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CALENDAR. both at home and abroad, during I foster the spirit of playing for the Monday-Bible Study at 6.30 those ten years. I pleasure of the sport, is entitled

p . M. Mr. J. R. Mcintyre at It is a fact, evident to t hose to some consideration before any-Preston, 8 P . .M. who are on the ground, that t he one speaks against it.

Tuesday-Soccer at 4.15 P. M., interest in the game and the skill W. W. Comfort, '94· 'OC) vs. '10. Rev. J. B. Ely at displayed have fallen off of late. Preston, 8 P. M. There are. I think, several con-

\Vednesday-Y. M. C. A. at tributary causes for this under-6.30 P. ~L l\.Jeeting in interest of graduate apathy toward cricket, cricket at 8 P. l\1. Mr. Tom none of them sufficient in itself. Farmer at Preston, 8 P. M. but strong when combined. Let

Thursday-Social P r o b I em I me enumerate t hem, as I sec Class at 6.30 P. M. Dr. S. P. them on the spot: the small Ross at Preston, 8 P. M. number of Freshmen who enter

Friday_:_Annual Alumni Ban- with any knowledge of the game ; quet a! Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. listlessness of the men in college Rev. E. G. Rawson at Preston, 8 who think themselves sure of pos­P. M. itions; the inevitable rival attrac­

tions of socker and track athlet-ics; a succession of rainy sea-

SPECIAL Haverford's new building, now

in the process of construction, will be c'alled ''Sha~pless Hall," in ·ap­preciation of the faith ful and in­spiring· work of our beloved presi­dent. l\Ir . Alfred Percival Smith, the donor of the building, pays con­stant vi.sits to Haverford, to ap­prove and di rect the work. A tem­porary name will be given th·e build­ia•g Ulltil Mr. Smith sees fit to have it ~lied "Sharpless Hall." Saturday-Musical Club Con­

cert at West Chester. Soccer at St. ~1artin's, 3 P. M.

Sunday-Y. M. C. A., 6.30 P. M. Rev. R. J .McFetridge at

, P reston, 7.30 P. M.

sons; the shortness of the Spring SOCIAL PROBLEMS CLASS. term; the unequal strength of the The regular meeting was held teams in the intercollegiate on February 18th, with about league; the unrepresentative club twenty-five present. Mr. James teams that are pitted against the H. Dix, Superintendent of the

THE CRICKET SITUATION. college; t he absence of a foreign Philadelphia Vacant Lots Culti-.· . . tour; and, finally, the fact that vat ion Association, spoke of the

_It •s not many y~rs smce there have been no brilliimt crick- work of that organization in en­cncket was regarded as first ~f I eters in college for at least three I abling the- industrially crippled to t?e college sports .. A long ~rada- years. secure a living or supplement uon and :ery con~asten~ succe~s That is quite long enough a their · wages by ,cultivating small had combmed to gave cncket thas list of contributory causes. Per- garden patches, instead of apply~ place at Haverford. Most Fr~sh- haps some who are familiar with ing to charity. He also spoke of men used to make a conscaen- the subject will think of oth~rs. the principles of ''single tax .. , An tious effort to learn the game, and T he Ground Committee has done interesting discussio n followed. renounced the hope of making well to call a meeting of old cap- At the next meeting, Miss o ne of the elevens only after the tains and players on February Mary E. Richmond, General Sec­effort had proved useless. · For :i4th, to discuss with some under- retary of the Philadelphia Society twenty years there has been a graduates the s ituation. No for Organizing Charity, will tell

. "professional" employed by the amount. of sentiment will bolster of "S. 0. C." work in Philadel­college to give instruction in up cricket as a college game, if phia. cr~ket. At first the plan work- it is doomed to disappear. But a ed well. The quality of cricket wise and . friendly ·dfscussion of steadily improved from 1894 to the causes. some avoidable and 1904· Of course, such names as Lester, Adams, A. P. Morris, ] . H. Scattergood, W. S. Hinchman, Patton, Sharpless and C. C. Mor­r is go far to explain the successes

some unavoidable, which have produced the present apathy, can result only' in - good. A game which has done so much to keep athletics clean at . Haverford, to

l\~r. Edward M. Sait, Secr~tary of the Intercollegiate ·Civic League, will visit Haverford on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Sait is in this city in reference to the formation. of a State · Advisory Board· for the league.

