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2He News Letter tr2HE NEWS LETTER VOL. XVI, NO. 6. BALTIMORE, MD., NOVEMBER 13, 1911. PRICE, FIVE CENTS TO WORK FOR REMAINING FUNDS FOUR ALUMNI WERE ELECTED SMOKER FOR NEW YORK ALUMNI VIRGINIA, 34 HOPKINS, 0 Homewood Committee Will Meet Soon All to the Maryland House of Delegates. Association of New York and New Jersey Varsity Goes Bravely Down Before the and Formulate Plans to Collect Newton D. Baker, Jr., A. B.'92, Holds First Blow-Out at Most Formidable Opponents Hopkins Remaining $800,000. Mayor of Cleveland. Chemists' Club. Has Ever Met on the Gridiron. H. Findlay French, secretary of Of the seven alumni on the State The Association of Johns Hop- Before more than five thousand the Johns Hopkins Endowment and and city tickets, in the recent elec- kins Alumni of New York and New spectators, and a determined as- Extension Fund Committee, states ersey held their first smoker tion, Hopkins men will be glad to Wed- sembly of disappointed but loyal that the _committee will meet soon see that four were elected. At first nesday night at the Chemists' Club to rooters, the Hopkins football team formulate plans for securing the sight this may seem a very small in New York City. There were a went down to rest of necessary to defeat last Saturday the $2,00D,00D number, but one must remember number of ex-Hopkins men present, at the hands of remove Virginia by a score the University buildings to how very few college or profes- and Charles A. Boston, president of 34 to o. Approximately $1,- The size of the score Homewood. run State Legis- of the Association, spoke on Johns indicates nothing 200,003 sional men for the of the fierceness of this amount is already Hopkins men and what they are of the contest. pledged. been lature. Indeed, this has been one The Hopkins team He said, "There has doing. made a splendid no meeting committee this of the crying needs of the State fight, and the of the "We all know," he said, "of struggle, from start fall, but the soon con- for many years. Probably several the to finish, was members will work of Dr. Simon Flexner in in- full of vim. vene, to decide how the remaining years ago we would have been .for- vestigating what we commonl The game $800,0oo will be secured. It is tunate to have one or two of our started off quick and alumni among the law Makers, know as infantile paralysis; of Dr. snappy. Gillet kicked off. After con- Practically certain that we shall en- Abraham deavor whereas, now we have four. The Flexner, his brother, who siderable punting, in which 'Virginia to collect this amount out- attracted attention side of the philanthropists successful alumni were as follows: because of his had a decided advantage, the win- city from report on the defects of and others welfare William H. Maltbie, Ph. D. '95, professional ners punted to Hopkins' 5-yard line, interested in the schools to the Carnegie of the shall not one of the Republican Representa- Institution, and after a fierce struggle, managed University. We and of Dr. Canby Robinson appeal to Baltimoreans whole, tives to the House of Delegates and to push the ball over for the first as a his plans for the Rockefeller but if citizens who from the Second Legislative Dis- Hos- touchdown. Yeager kicked goal. there are any pital. Mr. John Glenn would like extension trict. is high in The punting continued and the first to help in the authority in Sage `A.Trk, we their the Foundation; quarter ended with no further shall welcome sub- Edmund B. Lowndes, A. B. 'cm, and then there scriptions. build- are Governor Wil- change in score. As for the actual one of the Democratic Representa- son, of New Jersey; ing at Homewood, work will be Professor Had- Virginia began the second quarter no tives to the House of Delegates ley, of Yale; and President done this winter. Corps of men Finley, with a rush. Through the failure from Howard county. _ di the •College of the -C-ity have been grading the tract, of -land -New, oi a forward pass, Hopkins secured Ogle Mar-bury, A. B. '02, one of York. Then, too, there this summer and some foundations is Dr. J. the ball on its 5-yard line, and Ful- the Democratic Representatives to M. T. Finney, who have been marked off. This work is reported to ton punted to the 40-yard line. the House of Delegates from Prince be chosen president will be resumed in the spring. The of Princeton, Here Todd, of Virginia, caught it George's county. (A probable can- though, if he has Building Committee has been en- been, I want to and broke through the Hopkins. didate for the speakership.) commiserate with larged in order to make work Baltimore on his line for a second touchdown. Yeager the loss to Hopkins, more systematic, they have al- Thomas G. Campbell, A. B. 