The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-16
BOYS WILL
STAY A. AWAY ! !.
University College Students Will
Cut Glasses After
Saturday.
MEETING Nj g: ! HELD YESTERDAY s I: y
Third y ear Class Follows Fourth
III Setting Its Will Against
the Faculty..
MEETING HELD YESTERDAY

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When tho dignified professional staff
sembles OH Monday morning next for the
resumption OF class exercises tho indls-
pcnsnble student body will be lacking.
Certainly, from present outlools, VIII this
,,o tho case with about half tho college,
end it appears ernlnently possible that
the remaining half or a portion OF 1t,
Mll Join In.
With a confidence und sang frold born
OF youthful daring, tho third class Of
tho University. College, made up OF some
fifty boys, met yesterday and formally
gave vent to their feelings upon the
subject. As Tom Dixon would say, they
unanimously resolved with, good deal
cf enthusiasm that they would cut col.
lego dead after next Saturday. 1t took
them some time to get nerved un to
the thing, but they finally did 1t, and
boldly set themselves against all faculty.
provisions to tho contrary.
Tho smell Of the Christmas pop.cracker
Is In the air, and the boys hnvo caught
q whiff of 1t. They arc willing to hold
out until Saturday, but they can't stand
1t after that. Tho University College has
decreed that tho Chris tmas holidays shall
begin on December 23d and end with tho
return to work on the Monday following
New Year ~ section OF the student
ID
ing to be secured later has decreed
otherwise, and 1t is not hard to see
which will prevail, unless something hap
pens when tho faculty get wind Of thu
action of tho hlghhandcd youngsters.
The first step III the matter was taken
by the fourth year class of about forty
reckless young men, who are now fight
ing for their degrees This class, to a.
man, declared that 1t wouldn't touch q
1>or,1 ,.t,,rr ,uf,, inf or
after the festival. The third class had
already met and decided that 1t would
submit to the will Of the faculty. But
the action Of tho seniors brought the
third class round.F
Nothing was said to the faculty be-
cnuse tho boys considered that 1t would
be or no avail. The matter had been de-
cidcd and could not be changed from
that quarter. So the third class gath
cred at o'clock yesterday and held
sseslon extraordinary. There was some
llcsitapcy at first about prccpltnting the
rlattcr: everybody was waiting for tho
ether fellow to do It. Finally the ball
was started and before long a formal
motion was made. 4 One or two little
speeches were made, and the three or
four boys who were holding back were
gradually won over. The motion pre-
vailed unanimously. The class declared
that II would not attend college, after
next Saturday. 1t was said later by
como OF the boys that any member of it
who attended would be expelled from the
class organization.
GTfpere are two other classes-the first
and the secondhand it Is possible that
they, particularly the second, will Join
with the others. The first years class
Is made UP Of the new men, who will
probably hesitate longer than the old
ones in setting themselves against the
fe Guilty. The other three. however will
take away about two-thirds of the col
lege, and unless something happens be-
tween now and Monday in the way OF
professional influence etc, there will be,
comparatively speaking, nobody at school
On the first day Of Christmas week