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2 COLLEGE WEEKLY

INTERSCHOLASTIC MEET Ten schools of Philadelphia and

A Journal containing news of interest to vicinity participated in the eighth Haverford College and its frierids. annual jndoor meet in the College

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Publishl!rs Gymnasium on Friday last . The } OHN DoNALD K£NDERDINE • DAvlll ScuLL H1NSBAW I meet was won by Ep1scopal Acad-

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Price per single copy, fi,·e cents. an e .ancey t · 1r · Lots o new Address all communications to CoLLEGE material was developed by the meet.

WEEKLY, Haverford, Pa. Tucker, of DeLancey, secured two Application filed for entry as second fi t 1 Ph f F · d •

class matter at Haverford Postoffice. rs s, am raener, O ru:n s

I Select, sprung a surprise by win-

FEBRUARY 22• IOOII. ning the 22o-yard dash, winning a

EDITORIAL. close decision over Stacey, of Law-

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and waits," is a universally ac- showed his usual good form and "Name Reg. U. S. Pat. Office" ce pled truth. But ''The Lord was the highest scorer. His team- Becauae it ia Pure ... d made under

helps those who help themselves" mates, Stauffer and Finletter, also Sanitary CoaditiODa is J. ust as t rue. S ince the state- did valuable work. Gooda aead by packaae expr .... Viaiton

"'· welcome at all timea to •- our 1ood• ment that our cricket prospects The foliowing schools were repre- made. Main Office, 23d below Locuat for this year are better than any sented: Blight, DeLancey, Epis- Store and Tea Room, 1331 Cbeataut St.

in the past four years is also true, copal, Friends' Central, Friends' it is about time we were doing. Select, George School, Lawrence- Headquarter& for Hanrford Mea

something to help cricket 'along. ville, Radnor High, St Luke's and Hotel Walton No Fresh man class in the past Yeates.

four years has had as many prom is- The contestants a rrived in the ing cricketers as this year's. Two afternoon and were the guests of of them are the best Freshmen the College at dinner and at an cricketers who have come to informal gathering after the med. Ha'v~rford since George Bennett Credit is due Dr. Babbitt and has been here as coach. Sharpless, '09, for their manage-

With better cricket material ment of the meet. The winners of

coming to Haverford, and with a fast growing undergraduate body, it is quite fitting that a stimulus should be given, in the shape o f a tour, to keep c~.icket th e lead­ing game.

-----,---There is to be a joint cricket

meeting in the Alumni Room, Founder's Hall, on February 24. 1909, of the Alumni cricketers and t hose fellows around college who play and are interested· in the game.

The object o~ the meeting is two-fold : . that the Alumni may manifest their con_tinued inte rest in cricket and so awaken increas­ed interest among the undergrad­uates.

Judging frQJJl the number of prominent Alumni who have ac­cepted the invitation to be pres­ent. the meeting should ·not fail of its· purpose-that o f maintain­ing the supiemacy of cricket among our spring sports.

first , second and third places, re-spectively, each received a silver cup presented by Dean Palmer.

The results were: High Jump-First, Tucker, De­

Lancey ; second , Petit, Lawrence­ville; third, McLeod; Lawrence~. Height, 5 feet 3~ inches.

Horizontal Bar-First, Harding, Lawrenceville ; second, Meane, Episcopal; third, Lewis, Episcopal.

Parallel Bars-First, Lewis, Epis­copal; second. Massey, Episcopal; third, Stauffer, Episcopal.

Side Horse-First , Lewis, Epis­copal ; second, Sealy, Lawrence­ville; third. Finletter, Episcopal.

Flying Rings - First, Lewis, Episcopal; second , Stauffer, Epis­copal ; third, Clement, Episcopal.

Club Swinging-First, Fin letter, Episcopal; second, Le.wis, Episco­pal ; third, Clement, Episcopal.

Tumbling- First, Stanifer, Epis­copal, second, Meade, Episc::ppal; third, Bennett, Lawrenceville ..

