Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-01

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to be sure. when the alumnus
comes back to Stanford in pilgrim
age now, and yet the legends of
the good old time cling evet to the
shrine.
Remember that day at college,
years ago, when they shaved our friend
B? b, don't you know. was a fresh
man who presumed to wear side whiskers.
The sophomores couldn't raise hirsute
adornments Of that sort, and 30 they
warned Mr.. B that the whiskers must
ccme on They didn't and 80 an indigna-
ton meeting was called in the mems room.
At Stanford they would call It the bull
pen" in the Middle West the bum room"
Plans we're laid and B was kidnapped
on his way to an exam. Then the boys laid
him out-four sophomores sitting upon his
anatomy to keep him down, while the
others, each in turn. took a hand at a
biological razor, much the worse for wear,
and shaved one-half OF his face clean as
q baby's. The other half they would not
touch, but, with its wealth OF sideburns.
turned the owner loose to so to class one
cheek shaver, the other unshorn.
Commencement time brings back other
recollections of old Heidelberg"
Out there on the campus still stands
the tree beneath which Harry and Evelyn
used to spoon. Poor Harryl Ali the
spooning," all the fun at his expense
never stood him in good stead, for Evelyn
married away from the college town and
left him behind to mourn.
1t was all this way with Harry. They
had made him an associate editor of the
News, and one of his duties each week
was to carry the manuscript to the type
setter in town. There, on the linotype,
the News would be set and slugs made
for the lines, and these Harry carried
back to college next morning, so that
they could be printed on the university
press.
One night Harry was going to call on
Evelyn right after tea. He hadn't time
to 90 home with the slugs, and OF course
he would stay too late to take them from
town that night. So. in his Prince AL
bert, Harry bore the slugs to the home of
his hancee. Once enwrapped in her
charms all thought of them vanished and
when with midnight Harry left her home
was with the slugs behind him.
The next day Papa found the two boxes
IN the porch. They were wrapped about
with paper, and heavy. My. no heavy!
twenty pounds apiece, or more. Papa had
oeen in politics and threatened with
iynamlting once or twice, and now felt the
hour had come. Fool him? Not he! He
telephoned for the city police. and they
sent up their explosive expert Gingerly
he undid the paper. only to find Harry's
slugs. He, however, in his clumsiness took
them along to Police Headquarters. There
the reporters got hold of the story ana
discovered the origin OF the matter ~
course they published the story. bringing
in all the romance and glamour OF a COL
lege woolng and Harry knew nothing ~ -
until he came to class.
Happy-go-lucky college days, once aeatr
at handl Each and every college Vvitb lie
own peculiar customs, interesting ever IN
the coneglan and the layman as Well
Out at Stanford, at Palo Alto. each Oo,,
her. they hold the "plug-ugly. " unio,,o
q mons our college ceremonials. Thai ~,
the juniors present the "plug-uRlv" CO.
local in plot, more local in its allusIons
the product of the pen OF some member 90
the Rifted class Then. at the end ~ ~
play. the plot manages TO Introduce ~
entire junior class, wearing the new nl,,es
indicative OF their rank as wen as 800
brown corduroy trousers.
This entry is made the signal TO- 81.
seniors TO rush to the attack. atter,,, .s ne
in any way they can TO break the ..ni,'-rlts
OF their colleagues. Luckily. man 81,
take part in the farce. and so the 49,,
escape the scrlmmage. But from, -
bleachers about the oval the rival Ii,
of the classes mingle like some torsin 70
old, squirting on the men to victorv
In fact, in the far West of the Irr,,o,
States the hat seems to be the favo,I,.. H.
sigma for rank and for attack.
Probably no university in the world nra-
Sents a more unique exhibition Of No.
gear than the University OF Ca,Ifornia
Berkeley. Not alone must hats underso
the plug ugly ceremonial but the mora
battered ana worn they have become tbs
better they suit the purposes OF theIr ouno
sFs The more battered, the more unIo'ia
and the more are they worn. You viii