The leaders of 1929 broke into the fore during the last week in February with the election of Class Officers. Arthur Eugene French, Jr. of Winchester was chosen president; Kenneth Douglas Robinson of Howlitt, N. Y., vice-president; and Henry Greene Crosby of West Newton, secretary and treasurer. As if to celebrate the returns, the freshman hockey team rolled over Yale, 10 to 4, for the team's tenth consecutive victory and its third in a row over the Eli.

One day later, the Corporation announced the appointment of William J. Bingham '16 as director of athletics, and the CRIMSON clapped its bands at what it hoped would be closer relations between the faculty and the coaches.

And two weeks later Bingham broke the news of the appointment of Arnold Horween '21 as head football coach for the fall of 1926.

During much of the spring term the debating team kept up the University's interest in current national and international problems, ranging at will over the League of Nations, H. L. Mencken, and the lack of need for education. It usually wrangled before packed houses.

The international scene to the contrary, the major issue before the Class off 1929 came with the Business School's offer of 303 rooms for the coming year. After consulting with the Freshman Executive Committee, the choice was put in the form of a referendum before the entire class. It was met with mixed reception and by graduation there were many future sophomores who preferred to sleep "on the town" rather than in the newly constructed Business Schools buildings.

The freshmen burst upon the seniors having their pictures taken with a barrage of eggs, pennies, and tomatoes during the first week in May, and the class officials, including Albert Churchill, head of the Red Book Committee, John Tudor, Jubilee Chairman, Winslow Carlton, head of finance, Edward Sexton, Smoker Chairman, and Charles McKein, Entertainment Chairman, were unable to restore order.

During the same month the Pudding celebrated its 80th year with a show called '"76," an historical satire hailed as the best show since the war, the Revolutionary War, that in. In town, Catherine Cornell was starring in "The Green Hat" and Ben Hur showed before packed houses.

The Wets and Drys

Probably the two most unique questions before the College in the spring of 1926 came from a Student Council report which recommended the division of the College into smaller colleges like those of Oxford and Cambridge and a College poll on the prohibition issue. On the College question, the undergraduates were barely opposed and the faculty barely in favor, while the voting ran heavily against continuing the present prohibition laws.

By the middle of May the leading scholars of the class were Adams Blondis, Gierasch, Loud Marfield, Norris, Rittenband, Sardomire, and Seidel, all of whom placed in Group I for mid-year grades. And the captains for spring sports were O'Connell of track, Cole of 150 pound crew, Shapiro of lacrosse, and Prior of an eminently successful baseball team.

And by June the only major news item was the resignation of varsity crew coach E. A. Stevens because of lack of cooperation on the part of the crew. A monster rally of 500 saw the oarsmen off to Red Top and three weeks of grinding before the Yale race. And a week later the College was surprised by the suspension of six members of the Eli freshman crew for violating the honor system at Red Top.

Comencement Week passed uneventfully with the awarding of 1625 degrees and an honorary to Alfred North Whitehead, "a philosopher generous and kind, whose thought pierces deeper than others look." And the Class of 1929 ended its first year on the Charles much less dramatically than when it began.

When '29 returned three months later, Cambridge alternated between mourning the death of President-Emeritus Eliot during the summer and cheering over Gene Tunney's victory over former heavy weight Jack Dempsey. Al Jolson in "Big Bay" was ht star of the hour and thousands of alumni were looking over the shoulder of Arnold Horween as he schooled his first football team.

A selected few found berths in the Business School, while the majority haunted the boarding houses of Cambridge for lodging. Most were concerned with the degenerate eating habits of the College. The CRIMSON offered a $25 prize for the best essay on solving the eating problem and published columns of statistics on the number of men who lunched on the Square.

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