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O, LOVELY WOMAN! REGINA M. OLSON, '19—39 CAN YOU.> R. M. O., '19 44 TH5 WOMAN IN BLACK ...,..,...,F. P. G. '18,...... 45 EDITORIAL-. , ,.50 WISE AND 53 ALUMNI. 56 KAPPA GAMMA 63 LOCALS -.65 ATHLETICS. , 71 EXCHANGES. — • 76

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O, LOVELY WOMAN! UNDAY afternoon is not hilarious at best; and when the S morning has been spent in grinding for a re­exam in Trig., Sunday afternoon is particularly depressing. Wherefore, Ted Eaton wandered disconsolately into Meyer's Drug Emporium, three blocks from the college. He heaved a weary sigh as he noticed the cool emptiness of the place, and walked toward the soda­fountain. Three paces away he cut another sigh in half; his melancholy fell from him like a mantle, and he stared at an unheard of apparition. That in Meyer's Drug Empor­ ium! Meyer deserved a gold metal! Gone was his weari­ ness; gone were his visions of Trigonometry; peace settled over his soul, and all he wanted in life was ice­cream soda served by her hands. Then he became aware that she was waiting for his order, and though his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, he manfully rose to the occasion, and managed to convey to her that his highest ambition was peach soda. He got the peach soda,and drank it very slowly. He ordered another peach soda and drank it even more slowly. He contemplated the ordering of another peach soda, but precedent warned him of the consequences and he sor­ rowfully desisted. The first peach soda elicited the imformation that the

During the course of the second peach-soda, Eaton quite dissolved under the combined influence of the natur• al peach and the artificial one. It transpired that Mary May adored football: did Mr. Eaton play? Mr- Eaton did; could he have the pleasure of her company to the next football game? Joys of joysl he could, and the world be• came at once a roseate sphere. He departed in a frame of mind that minimized to the terrors of re-examination and gave him a place with the happy-hearted of the earth. Arriving at college he descended like an avalanche upon the long-suffering upper-classmen. "Say," he demanded mysteriously, "do you like peaches?" "Yes, when they're not green," was the heartfelt reply of Keith, the quarterback. ''She ain't green" was the ungrammatical response. "She!" chorused a dozen voices. "Poor Teddy! he's hit again." "Its not again" retorted Teddy, "it never was before; and if you know a skirt when you see one, just take a peep in Meyer's drug store—but iust remember this: I saw it first, and it's mine!" Stalking haughtily from the room, he met Morsman, the foootball captain, in the hall. "What weighs upon thy young and tender heart, my child?" inquired that dignitary. "About a hundred and ten pounds of unmixed femin• inity," answered Eaton. "Let me assist your tottering steps," was the solicitous reply, "I wonder that you have not succumbed to earlier attacks. The best thing you can do is to take a heart-tonic and forget it." But the next day, when Captain Morsman went to Meyer's drug store for headache tablets (?!) he met there all the members of his football squad, and many others whose sole ambition—up to this time—had been to be of his football squad. O, LOVELY WOMAN! 41 "Football training, fellows," he said sternly, and marshalled them out, whereupon those who were not in training rejoiced, and thanks that the number of satellites around the sun was lessened. And the football squad bemoaned their fate, that they had for a captain that rarest of all rare things— a woman hater. It was a few nights later that Keith w andered into Morsman's study, and found the owner thereof with his feet on the table, reading. "What's that.'" asked the inquisitive one. "The Song of Solomon," answered the woman-hater, "Ragtime.'" hopefully inquired Keith. "No, you poor idiot" came the pitying reply, "listen to this: 'I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved, that knocketh, saying: Open to me—' " "Shades of Glen Warner!" murmured Keith, as he fad• ed from the room. Meantime the team practiced for the game with Ford- ham College; and between practice hours, Teddy Eaton bought chocolates at Meyer's Drug Emporium for his sister Alice. Stern rules forbade his own indulgence in sweets: what other excuse had a perfectly healthy young man in a drugstore? Of course there was an obvious excuse inthis particular drug store; but Eaton had to have an excuse to see the obvious excuse—and that excuse was candy. His sister Alice was surprised and touched at these tri• weekly evidences of Teddy's thoughtfulness. "DearTeddy!" she said, "college has done so much to improve him!" At the Fordham game, the Peach, otherwise Mary May, sat in the grandstand, between two loyal supporters of the Red and the Blue, who were out of the game on account of honorable injuries. Now their injuries to their bone and muscle were diminishing in direct proportion as the injuries to their hearts were augmenting under the battery of her eyes. 42 THE Bvrr AND BLUE

"Look there now," exclaimed Brinsley, "they're going to make a fake pass-—watch old Eaton—Rah! rah! rah!!" he yelled as the half-back eluded the guards and raced thirty yards for a touchdown. "How did he do it?" innocently inquired Mary May, and Brinsley explained it. Likewise he explained the other trick plays—the special pet plays that won more than half their gridiron battles. Mary May listened in naive wonder at his wisdom; exclaimed at the players' cleverness and cheered wildly for the Red and the Blue. After a particularly lucid explanation of a forward pass Rollins caught Brinsley's eye, and intimated in pantomime that he had handed out enough of the knowledge which high-salaried coaches were engaged to pound into him. "What's the difference?" argued Brinsley afterward. "She didn't have any more idea of what I was telling her than Prexy has of the composition of my brain." "Prexy knows the composition of your brain, alright," retored Rollins, "I guess he knows a vacuum when he meets it." The next game was a widely-heralded event; the annual meeting of the warriors of the Red and Blue with their pet rivals from New York. Every day, the mew had practiced faithfully, regardless of weather, regardless of the human framework, regardless of Mary May. For two consecutive years they had beaten the New Yorkers, who now swore vengeance with ten per cent interest. The men of the Red and Blue polished up their trick plays and grinned with happy anticipation. Brinsley, back in the game, heard the coach lay stress on the trick plays that had been so gayly explained to Mary May, and patted himself on the back to think that he had explained them fully as well as the coach himself. The game was shedul- ed for Saturday afternoon: the New Yorkers arrived Friday. Saturday dawned as usual—as red letter days have a trick of doing. The team listened to the coaches' advice, O, LOVELY WOMAN! 43

went to the depot to meet sisters and sweethearts, looked longingly toward Meyer's Drug Emporium, and manfally forbore. Two o'clock, and the grandstand was gay with pennants and the babel of voices that arose from the student body gathered there. At the end of the first quarter, neither team team had scored; at the end of the second the score was 6 to 12 in favor of the New Yorkers. Then the coach put on his favorite trick play: It was cleverly intercepted and New York added 7 more to the score. At five o'clock the defeated home team stream• ed silently toward the club house, amidst tin- restrained expressions of grief and rage from their fellow-students. The defeat was incomprehensible, it was mortifying; it was outrageous—and gloom settled upon Ted Eaton's soul, for Mary May, sitting in the grandstand with a group of strangers, had witnessed his defeat. After dressing, he descended the steps of the club• house, where most of the team were already gathered, and arrived just in time to hear the right tackle's excited voice saying: "I was standing on the curb this morning when a gray roadster glided past " "A gray roaster?" queried Rollins, coming up. "Roadster!" shouted Marner—"a gray roadster, and in it was that peach of peaches, with the captain of the New York team!" "O woman, lovely woman!" murmured Keith, sotto- voice. Eaton slipped away, and the question in his mind was "did she? or didn't she?" His steps on the pavement echo• ed "did she or didn't she?" and presently they brought him to Meyer's drug store. So had the steps of many oth• er college men brought them there. Eaton wanted Mary May. So did the others. Meyers, with uplifted hards begged that the gentlemen would listen to him. They did. His niece had gone back to New York with her friends and fiance. 44 THE BUFF AND BLUE

