presided, and speeches
were given by Dr. Hancock. Drinker, '00.
of

Cope,

'02,

"69.

As it was

game with New York University, a huge
mass-meeting

Chambers,

The meet-

all adjourned to the gymnawhere an informal smoker was
held.
The freshman cake walk came
next on the program, in which there
were eleven
couples
entered.

team, and

sium

NOTES
Dean

'88.

William

Draper

Lewis

'02.

C.

W. Stork has returned from

study abroad and

now an

spoke for the University of Pennsylva-

a year's

Memorial services held
in Christ Church, Philadelphia, in honor

instructor in English at the University

nia at the recent

of Pennsylvania,

of James Wilson.
'02.

W. H. Kirkbride is in the em-

'01.

ploy

of

R. M. Gummere was elected Sec-

retary of the

Lewiston Clarkston Com-

the

pany at Clarkston, 111.

is

Ex-02.
in

Harvard Graduates Club.

Guerney Newlin is engaged
Los Angeles,

the practice of law in

Cal.

A.

G.

H.

Treasurer

of

the

'02.

Club.

was elected
Harvard Graduates
Spiers

'03.

J.

B. Drinker

Trust Company.

is

in

the

Girard

:

;

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

COLLEGE CALENDAR
Glee and Mandolin Concert in Robert's Hall, Thursday evening, December 2oth.

Halves 25 minutes each. Final Score
erford, 23 Johns Hopkins. O.

Haxerford, o; Trinity,
Played

FOOT BALL
Scores of Foot Ball

at

o.

Hartford, Connecticut, No-

vember 17, 1906.

Team

On a gridiron covered with mud, HaH.







— Hav-

;

Oct. 6 Medicho-Chi
Oct. 13— Lehigh
Oct. 20 Rutgers
Oct. 27 Ursinus
Nov. 3 Franklin & Marshall
Nov. 10 Johns Hopkins
Nov. 17 Trinity
Nov. 24 New York L'niversity

.

.

Total

.

.

o.

verford and Trinity fought out their an-

4

o

5

o

nual

o

side being able to score.

23

16

4
23

o
c

o
68

o

127

16

game on the Trinity field, neither

The game was cleanly played, devoid
of slugging, and

filled with punting and
open play. Haverford"s goal was threatened twice in the first half, but on each

occasion the line held in splendid

man-

and the ball was taken away from
Trinity on downs. Haverford attempted
one field goal, but on account of the mud,
ner,

H.A\ERFORD, 2^; JOHNS HoPKlXS, O.

Played at Haverford, November

10,

C. Brown was unable to get off his drop-

1906.

though

Haverford,

outweighed,

in

more interesting game than
would indicate.

a

score

pecially
ford.

the

good ground-gainers for HaverHaverford worked the forward

many times successfully.

Michael,

Stewart and Abel played well for Hop-

that the teams were very evenly matched,

distance

rarely able to

make her
line,

muddy condition of the field

precluded getting off the swift end runs

which Haverford has used so effectually
in

other games.

The game commenced at 2.35 by Donnelly, the Trinity fullback,

The line-up
Johns Hopkins.

Haverford
Sharpless
Tatnall

Wood
Spaeth

1.

e

I.

t

Stewart
Michael

I.

g

Haas

g

Sawyer
Moss

Jarvis

c

Birdsall

r,
.'

Frost

Leonard

Brown

Hutton
(Clement)

Brown

Frost caught the ball on Haverford's 30-

yard

Line rushes gained 5 yards
Haverford kicked.
Maxson, of
Trinity, ran the punt back for 15 yards.
line.

and

t

r.

e

Ridgely

Trinity failed to gain through the line

q.

b

Chesney

1.

h.

b

r.

h.

b

and Pond kicked, Haverford losing the
ball on a fumble on her lo-yard line.
Line plunges by Trinity brought the ball

f.

b

Costello

Hart

Webb

Touchdowns Hutton, Jones, C. Brown.
Goals from Touchdowns — C. Brown. 2. Goal
Safety— Che>'ney.
Brown.
from Field— C.
Referee Gillender, U. of P. Umpire Myers.
Linesman— Mcndelhall, U. of P. Time of

kicking off to

Haverford, who defended the south goal.

r.

(Abel)

Jones
C.

was

through the Haverford's

while the

kins.

P.

The game showed

by a narrow margin.
as Trinity

Brown were es-

Captain Jones and C.

pass

de-

Hopkins team

feated the slower Johns

kick with accuracy, and missed the goal

to

Haverford's 3-yard

line,

but the line

held like a stone wall, and Trinity lost
the ball on downs, C.

of danger.

Brown punting out

——

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Trinity again tried

line-bucking,

The

but

up and Pond punted.
Jones
made ten yards on an end run. A forward pass by Haverford was caught by

gave

it

149

line-up

Haverford.

Trinity.

Sharpless

Budd
(Henshaw)

e

1.

(Ayer)
Frost

1.

t

Off

10 yards before the

Wood

1.

g

Dougherty

was called down. Trinity made 7
yards around the end, but again lost the
ball on downs, and Haverford punted.

Spaeth

c

Birdsall

r.

Trinity,

who made

ball

Carpenter

Ramsey

r.

g

George Buck
Grove Buck

Leonard

r.

e

Collins

q.

b
h.

Pond
Maxson
Mason
Donnelly

P.

Brown

t

Trinity netted 4 yards by line plunges,

Bard

1.

and then a forward pass gave her the
bail on Haverford's io-)ard line. A touchdown seemed imminent, but again the
Haverford line was equal to the occasion,
and Trinity lost the ball on downs. C.
Brown immediately sent the ball far up
the field, and the Trinity man was
downed in his tracks by the Haverford
ends.
The half ended with the ball in
Trinity's possession on her own 35 -yard

Jones

r.

b
h. b

f.

b

C.

Referee Wrightington, Harvard. Umpire
Minds. Pennsylvania.
Head Linesman and

Timer Macjohnson,
Trinity.
Linesmen
Cunningham. Trinity, and Hutton, Haverford.

Time

make steady gains by line-bucking or
end runs, and the game resolved itself
into a kicking contest, in which C.
Brown, of Haverford, slightly out-punted Pond, of Trinity. Each side made an
occassional first down, but soon kicked.
With but 25^2 minutes to play, the ball
was in the center of the gridiron, in
Haverford's

possession,

made made

its

plunges.

ten

yards.

three

line

run

After failing to

Trinity

Jones, catching the
beautiful

in

Two end runs were blocked,

and C. Brown punted.

make

and the team

distance

ball,

through

when the whistle blew.

a

started

and
on a

broken

field

punted,

The ball was in

Haverford's possession on her 40-yard
line.

The team work of both elevens was
and so evenly were the lines
matched that punting was the feature
Pond's work for Trinity was
of play.
excellent,

Halves

of

—30 minutes.

Attendance

1,000.

Haverford, 68

;

New York Univ., o.
November

24,

Haverford's unbeaten team put a

fit-

Played

at

Haverford,

1906.

line.

In the second half neither side could

Brown

end to their successful season's
work by swa"mping New York, 68 to o.

ting

The team was developed slowly but
surely,

and

did

not

reveal

strength until the final game.

York team,

their

full

The New

was good, but
Although beaten badly, New York played a good losing game and fought gamely to the
individually,

they lacked team work.

finish.

Haverford played fast, new style foot
Wide end runs, forward passes and
quarterback kicks were reeled off with
rapidity.
Behind magnificent interference, Captain Jones, C. Brown or Bard
would tear around the ends with thirty
ball.

or

forty-yard

runs.

Rarely

has

the

team shown such "helping" spirit.
Often the runner would be carried by his
team mates for yards with one or two
New York men hanging to him. Haverford was fast, sure, and irresistible.

The game

started shortly after 2.30,

of a brilliant order, while for Haverford,

with C. Brown kicking off to Van Home,

the punting by C. Brown, and the line

who was downed on

plunging and end runs of Capt. Jones
were conspicuous.

Here New York lost the ball on downs,
showing poor judgment for not kicking.

his

20-yard

line.

.

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN

150

On the first play, Haverford was penal15 yards

ized

for holding.

SOCCER

Brown

C.

On November

missed a try at a goal from the field, and

Club

New York kicked from behind the 25yard line. Wood caught the ball and ran

team, 2 to

back to the 35-yard line.

it

Magill car-

forward pass,
and in two more plays Jones was pushed
over for a touchdown.
ried the ball 25 yards on a

This started

and from
now on until the end of the game, it was
all Haverford.
If New York got the
ball they would soon have to kick and
Haverford would score another touchdown. New York did not have a chance
to score, never having the ball past their
the

Seven Seniors played their

Wood

Haverford.

game

last

signalized

sprinting for

Haverford's

touchdown.

last

ended

most
valuable }ears of Haverford foot ball by
a brilliant playing, both offensively and
defensively.
The work of C. Brown,
Bard, Ramsey and Haines was also of
Captain

Jones

his

four

New York.

Haverford.
Magill

1.

Smith

e

Frost

Friedberg

1.

t

Wood

I.

g

Koar

Spaeth

c
r.

g

Decker
Keefer

r.

t

Auffault

r.

e

Arnold

(Wilson)

Birdsall
•.

(Jones)

Leonard
(Sharpless)

Haines

q.

Carey

b

i.

Played at Haverford, November 28th,
igo6.

In an

match, Haver-

inter-collegiate

ford beat Cornell at soccer by 2 goals to

Baker scored the two goals for Ha-

I.

verford in rapid succession toward the

end of the

Baker's work at

half.

first

center forward, and the defensive play-

ing

of

Captain

Rossmaessler

and

C.

Brown were the features.
Haverford.

Cornell.

Shode
Furness
Baker

1

Chryssidy
Sarmiento

c. f

McDonald

Shoemaker

i.

Bushnell

o. r

Windle

I.

o.
i.

Rossmaessler
Drinker
Godley

Brown
Warner

Delcasse
Bylevett

r

h

Wilson
DragoshinoflF

r.

h
h

1.

f.

b

r.

f.

b

c.

C.

1

g

Molevsky
Sampaio
De Bye

Wood

On Saturday, December 8th, the soccer
Harvard,

2-1,

at

Cam-

bridge.

The Ardmore Boys' Club has again
started for the winter months.
in the

old

It is

held

Grammar School gymnasium,
About twentyThe work is car-

next to Merion Cottage.
five

boys are enrolled.

ried on by the College Y. M. C. A., under

Brown)

Bard
(Hutton)

1.

Jones (Capt.)
(Clement)

Brown
Brown)

Dougherty

b

h.

r.

h.

f.

b

Van Horn
(Capt.)

Referee Smith, Bucknell. Umpire GillenTime of
Linesman Myers.
U. of P.
Halves 30 minutes. Touchdowns Jones, 4;
Bard, Hutton, Wood.
Goals
C. Brown, S
from Touchdowns C. Brown, 6; Haines, Hut-

der,

;

the leadership of

H. Evans, '07.

Mouen

b

(A.

ton.

Haverford, 2; Cornell,

team defeated

(Ayer)

C.

Belmont Cricket Club won from Haverford on November 6th, 4 goals to o.

The line-up

Ramsey

soccer

very interesting game.

Referee
Bishop.
Linesman
Gummere.
Smith. Goals Baker, 2; McDonald. Time of
Halves 35 minutes.

the highest order.

(P.

in a

his

departure by blocking a kick, picking up
the ball and

Cricket

scoring,

own 50-yard line.
for

i,

Alerion

Haverford

3rd,

the

defeated

Rufus M. Jones addressed the Wednesday evening Y. M. C. A, meeting
during the "Week of Prayer," and by his
address on "Prayer" made

it one of the
most successful meetings that there has
b«en this jxar.

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you want to be

If

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W. H. RAMSEY, Vice-President

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W. H. Ramsey
W. H. Weimer
H. J. M. Cardeza

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J.

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WEDDING INVITATIONS

The little Art Shop

FRATERNITY STATIONERY

J!lround the Corner

Otto Sf,hftil)al i8N.9thst

Coats of Arms Painted for Framing

Heraldry and Genealogy
.

William Diamcen

and Salt

McatS

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Haverford, Pa.

and Lard

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_

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.

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In

Men

'

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will

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Lyons Brothers
Lawn Mowers

Fine Shoe RepairingTake Shoes to room 43 Barclay Hall, either Monday,
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repaired and return the second following evening.
BURT and LONGSTRETH, College Agents.
Shoe Repair Shop

YETTERS

Anderson Avenue

B. Stdwhl

&nd

T,

Pa.

COSTUMERS

'

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Decorator

'

,?7 S-

Eleventh Street

Philadelphia

Phone Walnut 52-26
Keystone Phone Race 71-19
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to.

Ardmore Tailoring Co.
KLxpLAN Bros.

North Ninth St.

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Philadelphia

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Cleaning, Altering and Pressing

Lancaster A\'e..

Ard.more, Pa.

FOR

FRANK BRINKERHOFF
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GO TO

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Bell

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J.

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121

Pa.

I'

Market Street

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Bryn Mawr and Ardmore,

Philadelphia

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SUPPLEE'S

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kinds of

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ARDMORE PRINTING CO.

Henry J. Norton
Practical Plumber, Gas and Stiam Fitter
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ARDMORE. PA.
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Water Wheels
Wind A\ills
a specialty

M. S. ST! LL

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MAIN LINE REAL ESTATE
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Phone 55

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L. A.

ROUNTREE'S, ARDMORE, PA.

JOHN S. TROWER,
CATERER AND
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5706 Main Street

and

-

Ardmore

Phonr 103

Germantown, Phila.

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Rosemont

t

K. C.

& B. F. ricCABE

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Accordeon Pleating-, and School Supi.lies
Agents for Singer and Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machines
Philadelphia Store

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jni

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19 South I5th St.

100 yards south of

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Haverford Laundry
Wyoming Avenue, Haverford
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rERSONAL SERVICE

R. T. BURNS, Prop.

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orderi for

some

mighty pretty

CALENDARS
A good Calendar

is

William S.
Yarnall

Manufacturing Optician
Philadelphia

ii8 S. iSTH Street

Special Rates to Students
'Wt'te

Station.

a good ad.

The Leeds & Biddle Co.
1010 Cherry St.

Philadelphia

BRYN MAWR HARDWARE GO.

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Excavation of all kinus done.

Hauling and

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With WM. H. WANAMAKER
Market and

I2th Streets

ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER
814 Arch St., Phila.

Philadelphia

SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS

Gentlemen's Wardrobes Kept in Good Order on Yearly Contract

A
Phone

.

TA LONE

TAILOR

Ardmore, Pa,

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St Mary's Laundry

ARDMORE

1520 Chestnut St.
Increased

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Wants your family wash.

Reduced expenses

Is in a position to
Calls for and delivers clothes from
Gentlemen's Linen
to Philadelphia.

handle it.

Devon

Lower prices a* j»

given domestic finish and all flatwork guaranteed to be done satisfactorily. Only Springfield
water and best laimdry soap used on clothes.

E.

Bradford Clarke Co., m.

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of Glaziers" Diamonds.
full

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tints.

Em-

stock of Plain Window-

Glass.

A full line

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Stock

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7,495,933.28
DIRECTORS:

OFFICERS:
Asa S. Wing

President
Vice-President
1. Wistar Brown
Joseph Ashbrook..V.-Pres. and Mgr. Ins. Dept.

Trust Officer
Roberts Foulke
Actuary
David G. Alsop
J. Barton Townsenil. .Assistant Trust Officer
Treasurer
Samuel H. Troth
Secretary
C. Walter Borton
J.

.

Samuel R. Shipley
T. Wistar

Brown

Richard Wood
Charles Hartshorne

Asa S. Wing
James V. Watson

Thomas Scattergood
Robert M. Janney
Marriott C. Morris
Frank H. Taylor
Jos. B.

Townsend, Jr.

lohn B. Morgan
William Longstreth Frederic H. Strawbridge
Joseph Ashbrook

409 Chestnut Street

Office,

Sale Deposit Vault./'

J. F.

GRAY

29 South

Men's and

Young Men's Suits

Eleventh Street
Single and Double BreastKd

Near Chestnut Street

PHILADELPHIA

$J5, $J6, $18, $20, $25, $30

Our

right-ready-to-put-on

equalled by best tailors,

Suits

are

only

who would make you

wait a long time, charge you from half again

HE.\DQUARTERS FOR

A. G. Spalding

and

to twice as

Bros.

much as we do, and then THEIR

SUITS WILL
style

NOT SURPASS OURS in

and quality.

TRADE MARK

MacDonald
.

.

Athletic

.

.

& Campbell

1334-1336 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia

and Golf

Goods

Wm. G. Hopper,
Member

Harry S. Hopper,
Member Philadelphia

Philadelphia

Stock Exchange

Sorosis Shoes

Men

for

Stock Exchange.

Wm. G. Hopper & Co. Sorosis Shoe Co.
of Philadelphia

Bankers ^ Brokers

When your shoes are ill-fitted sooner
or later your feet will hurt.

28 South Third

Street

the
is

encroachment on your mind, which

centered on more important matters.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Get a
Orders for the purchase and sale of Stocks
and Bonds promptly executed.

Long Distance
Lombard 36S
Telephone
Keystone, Main I2-/4
Connection

Local Telephones
Bell,

Perhaps, too,

at a period in life when you cannot afford

be

SOROSIS FITTING now and

insured

against

this

mistake.

shoes are not shoes with good soles or
good this and that they are entirely good.
;

SOROSIS
STAG SPECIAL

$5 oo

STAG

4 oo
3 50

Bailey,

Banks

&

College
Biddle

Photographs

Company

Finest

Jewelers

Diamond Merchants,

Work

Prompt Delivery
Special Rates to Students

Stationers

Makers of emblems (or the leading
Universities. ScHools and Colleges

College and Scliool Emblems
The 1&07 illu&lratrJ catalogue shows
newest

and

Jcsi^fns

in

hijjh-graje

College

Fraternity Pins,

Medals

Rings.

Novelties

Mailed

Iree

Fobs and

on

J3J8 Chestnut St,

request.

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HAVERFORDIAN

Haverford College
Volume XXVIII, No. 8.

Ja^nuary,

I907

CONTENTS
Editori.,;

151

Social Reforms'—^True and False.

The Minister

.

.

.

In

Femina

the

Dark Night

^59

I'acultv Dei

i(Vi

TIip

1-15

'

Ti->L-.>ti

mknt

Through the Ye;.
The Awakening

tain

154

.

In Union, Siren^

n Till Inspiration of Crane ^^oun-

.

164

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:

DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

ADVISORY BOARS

F. D. Godley,
B. Qement,
M. H. G. Spiers, '09
C. J. Rhoads, '93

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

J.

Other Members— I. J. Dodge, '07; E. F.
Jones, '07; M. H. March, '07; J. H. Wood, '07;
K. Drinker, '08; J. P.
C. T. Brown, '08;
Elkinton, '08.

