The Cadet July 1898
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Summer 7-14-1898 The aC det July 1898 The aC det Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, The aC det, "The aC det July 1898" (1898). Maine Campus Archives. 178. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/178 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. t distance trail was arch 28. eight miles THE CADET. balance of NEW SERIES. half farther ur dogs to a VOLUME XII. Ids the dogs JULY, 1898. No. 9. 13 side up. a team and haul. The the trail, as THE CADET. L. W. Cutter, E. H. Dakin, E. F. their backs, Danforth, E. W. Danforth, C. A. an. It is a EDITORIAL STAFF. Dillingham, R. W. Eaton, H. M. or thirty of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. Estabrooke, W. Flint, H. S. French, dring wind- WALTER J. MORRILL, '99. F. G. Gould, G. P. Gould, J. F. canyon. I ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Gould, E. D. Graves, N. C. Grover, e line of an ARCHER L. GROVES,'99, WALLACE E. ItaLctuts,'99, W. T. Haines, G. H. Hamlin, J. N. Is of rock JOHN W. BROWN,'99, I.. II. lloaNsn, two, the bed of II. II. OSWALD* '99, W. II. BENNETT, 1901, Hart, E. J. Haskell, C. L. Howes, F. C. MITCHELL, 1901, M. B. MERRILL, 100 feet in 1901. W. R. Howard, C. I. Haynes, R. K. sticking up Jones, 0. Knight, BUSINESS STAFF. W. J. M. Kimball, ; worn from CLINTON \tanager. F. I. Kimball, J. D. Lazell, G. F. he hauling L. SMALL, FRANK MCDONALD, Asst. Manager. Lull, C. S. Lunt, L. H. !meeting to Merrill, J. tomorrow, M. Oak, C. J. Pattee, J. H. Patten, ing and we URING the past two years con- Hayward Pierce, W. B. Pierce, H. charge five D tributions in sums ranging from M. Prentiss, W. R. Pattangall, G. F. king freight one to fifty dollars have been made Rowe, G. W. Rumba'', J. H. Ricker, lteen miles. to the Athletic Association by those R. W. Rims, L. C. Southard, H. V. Immit with lays, but of of our alumni and former students Starrett, Clarence Scott, G. S. Vick- ly. On this whose names appear in the following ery, H. S. Webb, E. C. Webster, G. rm. I have list. The subscriptions aggregate A. Whitney, A. H. White, R. H. one pair of $307.00 and have been, in the main, Wight, J. M. Webster. We have d one under applied to defraying the expenses of also received from our friends, Hon. I have per- Lord, Hon. my body is the athletic team. To say that the Henry I. K. Stetson and you stop Association is very thankful for the J. M. Shafto generous subscriptions. y overcoat. assistance thus received would be a *4** deg. below very mild way of expressing the ANOTHER class has gone out from for me to appreciation in which these gifts are among us. In many respects the not easily t; we have held by all who are interested in the graduating class has been a memor- b now. welfare of our athletics. Without able one. It has been preeminently like climb- this aid it would have been impos- an athletic class and its absence will we really sible for us to have made any reput- perhaps be felt in this line for some y over the able showing in track athletics. time. It always seems that a gradu- r, and it is D. T. Achorn, J. M. Bartlett, S. ating class will leave a blank which Still then. I with the W. Bates, C. S. Bickford, G. F. will be hard to fill, but the under ad as a hen Black, E. M. Blanding, J. R. Board- classes always press in and fill the at the pre- man, F. S. Brick, A. H. Brown, H. breach. The class has maintained B. Buck, I. G. Calderwood, B. E. high standing in scholarship and has Clark, Hugo Clark, D. W. Colby, been associated with every progres. 220 THE CADET. sive movement since its entrance. interest in athletics. Secondly, we The class has been much depleted refer to the organization of the ath- since it entered one hundred strong, letic committee for next year. The but there graduated a class of more committee was so broken up by en- than the usual number. We intro- listments, that although the remain- duce to the ranks of the alumni a ing members were expecting a sum- class which throughout its course has mons to a meeting, no one thought it enthusiastically and honorably upheld his duty to issue the call, and then— the interests of the alma mater. May it was commencement week. We they prosper individually as we hope deplore these two unfortunate over- and believe they will. sights, especially