Fiance? The college men carefully looked their number over. Who was missing? No one. Then who in sam hill was Mary May's fiance? "Who? why the New York captain, of course!" A ghastly silence fell over the room; and then, because a young man's heart is made of India rubber, and morever, there are plenty of other Mary Mays in the world, they recovered their spirits and trooped gayly out. When Keith came to Morsman's study that night, he arrived just in time to see the captain throw a little book into the fire-place. Coming closer he read the title. It was "The Song of Solomon." REGINA M. OLSON, '19.

CAN YOU? Can yon put the lily back on its stalk BY the wide lake's grassy shore; Can you make it bloom with a heart of gold As it grew and bloomed before? Can you wipe out the sting of a cruel word So never a scar will show; Can you wipe out the stain of a jealous deed So the world will never know? Can you bring back the glad, gay heart of youth Where the joy of youth has fled? Go - relight, then, the fires of friendship Where friendship's fires are dead. R. M, 0-, '19. 45 THE WOMAN IN BLACK Tulius Abercrombe, Jr., son of a steel magnate and multi- ** millionaire, was staggering home late at night. The dim glow of the gas street lamps furnished the only illumina• tion for the narrow, long deserted thoroughfare. Not an• other soul could be seen on the side-walk, down which Abercrombie, Jr. was doing his best to steer a straight course. John Ashton, former college-mate, and close friend of Abercrombie, had just returned from an extended stay abroad, so there had been rejoicing at the club, and an unlimited flow of champagne. Now, Abercrombie was trying to place each foot after the other in a line straight- er than the path made in the &ky by a streak of lightning, and to convince himself that it was one lamp post he had just passed, and not two standing at an oblique angle to each other. Off the side walk, in the shadow of a doorway, stood two policemen in long blue coats—they had just paused on their beats for a few moments to discuss why Johnson did not win the game the day before, and that McFarland seemed the possible winner in the coming bout—all this to break the monotony of the long silent, dreary night. A few doors from the corner of the block; at the far end of the room in Abramson's grocery store, a dim light was gleaming over the cash register, seemingly defying the night prowler to search its contents. There was a sudden stop in the conversation of the offi• cers, and the blue-coated forms rushed from the darkness of the doorway, to the entrance of Abramson's store. There were some sharp words of commandi the flash of the nickel-plated side of a drawn revolver, and two loud re• ports followed in quick succession, biting into the stillness of the night. The plate glass in the door of the grocery store was shattered. The light above the cash register suddenly went out amid the crash of falling glass, and two answering shots flashed back from the darkened interior. As one of the uniformed men forced his way into the store. 46 THE BUFF AND BLUE the other rushed around the corner to head off possible escape from the rear. Abercrombie stopped before the door and stood aghast. The street light shone full on the scene, revealing a litter of broken glass, and his befuddled brain tried to grasp the situation. A few minutes later the second policeman appeared around the corner, bringing with him a struggling man, who at every step protested his innocence. Suddenly a woman appeared at Abercrombie's side. None of the men were concious of her presence, until like a woman, breathless from trying to catch up with her hus• band who had absent-mindedly started off, she cried out to Abercrombie, "Why did you leave me Henry? I told you to wait until the clerk had tied up the bundle and you went right off and left me alone." "Without waiting for a reply from the astonished gentleman in evening dress, she turned, toward the officer and the prisoner, and started with surprise, as if she was just now concious of their pre• sence. She glanced at the officers, and in a tone of pity for the prisoner, said, "What has this man been doing? Why have you arrested him?" Abercrombie had hardly recovered from his surprise, but the policemen paid scant attention to the woman. The woman was well dressed, and wore an expensive set of black furs. Even in the dim light the men saw that she was very good looking. None of them could under• stand why such a pretty and well dressed woman should be out at such a late hour. None of them saw the faint mark of surprise which showed on the face of the captive. The officers merely glanced at her, and turned away frown• ing, as if resenting the interference of one who had no business in the affair. The woman in the black furs, so mysterious, and so beautiful in such a place fascinated him and he was almost rude in his manner as he stared at her. Receiving no answer to her questions, the woman, glancing at the shattered glass near the doorway, and uttered a short cry of surprised discovery, "Oh, are you THE WOMAN IN BLACK 47

arresting this man for that?" she said, pointing to the pieces of broken glass. This only brought another frown from one of the officers, who looked up and scrutinized her face closely. "Why, you are arresting an innocent man," she per• sisted. "Innocent!" said one of the policemen, almost with a sneer, "He was trying to rob that store, and I caught him back near the alley, as he was getting away." "But I saw—I mean we saw him in the drug store two blocks up, only a minute ago, didn't we, Henry?" said the woman, stepping up to the gentleman in evening clothes. Abercrombie, utterly confounded, and still somewhat dazed, only nodded slightly as one of the officers shot an inquir- glance at him. "I wasn't near the alley, I—" the prisoner began, but was cut short by a curt reply from the officer nearest him, who had a firm grip on his shoulder. "That doesn't matter. I know your face. Your presence near the alley is evidence enough." "But how could he be in two places at the same time? I saw him in the drug store up—" "Who are you anyway, to take such an interest in this man?" "Why I have no interest in him at all. But I can't stand by and see an innocent man arrested for what he didn't do." "Humph!" grunted one of the blue-coated men, "Your face seems familiar. Perhaps we had better take you along too." At the pointed inquiry of the other policeman, "Who are you? Why are you out so late?" the woman stepped up closer to Abercrombie, and slipped an arm into his. "What is it to you?" she began, "But if you must know, Henry and I were out to a dance, and stopped at the drug store near here. Then when we were passing we heard the shots, and saw you had arrested this man." 48 THE BUFF AND BLUB

"Is this woman your wife?" Abercrombie was asked, dubiously. Abercrombie, hesitatingly nodded his head, and uttered an almost inaudible "Yes." Seeking to help the woman in her defence of the prisoner, he said, "It appears that you arrested this man just because he was in the vicinity of the alley back there. He must be innocent. It wouldn't be right to arrest him on such feeble evidence as that. This wo—my wife saw him in the drug store two blocks up and—" "This man is Gumfoot Jack, and even if he isn't guilty of trying to rob this store, he is wanted at headquarters on other charges. Search him Tom,and see if he hasn't got a revolver with two empty cartridges in it." The officer designated as Tom roughly pulled the pris• oner towards him, and ran his hands through the man's pockets, only to find no sort of weapon. The policeman who was acting as spokesman, somewhat disappointed with the result of the search, cast a suspicious eye at the muff of the woman—he seemed to understand why she had nudged up so close to the prisoner during the exchange of words between himself and the silk-hatted gentleman, but he had failed to discern any movement which would indicate that anything had passed from the prisoner to her muff. However, he decided upon a bold move. Without any hesitation, he went up to the woman and said, "What have you got in that muff?" The woman, with an inarticulate, and distracting cry, stepped back to Abercrombie, threw an arm about him, and made a quick, almost indiscernable motion, which went unnoticed to either policemen. Abercrombie did not feel the weight of something heavy slipping into his coat pocket. Slightly protesting, the woman finally handed over her muff, which, much to the chargin the suspicious policeman, contained nothing. The policeman turned to Abercrombie, and said, "I will have to search you next." THE WOMAN IN BLACK 49

