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But while the Boarding Club was the cause of many an angry word from the average student. where would we have been without it? The food was wholesome, the quantity was sufficient, and the expense was light, and the members of the faculty who labored so hard and earnestly for the success of the club with no reward save the glow of their inner consciousness, deserve a great deal of com- mendation from the students who profited by their labors. The stewards and employes should be commended for faithful and pains- taking work in the face of disheartening odds, and the merchants of the town should receive their share of praise for the many kindnesses done the club. And, while the students passed unkind remarks upon the conduct of the club, they remained members, and appeared with great regularity at their accustomed places. While they stated to the unfortunate committee that nothing was right. they brought their friends to dine and sup and they themselves grew strong and healthy and seemed happy in spite of the amount of grumbling they felt forced to do. So let us give justice to the Boarding Club. In spite of the failings that are inseparable from an organization of that kind. the club helped many a poor boy to the coveted sheepskin, taught many a student the dignity of honest labor, and around those old tables friendships were formed, the influence of which will endure when the old club is but a faint memory of its care-free, grumbling. happy members.
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ATHLETICS.
The present Athletic Association was organized April 18, 1894. with Peter Brown as president and F. M. Lowden as secretary. A baseball team was organized with S. B. Long as captain. Few games were played this year.
In '94-'95 S. B. Long was elected president and L. V. Corner secretary. F. W. Long was captain of the football team, which was composed of the following men: Lowden, center; Kimel, right guard; Clemens, left guard; Chittenden, left tackle; Savage, right tackle; McCroskey, left end; Hardwick, right end; Moore, quarter back; F. W. Long, right half back; McReynolds, left half back; Winston, full back.
The first game was played with the U. of I. of Moscow. The first touchdown was made by the W. A. C. in thirteen and one-half minutes. Long kicked a difficult goal. The second touchdown was made by the W. A. C. six minutes after the beginning of the second half. Long missed goal; final score: W. A. C., 10; U. of I., 0.
The second game was played with the Spokane High School at Spokane, with a final score of: Spokane 18, W. A. C. 0. This was the first and only defeat that our team has ever suffered. In the spring of '95 a baseball team was organized, but no games were played.
The annual field day between the U. of I. and W. A. C. was held at Pullman June 8th. 1895. No records were broken. W. A. C. won the day by a score of 38 points out of a possible 50.
McCroskey carried off the prize for the all-round athlete with fourteen points to his credit.
In '95-96 F. M. Lowden was elected president of the associa- tion, Carl Estby, vice president: J. E. Clemens, secretary; Lieuten- ant Stockle, treasurer: and F. W. Long, field manager. The foot ball team was composed of the following: Lowden, C. and captain: Kimel, R. G .; Reed. L. G .; Clemens, L. T .; Fisher, R. T .; Moore, R. E .; McCroskey, L. E .; Winston, Q. B .; Long. F. B .; Doty, L. H .: Brodie, R. H .: Hamilton, Mosely, and Goodsell, subs. The first game was played with U. of I. on home
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grounds. U. of I. made a touchdown in six minutes by hard center line bucking, no goal. The second touchdown was made by Brodie (W. A. C.) by a beautiful thirty-yard run. Long kicked goal. The score at the end of the first half: W. A. C., 6; U. of I., 4. In the second half Doty (W. A. C.), with the assistance of a splendid inter- ference, made a forty-yard run through a broken field for a touch- down; no goal; final score: W. A. C., 10; U. of I., 4.
The second game was played with Spokane Athletic Associa- tion at Spokane on Thanksgiving. After the game with the U. of I. the college team spent its entire time in strengthening their line work, the result of which training was shown in the game with Spo- kane, when our team made five touchdowns and three goals to Spo- kane's one touchdown and no goal; final score: W. A. C., 26; Spo- kane, 4.
The field day was held in Moscow and was the most exciting athletic contest ever held between the U. of I. and W. A. C. The honors of the track were about evenly divided, but the U. of I. boys outclassed our boys in the field, U. of I. winning twenty-seven points out of a possible forty-five. The baseball team was composed of S. B. Long, catcher and captain; F. W. Long, pitcher; Mosely, first base; McReynolds, second base; Crawford, third base; Winston, short stop; Fisher, True and Hooper, in the field. The only game of importance was the one played with the U. of I. at Moscow, with a final score of 6 to 4 in favor of W. A. C ..