C

DEFABTMENTS
Foot Ball

W. Brown, 07
G. K. Strode, •08

Chairman
ASce-Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

H. Evans, '07
G. K. Strode, '08

President
Secretary

'07
'08

P.

LOGANIAN SOCIETY

M. H. March, •07
C. K. Drinker, '08
E. T. Jones, '07

Captain

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

Gymnasium
Chairman
W. H. Haines, '07
Vice-Chairman
Edwards, '08
.E.
Manager
W. B. Rossmaessler, '07
Assistant Manager
W. R. Shoemaker, 08

A

Captain
Track:

J.

Chairman

DEPARTMBNTS
Civics

Vice-Chairman.

Manager

E. R. Tatnall, '07

Captain

P.

W. Brown, '07

J.

P. Elkinton, '08

.

Scientific

R. L, Gary, '06

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

W. Sargent, Jr., '08

Assistant Manager

H. Evans, '07

President
Vice-President
Secreta:ry-Treasurer

Bushnell, 3d, '08

.E. F. Jones, '07
W. W. Kurtz, '08
;

P. Magill, '07
Not elected
Not elected

J.

E. C. Tatnall, '07

J. Dodge, '07
D. C. Baldwin, '06
I.

Cricket

Chairman
Vice-Chairman

A. E. Brown, '07
E. A. Edwards, '08

Manager

J.

Debating
President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer .

W. Nicholson, Jr., '07

Assistant Manager

C. K. Drinker, '08
F. D. Godley, '07

Captain
Association Foot Ball

P. W. Brown, '07
C. K. Drinker, '08
E. R. Tatnall, '07
'08
J. B. Clement,

Chairman
Vice-Chairman

Manager
Assistant Manager

A. E. Brown, •07

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

President and Manager.
Assistant Manager

Leader
Tennis

J.

.

C. Spiers, '09

.W. B. Windle, '07

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

W. Nicholson, Jr., '07
A. E. Brown, '07

Assistant

Manager
C. L. Miller, 'oS
Y. M. C. A.
Dodge, '07
H. Evans, '07
\V. H. Morriss, •08
I.

.

Treasurer

J.

J.

M. H. C. Spiers, '09

G. H. Wood
E. F. Jones

W. S. Eldridge
G. C. Craig

E. Wright
Bushnell, 3d
C. F. Scott

J.

G. W. Emien, Jr.

1909:

F. O. Musser, '08

Manager

President
Vice-President
Secretary

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

T, K. Sharpless, '09

M. H.

.

1908:
President

M. H. March, '07

Treasurer
Musical

.

CLASSES

ASSOCIATIONS.
College:
President
Vice-President
Secretary

C. K. Drinker, '08
.

1907
President

R Rossmaessler, '07

.W.

Captain

M. H. March, '07

C.

R. L.

1910:
President

P. Elkinton, '08

Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

E. Marsh
G. S. Bard

M. Underbill
J.

C. Green

M. O. Frost
F. Wilson
E. Cadbury
M. Eshleman'
.

.

J.
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About our prescription work,
that none but the best
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TheJleti thatSteers

steering

We have them. Main-

spring

tain a separate factory

the
B'because
curves the

This steers

in New York city and

the sled without dragging

a special organization
to malie them for us.

steel runners.

the foot or scraping the
runner sJdewise, so It goes
a

and
much farther. Draws like any
ither sled but is lighter and
great

pulls easier.

safe

deal

faster

Steering makes It

from accident


cost by saving shoes

saves

its

prevents

wet feet and colds. Withspring
steel runners, pressed steel sup-

ports, second growth white ash seat and frame, it is

light yet practically indestructible, and handsomely
finished.

It is the only sled that girls can properly

Ask at your dealer's, and don't take
anything else. If they don't keep it, let us know.
control.

Model Sled FREE

Our cardboard model sled will ihow you just how it
works and give you lots of fun. Sent free by mail
with illustrated booklet giving lull information
regarding sizes and prices.
S. L.

that Young'

Men Want

EATS cyery Other sled
bar

The Suits and Overcoats

ALLEN & CO., Box MOOE. PblUdetphla, Pa.
Patentees and Manulactureis

Every garment
especially

for

built

Young

Men, with every turn
and twist of fashion
embodied in it.
Result

— selling to

more young men than
anyother store in town
A' hen you are read
y
to buy your new suit
and overcoat. See the

broad

and handsome

stock we are showing
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Haverford, Pa., January, 1907

world sometimes
THEexaggerated

appears with

faults,

if

not with

pessimistic hoplessness, to the young man

No. 8

men, or an uprising of the poor seems
imminent because of the amassing of
large

that

fortunes,

those

responsible

in or just out of College.

In the light of

for the conditions are after all citizens,

visions

and his ideals
and

and patriotism is a strong motive.

When

A Practical

his

Beliet in a

present

institutions

conditions are generally realized to be

Manliest

conditions

may seem hope-

bad,

Destiny

lessly sordid

and irremedi-

Too real may seem the distorted

able.

such

men

are

among the

help to solve the problems.
the individual

is

first

After

to
all,

generally to be relied

As young men in the world we

pictures painted by political orators or

upon.

by contemporary magazine writers who

must learn to meet present conditions as
they are, not necessarily to bring our
ideals any lower to meet them,
but to
be able to span the distance and to place
ourselves in any niche that circumstances

write only to

sell

their

copy,

heedless

how they blacken with their sensational
ink, the characters of men and of instituIt may not be a fault, yet it is a
tions.
truth that young men take these things
rather seriously. And yet after the elec-

may demand us to fill.
The late Senator Hoar was first of all

tions,

an optimist and along these

the

forth these doctrines in his ".Autobiog-

even though they were adverse,
impending calamities did not fall,
and after investigating the magazine
ston,- it was found that after the few trivialities that inspired the article were set
aside, the

man was a respectable citizen

and a patriot.
ber

It is

often wise to remem-

when the political outlook seems to

be in jeopardy from the conduct of some

"The

raphy."

which

lesson

lines

I

set

have

learned in life which has fmpressed upon

me daily and more deeply as I grow old,
is

the

Hope.

lesson of
I

believe

Good Will and Good
that

to-day

is

better

than yesterday, and that to-morrow will

be better than to-dav.

I

believe that in

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152

many

errors and wrongs, and

all\'

marked by the labors of the rhetor-

my

countrymen of all
classes desire what is good and not what
is evil.
The fate of the nation depends
in the last resort on individual char-

ician

—though excusably so—and an easy

style

and clever plot manipulation have

acter."

writing after leaving College, but to the

spite

of

even

crimes,

not been reached.

Comparatively few men continue their

few who intend

AS

who

and enforced literary critic
we have come to take an interest
in the question as to what constitutes a
"good" short story. A leading magaeditor


What Con-

zine recently offered a five

stitutes a

thousand dollar prize

Good Short

the "best short story" and

_,.

.

story

intrusted

authors

who

possess

to

The story

an ornate literary style or exceptional
plot construction.
ever,

EXCEPT for the Civic Department
of

has

the

story must be directly told and must deal

indicated

was with pleasure that we learned
ago that the Debating De-

our old rivals, the Philomathean Society,
of Pennsylvania.

but mere style."

Last year the contest
with them was omitted and it seemed

,

as though the custom

might disappear.

may seem to casual observers that
we have already too many interests in
It

College that engage the time and attention of the

the

Although many of the stories appear-

Survival

^^jy j^,^, jj^^jj. ,ia,„es

partment has arranged for a debate with

—"anything

stories will be found.

the

recently,

a short time

stories : they

But the literary value
of a story does not depend upon mere
plot interest, any more than upon mere
.st>le.
Tn spite of the emphasis laid upon
plot by the magazine writers and the
stress laid upon style by novices, the
happy medium is where the best short

their

of the Dead

It

until

seemed to have lapsed into
inactive existence and

the

more of these qualifications \<\ their short
must have plot, adventure,
romantic setting, a good character, or

wliich

lecture,

an

Resurrection

The magazines to-day demand one or

Society,

occasional

departments

concernino

with a universal theme.

Loganian
an

given

various

All the judges agreed that the short

nature,

Only occasionally, if

can either one of these raise a

story into literary merit.

the world's best short stories.

human

sim-

directness,

and an appreciation for dramatic
climaxes and conclusions, and who write
on subjects of strong human interest.
These are far more necessary than either

was a very plain narrative of a
man's life, well and simply constructed,
but with none of the conventional "literary" adornment.
It was so told as to
move naturally and inevitably to a climax. The story dealt with fundamental
human passions and was written with the
self-restraint
and the directness that
make up the characteristic strength of

of

we

plicity,

tributed,

touch

College,

that the best stories are written by the

they judged the best out of all those con-

a

do so and to those

would say that while the editor welcomes
the pronounced plot interest of a story,
he must admit with the literary critic

for

decision

the

three very competent judges.

to

writing while in

a''e

men, and when we consider
at Haverford the

number of men

ing in the magazines are written by col-

proportion of available activities is indeed large. Rut on the other hand, they

lege students, the usual college fiction

are so varied that every

rather stilted and hybrid.

It

is

is

gener-

man in College
may find one or more interests outside of

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which he may turn,
and that is just as it should be. Everythe curriculum to

man should have some interest
mere study some interest that
will bring him out of himself and compel
him to contribute something.
As arguments for these special Departments of the Loganian Society,
which include the Civics, Scientific, and
college

beside

Debating Clubs,

is

it

only necessary to

point out that the first two furnish means
by which men may keep abreast of the
times in sociology, politics, and science
W'hich are not offered in any courses.

They should serve as clearing-houses of
the thought along their respective lines

concert in Baltimore was especially enjoyable and it would be worth while if

programs were carefully
planned and made interesting they would
tend greatly to broaden men and to bring
into

their

if

practical use

much

that

is

purely

academic as absorbed in a lecture room.
Debating, of course,

is

more

limited

to a few men, yet it is something that the

body

College

would

with

regret

see

given up entirely, and so we are pleased
at the

prospect of a debate this year.

management could arrange

the

a

for

concert there this year.

A LONG with skating and mid-year

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examinations, gymnastics

receive

a large share of the attention of the College

An

during these winter months.

program is arThe winter's
ranged for the gvninasium
'.
Gymnasium
team, which promises
to be
^
Program
very good this season, and
they will meet Princeton, Columbia,
Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Rutgers, either
interesting
,

.

,

,

'

in

and

153

exhibition or contest, besides

enter-

ing some candidates in the inter-collegi-

Penn-

ate contest held in University of

sylvania Gymnasium on March 22.

The inter-scholastic meet arranged by
Haverford will be held in the gymnasium
This is
the evening of February 15.
always an interesting event, and for the
recognition it brings the college, has well

deserved to become an annual event at

Haverford.

THERoberts

Musical Club's Concert given in

fore

Christmas

Hall

the

Thursday be-

was a very successful

The Glee and Alandolin

affair.

The Musical
Club*

Clubs,

article,

by Mr.

written

True

"Social Reforms,

False,"

which follows, was

Chester

Jacob

Teller,

as well as the special num-

A. AL, '06, the holder of one of the Teach-

Seemed to deserve
equal commendation and
combined to give a very

ing Fellowships at Haverford last year.

^ers,

and unconventional college prowhich
was very pleasing even if
gram
from a musical standunity
it lacked
typical

point.

THEand

The trio, including piano, violin,

and cello, rendered several

numbers that

offered a variation from the customary

program.
Unfortunately a limited trip, such as
the Clubs took last spring, is not being
considered this year, and yet all who

went on that concert trip last year look
back upon it with great pleasure. The

Instead of pursuing his studies in philos-

ophy

at

Harvard, as he intended, Mr.

Teller has given up his life to social work
in

New York Citv.
Erratum.

—The serious misstatement

Haverford had defeated University
of Pennsylvania in soccer on Franklin
that

Field,

occurred

in

the

review

of

the

soccer season in the December issue.

We would say, in correction of this,
game was a tie, 0-0, and hope
may rectify an error
which we regret exceedingly.
that the

that this correction

;

SOCIAL REFORMS— TRUE AND FALSE
A NEW YEARS THOUGHT
the history

saddled us with the additional problem

of the world have the words "social re-

of assimilating the immigrant millions,

form" been so pregnant with meaning as
to-day. At least never before has reform
been so much the common concern of
all classes,
statesmen and philosophers,
money-makers, even workingmen as is

and especially in the large seaboard cities,
the gateways through which those unfortunates must pass, all evils are aggrav-

when the air is so filled with

best feel the pulse of the American body

Probably never before

in

these days

and problems and prayers, and

issues

complexity of society grows daily

the

more complex.

Social

interest

obtains

every corner of the modern world

in

giant tendencies are struggling with one

another

for

the

Underneath

mastery.

ated

;

"conditions," as we say, are at their

worst.

Naturally, it is there that one can

and sound the depths of the disthat quiver over two continents.
There, moreover, can be heard
the murmur of conflicting opinions and
the work of earnest men, misguided at
times, but always earnest, may be seen
social,

turbances

;

We take a momentary glance at

the unstable crust of worn-out conserv-

there.

atism may be heard the muffled din of the

a few of their theories.

struggle, a struggle

but begun,

which though now

destined

is

bring about

to

great changes, and to usher in a period

adjustment,

Time was, not so long ago, when since
was thought to be
the poverty of the poor, of whom it was
the prime social evil

loftier

said that they "shall not cease out of the

thinking and of better living.

land," the obvious remedy lay in the dis-

These reform forces that to-day hurl
themselves one against the other in the
prevailing turmoil, rise and expand,
weaken and persist according to fixed
law. No false reform can hold out long

of

social

finer

of

in

the search

some other remedy

needy by those
upon whom "Fortune" has smiled more
benignly. Where luxury existed side by
side with want, and beauty with sordidness, the question was merely one of reapportionment. The argument was simple and the conclusion irresistible
The
plain duty of every man was to share his
worldly goods with others.
Relief societies, therefore, were the typical insti-

is

found, which, when studied in its turn,

tutions of social betterment; the friendly

is

in

against a truer one, for as soon as

advocated

it

tested; once

it

tested,

is

its

The
unsatisfied need leads men onward

shortcomings
still

is

its

themselves.

reveal

until

Thus does

turn found faulty.

unending
here and now
the

discovery

of

error,

there,

lead

us

now

gently

nearer to the goal of truth.
Here in America, where the triumph
of a

lofty

mission

conception

over

individual

of

tribution of doles to the

:

visitor

was the

typical

social

servant.

"Charity" was the password, nor was it
long in sounding "down the line." Yet,
strange to say, for some reason, the giv-

our national

ing of alms never brought about the
golden age, except in the minds of a few

has

givers, who after graciously receiving the

selfishness

;

!

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blessings

of

complacently

poor,

the

blessed themselves for their "godliness."
\\'hile relief agencies still exist as parts

155

who

other hand, by the numbers

daily

desert the ranks for the cause of social-

Not new laws grafted on

ism.

to old

of a general relief policy, they are viewed

institutions

by many as relatively unimportant. Today, the dominant note in social service

change in the institutions themselves. An
industrial system which permits coal

"prevention"

is

rather

than

"cure."

While formerly we asked, "How can we
remedy this case or that?" we now inquire, "How- can we prevent dependence
in the first place?"
In a country where
wealth and prosperity abound, and God
lavishes

his

manifold blessings,

surely

are

but

wanted,

a

radical

own

barons to turn fortunes into their

pockets, while the poor miner toils on
eternally in the darkness
sistence

is

for bare sub-

fundamentally too rotten to

be patched by any legislative makeshifts.

An industrial system that depends on the
life-blood

of

millions

of

ill-fed.

over-

some way of shifting the

worked children for its successes, is not

resources of the nation to meet its needs

one to be repaired here and there by

there must be

!

Can we not discover some better method ?
Can we not be charitable to the needy
before they become needy? Can we not
make prevention take the place of palli-

meddlesome politicians. No the entire
structure must be pulled down.
True
democracy with its basic virtues, liberty,
equality and fraternity, demands a new
system for the production and distribu-

ation ?

tion of wealth.

Surely, there must be enough

for

all

Though the doctrine seems axiomatic
difficult.

For

The governmentalizing

of industry is our single hope.

Socialism

the most part,

must win in its struggle against the present regime. Such is the reasoning of a

enough, the application of

somewhat

!

it

has been

the

principle

has

taken

the

form

of

host of w-eary, discontented soldiers in

an

agitation

for

better

laws,

for

the

the battle

more representative legislative bodies, more responsible executives,
and more untrammelled judiciaries, and
election of

for political and civic reform generally

throughout the land.

Thus we have re-

cently seen increased activity on the part

of such bodies as the Civil Service Re-

form Association, the National Child
Labor Committee, and the Consumers'
League, and such political reform move-

for reform, of thousands of

courageous leaders who see social salvaonly in a new economic system
which they claim will be as great an
improvement over capitalism as capitalThat their
ism was over feudalism.
philosophy is faulty is the belief of many.
That they represent a militant worldmovement backed by elements of truth
and justice, few who have scanned their
tion

literature will deny.

ments as have lately occurred in many
of our larger cities. In place of charity,
the keynote of latter-day reform is legislation.
It is argued that since our ills
are. in the final analysis, economic ones,
the logical method of attack is through
the enactment and enforcement of better

But have they found the solution to
our perplexing problems? Can Social-

social regulations.

the causes of our social

While the movement for legislation
grows apace by the steady addition of
new converts to its creed, it loses, on the

instances

ism bring us the relief we seek?
its

claims

true,

it

tutions

are

True,

preached by thousands

has forced its way into the instiof learning and

learned scholars there

to

the

:

converted

the

true, it has traced

wrongs in many

economic

conditions;

of reform
which preceded and accompany it, it can

yet,

like

the

other

gospels

THE HAVERFORDIAN

156

not be stamped approved, nor can
be

principles

granted

claims

their

its

to

truth.

economic

composition

should be impugned

for

of

society

sore

the

dis-

tresses of the masses have looked deeply,

but not deep enough.

Far back of the

external conditions is the internal principle

;

far back of the

physical arrange-

ment of society is the spiritual order of
Deeper, far deeper, than

morality.

all

the institutions is man, who in association

with his fellow man, makes up the institutions.

to

adjustment can only be secured by

this

new generation in
new exigencies peculiar to the age,

the education of each

The fact is that those who believe that
the

of each individual to all his fellows, and

It

behooves us to trace the evil

source,

its

not to a source, but

very first source.

its

the

and in the social duties of each person
which spring from those new and
changed conditions. Unless each child
learns not only all the moral lessons of

new duties peculiar to

all

time, but the

his

own time also, a few years of in-

creasing complexity in life will make the

path of duty so obscure that some

in-

But if
these lessons are instilled into the minds
justice

of

all

must necessarily

future citizens,

inculcated,

and

if

result.

social duties are

social responsibility

em-

Let not the profundity

phasized, then the harmonious adjustment

of the reformer who goes further than
we have hitherto gone, deceive us. Let

justment of man to man, lies the hope of

us assure ourselves that he has gone fur-

better things.

must be brought about, and

in this ad-

and blessedness the product of

True social reform, therefore, concerns
and less with the institutions of
men, more and more with men themselves
less and less with worldly wealth, more
and more with human worth. Only from

institutions can be accepted without in-

within can the flower of civilization un-

otherwise

ther,

his

thinking

thought through to the end,
can be, indeed, the truth.

is

is

not

not,

nor

No

social

theory that makes man the result of conditions

itself less

;

volving us in the throes of contradiction.

fold itself; only in the slow

The motor power of civilization is born

education of a yet nobler and abler race

not of dead environment, but of the

of

liv-

and tedious

men can we really find amelioration.

ing Will within, and no teaching can be

Let us lend our efforts, therefore, more

which pins its faith in bet-

persistently to the task of cultivating the

entirely true

ter times to the

formal organization of

a people alone.

