BEAT MAINE Homecoming Day November 13 31tp imtttpslurp BEAT MAINE The Official Organ of the University of New Hampshire Volume 17. Issue 8.______ DURHAM, N. H., NOVEMBER 11, 1926. Price, 10 Cents POLITICAL SITUATION GROWS DARKER THE TEAMS’ RECORDS PLANS FOR HOMECOMING DAY PROGRAM NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 Marines 24 AS DURHAM PREPARES FOR ELECTION 0 Bowdoin 7 CONTAIN SEVERAL FEATURE EVENTS 6 Colby 0 Citizens are Puzzled as to Candidate Best Fitted for 7 R. I. State 6 Athletic Department to Follow Example of Colleges Important Office That Controls Destinies of Town 14 Springfield 24 0 Connecticut Aggies 3 Throughout Country in Observing “Walter Camp” Day 28 Tufts 3 Five Exceptional Candidates Filed for Office of Mayor—Campaign Pro­ — _ Program to Start With Rally Friday Night—Band Has Added New Features gresses Rapidly as Election Day Draws Near—All Voters Re­ 55 67 to Program—Mayor of Durham to Throw Out First Ball—Big Informal quested to Go to Polls Friday—Contest Tightens as Battle MAINE In Men’s Gym Saturday Night—Expect Several Hundred Visitors Draws to Close 7 Ft Williams 6 and Alumni to Take Part in Varied Program-—Accommodations 7 R. I. State 0 In Charge of H. R. Rollins No longer does quiet prevail upon 34 Middlebury 0 the campus; no longer is the peace WILDCATS TAKE 21 Connecticut Aggies 0 With several committees at work, 33 Bates 0 of night undisturbed; no longer can the plans for Homecoming Day are 7 Colby 6 the retii’ing citizens of Durham re­ TUFTS JUMBOS 21 Bowdoin 6 rapidly progressing. Accommodations main in the background. Daily they have been secured for the great 130 18 are greeted by shoutings; bands play New Hampshire’s Strong multitude of Alumni and visitors continuously from dawn ’till dawn; Aerial Game Wins, 28-3 who are expected to return. The high powered cars rush from place to , EDWARD BALLANTINE program will start with the big place; serious faced groups gather RECITAL AT GYM Rally Friday night in front of the Abbiatti Runs 97 Yards for Touch­ everywhere; shrieks are heard from Franklin Theatre. The Mayor of down—Varsity Team Works as a the girl’s dormitories,—Durham is Mr, Roland Partridge and the Com­ Durham will be elected at this time Unit—New Wingmen Perform bined University Glee Clubs As­ electing its first Mayor. Well sist in Program and will make his first public ap­ Five upright and illustrious citi­ pearance before the football crown zens have filed their nominations for Capt. Paul Lamoreau of Maine The Wildcat football eleven humbled A -rlarge group of students and Saturday. In conjunction with the office. Five men, with records the Tufts Jumbos last Saturday at faculty attended the MacDowell Con­ Homecoming Day, “Walter Camp pure and unspotted as a lily, are the the Tufts Oval, running up a final cert given at the Men’s gymnasium candidates for that office which will Day” will be observed. The band score of 28 to 3 on the Bay Staters. Wednesday night by Mr. Edward Bal- control the destinies of this commu­ will display its merits as usual with It took the New Hampshire team lantine of Harvard, foremost of nity for a year. The voters of Dur­ two periods to hit their stride, but America’s younger composers, Mr. Captain Callahan of New Hampshire several new formations and pieces ham should realize the importance of INTRAMURAL NOTES four touchdowns showed their offen­ Roland Partridge of the University on the repertoire. It is expected their choice. The wrong man can sive power in the second half. The staff, and the combined glee clubs di­ INTER-SORORITY COUNCIL that there will be hundreds of visitors ruin all the clean, imposing and aerial attack of the varsity bewild­ rected by Mr. Robert W. Manton of HOLDS ITS ANNUAL DANCE to enjoy this program. well-meaning things for which this ered the Tufts team. Basketball— Championship the Music department. All guests will register at the fair town is famous. Tufts took an early lead in the first The concert was arranged by the The third annual dance of Pan Faculty Club upon their arrival. Mr. Nearly all the major questions of Series: Wednesday, Nov. 17, 5 p. period when Fitzgerald, right tackle, Music department of the University Hellenic, executive committee of the Rollins, the Secretary of the Durham the day are represented in the re­ m.; Friday, Nov. 19, 4 p. m.; kicked a field goal to give his team and the Durham Women’s Club. The six women’s fraternities, is to be Branch of the Alumni Association, markable platforms offered by the Monday, Nov. 22, 4 p. m. their only score of the game. Both proceeds