The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-06-17
.anionslx nreed that nature Was to blame-


was.
We smoked out one freshman-or rather, |
we would have smoked him out had not one |
sophomore kept opening and shutting the |
door continuously to get breath. We nailed |
a freshman's SLOUGH Texas-ranger hat fifty |
and am told the ladder trembled awfully |
1t was one of the ladders used on the Metho- |.
dist Church. We painted the windows of
Old Chapel with sundry hieroglyphics, indica-
tive Of bachanalian propensities. He stole
remember, this is no autobiography-Burle- |
sons grapes. We were charged by upper
class men with filing some of the key-holes
in the locks of the professors rooms with
sand, and with stealing DR.. Palmer's skcle-
ton. Were 1 Horace Greeley, should say
they lied. There were, other ISLANDERS upon
Us. It is my duty to brand these once for all.
They said we obtained copy of one of our
most difficult examination papers at the end
of the first semester of the freshman year,
prior to examination. How could that be,
when many Of us had theories of college life
at that period which would likclier permit US
to touch an asp or viper than "ponyy'
They said cur class carried off the stove pipes
of several rooms shortly after the Junior Elk
appointments of '68. OF course, it was the
disappointed juniors. They said at the end
of the junior year we obtained an examina-
ton paper prematurely. To give the story
an air of truth, particulars are entered into
How we met ct one o'clock in Otis's room
how Vreeland, the newly elected President
of the Lecture Association, and Darby, the
President elect of the Christian Association,
and Hays, captain of the first nine, and Johns,
and Wilkinson and Lawno, Chronicle editors
and honest men, were there-also Butler;
how we got Prof. Winchell's ladder and a
dark lantern how none of our keys would
fit the door, though we had a box full how
| we got anaxe and pried the lid off; how, to
drive it back, one fellow put his cap down to
deaden the noise how the janitor came out
with his dog, and SO on. M
AS historian, it has been my official duty to
Investigate these traditions; and that do
not see fit to record them as true is some
evidence that they are untrue. am sorry to
say, however, ono of our number drew the
wood cut in the Palladium for '67. Another
declares he lost his hair on his crown by car
rying a Testament in his hat when he was
young; and he still sings, with great JUNCTION
"I'll pitch my tent on this camp ground,
And try the Devil one more round"
Speaking of poetry reminds me that, in all
probability, a popular fragment, whose initial
line is: ~
sJohn Browns sons went out to fish for
|5&t4 clans, "90 E ~ #IEJY
and whose next line relates how they had
poor luck in the enterprise. Is from his pen.
The personal exploits of different members
would fill volume. Those of only one
would string out something as follows
When he arrived from the West he mistook
the Sinclair Mills for the University. Com
ing up town and asking pompously for the
Presidents office, he was directed by sopho-
more to the observatory. He was conditioned
| in geography: The Professor asked him the
direction of Prague from Berlin. He had
never heard of either town. He asked him
about Persia "He was not much on old
lands, but if the Professor meant the country
where Nebuchadnezzar, the King of the Jews,
conquered Alexander the Great, he thought
it was in Southern Africa" It is now an
idiosyncracy to relate this latter Of the his
torian. He set the campus on fire three
times. He threw stones at the steward, and
was taken down by him as a candidate for
expulsion. The sophomores tried to smoke
him out, but he smoked seven pipes Of refuse
tobacco himself, and they were compelled to
withdraw. Finally, in the junior year, he
was interested in what was current as the
"nine cent joke" with which you are fa-
miliar. To go through with each one of the
class, as Z believe is customary cast, is mani
testify impossible. tt..-1e.~ 49,.
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