Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-11-18
ANorHnR srANFoRp LErrER.
Stanford Hopeful Of Defeating Berkeley in
the Big Thanksgiving Game

/ VIC Aftb AhatAhofiNAie NAantCs
PALo ALTO, Cal. Nov.14, 1897.
Mid-semester examinations have
come and gone, leaving In their path
varied recollections OF joy or paln;fond
memories OF hours well spent in "plug.
ging" or agOnizlng regret for wasted
time and uncultivated opportunity.
Now you can walk the quad without
hearing everyone fromEucinai's swell.
est dude toRoble's most queenly dame
talking of "crammIng" aud 'plug-
ging" and "stuffing." No more do
you hear Of 'coldl throw downs" and
''dead hunks" nor do the blusbing CO
eds murmur of ''most awfully agoniz-
ing mathematical examinations" or
OF 'sweetly delicious snaps; instead,
the only topics OF conversation now
are: Daley's sixty yard run, Cotton's
center drive, Chester's goal kicks and
Jther entertaining items OF football
prOwess.
With the big game less than two
weeks off, all is snap and dash and
push and hustle and hurry OF prepara.
tion. The Glee club, the Mandolin
club, the orchestra, the band, the
farce, one, all are 10 earnest prac-
tice for their several parts the
entertainment of the great day and
night. Men with subtle brains and
abnormal imagiuations are devising
new yells; long haired poets are search.
ing in the cavernOus depths of their
skulls for new football poems, and
wild-eyed composers are nightly dis
turbing the sleep of the exhausted
''dig" in their efforts to set those
poems to music. Even the big Fra
ternity mastifT has caught the "Stan
ford spirit" and Will not allow any
thing blue or gold on the campus
while he howls with delight at any
thing red, froml stock ings to red
beef.
Yesterday the Yarsity's long record
of victories was broken by the Re-
lance team. but that only inc creases
the interest in the big game, only |
raises Berkley's hopes and in no way |
casts down our own.
The U. G. team has gone to Del |
Monte for two weeks secert pare
tlce, and rumor has it, are doing
great things for their colors. Our
team will probably spend a week in
some quiet resort, tucked away from
the cares Of this world with its dig
ying and worry, in secret practice.
Then we will all assemble in the
gym, on the bleachers, or in "Eucina's
classic halls" and learn the football
songs, practice the new yells and stir
Up our enthusiasm, super.heated
flood with which tn sub
merge the Berkleyites on Nov. 25th.
81 much for football, now for othe
,hings.
A truthful poet has said:
In the spring young mans fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts above"
According to the almanac this is
winter, but if you were to forget the
month, you would write April and
,hink no more Of it. Mother Earth
has donned her freshest spring time
'obe of green and the sky's bright, ,
face beams loving
'miles of mellow sunlight Gay by day.
1t is heaven to the "Oregon Delega-
ion" to ride bicycle along a sunlit,
lusty road, to see the street sprink-
er hard at work and to leave your :
aithful umbrella broken in the gar
ct, while from home comes the news =
# cloud and mud and rainy days. But !.
Time flies on and studies never wait. n
'leasures cloy, but lectures never q,
safe; v
)ne long round Of cram, the students /
life,
Full OF JOY and full of strife. Ii