The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26

manner that indicated he was frequent
visitor
We'll. Raymond, what is the latest mis-
chief you have been plotting?" inquired
Betty.
That's a secret II revealed 1t Phyllis
and Laura wouldn't be able to sleep until
every one OF their dear girl chums knew
it. And perhaps Jack belongs to the enc
my's forces, and might use the informa-
ton"
81 hope you won't worry the professors
again by elevating their chairs to the roof OF
the college," and Betty smiled in a way
that Indicated she relished the prank, even
If she did not openly approve it.
THAT was a mean trick, admit, for the
mere lifting of the chairs to higher grade
did not benefit the faculty at all. There
was no promotion for the professors per-
sonally."
"And the hiding of the song books. What
possessed you to do such thing as that?"
asked Phyllis.
IAN innocent prank" said Raymond.
laughing as he recalled ludicrous phase of
the affair.
Just think how you worried dear Prexy,'
and how the chapel exercises were marred
for several days." said Laura, sympathet-
ically, as she remembered the pefplexity of
the good man who presides over the college
and endeavors to train his charges in the
proper way.
"And what would he have said had he
known that every day in chapel while the
books were missing his hands rested on
| their hiding placer" and Raymond laughed
again.
Plc nnft do fn Coi
who belongs to the freshman class and has
not yet seen all college life.
Don't they?" retorted Raymond. How
| do you know they did not assist in hiding
the books? They have their class PUSHES
| occasionally. and 1 have been told they
| even pull each others hair in the frenzy
of their rivalry. And didn't they have
hair-puliing match at CT the basket
| ball games last winter"
'I attended all the games" Betty inter-
A, rupted, land none of the girls pulled hair.
| That story was started by some of the boys
| who were not admitted to the contests
And didn't one of the girls Greek fra
| ternities nearly brighten an initiate-to-be
| into untimely gray hairs by compelling her
| to dress at o'clock in the morning and
walk to the bridge of signs on Ritter ave-
| nue. with sheet wrapped about her. and
then, after fastening a rope under her
| arms lower her until her feet touched the
water?'
THAT is a patent canard," said Betty,
| "for If any such thing had happened
| would have known 1T. If the girls ever
| indulge in frolics before initiation 1t is Of
a gentle kind. 1 believe you made up the
story or charged the girls with one of
your own wild pranks. Butler girls have
courage. but none is brave enough to do
| such things at unseemly hours"
| Jack came to Betty's aid by saying the
Omicron Kappas-the o. X. boys he called
| them-had blindfolded spike led him at
| midnight to Ellenberger's woods, where a
| great Chinese dragon had been constructed,
and uncovered his eyes just as a flash of
| flame shot from the dragons nostrils What
| became of the spike" Jack did not know,
| but as his imagination is good he ventured
| the opinion that the spike" was thrown
| into the dragons mouth, where he re-
manned until carried back to his room by
| the students, who used the dragon as a
| stretcher.
Jack, 1 intend to keep an eye on YOU"
said Raymond. "As a romancer you will
| add fame to our noble XII Pi Mus. Betty,
I'll retract my ISLANDERS. because 1 am not
as expert in that line as your brother
Make him promise not to prevent the
freshmen putting their numerals on the
| belfry," said Phyllis, who evidently was
unconsciously revealing a secret.
80 that's what they are up tor ex-
claimed Raymond, gleefully. 1--WE been
wondering what conspiracy they were
1 hot1
won't be any trouble Sophomores will
close of the term
You are not gentlemanly to take advan-
tage of a slip like that" pouted Phyllis.
"All is fair in college wars" retorted
| Raymond. Didn't the freshmen steal a
march on us last winter by doing what we
intended to do just because they stumbled
on the secret?"
THAT puts me in mind of the time when
the freshmen had planned to put a wagon
on top of a barn." Betty said reminiscently,
but failed because the sophomores did ii
the night before the date set by their
rivals
What is the penalty for such breaches
of the peace?" l asked. do the college
authorities ever punish a student?'
''Willful violations of the rules means sus-
pension or expulsion" replied Betty, ''but
the students code of honor is so strict
that ii is often impossible to learn the
names of the guilty. There was a recent
case at a well-known university that Illus
trates the difficulties to be contended with.
| 1t grew out of a so-called riot, which was
glad to learn, had been exaggerated by
some newspapers and was not as serious
as reported. After thorough investigation
the faculty suspended four students who
were believed to have violated the presi-
dents instructions. 1t developed later, ac-
cording to my informant, that one of the
suspended students was innocent. All the
participants in the trouble had been ex-
amined. but none would inculpate his fell
| low-students. AS rule, however, no mis-
takes are made, and the ringeaders in mis-
chief usually suffer. Remember that Ray
mond, the next time you conspire TO vent
your surplus energy in forbidden pranks
When the spirit moves you to perform some
heroic deed that will live in the annals OF
college mischievousness, just Iced your
band of fear-nobodies to a poor widows
woodpile. and do not leave it until every
stick is sawed. split and corded. You may