The face of the steel­magnate's son turned red under the insult. Digging a hand into a vest­pocket, he brought out a card, and with an angry flourish, handed it to the officer. Glancing at the card, the over­zealous policeman was profuse with apologies. Presently the two officers and the prisoner went away. ■ As the policeman disappeared around the corner with the prisoner, Julius Abercrombie turned to the woman, and said: ■'Madam, you and I are victims of circumstances. I am sorry it happened. I would have prevented it if I could. If you will allow me, I will take you home, or would you rather have me call a taxi for you?" The woman said nothing. She started to go, but stop­ ped and turned to look at him, A faint smile passed her lips as she spoke: "You have been so good to me tonight, that I will give back your watch." She held out a shining round objec­ by a heavy gold chain. Julius Adercrombie gasped, and his hand instinctively went up to the empty vest pocket where his watch should have been. She turned away and had gone only a few steps, when she suddenly remembered something, stopped again. She cried out to the astonished man: ■'Henry! I want that gun in your coat pocket. Jack will want it back when he's out." The amazed Abercrombie stuck a hand into the pocket and drew out a heavy, dark revolver. The woman took it and disappeared as suddenly as she had come, leaving the bewildered Abercrombie wondering how it got there. —F. D.G.,'i8. BOARD OF EDITORS

LITERARY STAFF Literarf Editor HENRY J. STEGEMERTBN-, '16. ASSOCIATE EDITORS HENRY J. PUI,VER, '16 I(n,Y A. GWIN, '17 j JOHN B. HOTCHKISS, '69 ALUMNI I ROY J. STEWART, '99, Associate _^ j BENJAMIN M. SCHOWE, '18 LOCALS ~ ( MABEI, I.. PEARSON, '17 ATHLETICS HAHI,EY W. SMITH, '19 EXCHANGES - -. . . SASA A. TREDWEM, '18

BUSINESS STAFF Nanaging Editor ASHI,AND D. MARTIN, '16 BUSINESS MANAGER - - OUVER W. MclNTDRBP, '17 CIRCULATION MANAGER . - FOSTER D. GUBERT, '18 ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER - RAY G. WENGER, '18 At the present day, there is an ever-increasing demand from the great industrial forces of this country that our colleges make technical training the predominant and out• standing feature of their educational scheme. They would have us study more of the WHERE ARE WE AT? hard, practical side of life, and less of the visionary and theoretical. They would have us work more with the hands EDITORIAL 5^

and less with the brain, They would have us abolish the study of the classics altogether as outgrown, useless. There is nothing more fallacious than a system which purposes to teach how to do athing, but not why. We can teach an ape to eat with a knife and fork, but cannot teach him to think, in the same operation. The great question is— towards what is our educational system tending? Are we to abandon the paths of our fathers.' Where are we at? -P. —o— The matter of bestowing an award for literary excel• lence has been brought to the LITERARY AWARDS. attention of the Buff and Blue board, and there is sufficient merit in the idea to warrant its being presented for gen• eral consideration. The presentation of athletic letters for faithful service to the college, on the athletic field, is an established custom in every college. Yet the reputation of a school depends no less upon the quality of her student publications than upon athletic success, and it seems only right that literary merit should receive equal recognition with athletic prow• ess. Just how great an incentive the prospect of owning a great buff letter to wear upon the sweater may be, cannot be accurately determined, but however small or great, the student who devotes his time and thought to the profit of his college, through its publications, deserves equal incen• tive and reward. Care must be taken in the method of mak• ing such an award not to confuse it with, nor consider it in competition with, athletic letters. The quality of a contributor's work would be less im• portant than the quantity and general spirit of helpfulness shown. Even though his work was only mediocre, the student who made a conscientious effort to help, would re• ceive more favorable consideration than the student whose 52 THE BUFF AND BLUE contributions were brilliant, but few and far between. No definite plan of action has yet been decided upon by the board itselfi but a decision will be reached soon, and it is hoped that the plan will receive support from the student body that will make it a definite success. —B. M. S. '18. —o— After going over the varied mass of M. S. S. submitted for publication, it is a natural prerogative of the editors of the college organ to inquire whether the literary training afforded at Gallaudet makes for a WASTED ENERGY desire to dash ofi light and sense• less doggered in the guise of "poet• ry." If so, it is a tendency which can not be tCK> strongly discouraged, being as it is, nothing but wasted energy. We fervently hope that it is only a temporary mental ab• erration of the undergraduate body which will soon pass. The ability to write good verse is an inherited quality and cannot be acquired through any amount of study or effort. A person is not a poet because he thinks he is. Morever, the period of time which elapses between the is• suance of one number of the magazine and the next is so short as to preclude the possibility of producing a readable poem in the interval — except by one especially endowed by Natnre for the task. It is therefore both useless and profligatic for some of our would-be poets to go on producing "poetry" which is invariably certain of rejection. The editors firmly believe that such would be doing both themselves and the magazine a great good in turning their thoughts into more prosy channels. We want more articles and stories! —P. Y 53 § WISK AND— I

STRAP-HANGING AS A BENEHCAL EXERCISE I very seldom ride in a street-car; but whenever I do, in nine cases out of ten the car is crowded to overflowing, and I have to stand. This is because I take the car only when it is too near supper-time for walking,—at which time everybody else in town is going home for supper. At first, I used to rail against the street-car company for not having bigger cars, and against the people in the car for not having waited for the next one. As this state of things continued to exist, however, I came to have differ• ent opinions, both of the car company and of the passeng• ers. In some ways too much civilization spoils a people. The greatest aim of "civilization" is, generally, the com• fort and ease of the human race- Street-cars, which are one cf the signs of greatly advanced civilization, are main• tained solely for the convenience of humans—that is, ta spare them from bodily exertion. Nature has so provided it that whenever a man wishes to move from one place to another he walks (or runs, if he is so disposed). Hence, walking (or running) is man's natural exercise. And when a man hangs to a strap in the street car, he gets back a fraction—though a very small fraction—of the exercise which he is deprived of by not walking all the way home. When he gives his comfort• able seat in the car to a woman, the disadvantage is with the woman, and the advantage with him. The advantage is not appreciated, but it is an advantage nevertheless. They say that Washington's street-car system is poor, on account of the fact that to reach any part of town you have to circumvent half of the city. It is a long ride, and it gives all the more exercise to the strap-hanger. More- 54 THB Burr AND BLUE

over, it trains the patience of those who have to sit all the waj'. Patience is a very important requisite of every business man and woman. This fact is well known, and yet the schools make no efforts to inoculate patience into young people. The street-cars unconsciously remedy this default of the school system, A person who sits out a long car- ride is better off in the end for the ordeal;—and even more so is one who stands up. People of the twentieth century hate to stand still worse than they hate to sit still. So much for strap-hanging. I believe there are some women who would like to stand up in a car occasionally, if the men would only allow them to do it. Poor creatures! B. 'i8.