In '96-'97. W. W. Doty, president; W. C. Kruegel, vice presi- dent: J. E. Clemens, secretary; Lt. Stockle, treasurer; D. A. Brodie, field manager. Doty and Kruegel left college at the end of the first semester, and M. P. McCroskey and Ed Kimel were elected to fill the vacancies. The football team lined up with Jones, C .; Kimel. R. G .; Woods, L. G .; Clemens. L. T .: Hooper, R. T .; McCroskey, L. E. and captain: Hamilton, R. E .; Winston, Q. B .; Doty, L. H .; Gammon, R. H .; Reed, F. B .; Goodsell, Loomis, Richardson and Sapp, subs.
The first game of the season was played with Lewiston Nov. 10th on the home grounds, while a heavy rain was falling. The
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pigskin was so slippery that good football was impossible. It was in this game that Lyden of Lewiston was hurt and carried off the field. The final score was: W. A. C., 26; Lewiston, 0.
The next game was played with Company C. N. G. W., of Walla Walla. The game took place at Colfax on Thanksgiving. with four inches of snow on the ground and the thermometer be- low zero all day. In this game we had a chance to play against our old captain. F. M. Lowden, who "lined up" against Clemens. He and "Mark" broke honors about evenly. The final score was: W. A. C., 24; Company C, N. G. W., 0.
The last game of the season was with Lewiston, on their grounds. Neither team scored in the first half. Both teams scored in the second half, the score at the close being: W. A. C., 6; Lewis- ton, 6.
On December 19th was given the first indoor athletic enter- tainment. These entertainments, with a programme consisting of boxing, wrestling, club swinging, tumbling, etc., are one of the at- tractions of the year. The baseball team for this year took positions as follows: Gillette, C .: Evans and Winston, P .; Hooper, first base and captain; second base; Davies, S. S .: Winston and Evans, third base; Stimel, Boatright, and -- in the field.
No college games were played this year. No field day was held with U. of I. this year, but we held on the college grounds, May 29th, an open field day. Many outsiders took part, but most of the honors were carried off by the W. A. C. students.
In '97-'98, Jones, president; Winston, vice president; Corner. secretary; Brodie, treasurer; Mumm, field manager. When the Spanish-American war broke out Jones enlisted and Hamilton was elected to succeed him. The football team lined up with Field, C .; Sapp. R. G .: Hyde, L. G .: Clemens and Larkin, L. T .; Woods. R. T .: McCroskey and Bucklin, L. E .; Hamilton and Troupe, R. E .; Winston. Q. B. and captain; Jones, L. H .; Goodsell, R. H .; Loomis. F. B .: Cummings and Thorne, subs.
The first game was at Spokane with the Athletic Club. Our boys made two touchdowns in the first twelve minutes. It was just
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before the second touchdown that Hamilton had his knee cap broken and MeCroskey had his neck seriously injured, but they both played through the game. The final score was 16 to 8 in favor of the W. A. C. team.
The second game was played with Whitman College of Walla Walla. Larkin was substituted for Clemens, who had left college, and Bucklin and Troupe for Hamilton and McCroskey, who were injured in the Spokane game. Our team secured three touchdowns and two goals, while Whitman made one touchdown. Score: W. A. C., 16; Whitman, 4.
In January the association gave its second annual athletic en- tertainment with several new and interesting features. The baseball team for this year was composed of the following: L. R. Ruther- ford. C .: Winston, P. and captain; Williams, first base; Crawford. second base; Davies, short stop; Hamilton, third base: Proff. W. A. Rutherford and Mumm, in the field.
The first game was played with our old time rival, the U. of I., at Moscow. This was the most interesting game of the season. After eleven innings the score stood 4 to 5 in favor of W. A .. C. There was a series of games played with Whitman and Colfax. W. A. C. winning two of each three. In the field day W. A. C. won thirty- six points out of a possible thirty-nine. This was largely due to the fact that the U. of I. had lost many men because of the war.
