The sun., 1909-02-20
PAGANS AT AMHERST FEAST
Pay EXULTiNT HOMAGE TO A
REJUyENATED SABRINA.
One Feature Only Of the BIsgest strictly
COLLEGE Dinner This Town Has Seen
Nearly 400 Out-Weii 60 DO Alumni
Told of Chances In apend NioDey

A
intlnia Of grass green was confined to
her waist by a girdle OF little blood red
incandescents. stood last night upon
A middle table in the grand ballroom at
the Waldorf Around her seven devoted
Amherstians Of the class OF 4 burned
.izzl.ug tapers, poured libations of cham
raene and defended themselves and the
Young thing in the tunica intima from
the finely simulated rage of scores of
old and young boys whom fate had sent
INTO the odd classes of Amherst.
The seven aoolytes sprinkled her brow,
raised their voices in high chortles, and
ducked their heads because the cake
was dying fast. Chunks Of it, handfuls
Of il. along with other bits Of dry dessert,
srched over their heads OF took them
between the shoulders, while the seven
exalted the beauty OF Sabrina and the
odd classes hissed and Knocked her and
shouted that she was no lady-aye and
that she had never been one.
And the young thing herself smiled
fixed and plastered smile. with cham
tagne dripping from her smooth brow,
because she was only little statue and
quite incapable Of getting as excited as
The French walters, for instance, TO whom
the pa gan rite was a new and confound-
Ing Nperience.
The real Sabrina. the $50 pound lump
of stone which used to decorate the
campus at Amherst until the class Of '94
stole her from the faculty and passed
her along to even class after even class,
does not attend the annual dinners. She
is battered and Clipped old creature,
unfit for polite society, The young lady
in green, made in her image, is always a
feature, though, and serves TO keep alive
the ancient feud Of the undergrads.
Last nights feast Of theAmherst alumni
vas the biggest college dinner ever held
in New York. Cornell is the only univer-
city which ever turned out a bigger assem-
bage Of alumni. There were nearly
900 Of the Amherst men at the Waldorf
Ast night, from John H. Nashburn Of the
class of 10 down TO young Washburn OF
the class Of 'Os, who led thirty OF the
kindergartners in a procession TO cele-
lrate their banner turnout.
william r. Mead Of McKim, Mead a
White the president Of the Alumni As
sociation, turned the dinner over to George
Barry Mallon, the toastmaster. At the
guest table were, Judge William II.
Moore Of the Rock Island, William c.
Brownell. the Rev. Nehemiah Boynton,
President George Harris of Amherst;
Starr j, Murphy, personal counsel 10
John D. Rockefeller; Robert Walker,
George A, Plimpton. Burgess johnson,
the alumni poet; Fra nix f. Babbott, G.
Henry Whitcomb Of Worcester, Arthur
{ Rounds, John W. Simpson and Frank
J Goodnow Of Columbia University.
Some Of the other Amherst graduates
there were. ex Judge Charles s. Whitman.
Colonel Alexander B; Crane, James L.
sschop. Charles I Allen Public Service
stoddard, Professor John b Clark, Alfred
Ely. Isaac v. Mills. John B. Stanchfield.
Judge A. T. Searle o: Pennsylvania.
franklin Pierce. Walter H. Crittendon.
Alexander D: Noyes. DR.. J. B. Walker,
Daniel + Kellogg. Senator Alexander
William @. Breed. @. II. BaciSus, Percivai |
Schmuck, Charles b. Law, Mortimer l.. |
Schiff, Herbert l.. Pratt, Allen c. Hinckley, !
XIV. S. Rowland. DR.. F. j. z. Woodbridge. |
Arthur c. James and Willard H. Wheeler. |
Amherst had a football table this year |
for the first time, II: A. Curly smith,
father Of football at the college, rubbed |
elbows with George d, Pratt. captain Of |
the eleven of 90; John II. Hubbard, all |
star full back Of '07; Haughton Of 90, who |
was a crackerjack dropkicker in his |
time Capt Morse OF 81, Brough OF 's7
and several moro who were line breakers |
and ground gamers OF note.
After the tributes to Sabrina and the
isfances to that celebrated female had
somewhat died away. the toastmaster
presented President Harris. He told the
diners that the college had been very
prosperous in the last two or three years.
she had received a legacy Of slOo, 900 from
tha q n Tax a q ba& -
q the gifts since the last dinner footed
up 10 more than tS500Oe. But several
things were needed pretty badly. said
President Harris. He hadn't come down
10 beg. but he thought that some Of
Amherst's well TO do graduates might
IKE 70 have their names on new recita-
ton hall or q dormitoy.
Amherst he said needed a new reci-
nnon hall. Another dormitory ought
10 be erected since more than 200 students
were living in private houses. Also Am
herst lacked a union building such as
Harvard and Dartmouth enjoy. A place
ior the various societies TO meet would
n In well with the general scheme OF
things
Then young Washburn led the kids
Of 0s past the toastmaster's table and
each Of them got a purple badge TO re-
ward them for making so large a show
ng' Somebody uncorked a phonograph
~ OO1 anu tlio NOlSo VI
Doc Hitchcock foated out OF the mega
phone advising the college to be kept
= small one. that good salaries be paid
NE teachers that conditions be abolished
ana thai the alumni keep up the spirit
o. loyalty to the old school.
Congressman Rainey OF Illinois. a
prominent member OF the Ananias Club
who IS an alumnus Of Amherst, couldn't
attend Nhe dinner. but he canned a speech
10 Boston and sent it down. II was more
or less Of a roast on the President.
p yield 70 no man in my respect for the
fresldent of the United States, the Office
not the man. blared Rainey from the
ger ot boxes. He said that many shots
han been fred at the Ananias Club from
me White House, but that these weren't
o. the armor piercing brand 90 the club
vas sllil doing business at the old stand
ana expected to keep on until March 1
,,Georre A, Plimpton announced that
Mortimer Schiff has bought sixty acres Of
Holnd near the college and that the
Amherst Inn will shortly be fact. For
year. the alumni have complained that
lete WASH I much use 10 attend reunions |
.p'he-e because there were no hotel ac- |
cCrnmOdatlons
- lhe Amherst Inn Is expected TO increase
Fhe attendance of old grads and 70 do a ,
~ lOT JAe college in many ways IL is 70 |
eoli' hy the side OF the new observatory !
aesr the Pratt Athletic Field. II will con-
HIh aholt seventy rooms. II will have, I
SN' fnnp,on said, many features OF a.
.y-LlFF cub, tennis courts, golf links
ear,ege an facilities for winter sports.