After all, a society can never be better
than

the

strive

to

consists

individuals

make
in

the

it.

who comprise
Its

true

it

solidarity

harmonious adjustment

vital

principle in humanity, and with a

firm

reliance

in

order of things,

a spiritual progressive
let

us sincerely resolve

each to do our part toward the attain-

ment of that general social
which all so much desire.
C.

t^

J.

harmony

Teller,

'o^.

:

THE MINISTER
It was a beautiful Sunday in June,
and the congregation had turned out in

full force to

hear the new "supply,"' for
out

trying

succession

a

of

candidates supplied by the bishop, with
a view to getting a

man to occupy the

for

up,

then

pvdpit steps.

The congregation sat silent in amazement, and those same

women who had

already elected him or repudiated him in

own minds, with the intention of

their

convincing

pulpit permanently.

glanced

watch,

his

down, blushed, and started to descend the

and the vestry-

the old rector had died,

men were

bled

were

husbands,

their

dis-

The chancel was packed with flowers,

mayed or triumphant as went their pre-

and the choir gloriously garbed in white,
while the summer dresses and light suits

But the startling events were
and the matrons turned
once more to look and well might they

of the people made one

feel

the

true

freshness and joyousness of spring.

A stir of curiosity rustled through the
church as the "supply"

left

the vestry

door and stepped before the reading desk.
They had never heard of him and were,
consequently, all the more anxious to see

He was tall and thin and angu-

him.

and he had red hair and
a smooth face but there was that about
him that made you look at him again,
and yet again. He read the lessons well,
for he had a deep voice and one which
lar and serious,

ferences.

not

_\et

look

;

;

the

corners of the

to

church.

And as the service progressed,

farthest

the people, in general, listened, and the
ladies,

who always run the parish, who

for, see

!

the minister has left his

and that, too, right in the middle
His carefully arranged
notes have been brushed carelessly from
the desk to the floor below, and the young
man, face flushed, but eye kindling, is
pulpit,

of his sermon.

standing in the aisle near the

first

pew.

And listen, he is speaking, slowly, sadly

"My friends, I have long known that I
He

;

carried

over,

—"I —
know

was to be asked to be your 'supply.' "
winced slightly

at

the word.

that a number of men more worthy than
I

have filled this pulpit for a similar pur-

pose, but to be appointed to a parish like
this one has been the ambition of

And

therefore

I

my life.

have spent weeks of

the

preparation on a sermon whose outward

brasses and w-ash the linens, whispered

essence rem.ains in those few sheets you

one another that he would do pretty well.

see fluttering there on the tiles, but whose

At last came the sermon. The hymn
was over, and the young man climbed

inward essence has been, if I may say so,
Every
a part of me, till this moment.
sentence has been polished to painstaking
exactness.
Every paragraph has been

decorate

the

chancel

and

clean

the steps to the pulpit and announced
his

text.

Well-termed phrases, careful
massed paragraphs, fol-

parallelisms,

And then
lowed
broke.
He
voice
stopped,
suddenly his
tried
to
go
on.
He
fumstuttered, and
in

stately

succession.

weighed, every figure, every period, tested.

I

have read

have delivered

it

it

over and over.

aloud and

in

I

thought,

until it has grown into me, but for all that

:

THE HA\'ERFORDIAN

158

cannot give

I

over

me

that

it

to you.

it

is

has come

It

mechanical,

formal,

it proceeds
from my head, not
from my heart or my life. I must ask
your forgiveness and your sufferance,
but I cannot do otherwise."
And then he took a Testament from his
pocket and opened it and read

lifeless,

" 'Yea, I

have loved thee with an ever-

lasting love.' "

and again

" 'Ye will
"

:

not

come to me that ye may have life.'

mechanical formality of the oration

man stood revealed, speaking out of his own heart.
The chancel
instead, a

guild

forgot

and

speculations

their

faces of beautiful

dren,

faces of strong
in

all

young men

that concourse,

chil-

young women,
Nay,

the minister

saw

only one face, a face he had not seen
for ten
first

long,

lonely

years,

a

face,

the

sight of which, over all that interval

of time, had caused him to drop his notes

and

to

falter

in

his

carefully prepared

oration of ten minutes ago,

was it?

No,

a lifetime, so long did he seem to have

Sloughed off like an old skin was the
stiff,

ened by suffering, faces of eager

been speaking, and ^et he must

still go
few people in the rear of
the gallery had noticed, just before the

on.

Only

a

sermon, a

tall,

graceful

girl

glide

in,

dressed in white, with a black hat and
black at waist and throat, but those

who

listened,

because

moved.

Their husbands, who had so far

had noticed her, remarked that she was

turned an indulgent ear to the youth's

singularly beautiful, with the beauty of

address, now knew he had a message for

sadness and disappointment.
But they
had not seen the swift, upward glance of

them, too

;

they

their

felt

hearts

summer boarders ceased

the

young speaker, and they, as well as

admiring their neighbor's hats, the chil-

the

dren turned away

from the windows,

the rest of the congregation, were ignor-

with their views of luxuriant June foliage

ant of the source of his marvelous in-

—young and

old, rich and poor, wise and

spiration,

for

foolish, attentive and indifferent, spiritual

sent the

deathless passion

and sceptical

all

listened

as one

man,

while that thin, tall form stood before
them proclaiming his message of despair
and hope, of condemnation and salvation,
a message which came with all the con-

vincing authority of a living experience.

Transfigured by the power of his

words, he seemed no longer

own

stilted

or

elocutional, but a singular grace possess-

ed him, and his eyes shone forth with the
light of one who has himself seen.

in

that

glance "she had
in

her eyes

through him and made him hers," as he
had never been before.

Twelve years ago he had met her and
all the fervor and adoration of a maiden love. He had kept his
passion to himself, for he was poor and
had few prospects, and she was rich and
accustomed to luxury. Yet he had not
given up hope, but had come to look
upon her as the guiding star of his life,
and under the inspiration of her influence
loved her with

oblivious to the sea of eager faces there

had consecrated himself to paths of duty
and service, which were destined to

before him, hanging on his every word,

develop

But the young man, for his part, was

all that was good and noble in
But because their lives had followed different lines, he had not seen

— faces of men and women who might him.
have told him much about the great outside world, faces of scholars
all

that

who knew

modern exegesis has

concerning the Bible and

its

revealed,

teachings,

faces of quiet, home-living people whose
spiritual life has

been purified and deep-

her now for ten years.

He never ceased

and when he heard of her
betrothal and marriage to a man whom
to love her,

he considered

even more unworthv of

her than himself, he realised that he had

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN
been burning his heart out

159

hopeless

ing, unconsciously, the simple services of

and he resolved on what seemed
the only course left by which to get
away from himself and his despair.

meetings of his college days, he
brought the people to their knees with one

Studying hard, lie entered the ministry
and sought to give the highest expression
to his passion in service to men.

like a shepherd amidst his silent flock,

in

the

flame,

impressive gesture, and standing there,

he

offered up a prayer of such living power

some

that

of

now over-wrought

his

Ten years it had been, and yet that
single upward glance of his to the
crowded gallery had swept him back to

hearers broke down and sobbed aloud.

it seemed
him he loved w-ith even a higher and
a holier love.
The same inspiration for
him was still hers the influence of that

and tottered weakly to the vestry door.
The oft'ering had been forgotten, the ser-

The prayer over, he lifted his hands in
and bowing his head, turned

blessing,

his early youth, but this time

to

vice interrupted, but the choir, with rare

presence of mind, took up the recessional

;

"niaidon passion"

now more

still

and the people

gripped him, but

powerfully

than

and

ever,

moved

filed

out

in

silence,

too

was
not until the June sunshine met them
that the tension broke, and eager groups
deeply

drawing an inference from his own love
for the heart he had hoped to win, he
painted, with his eyes on her face, in

to

speak, so that

it

began discussing the marvelous sermon,
and the startling event of the morning.

soul-compelling word-pictures, the love

The vestr\men,

of the Master for the hearts of a people

rushing-

in

to

con-

who did not or would not come to Him

gratulate the young minister, found

for life.

lying on the couch in the robing room,

It

was

over.

In one

last

passionate

in a

plea for the living, henceforward, of a
real,

And a girl in white, with

black ribbons at waist and throat wept

dynamic life, he spent his fire and

ceased.

dead faint.

unrestrainedly in the farther corner of

And then, forgetting the rigid

the gallery.

order of the Episcopal ritual, and recall-

R. S., 06.

FEMINA
She trembles at a mouse she faints at blood
She ponders in the glass, what style of
;

dress
best
ness

May

display

her

grace

and

comeli-

;

As summer winds, so shifts her fickb mood;
She waxes petulant and sheds

a flood

Of trivial tears she cares not to repress
She drops from ecstacy to dire distress;
She loves o'er petty slights and wrongs to
brood.
All this she does yet lo when ruin lowers
She steels the fragile nerve and plays the
;

stoic.

Laughs

in

the

him

face

of

terror

;

dares

the

grave

And like a rock impregnable she towers,
Braving all dangers with a soul heroic
For man, who is at once her lord and slave.
/. F. W., '10.

!;

:

IN UNION, STRENGTH

My story had been returned for the lawn and farther on the fields stretching
time.
My wife, with an almost down to the winding creek were

sixth

jaunty

which

air,

I

the occasion, handed

thought

matched

ill

me the pretty type-

written sheets with

drenched with a misty moonshine, and
the

serpentine

vapor

from

rising

Again

"Just two months more, dear,"

ous

"Two months and a half."
"Two months and a half

editorial adjurations to realism

then,

and

from

flood

and

to me,

me

I

above.

have

Stupid things," she added, consolingly.

trophe with the fairy scene.

"Stop

it's

was too

thought, "and novices,"

fell

This was the

true.

week of June, and

I

had promised

stop writing in September,

if

to

unsuccess-

and accept my father-in-law's busiAs yet, I was unsuccessful.
The editors demanded realism, and I had
ful,

ness offer.

furnished only dreams.

Long

had

catas-

The thought

last

Let's

out on the porch."
It

cutthroat

a

go

doesn't

too ideal."

I'm sick of that.

it.

He says
it

introduce

was abominable.
"Nonsense," I said,
aloud. And, instinctively listening for an
answer, I became aware that there was
somebody beside myself avv-ake and up in
the house.
A door creaked, and a pan

"Let's hear what he wrote this time."

"Oh, there's nothing new.
your tale lacks realism, that

the

occurred

imagined how they would

after that no more of these editor's notes

ring true, that

the

stream, radiantly blended with the lumin-

in

the

"Burglars,"

kitchen.

I

I

added under

my breath, as another pan rattled.
Then my first great inspiration came.
"Here," it flashed on my mind, "here
is my chance for realism."
Hastily tearing the unfinished ode, "Ad Hominem
Lunas" from my tablet, I slipped on a

I

bathrobe and quietly crept to interview

stayed out in the balmy night, brooding

my burglar.
He was seated in the middle of the

over

after

Eveline

retired,

mv coming eight-hour-a-day fate

and when

I

a useless

proceeding,

it

was

kitchen,

could

not

ed he would try to

did crawl into bed,
for

I

"Two months and a half," "two
sleep.
months and a half" or "get realism,"
rang in my head with
monotony,
until I jumped out
wearying
of the covers and sat down by the win"get

realism."

masked and cool.

was an epitome of my
was celestially unreal. The

The

view

plague.

It

had expect-

He did not even get

up.

The

silence

was almost embarassing.
"It's a ver>- pleasant

evening," he be-

gan.
"\'^ery

pleasant,"

"I hope

dow.

I

nm at my appearance.

I

I

managed

to echo.

haven't disturbed anything."

I was too amazed at his impudence to
measure up to his cool politeness.

"

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN
"The question isn't whether you leave
things

in

their

places,"

I

blurted

out,

"but whether you leave them at all."

To complete my amazement, instead of
replying, he jotted down some things on
I had not noticed,
"Ha," I thought. "Smarter than sup-

a tablet that

posed

:

"Law, Sam, couldn't you guess?"
"Dick," was all I could gasp.
For
Dick was our next neighbor but one,
and an honest man, and this was Dick.
"Well," he said, gradually getting hold
of himself.

my little call this evening."
I nodded, wondering how he knew my
name, and jotting down on my tablet
prised at

sundry memoranda concerning the omniscience of thieves.

"But this

letter

will.

I

believe,

satis-

factorily explain my peculiar situation."

"The explanation will be most welcome and interesting, but a few minor
details first. I presum.e, that as you know
my name you could favor me with my
age and occupation, and, say, my wife's

maiden cognomen."
"Wasn't Mrs. Boyce called Daisy
Mathers?"
No common thief this, and my realistic
hopes were shattering.
"Won't you take off your hat," I said,
desperately.
"It must be warm, and I'd
really like a few personal anecdotes from,
your point of view."
"May I smoke?"
"Certainly."

"And won't you?"
I guiltily

chose a cigarette, wondering

"I don't

mind

telling you,

but it's a queer tale."

probably data for a future haul."

Looking up, he said, "I imagine, Mr.
Boyce, that you are considerably sur-

i6i

"Wait," I said, "and we'll get comfortable."

"You may not know," he went on after
had come back from the cellar and we
were comfortably seated in the dining
room, "that I used to write short stories.
But all the editors sent 'em back with
'not enough imagination' or 'too matterI

of-fact' scribbled across the back.

got

I

my last yesterday morning, and it drove
me

So

wild.

I

rushed

down

to

jMr.

Str\-per, the head of police and explained

things to him and he thought awhile,
and then he said, 'Mr. Dick, you're an
honest man, and I know you're an honest
man. and I'll let you do it.' And so he
wrote that letter which gives me permission to break into your house."

"But I don't see yet."

"Wait
I

!

I

knew you wouldn't care, and

did it to have the chance and material

up an ideal account of an ideal
in which nothing was stolen
and nobody arrested, and if the editors
don't like it I'll give up and apply to
your father-in-law for a job.
to write

robbery

I

could contain myself no longer.

what Eveline would say, as she cannot
I became
stand smoking in the house.
from my
alarmed,
as
the
clouds
positively
gathered
in
volum.e.
But so
pipe
visitor's
in
courtesy
and I
outdone
me
far he had
that
point.
was silent on

"Dick." I cried, "our fortunes are
made. \\'e'll collaborate. Our mutually
complemental predicament will enable
But before I could finish he had me

suggested, "may

the noise there was a weird, shrill shriek

"Before we begin."
I

I

not have the honor of your name?"

A

convulsion seized the burglar.

His

from his lap and dynamic
chucklings emanated from the rolling
tablet

figure.

slid

Finally he burst out with

waltzing around the room, his mask, my
robe and the glasses keeping time.

In

on the stairs.

My wife had fainted on

the landing.

In my excitement, I hastily

threw a glass of water in her face.
viving,

her

first

dazed

"Have thev com.e?"

question

Rewas:


"

:

:

THE HAVERFORDIAN

1 62

— yourself, my

"Calm

dear.

was

It

nothing

"But haven't they come yet?"

and another man rolling around in the
dining room, and I thought he was a
murderer.". Here Dick went off again.
"And and that's all till the water was
poured on and I thought they were soak-

"Who?"
"The firemen?"
I was getting alarmed

my wife's

at

daze.

ing me instead of the
I

"Eveline,

try

explain

to

you

w'nat

mean."

fire."

Hurry

took in the situation.

up,

Dick, take off your togs and cut some

bread and you, Eveline, cut the tongue.

had
supposed you had gone moon-walking, as
you often do, I 'phoned to the fire company, and when I'd dressed and started
down to see where it was, I saw vou
"W^hy,

I

smelled smoke, and as

I

We've got to get up a good lunch
these

fooled

firemetti.

And

while

for

we

worked I told Eveline the plans for our
henceforth happy and prosperous careers.
T. M. L. '08.

THROUGH THE YEARS
He was sobbing as if his heart would
break.

The very idea of it

!

A whole

minutes later the two are digging caves
side by side in a

sandy bank. Presently
remarks
"But you don't know where I was yes-

pound of ginger snaps and not one had
"All right, Charley,
been saved for him

Stella

just you

terday."

;

wait

till

I

get as big as you,

and then I'll pay you back!" He clinched
his fists and swore eternal hatred toward

"Where ?"

his older brother.

"Don't have to

;

Suddenly he stopped crying. A wellknown voice came from the terrace across

Stella pauses

for a while before

the street
!"

"Ho Willie Ho-o Weelie
He jumped up and waved his hand
!

frantically, singing out in reply

"H'lo Stella!

Come on over."

"I don't dare," says Stella, accompany-

"I won't tell you."
I

don't care."

she

ventures again.

"Bet you never been down the river
on a boat."

"Huh,

that's

nothing.

I've

been to

Washington."

Then there is a silence, punctuated by
the scraping of the oyster shells upon the

ing her negation with a slow shaking of

sides of the caves.

the curly head.

antagonize Willie further, and says with

".\\\ right
I'll
come over to your
house then," and after a hasty glance
backward he trots across the street. Five

sudden inspiration

;

"Oh,

say,

let's

Stella decides not to

play this

is

Panama

Canal and you be Teddy Roosevelt!"

THE HAVERFORDIAN
"Ah, no, let's pla\- these are salt mines
my Aunty Nan tells about, and we

like

We'll have to be blind

are the minors.

though, and oh, say,
big, large explosion

let's

have a great

!"
I'll

be Mr. Jacobs."

"Xo, you can't be Mr. Jacobs, 'cause
you must be INIrs. Jacobs."
"Well I won't play then I can be a
man as much as you can I can whistle
!''
lots better than you

you're a girl

;

"Can not!"
"Can so !" And to prove her assertion
Stella began to whistle vigorously.

Willie's face
I

fell.

don't care anyway," he said

And so they spent an hour or so together, playing this and pretending

that,

became so violent
that they "got mad and called each other
their

but no Stella appeared.

;

One day Willie ran hastily in to ask
his mother why the "Gloverses had hung
a white dress on their front door?"

"Poor

child,"

thought,

she

"he

wouldn't understand if I did tell him
he

is

affair

is

if

;

but

whole

kept ignorant until the

over it will be easier for him to

So she put him oft".

bear."

