Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-19
DANlELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

city about o'clock Thursday after noon after having successfully evaded class guards. The latter would have given their right legs, almost, to have prevented the exodus from Storrs of the freshies, who have sehemed for weeks over plans to get away from the college for the purpose of hold ing their annual class banquet. Only twice in the past eight years have freshmen classes managed to eyade the sleuthing sophs and hold ban quet in peace; so it was with pardon able pride that the freshmen who ar- rived here Thursday afternoon gloried over the manner in which their plans had worked out.
 Sixteen automobiles, mostly closed cars, that had been hired through ar engagements made by representatives i of the freshmen class with Leo Des- 1 lile of this city, figured largely in | making possible the successful get away of the freshmen. | The cars left Putnam about II a. | m. Thursday and proceeded to Storrs. | The drivers had directions to pro- ceed direct to the college, drive past | a certain building, where, 1t was un- 1 dersteed, the freshmen would be hold l ing a meeting and incidentally would 1 be on the lookout for the cars, into which they would rush. The cars were ordered not to stop, merely to slow down, and the freshmen would do the rest. The programme worked out to per lection. The cars reached the col- lege just about 1 o'clock and the | freshmen were ready and waiting. | They made dash out of their meet l ing and into the cars, like company t,-- %l- l- ~t.-
 way to Putnam, although many of | them did not know their destination, | before the sophomores had more than l an inkling of what had transpired. l The trip here was uneyentful, and, l having arrived, the students made l the Putnam inn headquarters and | gave orders for banquet to be sery- | ed at D. m. Members. of the class l in charge of the arrangements seur-
 ried around for an orchestra to play
 for a dance, planned as one of the
 features of the evening.
 One of the freshmen whispered that
 two sophomores had been captured and were prisoners of the class. AS
 the afternoon wore on the leaders of
 the freshmen class were alertfully
 watching for the appearance of the Sophomores. It was not definitely
 known whether the upper classmen
 had discovered the whereabouts of
 the freshmen, but this was suspected , and every chance of the evening ban quet being broken up was being fig } ured en-te be guarded against. : The freshmen had been holding
 meetings at the noon hour at the col
 lege for a week past, and it is be- lieved that this fact that <he sopho- mores off their guard Thursday. The i whole proceedings into which the
 classes enter each year with such spirit are surrounded with rules 7 which each class observes, so tht freshmen were delighted Thursday r afternoon ever their strategy and tn.
 success of 1t.
 Freshmen who played leading part, f in getting the class away from Storr,
 and to Putnam were Sickler, Flynn f CFefts, Ashman, Mckee, Katz anC
 Voorhees,.
 About twenty young women mem
 bers of the freshmen class were in.
 cluded in the party that arrived il s Putnam.
 The plans of the freshmen wer, n threa tened with being upset when a about 5 o'clock nearly a dozen ma,
 chimes rushed into town bearing mos z members of the sophomore class. Fo a few minutes it looked as thougl 4 there 0OQlu D6 d CIdSn between IDl : members of the two classes who wer : gathered in front of the Putnam inn As a matter of fact, something dit ss happen there. including the capture o
 several freshmen. Walter F. Woo o and Herbert Beiseigel Of the class o V 32 and Philip Lord, A. Hajson, E. z Y | Paters5n and Allen Bates figured i : these incidents according to the police A couple of freshmen were roped an a l tied up at Fex's lumber yard. Othe d l captured freshmen were taken up t Ia the coal eAutes and still others out O e the Providence road. The freshme ,e held two sophomore prisoners in tn
 boiler room of the hotel The sopho ,e mores were set on rushing the dinin s- room of the Putnam inn for the pur le pose Of breaking up the freshman ban lv quet, but Captain Euler of the polio s very pleasantly told them that tn l. would not be permitted and he erdere V. put 10 special officers who were poste
 about the hotel to see that the fresh ne men were net bothered. The sophc y- 1lores tried every fuse and every sug }. 1 gestion that fertile minds could thin on of, even a plan to steal the cook. bl ry they could not get by the police ba1 lg. riers and finally gave up the effort 'ul stop the banquet which proved a ga
 event for the freshmen. Nearly 9 ne Storrs college students, i9cludil s- about young ladies, were in Putnam m connection with the event Some nv the classmen bore marks of the bati he of thea day, but they were a gre
 crowd of boys and gave Putnam fe n- interesting hours.
 ek Employees of the Shore Line Ele 'iAs tric Railway were engaged ThurSd :. in digging out tracks of the Putns Ill division where they remain buri n under ice and snow. During the z lss terneen the force of men was at we hS on the flats at Dayville. The eff to reopen the line, which has be
 closed more than six weeks, is talk
 as indication that service will be ,pt stunned at an early date. Only sh, oel stretches of the rails are covered W. te, ice and no great effort will be I nd quired te clear the line completely ,n ,ss At the Quinebaug Valley Leag is meeting, held here recently, Tourt
 ette's protest of the game played VI ho Bartlett High school was held to ivy justified by a vote of S-1. The cla 1s- was allowed eA the grounds that Ter rule broken by the act of one tec elr must be held strictly to account, a 'a- the game played over. The date mi the game has not yet been anneunc 'e= An enjoyable bazaar and ball N
 held Wednesday evening under pr aispiees of the sophomore class ies Putnam High school. The hall VI IT decorated with green, serving a t ls fold object as it was a St. Patric