'o6, and Dr. Walter kicked goal. and Representa- Page, editor ready made some definite plans but one of the Democratic of World's Work; Dr. At the beginning of the Delegates Albert Shaw third do not wish to announce just what tives to the House of and Dr. Fabian Frank- quarter, Yeager, of lin, Virginia, caught these plans are until later. from Baltimore county. of the Post, are all Hopkins one of Gillet's forward !et men." passes and "To work on the committees ne- Not only are our alumni taking ran 40 yards to make a touchdown. cessitates a great sacrifice of per- an active part in politics in Mary- President Boston was warmly ap- He kicked goal. Another punting plauded sonal business. During the local land, but also from another State when he sat down. There duel ensued in the course of which campaign last winter the members reports come in of the election of a were more addresses by Mr. Glenn, Virginia made a touchback. Professor Hop- of the committee left their business Hopkins alumnus to a high office. Hyslop, and others, and kins attempted several poorly ex- first for days at a time and it meant a This alumnus is Newton Diehl the smoker of the season was ecuted forward passes, and voted an the great loss to them. This is prob- Baker, Jr., who came here in 1889 immense success. Virginians made their fourth touch- ably the reason why they have not from Martinsburg, W. Va. He re- The officers of the Association down. No goal was kicked. At Yet gotten to work. However, we ceived the degree of Bachelor of are: this point Hopkins woke up for shall soon meet and set out to com- Arts in 1892, and, after a year's President—Charles A. Boston, 24 an instant. Gillet made 10 yards, plete the fund." pest-graduate work here, went to Broad street, New York City. Pieper, To; Branham, io; Pieper, where, in Some persons interested in the Washing-ton and Lee, Vice-President—Thomas 10 more, and Dodson, 10 On 1894, he got the LL. B. degree. W. Has- to Homewood" movement are tings, M. D., 172 E. 71st Hopkins braced up again at the Of two years were spent as street, the opinion that the State of The next New York City. beginning of the last quarter, but Maryland should complete the fund. private secretary to Postmaster- soon lost the ball on They Secretary—Robert S. Lanier, 13 an attempted point out the fact that in General Wilson. Then after prac- forward pass, and 1910, Astor Place, New York City. Virginia rushed the Commonwealth of Wis- ticing law for several years at Mar- it"down the field for a consin Cleveland, Treasurer—Arthur touchdown. gave $1,196,500 for exten- tinsburg, he moved to Wright, 220 Davidson missed the goal. sion practice Broadway, New York City. The work and improvements at the 0., where he resumed the last touchdown, also, Virginia state It car- university at Madison; and of law. is estimated that there are four ried by storm. Gillet had ss also lmndred kicked that Michigan and Nebraska He was a professor in. the Bald- and ninety alumni in New off to Virginia's I-yard line. In annually York 'and give $640,000 and $565.- win University of Ohio, and City New Jersey. Of these, two plays, Virginia brought the 000, ninety-six ball TS. respectively, to their state uni- Solicitor of Cleveland. Here he have become members of to Hopkins' 35-yard line, and in the versities. It is true that Johns Hop- became one of the lieutenants of the Association. y00. next play put it over. Goal was kins is not !ct. a state university, but the late Tom L. Johnson. On Tues- It is expected that at the next kicked. The rest of the game was there are persons who still think Ile was elected mayor of smoker the day last early in January there will a listless sparring against time. • State of Maryland should com- Cleveland, and had the honor of re- be a musical program furnished No part of the las) plete the by defeat can be fund. ceiving the largest plurality(17,000) members of the Association. The charged to the Hopkins rooters. B. Howell has ever received. Mr. the Griswold, chairman of a candidate annual dinner is to be held on the Under the able leadership of Freddie committee, stated last Friday Baker declared the result was "a first Wednesday in March, 1912, Lee, they did their duty well, yell- Dor) l'at no substantial increases had monument to the late Tom L.
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