The morning call., 1893-12-03
FESTIVE JUNIORS.
An Annual Celebration
at Berkeley.
College Farce, Music and Song En-
joyed by Day and a Grand
Ball In the Evening. {.

It was Junior day" at Berkeley yester-
day, and at the invitation Of the gay and
festive junior 1000 friends gathered to en-
joy the celebration prepared for the high
occasion. Shattuck Hall was crowded
long before the hour for the opening Of
the exercises, and at 1880 O'clock, when
Brandts veteran orchestra struck up the
first strains of the overture, "Pique
Dame," there not only was not sitting
room, but not even standing room in the
large hall.
The thoughtful coed had for the nonce
laid aside books and pen and arrayed
herself with painstaking care so that the
ungallant fellows" who sat beside the
winsome seminary girls thought the coed
looked almost as pretty and attractive as
the giddy girl by his side. 1t was a day
for casting dull care aside and enjoying
the mad moments as they flew by as only
the coiege-boy knows how to do.
''The class of 49," said Arthur w.
North. the president of the day, as he
stood enveloped in the classic gown before
the large audience, 'greets you and well
comes you to her Junior day. The great
ballgame is over, the Stanford team is gone
and we still survive.
What mad race time leads US. We
are juniors, yet it seems but yesterday we
entered the halls of this great institution
we now begin to call our alma mater. We
could not appreciate then the anxiety with
which We were received. A great institu-
tiOn had just opened few miles away
and its effect was watched with anxiety.
But now we know that however great the
Stanford University may prove It cannot
affect our alma mater except for good as
long as the States children are loyal to her
noble university.
sit has been the custom on Junior day
to present an original farce-'95 presents
such a one to-day-one that will be sue
cessful, l trust, freed as 1t Is from un-
seemly personalities yet based on college
life."
The glee club. composed Of three quar-
cts, gave selection, singing In such ex-
celIent voice that a double encore had to
be responded to.
Following an orchestral selection came
the presentation of the farce, bright play
of three acts abounding Ia humorous stu
ations and witty saliies. a synopsis Of
which is as follows: Oscar Lawrence, a
sophomore at Cornell, and Richard Car
lyle. a graduate of the same institution, a
poet and woman-hater respectively, 60
to the country to pass the summer, and the
former decides TO personate q Cornell pro-
fessor before the uns0phisticatrd natives.
As it happens that Cornell professor-un-
known TO young Lawrence-is spending
the summer in the neighborhoo with his
sister and aunt.
The result Is series of unexpected and
EN- barrassing positions for young Law
renee no returns home begging the pro-
lessor and his fellow-students not to tell
the boys at college. Love also enters into
the play, and the professor finds a wife,
as also does Carlyle, the woman-hater,
who weds the professors sister.
The cast of characters comprised: Frank
d. Stringham, Thomas V. Bakewell,
Maxwell McNutt aud Misses Florence
Sawyer, Rachel Vrooman and Helen Cash.
man. Miss Maybelle Feusier of San
Francisco was the author of the farce.
Following the morning exercises the
various Greek letter fraternities enter
tanned their friends at their various club
houses, and last night the usual Junior
day hop" was enjoyed in the Harmon
Gymnasium. The octagonal building had
been decorated with blue and gold bunting
and evergreens. and the aoor canvased for
dancing. A gay party of some hundred
and thirty couples kept time to music's
swell till Sunday morning dawped over
the eastern hilltops. and the Junior day"
Of the class Of '95 was part of the years
COLLAGE history.