Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1912-01-04
Boys Again

After dinner Mannows, who had
gone east on a business trip, went
out for q walk. Presently ne found
himself passing the buildings wherein
lie had had education forcibly IN :
c illed in him. .
Forty years old!" he said, trife /
Indignantly, at length. Il don't be-
lieve it,"
AS he still stood and stared some
che passing bumped into him. Man !
rows, catching sight Of the face IN
the glare Of the street lamp, whirled
him around. bill" he howled. III
II amt Bill"
The captured man, after one look,
broke into exclamation points.
-, Two rather portIy men dancing on
the sidewalk are apt to attract atten-
ton, SO Mannows and his friend
moved on.
81 was just incoming over the time
when / was hiking up those steps,
explained Mannows. Greatest old
college on earth, that!"
mot while Harvard 10 still run
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 fortune! felt that you
had insulted me personally"
80 did l." confided Bill, when you
did a highland fling the time Tech
licked Harvard at football! I remem-
Der meditating how satisfying 1t
would be to slay 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 20 back on class day."
81 went two years ago" said BIZ.
81 tell you It made me feel good to
see what a 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 I guess the men who
20 to Tech are about the cream OF the
lot. Fine chaps. good families and all
that"
"oh. yes" said Bill. But nothing
like 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 a
sane and unprejudiced 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
crammed with a lot> Of fellows with
bullying foreheads doesn't hurt 1t, I'd
have you know!" said Bill, warmly
"They are all around men who take
an interest in all sides of life. / hate
a narrow man! And in athletics
Nov. now!" interrupted Mannows
warningly. You are never going tc
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!'
ne repeated in strangled tones. INC
one but a prejudiced, unfair. sponge
headed idiot Of a Tech man evel
would have agreed to that umpire''
decision. II Harvard wasn't euchret
out-of fair game by the most under
handed, unjust, outrageous decision
that ever"
Everybody saw Gensler when h
cheated!" Mannows shouted. Every
body! Nobody with a grain Of de
cency in him would have dared t
claim that game! Harvard showed thu
yellow in her all right by having thu
sneaking nerve to object! She shoult
have hid her head In shame! TIT
Harvard men should have been eggeC
of the grounds! They should hav'
been ridden on a rail- All Of the
"You with your bribed umpire!
Bill yelled. I'D talk If l we're you
yes, l would! OF all the disgracefu
acts of Tech that was the limit
From top to bottom Tech is moth
eaten, disreputable-"
TTl punch your facet" Mannowi
beloved, shaking his fist, IT yol
don't take back your ISLANDERS on tn,
best"
Stepping OF the curb at the unnc
ticed crossing, both Bannows ant
Bill reeled, grabbed and fell in hear
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