The Normal Record. June 1905

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THE NORMAL RECORD.
gan, the colleges throwing them back and
forth at one another just as fast as they could
get them in. It was great fun! Although a
small delegation compared with other coll ;ges
we had to put in our little say, which was first
the yell we are all so proud of,| and which was
"composed" on the road to Colvsa—"Chico.
Chico, Chi-co-co." It "took" very well and the
Southern delegations on the other side of the
court sent up a cheer for "Chico Normal." Our
hearts swelled with pride at this un
looked for praise and after that our voices
were raised oftener than ever to make known
the merits of our school. The yells were, for
the most part, original and very clever. Of
course the bitterest rivalry was between Stanford and Berkeley. They kept it an hot and
heavy. The Stanford gi;ls, between thircy or
forty strong, perched themselves on the high
fence of the court, where they looVul like a
lot of animated robin "ed-breasts. They had a
megaphone, and whenever there was a lull in
the storm, they sang out the most absurd questions for the Berkeley "celebrities" to answer.
I have taken it for granted that you all know
what Capitola means, and that every college
in the state is represented there, from aristocratic Mills College to Sherman Institute for
the Indians. There were also large delegations
from many of the colleges in Nevada, Uicgon
and Washington. So you can imagine the variety of colors, pennants, yells and so forth
which were to be seen and heard.
After this prologue of yells the basket ball
game began. Girls from Stanford, Berkeley,
University of Southern California, Pomona and
Occidental Colleges made up the team. It was
a splendid game, very interesting, and altho
the girls had never played together before, few
fouls were called. There was a little guard
from Stanford and goal-"man" from U. S. C.
whose playing was wonderful, I had never seen
anything like it.
During the game the National Secretary,
our beloved Miss Conde, "our pride and boast"
came thru the turn-stile towards the tennis
court. She carried a cala-lily, the flower of
Vassar, her "Alma Mater." When the girls
saw her each one was determined that her pennant should be the first to decorate Miss Coude,
so there" was a wild scramble, and it was a
wonder the dear woman came out of it alive.
When she did come out she was a sight. Pennants were pinned on her at every conceivable angle, and her hands were full of them,—
and among the array was our little red banner
with its pretty white "C." At least a dozen kodaks were pointed at Miss Conde but she did
not seem to mind it in the least, seeming only
to think of the girls pleasure.
All thru the game the yells and songs were
kept up, Berkeley making the air ring with
"Boola, boola," and Stanford with "Down in
the country of the Cardinal." The three Normals got together and sang the San Jose Normal song, the words of which we changed so
that it fitted any Normal. It was sung to the
tune of "Solomon Levi" which we had practiced under the bridge that morning to the
great wonder and admiration of some Portugese fishermen who stood entranced by the melody. We followed this up with many other
of our yells, so you may know we were not behind the other colleges.
At last the game was won by Occidental
College. There was a large delegation from
this southern school, and great was the sound
of rejoicing.
Then came what we might call a regular
girl's field meet. There were races, broad
jumps, high jumps, pole vaulting, and so forth.
The girls went thru these feats wonderfully
well, and some would have sent many a bay
athlete to sack cloth and ashes. In making
the broad jump one of the University of Southern Califoria girls purposely fell and pretended to have broken her leg. At once the alarm
was sent in and the Red Cross nurses were on
the spot in a second with a stretcher, liniment
and bandages. With heartrending groans the
girl allowed her leg to be put in splints, which
were great barrel staves, then around these
were wrapped rolls on rolls of linen. She was
at last given crutches and allowed to hobble
around to the field to the great delight of the
kodak fiends, for whom she performed many
laughable stunts.
Each one of the colleges tried to give some
queer and clever stunt to the wonder and enjoyment of her fellow colleges. Berkeley, with
the help of a young woman from Vassar made
a hit with the "sky-rocket" yell, which we gave
with such success at the field day not long ago.
There were only two poor lame men allowed to see this display of maidenly grace and
skill, they were our honored and reverred Bible
teachers, Dr. Gilchrist and Dr. Day. They were
bound they would not be outdone altho they
were so few in number. So we saw them whispering away together, and at last they came