"USELESS" STUDIES THE 1»I0ST USEFUL The watchword of twentieth century people seems to be ''Study nothing of which you cannot make use in future life." A man'who follows this rule strictly is educating him• self about as thoroughly as a Hindoo lawyer, who takes no notice whatever of anything that does not concern the law, and who becomes, in the end, merely a walking law- code. Specialization is not a modern discovery; it has been practiced for centuries by the Hindoos, who are at present one of the most backward of the nations. A cultured man is known by his familiarity with many things which would be of no use to him if he had to depend upon them for his living. If, in addition to this, he is familiar with the business which he practices, then he is, by means of the combination, an efficient man. If a student in college gives extended study to some unheard of science—anthropology or archaeology for in• stance,—he is generally held to be wasting his time,— unless it is imagined that he is specializing on the subject for his life-work. WISE AND— 55

No matter how useless in business a science is called, it is of more value to the student who likes to study it than a practical science would be to him if he were led by necessity to take it up. The spiritual is always preferred to the material; and one will always find more delight in studying something which feeds the mind and the soul than in studying something destined to feed the stomach and the pocket. The so-called useless sciences form habits of applica• tion; take man's mind off material cares; and cultivate deep thinking. Certain of these sciences, such as geology, archaeology, and philology, illustrate the power of the human brain to resolve causes and circumstances hidden in the mists of centuries. They give the student, then, a profound respect-for the human race, and for himself as a representative of that race. The argument that these sciences, because they deal with the past, are worthless either to the present or to the future, is the argument of men dulled by an excess of materialism. Even the much-abused Latin and Greek languages, dead though they be, are the best examples of the wonder• ful human faculty of making thought visible to the eyes. There are many men still who study those languages ex• cessively, in total defiance of all ideas concerning pre• paration for life. Of them the question is always asked: "What makes you like such useless work.""' The truth is, at first they did not like it; but they formed habits of study which turned work into play. Find out what most interests you, and make the study of it a hobby. Only dip a little deeply into it, and it will fascinate you. You will find that, instead of a task, think• ing is a pleasure and a privilege which is enjoyed only by man and is denied to other animals. One study will make you interested in others; and you will soon be covering a wide field of thought. BRADDOCK, 'I8. *95- Ernest Bingham was compelled to submit to a serious surgical operation during the latter part of Octo• ber. He is now getting back slowly but surely, as the doctor says, to a complete restoration of his old-time health. At present, in trying to make his way about the house, he is conscious of much sympathy for the tipsy man. Mrs. Mary Allison Bingham, ex-'oo, thinks the feats of strength that she has performed while her husband was laid up, would excite the admiration of her "gym" teacher of the old college-days. She remarks that the College boys and girls in Duluth, generally, "are so busy making a living and enjoying the bracing climate, that they rarely have time to do anything worth mentioning in the BUFF AND BLUE. '93. H. L. Stafford is held in such esteem by his. employers and associates that he is made acting-chief-clerk during the absences of the regular chief-clerk of the officers of the big steel company in which he is employed. '92. B. F. Round has bought a fine farm some eight• een miles from Duluth, Minn., and, during last summer, built thereon a snug cabin in which he and his family lived until the opening of the schools in the Fall. It is needless to add that therein our friends could snap their fingers at the high cost of living, and the children vocifer- ously proclaim without fear of chiding their enjoyment of the simple life. Ex-'18. Girls have been born to these former mem• bers of the Class of 1918: Mrs. Irene Hamilton Vestal, Mrs. Maud Hazzard Hunter, Mrs. Fannie Hoke Nicol. Mrs. Vestal's, born Nov. 4, is the latest and heaviest. ,14. And so,William Oscar Hunter is superlatively a happy father. It is a seven-pound young lady. THE ALUMNI 57

'07. J. H. McFarlane,, in renewing his subscription "for his favorite magazine, the BUFF AND BLUE," suggests that it would be but fair for the said "favorite magazine" to exchange with the school-papers. Well, well; that at first blush doesn't seem unreasonable. But to exchange, the BUFF AND BLUE must first exist; and, if it exchanges with both College-periodicals and school-papers, its ex• change list would be longer than its subscription list. The BUFF AND BLUE can hardly be said to make the two ends meet as it is; but it might be able to exchange with the school-papers by dropping the College-exchanges and the Exchange-Editor. What does our friend and "booster" say to that? Ex—'75. The October meeting of the Alabama Chap• ter of the Alumni Association was held at the home of W. S. Johnson. The suSragette movement seems to have reached Alabama, for we understand that the ladies car• ried all the offices. The time-honored Secretary, J. H. McFarlane, '07, seeing the way the wind blew, exercised his canny Scotch prudence and resigned in favor of one of the dominant sex. He promises to introduce us to the new secretary, "in case she ever has anything to report," and we bide in pleasant anticipation. '15. F. A. Moore is now teaching in the Alabama School, and is fast becoming Southernized, haven taken to the great Southern staple, hot-biscuit, as tho' he had been brought up on it. And—let us whisper in your ear, lest he grow vain—(the Southern belles have taken to Fred with such fervor as to threaten the record of Teddy Hughes.) '00. We were in error in saying that Miss. Deborah H. Marshall had returned to her home ie Connecticut; she has received an appointment as teacher in the School for the Colored Deaf at Newport News, Va. She passed thru Washington on her way south, and was happy in anticipa• tion of her new duties. 'o8- We have received the announcement of the mar• riage of George Herman Harper to Miss Jeannette A. 58 THE BUFF AND BLUE

Telder, a supervisor in the Michigan School, and a most attractive young woman both physically and spiritually. Their home is at St. Augustine, Fla., where Herman is employed as a linotype operator. '13. We see it stated in the Oklahoman that our friend G. C. Farquhar gave up teaching in the Oklahoma School last Spring on account of poor health. He recent• ly paid the School a visit and is reported to have been looking ruddy and healthy. A party was given in his honor by one of the lady teachers and the larger girls of the Domestic Science Department. Ex—'13. We were informed that Miss Jennie F. Sus- man is this year teaching a private pupil in Nebraska, but we note her name at several social gatherings of our college-people reported in the Deaf Oklahoman and suppose there must be a mistake somewhere. For instance, at the All Hallow E'en party, her person• ification of the character of "Sis Hopkins," is said to have stood as pre-eminently comic. ,12. Hubert B. West and Miss Jessie Litzenberg, ex- '16, were married on the 6th of October last. We under• stand that Mr. West is employed as a draftsman in the office of the Louden Manufacturing Company in Fairfield, Iowa. '03. Miss Margaret Hanberg spent her summer with brothers in Canada, away up in Alberta, we believe, or Saskatchewan. She returned to Baton Rouge, La., and arrived there on the morning after the great storm that swept over the South on October 6th. She had to pick her way to the Institution thru streets strewn with broken branches, dislocated fences, torn roofing, and electric wires. Much worry was felt at the School for the safety of the Principal. H. L. Tracy, '90, who had crossed the Mississippi River to bring in some of the pupils. But Mr. Tracy, always wise, did not essay the river in the storm, but tarried. And his wisdom was justified for both of the ferry, boats were sunk by the storm. THE ALUMNI 59

