New-York tribune., 1905-11-09
RAH! RAH! RAH! BOYS.
SteUens Seniors Disport as Little
Children at annual Frotic.

The annual senior ..froic'' at Stevens Institute
in Hoboken was held last night Dressed IN tho
most fantastic costumes, the seniors dispor'eo as
children of tender age The .frolic' was held on
the old St Georges Cricket Club grounds ai,er
the students had marched through Hoboken behind
a brass band.
Heading the parade from the campus to the
cricket grounds was Wilbur Hit. a senior dressed
daintiy a girl, who insisted on snohhs =,
Gigantic pjpe He experienced a lot or troupic
With his earb and his antics caused much amuse-
ment Hill persisted in paying his respects 10
every pretty girl along the route, but ne was not
alone in that.
At one time Hiil's leading of the parade was
threatened by Samuel A Miller. who as scotch
niper tried to lead the band with diminutive toy
bagpipe The musicians did not like his music, and
Hill was of like mind. Hill chased Miller back De-
hind the band among the motley array OF ladles
of the haren" Cowboys" dudes "Sultans ia
vorites" "Dr Parkhursts.'' "rubes," Indians and
Spanish grandees
This with the rolling of tin ashcans along the
block pavement to help the bass drum out a bit,
and seeing that no Hoboken girl was sighted in
the way of compliments brought the five hundred
men in line to the grounds without any more seri-
Gus disorder than the stoppage of a few trolley
cars and trucks.
The war dance, accompanied by the Stevens yeii
"Rah rah, rah. rah! Ray ray. ray rayi
STEVENS, Stevens, Stevens. stevens! Kay,
raw rayl' In imitation of locomotive getting
under way that broke lose when the men arrived
at the cricket grounds, only the warming up
for the cane spree preliminary to the sophomore
freshmen tug of war and the tie-up' between the
entire membership of both of these classes
In the cane spree were three casses-ifght middle
and heavyweight w. S. K. Wainwright as check
suited gambler, and Harry Gibson, as not sport
endeavored to make book upon the result Oh tle
spree" but they had hard time of 1t, as the
scphomores were favorftes and the freshmen had
no money When the book all made up and
the money in hand Vescilius and Condis, as cow
boys" assisted by P. ]. Howe, an INDIAN, con-
fscatcd the money by main strength and spent the
proceeds of their raid with Peanut joe. the
yender who has supplied Stevens students for
twenty-three years Thayer and Utz won for the
sophomores In the light and middle weight classes.
but in the heavyweight class Nieland got away
with the stick for the freshmen.
At the close of the cane spree James kigore,
made up DIR. Parkhurst, began game of leap
frog with the Spanish dancer, Burng. The sport
proved popular that all of the seniors took part
and the game in full blast all the lot.
1t a sudden end Samuel Keifer. "a clown,
lost the best part of his pantaloons in getting in
bad tangle with John Cooke. farmers boy"
After he had fixed himself up in retirement Keifer
declared that he had only changed his costume
and that thereafter he to be known the
butchers boy.
If the sophomcres had triumphed in the cane
spree the freshmen took their inning the tug
of They pulled the sophomores around as If
they had been in wagon and then cut the rope
into small pieces for souvenirs. This was not before
the sophomores had tied a big knot in one end Of
the rope and chastised many of the freshmen with
it. The official announcement made that the
freshmen had won the tug of by twenty feet.
In the interrnssion before the '!tie-up' the
seniors indulged In snapthe whip. pussin the-cor-
and other childish pranks. Then the fresh
and sophomores each armed with two bits Of
marlin rope faced each other for the most dreaded
event of the day. They held off from the attack
and had to be jeered into action by the seniors
and unions Finally the freshmen made the open
ing rush. stormed the sophs. and the two hun
dred classmen struggling and fighting IN the
dirt The sophs. had learned by bitter experience
of the previous year the startegic moves OF the
game, and they held together in squads of four
and six Each squad captured the nearest fresh
man. one usually sitting his head and grinding
his face into the dirt, while the others tied him
fast, hands and feet. For half an hour it was
worse than the most intricate football scrimmage.
Hostflties were declared off while the Judges
made a count of the men tied up Ike turkeys
trussed for Thanksgiving.
The sophomoreS again the victors. as thirty
three freshmen were tied to twenty-one OF the
sophomores. Several Of the students were badly
used I'D from this fierce play, but they were all
able to ioin In the parade back to the campus,
which was noisy the start
In the evening the seniors. still in costume, heId
their festival dinner in the Quartet Club HAIL
David Elder. class president. presided and there
were speeches and Ioasts. the majority of which
were in free handed comment upon the faculty and
classmates The frolic the most elaborate
watched by gathering that crowded the grand
stand and field.
ON THE GOLF INKS