The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-30

each Otncr S shoulders, SKID lo '0 side of the street. followed by the third and hth lines. whll the second, fourt and sixth, anu so on, skip the othe' way,
 The Ring on the Campus.
 Thus, keeping time with the music, the parade winds It's way down Chapel to Church street, across Church to Elm, and up Elm street to the campus There the niors form a ring, and the other classes pack themselves behind, the "Y' men taking the center as mar shals. referees, and seconds.
 Sophomore lightweight calls the head marshal, usually the captain ot the football team. and the crowd echoes the cry until sophomore steps into the ring amid the cheers of hls classmates Then comes the call for the "n shman lightweight followed by a pause, for the freshmen, not Knowing their wrestlers, have trouble in finding man
 Al length a fellow who has wrestled at Andover. Hotchklss or one of the other large schools. Ia called, and with little D rsuaslon he steps into the ring Both men strip to the waist and take of their shoes. After shaking hands they go at f." with yells and cheers from their respective classes Az one or another gets an advantage, yplls nf "klll him, sophomore oi stick to him, fir sh. come from the excited crowd Then comes the mid dleweight, and after that the heavy weight struggle on the turf.
 For the first time in number o' years ioii took all the bouts from 1912 ' Tn the lightweight the sophomore, R ' Walker, threw the freshman, Hunting ton Russell in the third round, afiei ! the nret two rounds were drawn Like wise in the mddeweighi Q. R, bunr was the freshman champion agains ". A Prime of 1911, Twice tho con. 'ostnnts went at each other. clInched and hod until the round was over The third time Prime got fall whtl' 1911 informed the crowd they wer' etlll present.. The sophomore took th' hrary weieht bout easily Matthew Cleveland. ioli threw ltotchchlld, 1912 ta two successive bouts.
 With the call of time, every on' rueAed for York street to see the "reH d1inga" old Jim nonnelly, tho cam pus policeman sighed az he followot after inc same old college once II York street, the freshmen were drive' from tho street to their rooms, whil' groups Of sophomores began ih rounds rersou hall is always th starting point for there tho greeneS freshmen is usuallr found,
 Sometimes two, and sometimes thrc' freshmen arc caught In tho same room With the customary greeting, Goo . evening freshmen tho aophomores on tor and sea' thcmselves. while th freshmen stand and wonder who Is go ing tn happen next. Tho leader speak up: Now. freshmen, we come 10 b amused, and, if you are good enter tainers. you may get off easily; If moi we will feel obliged to take you t Bllly's." Now, not all freshmen knov anything about Billy's-but all fec sure t is no place to which they woul' care 10 go Only the freshest of fresh mon are taken there, where beer sham poo and milk drinking contests are | vogue. The leader again speaks up "We'n start off with the William Tel act" Tn this two freshmen arc place opposite each other. A bean or pebbl ia placed on the head of one, and a we sponge on the head of the other Tn object Cf he game Is 10 hlt the bean.
 Than follows the Cuckoo Clock, "Wrestlng With Temptation an other ridiculous but harmless stunt' witch were worked by their father before them, and probably will be use when the present undergraduates he come fathers. The freshmen are the told to undress each other, and get int bed to await the pleasure of the neS group nf sophomores who happen thei way This is kept up until the we hours. when inc weary freshmen dro off to sIeep from sheer exhaustion,
 More than ever thIs year Pierso
 Hall resembled vaudeville theatc ,. Through out tho evening shows of ever description were going on. In one par of the lower hallway an excited fresh man was doing a Salome dance, cheer ed by goodly gathering. In anothe mart a freshman from the Green Mour tnns of Vermont was delivering an ot alton on the subject, Shall tho Peopl Rule?' Still another was singing a editorial in one of the college paper to he tune of the Merry Widow walt
 Two more were holding spirited dt bate, with one upholding the afirmntIl should Bryan Marry Her, while tt other took the negative of "WhN Is Hem, Both talked at once,
 And what wore the other tw ! classes doing at this time, Some, to | sure, were watching the fun on Tor street, but the majority were gathere . at Morys, under the wing of the joyii Louis Iiudor others were at tIei } bleins. the Tontine, and Hughey Re-
 the summer the prospects of the foo
 ball team, and how glad they were
 be back "in the old town,'