The Republican journal., 1905-10-26
A FRESHMAN AT u. OF N.
Ky.

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ing engrossed your mind and made you
bit absent-minded in the classroom
while military drill hour seemed longer
than ever, which was entirely unnec-
essary. There was little episode down
by the river bank in which you partici-
pated, Immediately at the close of the
football season, but them very few peo-
pie knew about that, and you did not
intend to assist in spreading the tidings
if you could help it.
The Freshman posters with their gid
dy green warnings to the incoming
class from the vantage ground of Soph-
omorehood, early appeared on the cam
pus and around town, whereupon a
| class meeting was called, and the sug-
gestion of one of the brightest of the
class was adopted A collection was
taken for supplies" then and there, and
about midnight that evening half a
dozen of the faithful, among which you
were proud to be counted, sailed forth
with paint pots and brushes carefully
concealed. You did not get a great
deal of sleep that night, but the next
morning it was a wrathy lot of Sopho-
mores who beheld, painted in Fresh
man colors on the face of the carefully
prepared posters, the score of the most
overwhelming Freshman victory in the
base ball series. The upper class
men smiled quite audibly, and some of
them said things which made the way
of the Sophomore, at most a tEorny
path, bit more uncomfortable than
usual
The peanut scrap came off according
to schedule, on the darkest, murkiest
and muddiest night of the whole sea-
son. Honors and spoils were about
evenly divided at its close, and the up
per claSSmen got their share as well.
Flag scrap regalia came into requisition
once again, most of it making its
final appearance, and the campus was
Strewn with enough souvenirs to set
an ambitious rag peddler up in bust
ness.
Affairs of this kind, and even your
first experience in accompanying a spec
ial train full of students and their
friends to neighboring college, where
you witnessed a hard earned victory
for Maine and came home rejoicing,
paled before the anticipation of those
few days at home You pitied the
boys at the house whose homes were
too far away to allow them the luxury
OF Thanksgiving spent at home, but
who steadfastly refused all invitations
and spent the few days together in the
jolliest way possible. The down train
was full of students and brought to
mind very wildly your journey in the
opposite direction not long before
How different everything looked, and
was. You were at home i'll the house
which you mad learned to regard as
your second home; you knew fully
three-quarters of the students by name
and almost all of them by sight, and
you were not a bit afraid to jon in the
cheering and singing now.
At the junction you bid goodbye to
the fellows near you and were in for a
tedious wait When finally started
again you found lot of people you
knew OH the "local," and grew so in
terested in talking that the time did
not seem SO long as you had anticipated,
and almost before you could realize it,
you were at home. Never did days 60
so fast as did those, whose hours you
had counted, miser-fashion. Never did
the place look so good to you, OF things
taste SO well, or people seem so alto
gether charming. You almost hated
the thought of going back. but after a
little while you began to realize that
you would be glad to ''see the fellers"
once more, and when the time for de-
parture actually came, you were ready
to go.
There wasn't much on after
Thanksgiving, as you were not the
least bit musical, and the Debating Club
held no charms for you. 1t was pretty
steady plugging, with house dance or
two. where you danced bit, and
served punch lot, and chung around
some more, and one or two trips to the
theatre in Bangor, when somebody
worth seeing was playing there, for an
evening.
Your first big dance in the gym was
the feature of this epoch. Freshmen
were allowed to attend one assembly,
as the big college dances are called, and
for this once were exempt from that
hated rule, Freshmen must not &C
company ladies'" Her friend asked
Her up for a few days, and SO every
thing was plain sailing. The music was
fine, the floor was good, and not too
crowded, and everything went off as
pleasantly as you could have wished.
She quite approved of everything and
gloried in dance order with majority
of Freshmen names. The gym was
prettily decorated with flags, banners
and coy corners, some of whose count