The sun., 1910-06-12
PEEUGDE DAY AT PRINCETON
PASSES orr WIN 0UITE THE
Acct STONED DECORIM ".
AsIIaalt CIeaner Edwards the West COn-
splcuOus Figure IN the Nrray some
pts Date Productions IN the Process


to admirers to-day something new IN tho
way of a white wings costume. Hr ap-
reared IN front II the grand stand Just
before the Yale Princeton baseball game
bedecked and accoutred "a Joan Of Arc
riding a thoroughly tanned black horse
and smiling from under the visor u his
Crusader helmet and whisking the stray
ends Of a peroxide thatch. lie sat lightly
among tho billOwy folds Of white that
tiuttered behind him and was easily the
central figure in the peerade that wound
IL way between the raindrops at Univer-
sity Field this afternoon. Bunny Booth.
ons Of the football guards that 1900 de-
lights 10 remember as Annie Oakley
with khaki Jacket and rife, ran him a close
second for the applause. They were the
headhners in the white duck skirted and
bespectAcled line of sufiragettss that was
known at one time a. the class of 1890.
Nobody tried 10 compute the time II
took the peerade 10 pass a given point
because there were too many things to
see 10 keep track 81 numbers and figures
and statistics like that. Every one felt
instinctively that Il was the gRndest
and biggest and most stupendous pro-
cession that ever marked the beginning
of a commencement seasOn. And the
efforts Of the weather man did not mar
IL q bit.
With the coming of dawn from every
quarter Of the village could he heard the
bang g-banging and zAm- ZAmming that
meant that the hands were limbering up.
moderate estimate has Il that there
were about 5000 peeraders up 10 and
including 10 A. ~ After that every one
stopped counting Two men and a
jewsharp are the only necessary elements
Of a Princeton pesrade and when there
was a willing bAndmasier on every hand
no one had TO keep out Of step. such
things a. lunch and trifing matters Of
that sort did not interfere with the per-
vasivs determination TO march BY ISO
the front campus. sprinkled with the
placards that marked the position Of
each class. was full 20 its capacity.
just before Grand Marshal Francis g.
LandOn sent oil the van ~ the parade
there vas little ceremony on the steps
Of Old North N Taylor Pyne. u.
was honored for his twenty-five years
service as a trustee II the university
President Woodrow Wilson gave him a
golden vase as the gift uf the alumni
Your chief thought has always seemed
10 H. 81 the university said Dr Wilson.
and u has been IN no small part through
the stimulation - your example that
hundreds u Princeton men have learned
TO translate their affections into action.
And the mob II graduates came M ght up
in answer 20 Head Cheer Leader Spook
McChntock's request for a locomotive
Reside Mt Pyne and DR. Wilson On the
steps was Carl Langlotz. composer of
- Old Nassau Il was the first time that
Princeton men have had a chance to SEE
him Tor time out - mind 10 seemed
90 NJ pretty glad 10 b. here A. he stood
and heard the whole front campus sing
the song that he wrote lie had posi-
tion % honor n the peeTade directly he !
hind the president and Mr. Pyns And
along the way On his march % the field |
he vas recognized and che-red until |
he settled doSn 10 watch the long nne
behind him pass by
First In ths line was the -old guard
that collection OG reunion individuals J
whose classes arr not holding regular |
gatherings under canvas They az /
hibited above their heads a string |
% championship banners, which was /
a new feature Of these parad.ss and /
which was calculated 10 instu fear in the |
heart u an vi There wers gray bsards /
from ~ and %, iron gray mustaches |
from Is and ~ and more youthful /
down to N. And then YOU |
could ~. ~, 6 and all the classes up
tO laI0
And here is the first real sensation Of
the afternoon Sse the -sufragettss-
keep their bsspattered white skirts clear
" the muddy path just look al Big
Bills tired steed! And who h this person
in the portable cell fRhtiug valiantlv
with the tWO brutal hobbias who Ar.
attempting Ia uOuTish her with the con
tents uf yond4r bottle Ry the placard
upon the bars that confne her we know
her for Mrs Punkhurst
And now come 'Oi and '02 with their
ranes and hate and bands And who ~
his line n Jockeys with their orange
and black jackets and caps and white
lry-echesY There's a sign reading, FIRST
lass. sired by NOOdrOw ~ ~ know
hat these knights Uf the turf are none
other than u3 See them dash hther and
gon upon those horses which slip on over
heir shoulders What a merry time they
Are having
But notioe these -Pierrots- of '05
There's Ken Clark. who plays tho piano.
md Harold Short. who plays football.
md Ken McAlpin who PLAYS the soare-
rrow to-day. Il -erms. and Val Holman.
Il 4 ]
minutes aud who was the busiest runner
u the bot See them scamper and cavort'
Azampaigner-. however. they don't be-
gin 20 compare with the -howlng dervishes-
" N Here We have Spook Locomotive
Met hntoCk oi Pitt-burg and Rag Cannon I
song Osborne Of New York. the musical I
,Donsors Of the class, but We have no eyes
Ior them to-day. for here - -hriekirg I
iervish at one end u "A rope and ~ tre I
lther is a real live Sahara camel His
,tAy in Princeton and the class IN which
1e j. attached will make Il impossible 90
prove or disprove m his case the nine
iay theory. II Is evident that during the
Deerade the pent up resentment az being
billed 10 appear with amateur dervishes .
vas getting more and mOre keen. So a
Then during the seventh inning Glen Il
Fory. %. and Joe Gish. 'O7. and others OF !,
,qually debOnair and careless tsmpera- =
nent mounted upon bis back In the far I
,orner Of the fieid he did bronoo buokinR :
lot that would have tried tho adhesive y
,owsru Of the Absrnathys He bumped
himself In several plaoes besides thone !.
n which nature has endowed him. And :
wen PrinoetOn's three runs In the seventh
Ouldn't mOnOpolins the attention Of the 4
tands This dark skinned person who 4
otsd - ohaperon for the animal asked y
.im why this Ohstrepsrous conduct.
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