In '98-99. Hamilton, president; Goodsell, vice president: Woods, secretary; G. M. Palmerton, treasurer; V. E. Williams, field manager. The following was the football line up: Hyde, C .; Pool. L. G .; Cummings. R. G .; Hooper, L. T .; Larkin, R. T .; Woods, R. E .; Sapp, L. E .; Offner, Q. B .; Goodsell. R. H .; Palmerton and B. E. Mashburn, L. T .; Hamilton, F. B. and captain; Clark, Proff, Baker and Clizer, subs.
The first and only game was played with Whitman on home grounds. This was the hardest game our team ever had, which fact is shown by the score of 0 to 0. Woods was injured early in the game and Clark was substituted, this being the second time in the history of W. A. C. football that a sub was used.
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During the winter the association gave another athletic enter- tainment and Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice." both being very successful.
The students and citizens of Pullman, on one occasion, went to Moscow to see a football game between the W. A. C. and U. of 1 .. but owing to a "typographical" error they all paid fifty cents and returned without seeing a game.
QUADRUPLE ASSOCIATION OF MINING ENGINEERS.
Early in September, 1897. the Quadruple Association of Min- ing Engineers was formed and officers elected as follows: Presi- dent, C. H. Goodsell, '01; vice president, D. P. Woods, '01; secre- tary. L. R. Gillette, '01; treasurer, J. H. Jones, '01. Later Mr. Orin Stratton, '98, joined the association, and the next year Mr. P. T. Lynch and G. W. Evans were admitted as members. The object of the association is to study the mining and milling operations, the different smelting processes and the treatment of ores as carried on at different places in the world; also to investigate the countries not yet explored, with the object of ascertaining the probabilities of opening up new mining regions. Through the energetic manage- ment of Mr. Gillette and Mr. Stratton, quite a large library of use- ful information was collected and the association advertised throughout the country. Business became so brisk and queries from many persons concerning different mining regions so numerous that it was thought best for some of the members of the association to personally investigate the countries which were exciting public interest.
In June '97 Mr. George Evans was sent to the Klondike coun- try to examine it and to report on the interior of Alaska and North- ern British Columbia. About this time Mr. J. H. Jones was sent to the Philippines to explore that group of islands and report on their mineral wealth.
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Mr. Orin Stratton also took leave and is now situated at Hono- lulu. He will report on the minerals supposed to exist in the Sand- wich Islands.
Mr. Gillette has been engaged in local work throughout the mining region of British Columbia and Washington. He returned last semester and will prepare an elaborate report.
During the absence of these members there remained only two Irishmen and one American to carry on the business. Next year Mr. Lynch will visit the tin mines of Cornwall, England, and rela- tives at Cork, Ireland. Mr. Woods will visit Butte, Buffalo Hump. the Seven Devils region, Colorado and Mexico.
Mr. Goodsell will take a trip to lower Africa and South Amer- ica. As soon as the members have prepared their reports, which will be some time in the future, a book is to be published containing a full account of the mining operations as carried on in different quarters of the earth, as well as a description of the promising coun- tries which have been overlooked.
There is no doubt but what this will be the most extensive scien- tific book ever written in regard to the mining industry.
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COLLEGE PAPERS.
"The W. A. C. is destined to become a great educational insti- tution," so says the faculty. Thanks are due to the extinct "Col- lege Record" and the extant "Evergreen," both of which have played their respective parts in the past and present greatness of the aforesaid great institution. History reveals the fact that the W. A. C. was first opened to the cold unfeeling public on January 13th, A. D. 1892, A. L. 5892, at the hour of 9 a. m.