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CLASS SOCCER GAMES. Y. M. C. A. Last Tuesday· the Freshmen A Word in Regard to Finances.

and · Sophomores played off t he . T he necessary cost of the Y,~

first set of games of the inter- , l\L C. A. work is considerably class champio nship series. Both more than most men realize. teams were lacking in team work, There a re not only the annual and it wa~ only throug h the good subscriptions to the International individual playing of the Sopho- and State Execut ive Committees, mores ti1at they won with a 2-o the expenses o f delegates to va­score. rious conferences and the minor

The F reshmen kept the ball bills for printing. etc.; but the around the Sophomores' goal for Corporat ion. R0ys' Club and several m inutes in each half, and Preston Committees are some­failed to score because they had times handicapped by lack of no one who could shoot. l\'lixter, funds. It is especially necessary Reynolds and Young starred for that the clues be collected as soon 19rr, while Lowry and Smith as possihle. and all the men are played the game for 19 12. requested to pay Tomlinson at

The line-up: their earliest convenience. 1911. 1912.

Downing ......... to . .... . .. ... Maule Reynolds ......... I. i. ... ...... Murray Young . ... . . ..... c. f. .. ... .. .. .. Cope

(Capt.) Worthington ... . . r. i .. . .... Longstreth Russ• II .. :oooooooo•oo•r o ....... oooooooo. Ho wson Hinshaw ........ I. h. b .......... Smith Mixter . ...... .. c. h. b .......... Lowry

(Capt.) Taylor .... .. .. . r. h. b.... .. .. . Elfrcth Tostenson . . .... I. f. b ... .. . . BAlderston Young, A. S ..... r. f.b .. .. ...... Moon Hartshorne . ..... goal. ..... oooooo• Bailey

Umpire--Bishop. Linesmen-Spencer and Roberts. Tim~ of halvcs-JO min· utcs. Goals-W.]. Young and Hinshaw.

Sher6 . ' 11 ; Post, ' rt ; and Thomas. ' 12 . are delegates to the Forty-first Annual Convention' of the Pcnn!'ylvanili State Y. M. C. A.'s, he ld at Pottsv ille, February 19-22. They will make a report at the Y. l\1. C. A. meeting. Wed­nesday, the twenty-fourth.

Dr. W. W. Cadbut'y, '98, was one of the principle speakers at the Missionary Conference of the Schools and Colleges of Phi ladel­phia and Vicinity, held in Hous­ton Hall, U. of P., February 20

and 21. Haverford was repre­sented by several delegates. Dr. Cadbury. sails in March for Can­ton, China. when~ he will be con­nected .with the Medical l\lission.

There will be a series' of special meetings a t the Preston Reading­Room during the week. under the

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The Senior-Junior soccer game resulted in a tie, each s ide scoring_ a· single goal. The game was more evenly contested than any . game seen at Haver­ford this year, both teams fight· ing .to the finish . ·The Juniors had little difficulty in working the ball toward the Senior goal, but had t rouble in sending it uet ween the bars. T he Senior team \~as

charge of the ·Y. l\'L C. A. Com- 8a b Sh mittee and the cle rgymen .of IJryn . r er _op

·the more evenly balanced, and Mawr and Ardmore. Tom Farm-their forwards sho.wed ability in er will address the Wednesclav in Y. M. C. A. Building, Ardmore goal sh ooting. Sharpless, Bard ·evening..., service. The names ; f ::.r;::~~::.: and Pennypacker did good work the other speakers will be found -------------­for the Seniors, . while ~urness, iq the weekly calendar. David and Gheen were the Junior

stars. Bard_/ · ..... ..... 1. 11 .•• 00. • • • Allinson The line-up: Sharpless ........ c. h .... , .... Edwards 1909. . 1910. Brey ... . ........ r. h. .. . .. .. . . . Carey

Stokes .... ..... ... I. o . ........ Catlbury Ramsey .. ........ !.f .......... Phillips (Mot!) Lutz .. ............ r. f .. 00 .00 .... Lewis

Crowell . oo .... .. •.I. i .... 00 ..... Ghee Deacon ........... g .... ....... Hutton Spiers .. ... ..... . c. f ......... Furness Goals-Crowell and Furness. Referee Pennypacker .... . r. i. ..... ... ... David - H . ~iorri s, Linesmen;-.W .. Young and Moore .. : .. . : .... r. o .. 00 ;.. • .. Palmer T, Lewis.

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