Three days later a white hearse drew
Willie
in front of Stella's home.
knew what that meant. He knew that

up

at last. "Be Mr. Jacobs if you want."

until

when she did.
Xe.xt week the doctor came twice every
day and then suddenly stopped coming

;

;

"Well

him again, and what she would look like

altogether

"All right; you be Mr. Jones and

163

quarrels

by their right names."

Then it was time for Stella to prepare

when

long train of carriages halted

a

near a house, that someone there had

He hoped it was not Stella.

died.

here was Peter

Well,

he would ask him, for

;

knew everything that went on.
"What? Didn't you know that Stella
Glover was dead? She died last MonPeter

day

for dinner and Willie's guilty conscience

;

my sister's going to the funeral."

Willie

went

straight

to

the

garret.

him hurrying back home before his
mother should discover his absence.
Thus these two had played together day
in and day out ever since Willie's father
had gone across to call on the new neighEvery
bors and had taken him along.
day they ended up by quarreling, every

There, crawling over piles of old furni-

m.orning they greeted each other with

they

delight.

grief

sent

But when Willie looked and called for
Stella next day, she was nowhere to be
Then he remembered that she
found.
had had a cold yesterday, and decided
that her mother was keeping her indoors.
Later in the day the doctor's carriage

ture and winter carpets, he sought a dark

corner

and

are those

down

la}-

who

to

cry.

There

say that children don't

understand, don't appreciate the signifi-

cance of death.

Well, do grown-ups un-

derstand and appreciate?
did,

would

that

And even if

prove that their

is
profounder or more sincere?
Emerson says, "The only thing that grief

has taught

me is to know how shallow

Ah, but Emerson was not thinking of childhood's sorrows when he said
it

is I"

that.

They

are

real,

they are sincere,

they are profound while they

last.

The

stopped at Stella's home— "not our doc-

child does not restrain his emotions at

and
At dinner
his mother remarked that Stella was dangerously ill. So all he could do was to
watch the doctor come and go, and wonder when Stella would come to play with

the crisis, and reserve

tor,

'cause our doctor's a allopath

their doctor's a

homopath."

them to be expended in a sigh or shake of the head
whenever the name of the deceased is
mentioned.

Years afterward when Willie had actu"become a man" he attended another

allv

!

!

THE HAVERFORDIAN

164

and as he was riding along beman who had
been his constant chum through school
and college as he was gazing out of the
window at the hot, dusty road and listening to the exchange of platitudes among
the other pall-bearers as he was wishing
the whole uncomfortable ceremony over,
and longing to be away, away from
scenes of grief; suddenly there rose up
before him the vision of a pretty, childish
face and he heard a childish voice saying
"Come on over mamma says we can
put up the tent and play house." Ah, the
funeral

;

hind the remains of the

;

;

;

memory of days

last

thing necessary to arouse his emo-

tional activity

— or

it

—the

straw as it were

last

may have been the contrast be-

tween the bustle and worry of the conventional rites which forced him thus to
display publicly an emotion too sacred
even for words, and the unrestrained
flood of childish sorrow whose simplicity he had left behind him forever whatever the explanation, his eyes filled with
;

tears

at

the

recollection

of their petty

disputes and their unceremonious make."

ups.

.

.

"j\Iy but he takes

that never, never can

"Bill?

Oh.

well,

it

hard, don't he?"

it's

They

natural.

were great friends, you know."

return
It

:

may have been

that this

H. B. '08.

was the

THE AWAKENING
(a sonnet)

Let cowards clamor for the

Sleep

of

I,

Grant me, O God, my full three score

With pleading moans assail unheeding

and ten.

ears

And
full

shrieking,

cringe,

their

to

That, hearing

bellies

resow such

spirits

in

the deeps

Of everlasting anguish. Myriad years.
As many as the memories all the tears
Of Hell but show, shall putrify their
sleeps

!

in

my heart the moans

of men,

of fears,

Forgetting that the Silent Reaper reaps

But

—but

too, might well cry truce with life

No

Sleeps,

I

may

take

all

mine hours and mold

them, so

That each a step in that high stair shall
be

Whereon pain-burdened
mount to thee.
/.

man

may

T. T., Ex-' 08.

;

:

THE INSPIRATION OF CRANE MOUNTIAN
Oh

thou sordid, cramped being, atom

ing from that barren pond nestled in the

of humanity, tied to thy desk in dingy

hollows of the ridge, on whose banks

office or spacious city apartment, for once

dead

break the bonds of trade and take a blan-

day

!

me

ket on thy shoulders and climb with

majestic Crane, the highest peak in the

Southern Adironacks.
tall

Confined within

prison walls of skyscraper and palace,

thou knowest nothing- of the

freedom

of the woods, or of the beauty of nature
in

her

Therefore think not

vastness.

of the cold as

thou

self

on thy elbow

call of the

;

listen

to

two thousand

thy-

bare

the

weird

light.

hoot owl, solemn, mysterious,

ulous shriek of the screech owl, or the
startling whirring,

ripping, whip-cry of

the night hawk.

Strain thine ears

to

of the world

smell,

and thou

canst, the deep, searching odors of the

pine-woods,

the

balsam,

the

hemlock,

or the faint scent of decaying trees

ris-

feet

is

over

below.

No man's

the infinite sky and

its

man when thou risest to the heights

when thou doest here the
work thy Creator has given thee, when
humble imitation of the silent world
around thee, thou abidest under the
shadow of the Almighty.
R. S., '06.
in

IN THE DARK NIGHT
would walk alone in the sunshine,
In the sunshine alone and free
But in the dark night and the silence,
.^h
then I would be with thee.

I

!

can work all day in the city
With never a friend to see
But when the hard day is over

I

Then let me come close to thee.
I

out

m\riad stars rolling on in scorn of thee
and thy pettiness, powerful, majestic,
wonderful, but not so wonderful as majestic, as powerful as thou canst be, thou
of thy nature,

;

Gaze

washed by the pale caressing
Beyond the hill, there on the edge

little

below thee

.

cliff

aeolian harps of the maples on the mounside

.

pine tree, rough, jagged rock and

all is

catch the evening breeze playing in the

tain

.

habitation is there to disturb the grandeur

soft,

foreboding, or the shorter, sharper quer-

offspring.

stunted

the inoonlit valley spread before thee two

raise

on thy

liest

fragrant, balsam conch, but

stand like naked ghosts
and day out, night in and night
out. grim relics of a former epoch of
luxurious growth, of which the present
seeming splendor is only a deformed and

trunks

in

can toil all day in the battle.
Fight hard and yet happy be

But dear, after the struggle
Oh, let me hold fast to thee
G.

!

H.

G.,

'06.

;

:

FACULTY DEPARTMENT
EDITED BY DEAN BARRETT

At morning

collection

on December

"This

the

is

main advantage

be

to

tenth. President Sharpless addressed the

gained by it, and I do not know that it

students as follows on the requirement

accomplishes

of Freshman evening report

very

"We shall drop the matter of reporting
in

the evening for

Freshmen

after the

the Christmas holidays.

But the

this.

one,

desirable

not

result

only

is

a

for

the

Freshmen, but for all other classes.

If

the students of the college are to seek
their recreation, or their business, or any-

"I have long since ceased to consider
this of any particular service in the

mat-

thing else outside of the college walls
in affairs

not connected with the college,

ter of restraining

Freshmen from going
to places where they should not go, and
that, I suppose, was the origin of the
custom.
A good many years ago the

going to break down the Haverford
feeling.
It has broken it down in the
It is an important matter, not for
past.
moral protection, but for the preserva-

regular

religious exercises of the day
which correspond to this collection were

tion of the right spirit in the college that

held in the evening, mainly,

night of the week.

If

seven nights

week

for the reason that

it

I

suppose,

required the pres-

it

is

we have the students in the college every

the students from 8.30 to 9
o'clock, and kept them from being some-

better.

where else. When this collection was
changed to the morning exercises, the
evening reporting was substituted for the
whole college during the whole year,
and that has gradually been reduced
from the whole college to the two lower
classes, and then to the Freshman Class

in

ence of

all

for a comparatively small portion of the

college year.

What can be said in favor

of it is not that there is a certain amount
of restraint that keeps Freshmen from

going to places where they should not go,
but that there is a tendency to keep

them together as

a class in the college

through the earlier part of their course
possibly also it sets the custom of re-

maining

in

the

unity

in

tiie

a

result

if

country.

and preserving
class which would not
college

they were scattered about the

in

the

they were here
it

would be

"This is the object that has been sought
the

reporting of

appreciate that it has

ing
sit

the

Freshmen.

I

somewhat disturb-

eft'ect on the students who wish to
down and work and have to keep this

matter

of

on

reporting

their

minds.

Whether the good and the bad sides of
it

counterbalance,

I

do not know.

I

should be glad if the Senior and Junior
at one of their class meetings
would take this matter into consideration, and give me their advice whether
it is advisable to keep up the custom or

classes

not.

"Again,

it

does satisfy some parents

that the College
their

boys.

I

is

keeping an eye upon
appreciate

also

that

against this j-ou can put the general objection to restrictions that are not necessary.

It

Haverford

has been our policy here at
to

abandon

restrictions.

If

;

THE HA\"ERFORDIAN
a restriction does not justify
positive good, it is an evil.

itself as

a

Many of you

know by hearsay the conditions that existed

the

here twenty years ago.

amount of

vastly

in

period.

liberty

and that

afforded

now

is

excess of that of the former
a matter, therefore, about

It is

which there is a fair chance for discussion, and as I apprehend that the upper classes are better able to judge the

167

matter than I am, I should be glad if they

would give me their opinions in the matter.

I

think that if they agree, their de-

cision

will

be

the

regulation

in

the

future."

President Sharpless then spoke of the

opening of the College Library
evening.

In the future

in

will be

it

from seven to ten. provided it
enough to warrant this change.

is

the

open
used

THE TOKEN
Here is a piece of linen, scarcely more
I doubt if you

than six inches square.

anything unique in it, and you
would probably have trouble in singling
it out from among a number of its kind,
even after you have read the following
will find

delineation.
chief,

It

is

a square, white ker-

with a very narrow hem.

I

can-

not tell how many threads to the inch it
contains, nor do I know aught else about

the fineness of

its texture
it does not
appear to be more than ordinary serv;

linen.
The hem is attached by
means of open work, of the openest kind,

iceable

and each corner is a separate little square by itself. Here you see
a scar, which commemorates a tear about
half an inch long but, of course, the first
thing that you noticed when I unfolded
it was the embroidered monogram over
There is nothing, I rein this corner.
peat, in this piece of cloth which is so
peculiar that you could not duplicate it
over and over again, even to this fancy
I

should say

:

;

letter

"L."

But—

Why do I keep you, a mere bit of
under lock and key as if you were
pure gold? Because of your fineness of
texture? Because you are pretty to look
cloth,

Because the embroidery is skilfully
done? Because her hand has touched
}0u ? Because you nestled close to her
slender waist, or rested once on her
bosom? Why then should 30U be so
precious ? She did not give you to me
at?

she does not

know that I possess you.

No, it is not because you once belonged
to her, because you were often with her,
or because perchanced you have touched
her lips. It is because you were there at
our last meeting; becaiise you saw her
speak to me because you saw her smile,
because you
full of love and gentleness
;

;

heard her laugh in almost childish glee;
because you saw her grow sad again and
full

of sympathy

;

because you saw her
.

my hand and say, "Auf Wiedersehn ;" because you saw me watching her

press

departure with a stupid amazement and

went on around
I keep you a
want you to talk to me

oblivion of all else that

me.

This

is

prisoner and

the reason
I

about her and describe the gracefulness
of her manner, the color of her e3-es, the
depth of the soul which speaks from
them; speak of her! Of her always;
And when vou think vou have finished.
H. B., '08.
begin again.

:

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
J906

The Class of 1906

held

its

first

REUNION

in-

formal reunion in Barclay Hall, Friday

A business

evening, December 21, 1906.

opened

meeting

and
matters, past, present and future, were
brought up, discussed and settled. Of
special interest, of course, was the report of the Committee on the Construction of the Gate to the Driveway on the
north side of the campus, which the
Class of 1906 and its friends presented
the

proceedings,

Those present

reunion were
Brown, Jr., W.
Carson, R. L. Cary, A. C. Dickson, H.
W. Doughten, Jr., J. M. S. Ewing, W.
H. Haines, Jr., H. B. Hopper, W. Kennard, Jr., J. Maloney, W. H. Haines, Jr.,
}iIaloney, W. K. Miller, J. Monroe,
J.
F. B. Morris, J. D. Philips, H. Pleasant,
Jr., D. J. Reid, E. B. Richards, D. H.
the

at

E. F. Bainbridge, T. K.

Schweyer, R.
J.

Scott,

R.

J.

Shortlidge,

A. Stratton, F. R. Taylor.

Roderick Scott, Scc'y.

as a gift to the College, at its graduation
in June.

NOTES
Tyson died

home

near Baltimore, Md., November 28, 1906,

'92. ^\'illiam H. Nicholson, Jr., was
married to Miss Katharine Leonard Lea

in his 81 St year.

in

'44.

'84.

Jesse

George, \'aux,

Jr.,

at

his

has been ap-

Philadelphia, on

'97.

November the sixth.

Edward Thomas is now a Fourth

pointed a member of the Board of Indian

Assistant Patent Examiner in the United

Commissioners by President Roosevelt.
fills the vacancy created by the death of Philip C. Garrett
Mr. \'aux recently ana year ago.
ngunced his engagement to Miss Mary
James, of Cambridge, a niece of Professor William James, the famous psy-

States Patent Office, Washington, D. C.

This appointment

chologist.

Ex. '99. Louis Round Wilson, A. M.,
of the University of North

Librarian

Carolina, has published as the

first

vol-

ume of "Studies in Philosophy," a dissectation

entitled.

"Chaucer's

Relative

Constructions,'' Chapel Hill. N. C.

1906.

THE HAVERFORDIAN
'00.
C. H. Carter, Ph. D., writing
from Syracuse University, has an article
in the "Modern Language Notes" for
N'ovember, entitled "Xymphidio," "The
Rape of the Lock," and "The Culprit

Piallad,"

in

the

publication

Modern Language Asociation

of

the

for

De-

cember.

Professor Arthur M.
A. M. '96.
Earlham College, read a paper on "The Virtuous Octavia," at the an.

Charles, of

Fav."

Ex '.01

Evan Randolph was married

Hope

Miss

to

the

169

Carson,

daughter

of

Hampton Carson, on Xovember the sev-

nual meeting of the Central Division of
the Modern Language Association, in De-

cember, at Chicago.

enth, 1906.

George John Walenta was marMiss Madeline Jones, at Haverford on December 20.
Mr. and Mrs.
\\'alenta will live at 2232 North Broad
'01.

'04.

W. ^L Wills has announced his

engagement to Miss Julia

Ireland.

Joseph H. Morris has announced
engagement.

'05.

his

ried to

Street, Philadelphia.

Ex* '05.
'92.

an

Walker Morris Hart, Ph. D., has

article entitled

"Professor Child and

to IMiss

John L. Scull was married

Mary Rachel Settle, at Haver-

ford, on January ist, 1907.

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
COLLEGE CALENDAR

FOOT BALL DINNER

Quadrangular Gymnastic Meet, January 20.
Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Haverford.

Some

the

Haverford's loyal Alumni
gave a dinner at the Merion Cricket Club,
on \\'ednesday, December 19th, in honor

Civics Department of the Lonanian So-

of the season's successful foot ball team.

December 11, on the topic "Politi-

The seventeen men who ended a successful season by whipping New York Uni-

President

ciety,

Sharpless

addressed

cal Conditions in Pennsvlvania."

of

versity 68 to o, together with about the

"Through Persia into Central Asia"
was the title of an illustrated lecture
given by A. V. Williams Jackson, Ph. D.,

LL. D., Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages at Columbia University, before
the Phi Beta Kappa, on December 7.

same number of old Haverford foot ball
captains and players formed the typical
merry Haverfordian crowd.
President
Drinker, of Lehigh University, the father
of three Haverfordians, and President
Sharpless, the "father of us all" were the
special guests of the evening.

;

:

:

THE HAVERFORDIAX

I/O

Coach Thorn, '04, was presented with

and Cary are back in College doing post-

a loving cup, the gift of the undergrad-

graduate work.

uates as a token of their sincere appre-

have

All

men

of the other

The

ciation of his

work in turning out such

team will be
strengthened in tumbling by the addition

a good team.

President Sharpless, Pres-

of

ident Drinker, Coach Thorn, Dr. Babbitt,

Brown

improved.

Leonard,

who was on

Princeton's

There are several other

team last year.

were all called on for speeches by Toast-

make a strong bid for
places on the team, among whom are two

master Hay.

or three Freshmen.

Captain Jones and Captain-elect

The

were

hosts

Sharp, Jr., '88

William

as

follows

W.

J.

Dr. T. F. Branson, '89

;

Audenreid,

G.

;

'90;

C.

J

W. J
Strawbridge, '94; E. B. Hay, '95; W. C

Rhoades, '93

P. S. Williams, '93

;

;

Hinchman, '96 J
H. Scattergood, '96; L. H. Wood, '96

Webster,

'95

;

C. R.

A. C. Collins, '97

;

;

W. J. Janney, '98 A
;

G. Scattergood, '98; A. Haines, '98;

A

00
F. C. Sharpless, '00; F. M. Eshleman

C. Maule, '99; H. S. Drinker,

Jr.,

'00; J. C. Lloyd, '00; C. C. Morris, '04

B. Eshleman,

'05.

men who

will

Manager Rossmaessler announces the
following schedule

—Quadrangular meet, PrinceRutgers,
Feb. 9— Haverford
New Brunswick, N.
Lehigh,
March 2— Haverford
Haverford.
Penn.
March 16— Haverford
Penn.
contest
March 22 —
Pennsylvania.
meet
HavFeb.

Jan. 20

ton,

Columbia, Pennsylvania, Haverford.

at

vs.

J.

at

vs.

15

vs.

at

Intercollegiate

at

Inter-scholastic

at

erford.

RUGBY FOOTBALL
Carrol T. Brown, '08, has been elected
captain, Cecil K. Drinker, '08, manager,

and Mark A. Spiers, '09, assistant manager of the foot ball team for next year.

The following fourteen men
"H."

their
'07

:

'07

;

Captain Jones, '07

:

Haines, '07
P.

received
;

Wood,

Birdsall, '07 ; A. Brown,

;

Brown,

INTER-CLASS CONTEST
The first inter-class gym. contest for
was held on December 12th,

ten years

under the auspices of the class of '97,
who want to see the old custom started
again to develop and discover modest

The banner presented by '97 was
won by '08.

ability.

'07

;

Magill,

'07

;

C.

Brown, '08 Leonard, '08 Bard, '09
Ramsey, '09; Spaeth, '09; Sharpless, '09,
and Frost, '10.
Edwards, '08, and Wilson, '10, were
awarded cups for conscientious work on
;

;

the scrub.

