Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-10

plete success But this much generally enters the
notwithstanding rdely snatched from its habitat
and placed in unfamiliar surroundings, where its discov
will the greatest possible inconvenience to the
students hereditary enemies the antor and his aides
In pinch chickens may serve the purpose.
More than college president recall the morning
when he led his band of professors to the chapel plat
form to be welcomed by cackling chorus of Plymouth
Rocks or White Leghorns And than must
confess that the incident reminded him wildly of GER
tain chapters of his experience undergraduate
TNANIMATE objects occasionally figure in these col
egate surprise parties Some years ago the students
at Albion, celebrating unprecedented
football victory the University of
Michigan eleven, Communicated a
heavy truck chariot of honor for "
the returning conquerors. After the
celebration the students took the truck III
to pieces, carried the parts up several ~
fights of stairs to the top of the chapel
building and reassembled them the II "a
roof.
When Prexy came after break
fast next morning he saw the big wagon
straddling the ridge pole. After prayers
he quietly announced, 3The young
gentlemen who have given such good II,
evidence of mechanical ingenuity will III Vt
kindly act committee to return to
the rightfu owner any property that
may have been misplaced during the
night"
All day long the truck sat tight
the roof. But during the following
night the COMMITTEE" met, reversed
the procedure of the previous night,
and returned the borrowed wagon to its owner.
That performance held the record at Albion until a
recent football victory tempted the student body
a new mark. Near old mill about mile from the
campus immense signboard on which gentle
man COW proclaimed the merits of a certain brand of
smoking tobacco. The students dug away the earth
around the posts supporting the sgnboard carried the
a holes. and
tied the bull outside the library, looking out the
greensward of the campus. Since this achievement
record has been attempted but the is feared
IN another college of the Middle West resided per-
fectly respectable and gentemanly human skeleton
The professor of biology who taught physiology the
freshmen, had bought the somewhat gruesoe piece of
illustrative material and kept him in special cabinet
in the private Office The lock on the cabinet was one
that schoolgirl could pick with hairpin button
hook.
Naturally enough, the students noted the careless
way in which their bony friend guarded. On Tues
days, ten-teen when the biologist trotted out the
figure and tried teach the freshes the difference be
the patea and the pelvs, out of ten of his
apparently interested auditors devising ways in
which Friend Skeleton could be made to contribute to
the Joy of nations after hours
Finally it occurred to one of the students that Old
Bones might be induced collaborate with stuffed
Rocky Mountain goat in the college museum. As
Bones and the taxdcrrnst's pride both lived in the
same building the introduction of one of them to the
other a comparatively simple proceeding.
The students forced window after midnight, and
finally succeeded n corrang both the skeleton and the
goat The former placed astride of the latter and
fashl1ght photographs taken. This perform
repeated the night and the next, and the
next until practically every student the college had
of the coveted photographs. Then someone mailed
copy the professor of biology, real locks