The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-19

| riage or brush their skirts with tiny
trooms. or confde 20 tnerl the troubles
Of their highly chec6s-ed careers A
Commonwealth avenue baby on a fine
spring afternoon soon learns to expect a
kiss from every gayIy decorated male who
appears on the scene-an initiate who
may easily have kissed thirty such in
fants previous 10 this one. There are
other little incidents that the fellows
mention to a newspaper man with an air
OF lit wouldn't do to print"-the regular
yearly custom OF. decorating the hagpoIe
In front OF the law school. and after
hauling the decoration up to the top. cut
ting the halyards. so that the Cambridge
police have to shoot at It all the early
morning TO break IL up and end the scan
dial. The tale is rivaled by the story OF
the two medical students who bought at
a crowded drug store In BoyIeston street
two oblong packages which they carried
out. by direction of their initiators and
distributed TO the waiting throng as the
extra OF the best ''evenin paper, last
edition"
Let II not be supposed that all Of these
Harvard stunts are utterly pointiess.
Surely there is a true scientific spirit IN
requiring the lucky neophtes to arise at
in the morning. walk over 10 the chilly
Charles River. and drop in a pebble TO
see which way the tide is running. No
where il found greater devotion 20 the
spirit OF cleanliness than when these
same young gentlemen. a half-hour later
perform their ablutions in the Brattel
Square horse trough, icy cold. How
many OF their religious lives have dated
from this same FIRST morning when they
proceeded. uncravstted. uncollared. IN
shaved. pilgrims indeed. 10 Appleton
chapel. for morning prayers Rarely is
found on Boston elevated car such po-
likeness IN giving up seats as is required
OF these neOphtes. or such courtesy az
when the neophyte takes OF his hat 20
every policeman. Kind solicitude for TIRE
neatness Of the others Is psrsonihed In the
lad who stands at the entrance Of the
Harvard Square car and with a small
broom politely brushes the coat Of each
passenger as he enters A most Isuda bic
desire 10 save property AZ cost of life and
limb Is shown IN that graphic scene.
where several men. hidden under desks
and chairs a; the sound ~ the bell rush
on, Ike the FIRE engines they initiate and
extinguish a Ia cHspidor the dirniuu;ive
paper Ere started on the hearth BY an
upper class --Sn- II "a undoubtedly good
exercise FOR a member or the crew %
practice this stroke with two toofhpscks
especially IN the presence Of half q hun
dred Of Bos;ou's girls. 81 H1yisr's. ard Il
10 magnificent training IN patience 20 roll
a peanut up Park street hilI. with the
same kind % an instrument Pride takes
its proverbiai fan when one % II. mem
bers Of Boston's most select families
strolIs 20 ard down fremont street PRO-
claiming vshesnertiy. 7 am a CABOT
am a CABOT Th4 Ezotsrms1 ard co.-
ductcrs do not seen % recover from their
resentment AZ being hailed bT pOun.h
uho. when the car has stopped. quietly
rests his foot on TIRE step. Ties his shoe.
and remarks gratefully: '-ThAak yoz. yos
may 20 on now II n~ophy;@ car s.op
five ears IN succezsioc s1S uy,lisk
this HtfIs coneeT bis reputation j. made
forever n Tire yard
often the stunts are more complicated
Involved ard difficult The sturdy cd
New Eng.aaf spirit surely cane 70 I.fs
again a tia; pz;s5ofic f->shs-sa she
Travelled from Le1scxrsa - CoocorE o1e
hight res~rtiy. knocstns AZ eacA farm
houze do0- and shouting 20 each alarmed
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