For the first few days the school was not a success. Why? Because there was no "Circulating Medium" whereby a student or member of the faculty could ascertain what was being said or done by another member of the aforesaid mass of human beings which numbered less than thirty persons in all. But cruel fate is not always sufficient to keep a good thing down. Our fatherly and motherly faculty put their knowing heads together and taxed their faculties to the utmost, and as a result of their timely counsel, a meeting of the "Young Ideas" was called for January 25. The brains (faculty) and gall (of students) "turned out" en masse. The brains expressed themselves and the gall served as audience, due to the fact that the gall was rather green as yet in the managing of their own affairs, and the faculty served as a "protectorate." After much discussion, pro and con, it was decided that the great and only W. A. C. should have a paper-a real college paper with editors-and here the fun began. Everyone wanted the first plum and the "Modern Log Rol- ler," as he lobbies an appropriation bill through our state legisla- ture is only an amateur as compared with those would-be pen push- ers of '92. After due consideration and a number of ballots it be- came evident that a "dark horse" would be the only peaceable means of settling the matter. At 12 p. m. a caucus was held and little Willie Barkhuff was duly doomed to be "head push" of the new en- terprise, which was soon afterwards christened "The College Rec- ord." "Willie the Scribe" was a little home grown article from the rural districts of the state and was yet clad in kilt and pinafore, but felt as big as a man. The co-laborers on the staff were small chil- dren, viz .: Cynthia Fariss, Quimby Merriman and Woodhull Seaton
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Van Doren. Cynthia prepared for the first issue an original article called "Co-education." The article has never been plagiarized that we are aware of. Seaton prepared a few locals and here is the first one: "Please pay your subscription or we shall be forced to sus- pend publication." Quimby secured a publisher and a few sub- scribers. From this date the college flourished, the paper flourished, the editors flourished, everybody flourished, excepting the printers. Vol. I No. I appeared early in February and was printed on cream satin, which has never been paid for to our personal knowledge. Originally, it was the design to work only the regular force of edi- tors, but the plan was soon changed and everybody, the printer in- cluded, was properly worked. Vol. II was edited by Willie Hull- a little boy from Corvallis, and he did pretty well. He had a large staff of editors at his disposal, every department being represented by a special editor and an assistant (to do the work). This was the time when prosperity was on the wane, but the Record kept up ap- pearances and enlarged to an 8-page paper. During the year the management changed a number of times and each time it changed the printer became poorer until finally he demanded back pay. This was indeed a very bad move for the printer, as the paper suspended publication the following day and the printer has been out of em- ployment ever since.
Moral: Never demand your wages, if any be due, or you may lose your position and the debit besides.
In February, 1894, it became evident that the future usefulness of the "Grand Old W. A. C." would be "nit" unless the college paper could be reorganized sans delay; so Will Todd, Loring Corner and P. Brown et al. hastened to the rescue and provided the neces- sary stimulant for the institution. A meeting of the student body was called and as a result Willie D. Todd was given the high and honorable position of editor of the "Evergreen," as the new journal was appropriately christened. Vol. I No. I made its appearance in March, '95. It was a very creditable twelve-page two-column paper, supported by a staff of seven editors. Vol. II No. I came before us with 16 pages with Freddie C. Dunham at the helm and the staff re-
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duced to five, which number included the fighting editor. Vol. III No. I is increased in size by two pages and the staff reduced to two editors; Willie Todd at the pen and Charlie Harlowe as Mephis- topheles. Cruel fate soon reduced the paper two pages. No. IV of Vol. III was edited by Charlie Harlowe as grand scribe, and Davie Brodie with the business end of the Evergreen in charge. Hallie Jim Doolittle was held responsible for the editorials and meaning- less college jokes in No. VI Vol. III and for the remaining issues of the volume.
Vol. IV was carefully edited by Hallie J. Doolittle, who, by the way, did a great deal, with the assistance of Miss Snyder, Miss Bus- bey. J. Byrd Winston, Milton Poet McCroskey, and Little Leo Totten. But never has the Evergreen been such a glowing success as under the management of the staff of Vol. V, with Lord Byron Hunter and Little Leo Totten as editors, Della Allen and Orville Adams as associate editors, Virgil T. De Witt Talmage MeCroskey as exchange editor, Funny Fellow Nalder, local editor and poet. Willie Martin Van Schaack Duncan, B. M. (best man), and G. M. Palmerton, bicycle agent. Vive l'Evergreen !
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THE SENIOR PROMENADE.
As all good things which come into the world survive tribula- tions and guile while they are being ushered into a cold medium of reality, so also must the chronicling of this fondling of senior wis- dom worry itself into the warm embrace of our welcome and fasten, if it can, its tender tentacles upon our heartstrings. It is not alto- gether chance which leads us to weave a garment for this promenad- ing infant. It is rather a duty; it is a heritage which has fallen upon us; it is an imperative command: it is necessary and we are glad to have the opportunity of recognizing this little mummy and giving it a place in our annals.
