Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-27
!! Is Order from Bates Sophs
! To The Freshmen.
RULES and Regulations" Posted
And Quickly Torn Down.


Lewiston, Me-. Oct, z6.-tSpeciaD.-
The campus has recently received a
coat Of green posters proclaiming to the
The posters bore the following advice
and instructions to the unsophisticated
Freshmen:
I'VE Heterogeneous swamp-gudeons,
CLEANED from the swamps and back
woods Of New England, squat on your
launches. brush the cobwebs from your
optics. excavate the earth from your
ears and bark to these sempiternal
words laid down by the grand and Illus
trious class of 1922
l. The Faculty, Ladies and Upper
class-men are your superiors and must
be treated as such.
.. All embIems and insignia TO pre-
historic prep-school days shall be can
ned.
8. Ye shall hide under caps when
out in the open.
4. Ye shall not perambulate about
the fair sex
D. Ye shall not wear clothing that is
in any way conspicuous
= Co., Once week ye shall place in the
presidents Office excuses for existing
! T. Ye shall keep off the grass.
9. Ye shall provide music in Parker
Hall when asked, and not before
81 Ye shall drink only earth juice
10. Ye shall set up the stogies at
each faculty meeting.
-, Ye shall hold your natural gas:
the halls are lighted by electricity.
IL. On rising. we shall kick your
breast thrice. humbly repeating at each
blow Ego Sum Mill"
After perusing these undying words.
lift the lid. kiss the hand, execute a
centrifugal motion. make genuf1exion.
MT tne' high places, back to your ken
neis and pound your ears. Wherefore
we parasites. with an epiderms as YER
dant/ as the playing surface of pool
table beware of 1912"
The Sophomores put about 500 of
these posters but it took the Freshmen
only about IL hours to tear them all
down. Not one single intact poster is
now in sight in town. There were some
on the telephone poles. the fences the
bulletin boards and other places but
they were all destroyed. Meanwhile the
CLIMBED
the tall chimney Of the central heating
pant which has been the object of so
much inter-class contention, and placed
tneir 1913 banner thereon. The banner
shpped part way down on the chimney
out the Sophs were persistent and they
mounted the chimney and began to grap-
PIE ror 1t with rope, to which was
attached first a scythe then sickle.
ihey hnally fished it up and then wait
ed until the evening twilight shroudcd
the Freshmen before they taught them
tne little lesson that they seemed to
deserve,
Inc SophOmores determinations have be-
gun and the second division will sneak
wednesday. The judges for this are.
John Powers'10 of Polymnia. Miss. OIL
I've Farnham. 10 of Piaeria Miss Flor
enee IL. Perry. 10 of Eurosophia. The
probram for the second division is.
bobby Unwelcome." by Donnell Miss
Francena Quimby; Opportunities of the
american Scholar" by Grady, E. d. Mer-
TIL; The Death of Lincoln by Beech
er. r. II. Brunquist; "Gareth and Lyn-
cite by Tennyson. Miss II. f, Howard:
why History Destroys Government ="
oy Nelson. F. p. Jecusco; Tommy
Candy by Richards. Miss M. E.. Nc
Lain; Commemoration Address" bv
Long. W. E. Davis; "Pelang by Drum
mond. Miss A. Kincaid; "The Scholar in
the Republic" by Phillips. AE. Jennings.
Dr.: The Daisy" by Anderson. Miss
M C. Morse; "EuIogy on Mckinley bv
Cleveland. C. Bonney; The Lost Word.
by Van Dyke. Miss r. r. Humiston:
The Minute Man." n. w. futile: ode
10 West Wind" by Shelly; Miss A.
smith, THE Deliverance Of Conquest"
ny hoar. L. S. Smith, The Boy in
Blue H. A. WEIGH.