the first, and hope **• that we may be permitted next year WE wish to say a few words in to redeem ourselves. regard to the way some athletic bus- •** iness was conducted, or rather, non- OUR long delayed prize song was conducted, this spring. We refer in the hands of the Glee Club to be first to the tennis tournament which sung at convocation, at which time a should have been played for the vote of the students was to be taken Southard medals. The leading offi- for the selection of the prize song. cials in athletic committee enlisted The committee could not decide be- about the time that the tournament tween two and proposed to resort to should have commenced, and the ex- this method. But the Glee Club did citement incident, together with their not sing, and so the song will appear absence, seems to have obliterated in a future number. tennis from the minds of the students. The fact that medals were offered * • this year was not brought before the WE want each student to be loyal students' notice. Our standing in enough to write a sketch, a story, or other branches of athletics, especially an article of some kind this vacation in track sports, shows no lack of for THE CADET. Will you? FROM THE HARBOR INTO THE SEA. CLASS DAY POEM. Down to the wharves in the morning I go, and a ship I see, Nov on the tide she is tossing, And eagerly longs to be free. Bright is the sun and the wind low But only an hour will it be Ere she will slip from her moorings, From the harbor into the sea. Sr FROM THE HARBOR INTO THE SEA. 221 :idly, we Friends throng the shore of the haven, the ath- Banners are bright in the breeze; ar. The But of her fate, who can tell us, p by en- Her fate on the restless seas? ! remain- Will she follow her course swift and happy, ; a sum- Or will storms and clouds cross her way? hought it Will she enter her port in safety, d then— At the close of some fair day? k. Our ships will soon be ate over- leaving The shelter they've nid hope known so long; The billows of life will ext year be cleaving, Have we builded them firm and strong? Dear ones are waiting and watching To learn what our fate will be, song was As from their sight we are passing ub to be From the harbor into the sea. Ii time a Shall we trace be taken I our paths unerring To the ze song. distant port secure? Shall we see !eide be- the dangers threatening, And resort to pass by them safe and sure? Will the Club did ocean treat us kindly, 11 appear Or will storms around us rise? Shall we move onward blindly With the mist before our eyes? be loyal Some may ride light o'er the waters, story, or Never a cloud may they see; vacation Billows may roll gently 'neath them, Happy their journey may be. While o'er the pathway of others, Shadows may hang dark and vast; Still if Faith's star goes before them, 'Twill light them to harbor at last. Soon learn they art of the sailor To conquer the wind and the wave, To ride where the surges are highest, To face them with stout heart and,brave ; Then when the journey is over And winds waft them safely to lee, Into the shelter they enter, Into harbor safe from the sea. ,—Rena Ethel Dunn, '98. By six THE CHARGE OF THE GUARD. cuirasseui coated sql HE night still hung darkly over "We must be well filled; there'll in the gi T the Belgian lowlands. The be some hot work with the red coats with Ney fields and woods as far as the eye to-day," muttered Pierre, and, as if The tit could see were dotted with points of to emphasize his words, a dull thun- Guard. light, where the camp fires of the der of cannon swept over them from threw as army of France clustered in the hol- the north. A shade passed across formed ag lows. It was just as the earliest Francois's face, but Pierre only Rumors dawn changed the heights of St. Jean twirled his moustache and laughed. the Empe from black to grey, that a faint trum- The coming day gleamed brighter in in the cha pet note sounded somewhere on the the east, until the hills caught up the The su left and other buglers took up the call radiance and glowed in their fresh near the 1 until the notes of the reveille swept foliage, and with the day, the the clouds along the line and were lost in the musketry of the pickets deepened into coated sq fields and woods sheltering the divis- a steady roll, through which the boom Prussians ion D'Erlon.