The sun., 1917-07-28
HARVARD CLUB FONT
BUMPS TRADITIONS
Soda Water Emporium Jars
\ Memory Of Hollis's Good
Old Gin Sling.
YALE APPLAUDs CHANGE
Princeton Grads Say Cam
bridge Is Almost Safe for
Democracy.

ANAA91A AhAi Nua Atu hhA VI ENNO-
luton flying from the windows Of the
Union League Club be acclaimed the
most extraordinary result OF the world
war. Not at all. For no later than yes
terday another and far more portentous
event took place.
TRADITION was violated, yea, torn from
Its very foundations and hurled into the
scrap heap. Age old custom. torpedoed
without warning. sank with all on board.
For yesterday. beware the shock. ye
who once hailed the classic shades OF
CaWoridge az your very own-yesterday
the Harvard Club opened its soda water
fountain!
Yes. Soda Water Fountain! One of
those regular white topped affairs with
pair Of onyx handles as of a sar-
cophagus, whence issues, under proper
manipulation, a fzzy fluid never before
seen In its pristine vhiteness within
those walls. Atop OF II were rows of
silver topped bottles labelled "Choco-
Iste' vanilla." Pineapple" 'old
Rose" "Gardenia," "Aniseed,'' New
Mown Hay" &C. ad inhnitum: neatly
printed suggestions for the hot days
such as Crimson Sundae," Cambridge
Frappe." "Holworthy Smash" Red
TOP Sour" Frozen Hasty Pudding" /"
guaranteed to produce a chill at any
ume). plus other suggestions which IL
would be little short Of ,blasphemous to
reveal TO the uninitlated canaille who
dwell in outer darkness
In short, it's all fixed up, or rather
nxHed up. No more does Gilman Cola
more have TO slip over to Jacks for his
favorite nut sundae. No. sir; he can
ease right into what used to be the
oyster bar before the "r' dropped out Of
the calendar. and sip II right at home.
And Tom Lamont can breeze up from
Broad and Wall streets any afternoon,
sure of refreshment in the shape of a
banana frappe. In between trips on
the Ranger Tom Slocum will probably
make things hum In the new soft drink
emporium
All this is In the future tense because
yesterday. though the fountain was Of
nctaiiy open, Ned Cullinan was kept busy
explaining that they were only serving
such members as were bold enough to
slip bashfully into the room and whisper
an order In an embarrassed sort Of way
complained rather freely about the flavor
OF the soda water. Cullinan was in
clined to blame the peculiar flavor on
the brand new apparatus, but there were
irrevercnt young graduates who inti-
mated that nobody in the Harvard Club
knew what soda water, unchaperoned by
the Haig twins. late of Scotland. tasted
like anyhow.
It's for the Soldiers, IL IL.
But the officers OF the club think that
members who have entered military SER
- Ia - ~uvNln IA n.
a while and that. as there are some
800 OF them, the fountain will do a
rushing business in a short time.
Inquiries at the Yale and Princeton
clubs as to their attitude regarding
the innovation in graduate club life
ELECTED great enthusiasm for the plan
as long as IL is confined to the Har-
ward Club. At the Yale Club neither
Prof Irving Fisher nor Secretary An
son Phelps Stokes could be located by
repeated paging. and IL was said that
Cir Pinchot, who might be expected
TO be enthusiastic, was saving wood in
France.
T. Coolidge Fowler. 'os. otherwise
~Cool." author and interpreter of willy
the Weeper." was moved almost to tears
by excess Of emotion. He declared that
the movement was the greatest thing
that had come out of Harvard since
Prexy Eliots Five Foot Book Shelf
''Humpy'' Parsons Is, a New Haven
authority on natural science, said in
part: 81 expected this. but not so soon.
1t fully bears out the exhaustive and
painful researches by Huxley and Dar-
win and all"
Rim" Reilly ex-frst baseman and
now one of the pillars In Mr.. Shonts's
well known and popular temple OF trans
portation, is said to have remarked that
he thought he could see the end of Har-
wards athletic career.
Made Safe for Democracy.
At the Princeton Club inquiries were
to Pat Kimball by unani-
nous consent of all present. in view OF
his extensive acquaintance with soda
fountains In general and particular He
confined himself to n brief statement 10
the effect that he was glad that the ex-
pertinent was being tried out on the
Club. Monk" Getty. who has
also had extensive experience with soda
fountains by virtue Of being for so many
years the boss OF 1911 reunions. ex-
pressed the opinion that II was utterly
impossible to get any band TO function
within a radius OF several hun
dred yards Of a soda fountain unless
proper antidotes, imported preferably
from St Louis. were provided.
Everybody agreed, however, that the
movement was a great step forward in
Harvard safe for Democracy.