will be used in the interest held tonight in the men’s gymnasium. has charge of the rooming facilities candidates. Remembering the words elevens battled evenly during the first of the MacDowell colony at Peter- This dance is the first formal one of and accommodations may be secured of Saint Peter when he said, “Take Boxing— Preliminaries, Dec. half with New Hampshire gaining boro of which Mr. Ballantine has been the year. from him at this time. no more water but drink a little wine 8-10; Semi-finals, Dec. 13; Fin­ power as the game progressed. The a member. Decorations are to be very similar Saturday morning will be given for thy stomach’s sake,” some of the time out at the half failed to stop the als, Dec. 15. to those of former years. All the over to the Alumni to visit their old aspirants favor liquor. Others, look­ The program was as follows: attack of the Blue and White team, fraternity colors will be used, form­ haunts, their Fraternities, the new ing for votes of the hypocritical cit­ Winter Sports— Jan. 21-22, Grant Us to do W ith Zeal (choral) which started off with two touch­ Johann Sebastian Bach ing a false ceiling. Music is to be buildings, and to renew old ac­ izens who suspend full cider jugs 1927. (Intramural only.) University Glee Clubs downs in the third quarter. furnished by Al. Colby’s Bay View quaintances. The official program from their windows in the dead of Rhapsody Johann Brahms Stewart took over the ball for the Rovulo, Sonata, Op. 79 Beethoven Orchestra from Rochester. will begin at 2.30 in the afternoon. night, favor absolute Prohibition. Reflections on the Water Debussy first touchdown after Abbiatti and Chaperones are to be Mrs. De- The afternoon program begins Each and every candidate holds views Of Br’er Rabbit Macdoweli Nicora had carried the pigskin to the Mr. Ballantine Meritt, Mrs. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. with the parade of the b^nd. It will (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 2) Kalijarvi, and Mr. and Mrs. Depew. march onto the field in the usual I manner and form not only the “N. H.” but an “M” as well. It will then play both the Maine and New Hamp­ CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR OF DURHAM shire songs. The University Band under the direction of Mr. Manton, Director of Music, has been at work for several weeks on its part of the program. The Mayor of Durham will then assume his public duties by following the current custom of throwing the first ball in to the arena. The five candidates are actively carrying on their campaigns in order that they may have the honor of thus appear­ ing before the former citizens of Durham. Between the halves of the Foot­ ball game, an innovation in the form of memorial exercises for the “Father of Modern Football” Walter Camp will be held. “ Walter Camp Day” is to be celebrated in every section of the country as a signal mark of respect to the memory of the man who did so much to make College football what it is today. No Joe standing in front of his hunting The New Gray Mayor Running for Silent “Abe” Burke Lawrence Jensen particular day has been picked for lodge in the Adirondacks. Office “Midget” Kalijarvi this observance, but the Athletic De­ His winter home may be seen in the partment selected Homecoming Day background. as the most appropriate. The follow­ KALIJARVI WILL CANDIDATE BURKE JENSEN RUNS ing program has been arranged by a “NEW GRAY committee under Professor Perley: BRYANT’S “LIFE AVOWEDLY WET Taps Sounded by University Bugle PLACE LIQUOR MAYOR” HAS FOR LIBERTY Corps Flag Raising R. O. T. C. Color OF WILKINSON” William Michael Burke, wet candi­ To the Citizens of Durham:— Guard “It is with great and profound de­ SUPPORTERS liberation that I offer myself, my ut­ date for mayor of Durham, was born You are now in an important era America To be sung by all Modesty personified, describes Joe most endeavors, my valuable time, in in the Vermont wilderness in 1895. of community life and development. The main event of the day is the to perfection. There have been five fact, all that I am and all that I ever I was born of poor parents in the He spent his early career breaking Your present position is due entirely Football game between the Wildcats granite and hearts in Barre. The stages in his life: 1. “Little Jack” ; hope to be to the good of this enter­ nearby metropolis of Portsmouth, N. to your efforts in making this town and the University of Maine war­ working girls’ friend, the students’ 2. Boot Jack; 3. Lumber Jack; 4. prising town. I am a man of great H.