Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-05-13
LID pRIED OFF AS
GIRLS MAKE NIGHT
HOWL AT COLLEGE
Wife of Senator Says She Will
Quit as Trustee If Offend
ers Are Sent
Home.

Washington, May 7.-Fun-ioving
Trinity college girls clad In gymnasium
suits, with boomers and black masks,
celebrated Freshman Night with such
abandon as to shock the college au-
thorities. The accounting and punish
ment are yet to come.
There appears to be a conspiracy of
silence on their part, and there is as
much mystery and misinformation as
there was following the shooting up
of Brownsville.
Trinity college is the only Catholic
institution of extreme higher educa-
ton for women in the United States.
Freshman Day has always been cele-
brated, but never with high jinks. 1t
has been a pillow fight, or a -four
throwing jambOree, or a tick-tack
scare or the interfering of a few
trained mice. But it was different this
time.
Some Of the girls who comprise the
first year class requisitioned their
homes for good things to eat. and they
started of at II o'clock with what
they call an eat" At this function
they agreed to begin the upheaval at
l a. m.
Clad in Scant Attire.
At that ghostly hour they "sneaked'
from their rooms, wearing gym cos
tunes, with boomers and black masks,
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certain fit. Each carried a tin horn or
q horse fiddle. a special committee
stepped out into the night and turned
in a general alarm of fire, bringing all
the engines in the nearest section of
Washington out into the suburbs,
where the college is located in the
midst of a quiet woodland.
Each girl had been assigned her part.
The classroom bells We're all given a
terrific yank, causing every one of the
$50 girls of the other classes to tumble
out Of bed. In the meantime the horse
fiddles made a noise like cracking
flames, with the horns adding to the
din.
The girls who were not in it fiocked
out in all sorts of scant attire. One
carried her jewelry in one hand and a
photograph of her fiance in the other.
Many of them beat it at top speed for
the woods.
On the third and fourth floors some
Of the more nervous girls We're with
difficulty prevented from jumping from
windows.
Having brought matters to this stage
the celebraters peal 1t back to bed,
leaving the others to retire When they
got over their fright.
Families Are Prominent.
The president of the freshman class
is Miss Helen Stokes, of Scranton, Pa.
Among her classmates are:
Helen Cudahy, of Milwaukee, a rela-
tive of Millionaire Jack Cudahy.
Blanche Driscoll, of Buffalo, a sister
Of Representative Daniel A. Driscoll, Of
New York.
Margaret Barrett, also of Buffalo, re-
puted to be related to a high official
of the Erie railroad.
Every member of the years fresh
man class is a musician, and can act
like amateur Mary Andersons.
All of the ia girls not members Of
the class know who the celebraters
were, but O will tell. 1t is a con-
spiracy of silence.
Moreover, Mrs. Carter, wife Of the
senator from Montana, who was young
one herself and has not outgrown it,
is a trustee of the college, and she
says that her resignation will be turned
in if a girl is dismissed. But while
that threat suspended punishment, 1t
will not avert it. The is to
wait until the day Of the examination
and then turn all hands out.