Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-05-29
YALE COLLEGE.
An Incident of the InternecIne War BE
tween the Freshmen and Juniors.



An Incident of the InternecIne War BE
tween the Freshmen and Juniors.
New Haven News
The scis: tidc freshmen on Friday night
fastened flag marked 'S7, S. on one OF the
Pinnacles Of the Peabody museum, and it
staid there until Sunday afternoon, and
was what may be called a thorh in the
side Of the juniors. Sunday afternoon the
latter got it down, and this is the way it
was done:
The more they looked the worse they
felt. Suddenly one man ran away from
the group. He returned in q few minutes
Then two or three others went away with
him. Fifteen minutes later they were
back. With them they had a ball of
strong twine and long rope. Somebody
tied the string to a stone. Then Chicago
junior took few sters forward and hurled
the missile into the air. 1t rose, sailed
gracefully away In long curve and fell
back to the ground. The Chicago junior
had attempted more than he could accom-
plish- He had missed the pinnacle by
twenty feet Someone else tried hand
and came little nearer the mark. Two
or three more trials were made, and then
shout of triumph went up from the
party. The stone had passed around
the iron rod. More string was let out,
and the stone carefully lowsred. Then
the end Of the rope was fastened
to the string and slowly drawn up to the
iron and around it and down to the ground.
There was pause at this stage of the pro-
ceedings. The young men felt of the rope
and looked up at the flag. 1t seemed like
n fho ~ f,p
the frozen ground was not pleasant. Some
body had to go, however. 1t would never
do for Scientific freshmen to trample on
the juniors. The flag must come down.
One young man rose to the emergency and
took of his overcoat, looked at the flag
defiantly, twi:ched the rope to test its
support, and then began to climb up hand
over hand. Two or three juniors grasped
the bottom of the rope and tried to steady
1t as best they could. The man on the
rope went ahead rapidly at first, but grad
ually stacked his pace. Then he stopped
altogether. His companions shouted to
him to go ahead. He looked up, saw how
many feet he had yet to raise himself and
shook his head. His friends alow urged
him to go on and he resumed his task. Up
he went and again the programme was
repeated, but when he paused for the sec
ond time he was much nearer his goal
Again his friends cheered him and
again he went to work. When he
to k his next rest he was har lly ten
feet from the hei ght he wished to reach.
But those ten feet seemed very long in
deed as he started for the fourth time. Up
he went until he could almost grasp the
iron rod which supported bo;h flag and
roe. He reached out one hand to grasp
the iron, but as he did so, he slipped back
foot. His classmates below were quiet
enough now. The man on the rope rested
Tor moment and then Slowly drew him.
Self up, and this time he was success ful.
A moment more and he stood on the roof.
1t was not a difficult task to secure the
flag after that, and in five minutes the
junior class champion began his decent.
He came down slowly at first, but his
arms were tired aud his grip had lost most
OF its strength. He began to descend
faster and faster. The flag slipped from
his arms and fell to the grouni, the men
at the bottom of the rope jumped back and
the young Excelsior struck the earth with
sold thump. Not that it hurt him
much. Scientific juniors and cats are
not easily killed. HIS friend, picked him
up, assured him that he hal saved the
honor OF his class, gathered up the rope,
and departed to fittin Sly celebrate the feat
and divide the faS which had distressed
their souls for two days.