Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-10
ROGUISH MAIDENS.
Their influence at the Ann Ar
Dor College.
IT BODIES ILL FOR THE FRESHMEN.

"None bat the Brave Deserve the Fair
Is the Motto and 1t Works Like a
Charm = Latest Case of Having A
Freshman Toastmaster Who Didn't
Mako Connection with the Banquet.
and How 1t Happened.
ANN ARBoR, Mich, May 10.-Several
scores of University of Michigan fresh
msn, each with blushing maiden on his
arm, met for their first annual spread
Thursday night and went through the
forms of freshman banquet" without
POSTMASTER If freshman banquet ever
gets through without some outside dis
tn 'bance the girls in the sophomore class
don't speak to their fellow sufferers of the
male persuasion for at least year to
come. So, to avoid the dread disgrace of
being "cut" by their ''co-ed' classmates,
t he sophomore boys usually try to make
things lively at the freshman banquet,
and do it all from the outside.
Some of the Franks They Play.
Sometimes they throw cats through the
windows; sometimes they tap gaspipe
and turn out the lights, and at still other
GERS and roll them in the "cat hole
Freshmen never do learn anything except
through tough experience and they fall
victims to any tricks the sophomores can
devise Thursday afternoon while Frank
J. Evens, the toastmaster for the fresh
man spread, was screwing the studs in his
dress shirt party of five sophomores
showed up before his winSow.
Ahduet ion OF the
One Of these willy sophomores thrust his
fingers in his mouth and gave shrill
whistle. With true freshman curiosity
Mr.. Evens poked out his head to see what
was going on. Then the willy sophomores
made pretty faces and beckoned to Mr..
Evens to come out. In a moment out he
came, and, although he begged to be ex-
cused because of an important engagement
at the freshman banquet, the willy "sophs'
pinioned his weak arms to his side and
tossed him into a carriage.
Freshmen on the Trail.
Then the cruel sophomores piled in af-
ter him and, the driver knowing his bust
ness thoroughly the whole load started
like mad for the Saline turnpike. 1t didn {
take long for the news of this departure to
spread among the rest Of the freshmen,
and soon a desperate party of beardless
underclassmen was on the road in hot
pursuit. They went on bicycles, horseback
and in wagons, but the willy sophomores
had good fair start. They got as far as
Moorville, cheese factory town, sixteen
miles from Ann Arbor, before the advance
| guard of the pursuing freshmen overlook
them. They got even farther than this, in
fact, for they tucked Freshman Eyens
away in bed and had his clothing securely
hidden in the recesses of the rickety old
hotel
The Prisoner Liberated, But
The freshman party soon came up, sur
| rounded the hotel and the sophomores
and demanded the prisoner. BY this time
| the banquet was in full progress and the
POSTMASTER was sixteen miles away with
| out stitch to conceal his infant form.
His fellow classmen borrowed enough
blankets to keep him warm on the way
back, and the tired, jaded-looking party
| reached Ann Arbor at daylight yesterday
| morning Other scouting parties eap.e- III
from Dexter, Whitmore--and Ypsilanti at
about the same tine and the freshman
spread MS Hardly a bowling success.