The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-18
SOPHS 0UTwIT FRESHMEN.
THE TABLES TURNED ON O JIM
BIl,s CRlFTY YOUNGSTERS.

Houtiities Renewed Between the Rival Glasses
Sons OF leol Battiod Hecdiessly 70 Pre-
vent n ophmore Dinner kidnnppinE.
Tho sophomores and freshmen OF Columbia
University did battle again yesterday after
noon. Tho lighting. as usual. was over the class
dinner. This timo tho laugh is on the hitherto
successful freshmen, who we're completely out
witted by tho willy sophs and badly beaten at
their own game.
by some unknown process of reasoning tho
sons of 1901 reached the conclusion that the
sophs were going to have their class dinner last
night. And they laid their plans accordingly.
At about $3.50 o'clock in the afternoon President
John Meehan of tho freshmen OF the School Of
Applied Science happened TO be passing the
suporintendent's Office in tho library.
One of the blue-coated j~anitors rushed out
after him with a note. asking him IL he was a
sophomore. Meehan took the note, read 1t.
handed 1t back answered Yes" Then he
hurried on. The note read:
II. the President Of the sophomore Class;
phone where he will send those flowers for the 1900
dinner tonight.
1t didn't take Meohan long to set the fresh
youngsters rushed off to various posts outside
the grounds and q party started post.haste for
eX.Msyor arsss's residence: at oS SSve en- yyhn nI.
Mayors sons Ia 2 sophomore, and the Grace
stable has been tho centre of many class struR-
and looked somewhat alarmed. They whis-
pered continuously to, one another aud then
saw that something was in the wind, as did the
visitors and others about the new site. They all
went out to watch the fun.
took place; Dickinson, the President Of tho
sophs; Kellogg. the stroke, and McLintock., No.
along South court to, iiI6th street. <
compile Of dozen freshies pounced upon
them quicker than a flash; t The s struggle YaTo
men finally ~succumbed, were bound; and carried
down Amsterdam avenue to Hath street. A
ran of and told the sophs what had happened.
They came down to Hath street on the run.
There the fercest fight of the entire campaign
Tho two classes went at it might and main.
| About fifteen OF the freshics soon took to their
They banged and thumped, like demons. Smith,
Bruce. Oimstead, Mitchell, and Fellowes were
But the fight was an unequal one, and after
receiving a bad d~rubbing they yielded and the
captive sophs were released. Just as the fun
wagon to. carry Off the prisoners, The. upper
class men, had II good laugh on the lone freshie
Meantime about twenty freshmen had sur.
rounded the Grace residence. intending to nab
wait. tho freshics saw the front door open and
out dashed six instead of the one soph. They all
escaped with the utmost ease.
sophomore Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. Now,
Hjalmar has two brothers who look extremely
like him.. He sent out first one and then the
other. Both we're seized, while he himself
| calmly boarded n car and rodo away. The cap
tives go to Berkeley School. and they wcre
promptly released by the badly fooled freshies.
The latter did succeed in getting two sophs,
the Curran brothers. or, more CORRECTLY, one
them 70 Maclay's stable, at 1o3 West Fifty
seventh street. where they were paroled.
By this time the freshmen had discovered
| fhnt they were the yictima Of "A deceDtlOn and
that the sophomores had no intention Of having
their class dinner that day.