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the employees and students to support baseball in the same manner in
which they have supported basketball and football. After this, the
pictures of the several athletic teams were thrown on the screen. Each
picture was greeted with lusty cheers and hand-clapping.
The following is a list of those who have been given the privilege of
wearing a block C:
FOOTBALL
BA SK ETB A L L < B O Y s)
Frank Peratrovich
captain
John V. Adams
Russel A. Adams
Frank J. Chamberlin
Peter Dick
Reginald G. Downie
Henry Elk
Clyde Fields
Hallie B. George
Archie Lane
Thomas Phillips
Frank J. Chamberlin
captain
Reginald G. Downie
Henry C. Burd
Russel A. Adams
James O. Kennedy
BA SK ETB A L L (G I R L S )
Marian McCluskey
captain
Rose O’Brien
Rose Simons
Alice Keeley
HANDSOME LAKE’S CODE
F O U N D E R O F T H E S O -C A L L E D N E W R E L IG IO N
ECENTLY the State Museum of New York issued a
bulletin entitled “ The Code of Handsome Lake, the
Seneca Prophet” (Bulletin 163.) Handsome Lake
was the founder of the so-called “ new religion” of
the Six Nations, and his teachings were begun at the
very opening of the last century. This is still the
native religion of the aborigines, qualified in a meas
ure, however, by their contact with Christianity, but it is a code of
ethics that would make any man who followed it implicitly, a good man,
and any community that followed its precepts, in harmony with the
l>est conceptions of civic duty. The teachings of the prophet which
have been transmitted from mouth to mouth bv authorized “ holders,”
are still the moral code of the pagan Indians on the reservations, of
whom there is a large number.
It is probably true that the number of adherents of this native re
ligion is waning as the tribes come into still closer contact with the