'14. W. G. Durian was married to Miss Elsie Fran- opf, a graduate of the Mount Airy, Pa., School for the Deaf, on the 20th of July last. Rev. B. R. Allabough, '84, performed the ceremony. After a bridal-trip around by Buffalo and Niagara Falls, the happy couple made for Hartford, Conn., where Mr. Durian is employed as instruct• or of printing and director of athletics in the school for the deaf. The Hartford people, we see, gave them a pleasant reception, and are to be congratulated on the addition to their circle of such refined and worthy people. '12. Leon P. Jones has given up his agricultural and fruit venture in Florida. The climate does not seem to agree with him. He and Mrs. Jones are now in Ohio. Ex-'i8. Miss Flora Toombs is now employed in the stitching rooms of McCaskey's department store in Col• umbus, O,,—that is, if our guess at the rather indefinite announcement in The Chronicle is correct. Ex—'77. We see by The Journal that our friend A. B. Greener while in California last summer, had pleasant visits to old-time college-boys now living there, and encounters with others, who, like himself, were touring in California. James M. Park, '75, gave him a very pleasant opportunity to view the glorious scenery and wonderful productiveness of the State from an automobile; and he seems to have made the most of the trip. '07. W. J. Hoverstick has mastered the linotype machine, and, as soon as the wave of prosperity strikes the printing-trade, he feels pretty sure of a job. Meanwhile, his deft hands have renovated and enlarged his aunt's home in Xenia, Ohio. '02. W. F. Schneider, according to impressions brought from Portland, Oregon, by Miss Ethelburga Zell, his classmate, now weighs two hundred pounds, which fact adds weight to his usual string of questions. He is a process-engraver, but has a strong leaning toward the poultry business, which he first took up as an amateur. His address is, No. 2055, Halladay Ave., Portland, Oregon. 6 THE BUFF AND BLUE

'08. F. W, Schoneman has, we understand, come east from Oregon, and is now connected with the Illinois School at Jacksonville. He has charge of the alumni department of The Advance, and, as such, has our heart- telt sympathy. '13—N. Julius J. Heimark has resigned his position as instructor in Gallaudet, and has taken up the study of medicine, as that seems to be the family profession, he having two brothers who are physicians. We wish him success, much wisdom and little medicine. '15. Ralph R. Decker, we are glad to learn, is em• ployed as a chemist in the Arkansas Zinc Company's laboratories. Walter D. Edington is working for the Na• tional Carbon Co., Cleveland, O., and Vernon L. Butter- baugh, in a laboratory in lola, Kansas. '11 and '15. We see it authoritatively stated that Bird L. Craven and Miss Dora Campbell were married on the 15th of last July in Portland, Oregon. The bridal trip was by boat to San Francisco and the Panama Canal Ex• position. They had an inexpressibly beautiful time, "for eyes looked love to eyes that spake again." '08. William Cooper and Mrs. Cooper (Winifred Jones, '08) are now living in Portsmouth, Ohio, where William has an interest in The Star, and feeds it with a linotype. He still plays ball occasionally, and retains his "batting eye" to the extent of "lining out" now and then "a two-bagger" of the type of the one that he "sent sizzl- in gdown the third-base line" in the game with St. John's in Annapolis, which he won by that hit and a "daring steal homefrom third." '09. Miss Jessie Beardsley visited in Omaha, Neb., and Council Bluffs, la., during the first part of October on her way home from California, where she had spent two months visiting relatives and studying the exposition. She was art-teacher at the Arkansas School last year. Whether she was dropped because she was a Prohibitionist, or a Suf- THE ALUMNI 6i iragette, or a Granger, or a Socialist, or an Anarchist, or an Industrial Worker of the World, we are not informed; but we understand that politics had something to do with it. After the close of school in June last, and previous to her depature for California, she took a course in the Chicago Art Instiute, that she might be better prepared for future calls. Wise Jessie! Ex—'i6. Miss Fern Herrinton is now living with her grandmother at Shell Rock, Iowa., and she is still Miss Fern. Her friend. Miss Florence Hetts, ex-'i6, of Water• loo, Iowa, was with her for one happy week recently. 'l2. Thomas L., and Mrs. Anna Johnson Anderson are at present staying at Minden, Nebraskai but have not gone back to the farm yet. It is said that they expect to do so in the Spring. '92- M. M. Taylor, in days of old, Gallaudet's great Alpine base-ball "back-stop" and foot-ball battering-ram, is now employed in Ann Arbor on the University of Mich• igan Daily. His family remain in Kalamazoo at present, but he is thinking of establishing his home in Ann Arbor and placing his son, now a Sophomore at Kalamazoo College, in the University—thereby swelling the enroll• ment of the great instiution of learning from 7200 to 7201. —Martin has still greater dreams of that enrollment. He hopes that in time the remainder of his half-dozen children will be able to matriculate and conjugate amo like their j>aterfa7nilias. 'ro. It cheered the foot-ball squad immensely during its recent game with Roanoke College, to have the refulg• ent phiz of William N. Toomey beaming on them from the side-lines. He had comedown Martinsville, W. Va.,— full sixty miles away,—just to see the boys. He is employ• ed at the latter place. '01. Robert S. Taylor found time from his plucking of cabbages to journey all the way to Raleigh to see the Gallaudet boys in their game with the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College. He was not power- 62 THE BUFF AND BLUE

ful enough as a mascot to bring victory to our boys, but his rooting seems to have created such a hubbub that, on one occasion, the Agricultural and Mechanical hardly observed the Gallaudet half-back sneaking across their goal-line. The Clerc Literary Association of Philadelphia, which has many former Gallaudet boys and girls as members, re~ cently celebrated its Golden Jubilee, and kindly invited THE BUFF AND BLUE to attend. It would have given us all great pleasure to have done so, for our Philadelphia, friends have always treated the College boys royally on their frequent visits to that city. Many thanks. Ex—'91. We have before us specimens of the engrav• ing and embossing done by the Himrod Engraving Com~ pany of Erie, Pa., of which Wililiam DeWitt Himrod is the head. They are all fine work, and, if we moved more in "Sassiety," we should be sending our friend large orders for we feel sure that the Jonses could not by any possibility get anything as fine, except by patronizing the Himrod Company. '14. Miss Edith M. Nelson returned to her California home in June last for the first time in six years, she having remained in the East during the whole time of her two courses in Gallaudet. She had hardly got rested from her arduous labors on Kendall Green, and put on a little of the needed flesh-padding, when she received an offer to- teach in the New Burnswick, Canada, School in St. Johns- She has accepted, and is, we suppose, at this writing, en• wrapped with furs teaching the young Canucks how to shoot (up). 63

BRO. G. C. BRADDOCK, EOITOR.

