The Cairo bulletin., 1911-10-30
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he had had education forcibly in
stilled In him.
Forty years old" he said, trife
Indignantly. at length. Il don't be-
lieve it,"
AS he still stood and stared some
one passing bumped into him. Man
nows. catching sight OF the face in
the glare of the street lamp, whirled
him around. "Bill!" he howled. III
it amt Bill"
The captured man, after one look,
broke into exclamation points.
Two rather portly men dancing on
the sidewalk are apt to attract attcn-
ton, SO Mannows and his friend
moved on.
Il was just incoming over the time
when | was hiking up those steps.
explained Mannows. Greatest old
college on earth, that"
mot while Harvard Is still rum
ming" said Bill.
Mannows laughed, remembering.
Terrible rows Harvard and Tech
used to have, Ell? Odd how hot-head-
ed boys viii get. Why. I remember
calling you every name in the diction-
airy because you were SO chesty over
Harvard and sneered at Tech! Tech
meant more to me then than family,
friends or fortune! felt that you
had insulted me personality"
vi
$50 did r." conf1ded Bill, when you
did a highland fling the time Tech
licked Harvard at football I remem-
Der meditating how satisfying It
would be to Stay you. Bloodthirsty
little demons. college boys"
THAT they are" agreed Mannows.
TOO young to know better! 1t takes
years to drill little sense into them!
Ever go back on class day."
81 went two years ago, said Bill.
81 tell you 1t made me feel good to
see what splendid class of fellows
Harvard turns out each year!"
"Uhhuh," said Mannows. "of course,
Harvard is bigger, but when you come
right down to it ] guess the men who
| go to Tech are about the cream of the
lot, Fine chaps. good families and all
! that" m
"oh. yes" said Rill. But nothing
Ike Harvard. | tell you"
"Oh. come now, Bill" Mannows
broke in complacently. "of course,
it's all right to stick up for your alma
mater and all that, but you're old
| enough now to look at things with Q
sane and unprecedented eye, and YOU
must acknowledge that the mere fact
that Tech is scientific school would
bring to 1t brainier, more earnest
set of students than would attend ar
ordinary university! Fellows with
some real purpose In life, you know
and with alms-no society butterflleI
with more cash than brains evel
chose Teeh!"
We'll, just because Harvard ism
,erammed with lot of fellows will
bulging foreheads doesn't hurt II. II
have you know" said Bill, warmly
"They are all around men who taxi
an interest In all sides of life. hat
a narrow man! And In athletics
Now, now!" interrupted Mannows
warningly. "You are never going I,
| dig up that Gensler game, are you
Harvard never could take lickin,
gracefully"
Bill stopped short and shook h.
finger under Mannows' nose H,
tried to speak three times before b,
could get out the words. Licking!
he repeated in strangled tones. IN,
one but preJudiced. unfair. sponge
headed idiot Of Tech man eve
would have agreed to that umpirel
decision. II Harvard wasn't euchret
out of fair game by the most under
handed, unjust outrageous decision
that ever"
Everybody saw Gensler when HI
cheated" Mannows shouted. Every
body! Nobody with grain OF de
cency in him would have dared t.
claim that game! Harvard showed thu
yellow In her all right by having The
sneaking nerve to object! She Should
have hid her head in shamel Tn,
Harvard men should have been eggeC
off the grounds! They should hav,
been ridden on a rail! All of the
You with your bribed campfire!
| Bill yelled. "Fd talk II we're you
yes. would! OF all the disgracefu
acts Of Tech that was the limit
From top to bottom Tech is moth
eaten, disreputable--"
TN punch your facet" Mannow
beloved shaking his fist. IF 20,
don't take back your ISLANDERS on tn,
best"
Stepping of the curb at the unno
ticed crossing, both Bannows ant
Bill reeled. grabbed and fell In heap
| A passing boy helped them up. Eyes
must be getting bad" he commissr
! ated.
Mannows and Bill paused to lool
after him.
Say" exclaimed Bill, bit sheep
ishly, blamed n haven't got DO,
Of my own as big az that-he enter.
| Harvard next fall"
"Umph!" said Mannows. I'm ar
old fool! I'm 40!"
81 guess we'd better call It square!'
said Bill. t.
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