The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-30
COLLEGE BOYS AT THEIR EASE.
NINE GRADUATES START House.
hEEPING IN TOWN.
They Have solved the clearinghouse
Problem 10 Their Satisfaciion-A Re.
volt Against a Lantilady That Ended
IN a lO.Opcrati>e Home In a Fiat.

A. least one colony Of college mon In New
York has solved ne boarding hou,e problem
in a way satisfactory to themselves, par
ticulary as il contains features of the fra
tcrnity life Of the campus.
In the heart Of the district that was once
Greenwich Village and subsequently the
old Ninth ward nine recent graduates OF
Amherst and Williams have set up their
establishment. The oldest alumnus among
them is n 90 man there is n naughty-naught
a. they put il in their class yell, and the
youngest are graduates OF last June.
All of the nine but one or two were
/ athletes Of more or less renown in their day,
and perhaps for that reason more than
| any other hey survived the cabinet pudding
wears Of the college boarding house. At
any rate, they have started out 70 battle
with the cold world Possessed OF hardy
| constitutions and good appetites.
For themselves they have solved the
boardin s-hou,e question by putting that
| institution ont Of business. II wasn't
because they couldn't get enough to eat
nor was IL because Of poor quality OF the
| food that sealed the doom OF the boarding
house for them. The fare was all right,
but the college men found that their ideas
and those held by their landlady "a to the
prophecies differed.
| II the college man doesn't own the college
| town he intends to know why not What
was furniture made for but to break? And
what better place is there than your OWL
room in which to practice half-Selsons ano
give vent TO a few "will-yums -yams- yums
or .Rah! Rah. Rah! Rah Rah Rah! Am
herst.' yellsP
or course, now that college days are oveI
and the graduate has entered on the serious
business Of life, he intends to practise mode
ration in all these little things. but -occa
.ionally-every one will admit that he mus,
be allowed to let OF steam.
So, at least, these nine young men looked
at it, and the only reason they have bidder
the table laid In the basement good-by Is
the fact that the New York clearinghouse
keeper hasn't been educated up TO theil
point Of view. What more natural thini
in the world than that they should conAnt
the presumptuous servant who put sail
in their bed In a closet, tie sheet to door
knob aud banister and wet the knots WASH,
it, as of old really conflict between towr
and gown?
And when Duke and -Dodo" Cthey
| will he designated more particularly here
Roman wrestling match, who should gain,
say their using the mattress Of their bed
for a floor mat?
College men like TO live over the old days
and il in illustrating the famous football
scrimmage In which Whit" Swift, quarter
back, was pushed over the line and won the
game for Amherst-if in this mix-up the
footboard OF the bed VIVA broken on /,
surely was a little thing and the damag,
could easily be repaired,
But unfortunately (or the reversed the
woman 10 held the post II the commits.
sary for !. 'se young men had never kept
a boarding ,use In q college town, she
disapproved OF these doinRs and did not