Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-06-01
COLLEGE FRANKS.
The WHY Sophomores Interfere with The Fresh
man Advertising Business

LAX about t3I games ana debates.
there is nothing like Freshman reading
10 stir UP college boys and start battle
royal pf wits and capsrs The evtntful
occasion mentioned viii come m thi-
evening. not to bo sure If the Sophomores
Of Colby can prevent. hut the Freshmen
have something to say about it and ii will
probably take place The Freshman read
ing usually ends thc praukS NJ the Sophie
mnreS on tn" innocent Freshman fnr tn,
year. and the most is made of tho ncca-
sion. The contest always begins when In,
first poster Announcing the reading is
tackled ~. II then becomes the absolute.
uncuuivocal duty nf every Sophomore tp
=" that none If the posters are allowed
to stay put. The ways in which this has
been done have hccn innumcrahlc. one
year the posters We're placed On the usual
trees ana posts at the usual height. The
Sophomorcs tore them down ana the
Freshmen replaced them by means Of
step ladders. The "s"phs" knew a better
way than that ana went around with
garden rllles ana gathered in all the
Freshman paper they could find.
1t is all innocent fun ana the boys are
left to themselves and no damage is done
The citizens have come to look for the
Freshman reading much as they 10 Il
circus ana thoroughly enjoy the prankS
that are played ana laugh heartily ut the
way each class tries to outwit the other.
The bills announcing the reading were
posted az usual. Thursday afternoon. ana
were promptly torn down aS usual by thu
Sophomorcs. The bills in the store win
dows were harder to get at. Many of
them were nevertheless captured. Some
0f them were "swipcl" while tho attcn-
tinn OF the clerks was devoted To custom
Crs. and some We're obtained by per
suasiVe arguments. Some of them We're
closely guarded. however. ana il was i'm
possible to get them hy any means. Dur
ing the afternoon, ls fast as 4 bill WIS
secured by the ''Sophs'' it was replaced
by the Freshmen. This program lasted
aS long as the patience of the merchants
allowed. ana as ii was closing night some
Of the bills were locked up 20 securely
that nothing but burglary could get them
out of the windows.
At q clock the Freshmen had an un-
obtrusivc flag raising. The Sophomores
were not invited ANA few knew of it until
it had happened. A large banner was un-
campaign rope which crosses Main street
at the Thayer block. This was tough
proposition for the "Sophs" ana the
Freshmen We're confident that the rays
of the morning sun would beam a wei
come to the announcement high above
the street But it didn't. BY hook or
crook. before $ o'clock the banner bit the
dust Freshmen We're at hand to save it
from capture, but their masterpiece was
of no avail.
During the afternoon and evening
large quantity Of small dodgers We're
thrown about the street and were dill
gently collected.
But this is not all Oh. no. The best
thing of the whole cakewalk happened in
the evening.
Among other places a poster was placed
in the window of the store of j. G. Oar
rah Il Co and among others had been
stolen by the Sophomores. 1t was soon
replaced by second which was more Sc
curely guarded. 1t was placed in a frame
in the south window in the center of a
large display of crockery where il could
not possibly be reached without detection |
notice was placed over it reading !
rms poster IS put here to stay. Sec?' |
and the store locked mp for the night |
Now it happens that there is a crack in !
the large plate glass window and the
aforesaid crack is large enough for the
Insertion Of small wire. When things Y
had quieted down bit on the street Il
crowd OF Sophomores gathered uncon-