Among the great social events propagated and showered upon us by our worthy predecessors, we feel sure this one was the most far-reaching. the most profound, and certainly the most active. There is nothing in these warsome times which so inspires and feeds the body patriotic as the tramp, tramp, tramp of many scions- even in a promenade-and when we add to it upon this occasion the glitter of the tallow dip, the bowery odorous with its tar, pitch and turpentine, and the strains of Schneider's band, then surely the time has come for us to exert ourselves and write a little history. As the outline of all we saw and experienced upon this occasion bounds about in our thought, we cannot but again be enthused with the pro- paganda in hand, for we are easily brought once more into the whirl and gyratings of the promenade. We coyly stand again be- fore the beadle as he deals to us the fiery lemonade from the glassy depths of the canteen. We see the array of guests who have brought their happy presence to grace the occasion. The giddy, the gay. the calm, the sedate, the critical, the thoughtless and the thought- ful, all are there and at their best. Here and there, also, are har- bingers not of the student body, for even professors seem to have entered the mad whirl and conspicuously vie in the exhilarations of the walking match. It is thus we stand, noting the company and watching the ladle, ladle out the beverage which makes the walking easier. It is here we note also with an abrupt reality the presence of
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a dear old friend. Our old friend is this senior punch bowl. But in what different circumstances from those enjoyed when last we met ! When last we stood beside its glassy pedestal, its haunt was in the old biological laboratory. Its gruesome task was to curtail the creeping microbe and the slimy algae; its inmost soul was alive with toads and lizards, and its nook in the laboratory was fortified by students with dirk-like knives and glaring eyes as they reached within its portals to split the harmless, festive toads and study their anatomy. And as we recognize this last scene and note the trans- formation which has been wrought, we cannot but say to ourselves, "How mighty is the god of fortune!" How true it is that the crock of today becomes the toga of Bacchus on the morrow! How a garb and a decoration added to an humble "lab" jar makes it the trium- phal fountain to which the class of '99 has pinned its fame for liquid hospitality ! The greatest of flood tides always recede to the normal shore line, however, and so also-the thought now comes to us- that this truant canteen has receded to its old haunts in the labora- tory and today the little toads again play leap frog in the old bowl. We spend what time we may with such a friend and reluctantly bid him adieu as we pass his fiery gulf with its little tugs and liners of lemon rind anchored upon its vermillion depths, and we hurry on to other scenes which meet our view. We see again in our wander- ings among the company the alignment of our worthy hosts buckled in their walking sandals and doing the honors of their heritage. We do them homage as we reflect upon the decorative effect their recep- tive row has upon our Stevens Hall brussels and plush. We marvel at their versatility and at the generosity with which they ply the en- tertaining hand. We chronicle the graces and eulogize the effect. We wonder if the world will ever treat them less cordially; and we wonder, too, whether we shall ever walk within the immaculate rail- ing of a promenade debut. We wonder whether it will be said of us in some future time, that we changed the prosy glass front of a col- lege dormitory into a sylvan forest and lighted the bosky dells with pillage from the Orient? Whether it will be said of us that we marched our warriors two by two and filled the woods with cupids
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and the air with strains from the german? Perhaps so, and if we do. we wish to have our names inscribed even as this true and worthy in- scription pays tribute to our worthy predecessors. The scenes and acts of childhood, from the moment of our responsibility, honey- comb our after-memory with details droll and make characters upon the gilded page of history. Within our college halls as years go by, there will yet be enacted scenes with details carrying all the droll and much of the gilded, and as the chronicler wanders along and robs every pleasant memory of some cherished event which some future class shall have laid upon the social altar of their alma mater, we hope that our worthy predecessors, the class of '99, will then read these lines and learn how minutely fair and unbiased has been the brief mention of their one great event. And with it all, we wish we might have more occasions to credit to the valor and ability of those who go before us. We feel that the span of their labors has been altogether too short. The sounds of laughter, the joys of hospital- ity, the associations, the inspirations, the events have been all too few. The series of precedents which might win for the golden future a well beaten trail and guidance by which future generations might walk with ease and confidence is withal difficult to establish; yet as we, all of us, have held your hand over the social creations; as we have walked in your forest and quaffed at your fountain, we feel just a little interested and perhaps a mite responsible for your success -or failure.
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