The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-22

Of Portsmouth. y. H.; the class essay py
NIiss Mary Marcus Bht1stern OF Pnila-
delphiA, the memorial Grafton by Abra-
ham Louis Doris Of Brooklyn. the pres.
dents address by George Franklin roma
| u Rochester.
Al the outdoor exercises ~ Darling Of
Atlanta made the ivy Grafton; stanton
Grfla OF Ithaca, winner Of the Wood
ford Oratoical prize. gave the class his
I tory and Charles A. Carroll OF New YORK
| citv winner % the Shakespeare and
browning prizes made the class prophecy.
The class pipe was handed down 10y Harry
| Wilson
Then came an innovation 10 class day
exercises az Cornell. Prof. W. W. Row
lee. president OF the Association Of Class
Secretaries Of Cornell. presented the
| graduating classes with the gold pen that
4 President Schurman had used To sign
their diplomas. II will he kept In the uni
versity library uHnler lock and key. but on
exhibition, and probably willbe the hrst
OF a long series Of gold pens with which
the diplomas o. Cornell graduates VIII be
but az for that Kid Kugler hand. Every
Comedian graduated In the last decade
knows KID Kugler. 'O3. He lives in
Philadelphia. When KuglH arrives IN
town the fun begins. Nobody starts
anything until he hears whether the
4 "a Ia on deck OF not. Every year hugier
has something Of a novelty. He arrived
this morning with about twenty-five
choice spirits and they had weird brass
instruments all done up In blue silk COW
erinRs. For SIR months the Kid had been
making a colleCtiOn Of them from the
pawnshOps Of Philadelphia without re-
gard 10 previous condition OF servitude or
expense.
he uncorked the band within an hour
after he arrived and State street Of Ithaca
had a calathumpian illustration 81 the
musical abilities of Cornell alumni. kug-
lar led the band himself he had a from
bone Of the longest reach that could be
found In the United States Of America.
All his fellow conspiratOrs we're ar
raved ike himself in Comedian caps
aud coats. Fred Wright. 90, was con
spicuous with Kugler a. trombonist
Sammy Eckert. 'Os. everlnstingly footed
the cornet. Bring Metcalf, 90. was
especially effective on the double bass.
Budd Kelly. 'OO, had a contraptiOn five
and a half feet long which he called the
elongated horn. Kugler said that he had
sent photographs Of the instrument 10
all the leading bandmasters OF the United
States and not one Of them could tell it,
name. Il made a noise like the crossing
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tied TO a dogs tail. Eddie Burns. u3,
played the bass drum. Nearly a score
Of others filed out the band with all
sorts Of instruments.
This remarkable cOnElomeration Of
artists went up and down street and the
first thing they gave was what they called
Eel Trovatores Then they played Hi
Lev. Hi Lo- with a piccolo OhigatO. They
did lot Of other musical stunts and st
the whole town on a grin Tonight they
are out on the roof ~ the porch Of the
Ithaca Hotel serenading the multltud'
There Is much Joy IN town.
Some Of the alumni when they returned
to-day were surprised 20 learn that thu
faculty had abolished the so-called hat
societies. They had also expressed their
disapprOval Of the perpetual reunion club. /
The reasons are not hard 60 guess II anyone
has ever attended any Of these reunions
A FALSE rIImOr also had spread that the
faculty had asked the police authorities !
Of the town 10 run in any returning gradu- /
ates guilty Of too much oOnviviality 7
There was a hot protest az this and a
large number Of the warmhlOoded young ]
alumni suggested that IL would be a good |
plan 10 tank up all around. an the police I
station mp and swamp Il root, branch and 7.
sinkeT
Il turned out. however. that the mem /
hers Of the faculty are making a most I
serious effort at Cornell ~ stop the over |
indulgence in drinking by uudergradu- |
Rtea No attempt has been made and no |
attempt will be made 10 interfere with /
the cOnvivial tendencies u retiring /
alumni. The work for the undergradu- /
ats reform IL. being done unOstentatiously /
and quietly through the student body .
When IL becouea known that n Young \