The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-22
INGALLS, AND HIS DIPLOMA.
lNew York Snn.D


THE late John J. ingalls, never
showed his ability to better advantage
than in the affair of his grafton on
.Mummies. said a graduate of Will
liams college. 1.-The story never circu-
lated far out of college. ingalls, was
a member of the class of SO at Will
liams. 1 followed not long after. So
the story is more than a matter of rec
ord with me.
"Ingalls took a high position as a
4 student With Garfield he was an
1 editor of the prominent college publiea-
ton. His ability made him quite pop
ular. as his sharp tongue was Kept IN
restraint.
ION a winters night in one of the
later years of ingalls, course-I think
he was a junior-thc boys took trip
/ across the hills to neighboring town.
! ingalls, Joined in. The start on the re-
/ turn was not made till we'll past mid
night. 1t was early morning when the
crowd of students passed young Ia
! dies seminary not far from Williams
town.
Some one-it may have been ingalls,
proposed a serenade. The idea
pleased The tin horns. laid aside on
the return trip, were brought out Inc
valley echoed and re-echoed with the
discordant blasts. The noise was kept
up until the seminary awoke and blinds
were thrown back here and there.
Finally sleepy heads peered out from
the windows Then the horses were
whipped up and the seminary returned
TO its SlumberS.
The second morning after the trip
President Hopkins-'mark the perfect
man'-kept his boys a few minutes al
ter chapel exercises. In his slow, i'm
pressive manner he said, as nearly as
| remember: AS a party of students
from this college were recently passing
at an early hour of the morning
neighboring institution of learning
they disturbed the slumbers of the
young ladies, students there, by footing
on a barbarous instrument known as
tin horn. In my time have seen sew
eral men who footed their own horns
and I have observed that they have
been footing ever since
Just what else the president said
don't recall. But this last sentence
was the one to strike ingalls,. Like
most men with sharp tongues, Ingalls,
was sensitive to sarcasm himself. He
took a personal view of the remark.
The implication that he footed his own
horn hurt Very likely other things
in college irritated him. But this re-
mark of the president was said to have
given the impulse TO the Grafton on
Mummies.'
The future politician was a good
waiter, as the boys say Commence
ment week for the class of '55 came
around. 'Mummies was the subject
which Ingalls, had chosen. Every one
expected something brilliant from him.
They got it. Once on the platform the
speaker made his peroration short.
Then, before the faculty could guess
his intention. he had begun to sketch
some mummies that he had seen. There
was no miStaking the members of the
faculty whom he was holding UP to
view. All the strength of the speakers
intellect was brought to his self-im
posed task. Faculty and students alike
sat sDellbound, held as much by the
ability of the man as by his audacity.
In the distribution of diplomas
which followed one. was missing. In
gals left the platform without one.
Later the faculty considered Mum
mics more at length and decided that
its author merited the Withholding of
his diploma. Faculties are only hu-
man. But here ingalls, wit had not
failed him. Members of the gradual
ing class were required to settle the
bills of the last term at the beginning
of commencement week These bills
included fees for the sheepskins. In
gals had settled his bill. When the
faculty said No diploma he threat
ened legal steps. AT the close of COM
mencement week ingalls, left Williams
town with his diploma and mind at
peace with the world