Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-17
pREs1DENT M,LEAN DEF1ED
stiles. of the Freshman
Class. Refuses Names of Abductor.


Class. Refuses Names of Abductor.
Iowa City, Jan. 1.-THE freshman
banquet of the class of 1904 occurred a
1.-THE ST. James hotel Monday evening
The affair proved to be quite as excit-s
ling az the former freshman banquets
have been. The sophomores abducted
President Howard NJ. Stiles of Atlantic
Monday night and took him eleven
miles from the city to farm house,
where they detained him until after the
banquet hall could be reached in time.
He was handcufted about all the time
except when he gave his parole not to
attempt to escape All pencils and
writing materials We're taken away
from him and he could get no wori into
the city of his Whereabouts. Tuesday
morning the party of two sophomores
who were staying to guard him went
rabbit hunting with Mr.. Stiles and
whiled away pleasant morning at this
sport. One of the boys had a shotgun
and President Stiles was furnished With
Ia borrowed gun. The party reports that
BIT saw only few rabbits Mr.. Stiles
missing the only shots he obtained at
bunnie. The party left the farm house
lat $3.50 O'Clock on the evening to return
to Iowa City. There We're now five
sophomores in the party. three addi-
tional men having come out from Iowa
City With the information Of the state
of feeling in the university.
The news that they brought was that
President MacLean had demanded of
the president of the sophomore class
that the missing freshma n president be
produced in his Office by o clock Tues
day afternoon on pain OF the expulsion
of the sophomores concerned in the
matter If the man We're not produced.
Owing to the condition of the roads the
eophomores and their prisoner did not
return to the city until 9 o'clock
Wednesday morning. The banquet was
over by that time.
Several other members of the fresh
men class had narrow escapes from the
sophomores, one of the speakers on the
program OF toas ste having been COM
PEELED to take refuge at President Mac
Leans house until his cab came for
him. The doorway to the hotel was
surrounded By a yelling crowd of soph-
ignores who welcomed every conner by
name. They were kept from capturing
the freshmen by the police who lined up
along the passageway and kept line
open.
The POSTMASTER of the evening was
r. G. Tobin of Fort Dodge. Mr.. Tobin
is member of the Phi Kappa Pei fra
ternity and lives al the Chapter house.
Three sophomore brothers put him into
a room in the house Monday night in
order 10 preserve him from the bands of
naughty sophomores that they had
heard were roaming the streets looking
for important freshmen. He escaped
from the house at o'clock in the
morning. where he remained until the
banquet. Mr.. Tobin expressed himself
az being. glad to see so ma NY OF the
freshmen present at the banquet table,
saying that this greeting meant more at
freshman banquet than on any other
occasion on which it might be uttered.
President Stiles was cloeeted with the
president Wednesday morning from IL
O'Clock till l:15. Mr.. Stiles said that
President MacLean wished him to tell
the names Of the sopho nlores who had
been with him and said that if The did
NOT the faculty would punish him
equally with the guilty sophomores. Mr..
Stiles refused to divulge the names Of