There were several amusing exhibibut the best performance was done
by Edwards, '08, who won first place on
the horizontal, parallels, and rings. The
judges were F. B. Jacobs, '97, H. H.
Jenks, '00, and E. C. Rossmaessler, '01.
tions,

Results

GYMNASTICS

The gymnasium team this year should
be an excellent one. The only men lost
from

last year's

successful team are Car-

son and Shortlidge

;

T. K. Brown,

Jr.,

Flying Rings Edwards, '08, first; Mott, '09,
second Bally, '08, third.
;

Side Horse Burtt, '08,
second; Philips, '10, third.

first;

Lewis,

Horizontal Bar Edwards, '08. first
'08, second
Spaeth, '09, third.

nell,

;

;

'09,

Bush-

;;
;

THE HAVERFORDIAN
second

—A. N. Warner, '07; W. Sargent,
E. Shoemaker,
I'iolins —
W. Crowell, '09; H. E. C. Bryant,
Cello — W. C. Greene,
Clarinet — C. W. Mayers,
Leader —
W. Nicholson,

Bars Edwards. '08, first; Brown,
Mason, '08, third.
Tumbling Leonard, '08, first; Bushnell, '08,
second; Mason, '09, third.
Rope Climb Mason, '10, first; Bard, '09,
second; Roberts, '10. third.
Fence Vault Burtt, '08, first; Edwards, '08,
second Waniock, '09, third.
Side Horse
(Novice) David, '10, first;
Drinker, '08, second; Judkins, '10, third.
Flying Rings
(Novice) Fay, '09, first;
Kenderdine, '10, second; Martin, '10. third.
Club Swinging Myers, 09, first; Scott, '08.
second Shoemaker, '09, third.
Parallel

'08,

;

Guitars
Jr.,


;

MUSICAL
The annual concert of the Haverford
Musical Clubs was given in Roberts
Hall on December 20th. Credit is due
Nicholson,

'07,

leader of both clubs, for

'08;

'10.

'10.

'10.

J.

Jr.

GLEE CLUB.

W. Crowell. '09; J. W.
R. A. Spaeth, '09; H. E.
W. D. Schultz, '10.
C.
Second Tenor T. K. Brown, Jr., P. G.
'08; F. C.
J. C. Birdsall. '07; J. B. Clement,
Hamilton, '09; P. V. R. Miller, '09; E. ShoeTenor—].

First

Pennypacker,

'09;
Bryant, '10;

maker,

'09.

First Bass G. H. Deacon, 09; C. C. Killen,
'09; D. L. Philips, 'og; M. H. C. Spiers, '09;
C. M. Froelicher, '10; W. C. Greene, '10;

W. Mayers, '10.

C.

Second 'Bass— P.
Dodge,
Lewis,

the success of the concert.

'09.

J.


;

171

W. Brown,

'07;

I.

J.

'o-; J. W. Nicholson, Jr., '07; T. K.
'09; S. T. Martin, '10; C. D. Morley,

'10.

Leader

PROGRAM

W.

J.

Nicholson,

Jr.

PART L
SOCCER

Ida

Johnson
Mandolin Club.
II. I'd Like to Go Down South Once Mo'
Parks
I.

The following were awarded the Soccer

Captain

''H.":

Glee Club.
III.

Windle, '07

Piano Soli
(a) Valse "O

la bien Aimee"
(6) Gavotte, B Flat
T. M. Longstreth, '08.

Schiitt

Handel

IV. Trio Standchen
T. M. Longstreth, '08.
J. W. Crowell, '09.
W. C. Greene,
V. Quartet
P.

Schubert

Bushnell,

;

Rossmaessler,

C. Brown, '08

08,

;

07;
Drinker, "08

and Baker, '10.

The seal was awarded to Warner, '07
Ck)dley,

'07;

Kurtz,

'08;

Strode,

'08;

Shoemaker, '08, and Furness, '10.
Haverford again won the intercollegi-

'10.

Arranged

only fair to state

W. Brown, '07.

ate championship.

T. K. Lewis, 'og.
D. L. Philips, '09.
R. A. Spaeth, '09.

that they were aided by Columbia's de-

It is

Haverford and Penn's
to Harvard.
fault

to

forfeit

PART II.
I.

II.

Dainty Dames
Mandolin Club.
''Po' Little

Trio
IV. Pale

III.

Lamb"

the

Amber West

Glee Club.
V. For Haverford

Schubert
Parks
Seller

Combined Clubs.
M.'VNDOLIN'

CLUB.

First Mandolins J. W. Nicholson, Jr., '07;
B. Windle, '07; F. C. Baily, '08; W. W.

W.

Kurtz, 2d. '08; F. Myers, Jr., '09; N. D. Ayer,
C. F. Clark, '10; G. A. Kerbaugh, '10;
S. T. Mnrtin, '10.
Second Mandolins F. O. Musser, '08; D. B.
Gary. '10; J. D. Kenderdine, '10; E. R. Spauld-

'10:

ing, '10.

HAVERFORD, 2;

Parks

Glee Club.
Aufenthalt

in

Blake

Played

at

H.A.RVARD^

Cambridge,

I.

December

8,

1906.

On December 8, at Cambridge, Mass.,
on the historical Soldiers' Field. Harvard
went down to defeat before the Haverford soccer team. The day was fine, but
cold, and hard wind was blowing down
the field, which made accurate passing
Captain
and shooting ven.' difficult.
Rossmaessler won the toss and chose
Osborne started
to kick with the wind.

——

THE HAVERFORDIAN

172

Harvard soon got together
and for a while it was only the defensive
work of Brown and Godley that saved
the Crimson forwards from breaking
the game.

H.WERFORD, O; UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLV.\NI.\, O.

Played at Franklin Field, December

through.

Baker, at this point, received

In the final

He dodged the waiting full-

ate Soccer Series,

ball.

back and sent a neat shot
thus tallying the

Near

ford.

into the net

score for Haver-

first

the close of the

first

half

Baker again sent the ball into the net
and the first half ended 2-0 in Haverford's favor.

In the second half Harvard seemed to

ley

but

territory,

could

not

score

a

A corner did them no good, God-

tally.

kicking the ball out of danger.

while the ball

remained

then Biddle, outside

forward

line,

left

For

midfield,

in

on Crimson's

suddenly broke away, and

game of the IntercollegiHaverford played the

was hotly contested from start to finish.
The Haverford forwards nearly scored
in the first half,

rank

but the University front

and but for a mistake in
front of goal, would have been one up
rallied,

at half time.

In the second half, however, the Hav-

erford team completely outclassed their

opponents,

and time and again nearly

scored, the University goal being saved

on more than one occasion by its unusual
narrowness alone.
A penalty kick for
Haverford struck the upright ten min-

For Haverforward line gave a good exhibition of team work; in the defense.

going down the side dodged Windle and

utes before the final whistle.

when Reggio put the
by a low hard shot just
out of Warner's reach.
Score Haverford, 2; Harvard, i.
There was no further scoring, and the half ended with the
ball dangerously near the Harvard goal.

ford, the

passed to centre,
ball in the net

The game

U. of P. a no score game.

wake up and rushed the ball into Haverford

,

1906.

the

a

Captain Rossmaessler, Brown, and \\'arner were conspicuous.
Haverford

Line-up

:

Pennsylvania.

Shoemaker

Strode
Furness
Baker

i.

1

H. Morris

c.

f

Widdows

Shoemaker

i.

r

Bushnell

o. r

dash and vigor that ran the Harvard

Windle

1.

men off their

Rossmaessler
Drinker
Kurtz

The Haverford team played with

The work

feet.

of

a

the

forwards was excellent and they were
well assisted by the defense.

Line-up

:

Harvard.

Harcrford.

o.

Brown
Warner
C.

1

Wood

h

R.

Shophach

r.

h
h

1.

f.

r.

f

c.

Pepper
A. Montgomery

Ewing
Keating
Goodfellow
Bricker

b
.

b

g
Referee Bishop.
Linesmen Pleasants, U.
of P. Godley, Haverford. Time of halves

:

A. N. Warner. ....... g

Brown

F.

V. Malim

b

T. Thackeia

F. D.

Godley
I. f. b
Drinker
r. f
W. R. Rossmaessler.c. h
W. B. Windle
f
1.

W. H. Kidder

C. K.

Brooks
W. Reggio

C. T.

J.

r,

Biishnel!

r.

f.

n

P.

L. A. Bird

W, A. Forbush

r.
A. N. Refjgio
H. Furness
P. Osborne
P. 1 Baker
c
L. B. Robinson
W. R. Shoemaker...!,
I. o
G. Biddle
G. K. Strode
Linesmen
Referee J. H. Fairiax-Lucy.
i

.

i

F.

Harvard A. Leelan, TTaverford.
Haverford, Baker 2. Har\-ard, A. N.

I-^elan,

Goals

Reggio.

Time

;

of

halves

— 25 minutes.

30 minutes.

OTHER SOCCER GAMES


Dec. 8— Haverford 2nd XI, 4; Radnor
C. C,
Dec. 22 — Merion
C, 4 Haverford
XI,
Dec. 22 — Haverford 2nd XI, 8; Penn
2nd XI,
Dec. 22 — Plavcrford 3rd XI, 2; RadNov. 30 Germantow n C. C. 4 Haverford 2nd XI, I.
;

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ist

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2.

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HAVERFORDIAN

Haverford College
Febni&ry. I907

Volume XXVIII. No. 9.

CONTENTS
Editorials

173

The Capitol at Washington

175

College and After

176

An Appreciation of Holmes' "Autocrat"

The

178

Down

Laying
Meeting

of

Conwell

The Children of the Swamp
Pictures by the

Way

Ataleka Lake
Sonnet

187

Civic Department:
About Amending the Constitution 188
Men or Money Which?
190

A
179
183
186

186

Haverford Missionary

in

China. 192

Alumni Department

193

College Department

194

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:

:

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DIRECTORY
ATHLETIC ASSOQATION
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

ADVISORY BOARD

;

P. W. Brown, '07
G. K. Strode, '08

Manager

M. H. March, '07

Assistant Manager
Captain

C. K. Drinker, '08
C. T. Brown, 08

;

LOGANIAN SOCIETY
President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

Gymnasium
Chairman

G. K. Strode, '08

Other Members— I. J. Dodge, '07; E. F.
Jones, '07 M. H. March, '07 J. H. Wood, '07
C. T. Brown, '08; C. K. Drinker, '08; J. P.
Elkinton, '08.

DEPARTMENTS
Foot Ball
Chairman
Vice-Chairman

H. Evans, '07

President
Secretary

F. D. Godley, '07
B. Clement, '08
M. H. C. Spiers, '09
C. J. Rhoads, '93
J.

J.

P. Magill, '07
Not elected
Not elected

W. H. Haines, '07

Vice-Chairman

Manager
Assistant Manager

Captain

E. A. Edwards,
W. B. Rossmaessler,
W. R. Shoemaker,
J. Bushnell, 3d,

Track
Chairman
Vice-Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager

'08

DEPARTMENTS

'07
'08

Civics

E. F. Jones, '07
W. W. Kurtz, '08
E. R. Tatnall, '07
W. Sargent, Jr., '08
E. C. Tatnall, '07

Captain

H. Evans, '07

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

'08

P.

W. Brown, '07

J.

P. Elkinton, '08

Scientific

R. L. Cary, '06

President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer

I.

J.

Dodge, '07

D. C. Baldwin, '06

Cricket

Chairman
Vice-Chairman

Manager

J.

President
M. H. March, '07
Vice-President
C. K. Drinker, '08
Secretary-Treasurer ....M. H. C. Spiers, '09

W. Nicholson, Jr., '07

Assistant Manager

C. K. Drinker, '08
F. D. Godley, '07

Captain
Association Foot Ball:

P. W. Brown,
C. K. Drinker,
E. R. Tatnall,
J. B. Clement,

Chairman
Vice-Chairman
Manager
Assistant Manager
Captain

Debating

A. E. Brown, '07
E. A. Edwards, 'o3

CLASSES

'07
'08

1907:

'08

W. R. Rossmaessler, '07
ASSOCIATIONS.

College:
President
Vice-President
Secretary

C. Spiers, '09

A. E. Brown,

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer

'07

Manager
C. L. Miller, '08
Y. M. C. A.
H. Evans, '07
W. H. Morriss, '08

Treasurer

J.

I.

J.

C. C. Killen
F. M. Ramsey
R. L. M. Underhill

C. E.

1910:
President

Dodge, '07

President
Vice-President
Secretary

J. B. Clement
E. A. Edwards
F. O. Musser
J. P. Elkinton

1909:

Tennis:

Manager

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the tenth of eacli month during the college yeir. Matter intended for insertion should reach
the Editor not later than the twenty-third of the month preceding the date of issue.
Entered

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XXVIII

Vol.

Haverford, Pa., February, 1907

accordance with the custom of The
INHaverfordiax,
this issue completes

and with

the volume,

it

terminate the

services of the Senior editors.
_

_.

ago
°

.

Tbe End

A year

we assumed our

re-

our efforts.

No. 9

The Alumni have, to a great

by advice and criticism
conduct of the magazine in gen-

extent, aided us
in the

eral

and the departments

in

particular.

We would say as a word of farewell,
we are advising our successors to

with

hesita-

and largely

from a

enlarge the Alumni Department and to

We relin-

put in the College Department more gen-

sponsibilities

oj

through the mails as second-class matter.

voiume

tion,

XXVIII

sense of duty.

that

information of the various college

quish them with regret, because of the

eral

actual pleasure and satisfaction the work

activities.

has afforded us, which quite outweigh

In concluding volume XXVIII we
wish to express our thanks to all who
have aided us in making this volume,

the anxiety and tedium connected with
editorial

work.

We can assure the new administration
the discipline and training which
they will receive from this work will be

that

so valuable that it should command their
best efforts

:

also that such training, as

well as the standard of the magazine, are

proportionate to the attention they give
to it.

The greatest pleasure we have had has
been the generous consideration of our
readers,

who have been lenient in their

criticism

and quick to express, by word

or letter, their approbation of certain of

and to convey our especial appreciation
to President Isaac Sharpless, Mr. Hiram
Hadley, '56; Mr.

Thomas Wistar,

'58;

Prof. Allen C. Thomas, '65 Prof. F. B.
Gummere, '72; Prof. Albert S. Bolles,
Dr. A. E. Hancock, Dr. James A. Babbitt, Dean Barrett, Dr. W. W. Comfort,
'94; Mr. Oscar M. Chase, '94; Dr.
Arthur F. Coca, '96; Mr. Arthur CrowMr. Chester J, Teller, '05.
ell, '04
The Board of Editors for the coming
year comprises Winthrop Sargent, Jr.,
;

;

'08,

Editor-in-Chief; Howard Burtt, '08;

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2d,

'09,

;

Alfred Lowry,

as Associate Editors;

J.

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more Elkinton, '08, and Walter W. Whitson, '08,

continue as Business Editors.

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the improvement of the magazine, or to

some

college or athletic

activity.

balance is divided into thirds

:

The

two-thirds

of which go to the business managers,

EARLY

our

in

administration

we

conceived the idea of formulating

a constitution under which
should be managed.
^
censtitufion
tor

The

this

paper

The Haverfordi.^n

to

This third

to

editors,

these things proceed-

;

We

have attempted to plan this constitution
so as to embrace all the desirable features
of the past and to include a few changes.
It has been adopted by the joint boards
and approved by President Sharpless on
behalf of the faculty, and will henceforth
govern the management of the paper and
be subject to changes only by a majority

matter of giving books for editorial ser-

because it savored too much of re-

on a practical working basis, and that any
radical changes from past custom have
been for the better.

considering the

we have concluded
magazine and

improved by this measure.

will be

THEganian

Civics

Department of the Lo-

Society has allied

itself to

the Inter-Collegiate Civic League, in re-

sponse

to

an invitation received some
time ago.
legiate

inter-

year so

As a result we feel sure that it is

after

the quality of undergraduate literature

j^^

that every detail might be carefully tried

but,

that the standard of the

The work of drawing up this constiall

;

matter thoroughly,

vote and faculty consent.
tution has been in progress

We have hesitated about this

not in cash.

muneration

gt^.

Board.

Editorial

the only stipulation being that

vice,

definite rules concern-

the

be apportioned to the

they shall receive its value in books and

has not, in the past, had

ing along under unwritten customs.

out.

is

any

ing elections of the Board,

Haveriordian

and one-third

This Inter-Col-

League

embraces

about sixteen of the fore-

Collegiate

civic League

most Universities and colcountry, namely: Yale,
Princeton, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York
leges

of

the

Under the new rules the paper is to be

L'Uiversity, Cornell, Williams, University

in the hands of a self-perpetuating Board

of Michigan, University of Chicago, Am-

number eight as a maxia business manager who

herst,
see.

It is

chooses an assistant from a class below

these

various

of Editors,

mum,

—and

to

On the tenth of February of each

Dartmouth, University of Tennesan association formed among
colleges,

non-partisan

in

of the exact financial status of the paper,

membership and aim, "to serve as a bond
of union to those members in American
universities and colleges who believe in

—the earnings of the previous year, and

the intelligent study of public affairs as

his.

year a report

is

rendered to the Board

the value of the paper to date.

This

a

means of increasing the

interest

of

will enable the new business management

students in the duties of citizenship, and

to take hold of the paper on a fair basis

of raising the standards of public

commence.
income
One-tenth of the
of the paper
is turned into a surplus fund which may,

the United States."

at the time

its

services

life in

Every month, or oftener, the League
will, this winter, distribute

short articles

THE HAVERFORDIAN
upon various subjects pertinent to public

175

sprang off from the Scottish Established

men.

Church.

Upon the union of these two

They advise that these be printed in the
college papers.
The policy of The
Haverfordiax has been only to use ma-

branches

was

written

questions,

terial

prominent

by

submitted by those allied with the

college,

but because

sympathize with

this

we

so

thoroughly

work, we

shall

be

Presbyterian

the

built

Church.

But

this

merely

period

because

is

of

theological dissensions.

because

the

not

deeper

interesting

revivals

these

and

It is interesting

of

result

all

this

glad to print these articles as they appear.

visible turmoil was the bettering of social

They are all copyrighted articles, written
for the Inter-Collegiate League and
printed by us on behalf of that League

conditions.

and the Haverford College Civics Club.

Hospitals and relief societies
were founded, and the long struggle for
prison reforms was begun in Scotland,
and it is from there that it has spread

over the world.

THE

especial attention of our alumni

and friends is called to the announcement of the Library Lectures in
the College Department of this number.
These lectures this year
The
given by the Rev.

Annual

will be

Library

John Watson, D. D., more

Lectures

commonly known

as

Ian

Maclaren.

The subject announced is, "The History

of

Religion

in

Eighteenth Century.''

Scotland

in

the

This will treat a

very important period of Scottish history

when certain curious revivals swept over

a very- distinguished honor that
ITProfessor
Ernest W. Brown has
is

achieved

in

having awarded to him the

gold medal of the Royal Astronomical
,

An
Honor

Society.
^

The

lor a

announcement of
was made several

Haverford

this

Professor

weeks ago, and the official
will occur some time in

presentation

February.

