Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-06

Gr--NHAH3B2E stormy varsity
X .,WWNAll course at Oxford may
I'M be seen any day at
1H Harvard. Yale or a
dozen other places
You will find the
same pipes and lounges. the same Ciceros
ana Livys, with their invariable '.horses"
and "trots;" the same pictures ana ho,.ns
sio'es' the same pictures of sisters ana
actresses. All is there. Even dainty tea
trays have their cups and saucers next 10
neaVy ale mugs and thin wine elasses.
JUST as IN Tom Browns room These main
features are always to be found, though
each coiege has its peculiar style and ira
oAtiohs Vi the correct style in furnishings
An average students room is a queer
looking place. 1t Is more Ike an old shon
OF curlos than anything else Nowhere else
wiz you see the invariable display of books.
with the invariable show of sporting Goods
Something always strikes your attention
There Is mixture Of the serious. the luai
crous and the athletic. You never know
just where to place your student or which
has the more prominent place, a book case
OF big, dull-looking folios or some CAV pic
ture OF ballet dancers. which stares you in
the race as You enter. Is the pretty tea
table the place where the student queuches
mis- thirst, or do those German beer mugs
go the rounds OF daily duty in his eager
grasp! Is that comfortable-looking desk
chair the one chiefly used, or is it that
leather-covered easy chair. with the soft
silk cushions and pillows in it? There is a
grand congiomeration. This oddly, this in
tense suggestion OF varied interests. this
collection Of trophies, this feeling OF being
In mans den. is what forms the college
rooms charm.
The one invariable sign, the eyer-pressnt
marx OF a room in which students dwell.
Is desk. In some shape or another 4 is
always there Books, too. may be usually
FOUND IL Is only on the rarest occasions
that you do not see any. One man at Har-
ward has no less than 5000 arranged AROUND
his room. The lew and medical students
nave big Battle-Ground professional vol
nnes himself to text books and some sets
OF standard authors. Indeed, the taste
SHOWN by most college men, as may be ex-
pected. Is very good. The big dormitories
spite OF signs in the passageways excluding
them, they do big business A New York;
er once said that he thought every Har-
, nara man would average 200 books apiece.
graduates OF 100000 volumes.
The College Pipe.
"A word must be said about pipes Col-
iege men claim English bulldog and briar
pipes as their favorites. Cigars are too ex-
pensive to smoke cigarettes are unsatisfac-
tory, but the pipe is just right. 1t has a
sociable look and IT makes a pleasant ana
cheap smoke. Whether a man smokes him,
self or not makes little difference. If he
has no tobacco table he lays his pipes ana
tobacco jar anywhere around the room, IL
only It is within easy reach. Near the pipes
are kept the eatables. Fruit. Crackers
something lwa
can pretty often find a case of beer in the
closet and a punch bowl slowed AWAY some-
where Many is the night that a Welsh
rarebit is improvised or the students ga the
around the flowing bowl" making he
mater. '"
All college men show in their rooms one
or two sporting tastes I'm common. III their
varsity eleven has beaten Yale or Prince
ton or Harvard you may be sure to find a
picture OF the victorious team. This pictor-
ial display of the college heroes is carried
to all degrees. Freshmen especially in
dulge in it and have not only ali their class
teams framed and hung, but the varsity
as well. Then they can point and talk IA
miliarly about Bum" McClung or Bert"
Waters or Laurie" Bliss. Flags of vale
blue or Harvard crimson or Princeton's
orange and black are another taste indulv-
ed in universally. Who ever saw a college
room without flag? You might as well
expect to go to foot ball game on Thanks
giving day and not see any colors shown
One fond Eli keeps a rather soiled-looktng
oiue SILK handkerchief hung high out of
reach over picture of Yale crew of the
eighties. 1t was worn by his brother when
rowing men wore handkerchiefs instead Of
caps, In winning race against Harvard
and has been carried to every race since
tied to stick and waved for the victorious
crew. In 81. when Harvard won for the
first time in years, the blue silk nag was
not carried. as its owner was suddenly TAX
en- sick. So it is still a mascot Cor Yale
in which its owner has implicit faith, and
Is cherished as only a college man can
cherish bit of silk having the destiny Of
his alma mater, as he believes at stake.
While flags and varsity pictures are seen
everywhere. most other sporting tastes
vary. Tom Brown would see very few
cricket bats in our college rooms Int he
would find lots Of fencing foils, boxing
gloves, base ball bats. tennis rackets dumb
bells and Indian clubs crossed in artistic
order or strewn about at haphazard Even
dogs, from mastiffs to terriers are part OF
the rooms furniture, according to the own
er's tastes. Horses are kept by only a few
college men. One Harvard undergraduate,
weli-known gentleman-rider from Balti,
more. has the stirrups hung I'D in his
room which were used when Salvador won
the big race. Salvatore colors, blue and
yellow, hold them up. The display of west
ern frontier life. cowboys lartats and
sombreros. big six-shooters and Winchester
rifles, is peculiarly American Nearly All
westerners have roughed IT somewhat on
Tie nave Drought BACK trODhias
Of ranch life. The eastern men. ON the
other hand, have plenty OF revolyers and
shot guns, but no cowboy goods. Some
times they have stuffed game or trophies
like alligator skins from Florida or moose's
antlers from Maine placed around their
rooms.
The Athletic Side.
You can usually tell at a glance what is
the students favorite sport One man has
an oar hung high up on the wall, marked
Champions Glass Races, May IL. 1892:
stroke" Above the oar is the strokes
dingy green and white rowing cap, and the
oar is hung by ribbons Of his class color.
OF all kinds of sport you may see the
signs. The greatest prizes are cups ana
medals. The big silver and pewter mugs
are invariably placed on the mantel. There
they attract the eye, and the dust from the
fireplace as well, but the "goody" has strict
orders to keep them FURNISHED and polished
Tom Brown himself would be surprised 10
see the number of cups our modern cham
pions gain. Sometimes the mantei is NOT
large enough and the tables, desks, book
cases are used. If medals, too have been
won in hard fought fights on cinder track
or diamond or gridiron field or river these
rest in their rich velvet boxes or are attach
ed to portieres and flags of the college color.