The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

~eHS~-S, .schooners rose and fell on the incom- ing tide. When Monday dawned cold and gray, the old alarm clock awoke us to the fact that we were back again or the old job and that now the respon- sibilities of Seniors rested upon us Soon came the football season. In an- swer to the football call our class re- spcnded in the persons of Paul Veeder, Cupid Hockenberger, Big Andy, How ard Linn, Frank Werneken and Buck Strart. Hook, that huge rock of ages, held center as solidly as could a young hippopotamus, while Veeder showed a rare licking ability that would shame the business end of a mule. In football our class has been thrice blest. She has had the privilege of seeing Yale put forth three championship teams, and during our college life, save for the West Point slump of 1904, she has never known defeat. This year, with the odds heavy against us and the obituary of the bulldog already published we went down to Princeton and not only played them to a standstill but caused them to cover a good deal of ground in the reverse direction. Time and again we came within striking distance and Veeder sent the pigskin sailing toward the goal while the hearts of the Prince tonians were somewhere in their shoes But dame fortune was against us, and when, in the last half Howard Linn was ripping off yards at time and no power on earth could stop us, the whis-. tie blew and the game was over.
 The next week, with odds still against Us we defeated Harvard in a gigantic struggle and again turned out cham picnship team, All honor to our class mates who helped do it and when in tho future they are within striking dis tance of their Rfes goal, may the whis- tie not blow until they attain it.
 Upon the heels of the football season came the Christmas vacation and again Rosie Park, Ordway, Bartholomew, and DeIirium Tremens Johnson went forth with that lady-killing aggregation known as the Glee and Mandolin clubs to lave wake of maidens sighs and lovers curses. Manager Chapin also fared forth with his basketball warri- ors, foremost among whom was the stalwart and agile Kinney and led them to warmer climes, where under the inspiring influence of southern eyes they developed a championship team. For further particulars as to the afore- said influences, apply to Gilmore Kim ney, Jr.
 When once again the owl train had brought the last stragglers back and the game was on again, there was no vacation came that spectacular, kalai- doscopic whirlwiad of gaiety so fatal to the upper classman's life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, to say nothing of his heart, bank account. and con stitution-the Junior Prom. The wheels of the university stopped, drowned out and silenced by the rumbling wheels of Kirk's magnificent equippages. One grand brainstorm of excitement swept our little village of Hadleyburg, shak- ing it to it's foundations,
 Chick Diamond and the other social lights began to twinkle in anticipation of the approaching opportunity to shine. Even our prize student, Kelley McWeeney, gave up for the nonce his Interest in geometric circles because of the excitement in social circles and ceased describing parabolas and eccen- tricities because he preferred to de- scribe to admiring classmates the acute joy he found in the fair sex and the eccentrcity of the obtuse chaperone. Oh, Mac, you old conjugate hyperbola, we are on to your curves.
 But to return to the Prom. It really was a wonderful thing. The society smile became the mask of the day. John Cheney hid that Pop Warner ha-ha with which he was want to shatter the atmosphere of Vanderbilt Arch and un- tied in it's place a dainty little package of tailor made smiles with silk Things. When 1t comes to pressing John is the real Beau Brummel, the only original Boni dc Castellane
 At last the gala day week began and our fair visitors poured in from ev- cry corner of civilization. Every State in the Union was represented. From the lumber forests of Maine to the arid alkalai deserts of Mexico; from the tropical Iagoons of Florida to the picturesque town of Bridgeport came the fair ones The heart of the lone- some stag fell--so did the thermome- ter for the pippins brought with them very snappy weather George Aides admonition to young ladies: Don't you never have nothing to do with no college boys" didn't seem to have im- pressed very deeply the hearts of this country's young women for they came in hundreds to storm the stronghold of the Yaleses
 Why need to describe the prom. it. self. No dry chronicler-and by the way, it's an awful thing to be a dry chronicler on a warm day-can do half justice to it's night long gaiety The entire staff of the Delineator or Wom- ans Home Companion would have used their entire vocabularies up in vain before making an impression on the reader of the real glories of the shimmering gowns of matron and maid that graced the armory floor. It was glorious-this scintillating mass of the flower of the youth of our coun- try bedecked with the flowers of our friend Champion dancing in time to the rythm of sounding brass and tink- ling cymbal as Chapin's friend, John Milton puts 1t tripping the light fan tastic toe" or rather being tripped ~ another's light fantastic toe. The lat ter was more of truthNthan poetry un- til some of the less courageous ones ....a... ...,n,..r .,f 4l,o nnnAint and Incra I,