The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-26
Cut Of Just Like AncientS With
Only Three Staid Men
Professors to See.
RIVALRY IN CLASSES.
Freshmen and Sophomore
Try to Out-Frisk Each Other
With Columbia Shut Out.

Those .risky Barnard girls are trlsk-
ing again this afternoon This time II
Is a Greek .rlsk In full Greek costume,
with Greek Choruses and Greek free
lunch, labelled Nectar and Ambrosla,"
but consisting only OF lemon juice and
unlcavened dough.
This lovely party was held In Thomp
sons Gymnasium, with only three me.
looking on-all doctors of something or
other. They are DR.. Wood, Or. Mex
Wood and Dr, Nalin, austere members
OF the faculty, and they were present
merely as judges.
The three doctors didn't haze such an
awful keen look IN on the Greek cut-ups
a, that, for they were seated way back
in the gallery OF the gymnasium where
they coudn, study much % the detail.
However, It wasn't expected OF them
that they would make minute observa-
tons. They were only required to look
over the general pers pective and pass
judgment on the ensemble.
Just Judges Of Frisks.
They were to Judge whether or not
the freshmen eXcelled the sophmores
or the sophmores excelled the freshmen
in their Hellenic costumes and lIomeric
frsks.
All the dear girls wore flowing Greek
robes and sandals. Not the sort that
the gods and godesses of old wore.
Heavens. no, for under each flowing
coats, and any one who has studied
the fashions in Queen Wiheminas land
knows thar Il Dutch allowance OF pet
,icoats is modest plenty. Furthermore
both freshies and sophmores wore stock
ings, which was n great deal OF an
/ anachrOnism considering that the Greek
| madens they portrayed never heard OF
garter even.
Still the illusion was perfectly splen
did, and as the girls marched across the
| Barnard campus IN their flowing robes
| cut Greek drectOire to port and star
! board, there ere some sevwcn hundred
and eighty Columbia boys rubberInl
| over the wall. They were sore, too
| those Columbia youths. for they had
| heard that the Greek games and cut.
ups were TO be held out on the campus
and not behind the chaste and for.
| bidding walls of Thompsons gym
/ nasum.
/ They had spent their good money
hiring every available window that
overlooked the Greek campus. Perhaps
/ It didn't make their hearts bleed wher
they saw those three doctors-the tive
| Doc" Woods and Doc" Naltn-ent ter
| ing the gymnasium in a solemn lock
sctep.
Classic Evolutions.
| However, we have It from the best o.
| authority that the Greek evolutiOns tina,
went on inside the gymnasium were al
together classic In their purity OF style
and primness OF department There
/ we're only forty girl athletes. and every
mothers daughter OF them wore bloom
/ ors under their lowing robes OF cheese
7 cloth Furthermore, the robes of the
/ gtr athletics reached lust to the ankles
/ Conecaling the boomers, except during
/ the few Greek evolutions on the nyinl
| rings.
| There were full Greek choruses sans
/ boomers, but with robes that dustcC
| the flor. They marched and swirlec
| about in classic manoeuvres and sans
| Greek songs with about as much melody
| to them as the chant OF ArlstophaneS'
frogs still It was pure Hellenic anc
screamingy funny as well as superblN
| uplifting. The Cheesecloth draperies OF
| the freshmen We're decorated with thei
class colors OF blue and gold, and tn,
robes OF the sophomores We're distin
| guished By what one young lady CharaC
! terzed as startling red borders
| All the Greek maidens IRE Psyche
| knots or Aphrodtc coiffeurs. But that:
/ as close as they got 10 those two anci'n
ladies' costumes.
| The class poets had prepared Greek
| epics for the occasion and rected then
| beautifully-so beautifully that not ever
| the three male savants far back in tn
gallery could understand word NJ II
| After It was all over the sweet young
things simply reveled in nectar and am
brosla.