New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-28
"SOPHS" ENJOY THEIR TRIUMPH.
TWO COLUMBIA PROFESSORS CREMATED IN
EFFIGY AFTER ELABORATE FU-
NERAL SERVICES.

There was sound OF revery' last night and the
people who happened to be on the principal streets
Of Harlem saw. Private Mulvaney would say
''as ondacnt parade as human eyes ever sot on. ="
The cause of II all was the Sophomore Triumph"
OF the Columbia College students. who celebrated
their release from books and examinations for the
year in a manner all their own. In the course of
the evening they held funeral services over certain
teachers had their parade and cremation services
went through Bedouin war dance and finally
finished, In the early hours of this morning, ten
kegs of beer.
The funeral festivities began about o'clock In
the rectangle formed by Schermerhorn and Fayer-
weather halls. At that hour several hundred stu
dents had gathered about the collins wherein
rested all that mortal of these favored In
structors. These students were dressed In pa
jamas. nightdresses. as monks. women, street
cleaners and in every other kind of makeup Each
was possessed of a colored light, and heartily
cheered when James D. Shepherd started to tell in
verse his opinions of Brigadier-General Jay Cow
Head Dam Bad Hemorrhage (Dean Van Amrnge)
and Miss Gwendoyn Constance Dorothy Ohell
diamond OdelD.
when in the spring time Of their learning" he
began and temporarily got no further. because six
students directly in his rear shot off pistols, the
bass drum drummed and an egg landed on the
poets chin He plucky, however, and at a
quickened pace got through his epic. Then A NJ.
Lederer, dressed as an old Quaker woman, dis
coursed in eloquent, captivating styie ana MS
speech was entirely inaudible. J. S. Butler de-
livered the grafton proper, and said that he didn't
begrudge the dead any OF their virtues. for they
had none Then taps were sounded. the pistols
were again discharged and the students prayed this
wise:
"Oh up above where all is love.
May the faculty not be there;
But down below, where all is woe,
May the faculty be there
COLUMBIA,
Damn the faculty"
The procession was then formed. Following the
band were the pallbearers and the heavily draped
collins; then came the wagons, with the officers Of
the classes and the main body of students com
posed the division. Down the Boulevard TO
One hundred and tenth-st, east to Seventh lave.
up TO One hundred nd twenty fifhst, west 10 the
boulevard and down to One hundred and-seven-
feminist. opposite the library they marched.
cheering and yelling all the time while the people
who lined the streets and leaned out Of the win
dows wondered why funeral procession should
be had at night, with band playing such airs as
IF You Amt Got No Money, Then You Neednt
Come Around"
Arrived the end of their journey, the boys set
fire a pile of paper, boxes and barrels that had
been accumulated within the last week. and when
the flames had risen high they tenderly consigned
their unfortunate professors TO the fire. which. they
said was but an Initiation to the lives they would
lead at q future date. After dancing around the
fire for some time. ten kegs OF beer were rolled out
from a convenient ding-place. and at an early
hour this morning the last was finished, and the
"sophs' were no longer underclassmen.