Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-04

will be in the game, To-Day, anu eiiS
| rest of the men are in good CONDITION.
There is a feeling that Colby will
make a good showing against Bow
| doin. There is little or no betting, but
| several offers were made on the street,
Friday evening, of 5 to on Bowdoin' s
| winning and even money on Colby's
scoring. This expressed the feeling in
Waterville on the eve of the contest.
The students will support the team
| loyalty, and good spirit is manifest.
The annual reception by the girls of
the freshman class to the freshman
boys did not take place. Friday even
ing, as planned. The dust kicked up
by the event and it's postponement has
almost maze the college community
forget that there is an intercollegiate
football game, today, but with the in
tercession of members of the faculty an
adjustment was reached, late Friday
afternoon.
No sooner was the announcement of
the reception made than it was seen
that such an event, coming on the eve
of q college game, was beyond all col
lege precedent, and the upper class
men Immediately took steps to have
the affair postponed. But in the mean
time considerable had been going on
among the members of the freshman
class Early Thursday evening, little
groups of freshmen left the campus.
and after walking some distance from
the college grounds, boarded the car
for Fairfield. Among them We're the
class president, Munroe f. Young of
Calais, and the other officers of the
class, whom the sophomores were de-
sirous Of capturing"
The party numbered % when it
swooped down upon Manager Bradbury
of The Gerald. They at once turned
the hote', or at least the part of it
assigned them, into n fortress, and
awaited the attack of the sophOmOreS.
The sophomore committee that had
been appointed to stop the flight Of the
freshman president was otherwise en-
gagged. Two members We're calling on
feminine acquaintance and the where
abOuts of the third could not be ascer-
tanned. When the discounted sophO-
rlOres found that the birds had flown
there was general alarm and ven-
geance of a mild sort was vented on
their places of abode. Friday morning,
the freshman seats in classroom and
chapel were deserted.
1t was at this point that the college
authorities began to take an interest
in proceedings. Whether from the eff
fects of a recent editorial in the Colby
Echo or or some other reason, the stu
dent committee of the conference board
got together and voted to use it's inf1u-
tn
freshman girls held an "indignation''
meeting at P. NJ. and voted to hold
the reception, but to recall the invita-
lions to the boys. The air was very
blue.
The sOphOmOres sent scout to Fair
field to see what the freshmen were
up to-" He secured a lot of valuable
information from Il polite young lady
in candy store across the street from
The Gerald, and reached Waterville
without being observed. What he re-
ported set the sophomores wild and a
crash Of some sort was imminent.
Early in the afternoon, one of the
professors was seen to board the car
for Fairfield. What transpired upon
his arrival only he and the freshmen
know, but al about 2. NJ. crowd of
sheepish looking freshmen bowled back
in the car for Waterville and the pro-
fessor came on the car that followed.
Still later in the afte rnoon the fresh
man girls had another meeting, and
reconsidered their harsh mandate
against the masculine half of the
class. 1t was voted to hold the re-
certion on the evening of Nov. II, and
al
have some of the ice cream after ALL
Thus came to a satisfactory solution a
crisis that appeared real while it last
ed. and at q late hour, Friday evening.
Colby campus had resumed its accus-
toned quiet and repose.