THE FLAT HAT VOL. I. COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY IN VIRGINIA, MAY 14, 1912 No. 29 BOTH RICHMOND & HAMPDEN-SSDNEY SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS POSTED THE WILLIAM & MARY QUARTERLY MOTHER GOOSE PAGEANT UNIQUE. TAKE VICTORIES WITH ALL EASE EARLY IN ORDER TO AVOID CONFLICTS ENDS YEAR WITH APRIL ISSUE GIVEN FRIDAY IN THE PLAYERS'DELL The Cup of Sorrow is Passed Around tor the\ Begin on Wednesday, May 29, and Continue Number Four of Volume XX Has the Usual One Hundred and Fifty Characters Take Part in 15th Successive Time. Coliege Drinks to Dregs On Through the Eighth of June , Amount of Valuable Historical Essays etc. This Most Spectacular Event of the Year Richmond College won one of its The schedule of final examinations The April issue, number four of On Friday afternoon last Player's infrequent victories over a William was posted on the bulletin board in volume twenty, of the William and Dell was the scene of the bright and Mary team on Wednesday last, the vestibule of the Wren Building Mary College Quarterly has been Mother Goose Pageant, the little defeating the local nine in an excit- Monday morning. The early posting received. This number ends the opera, The House that Jack Built, ing game by the score of 6-4. was arranged in order to allow time year and volume, and must be rank- given by the children of the Matthew Jones started on the mound for for the adjustment of any coflicts ed among the best ever prepared by Whaley School and superintended by the locals, and Ancarrow lead off that might arise. It is requested Dr. Tyler, who founded the publi- Misses Davis and Stillwell. with a single. Beale doubled to that any and all such conflicts be cation twenty years ago. Asa con- PARADE TO THE COLLEGE right, and both scored when the brought to the attention of Doctors tribution to Virginia, and therefore Forming at the School the brilliant ball rolled past Wilson. The Orange Hall, Keeble and Montgomery. Southern History it has no equal, assemblage of more than one hun- and Black drew a goose-egg for the SUBJECTS AND DATES going as it does to the fountain head dred and fifty men, women, and first four innings, but the Spiders Wednesday. May 29, A. M., Math- and genesis of all subjects, and pre- children headed by Old King Cole kept coming in the second. Clark ematics V, Psychology II; P. M., senting the facts accurately and im- in the person of the Rev. Mr. Hea- singled, Woodward fouled out to Education X, Physics IV. partially. thorn, and his queen, Mrs. L. W. Games, and Wiley started one over Thursday, May 30, A. M., Latin THIS NUMBER CONTAINS Lane, Jr., followed by courtiers, second which scored Clark, scoring IV, Logic; P. M., Ethics, German as the first article an account of retainers, and all the inhabitants of himself a moment later on a swiped IV, History II, Latin V. paper money in Colonial Virginia in Mother Goose land wended its way station and Beale's singles. Shiers Friday, May 31, A. M., Education which it may be seen how prominent to the College Campus and thence to then succeeded Lewis on the mound, IV, Physics II; P. M., English XIV, and how disastrous a part this form Player's Dell. The Dell was staged and killed the fun by striking out | Zoology II. of currency played in early Virginia. as a beautiful little arbor into which Mr. Meredith. In the next inning Saturday, June 1, A. M., Educa- The case of Mr. John Robinson, at the summons of Old King Cole, Lewis singled with two down, scor- tion VIII, Botany I, Chemistry IV; Treasurer of the Colony from 1738 Mrs. Miles as Mother Goose brought ing on Clarke's hit, but after this, P. M., Education II, History V. to 1768, and also Speaker of the her family of fairies, elves and an- Shiers was invincible. Monday, June 3, A. M., Latin II; House of Burgesses, is given in de- imals. There was the pig that was RALLY IN THE FIFTH P. M., History IV, German II, Psy- tail and exonerates that gentleman eat and Tom that was beat, Mary's chology IV, Chemistry II. from the strong accusations of the famous little lamb, the priest all The locals took a great rally in shaven and shorn, Jack Spratt and the fifth, after Gwaltney had suc- Tuesday, June 4, A. M., Educa- early chroniclers. tion VI, French IV, Drawing I, The genealogical notes are exten- his plump wife, the dog that got ceeded Meredith as the Spiders' stung on the bone and many other flinger. Hubbard drew a pass, Botany II; P. M., English