Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-29

the affair of his grafton on Mummies.'"
said a graduate of Williams college.
The story never circulated far out of
college. ingalls, was a member of the
c.asS of '55 at Williams. l followed not
long after. So the story is more than a
matter of record with me.
ingalls, took a high position as a
student. With Garfield he was an editor
Of the prominent college publication. His
ability made him quite popular, as his
sharp tongue was kept in restraint.
On a winters night in one of the later
years of ingalls, course-I think he was
a junior-the boys took a trip across the
hills to a neighboringtown. Ingalls, joined
IN. The start on the retrn was not made
till we'll past midnight. 1t was early
morning when the crowd of students
passed a young ladies' seminary not far
from Williamstown.
Some one-it may nave 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
Eack here and there. Finally sleepy heads
peered out from the windows. Then the
horses were whipped up and the SEMI
nary returned to it's slumbers.
The second morning after the trip
President Ho~pkins-'mark the perfect
man'-kept his boys a few minutes after
chapel exercises. In his slow, impressive
manner he said, as nearly as I remem-
Der: las a party of students from his
college were recently passing at an early
hour of the morning a neighbOring in
stitution of learning they disturbed the
slumbers of the young ladies, students
there, by footing on a barbarous instru-
ment known as a tin horn. In my time
l have seen several men who footed their
W horns and 1 have observed that they
have been footing ever SINCE
Just what else the president said I
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 w horn hurt. Very
likely other things in college irritated
him.. But this remark 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 ~. Commencement
week for the class Of SO came around.
'Mummies' was the subject which In
galss 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 sen: There as no mistaking the
members of the faculty when he was
holding up to view. All the strength Of
the speakers intellect was brought to his
s~elf-imposed task. Faculty and students
alike sat s~pellbound, held as much by the
ability of the man as by his audacity.
I'm the distribution of diplomas which
followed one was missing. Ingalls, left the
platform without me. Later the faculty
| considered 'Mummies' more at length
and decided that it's author merited the
withholding of his diploma. Faculties are
only human. But here Ingalls, wit had
| MT failed hin, No0ohorc of tho orro1,1at.
ing class We're required to settle the bills
of the last term at the beginning of COM
mencement week. These bills included
fees for the sheepskins. Ingalls, had
settled his bill. When the faculty said
No diploma he threatened legal steps.
| At the close of commencement week In
CALLS left Williamstown with his diploma
and a mind at peace with the world"