Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
TOAST OLD NASSAU.
Sons of Princeton Dine and
Sing Her Praises.
TIGER MODS HIS APPROVAL
Grins With Fierce Glee on Scene at
Continental Hotel.
PHIL KING GUEST OF HONOR
Aids Assimilation of Beefsteak Re-
past by Recounting Glories
Of Foot Ball Team.
TIGER MODS HIS APPROVAL
PHIL KING GUEST OF HONOR

secretary Of the Princeton Alumni Asso-
citation Of Washington. set the automati-
cally nodding tigers head to working In
the little palm room at the Continental
Hotel last night he not only formally
opened the proceedings of a beefsteak
dinner in honor OF Eddie Harris 1911
Black and Orange team winning
the foot ball championship. but he loosen
ed the music pent up in the breasts OF
Princetonians. old and young. and came
near to giving Nassau Hall the reputa-
ton of being a singing school, with an
elocution course on the side.
The beefsteak dinner served to stay
thirty-five tremendous appetites, speaking
from strictly unitarian standpoint. and
also served to show that Phil King the
guest of honor and a member Of the adj
vfsory committee Of Princeton athletics.
is just as good at talking as he was at
foot ball in the days when he achieved
the unequaled fame of making the all
American team both as a halfback and
a quarterback
The aforesaid Mr.. Fox, with his Gus
tomary assiduity. had draped the back
ground against which the little nod
and orange surcingle girting his
| stomach. He draped 1t with a ire
mendous Princeton banner which
Ollie Metzerott had sent for in a
hurry when 1t was seen that the only
decorations in the palm room are
green and white which colors remind all
Princetonans forcibly of a college named
Dartmouth. scholastic institution in
New Hampshire. with a brand of foot
ball that has been spoken of favorably
this year.
Pays Sam White High Tribute.
| Shortly after these decorations of the
Fox-Metzerott combination had been plac-
ed where they would do the most good
thirty-five Princetonians began to operate
on cargo of planked steaks, and Phil
King was introduced by the president Of
the alumni association. DR.. e. A. Balloch.
Phil Kings talk contained many foot
ball secrets that will remain In the
memories of those who heard him, but 1t
can be gathered that the famous coach
will raise his voice in violent protest at
any attempt to change the rules Of the
great intercollegiate. game. He said that
Princeton had thrived on the new rules
because it framed its attack to take ad-
vantage Of the new ideas.
He gave great credit to Sam White,
Princeton's famous end. for being alive
and alert, and recouni I'd every instance
where the Princeton team this year had
taken advantage of the opponents mis-
takes. Mr.. King believes in outside
game" When he had finished one of
the neatest little talks of the evening
the men present coupled his name with
a ripping locomotive cheer.
After that It was speech and song until
midnight. with many toast to old Mas
sau. It's a fact that every Princeton
man can sing, even II he can't do any,
thing else, and 1t was exempliied last
night. To allow the Princeton songbird
miles of that famous faculty song which
has more verses than any other known
musical composition, and which always
'reyerts to that classic chorus:
Away. away with sword and gun:
Here they come with a rub-a-dub-dum,
The faculty Of Princeton College, Oh!'
Songs, and More Songs.
Not content with that. they sang that
famous old Cannon Song, which hun
bred thousand people have heard time
and time again when the Orange and
Black faced the Blue on the diamond
and gridiron; and then they slid into
the, more recent Jungle Song. while the
nodding tiger seemed to grin with
fierce glee when his foster sons reiter-
ated the Princeton tigers Wow! Wow!
Vow
Also they warbled Goodbye, Hard
Luck, Yale" little base ball song which
Steve Whitman wrote in moment of IN
spiration; and coupled 1t up with Johnny
Deegan," the song which made late
Prine eton proctor as famous as Annie
Laurie" - at
Wallace Mclean. who led a Princeton
glee club through many a hard-fought
concert, sang one Of his inimitable coon
SONGS. and James L. Norris, IT., without
the slightest hesitation whatsoever, obliged
with a musical oddly entitled - Blige a
THE Road to Mandalay'' came hurting
through, the glass; doors, so that other
guests in the hotel were positive that q
grand opera was in progress.
3 And not only were there songs. for. as
has been mentioned. elocution has a place
at Princeton. as the efforts OF j. w. Pill
ing would prove. Mr.. Piliing resuscitat-
his own and OF his audience.
AS he swung out Of a Shapespearian pas
sage into a full-blooded pronouncement of
''Barbarie Frietchie" Edmund Brady,
who had hitherto remained silent behind
a nosegay and a pair of candles, arose
and suggested three locomotives for
Stonewall Jackson" and even that did
not interfere with Mr.. Pilling's presenta-
ton Of Mr.. Winters great little piece
Of writing
Surprise for Frank Fox.
A little surprise awaited Frank Fox.
Wallace Mclean sprung it by presenting
Mr.. Fox with a pair of silver candle
sticks, because, as Mr.. Mclean said, Mr.. /
Fox works hard TO make Princeton din
ners a success, and also because he has
takou IN tho rosnop sfhilitias of