The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-05-02
COLLEGE BOYS
ON A LARK

every saturday Tor Inc past sixteen
months, and enjoy reading it very
mnch, all the items are of interest to
me.
To show my appreciation of the
o ,lendid letters from your worthy cor
respondents in all sections of the coun-
~ will write an article trusting it
will be of interest to them, ana other
readers of the paper.
The College spirit ran wild in Val
paraiso University last night. Nine
hundred students went down town,
after an exciting time on College
Hill, beseiged the opera house, gained
admission, and the manager had one
of the most enthusiastic crowds which
ever attended theatrical performance
in the city.
The affair began when the classes
which are to participate in the base
ball games tomorrow went out to dem
onstrate their strength. The night
was loud with class yelis, and there
were numerous class rushes in which
some of the boys were injured and car
ried out of action by their comrades.
After the hilarious students had spent
their enthusiasm Oil College Hill they
went in mass through town singing
college song and yells, and finally
stopped in front ofthe opera house and
set up monster yell.
The only danger of the evening was
at this time, when the people inside of
the playhouse, hearing the noise out
side, became alarmed. Someone cried
~'fire," and in an instant men and
women were up and making rush
for the door. When it became known
that it was only demonstration of
the students, all became quiet again
and the show went on.
But in front of the theatre students
were climbing the posts that support
the company, and the crowd was pack
ed in the street and serging to and fro.
The manager of the theatre, and sew
eral police tried to check the leaders,
bat when they did so the leaders yelled
A'rnsh" and that was sufficient, they
went singing in, as those on the in
side rushed out of the side doors and
across the stage.
For some time after the admittance
it was tumultous throng. Students
were present in their shirt sleeves,
with perspiration standing in beads on
their faces; some had coats on wrong
side out, and many had lost their hats
in the struggle before. They cheered
the leaders as they carried them up
and down the aisle, while singing col
iege songs and giving class yells.
After some time the manager came
on the stage and announced that he
would have the show put on for them
if they would be quiet.
When the orchestra began playing,
the boys became more quiet, and
whistled and sang the airs. They call
ed for their favorltes, and the must
clans always responded to their wishes.
After the performance downtown.
tine students returned to College Hall
and there they did considerable dam
age, they raided the halls, and had
Chapel Exercises in the Chapel Hall
Mt ,nidpi0ht ond ovo, ,,oot to Drof
}. T. Kinsey's where they gained &C.
cess TO the kitchen and amused them
selves by throwing flour, and doing
other mischief. AT East Hall they got
Into the cellar and kitchens and car
ried away all the apples and other
things they cared to eat.
At Altruria Girls Home) they be-
came violent. Rushing against the
entrance door until it gave way, and
the crowd serged in like great flock
of sheep and ran for the staircase.
Here they crowded until the banisters
were crushed away from their posi-
tons. When this occurred, the whole
aggregation was led into the big recep-
ton, rooms, where musician sat at
the piano while others engaged in a
dance.
The occupants of the dormitory were
panic-stricken. They ran into the cor
ridors in fright and only ceased their
trembling when the hilarious throng
lett the building and went to other
places to give vent to their spirit.
The fire company received false
alarm of fire near the midnight hour,
and this was supposed to have come
from the ones who were keeping the
whole city awake with their tumu.t
Not until the small hours of the NOR
ing did the students disperse and go to
ahcir rooms.
Many of the curious ones, not engag-
ed In the fracas, followed the crowd
and watched the movement of the