The age-herald., 1898-07-24

| in class suppers and glee clubs, concerts and the championship basket ball games. 1 The junior-senior banquet, which takes place some time after the spring vacation. and which is the formal farewell of the juniors to the graduating class, gives one the sense of life and color that is so strong in the college atmosphere. Last April, it was given in the gymnasium, transformed for the time being into cafe chautaut. Chestweights and bars and rings are ban
 ished; the yaulted ceiling is hidden by a
 solid screen of vines that makes low,
 green roof over the heads of the diners.
 and supports a constellation Of hanging
 lanters. The walls are decorated with signs and plaeards advertising chocolate au lait, and other well known college com
 modities; and with the flags of all na- tions except Spain.
 A picture< worth seeing is one of the
 championship bail games-a final game
 between the seniors and the sophomores. Each team has beaten tle other once. and this is the rubber" The students wi,a their visitors come streaming down the long hill from the upper campus and range themselves by classes down the side lines or the field. Back of them along the raised runnfng-track that encircles the athletic field, the faculty gather. off to the left are two large wooden screens, behind which the teams are reposng; in front of one hangs a large flag of dark blue felt with ''9S'' on it in white letters, while the other sports a bright blue one with '1900' on .t
 These two eolors are layishly repeated Tn
 ribbons, flags, etc.; among the crowd in
 the field, the junior and freshmen exhibit
 also their own colors, green and red re-
 spectively.
 A movement of the timekeeper, a busi-
 ness-like young woman in green corduroy,
 turns attention to the screens,-the teams
 coming out The seniors first, in dark
 blue corduroy skirts and dark blue Iian-
 mel blouses; then the sophomores, in tan
 skirts and bright blue blouses.
 When the two teams trot off to the
 screens again to be lemoned and oatmeal
 watered by their trainers, the sophomore
 captain is heard assuring the senior cap
 tain, Your girls put up a splendid game
 and we only beat you by a heeke, any
 way. If you hadn't lost Andrews-,'
 and the senior captain answers stoutly
 Not at all; you beat us fairly enough. and if we had to go down, I'm glad we went down to team that plays such a stunning game" The eternal feminine
 must say the proper thing, even after n losing game of ball.
 A charming scene is the senior lawn par ty the evening before commencement day.
 The girls have worked hard all day, put
 ting up those long strings of Chinese lan-
 terms all over the campus, which will be
 lighted after sundown; but when the band
 begins to play and those same maidens come out fresh and cool in. their light gowns, they seem little the worse for their labors. Soon the campus is full of people, the main points of interest are the big cher ry tree under which the reception commit tee stand and the long tables at the other | end of the campus where the caterers as sstants are working as never before, and between these two points there is an ever | changing fluX and flow of humanity in broadcloth and organdie As it grows dark CT and the Chinese lanters begin to shine through the trees, the crowd draws toward | Taylor hall upon whose steps the glee club | are singing. The guests begin to leave at | first, one by one, and then in a steady stream. The reception committee. tired but | staunch smiles and smiles and shakes hands and tries not to think how limp it's | roses and it's ruffles must be. Soon the | long, moon lit campus is empty save for a | belated cousin or two and the groups of | tired girls who trail their light skirts l wearly over the grass they go about | blowing out the lanters.