The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-19
INGALLS, AND HIS DIPLOMA.
New York SUM

1.-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. 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
student. With Garfield he was an
editor of the prominent college publica-
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-the boys Nook a trip
across the hills to a 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 a young la
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. The
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 Stun berS.
THE second morning after the trip
| President Hopkins-mark the perfect
| man'-kept his boys a few minutes af-
| ter chapel exercises. In his slow, i'm
pressive manner he said, as nearly as
1 remember: AS party of students
| from this college were recently passing
| at an early hour of the morning a
| naighboring institution of learning
they disturbed the slumbers of the
| young ladies. students there. by footing
on a barbarouS instrument known as a
tin horn. In my time 1 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 q 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 or
'Mummies.'
"The future politician was a goo1
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
| lney got IL OnC6 OH the pldliOTIn lHt
| speaker made his peroration short
Then, before the faculty could CUES:
his intention. he had begun to sketcl
some mummies that he mad seen. Their,
was no mistaking the members of th'
faculty whom he was holding up Il
view. All the strength of the speaker
intellect was brought to his self-im
posed task. Faculty and students alik
sat sDellbOund. held as much by tn
ability of the man as by his audacity
In the distribution of diploma
which followed one was missing. In
gals left the platform without one
Later the faculty considered Mum
mics more at length and decided tina
it's author merited. the Withholding o
his diploma. Faculties are only hu
man. But here ingalls, wit had no
failed him. Members of the gradual
ing class were required TO settle tn
bills of the last term at the beginning
of commencement week. These bill
included fees for the sheepskins. In
gals had settled his bill. When tn
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 a
peace with the world"