The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-20
YALE COLLEGE IN PAWN.
srRUGGLE OF STUDENTS TO GET
HOME TO SEE FATHER CARVE
THE DUCK.

X PRKneO 10 nuy A0EC"CAA NOSGS
For "the Best Louise''-Pawnbrok-
ors Reap a Pipe and Clothing Har-
vest and ssTen Per Centers" Made
Rich.
Copyright, 1896.
n New Haven, Conn, Dec. 1s.-The most
.xcitjng week in college history is just
"a nearing its close. All collegians expected
e "a 20 home for the holidays, and with this
end in view have been provided with
a racket money. But this year when the
NJ cash was counted, not one boy in afty
n had enough "in his clothes" to take him
. outside the college town. The most ener-
n getic endeavorer could only cough up"
few melancholy pennies.
An was bet on the foot ball games. At
harvard 1t is almost as bad, for the en-
ire college placed its money on Yale, for
a eating I'D scores against its former rival
and buryI. ancient hatchets. And the
M entire college lost!
Fl The result was what might have been
NJ expected Solomon Levi got 1t ALL Every
available thing from a mouchoir case to
meerchaum pipe, and from a dress suit
10 a gold chair, was marched off to this
III convenient "uncle." And to-day the sons
IA Of Yale are as bare of jewels and gems
n AS bare of purple and fine linen, as bare
IA of geegaws and bric-a-brac, as when they
81 entered the universe, from twenty to
Fl twenty-five ago. The song that expressed
IA it all is:
81 NV name is Solomon Levi, my stores ON
81 Salem street;
That's where you buy your coats ana
vests and everything that's neat.
81 I've second-handed ulsterettes, and every
d thing that's fine,
8 For all the boys, they trade with me, at
a hundred and forty-nina
4 Chorus:
n Oh, Solomon Levi; Levi, ira, la la la!
4 Poor Sheeny Levi; ira la la la la la la la.
4 My name is Solomon Levi, my stores on
Salem street;
B That's where you buy your coats and
4 vests, and everything that's neat.
4 I've second-handed ulsterettes and every
thing that's fine,
For all the boys they trade with me at
a hundred and forty-nine.
a And if a hummer comes along to my store
on Salem street
d And tries to hang me up for coats and
vests so very neat;
4 ! kick the hummer right out of my store,
and on him sets my pup,
h For l won't sell clothing to any man who
tries to hang me up.
This is sung to dirge at night, gradual
ly growing livelier towards morning as
dull care is driven away.
What collections of banjos and guitars
rare paintings, trunks and dress suits
"Old Solomon" hangs up in his pawnshop
can hardly be counted. In fact such ar
ticles become drugs in the market III any
good college town where the pace is fierce
and furious, where pretty girls must be
courted, where carriages must be had
where tutors must be secretly employed to
help the laggard on with his exams, and
where the taking of a degree depends upon
the Students freedom from debt When
really exciting game of foot ball comes
off the misery endured is awful.
Self-denial, the drudgery and d1scom-
forts endured by the poor boy in college
in order that he may have little spend
ing money to make a showing among his
more fortunate fellows, have been told
Of in song and story and written In the
biographies of many famous men, but the
efforts that the rich students put forth to
procure a few dollars on top of fathers
usually generous allowance, while quite as
strenuous, have usually more of the ri
dieulous than the pathetic In them, and
are, for the most part, unwritten history.
1t often requires the exercise of as
much ingenuity on the part of these boys
to meet extra expenses for things that
papas or guardians would not approve of
as it takes for the poor but ambitious
ing threadbare and their board bills paid.
The rich ones secure many little accom-
modations from obliging tradesmen that
are paid for by the folks at home who
never dream for what extravaganza their
money is going. The rich ones suffer
pangs of conscience and the poor ones
pangs of stomach. That is the only diff
ference.
This year the COMMITTEES on ways
and means" were unusually clever, and
a new profession profited largely. Dem
lists have absolutely fourished. and
many proud scion has had a tooth that
needed no dentists touch bored out and
hlled again. so that the wielder of the
forceps might lend him $40 and send a
bill to father for $50 for dentistry" And
one very obliging photographer took a
picture of poor sophomore with ban
daged face and swollen lips close OBJ
server might have suggested that good
rat, old-fashioned jackson ball" of
striped candy had been pressed into the
cheek of the young man. But "all's well
mat ends WE'LL" and the usually hard
hearted father sent not only a check for
necessary dentistry, but for little lux
uries also
When fathers stubbornly put a limit
TO allowances at these times the bows
are terribly pressed for money. There is
no such thing among the high rollers as
lhlngs right themselves. They must turn
70 the pawnbroker and borrow on the
presents that sisters and mothers have
sent to brighten the rooms in the dormi-
tories, or must fall into the clutches of
lhe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 per centers-
VINO pounce upon the students in college
owns with as much eagerness as they
axe into their grasp the poverty-stricken
"iioWs Of the large cities.
but the boy must get home to see faith
er carve the duck" at Christmas. This
Chnstmas his shave" is closer than usual
Decause he must pay his debts of honor as
wen as carfare. And If from his tailor.
win whom pa has given him carte blanc.
ne orders half a dozen suits at fifty dollars
each Suits that find immediate rest with
Uncle" for ten per suit" Why, who
Is the wiser.
And then there are the girls. always
win ye' If you are a college man. Be
lore going home for the HOLIDAYS a co.,
Iege boy must treat his best Louise to sew
,rdl trips to the theater, perhaps her
mother, too, and supper afterwards. And
many stationer sends semi-annuaI ac-
cunts home for carbon and drawing ma
'erlaP or similar necessaries, when thea
yer tickets are entered on his books
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