Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-12
.MEDICS' SHIRT-TAIL PARADE
Omaha Takes the Final Degree in the Our
riCulum of High Jink,
CELEBRATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL EVENT
Student Body of Omaha Medical Col
.IeEe Observes Its Admission as
Par of University of
Nebraska.

omaha's final boast is made. The city
has had its shirt-tail parade. II was left
for the students of the Omaha Medical
college to confer on the Gate City this
ultimate degree In the curriculum of It's
progress. and they performed the CEREMONY
last night with all the noise and riotous
confusion which long precedent has at
tached as a prominent feature Of the af-
fair.
The shirt-tail parade is distinctly a Ne
braska product, having been originated at
the state university in 1894. when B
company won its second successive annual
victory in the annuaI competitive drill held
at the close OF each school session among
the different companies of the university
cadet battalion. Subsequent events have
served to spread the custom among many
western colleges and its initial perpetra-
ton In Omaha was along even different
lines from any previously etched in stu
dent tradition. At the University Of Ne
braska military and athletic competitions
and victories result In these robe de mutt
professions. In Chicago a year ago a Ne
,braska graduate won a position as a space
reporter on a big daily by originating a
.shirt-tail parade at Armour institute and
running the crowd downtown in elevated
cars, where he got the boys arrested. and
then went up to the newspaper once
and gave them an exclusive story about a
matter which other reporters were I'M
able to fathom; but in Omaha the first
shirt-tail celebration was In commemora-
tion OF the assimilation OF the Omaha Med
ical college by the University Of Nebraska,
Omaha was taken by surprise. At Lin
coin the hotel proprietors have grown to
expect a wild, ghostly moi to circle
through their corridors at least once q
year; the theater managers are resigned to
a resistless band in flowing white which
marches relentlessly in a long line through
their stage doors and executes a circular
Bitdown and a varsity yell on their stages
at any point OF any performances; city Of
Acials and college authorities, too, have
learned to be ever ready with a happy
speech with which to greet an army OF stu
dents in nightshirts. who bring the objects
of their clamorous attention to their door
In the same attire.
But all this was new to Omaha. and wher
$50 NEEDLES came swinging down Farnau
street hill last night in cavalry formation
or single rank sets of fours all the noe
turnal floating population was on hand Il
see. At the head Of the long white column
was Mat Tuley of Council Bluffs. q senior
at the school and major In command e,
tempore. He was the only man not In
night shirt: he was wearing pajamas o
~spotless white. Behind him were hi
blanched cohorts, and Dad" Moore o
Scotia. Neb.. the famous old university bas'
ball catcher. was doing duty as adjutant
Fully one-third OF the participants wer
old University Of Nebraska students an
Medic slogans were relegated to Oblivion
On favor OF the old
U-U-U-N-I-
Ver-Xer-Ver-Si-T
N-E-Bras-kt
Oh-My,
This yell was kept UP all the evening
and at every stop was repeated with re
doubled yigor.
Honor New COlOFH.
Every man wore a nightgown. All ha
University OF Nebraska olors-scarlet an