The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-02
Tech Juniors
Banquet.
SOPHS NEVER KNEW
SoNaughty Naught's Toast
master Reigned in Peace.

With admirable address the GLASS Of
1900 at the Tech succeeded in eonoealing
from their fellow students OF the other
classes the fact that they were to hold
their Half Wal Thar banquet at this
Bay State house last night until 1t was
too late to do anything effective tow
arsd stopping the affair or stealing the
toastmaster, as is the custom to do.
It was not known until last evening
that the banquet, which is the one af-
fair in a Tech mans itefhat z
fair in a Tech mans life that ranks
in near proximity of Importance to the
graduation banquet, was to take place
when it did, and then it was tool ate
to make any organized effort towards
marring it.
TO be sure u party of sophomores
hastily congregated at one of the chap
ter houses, when ii was learned that
the affair was to come Of and laid
plans to capture one of the juniors,
who was believed to be the POSTMASTER.
They even went so far as TO get the
carriage ready in which to take him
away, and waited near his boarding
place for him to come out
But the juniors We're not to be caught
III ctllN Iidp. clilu Went " lUt uOlel III
parties, so that when the man in ques-
ton emerged from his residence he
was accompanied by several OF the
stalwart foot ball men of the upper
class, who were too formidable for the
hastily assembled sophs to tackle. As
it happened, the man who was to be
the victim was not the POSTMASTER at
ter all
The banquet at the Bay State house
was one OF the merieSt that has been
seen in that POPULAR hosteipy for many
moons. Thirty three members Of 1900
sat down to q bountiful repast at 9
o'clock, and it was along into the small
hours of the morning when they ad-
journed from the festive board. The
large dining room was divided in two by
screens. and in the inner half the joy
Gus Tech men disported themselves as
only happy college men can.
The president Of the class, Robert c.
Allen, acted as POSTMASTER in a very
witty and eloquent manner, and a
goodly list of sentiments were respond
ed to- The speaking was of high
order, and the responses TO some of the
will never want for Chauncey Depews
as long as 1909 fiourishes.
The menu WIS a work of art. It
consisted OF a number of cardboard
pages bound in the class coloTs, brown
and blue, and Illustrated by talent from
the class with sketches and cartoons
such as 1t taxes a college man to direct
at his neighbors, The members Of the
faculty were draWn with their peculiar
tiles accumulated to the point of carrie
allure and one unpopular professor APP
peared as a mere haze. the implication
being that he was regarded as next tC
nothing by the students.
Two crossed canes appeared as the
prominent feature of the menu deco
rattons, this being symbolic of the cane
rush victories the class has won About
the cones were wreathed the words of
the class yell which poetic slogan is as
follows:
Ching, ching, ching, chow, chow
chow, Nineteen hundred-Wow! Wow
Wow!"
On the last page of the menu card
was a poem of four verses relative ia
the faculty and the various other enc
mics Of the class. The concluding verse
OF the sonnet was as follows
On Techs eternal dumping ground
Their vanished names are set,
And Row it is our hope profound,
Their bones are resting yet.
At the conclusion of the banquet
Toastmaster Allen raped for order
and many sentiments were responded
to. When the exercises were ever, at
a late hour, the students adjourned to
the vicinity Of the institute and sere-
naded the professors TO their apparent
appreciation.
1t was well on towards daylight when
the last number of the class had retired
to repose and the half way thro' of 1900
was safely over