The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-19
Topeka N. U. CLUB
Alumni in Real
Live Organization.
intercollegiate Banquet Stunt
Made Big Hit.

Something out of the ordinary was
dished out to those who attended the
intercollegiate banquet recently by
the members of the Northwestern uni
verslty club, who put on a burlesque
of college fraternity meeting. The
act was distinctly a university stunt
full OF life, campus vinegar and col
lege pep and was thoroughly enjoyed
both by the fraternity man and the
barbarian. To the fraternity man it
gave a chance to see himself as others
see him and the non-fraternity mar
got a glimpse of that side of college
life which he had missed.
The local chapter of the Eata Bita
Pie fraternity held a meeting for the
purpose of initiating three barbarian
strangers, Willie Heartbreaker, Is He
Wise and the Right Rev. Poker Heck
into the mysteries of the order.
The stunt was a success from cur
tain to curtain and the smocthness of
the piece, together with The clever
ness Of the lines, has caused many in
quiries to be made as to whether the
stunt was not imported and written
by an expert. Such is not the case
ration of the different members of the
club.
To Pie Faced Moon.
The climax of righteousness was
reached when the initiates took the
obligation end swore fealty to their
celestial EN- blem, the pie-faced moon,
and at night when the moon begins to
wane promised to ascend to the
housetops and clad in a black robe
and with outstretched arms thus to
address their patron orb:
''Thou pie-faced moon
Which now art but a crescent
1, thee adore
Thou magic fairy moon so evanescent
l, thee implore
thou incOnstant moon
Who soon wilt nothing be
Help me my oath to keep
And be all like thee
The impresSiveneSS of the ceremony
reached it's highest tension when the
president, after the initiates had been
conducted through a valley of dry
bones, uttered these solemn words
"Oh We dry bones! Hear and bear
witness to the mysteries Of the order
of the Eata Bita Pie and become
teachers to these Barbarian Strangers
of the nisdeeds, of the lives wasted
to society and civilization, or the i'm
practicableness of the much degreed
man, and his fatuous and ignominious
ending
Professor Harshbarger, who pro-
fesses in mathematics at Washburn,
was given the following treatment:
Professor Harshbarger, who smiles
only in angles. who walks only in or
bits, who talks only in circles, whose
head is a comic, whose face is quad
rio surface, whose heart is a pole,
whose days are given to a study of
vectors and whose dreams are filled
with eu1arian functions, may his days
be as the sands of the sea-
Members of the Frat.
The members of the Eata Bita Pie
fraternity were the following business
and professional men of Topeka:
President, DIR. A. B. Jeffrey. -. Peach Pie
Secretary, Judge Robt NJ. Yates Cream Pie
Warden, DR.. E. G. Brown Lemon Pie
Members.
Dean VIM. r. Arthur. Mulberry Pie
5. J. Rice Black Bird Pie
y L. ADAMS. ..-..........: chocolate re
Rev. J. f.. Scheer.. Strawberry Pie
Rev. w. L: Ward. --..-.... Squash Pie
Rev. A. p. Jones. .Pfeplant Pie
John l.. Hunt. ...................A Apple Pie
Applicants
DR.. c. W. Schwartz. Cabbage Pie
willie Heartbreakerl
0s He Wise)
Rev. E. w. Spencer. Pumpkin Pie
(Rev. Poker Heck
SYNOPSIS.
Burlesque College Fraternity Meeting.
Opening the Chapter
Initiation
Northwestern University Ode.
Their motto, "Out of Nothing, Moth
ing Is Made" was cleverly interviewer
into the ritual of the order and was
presented to the audience on a large
banner written in Greek, Latin and
English, thus assuring that it could
he bxy