Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-29
BURIAL OF BOURBON.
HE Is DULY CREMsTED WITH
MIMIC.
Some Lively College Bouts Between
the Freshmen and Sophomores
at the State University.
Correspondence OF the REcoRD-U NIoN.l
RRREFTFY Nav u 1884

CORRESPONDENCE OF the RECoRD-UMoN.l
BERKELEY, May u, 1886.
Much excitement prevails in Berkeley
| and in the surrounding country over the
the struggles which accompanied this years
burial of Bourbon" by the freshman
class Of the University. This burial is a
ceremony of ancient origin, and is observed
in diverse ways by all the colleges in this
country. Bourbon is to college students
the personiiication of the dreaded study of
algebra his burial or cremation is the
| symbolical method of announcing the com
pletion of that dreaded branch of their
college work
! This year the freshman cass-the class
of 'S9-with the enthusiastic spirit which
has marked its first years career, voted I'M
animously to bury Bourbon, together with
another hateful book-Minto-and set
about 1t by making elaborate preparations
not only to render the ceremonies impos-
ing, but to resist the customary aggressions
OF the treshie's enemy-the sophomores.
The sophomores each year do all in their
power to defeat the plans of the lower
class, their mode of antagonism being the
kidnapping of their speakers, the destruc-
ton of paraphernalia, and the annihila-
ton of the procession. Last year the fresh
men were eminently successful, though
their procession was demolished, for Hiram
Johnson, the only speaker stolen, was res
cued, and the coffin was retained and finally
| burned.
FRESHMEN CAPTURE THE soPHoMoREs.
The night of Saturday the 22d instant.
was the night set for the exciting event.
Several days before the sophomores de-
clded to wreck the whole affair, but the
| spirited freshmen were too much for them,
IL Thursday night the young class spent
III watching for prominent and dangerous
members OF the upper class. but none of
them appeared Friday afternoon the
freshmen early gathered together for the
purpose OF doing what freshman class
had never done before-to take the agrees
slve, and, without waiting to repel the at
tack of the sophomores, to attack them,
take the best of their men, and thus insure
the safety of all their intended acts. At l
P; NJ. they captured Kip and Ellsworth, and
shortly after Koshland. This so
alarmed their class that the
remaining members retired to the
library, which the freshmen invested. At
ter short parley, the sophomores marched
IN body out of the building, through the
grounds, out into the road and proceeded
to the Chi Phi Club house, where Hiram
Johnson, their leader and several others
OF their men resided. The freshmen. with
the view of securing in the expected melee,
Johnson, as well as several men in the ap-
preaching body, hurried ahead to the club
house, and waited. AS soon as the sopho-
mores reached the steps. the younger class
sprang upon them. Man to man, they
rolled in the dust and grass and for few
minutes the result seemed doubtful. but
gradually the freshmen began to CLASP
their enemies wrists with handouts, and
after half hours contest which was the
greatest fight that ever took place in
berkeley, the sophomores retired into the
house, leaving the freshmen masters of the
field, and having four of their men prison
ers, in handouts. OF these, Reed, Ellis
and Stoney were the most valuable acquisi-
tons.