The medal is given annually by the
Astronomical Society to the man who

the country resulting from the preaching

during the year has advanced farthest
the world's knowledge about astronomy.

of such energetic men as Whitefield and

Dr.

was about the middle of the
eighteenth century that the two branches,

years

Wesley.

It

Secession Church,

by Erskine,
and the Relief Church, led by Gillespie,
the

led

Brown has been working for some
here,

at

Haverford,

upon

the

planetary perturbations of the moon from
its

regular orbit, and

that he has been

it

is

for this

work

honored.

THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON
With reverent feet I trod thy tiled floors.

Worn by the footfalls of the mighty dead
With holy awe, upon thy brazen doors
The glorious annals of the past I read.

Hushed

in mute wonder, silently T stood
Beneath the arches of thy soaring dome
And overwhelmed, watched the endless flood
Of mighty living, ever go and come.

In fancy rapt, methougfht I saw the sweep
Of countless generations yet unborn.

Who shall thy matchless glories guard and
keep
In all the splendor of their golden morn;
Until my soul, a moment breaking free
Was blended in eternity, with thee.
/.

F.

IV..

'10.

COLLEGE AND AFTER
With the closing term for some of our
students, their thoughts are ranging be-

yond college studies and associations.
But how differently they regard the future

These

!

differentiations

t)-pify classes into

which a considerable

portion of mankind is divided.
their future

is

clearly

By some,

••If

it

Aeons

take

form a diamond,

to

Aeons to crystallize its fire and dew
By what slow process must Nature

make
Her Shakespeares and her Raffaels?

not wholly unknown, for

Great the gain

they have secured places into which they

If she spoils

will fit and continue the familiar story of

two."

work

grain on

grain,

thousands making one or

prevision led them months ago to find a

Not all, however, look on diamondmaking quite in this way. What about

new place on leaving the old. And thus

those that are spoiled?

with them it will always be, thoughtful-

concerned,

ness marking their career and yielding

been the gainers had some other enter-

solid
this

as

before.

possession.
squirrel

Their keen sense of

Others

may

dislike

philosophy, but, after

all,

who will question the fact, that a strong,
fat squirrel enjoys existence

more than

Would not all
have

world,

the

including-

prise been attempted?

Then there are others who bank on the
fortunes of fickle opportunity. They are
numerous in all ages

;

are not lessening

a weak, half-starved one?

in our own.

They are possessed with the

Of another class are these who would
be happy if they could follow some pursuit not open to them, and alas, can
never be.
At all times and ever\-whcre this class
Plunging into some pursuit
is large.
from necessity or by command that
could not be disregarded, they have lived
darkened lives, seeing, if at all, only fitful gleams of sunshine.
But what, had
they followed their inclination ? W'ould
they have succeeded?
Some contend
that such a lot would have been happier,
for they would have had the satisfaction
of trying. Prevented, their life has been

adventurous

spirit,

an unending, discontented refrain.
Besides, among so many, now and then
one perhaps would have succeeded, and

and averted by the wise.
So much for the different ways of

his worth to the world, judged from

another direction, and contrast the

side,

its

—the

of

spirit

the

They float on

speculator, the gambler.

the current of optimism, are of uneven

temper, joyful and sorrowful by turns.

Some
larger
the

them win great prizes,
number are borne away

of

mighty

flood

of

have been

won by

American

revolution.

with

wrecks,

this

world

witness

the

Thus in all ages

while the great shore of

strewn

in

them,

on

Some

failures.

of the greatest victories

the

life

thrown

has been

up

by

human miscalculation, many a ship has
made a brilliant voyage by daring
through ignorance to take risks known

looking at the problem.

Let us look in
feel-

might have compensated for all the

ing of the college graduate to-day with

Aldrich has expressed the

that of the graduate in the olden time.

other failures.

idea in a felicitous verse:

Having then a different, we will not say

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higher, regard for his mental apparatus,

he

three

must enter one of the

that he

felt

learned

professions,

because

it

living

^77

The

assured.

is

struggle

no

is

longer for existence as soon as the critical

period,

known,

ever

if

is

passed.

would be unworthy of his long and costly
training to do otherwise. But since that

Unhappy the man who cannot pass it!

time a vast industrial world has arisen,

millions, but

fomi
and mighty power; to command one of
these wheels with the thousands of men
employed to turn it is worthy the genius
of any man.
The college graduate of
to-day has some perception of this, and

college graduate.

wheels within wheels of ponderous

behold

how

!

the

three professions

suffering from the movement.

are

Perhaps

more is said about the decline of ability
in

Christian

the

other, but

ministry

than in any

we do not believe the more

Doubtless this is a very real thing with

ought not to be with the

it

eral

equipment

ever}-

special

With his superior genadvance

for

direction,

in

almost

he does not

if

this point and enjoy his work,
whatever it may be, of all failures, that

pass

graduate

worst.

of the

college

Work,

indeed, he must, in most cases,

the

is

but this to the educated man should yield
pleasure, not pain.

It is the

thoughtless,

demoralized workingman of the lower

who

type

regards

toil

curse,

as a

and

Many

eagerly awaits the announcement of the

who are so eager in the fever chase for

the incident of the victory achieved over

hour when he can throw down his implements of labor.
The college graduate
goes forth with a different feelin;;', and
his work through life should be an enduring joy, for, if not unmindful of his

To discover

opportunity, he has gained a truer con-

popular

explanation

is

correct.

millions are not, in truth, as much nerved

by the hope of gaining them, as by the
joy of conquest.
nature, or

The millions are only

man, or both.

aerial navigation, to utilize the nitrogen

ception of life than the popular one

in the air, to build a railroad, or perfect

acquisition of material goods, and the ex-

some other great scheme,

—may indeed

ercise

of

victorious

brute

force.

^the

The

yield a great fortune in dollars, but the

outside world only dimly knows that the

joy of quest and achievement are more

college graduate, through the study of

dearly prized.

Latin and Greek and the deeper explor-

So the sphere of the college graduate
has broadened, and the world is the

ation

gainer.

unless

It is

thought
ought,

true that, in the beginning,

commanding
is

that

of

the

into

sooner or
detaches

later,

mysteries

of

his

being,

gradually or suddenly,

himself far enough

from the

scene,

his

first

world to gain a truer conception of th^

existing;

but

this

problem of

the

life,

that does, under most

and generally does wear away

conditions, yield unfailing enjoyment.

wav of

A. S. Bolles.

as soon as one's

future in the

AN APPRECIATION OF HOLMES'S "AUTOCRAT'
Our mass of world literature is divided
many classes. Over against the
tragical we set the comical against the
into

;

serious, the farcical

the non-classical

against the classical,

against the historical,

;

The list of adjectives, posi-

the fictional.
tive

;

and negative,

practically endless.

is

One who attempts a catalogue will find
them presenting themselves with startling
rapidity

—dry instructive

interesting

:

amusing

;

But

religious^atheistical.

;

when a book is worth anything it has
some particular adjective that applies to
it

almost to the exclusion of the others.

One would

call "Hamlet" innobody would deny

scarcely

teresting,

though

that

but tragical

it

is ;

the qualifying

is

from
"Hamlet."
A neutral book, to which
any number of adjectives may equally
well be applied, is apt not to merit even

word

that

cannot

separated

be

Sketch Book," many (but not
Hawthorne's Tales, "Love's
Labor's Lost," "Pickwick Papers," and a
great many others, of which these few
are haphazard examples.
A zvholesome book is, of course, not
only one that does no harm it must also
do good. Swift's "A modest Proposal"
has probably done good, but I should not
call it a zvholesome theme.
Another
qualification is needed
a book to be
zvholesome must not only do no harm and
do some good, but it must also do this
good in a pleasing zvay. The satire must
not be too pointed a blazing hell must

tor," "The

of

all)

;

:

;

shown to frighten evil-doers; the
reader must not put down his book with
a shudder.
There must be nothing that

•not

be

hurts, nothing that offends, nothing that
is ugly, but the wholesome book must be
homeopathic in its treatment. In "True

Raillery"

("The Tatler,")

unless it be the adjective weak.

expressed

much

This series of common-place remarks
has a purpose. This purpose is not to

press

a single

one

to

a very high degree,

prove something that everybody will adThey are simply set forth in prepmit.
aration for the question
tive

—"What adjec-

Oliver Wendell Holmes's

qualifies

"Autocrat at the Breakfast Table?"

he must laugh zvith men, not at them.

"A

Midsummer

Dream" is
"What Fools These
Though here the tonic of

is

Mortals Be !"

Poe's "Murders of the Rue Morgue."

Is

a

it

humorous?'

Undoubtedly.

And so is

Mark Twain's "Connecticut Yankee
King Arthur's Court."

is

When he laughs at the follies of his day,

so

And

Well, yes.

idea

can ex-

it.
Here we learn that the satirmust be good-natured. His quarrel
must be for society, not for himself.

zvholesome, with

interesting?

I

ist

Is

it

this

better than

Night's

its

good laugh is prescribed rather than
any specific reforms. "Don Quixote" is

in

zvholesome, and here, on the other hand,

It is instructive,

the specific reforms are plainly set forth,

Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations."

and the extravagances of chivalry are
laughed at unmercifully, but even here,

All of these adjectives will apply to the

mind you, there is no sting in the laugh-

"Autocrat," but none of them fits it.

ter.

perhaps ?

Of

course

is ;

it

and so

is

It

seems to me that zvholesome is the qualifying word

we

want.

zvholesome books we

In the class of
find

"The Specta-

And so it is with our gentle ".AutoHe is a critic, undoubtedly but

crat."

he is an optimistic critic

:

or, of you will,

THE HAVERFORDIAN
a critical optimist.

Oh, he can be stern

enough,

It

I

know.

somewhat of

is,

for

instance,

refuse to argue

a jar to

179

love books, the benefits of mutual admiration, the

unpleasantness of the retailer of

good results when a man be-

facts, the

with a man on the plea that "controversy

lieves in himself, even if it involves a cer-

equalizes fools and wise men,

tain

fools knozv

hypocrisy.

and the
That makes the other

it."

man wince a little

—unless he gets laugh-

Yes, the autocrat can almost lose

ing.

conceit,

and

the

balefulness

of

The wholesomeness of the "Autocrat"
is

the wholesomeness of a spring zephyr.

But when he does

Coming from the woods laden with the

grow impatient, he does not rail as Swift
does.
The difference is that Swift is a

breath of the April blossoms, it blows
gently through the town, leaving everything clearer and brighter.
It is not a

patience sometimes.

critical pessimist and the autocrat a criti-

cal

scoldings

are

threatening tornado that comes to carry

away the whole town because it cannot
make it pure. So, when I had closed the
book and was sitting down to write a
little about it, all of a sudden it came to

at our pet vice,

what

Even

and though he may hammer

optimist.

pleasant,

sort

his

we bear no grudge.

And

of teachings does he give?

Well, the proper use of English. the wick-

edness of puns (which, by the way, he
uses to good advantage himself), how to

me what an entirely zclwlesome book it is.
W. S. E., '07.

THE LAYING DOWN OF CONWELL MEETING
On a clear, hot day in midsummer,
under the shadow of the Blue Mountains,

modern

a long stretch of dusty road was baking

the

to a parched dryness.

touched,

It

was the season

ways, they used good materials, and the
engineer

who

had

the old bridge un-

road,

left

—stone from

its

of excessive heat, preceding the dog days.

culiarly notched coping.

Along the highway the blackberry bushes
hung their leaves listlessly under a white

tiquity

coating of chalky dust.

No breath of

wind was stirring there was no evidence
of living activity anywhere. Even the
birds were driven to shelter in the cool
places of the woods, and the only cheer;

ful

sound,

tropical

in

sun,

air of an-

increased the natural stillness of the place,

man moving along the chalky turnpike.
From his high beaver hat and straightcoat and vest, it was evident
was one of the sect of Quakers.
He leaned heavily upon a stout cane as

collared
that he

Horse River.

Its

one could see the black figure of an old

brazen glare of the

water under the old stone bridge of the

base to the pe-

was unmistakable.
About half-past nine on this hot day,
which being the First-day of the week,

was the rippling of the

the

macadamized

way along

Winter and sumFlowing
down from well-wooded mountain valleys, the White Horse knew neither flood
nor drought, but purled along with con-

he

mossy stones, unmindful of the times and the seasons.
The bridge was a curious structure.

he removed his hat for this purpose he

When our forefathers built their road-

beaver.

VV^hite

mer were all the same to it.

stant flow, against

its

slowly

picked

his

the

smooth parts of the road, stopping now
and again to mop his brow with a large
handkerchief or to lash it over his shoulder to brush off the white dust.

When

showed a head of snow-white hair flowing

down well below the brim of the
The heat seemed to float up all

THE HAVERFORDIAN

i8o

around him in dizzy waves through the
glaring sunshine, and he stopped under
every tree to refresh himself for the next

had passed over that sod to disturb the
natural growth for several years, and
even the appearance of a lane was hardly

stretch of hot white road.

distinguishable.

When he came to the old stone bridge
He
he was evidently much relieved.
stiffly

tree.

and

carriest them away as with a flood

shadow

upon

of the

bridge by a large poplar

a

stone

in

the

He leaned back against the

wall,

a small gate in the stone wall and walked

toward the near door of the house. The
soft sod felt grateful to his burning feet
"Thou
after the stones of the highway.

climbed through the fence and sat

down

The old man unfastened the hook of

closing his eyes for a time, seemed to

Starting from his short rest, he
removed his hat and bathed his wrinkled
sleep.

face freely with the clear, cool water of

White Horse, and then rested his
his hands on the top of his
In a low whisper, and as if incane.
"For the
voluntarily came the words
Lord, thy God, bringeth thee into a good

;

they

morning they are
In the
like the grass which groweth up.
morning it flourisheth and groweth up;
in the evening it is cut down, and witherare as asleep: in the

the

eth.

head upon

is

We spend our years as a tale that

told,

and if by reason of strength they

be fourscore years, yet is their strength,

and depths that spring out of the

labor and sorrow for it is soon cut off,
and we fly away." So the old man muttered as he walked feebly over the daisyhis face speckled
flecked greensward

valleys and hills," and then he was silent

with the patches of sunshine that forced

:

land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains

again.

Finally

he

arose,

took

a

last

drink from the stream, and set out upon
his way once more along the white and
With many stops he
shining highway.
gradually drew near to a little stone building in a grove of oak trees by the roadA roof of mossy shingles topped
side.
off the grey walls. A little porch shaded

two doors and four windows that
The grove was surthe road.
rounded with a stone wall on all sides,
except where the carriage shed ser\'ed as
Beyond the wall stretched
a boundary.
a fine field of corn. Among the oak trees
were regular green mounds with here
and there a white head-stone to mark
the grave of a Friend who had gone beEverywhere in the shade the
fore.
small August daises were blooming, by
the

faced

the stone

slabs

at

the

doorsteps,

over

;

;

their way down

through the oak leaves.
watch
His
told him that it was near
the hour of ten so after a short rest upon
the horse block he drew a key from his
;

pocket and unlocked the old door.

The

thumb latch rattled noisily as he lifted it
and entered the room, lighted only by
rays stealing through the cracks of the
shutters.
He opened the windows and
let in

a flood of sunshine that

plain

interior

lit

up the

with a cheerful coziness.

was cool in the meeting-house and very
Only onehalf of the building was thus opened.
The partitions or shutters that had previously been used to separate men's and
women's meetings during the business
sessions were closed.
A large, old
fashioned wood-stove stood in the middle
of the room between the six rows of
It

pleasant after the hot walk.

the grassy mounds, and as irony would

benches.

have it, in the middle of the carriageway
that led from the road to the horse block
Few wheels
at the meeting house door.

tions

The penknives of past genera-

had been plied busily upon the soft

wood of the backs of the benches, silent
whose names were

memories of boys

THE HAVERFORDIAN
now cut in stone over the green mounds
under the oak trees. Such was the room
into which our ancient Friend slowly
and stiffly admitted the warm sunshine,
flooding over the gallery rail and giving
a new tint to the sombre brown cushions.
He returned to the door and looked out
over the corn fields once more and then
walked up to the front bench facing the
gallery and took his seat.
As he sat he became more and more
drawn into himself. His eyes at first
shut, were soon opened, but with a faraway, unfocussed, dreamy air, looking

into the unruffled blue of the hot mid-

summer sky.

His head was raised and
thrown slightly back, his hand crossed in
his lap he was removed from the world
and the cares of the world in a deep and
abiding spiritual worship. So he sat for
perhaps an hour and a quarter, all alone
in the coolness of the meeting house,
with no human fellowship.
Finally he
;

rose,

closed

windows,

the

locked

the

door, and W'ithdrew very much in the
same way as he had come.
Another First-day, and again the dark
figure of the old Friend

along the road.

is

seen going

People always looked

Every First and Fourth-day,
in fine weather on foot, in bad, driving
for him.

along in an old bugg}-, the old man never
failed in his two
is

much

like

all

weekly trips.

This day

autumn days, hot and

sultry, with the peculiar

haze of the In-

dian summer.

A sort of coppery tinge

seems to hang

in

there

is

the atmosphere, and

the slightest suspicion of russet

among the oak leaves in the yard. 'Twas
early when he arrived, and after opening
house as usual, he came out and
wandered around under the old trees for
awhile.
Old! yes, they were old, every
thing was old, even he was getting old.
Why, he could remember when the trees
were but a foot through the thickest part.
the

i8i

and he had helped his brother repair the
mossy stone wall when he was a young
Yes, the place looked old, but

fellow.

then it was still substantial.

As he was standing quietly by one of
the trees he heard a high childish voice

from the far side of the yard. He turned
and saw a little girl of nine or ten years,
coming through the gate from the cornfield.

"Once

there

was a

little

kitty.

Black as a shoe,
In the bam we used to keep her
Long years ago."

So the child sang in a monotonous
quaver as she stepped into the meeting
house yard, swinging in her hand a little
She was a pretty

basket.

the real country type.

little

girl of

Fair, yellow hair

and a brown, freckled face made her best

Sunday hat look uncomfortable.

A short

blue frock and a little white apron to set
it

off,

—such was the appearance as she

skipped along, unaware of the old man's
presence.

Suddenly she stopped, and her song
away on the breeze. The meeting
house was open, and she might disturb
died

those within.

Besides,

she was rather

frightened, because she had never been

and she didn't know just what
Alaybe she could see
they did there.
walked
slowly past and looked
now. She
Noin at the rows of brown benches.
nearer
the
went
body was there, and she
inside

door.

"Would thee like to come in for meeting, little girl?"

Ugh,

the voice startled her, and she

turned with a jump.
"I thought maybe thee 'd like to go inside and sit awhile with me," he repeated.

Then she saw that it was the old man
who had taken her up in his buggy three
Sundays before and carried her nearly
home.

