The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-07


batted my head against this e,nn.r,
and this ending for while, and ,h"s
| took the whole business over Ch,n"
Frazier and asked him IL h. ,,.,ld ~.
anything in it.
Club" Frazier's real collie. hama
| was Chubby" "Chub" was mic w
affectionate diminutive. He wa .t,T
lantern jawed young man. Wi, c,,LS
| iave used a double barrellcl ..,,,,
for pair of trousers il it haduy h,a"
for his feet. lie contributed , lor.a
| share of the ozone in Gnothaul,. p,.,
ings and was always adding To- t.. I'M.
of us listeners by rising soberh 81, IN,
quire for blue print and WORKING pl,n.
OF the speakers pet Joke, ar to ann,Inro
that the last debater's batting a,or,,o
on dates was only 49, and t. ask I'm.
dlgnantly IL needless young st..l,r,.
| were to be permitted To MASSAGE, N,r,
200 years before his birth withuu, ., n,ns
test from the society. hub" ,,s
| junior and skilled in vain decd ana
when he heard my story he ,rl ,,roJ
me with vigor.
"Petey, my boy, I have M. f..Iy,,
YOU" said he. 81 have wond,r,i vbr
you persisted in sitting around in
Gnothautii and breathing up .u urcb
| OF our nice air. | apologize. N.u ara,
a patriot. Lead me To this youue wind.
| storm"
il didn't take club two huir. f.,
arrange the plan of campaign Bu, n.
| didn't go To the young man frs. T..
went to the church society ana eek.
planned to the leaders how shu,tI,,
1t was that so talented youu. rY,,
should he driving a grocery Won
| when he should be ATTENDING c,'i.,,
and preparing to represent his cuIll-ry
in Congress. lie did this so wei that A
| subscription was taken up and within
two weeks Mordecai BOggs Wa only
delivering groceries in his spare hours
The rest OF the time he was sp,,YI.
| izing at Siwash in rhetoric. composition
oratory and English literature
He was shy. frecked young man
was Mordecai. for all his eloqucnr, IN
the stage, and he did not get acquainted
very fast. This was just as IL should be
for naturally enough before any one
else in college noticed him club and
! were his fast friends, and We felt sure
we could lead him into our sacred society
with wave of the hand. We felt So
sure about 1t that We couldn't hrlp
Dragging a little. In fact ] was So in
discreet az To mention to Pitcher an
Adelphi freshman. as We were dressing
I'm the gymn one evening late in March
that we had young freshman cinrhrd
for our open meeting who would not
only outorate their whole society nw'
would set the worlds record for fresh
man screechers of all weights, heights
and cylinder areas.
| Pitcher was so scornful that he dldu
spend over half an hour trying To worm
the freshman's name out of me- 1t
u .laff Il n
But Club couldn't
He got to talking with an Adelphl
| senior the very next day. and in the
| heat Of an argument over the societies
merits running back to the time when
Banning. Gnothautli 'iG. won nine in
ter-society debates in a row. he not only
Dragged about our new freshman but let
his name slip out. And the very next
day we caught two Adelphians taking
| BOggs down to stun him with oysters
and fiction about Adelphi.
We were So mad that We made the
| whole campus echo. Both Club 90
went to the Adelphi president and de
nounced their efforts as highhanded
underhanded. hackhanded and two
faced to say nothing OF cloven hoofed
We had practically pledged this young
| man to our society, we declared. We
, had induced him to enter college. IIe
was our property. II they were men
they would go away and leave him TO
US. We almost cried as We pleaded
Would they go away? Will the tiger
go away from the nice, succuent young
lamb? They Just laughed at us We
made a desperate effort to persuade
Boggs to stay with us, and Club and
hung around him so closely that i
wasn't until a week before their open
meeting that they finally got him They
ran him into the society on the very
night of our own open meeting-held
a special meeting early to do it-and
then they came over in a body and
listened to our poor. squeaky little
programme with jeers written all over
their faces.
Club and 7 barely existed during that
week. The thought that we had lost
so promising young orator filled rs
with deepest woe. But It wasn't hall
as deep as our suspense. What If some
thing should jar his relations with Adr'-
phi and he should really come back 10
us after all? Between shivcrs of va"
and quivers of fear we had no peace
at all. Besides. we We're having deuce
Of a time to get a respectable repre-
sentation Of Gnothautii out to the Aiel-
|
didn't seem to take the slightest in
tcrest in the event. and we didn't dare .
tell our secret. Two people can keep
secret but when you let another IN Il
becomes public opinion.
On the night Of the meeting we went
early in order to get good seats Wei
to the rear. 1t was lucky We d,d, for
Ade!phi was determined that 10 friend
should miss its magnificent m,"'hg
Long before the programme opened
people We're standing in the back ni the
hall and tanning the door d the,
anteroom. We poor shivcrnE Gho'
Ghautiians, n dozen in number, sa' ''''
EMMY in little lunches and 'r.I 70
look resigned and furhearing wh'. me
Ade,phi officials paused now ana n
to make sure we We're peri r'.N H.
Portable, masking over their triumph
with hospitable smiles.
The chairman took his seat mid
great applause, and after the .'U ne
prelminaries, such as roll call, '.'i'id'
ing Of the minutes and the t.N par
liamentary sparrings just 10 show me
visitors the perfect working of PHI. ma