CHAPTER ALPHA, HAIL! Let us hear from you. —o— Swiftly do the spheres revolve in the starry heavens,— and swiftly does Bro. Schowe make the spheres revolve in the Shrine. —o— The gathering in the Shrine on the second day of the present moon was marked by a display and performance which was ruled by the transcendent power combined of the ET TEBREEZE and the ETH THAALIBER. Bro. Keeley took the chief part in the proceedings, and figured even to the OuterPortals of the Shrine. Bro.Erickson, fortitious- ly sent by VISHNU, expounded further action of the GRAND RAJAH by the light of precedent, and put a close to the matter. —-o— We are receving occasional letters and postals from Brethren of the class of 1915. As usual, and naturally, this mail is for the most part from Bro.Foltz. Alive or dead, he will ever be in the foreground, and intercept first all glances cast in his direction. 64 THE BUFF AND BLUE

The candidates for membership this year are: Stanley Light, 'i6; Foster D. Gilbert, Philip A. Heupel, and "Wallace Gibson of the class of 1918; and Gerald Ferguson, Robey Burns, Forrest Peard, Norbert Pilliod, Claude V. Ozier, and Thomas W. Osborne of the class of 1919. These have been in the hands of the Probation Committe for more than a month now with the exception of Mr. Heupel, who was registered as a candidate two weeks ago. Present appearances indicate that these men are ready to show their willingness to serve VISHNU by first serving the Brotherhood and the Terrible Four. —o— Bro. Decker "returned to civilization", he says, after seeing his name in the Lost column of this department last month. He reports himself as playing the role of assistant chemist in a zinc plant. Good luck, Brother!

The Probation Committee, composed of Bro. Mclnturff KAMOOS, chairman, and Bros.R. Wenger, Cuscaden, and Classen, is using improved methods with effect, and making their work an art to which Probation Committees in the future will have to adapt themselves.

Visit the great Cavern of VISHNU on the evening of January 29th, as guests of the new Intitiation Committee^ The Committee is ready to outclass all previous committees, or at the least to come up to standard. 6s

Do yoiir Christmas shopping early. Bo your first term cramming now! Miss Post '19, ~"Oh, yes, then I went to the grandstand and and had a reserved pew." At the Hallowe'en Masque: Bums '19, "What was the flower of your graduating class?" Miss Waggoner P. C, of Iowa, with a homesick look, "Com." Room-mate, "Oh, the gas jet is leaking! What shall I do?" Miss Rumsey '16, half asleep, "Put a pan under it and let it go." Deliance P.C. "You know the famous Indian pitcher. Bender? Well, he lives in my home town." Heupel '18, "Did you see him?" DeLance, "Nope, but one day I almost saw him." These days our little Miss Doran '19 wiU be seen cuddled up in a rocking chair or on the library sofa, often with a tear in her eye. To the query, "S'matter?", she will point a big bundled up finger at you. She don't know what it is—but—i-it hoits. Mr. Schmidt '17, after Lit., "Ah, good evening. Miss Olson. That was a well rendered program, don't you think?" Miss Olson'19, "Yes. Splendid. What was the subject of the debate?" Since the organization of the walking club, 'holy sox' and 'blist• ered souls' are frequent occurences. In spite of that, however, the Co-eds have to bring out their pedometers and test them on the track at Garlic Field in order to make the club manager swallow- it when they brag of walking eighteen or twenty miles in five hours. Freshie, "Your class seems to have very little spirit this year. ZicLst year my class, etc, etc." Rat, (not loud enough to be heard though) "That reminds me of the father who told his son that he was always a good boy when, he was little." 66 THE BUFF AND BLUE

Martin '16 and Kendall '16 were pouringr over the new laundry lists with a mess of soiled laundry scattered about. Sendall, "What's a negligee shirt anyway?" Martin, looking up from a dictionary, "It says here, 'An easy, unceremonious attire'." Kendall, "Well this shirt isn't negligee then. It's a swell silk shirt. There's no collar attached either, and I'll be dog-goned if its a plain shirt. It has stripes." Miss Fowler'16, "This paper tells of a man who died—then came to life again and told of death being merely a long, long journey on foot." Miss Keeley'16, "Oh, say girls, let's go walking." Miss Fowler, "Here, wait a minute. That fellow didn't say which place he was going to." Hugh dinger, of Colorado, and Floyd Bower, of Ohio, two members of the Preparatory class, needed less than a month to complete their work here, satisfactory to themselves, at least. Both were promising young men but their sudden leave-taking made a decidedly bad impression upon the students generally. One man, Kenneth Degener, of Illinois, has arrived to take their places. It is so easy to make a pun upon Mr. Degener (ate) and the degenerating Kat class, that we let you make the wheeze to suit yourself. Preparations for the Football Dance, to be given December fourth, are well under way. Shannon '16 has his 'swallow tali' suit separated from the moth balls, and Scott Cuscaden '17 has be• gun to worry over dance pumps for the occasion. Mr. Arthur Kassmussen '16, Mr. James Sullivan '17. Mr. Henry S. Austin '18, and Mr. T. W. Osborne '19 are the committee in charge{of the dance, not of Mr. Cuscaden's worries). Valiant P. C, "It makes me mad every time I think of them giving me this room. Its too dark." Whitworth P. C, "Why dont you turn on the other lights?" Valiant, "I never thought of that." Pres. Hall occupied the pulpit, Sunday evening, October thir• ty-first, and gave a splendid talk on "The L/essons of the Stars". The majesty of God as shown in the wonders of the heavens was his theme. It was an interesting, sincerely helpful sermon. This college year, instead of having speakers from the city for every meeting of the Y. W. C. A., leaders have been chosen from among the members to conduct every other meeting. Miss Peter• son '16, the president, conducted the first, which was held. Sun- l-Ol \1> 67 day evening, November seventh. Miss Williamson was present and highly complimented the success of the first meeting. "Service" was the subject of Professor Day's sermon, Sunday, November seventh. He told of the men and women who have served the world most conscientiously and bravely, and of hum• bler people whose greatest service is in kindly attention to the duties of every day. It was an impressively delivered talk upon a great subject. The members of the "Get-there- Get" and the "GoingSome" hiking parties no longer fret about the number of home football games. One party or the other is sure to be seen starting out, dinner under arm, early evers Saturday morning. Would that the District line could be stretched—there's so much temptation to walk over. Professor in Physics, "When the box is full it becomes more stable." Miss Studt '18, "Funny. When a man is full he becomes un• stable." Correction:- Our last issue contained the misinformation that Folly 'IS took first prize in that pop drinking contest. Folly him• self admits that he only took second. To think he could have fall• en so low as to follow another man to the finish in any kind of a contest. Miss Clark '16 wants to know how to do the Hardware (Har• vard) dance. There was a big fire in Raleigh N. C. during the visit of our football warriors to that city. A. Wenger criticized the efficiency of the Raleigh fire department quite freely, and explained that the fire blazed fiercely near his hotel window. "Was it hot?", someone wanted to know. "Shucks, I didn't wait to find out." Misses M. Pearson '17 and Keeley '16, each as Columbine, were the sensations of the Hallowe'en party. They were a lively pair and there was some doubt, for a time, whether they were hired acrobats or merely boisterous Rats. "Old Jim" was the scene of the fete on October twenty-third. The old-fashioned Hallowe'en games had lost none of their zest and with frequent trips to the keg of sweet cider, that was broach• ed early in the evening, every one had a splendid good time. Marshall '16, "Oh, you Rat! Where did you get those clothes?" Haley P. C, all rigged out in 1911 model football togs, "They are the best I could find, sir." 68 THE BUFF AND BLUE

