The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-12-06
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
By FRED L. YOUNG
Copyright, 1910. by American Pres,
AsS0cfa fion


One morning Elmer Ward. a fresh
man in Vernon college, was called up
before the president, who thus ad-
dressed him:
"Mr. Ward, last night you were
caught in one of those depredations
which of late have been throwing dis
credit on the university. Peter Bar
ber's grocery store was entered and
liquors and cigars taken. Barber
who lives over his store, hearing a
noise below. put his head out of the
window and saw several young men
running away. He recognized you as
one of them. If you will give me the
names of the others your punishment
will be far lighter
Last night" replied the accused
man, 81 was in my room from O'Clock
till in the morning. never once leav-
ing it,
THAT you would undoubtedly be
able to prove by your fellow students
but not to the satisfaction of the fac
ulty. You may consider your connec.
ton with the college severed"
Elmer, after an interview with Bar
Der, during which the latter maintain.
ed stoutly that he had seen the stu
dent running away from his store, saw
no way to prove his innocence and
making a virtue of necessity, left the
university. There was no legal pros
ecution for burglary since the matter
was considered one of those indiscre
tons common among college students
The hardest part of the young mans
college leaving was saying goodby tc
Della Trevor. the daughter of Profess
sor Trevor. The two had been play
mates, and Elmer had chosen Vernon
college because she was there. They
were neither Of them quite of an age
certainly not in a position to pretend
but there was an undercurrent OF
feeling that was liable to burst forth
at any moment. This trouble which
had overtaken the young man brought
it all out. Together they talked over
the situation as a matter of supreme
interest to both, and the plan that De
lila proposed was carried out to the let
ter. 1t was in substance that Elmer
should not be deprived of a college
education. When he left this was not
only understood between them. but
that the current of their lives should
be one.
Though Elmer had been in college
but few months, his expulsion was
received by the students with marked
disapprobatiIn. The spirit of rebel
lion ran so high that the president was
burned in efiigy on the campus. The
freshman was not only the most popu
lar man in his class, but was looked W
to as the athletic Moses who bid fail
to lead his fellow students out of the
wilderness of defeat in which they haC
been wandering for several years. He
stood six feet two in his stockings
and was Hercules for strength AnG
now that he had been expelled the
expectation of great things he would
do for the college was crushed in the
bud. Interest in the annual football
match for the next year died out
and it was supposed that Kendall uni
versity, which had downed Vernon 81
often. would do it again. And so i
turned out not only that year. bu
the next and the next.
When the autumn of the third yea
came around the Vernon undergradu
ates felt that something must be don,
to break this chain of defeats. A gooC
man, Tom Muir, was selected for cap
tain, and he worked hard to get to
gether an efficient team. He succeede,
far better than was to have beef
hoped; but, after all. the team as
whole was too light
Muir during the early part of DC
tober succeeded in replacing four play
ers with better men and one of tn
freshmen in the scientific school wa
discovered to be not only very stron,
and very heavy, but remarkably quick
In this way Muir brought the team
up to state of efficiency that begal
to awaken an interest in the aLnua
game. A week before it was to COM
off so great had been the change tina
the betting, which had been five to on
on Kendall, became five to four on Ver
non.
But alas for human hopes! One o
Muir's best men was injured in prac
tice so far as to be eliminated for tina
year at least from the team. Anothe
crack player was taken i'll. A thir'
was called home on account of a fam
lily affiiction. 1t was too late to replac
these men with equally efficient one
even if it could have been done at al
The Vernon money was all up on th
game and could not be withdrawn
All hope of breaking in upon the vic
tories OF Kendall was abandoned.
The day before the match Muir as
serted that two Of his substitutes ha,
turned out to be summers and he feI
encouraged. Vernon plucked up cOuI
age A more hopeful feeling was wax
ing when the very afternoon befor
the match, while practicing, the ma
from the scientific school, who ha
been relied upon for the principal tao
kler and runner as well. emerge
from a scrimmage with broken les
That finished the rising anticipation
of Vernon, and the game was given U
for lost.
Nevertheless the next Afternoon
there was big crowd on the oval +
witness Vernon's defeat Captain
Muir was walking across the gridirol
with his head hanging in despondenc,
when a man stepped up to him &C