Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-07

Ming" said Bill.
Mannows laughed, remembering.
Terrible rows Harvard and Tech
used to have, Ell? Odd how hot-head'
ed boys will get. Why. ! 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 fortunei | felt that you
had insulted me personality"
$50 did l." confded Bill, when you
did highland fling the time Tech
licked Harvard at football! l 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 OH class day."
az went two years ago." said Bill.
"I tell you it 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
60 to Tech are about the cream of the
lot. Fine chaps, good families and all
that"
"Oh, yes said Bill. "But nothing
like Harvard I 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
sane and unprecedented eye, and you
must acknowledge that the mere fact
that Tech is a scientific school would
bring to it brainier, more earnest
set of students than would attend an
ordinary university! Fellows with
some real purpose in life, you know
and with aims-no society butterflies
with more cash than brains ever
chose TECH"
Well just because Harvard isn't
bullying foreheads doesn't hurt it, I'd
have you know" said Bill, warmly.
"They are az around men who take
an interest in all sides of life | hate
a narrow man. And in athletics"
"Now, now" interrupted Mannows,
warningly. You are never going to
dig up that Gensler game, are you?
Harvard never could take a licking
gracefully"
Bill stopped short and shook his
finger under Mannows' nose. He
tried to speak three times before he
could get out the words. Licking"
he repeated in strangled tones. mo
one but a prejudiced, unfair, sponge
headed idiot of a Tech man ever
would have agreed to that umpire's
decision. If Harvard wasn't euchred
out Of fair game by. the most under
handed, unjust, outrageous decision
that ever"
Everybody saw Gensler when he
cheated" Mannows shouted Every.
body! Nobody with grain of de-
cency in him would have dared to
claim that game! Harvard showed the
yellow in her ali right by having the
sneaking nerve to object! She should
have hid her head in shame! The
Harvard men should have been egged
off the grounds! They should have
been ridden on a rail. All of the"
You with your bribed umpire!"
Bill yelled. I'D talk if I were you,
yes, would. Of all the disgraceful
acts of Tech that was the limit!
From top to bottom Tech is moth
eaten. disreputable-"
"T1l punch your facet" Mannows
beloved. shaking his fist. eff you
don't take back your ISLANDERS on the
best"
Stepping off the curb at the unno-
ticed crossing, both Bannows and
Bill reeled. grabbed and fell In a heap.
a passing boy helped them up Eyes
must be getting bad he commiser-
ated.
Mannows and Bill paused to look
after him.
Say" exclaimed Bill, a bit sheep
ishIy, blamed if l haven't got boy
OF my own as big as that-he enters
Harvard next fall"
"Umph," said Mannows. I'm an
old fool. I'm 40!"
II guess we'd better call it square,"