Marshall, "Go and get a blanket. You ought to be ashamed."' Haley, "Well, you can't say we Rats lack spirit anyway, com• ing out here in public dressed like this." (Aside) "Gosh, but it is hard to wear this 'who cares' expression at every practice." The Faculty ruled, most unkindly, that the weather was too unsettled to permit the Co-eds out-of-doors on the day our warriors faced the eleven from M. A. C. These was a fine, cold drizzle falling that dampened and chilled one through and through. The special car was late and the crowd was standing about in lifeless, bedraggled grougs. It was up to 'Old Reliable' Stewart '99 to en• liven things. He started a conversation with the proprietor of Fairview Hotel, across the way. Stewart expressed doubt whether Keitt Sutherland(that's his, name) always lived up to his guarantee of 1049 beans to the plates and wanted to know if he could bring suit for damages if there were only 1048 beans. Keitt dished up a steamy mess and pushed it across the counter. "Yes sir, sue me if you like. Count 'em. Jes' Count 'em.'* A new doormat made its appearance at an entrance to Chapel, not long ago. Everyone took his turn tripping over the thing and then sat down and waited to see who would perform most grace• fully of the later arrivals. It was a split decision, with I^ight '1& holding the odds, until Miss N. Watts '17 set her toe against the mat—wobbled uncertainly a moment—and then floated gracefully through the door into the arms of the gentleman ahead. "Wives can save their husbands" was the subject of a sermon advertised at a church near Kendall Green. "WeU, weU. Think I'll get married." Braddock '18. An interclass debating contest is to be a feature of Literary Society programs this winter. The plan, now, is to permit each class to select their representatives: two debaters, and a third man to speak in rebuttal. Freshmen will face the Preps in the first contest; the winners debate the Sophomores and so on until the Seniors are given a chance in the finals. There is plenty of class spirit lying around idle and it seems an excellent scheme to harness it up and make it work for the good of the Ldterary Society. Mr. Mclnturff '17 is responsible for the new idea. The first of the series of Faculty L/ectures on Friday, Novem• ber 5th, was a discourse upon the European war and its effect upon America, industrially and socially. Dr. C. R. Ely was the speaker and he treated the subject interestingly and instructively. LOCALS 69

Seniors;- "Oh, where is our wandering ice crerm today?" Freshmen:- "At a Rat table all tucked away." Only it didn't happen as simply as that may sound. The Sen• iors made quite a fuss before they got their ice cream.

The Class of Nineteen-Eighteen is convalescing nicely. From a record class ia its preparatory year it dwindled down to a scant tablefull this faU. Austin made his appearance some three weeks late; then Townsend came straggling in two weeks later. In the course of time Willman came along and '18 beg^n to perk up again. Recruiting efforts will be suspended untU after the holidays. It can't be truthfully said that the programs of the L/iterary Society have been exceptional for talent, but they have all been uniformally good, and there has not been a single number that did not show thought and preparation. President Andrewjeski de• serves much credit for the improved standard of the meetings. The program for Oct. ISth: Lecture—"Some Vacation Scenes and Thoughts." Rev. Mr. Bryant. Debate—"Resolved-,That the United States is Prepared for War." AfE.-A. "Wenger '18; Claude Ozier '19. Neg.-F. D. Gilbert '18; S. J, Riley '19.—Won. Dialogue—"The Rehearsal." P. A. Heupel '18; W. K. Gibson '18. Declamation—"America to Americans." T. W. Osborne '19. Critic's Report— Prof. John B. Hotchkiss. The Program for Oct. 29th: Reading—F. Thompson '16. Debate—"Resolved that the United States Should Own and Control the Railroads." AS. Emil Hladik '17: Wm. Mellis '19.—Won. Neg. James A. Sullivan '17; H. W. Hetzler '19. Dialogue—"A I^esson in Courtesy." H. Smith '19; F. H. Dohrmann '19. Declamation—"King Electricity's Soliloquy." C. J. Schmidt '17. Critic's Report—Prof. Harley D. Drake '04. A rearrangement of the football schedule played havoc with the meeting of November twelfth. Valiant, P. C. was left without a team-mate but went right on and defeated his opponents single- handed. "Why", said he, to clinch his argument,"there is a whole rack of books at the Congressional I

Debate—"Resolved that Strikes axe a Benefit to the Ijaboring Class." Aff. O. R. OUnger '19; Davies P. C. Neg. H. G. Newman '19(withdrew); Walter Valiant P. C—"Won. Monologue—Original with Mr. G. C. Braddock '18. Declamation—Whitworth P. C. Critic's Report—R. J. Stewart '99. Here we have a "Rat" conceived editorial: "The way books are strewed about College Hall is enough to make the Rats quite dead. If they lean against a radiator, "Caesar" pokes them in the back. If they look through a window, "Maria Therese" is sure to stare up at them from the window sill. Kipling- was right, 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male'. Opening the book cautiously, they discover it is French. With a little screech they make for fresh air, only to trip over a volume of logic and fall sprawling by the wayside." On the evening of November twenty-fourth the Jollity Club will present its annual public play, which will be, "Miss Molly" a comedy in two acts. The cast of characters: Reginald Peters —Miss Elsie Peterson '16. Julian Hewitt Miss N. Watts '17. Annie Peters Miss Florence Harper '18. Joe-the dolored servant—Miss Ivilian Gwin '17. Molly Peters Miss Mabel Pearson '17. Cissie Saunders Miss Amy Fowler '16. Pearl White Miss Z,ula Watts '18. L,ady Elusia Winston-Miss EUen Pearson '17. A literary meeting of the O. W. L*. S. was held in the girl's li• brary on Saturday evening November Thirteenth. Following is the program presented: Liecture "Horace"—Miss Peet. Playlette—"Zoe" Cast: Mr. Crawley, an artist,—Miss Harper '18. Helen, his fiance Miss Mokko '18. Noel, his intimate friend-Miss Kau '19. Zoe, wife of Noel Miss Atkins '18. Burton, an art dealer Miss Boggs '18. Reading—Miss Gwin '17. Tableau—Misses Studt .18, Harold .18, Burke '19, Doran '19. Declamation-Miss Wallace '19. Critics Report-Miss Peterson '16. GALLAUDET 53 CARLISLE INDIAN RESERVES O Kendall Green, Oct. 23—Bewildered by the speed and variety of attack shown by the Buff and Blue, and re• tarded by a defence which smashed up their plays before they could be gotten well under way, the Carlisle Indian Reserves managed to give the powerful Gallaudet Eleven nothing more than a little practice. As the score shows, they were never really in it, being outgeneralled, outrun and outplayed in every period by the victorious Kendall Greeners. After the first three minutes of play there could have been no doubt concerning the final result. It took just that period of time for the Buff and Blue to make its first score. This came as the result of a series of line-bucks, Keeley carrying the ball over. Gallaudet played a brilliant open game throughout, the forward pass and end-run being large factors in her victory. These, pulled off with dazzling speed, had the redskins completely befuddled and up in the air, and except in small patches, the game was a landslide for the Kendall Green Eleven. Gallaudet scored in every period, appearing to be able to carry the pigskin over the line whenever she pleased. When the Indians made a misplay, there was always a Blue-clad warrior around to take advantage of it, two touch• downs being made through intercepted forward passes and another from a fumble. 72 THE BuFr AND BLUK