1

THE HAVERFORDIAN

82

was just going to see if
the red squirrel had found my acorns
over there in the corner. Did you ever

"Aye, from the end !" repeated the old
man, abstractedly, "from the end, yes 'tis
near the end. Out of the mouths of babes
and sucklings !" and his wandering eye
"Aged 76,"
fell upon the inscriptions:
and upon another stone, "in the 81 st year
of his age." And they were his brothers
Could it be
and sisters
"I am glad thee came this morning,
my dear," he said, rising, "and I'll be
glad to see thee often on First-day

see the red squirrel?"

mornings."

Hand in hand they crossed the yard,
the old man with his slight limp, and

little

"Oh

I

!

didn't

know

you,"

she

an-

swered, shyly, "and then you scared me."

"Perhaps I did, I shouldn't have spoken

"Does thee

abruptly," he rejoined.

so

come past here often?"
"Yes,

sir;

every day to school, about

a mile over there, on the other side of
the cornfield," and then, with a burst of
confidence, "I

the

little

her hat thrown back and

girl,

her golden hair gleaming in the sunshine,
bobbing up and down beside him.

"Here's where he

lives,

knot-hole's his front door.

acorns and hides them

They

you see

;

this

He takes my

in there."

among the green
mounds, and the old man became much
down

sat

interested in the larder of the red squirrel
family.

You don't care,

"I play dolls here, too.

do 3'ou?" she said, with a half timorous
glance, as

bidden.

if

!

"I think I'd better go home now," the
girl

answered, "or mamma'll won-

der what's become of me."

He hobbled back to the open house,
and she tripped lightly to the gate, and
with a cheery good-by, went scurrying
down the road. The old man turned on
the step and looked after her, shading his
eyes and following her little blue figure
until she disappeared over the brow of
the hill. "Truly the lines are fallen upon
me in pleasant places, yea, I have a
goodly heritage," he muttered, as he
crossed the sill.

the privilege might be for-

"You see the roots make differ-

ent rooms for my houses and the acorns

make

!

go and see
from one tree to another. The graves are
hills, you see, in between the houses.
Did you ever play dolls?" Thoughts of
furniture,

and

I

play

sister now lying under one of the
mounds, and visions of a grove of pine
trees, and a soft floor of pine needles and
coves with root houses and rag dolls,
flitted across the old man's memory, but

a

he said nothing.

Receiving no answer,

the

little

girl

babbled on. "These tomb-stones are mileposts, you see.

The numbers tell how far

vou are from the end."

The leaves on the squirrel oak in ConMeeting-House yard were again
coming out, and among the roots on a
warm day in the early spring sat the
well

little

fair-haired girl.

By her side

lay

her dolls, and at her feet stretched a

The
newly-made mound of earth.
winter's snows had passed away from it,
leaving it bare and brown, but a few
blades of grass were already straggling
up upon its surface. At the end was a
small marble stone, upon which were the
words: "In the 80th year of his age."
F. R. T., '06.

:

:

THE CHILDREN OF THE SWAMP
Periquin was small and cute like a
wardrobe mouse.
His ideas were no
bigger than his feet, and he aped his
grandmother's uncle quite consistently.

Whenever he commenced to twirl his
mustache we took it as a sure sign that

And

he had something in store for us.

that night, a year or so ago, when we sat
in the little plaza of

our house burning

dry palm leaves to drive away the mos-

upper lip so ner-

quitos, he fingered his

vously that

we really thought that

the

threatening yarn W'ould be better than

We threw the last branch into the
and offered him a cigar which he
lighted ceremoniously. Then he began
"Xo, you never heard this one. Pablo,
I
El Cojo, never told you this story.
usual.

fire

know he started to tell it once, but he
had to stop because some of his "spirits"
decided to perform a visitation upon him

—a serious concern, as he
the

last

time

calls

And

it.

attempted to relate

I

it,

was bellowing
lugubriously in the swamp and I took the
hint, naturally, like a good Christian.
The fact is, compadres, that this story
which is no ston,- at all, because it actucannot be fooled with. It
ally happened
is like the storj^ of the Flying Dragon

some

animal

strange

that landed on the tower of

.

Say,

compadres, this is a splendid cigar: fine

aroma, gusto

splendid

ah,

Yes, like

!

But, of course, you

the Flying Dragon.

know this dragon affair by heart, so 1
The fact is, as

need not repeat myself.
I

said before, that the story

one.

I

told

to

it

is

a serious

an atheist once and he

laughed at me, and, then, that same night
he was suddenly You know what hap-

pened to him, Juan
tonio
listen

!

Sh

!

!

No

And you too, Andesecration,

and

"On the western edge of the swamp,.
when I was a little boy, which was some
years ago, as you know, there lived an
old

widow with

three children.

They

called her Sena Pepa.

She took in washing, a great deal of it, and spent most
of the day busy with it.
But early in
the mornings and, more often, late in the
afternoons, she went to the city to sell
tortillas,
pone, fruit and live crabs.
Nobody bothered her and she bothered
nobod}- a fact which I beg you to keepin mind. She was happy, seemed so, even
if she had queer ways, and wore the same
red bandanna hankerchief tied around her
head day after day. And the children
Lili, Titi, Feli
they were little nude
angels, although grandmother always.
shook her head when they were mentioned.
Why? Ah, compadres, this is a
fine cigar.
Que aroma! Que gusto!
Yes, they were pretty angels. One had
black hair, the other brown and the third
light
which makes me think that they
came from one single mother and three

fathers,

distinct

although

the

widow

wore mourning for only one of them, and
that one was too devilish homely to have
helped any of the children into this valley
of tears.

Anyway, the deuce take me if

anybody ever cared about the fathers^
The mother was there and the children
were there, and the people shook their
heads and consigned the fathers to different regions of H
Jesus, Maria y
Jose! But that has nothing to do with
the story, as you well know.

.

"As I said before, the old widow used
go to town, to the city, in the afternoons, and very often she would not return before night. Then she would put
the children to bed and light a huge fire
to

in the

back yard.

And that is why she

!

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN

i8.'.

was queer, compadres. What did she
want with that fire? Or with that huge
cast-iron caldron?
She did not have to

money to buy bread for her children and
rum for herself. Also her last bag of

socks every night, or cook crabs.

She was destitute, compadres,
washing
is a
hell-sent occupation.
for
Jesus, Maria y Jose!
And then it v/as
carnival week and she may have stayed
Qitien sabe!
But
later to see the fun.
she was late and everybody who knows
what happened to her is sorry that she
was late. Because, if she had not been
late she would have seen
it is only a conjecture she would have seen, would
Say, comhave seen seen seen
Ah,
padres, this is the best cigar
que gusto! Anyhow, whether what she
would have seen was real or imaginary,
it is the same.
The whole mystery of the
tragedy hangs on it.
"Well, as I said before, she came home
which was not a wise
late that evening
thing to do, as I have told you already.
And although it was carnival week it was
a wild night.
The swamp was infested
with pale lights dogs were barking our
tomcat was purring as he had never done

boil

Diablo, no

she could do those things
by day, like all good Christians. That
is what people could not understand.
No

wonder

;

something did happen to
Cross yourselves, compadres, it is awful
"As I said before, she would come
home late. If the palms howled and tht.
her.

that

Jesus,

Maria y Jose!

swamp birds screamed and all creation
was on the wrong side of Heaven,

like

when the devil hit the renegade

the day

Luther with an ink bottle, she would not
care.

Just hopeless queerness.

wonder

I

that the children did not die of terror.

But they were used to it. Well, one evenwhen she came back oh, I forgot
something. When she was away in town
the children used to play around the
swamp catching crabs and building dams
and canals to collect water. Sometimes
they would venture a mile or two away
from the hut to gather wild fruit or to

ing

lasso

young

Or perhaps

lizards

with grass blades.

would throw stones
into puddles to watch the ripples, or spit
defiantly at some sv.amp bird. And when
all these pastimes were exhausted they
would smear their naked bodies with mud
cakes, and laugh jubilantly and say they
looked like alligators. I tell you this to
show you that nothing had ever happened
they

—or

to the children until that evening

af-

knows just when it
when their
evening

ternoon, for nobody

sweet potatoes had been eaten three days
before.

nippers,

of

— don't quite

the
I

The fact

is

or of something

recollect what it was.

that she had not made enough

.

;

cow had come down the road as if a
devil
Jesus, Maria y Jose
had punched
her with a pitch-fork. As I said before,
the night was wild, and wild was everya

El Cojo

thing this side of the grave.
says that

was

it

wild,

was the night before

but

I

know

better.

that

Yes,

I

know better, and I can prove it. Well,
when Sena Pepa reached the path that
leads to her hut, all sorts of queer noises

black

lysis

the days of the great hurricane

since

and had returned later than usual. It
had been a slow day in the market. Peoand
ple had found her tortiUas stale

worse

.

;

commenced

then, half of her crabs had died of para-

happened that
mother returned and did not find them.
"Well, Sena Pepa had been to town

;


banks.

her

to leak out

from the sand

A lady dressed in white crossed

path

goat

and

disappeared.

stood

on

his

Also
hind

a

legs

and

butted a bunch of
There was a snake,
and an alligator, and a one-nippered crab
with a blue shell to meet her before she
irreverently

prickly

finally

cactus.

reached her hut.

And when shs

got there she was pulled from behind.

.

!!

THE HAVERFORDIAN

185

We looked around,

Now you know how higli tortilla venders

closer to the yard.

wear their skirts, so

no use trying
to prove that she stepped on them herself.
She was pulled. Cross yourselves,
compadrcs! Strange things are bound to
happen in this world.
"As I said before, Sena Pepa was
queer.
She was frightened almost to

but could find no trace of the family.

never

cakes and talking wildly to herself:

death,

but

she

it

is

crossed

herself.

At

last

we

soft

mud and followed them up until we

discovered some tracks

the

in

reached a small island where the children

used to play.
Guess what we found,
compadres. There was the mother sunk
to her knees,

smearing herself with mud
'I

even when the goat attacked the cactus.

am an alligator. I am an alligator.'
And when she saw us, up she flew and

Why not?

commenced

JMind you, she never crossed herself, not

I

do not know.

"When she arrived at the hut she called
her children in agony:

'Lili,

Titi,

Feli.

where are you, my dears?' No answer.
'Lili,
Titi, Feli, are you there?'
No
answer. She called them again, but the
tots did not run from under the table to
pull her skirts and ask her for bread and
sweets.
Do you think she fainted immediately like any other sensible woman
would have done ?
I should say not
Sena Pepa was queer, and if you turned
her inside out she would still have been
queer. She rushed in like a beast whose
cubs have been stolen, and ransacked the
place but no children were to be found.
She looked under the hut, but they were
not there.
She rushed out and ran
around the swamp wringing her hands
and cursing heaven. Her heartbreaking
calls for Lili, Titi and Feli were heard
far up the road.
Bcndito sea Dios! She
went out of her head as crazy as a rudderless boat.
What had become of the
children ? Crista de Picdad! It is awful
"On the next morning someone noted
the disappearance of the mother and the
children, and we all went down to the
hut. Things w^ere in great disorder the
caldron was cracked in two pieces, and
the swamp seemed to have advanced
;

;

to

'Come,

yell:

Lili,

Titi,

Feli, they won't take you away this time.

Oh, you ought to have seen her
eyes!
She raised her skirts as if she
wanted to hide the children like hens do
their chicks. Bcndito sea Dios! She did
Come.'

To see her

not look like an alligator.

there thinking that she had the children

when God only knows what had become
them.
It was heart-rending, com-

of

padres.

We looked around she had built

a few

dams and canals and had appar-

:

was spending the
morning with her tots. A little pail, a
small spade, and a children's cart were
the objects that she had mistaken for her
children.
These things had been their
only toys. Ah, she was crazy as a rudently thought that she

derless boat!

We searched and

"And the children?

Perhaps they ventured too far
into the swamp and a
"Say, compadres, do you hear that
searched.

The evil genius of the
I knew this
swamp is bellowing again.
lugubrious howl ?

was

a

bad

night.

I

must go home.

Biieiias nochcs."

And the ne.xt minute Periquin had disappeared down the broad avenue of royal
palms.
/. P., '07.

!

SKETCHES
PICTURES BY THE WAY

am sitting on a log of driftwood,

I

cast up by some spring freshet in seasons

past

;

behind

me the forest, before me

the lake, the forests and the mountains.

—not

Beyond the mountains is a sunset

one of your golden-roseate effulgences
which unmarried ladies rave over and
impressionists endeavor to depict, which
the imagination of the poet and give

fire

the prophet his vision of heaven

sombre,

purple-blue

;

but a

shading into

sky,

down

gliding

Swiftly

the

comes a long row of yellow squares of
light, weaving its way rapidly an.ong
the trees and vanishing off to the left
with a prolonged warning whistle. Some
of the passengers were still dining, some
were preparing to retire all are on their
;

way to the civilization, the comforts, the
culture of the metropolis; none of

to

left

rifts

and right

:

them

know that I am sitting on a log of driftwood beside this dark pool and watching
the fishes jump.

H. B., 'oS.

black, and only rendered the more omin-

ous by the lurid

mountain

of silver streaking

a

ATATEKA LAKE

sunset which has

woe of the thousands of years that have

Atateka Lake has this in common v, ith
other Adirondack Mountain waters
whatsoever your mood, your longings,
your desires it will satisfy you and re-

flown, but also the inevitable fact of sor-

fresh you.

row were concentrated in this image
of despair. The silver streaks are short-

bright

ening, the dark outline of the mountain

a light breeze

ridge becomes less sharply defined as

your

no

cheering

presses

an

message,
infinite

but

and

ex-

rather

unutterable

anguish, as if not only all the sorrow and

its

Go down to its shores 0!i a

Sunday

morning,

in

summer,,

when the air is peaceful and warm, when
stirs

when

feet,

the liquid mirror at

partridge

the

springs

with the darkness of the

suddenly from your path and the crested

sky; one or two stars are already out.

halcyon puncuates with one swift, clearcut dash, the distant vista, when the

color blends

Ah me, if it must then be so, be
If

nothing can prevent

it,

it

it

so

must be

browse on the tender leaves

sleek cattle

borne; the stars, too, are silently endur-

with pleasant tinkling of bells and the

Night is their nurse, let her be our

sheep can be heard on the hillside pastures, when the rail is roused from her

ing.

solace; she
nature.
is

is

whispering peace to

all

The placid surface of the lake

dimpled with bobbing fish

;

what

!

are

you also dissatisfied with your own element and seek to breathe a purer
one? Or do you but express exuberance of content in these, your capers?

reedy nest by the splashing of your paddle and the bold eagle circles in majestic
spirals

far overhead through the celes-

ness of this hour with your reiterated ac-

and feel all this and you
will
it is weeks since
you entered your church door. Once more
look forth on Atateka this time in early
morning, as you rise from your camper's

cusations, you cheerful crickets and dis-

mattress

You katydids, who accentuate the still-

gruntled frogs, what, oh
of it all?—

!

what is the use

tial

azure

see

never regret that

into

the

and

awake

stumble

out

half

sun-smitten

mist

— sometimes

completely hidden beneath that soft white

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN
g-arnient

sometimes, as

have seen

187

my

cease

struggles

sordid

the

it

n;e

in

haunts of the microcosm and go back to

exquisite curling rolls like carded wool

and stars and
and anon, a
meteor rips the heavenly dome with one

once,

:

I

with the mist rising from

it

or delicate smoke wreaths, soft as the

down on a baby's coat
like

;

or again looking

some glacier or weird ice formation

summer luxu-

in strange contrast to the

God

wood and

in

And,

streams.

as

air

ever

great golden streak,

the

soul

mighty

in

let

me feel in my
of

silences

the

mid-

riance of foliage and bloom.

night sky; let me hear with ears sharp-

But, after all, the only time to really
grasp and hold the beauty of Atateka

tones of star music which they say the

Lake

—aptly

called "Friend's

the swarthy red

men

moonlight or starlight.

is

Lake" by

at night,

be

it

Then thrust me

not within a house or a church's four

ened by

faith,

angels hear;

out;

let

me

with

echoes

hope,

let

me

raise

my

love,

those

pure

look

up and not

the

ever-watchful

sighs

of

praise

and

thanksgiving.

walls, but give me canoe and paddle, and
let

me shove out into the black mirror

and there under those pale stars, feel
within me and without, the Spirit of the
Lord rising up to quell all worldliness
and selfishness. There let me repeat that
sonnet of the laureate's, "The world is
too much with us ;" let me with Emerson "leave my peacock wit behind" and
go back to "the primal mind that flows
in streams, that breathes in wind :" let

Ah,

friend,

shouldst

discouraged,

pointed,

forth

upon those waters and finding thy-

self at last in

store thine

harmony with heaven., re-

own balance and thine own

harmony, quell the raging conflict in thy
and take unto thyself the influ-

breast,

ence of the infinite holiness

when thou comest,

I

would have thee

No mockery of human bolt or bar,
But windows open to the evening wind
And empty halls, with careless doors ajar.
And there should be no sound of noisy woe,
But one sweet girlish voice, in pensive strain
Fraught with some echo of the long ago,
As if her mother lived, and sang again.

Then breathing deep of languorous perfume
I would grow weary, even as I am now.

And sink to slumber in the crimson gloom.
Nor feel the dews of Lethe damp my brow;
from

the

!

R. S., '06.

find

While

misun-

derstood, get thee thy canoe and paddle

SONNET
Death,

thou be disap-

doubting,

chamber would

she

softly

creep
All fearful, lest she break her father's sleep.
/.

F.

W.,

'10.

;

CIVIC DEPARTMENT

ABOUT AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION
BY HON. DAVID

DE ARMOXD.

A.

Member of Congress from Missouri.
Printed for Haverford College Civic Club.

Copyright, 1907, by Intercollegiate Civic League.

Is

it

desirable to

Constitution?

Is

consider the

subject

it

amend

the

Federal

of

desirable

even to

Presidency.

of

amending the

Constitution ?
I will

assume, as it appears to me one

may safely assume, that a majority of
who have thought about the mat-

those

Jefferson-Burr

the

Three

made

contest

the

for

amendments the
the last hundred

only

ones

years

—are the Constitutional product of

in

the war of 1861-5.

How many amendments to the Conhave been advocated and urged

stitution

ter at all unite in the conclusion that

by

in the

amendment

be

came States under it I do not know, and
if we did know, the information would

the

could

Constitution

improved.

A prerequisite to any amendment must
There are
two methods and only two for amending;
the one through the initiative of the Congress, which may from time to time,
be the opportunity to amend.

long period since the Colonies be-

be curious rather than valuable.

enough

to

know

that

It

many and

is

great

changes have occurred in this country,
and in the world in that time changes

other, through the initiative of two-thirds

Mighty agencies unknown, not dreamed of, when the
Constitution was framed are commonplace now. The most momentous prob-

of whose

lems of our day had no existence for the

with the concurrence of two-thirds of
each House, propose amendments
of the States, upon the call
legislatures

the

Congress

shall

;

the

provide

political, social, material.

statesmen of that earlier day.

