The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-25

although vacation days have come the
senior class intends to flch at least a
few of those precious hours and to
spend this stated time in festive celebra-
ton. When they have finally finished
their revels the dust of disuse will settle
upon the Moorish arcades and corridors OF
the great quadrangle, for the college will
be closed until the autumn months are
high upon the calendar.
With the usual precocity of colleges the
commencement begins when the term
ends, and in the case of the class of '96 the
festivities will last for a full week The
term closed to-day at 2:3O O'Clock, and as
the last senior student left the classroom
he or she proceeded at once to prepare for
festal duties.
The celebration opened with a game OF
baseball. For four years past it has been
thecustom of the faculty to select base
ball nine from within its grave and rev.
erend numbers and do battle upon the
diamond field with the best handlers of
the sphere that the senior class could per-
suade to stand against them.
Heretofore the faculty nine has always
beaten the senior nine, but yesterday the
tables were turned. The seniors came out
victorious on the long end of one sided
score of 80 to 13; but there was much
reason for the untimely defeat of the
faculty.
1t lay in the fact that the class of '95 is
the real pioneer class of the Stanford Col
lege. There have been graduations before.
but there has been no class before it. which
starting at the freshman year, has worked
a around oil ci1 of ~
They call themselves "the pioneers" and
the class yell, "Rah! rah! rere! we're
right hereI '95, '95, pi-on-eer'' explains
their position exactly. They form the first
class which has served for four years under
the Stanford professors. There are 1859 of
them. and nearly seventy of that number
are girls.
The great game of baseball was called al
half-past o'clock. The professors were
on the ground early, for they had to face
the crack nine of the college, one that has
come off victorious against many of the
teams of the State.
The seniors came on the grounds shortly
afterward, and they presented a motley
spectacle as they walked from the grain
field back of the gymnasium, trolling out
the class yell. They were dressed as pio-
neers-red-shirted. biue-shirted, with torn
overalls and battered hats-and as they
followed the '95 class secretary, who led
the way with big meerschaum pipe stuck
in his hat, they raised laugh among the
spectators that shook the hills
To make the game more even the seniors
changed places each time, so that, in the
seven innings played, every man had a
chance to show his aptitude or inaptitude
for a different position. On the faculty
side President David Starr Jordan brought
all the presidential dignity to first base,
but much of the error column of the tuto-
rial nine was due to his efforts. The other
eight, being made up of most scientific
material, played chemical, chronological
or hygienic ball, according to which pro-
fessor was Immediately interested in the
elusive sphere after each hit
President Jordan did no base-running.
He contented himself with securing s,base
on balls" or "base on hit by pitcher" and
then letting Mclean of '96 run the diamond
for him. The president was hit but once.
Baker was in the box, and as he let ly a
curve he doubled up in twinge of appre-
hension, for the ball few straight for the
ample presidential waist. 1t hit DIR. Jordan
amidships, with sound as of stone
thrown in the mud, and while the senior
nine bowed its several heads in agonies of
remorse the genial president trotted con-
tentedly toward the first bag.
eff had not been hit would probably
have made an out" he soliloquized. philo-
sophically, and SO it was that good came of
evil, for his proxy. Mclean, made run
ont Of tho hit ir, tho ~ aicfh
The game was a most interesting one,