An unique feature of the game was the number of long runs pulled off by Gallaudet, Rockwell, Rendall, Keeley and Peard, each carrying the ball over fifty yards on one play. Rendall however has the distinction of leading the quartet, he having seized the ball from a fumble on Gal- laudet's fifteen-yard line, and sprinted eighty-five yards for a score. The Carlisle Team put up a particularly clean game. Though overwhelmed by the superiority of their opponents, their gameness and dogged fighting qualities elicted much admiration and favorable comment on the part of the spec• tators. For Gallaudet, Rockwell, Rendall, Peard, Keeley, and Classen starred in advancing the ball, while the defenive work of both Classen and Martin was far above the ordi• nary. Summary:— GAI.I,AUD«T POSITIONS CARX,ISI,S Peard L,. E. Nori Martin h. T. Blackbird Davis L, G. Foote Thompson C. Tarheel Ferguson R. G. Shell Cuscaden R. T. I/eRoy- Treiike R. E. Miles Rockwell Q. B. Clairmont Rendall U H. B. Bellefuille Keeley R. H. B. McDowell Classen F. B. Herman Substitutes—Gallaudet: A. Weng-er for Davis, Heupel for Fer• guson, Bums for A. Wenger, Rasmussen for Cuscaden, Courrege for Rockwell, Rockwell for Courreg-e, Newman for Rendall. Ren• dall for Newman. Carlisle: Eastman for Nori, Smith for Shell, Teesitaski for IteRoy, C. Bird for Miles, Shell for Eastman. Touchdowns—Rendall (2), Keeley {2),Classen (2), Rockwell, Peard. Goals—Keeley (2), Rockwell (2). Referee—Mr. Finey, Georg-e- town. Umpire—Mr. Farmer, Georg-e Washing-ton University. Head Ijinesmaa—Mr. Smith, Geo. Wash. Univ. Time of periods. ,—IS minutes. ATHLETICS 73

GALLAUDET 13 ROANOKE 27 ROANOKE, VA., Oct. 30— Weakened by injuries to star players, and further damaged, perhaps, by over-con• fidence, Gallaudet was overcome by Roanoke College, though not till after a battle that the Virginians will rem• ember for some time to come. The contest was hard and exhausting for both teams. Inasmuch as both generals favored line battering instead of open-play as a means of advancing the ball, each aggre• gation received its share of hard knocks, and for the great er part of the time, the ball see-sawed back and forth be- ween the opposing goal-lines. Gallaudet showed unexpected weakness in the first pe• riod, allowing Roanoke to desecrate her chalk-mark on two successive occasions. The Kendall-Greeners came back strong, however, in the second period, and twice crossed the Virginians goal-line. Roanoke scored two more touchdowns in the fourth period. Rockwell's playing and generalship were the.only out• standing features from the Gallaudet viewpoint. Summary:— GAUAUDET POSITIONS ROANOBtE Peard L,. E. Davidson Martin t,. T. Norman Davis I,. G. Blue C. Thompson C. O'Flaherty Ferguson R. G. S. Bonham Cuscaden R. T. Roe Treuke R. E. Williams Rockwell Q. B. M. Bewers Randall L,. H. B. Hoffman Keeley R. H. B. Duncan Classen F. B. J. Bonham Substitutions—Roanoke: Kinsey for Blue, Blue for Kinsey, Painter for Blue, Cadwallader for S. Bonham. Gallaudet: Wilson for Treuke, PilHod for Keeley, A. Wenger for Davis. Referee: Mr. Robertson. Umpire: Mr. Sampson. Head linesman: Mr. Mor• ton. Time of quarters—fifteen minutes. 74 THE BUFF AND BLUE

GALLAUDET 7 N. C. A. & M 27. Raleigh, N. C. Outweighed from twenty to thirty pounds to the man, and opposed by a team standing almost without a rival in the whole South, Gallaudet was forced to bow to the North Carolina Aggies on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 6. The game was marked by rushing tactics in ail periods, both teams essaying to gain thru the line rather than by open play. Aided materially by their wonderful offensive machine and marvelous interference, the 'Tar Heels" were superior at this style of attack and carried the ball across Gallaudet's goal line on four attempts. Despite the evident superiority of the Carolina aggre• gation, Gallaudet put up a game fight from the first toot of the whistle to the last. Such was the variety and speed of the BUFF AND BLUE'S attack that the "Aggies" were constantly on the defensive, bewildered as to where the next shell would landi One thing evident in Gallaudt's showing was SPIRIT. Gallaudet scored in the first moment of play, through a long forward pass—Classen to Peard. Having sneaked unobserved almost to the side lines, Peard received the ball in an open field and had no trouble in carrying it seventy- five yards for a touchdown. In the second period, Gallaudet pushed the ball down to within striking distance of the "Tan Heels" goal, but lost it on downs, the pigskin being then but a foot from the line. The Aggies scored two touchdowns in the first period and two in the fourth, all by smashing tactics. Rendall put up a star game for Gallaudet at quarter• back. It was his first game in that position, but he played like an old-timer, not only directing the other backs to advantage but often carrying the ball himself for big gains. Rockwell and Cuscaden also did commendable work. Summary:— ATHLETICS 75

N. C. A. AND M. Positions GAUAUDET Seifort R. E. Trenke McCoy R. T. Cuscaden "Winston R. G. Davis R. Davis C. A. "Wenger Kirkpatrick Lt. G. Martin Nooe L,. T. Ferg-uson Temple Li. E. Peard Sharpe Q. B. Rendall Bonner R. H. B Keeley SuUivan L. H. B. Rock-well Homewood F. B. Classen Substitutions—Gallaudet, "Wilson for Peard; N. C. A. and M.— Cross for Seifort, "Weathers for McCoy, Rand for "Weathers, Ebrin for Rand, Lawrence for Nooe, Abemethy for Temple, Rice for Sharpe, Sumner for Bonner, Raddick for Sumner, Sykes for Sulli• van, Robbin for Homewood. Touchdowns—Peard, Bonner, Sulli• van (3). Referee—Mr. Fury, Georg-etown. Umpire—Mr. Bray, A, and M. Head linesman—Mr. Simpson, Texas A. and M. Field Judge—Mr. Haden, Clemson. Time of Quarters—^10 and IS minutest ?6

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