Meanwhile in Boston, before the giant Dartmouth game, a bellhop at the Big Green dance was overheard to say that Dartmouth students were more generous and better dancers than the Harvards, though the latter showed greater signs of sobriety than the invaders from Hanover. The Indians crushed Harvard on the gridiron the next afternoon.

Such then were the signs of the 1925-fall; new building, football squabbles, and a vague preoccupation with international problems as voiced by President Lowell's insistence on the freetrade, and the much-publicized visit of the Oxford debating team to discuss the role of socialism.

In the dress department, most of the Class of 1929 wore hats; their absence was considered next to undress. Most bought their clothes in town either at Jordan Marsh or Filene's, which prided itself on offering stylish $50 tuxedos with all the trimmings.

Lost Yale Game

Scholastically, the Class slowly came into its own with the announcement that 81 had passed the entrance examinations with high honors and that the Harvard Club of Boston had awarded scholarships to W. C. Goodwin, David Guarnaccia, W. G. Hazard, J. F. Ryan, and Marshall Schalk.

And politically, the Class savored the campaigning slogans of thirty-five who aimed for high office on the Dormitory Committee. On November 11, a football dominated slate of 12 were elected: B. H. Beal, E. T. Putnam, James Lawrence, E. W. Sexton, C. M. Churchill, S. G. Hardy, T. G. Moore, A. E. French, R. H. O'Connell, G. H, Norris, F. W. Farnsworth, and C. B. Carnegie.

Immediately they rolled the class into high gear for the coming game against the blue-shirts of Yale: a soccer game, a special band rounded up by inter-dorm football manager B. G. Griscom, and a dance. Great was the disappointment when the Yalies showed under the optimistic freshman contingent 34 to 0 before 10,000 spectators.

As the football season vanished after the varsity held favored Yale to a scoreless deadlock, three football coaches announced their resignations--for business and personal reasons--and the Corporation created a Department of Athletics under a Director of Athletics who was given full faculty standing.

The Class turned indoors to Boston theatres and night clubs with the winter season at hand: "Candida" came to town along with "The Miracle," which was hailed as the apogee of dramatic art, and "Abies Iris Rose" at the Castel Square Theatre, one of the eleven legitimate theatres in town. And the Cantagridgians were delighted with the news that a movie theatre would be constructed in the Square by the fall of 1926.

Following exam period the major piece of news was the University's ruling that seniors in good standing would be allowed unlimited cuts. The leniency of this decision evoked praise from the undergraduates at Harvard and nearly every college along the East Coast.

This liberal move was only slightly countered by the barely publicized arrest of two bootleggers caught selling their prohibited wares to seniors in the Yard. The Cambridge police chief commented that he was at last getting the situation under control and expected momentary arrests of other sellers.

Track Coach E, L. Farrell, enticing freshmen to come out for the university team, had the following encouragement: "It has been conclusively shown that two out of every five freshmen who continue their track work for four years make their letter in the end, and one of ten is a star. Any freshman who follows instructions for a week will be kept on the squad." He got a large turn-out.

French President

In the arena, a crack hockey team of Crosby, Putnam, Jackson, Traynor, and Tudor racked up victory on victory over the school boys, beating St, Marks and Milton. In the Milton game, won 3-0 by the freshmen, two Cunningham brothers faced each other across the ice. John Tudor, former St. Markser, was elected Captain.

And down on Bow St. tempers were short following the CRIMSON's scorching review of the first winter issue. Commented the reviewer:" "It would seem that the lean years have arrived in purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesome vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented by this issue."