The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-07
What ConegeB Boy
Goes Through
Continued from Fourteenth Page.

ana made the most of. And Ii has been
discovered that within this modest.
blushing youth there lurkcd abilities
such as fixed Dcmosthenes permanent
ly In history and made the fame OF the
younger Pitt burgeon and wax forever
lie was referring. he said. to the new
est Adclphian, and one who he predictcI
might some day be the most famous
Adelphian-Mr. MOrdecai Boggs. who
would now deliver the freshman oratiol
on the subject "Our Nations Peril"
A great cheer rang out from Adelphi
and young Boggs stepped forward. 1t
was the proudest moment of his life
and he was loaded for 1t. without any
prellminaries he plunged into "Our Ma
tons PERIL" laying open the past with
one sweeping cash.
For minute we Gnothautiians were
dazed. Boggs certainly did have
sweep Of language. 1t was good lam
guage, too, because It had been care
fully cobbled up by leading Adelphians.
and Boggs was sticking strictly to the
text. lie skctched in the condition of
the world during the days OF Rome with
few reverberating sentences. and as
lie rose to his first climax Frazier and
I lifted up our voices and gave a tre-
mendous cheer.
We had asked and pleaded just one
favor from our fellow Gnothautiians In
that meeting. 1t was that they should
cheer when we did. They now rose to
he task and swellcd the uproar. The
other visitors surprised. Joined in.
1t was certainly a grand Grafton. We
had to admit 1t. Boggs sent the Roman
Empire bowling down to the abysmal
depths of degradation in six minutes
by the watch, and grabbed up Spain
without even pause for breath. Once
again he scared and once again we
Gnothautilans allowed a cheer to burst
from us. overcome by his eloquence.
II was magnificent We cheered him
at every pause. The Adelphians were
getting nervous now and the chairman
tried to rap the meeting TO order. But
he might as well have said "H-sh" to a
windstorm. Boggs was in full career.
He was young man of large chest
development and great endurance,
coupled with voice which howled
ana shrieked like steam siren as he
swept diZzily from climax to climax.
He settled the Spaniards, demolished
Napoleon. and then went back and
kicked over the Grecan civilization in
four hoarse yells. We rose to our feet
and cheered him wildly.
But what could they do? When you
invite n hallful Of people to listen to
your speeches you can't throw them
out for applaudlng them
Boggs was pcrspiring freely and the
light in. his eyes was wild 1t was his
greatest triumph and he intended to
gorge himself on II. In another ten
minutes he had Tapped up American
history and had settled down comfort
ably though Mechanically into a discuss
sion of present day problems. We en-
couraged him as hest we could, and the
result warmed our hearts. 1t was GER
tainly pleasant to extend a friendly
hand to shrinking freshman. and to
assure him about four times a minute
that the world was with him.
"And amt it true. ask Of you gath
cred here tonight, If the rich are not
getting richer and the poor, my fellow
citizens. sinking slowly down into the
Shiny jaws Of the slough Of despond?"
"Hurrah!" we answered frantically.
And then you take the money power.
Who's got all the money in this
country? tell you. little do we realize
the gravity Of this here country at this
situation. The dollar that the poor man
earns by the sweat of his brow Is flched
forth from his pocket by the siren call
of the financial octopus"
"Hurrah!" we yelled again.
You say politics. Bah! Politics Is
rotten. We think we are free men in
America, but what good does a vote do?
The most rotten and Ubiquitous friend
OF the classes has got more power, I
say. than a million free born voters
OF the masses. of whom we are some
right here In this room to-night"-
"Hurrah. hurrah, hurrah for the
masses!"
We didn't have to lead these cheers.
The rest of the visitors were frantic
with delight, and as Boggs responded
to every cheer with another superhu-
man shout OF defiance against wicked
ness they laughed and shrleked with
glee. As for us Gnothautlians, we sat
more or less quiet, partly from exhaus-
ton and partly from a solemn Joy
which was flooding our entire beings.
Boggs had already spoken three-quar-
| tiers OF an hour and was still warming
up. The break must come soon.
1t did A few old ladies subject to
headache got up nervously and tot
tered away. Members OF Adelphi pleaded
with them to wait for the rest Of the
programme, but they would not be per-
suaded. In another ten minutes a
| dozen visitors had tiptoed out.
BOggs had reached his final height
| and was gradually running down. HUI
man strength had found it's limitations.
| But he was coming down slowly and
easily cruising from cloud to cloud and
| discussing religion. philosophy and lit
erature In fine but scrambled language.
The audience was melting rapidly now.
The cheering had stopped. but Boggs
hadn't, though the pale chairman pulled
at his coat every time he could reach
| him.
Not over half the visitors were left
The moment of triumph had arrived
Quietly and with regret plastered deep
over our faces Club and ! got up an6
oozed cautiously down the aisle. From
various parts of the room other Ono.
thautiians arose and picked their way
| dellcately to freedom. In their wake
the rest of the visitors came-some
quietly. some with every evidence Oh
undue anxiety. And as we crowded
through the antcroom BogGs thun.
dered on.
There We're scandalous rumors next
day about that open meeting. 1t was