Govern-

for a Convention to propose amendments.

mental machinery, almost indispensible

However proposed, no amendment can
become a part of the Constitution unless

less then.

by three-fourths of the States,
by action of Legislature or Convention
ratified

in each, respectively.
in Article

All this is provided

V of the Constitution.

are

would have been well nigh use-

entirely

In

many respects conditions

changed.

the constitu-

If

tion-makers of the past and widely-different age provided

for the exigencies of

whose many new things
and new conditions they did not and
could not know, happy chance or the direct agency of omniscience must hare
this period, of

No convention to propose amendments
to the Constitution has ever assembled
all

to-day,

amendments heretofore ratified origiMost of them

nated in the Congress.

interposed.

it-

\'eneration and admiration of and for

and were considered when the Constitution was under consideration for
ratification or rejection, and were informally endorsed when it was ratified.
One other amendment came as a result

the Constitution need not and should not

are almost as old as the Constitution
self,

cause us to forget that men

—great men,

many of them, but yet all mere men
framed it, in the light of their day
everyone of them

is

dead

;

;

that

that nozf the

;

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Constitution

is

for

the

us,

living,

Xo amendment can be made so long

and

not for them or their generation of the

as so many

what we
believe zi'c need rather than what they
believed they and their contemporaries
needed and, if you please to speculate
about that, what you think they thought
we would or might need.

States

dead.

So, the vital question is

;

Why should we so

completely

lose

ourselves in admiration of the Fathers,
so glorify their

wisdom and courage, by

confessing that we are weak and foolish,

and by demonstrating our timidity? If
the Fathers had lacked the moral courage to consider even the question of the
practicability and desirability of framing
the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation would have been accepted as
a frail bond of union.
A tithe of the
courage and independence required of
them ought to suffice for us in the duty
of considering whether there should be
any amendment.
The Congress will not propose any

amendment of importance

—a glance

at

history and even a hurried view of pres-

ent condition surely must banish every

doubt about

that.

It

is

a generation

since the Congress proposed any amend-

189

— might saw
I

withhold

Should not

this

fcn'

their

—as twelve

endorsement.

pregriant fact alone be

sufficient to banish the fears of the timid,

resolve the doubts of those who are un-

decided, and stimulate the courage and

who would
employ the living, instead of invoking
ever and only the guidance of the dead?
Even if the Convention were to come
and go without a single change in the
Constitution, still it would not have been
arouse the energy of those

created in vain.

A centering of thought

upon the Constitution and upon propositions for amendment, and their serious
consideration, sure to attend and follow
the amendment movement, could hardly
to be productive of great good.

fail

Per-

haps but a few amendments would be
still would be ratiBut the entire field would be explored existing powers and limitations
would be better understood wholesome
legislation, national and state, would be
stimulated
abuses
would be more
clearly noted; remedies would be more
zealously
sought and easier found
groundless complaint would meas'.:rably

proposed, and fewer
fied.

;

;

;

ment, and yet there has been ceaseless

subside

agitation for amendm.ent.

reform movements
would diminish
would gain in practicability and promise
and the political atmosphere generally
would be materially cleared.
I submit that it is wise and patriotic

There

is

but one

way to amend the

amendment,
and that is through the action of State
Legislatures, moving upon the Congress
for a Constitutional Convention.

impracticable agitation

useless,
;

Constitution, or even to real, sober, consideration of the subject of

:

to

agitate for a Convention to propose

Amendments to the Constitution.

5^

MEN OR MONEY—WHICH?
BY JACOB A. RIIS.
Copyright for the Intercollegiate Civic League, Printed for Haverford College Civic Club.

Riding in a railroad car, the other day,
with a Western man, a stranger, our talk
strayed to the one absorbing topic

York

size, it

its

wealth,

:

New

tunnels,

its

its

crowds.

made and

of

And in say-

spent there; the millions!"

ing it he reproduced, without knowing it,
the point in view of all of us.

The trouble with New York, the trouble with practically all of the cities of

our land, of which it is the type, is that

we who live there have thought

called

"the home-

There had been, half a century before,

to

of the millions, the millions,

truth,

an earlier Tenement House Commission,
appointed by the Senate of the State, to

"Um," said he, chewing meditatively
on a toothpick, "there's a town
Think
!

much

too

far

less city."

New York. It came back
Albany and recommended, as a means

see what ailed

abolishing drunkenness,

man

"furnishing

and comfortable
home." I supposed they laughed at that,
called it paternal government, and put
in that bald shape, it looked like it. There
each

to

a

clean

were fifteen thousand tenements in New
York at that early day. To-day there

And as we sowed, so have we reaped.

and their united intoward
the destruction of
fluence goes
The
discovery,
on this side of
the home.

Great markets, great money centres, our

the Atlantic, that this is nothing less than

Even the
amusements that are there are just a way
of making money, or of spending it.

treason,

Naturally, their politics have fallen un-

a

der the same head.

ing the new world the a,

alas

all,

!

of them in terms of money, never of men.

have become little else.

cities

Graft is not a prod-

are eighty thousand

epidemic, in 1866.

In dread of that New York organized

Board of Health that set about teach-

And as

tion.

to the source and fountainhead of civic

and

uct but a corrupter of politics.

—the people!

dates back to the last cholera

b, c

of sanita-

Pigs were banished from streets

and that

cellars,

first

year 40,000

Homes, which should make the real city
let the last Tenement House Commis-

windows were cut to let hght into 40,000
tenement bedrooms that were dark and
unventilatcd.
Forty years we have

sion speak:

wrestled with the powers of darkness and

"They live there," it said in its report
to the legislature, speaking of the two

at last the

virtue,

or the

lack

of

it

millions of toilers in our tenements, "in

an environment that makes all for unrighteoHsness," and so tends to corrupt
the

youth,

the

citizenship

of

the

to-

The day is coming when it will forbid
Meanwhile the sanitarians are trying to make it unprofitable

it.

a man to own one.

to the owner.

morrow.

To get so far has taken forty years

We reaped as we sowed.
3'ears

Twenty-five

of unceasing fighting, of patient waiting,

ago, Jules Simon, addressing his

of striving to mould public opinion, with-

countrymen,

described

great exactness:

smothered
it

family,

ism."

law forbids the building of a

tenement with a dark and airless room in

in

the

"Where

crop
the

a nation, there go

manhood,

with

home

is

with

citizenship, patriot-

New York was long ago, with

out which
if

we

do,

we cannot get anywhere, or,
find

ourselves

tracked and helpless before
It is

to

stuck,

side-

we know it.

going to take us twenty years more

get

where

wc cannot

slide

back.

THE HAVERFORDIAN
Every winter the forces of selfish greed

191

under compulsion of accumulated evibut he learned something he has

that care nothing for the neighbor, noth-

dence

ing for the state, and in their utter short-

never forgotten.

sightedness and folly cannot grasp the

meaning of the President's constant
warning that "we go up or down together."' can see only their own immediate

marshal

profit,

their

forces

at

He is the same man
who sits to-day in the White House demanding a fair chance for all the people,
rich or poor, that the Republic may have

a fair chance.

Without

have

as

For,

it.

I

that,

said.

it

cannot

New York

Albany to make a breach in the tenement house law, now here, now there,
Every
an%-thing to let their avarice in.
winter they have to be fought and public
opinion held up to its responsibility. A

ever we do there, the others will do.

single year of inattention, of over-con-

will take.

If 5 per cent., there is no slum

and we should have ten years'
work to do over again.
And there is enough that is yet undone. The last census of the tenements
in Xew York showed that there were in
them yet, 350,000 and over of the dark
rooms the Board of Health deemed fatal

problem

if

fidence,

in 1866.

Since then w-e have found the

bacillus of tuberculosis and the fight with

is

but the type of all the growing

in the land.

It sets

the fashion.

W'e hear much of the slum.

cities

What-

The slum
you

just a question of the per cent,

is

;

25,

it

looms large.

It

pays

build bad tenements that wreck the

to

That is the reason of the fight.

home.

As I said, it is just a question of greed
and of the cold indifference that asks

"Am I my brother's keeper?''

In that

war the generation that is coming has to
take sides. Which side are you on?
The >oung men of to-day have got to

New York will be,

White Plague has been taken up all
over the land. In New York City we have
every year 8,000 deaths from tuberculosis and there are always 20,000 persons
dying from the scourge. Is it any wonder,
when laboratory experiments have shown
that, whereas a ray of direct sunlight
kills a germ at once, in a dark tenement
room or hallway it may live two years,

fight

or three?

college education falls the duty of leader-

the

to a finish.

it

growing city in the land and
more and more ours is getting to be a
land of cities will be what the young
men of to-day make up their minds they
every

shall
tell

be.

And those twenty years will

the story whether we shall last as a

or not.
A'oblesse oblige!
To
who have had the advantage of a

people,

those

everyone knows

ship.

who reads. New York City has, roughly

All

Which way?
modern experience, all human in-

stinct,

goes to support the belief that the

These are

as

facts,

speaking, half the voters in the Empire
State.

This

is

their

home environment.

Physically and morally, it "makes all for

square deal

unrighteousness."

Is

for the republic?

One young man, just

it

a

cure for other things than drunkenness
lies

in

giving every

man a chance of a

decent and comfortable home,
all

that

at

events without that chance he will not

out of college, answered that question for

be content and cannot be counted upon

upon the evidence before him,
along in the eighties, and straightway

as a good citizen.

himself,

started an investigation of slavery in the

tenem.ent

cigar-making

industry.

The

action he brought about was labeled unconstitutional then

—the fashion

if I

in labels

remember right

has changed since

What choice shall we

make then?

How^ shall we rate our
fellow-citizens of to-morrow
in terms
of money, or of men?
If the former,
perhaps you will make money.
If the
latter, without fail you will make men.

Which?

A HAVERFORD MISSION IN CHINA
Robert
Ossining,

Louis Simkin was bom in
New York, in 1879. He was

from Haverford College in
having
been, during his college
1903,
course, a representative Haverfordian.

graduated

As President of the Young Men's Christian Association, as a member of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society, and as a member of
was distinguished

the foot ball team, he

October, which was addressed by Mr.
and Mrs. Simkin. Their future hopes
and purposes were made clear to our

audience consisting of practically the en-

dred dollars the first year. Mr. and Mrs.

Simkin

In 1906 Simkin was graduated from
the Union Theological Seminary in

New

York, and soon after was married to
Miss Margaret Lowenhaupt.
Having

December,

China,

for

started

1906.

among his fellows by his nobility of character and dignified presence.

The committee, after

student-body.

tire

consideration, agreed to raise five hun-

is

intended that contributors shall

receive,

from time to time, exact inform-

It

ation of Simkin's work in the remote but

populous

of China, whither he

district

For

has been called for his life-work.
the present,

gratifying to know that

it is

cherished for years the desire to become

Haverford, following the lead of many

a foreign missionary, he at once entered

larger institutions, has now her own mis-

New York Yearly

into negotiations with

sionary

carrying out

among

a

strange

Meeting, of which he is a member, look-

people the high ideals for which Haver-

ing to his appointment by that body as

ford stands.

a missionary to China.

His own Yearly

Meeting being unable

to

than partial financial

assume more
responsibility, Mr.

and Mrs. Simkim spent the summer of
1906 in England, making the acquaintance of many English Friends, and addressing numerous meetings. The result
was that the Friends' Missionary Board
undertook the support of Mr. and Mrs.
Simkin in the educational department of
the Friends'
Mission at Chungking,
West China, while expressing the hope
that some American Friends would aid
in this support. New York Yearly Meeting has agreed to furnish a certain quota.

Simkin's intimate connection with the
spiritual

life

at

Haverford

naturally

turned his thoughts to his old college and
to his fellow-Haverfordians.

A commit-

tee of graduates, after conferring with

Young Men's Christian Association,
arranged a meeting at the college in
the

The undergraduates have contributed
$150.00 and

committee appeals

the

old Haverfordians to complete the

to

sum

which has been pledged. It is believed
by accepting this responsibility
Haverford will become alive to the modem importance of foreign missions and
that

that the spiritual life of the college will

be deepened.

Contributions should be sent to James
B.

The Girard Trust

Drinker, care of

Co., Philadelphia.

Asa S. Wing,
Chairman.

W. M, Longstreth. '72.
F. A.

White, '84.

W. W. Comfort. '04.
Secretary.

H. Scattcrsjood, '96.
L. H. Wood. '06.
J. T. Emlen. '00.
W. E. Cadhury, '01.
J.

J.

B. Drinker,

'03,

Treasurer.
1.

J.

Dodge, '07.

Ernest Jones. '07.
J.

P. Elkinton, '08.

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ALUMNI DEPARTMENT
ALUMNI DINNER
The mid-winter dinner of the Alumni Association will be held at the Bellevue-Stratford
on Friday evening, February 15, at 6.30 o'clock. It is expected that this dinner will be the
largest ever held by the Association.
The subscription price of $3.50 may be sent in advance
to Jonathan M. Steere, care of Girard Trust Co.. Philadelphia, by any member of the Association or by any member of the present SeniorClass.
The following guests are to respond to toasts President Sharpless, President Drinker,
of Lehigh University, Hon. James Beck, William A. Glasgow, Esq., John C. Winston, '81,
and Rev. Watson, D. D.
:

NOTICE
For the double purpose of facilitating communication with the various class organizations and of correcting the catalogue of alumni addresses, it is earnestly requested that each
alumnus who reads this notice may immediately address, to the Secretary of Haverford
College, a post card indicating both his present address and the name of the Secretary of
his Haverford class.
OSCAR M. CHASE,
College Secretary.

NOTES
J

The

896 CLASS DINNER

Class of

held

tenth

1896
annual class reunion and dinner at the
University

Philadelphia,

Club,

ber 2gth, 1906.

It

S.

adelphia, is announced.

Decem-

was found that this

time is more convenient than during the
foot ball season.

Letters were read from

members who were unable to be present,
and a pleasant evening was spent talking

Lieutenant Mark Brooke, U. S.
was married on December nth, at
Washington, D. C, to Miss Marie Faunt'96.

A.,

leroy Barnes.

The following men were present

W. K. Alsop, S. K. Brecht, T. Harvey

The last edition of the class re-

'00.

about '96 men and recalling old college
days.

The engagement of Dr. Joseph
Evans to Miss Lillian Eaxon, of Phil-

'95.
its

port shows that out of forty-six members

of the class twenty-one are married.

Hinchman, J. Q. HunPaul D. S. Maier, J. H. Scat-

Haines, C. R.
sicker, Jr.,

tergDod,

M. Warren Way and L. Hol-

lingsworth Wood.

Paul D. L M.mer, Secretary.

Miss Georgianna Sheldon Filney
on January 14, 1907, at Orange, N. J.
Miss Filney had two brothers at Haverford,

Ex-'59.

William

H.

S.

Wood was

William H. Kirkbride was mar-

'01.

ried to

in

one

in the Class of

1903 and one

1905.

married to Mrs. Cora (Underbill) Elliott
in

New York City on January 17th, 1907.
'80.

Charles F. Brede was married to

Miss Marie Paula Voll on Wednesday,
December 19th, 1906, at Philadelphia, Pa.

W.

'02.

Andrew D. Schrag received the

degree of Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins
June, and

is

last

now Instructor at Western

Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Morris, Assistant Secretary of the Gir-

'02.
R.
M. Gummere gave the
Rhoades Scholars' trial examinations, in

ard Trust Co., recently returned from

Boston, during January.

'94.

Paris,

George A. Walker and

where they delivered

S.

to bankers

the $50,000,000 loan effected by Pennsyl-

vania Railroad.

'04.
Robert P. Lowry sailed for Cuba,
where he intends entering business.

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THE HAVERFORDIAN

194

Henry

'05.

Cox

G.

has

left

the

Claassen has

C. J.

Ex-'07.

United States for Porto Rico, where he
will be engaged with many other Ameri-

position as cashier of the

cans in teaching.

position at

left

the

Bank,

State

Jansen, Neb., and is now in an important

Winnepeg, Can.

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
COLLEGE CALENDAR

for an extra share of applause for the

Interscholastic Meet, February i6th.

The Annual Literary Lectures will be
given this year by Ian Maclaren, on the
subject,

"The History of Religion

in

Scotland in the Eighteenth Century," on
the 14th, 19th and 26th of February.

1908,

I.

work they performed on the

various

pieces

games Jan. 21 1907, o;
Jan. 23—1905, 5; 1906, o.

Several

apparatus.

of

changes in the program were made necessary, chief of which was the omission of
the double trapeze and the substitution
of special tumbling.

The corrected list

of events follows

PART I
Horizontal Bar

SOCCER
Interclass

splendid

Columbia H. S. Schoonmaker, J. A. Voskamp.
U. of P.— F. Bradford. E. E. Krauss.
Princeton McCabe, Dowd.
Haverford J. Bushnell, 3d, E. A. Edwards,


R. A. Spaeth.

Side Horse

HAVERFORD, lO PHILA. C. C.^ O.
Played at Haverford January 19th,
;

— E. D. Bryde, H. S. Schoonmaker.
U. of P.— F. Lauton, E. Krauss.
Princeton — Krause.
Columbia

1907.

Haverford defeated Phila. C. C. in a
one-sided game by the score of 10 to O.
The visitors played with two men short,
which handicapped them to a large extent.
The score at the end of the first

Haverford— R.

their

;

Krauss, of Pennsylvania,

and Schoonmaker, of Columbia, came in

A.

Myers,

E.

— Bushnell. Brown, Leonard, Bard.

—Vezin.
Parallel Bars
Columbia — Schoonmaker, M. Thomson.
U. of P. — G. Spaulding, E. Krauss.
Princeton — McCabe, Dowd.
Haverford — C. T. Brown, E. A. Edwards,,
Princeton

S.

was held on Saturday evening,

of Princeton

F.

PART H

QUADRANGULAR GYM MEET

were present, who expressed a gratifying opinion of the whole performance.
In individual work, McCabe and Dowd,

Scott,

Haverford College Mandolin Club.
Balancing Trapeze

oppo-

January 19th. In spite of the inclement
weather a large number of spectators

F.

Special Tumbling

Haverford

The annual Quadrangular Exhibition
vania

K..

Shoemaker.

nents and scored at will.

with Columbia, Princeton and Pennsyl-

T.

Burt,

Haverford— C.

second half the Haver-

completely outplayed

ford

H.

Cary,

Club Swinging
U. of P.— F. Bradford.
Princeton Cooper.

half was i to o, Philadelphia holding very
well, but in the

L.

Lewis, J. R. Phillips.

Mason.

Columbia— P.
J.

A.

Flying Rings
J. McCulloch,

W. H. Runk.

Voskamp.

U. of P.— Bradford, H. Levy.
Princeton McCabe, Dowd.
Haverford— E. A. Edwards, F.
R. Mott.



Haverford —

C.

Bailey,.

Tumbling

U. of P. G. Spaulding.
Princeton McCabe, Dowd.
J.

Bushnell, A. C. Leonard.

Announcer

— G. K. Strode.


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