The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-25
IN a COLUMBIA FEST.
Fney Leap IN On Q saIome Dance by q
Heeyyweight Freshman.

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Heayyweight Freshman.
Three mounted policemen put q stor
to the FIRST Salome dance Of tho season
TO havo fallen under the disapproval
Of the authorities up At Kans's tavern
on Clason's Point road last night. The
dancer happened TO be q two-hundred
pound Columbia freshmanA who wa
wrapped about by nothing save his In
nocence and en- undershirt and who vas
pirouetting madly to the applause Of about
800 sophomores.
The dance Of Herod's strange daughter
was not the only thing that was going
on In and about the neighborhood Of
Kane's tavern about that time. There
was also q fine fight between the sopho-
mores, who were being entertained by
the enforced antics OF some freshman
prisoners. and a rallying army 81 the
recent entrants OF Columbia that had
marched up the road to save their heavy
comrade and others In durance from
further shame.
The sophomores. following old estab-
lished custom at Columbia. began early
yesterday morning to 60 out sniping for
kuiltlt63 IEcbilIlOu1 ~ hyhh8 Otoue Va
skirmishers In a large auto toured the
streets about the campus from so'olock
until almost noon,g gathering In the strang-
ers as they happened 10 drift along with
shining morning faces.
After about twenty Of the fresh speci-
mems had been rounded up they we're
taken to q house on M~orningside Park
East: the home Of one Of the marauding
eophomores, and there they were kept
under close surveillance until the time for
the appointed night feast should be ripe.
Lats in the afternoon q moving vsn.w which
which was decorated with q sign marked
Fresh Beef. was drawn up before the door
of the temporary prison and the freshmen
were dumped Inside. They were trun-
died out Cfason's Point road 10 the tavern.
Aparty Of the oollegtans had previously
hired the use OF Kane's pavilion for the
night under the name OF the Nassau Out
there was going to be q dance until the
van full Of freshmen, trioed up like fowls
for the spit, dumped its freight In the
Garden. Then be asked the nearest
police station to DO ready for ar emery
ENJOY call atsany hour.
Last night the sophomores began their
sports. They had most Of their pfis,
OD6Eo butp W tAtIh otbuCiOiotAOot e@
being considered the proper treatment
Of freshmen under such circumstances,
and then the neophytes were set to doing
stunts. Whenever n succeeded In win
ming a boat race about the pavilion with
his toothpick SOULS perchanoe he was
rewarded with q mug Of beer over the
head. A merry time was being enjoyed
by one and all until the three mounted
policemen rode up just as the 200 pound
freshman was looking a beer stain In
the face in the rapture OF the Oriental
dance.
The sophomores and their prisoners.
the latter still mostly undressed, adj
journed to the road when the policemen
ordered them out Of the tavern grounds.
Then the freshmen. In numbers Of about
400, 90 1t was said laterS attacked from
front and flank. The erstwhile prisoners.
Rirding their undershirts about them.
waded into their late tormentors with
the rest Of the brethren. The fight lasted
fifteen or twenty minutes and then came
to q natural close. The freshmen believed
they had won because they had banged
the sophomores' heads worse b their
own had been banged.
For the 200 pound Salome and his COM
panions IN undress clothes were found
out Of the remnants Of the garments
worn by the combatants, and then all
marched the mile or two back 10 the
trolley quite happy.