XIII, sive and contain sketchesof the Fox, Philosophy VIII, Drawing II. Taliaferro, Roper, and Eldridge characters celebrated in the song went to second, and scored on Shiers' and story of Mother Goose. single. Alfriend then cut loose with Wednesday, June 5, A. M., Polit- families. The data of the Taliaferro a two-bagger scoring Shiers and ical Science III, English XVI, Greek family is a continuation of an inter- Miss Rose Emory caused much romping home on Addison's safety. II, French II, English XV, Zoology esting serial on that prominent fam- merriment as she rode through the Clark, however caught the latter V; P. M., English IX, Manual Arts ily of Virginia. dell with rings on her fingers and asleep on first, and Dix flied out. II. The crop book of Colonel Landon bells on her horse's bridle, pursuing Garth hit safely and went to second Thursday, June 6, A. M., Mathe- Carter sheds light on the agriculture her way to Banbury Cross, which when Lewis foozled Games' hot matics VI, History VII; P. M., Eco- of the latter part of the eighteenth lies on the west of Player's Dell. grounder, but Wilson fanned the nomics, English XI, English VII. century. The diary of Dr. John H. One of the prettiest scenes of the air. One more was added in the Friday, June 7, A. M., Mathemat- Bocok of Buckingham County is pageant was the fairy dance taken ninth on errors and a hit by Garth, ics III; P. M., Surveying. quoted; and a will of Mary Cary of part in by the fairest of the little but a brilliant catch on Wilson ended Saturday, June 8, A. M., Mathe- Surry County, printed in its entirety, misses of the country. Mary quite all hope. matics II. contains a wealth of detail, showing contrary and Daffy Downy Dilly were HAMPDEN-SIDNEY SATURDAY the contents of a well arranged idyllic pictures of those stories and Hampden-Sidney annexed the big W. AND M, A. AND HAMPTON GAME household at the beginning of the last the sweet voices of Miss Cole and century. It is not known who this Miss Bozarth lent attractiveness to end of an 8-1 score on Saturday on In the only game which the man- a field better adapted to canoeing lady was, but she must not be con- the scene. agement of the Academy baseball fused with the beautiful Mary Cary, than baseball. The locals started team has secured for them, the ALL WELL, AND ENDED WELL out with a rush, Garth nailing a of Williamsburg, the first love of Dues were defeated by the Hamp- Washington. The King and his Queen occupied three bagger into deep center, and ton High School nine here on Satur- Other contributions are Letter of the centre of the background with scoring on Peachy's safety. Lewis day afternoon by the score of 8-2. their courtiers, jesters, heralds, hit Dix, and Hubbard and Addison The game was clean and fair John Maund, Letter of Benjamin R. Pollard, Ministers' Bonds of Pittsyl- sages, and the fiddler's three. Gath- both got one, but the heady playing throughout. The visitors were as ered around, in the middle ground of H-S prevented more scoring. nice a bunch of prep school athletes vania County, and Historical and Genealogical notes. were the little butterfly fairies and Jones for W. and M. dished out as were ever seen at William and in front lay the road to Banbury scoreless innings for the first two Mary. Bringing a husky bunch of A reader of THE FLAT HAT in New Cross. periods, but Garth's error with two rooters with them, they made Cary Altogether it was a brilliant af- down was followed by two hits, and York sent in the following definition Field ring with cries of Hampton. which she had gotten fresh from fair and many pleased and gratified Wysor scored for H.-S. Painter The Dues put up a good game con- parents went away with nine foot came up in the next inning and rap- California: A suffragist is a woman sidering the fact that it is their first who wants suffrage; a suffragette parental smiles upon their visages (Continued on fourth page) (Continued on fourth page) is one who bites the policeman. (Continued on fourth page) THE FLAT HAT the System, whereby a student sources that the promoters of theof the venerable precincts of the tri- Stuhilitas et Fides. might give evidence of his guilt or Summer School were hoping to have angular Green of the College, and innocence; and again in Eighteen a continuation of THE FLAT HAT at most, it should not be carted out FOUXDED OCTOBER 3. 1911 Hundred and Thirty another 'Statute during that term, and had sought of the Old Capital.