The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-04-14
O TIMES! O CUSTOMS!
A SBURY HIGHJINKS
BOLD "BURLESoUES. ~

SOMETHING ABOUT THE BOGUS PROGRAMS.
THE REVIEWERS OF THE REVIEW" RE-
vIEwED-GLEANINGs FROM THE FIELD
WHAT is SAID, THOUGHT AND FELT-THE
END NOT YET.
| 1.-THE inoffensive satire never bites"
From Special Correspondent of the sentinel.
GREENCAsrLE, Indiana, April 4, 1S74.-It
was with feelings of peculiar interest that
the representative of the Sentinel to-day,
disembarked at Greencastle. Sent as ply
stefan not 10 minister to a mind diseased,
(for the answer to the famous conundrum
by Mr.. Shakespeare as to who can accomp-
lish that task has not yet been given) but to
feel the public pulse in relation to the recent
"bur lesques" emana;ing from certain (or is
it uncertainty ones at Asbury. However, the
public pulse was not throbbing extensively.
1t was apparently in normal condition.
Students did not stand at the street corners,
or dot the college square in groups talking
the matter over. Principally because the
greater number had gone home for a weeks
vacation; and the day was too bitter cold
for those remaining To be on the square:
though, as rule, Asbury's students are not
ably on the square" in their dealings. The
excitement consequent upon the disIribu-
/ ton of "mock programs" last Sunday
night, or early Monday morning. had de.
| creased, A mock program, such as was
gotten up this year, is not of itself thing OF
| beauty or joy forever. This followed by a
| burlesque on the college paper The Asbury
| Review, which, IN some respects, out bur
| lesqued the burlesque, was notas oil upon
the troubled waters, Indeed more like.
nitro-gly cerine-pIoductive of explosion
The two are, in fact. beyond anything
yet attempted in the burlesque line and
probably will not be again attempted-st
least for several cycles to come. Like the
real poet who is supposed to be nascitur non
fit, these were MASTER" than any ever pre-
ceding them aid not fit to be either distrib-
uted or read.
THE SAD FACT Is,
however, that the one has been a sequence
of the other. The burlesques were so plenti-
full and so plain that he who ran might read
and there seems to have been good deal of
running. The Sophomore exhibition in it
self is usually a harmless and innocent kind
of amusement. The orations Of the Sophomo.
rical Demosthenes, the cuiled phrases of the
silver-tongued NestOrs, fall gently as hay
seed from the grsnger's hair on these
occasions Anyone who has passed
through Sophomore exhibitions, either as
spectator or actor, will bear witness to
their innocuousDess. But to 'return to our
muttons," or rather burlesques, which do
not partake of the mutton character, being
neither gentle nor frolicsome in the strictest
sense. As Dame Darlington puts it, "com-
parsons are odorOus." In this case they
surely are: TIE offense is certainly rank and
smells to heaven. The unassumiDg Sophie
mores were, in the mock programs,
lampooned, not to say harpooned, and thus
impaled were held up for the public eye to
gaze upon; and that useful optic was never
yet distended during the past week at
Greencastle. The burlesque Review" con-
tanned illusions to the faculty, their fam
lilies and to students of both sexes
that brought the burning blush of shame
not only To all in town and college, but TO
the very cheeks of the wooden Indians that
stand in front of the tobacconists' stores.
1t may or may not be coincidence, but in
some way every one has learned not only of
the existence of the burleSqueS, but that they
were very indecent. Many expressed the
sentiment that it was a burning shame.
Others that far as the programs were
concerned, they ought to be not only burn
ing but burned shameS. The universal SEN
timent was that it was the very worst
event that Asbury had seer As at first
stated, the excitement in the city
of Greencastle has mostly subsidized.
Many-winged rumor has been and is yet
ing and contradictory. Though it has not
been
. WHISPERED IN HEAVEN AND MUTTERED IN
HE'LL"
yet the breezes have caught the reports a
they fell, that the prosecuting attorney
would have a finger in this pie yet; not to
mention that awful conclave, the grand
jury. That students were being expelled by
the score, and the end was not yet.
The Sentinel representatives eye, in
glancing across the columns of the Greencas-
tie Banner this morning, the following
item in reference to the affair: On Tuesday
bogus Asbury Review was distributed about
the city, OF the most infamous and scurrilous
character. 1t ISLANDERS every young lady in
the university, attacks the professors and a
| number of the male students, and drags
before the public in the most shameful man
ner respectable widow lady who is work
ing hard to give her two excellent daughters
an education. The English language is
inadequate to properly characterize the
thing. Yesterday the faculty expelled six
IF the authors for their participation in it
"A. X. Carmichael, a. III. Yount, o. w.
Aver, j. w. Barnes, q. d. Barnes and
William Finn, some of whom threaten to
test the legality of the proceeding. Instead
of quibbling about any legal technicality,
| the young men ought to be thankful that
they are permitted to get off so easily for
their grave offense. 1t is altogether proba-
BILE that the number expelled might be in.
creased with profit to Asbury. Since the
above was in type we learn that an addi-
tional number have been expelled and a
larger number demerited.
| Wishing to see the parties particularly in
| terested, the reporter started out on tour
of inspection. Knowing that most of the
students We're absent he thought
the chances of finding the desired
parties not the most encouraging. Fortu-
nately, after few minutes walk, one of
| the gentlemen under the ban was found to be
in. Two OF the senior class had remained
intown, and from them the reporter CLEANED
something which will give an idea of the
way in which they view the matter. The
senior interviewed called attention to the
extract above given from the Banner saying
it was incorrect in one respect. The students
mentioned as expelled Were dismissed.
This may seem to the uninitiated