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Puss, strange to say, instead of running, remained behind to try the effect of moral persuasion on Long John. Failing in this attempt to quiet the promoter of Utopian scliemes, he began to bombard Long John ' s distorted features with paper-weights, inkstands, and other articles of furniture. This produced the desired result. The disturber of the Assembly ' s order and dignitj ' was made to sign a most ignominious peace bond, after which he retired to his room and com- muned with himself, in wrath meditating revenge. Old Pu.ss, towering over the wreck of the council hall, murmured softh- to himself : ' eni, vidi, vici. About two weeks later, there was a meeting of the Assembly about two miles from town, under the starry vaults of heaven. It is needless to say that Long John wasn ' t invited to this council. The object of this guarded meeting was to devise ways and means by which to pacify Long John. After much subdued argument it was decided that Long John ' s salary be increased ninty cents per month, and that he be allowed a monthly bonus of two packs of Duke ' s Mixture, with paper, and one pack of Wall Wah ' ' This speedily effected the desired reconciliation, and once more the dove of peace spreads her spotless wings over the council hall of the Davidson Faculty. v t tH ;tl ' k ' fTERlAaTH
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The matter was laid before the Assembly on the last Tuesday berbre exams. , and none of those who were in the immediate vicinity of that meeting will ever forget it. Long John was the last one to enter the council hall. Upon his arrival, he found Henry Louis reading The Uses of Hyperbole ; Wooley was regaling himself with choice editorials from The Home and Farm ; Tommie was read- ing some Fresh, essays on Shakespeare ; Bill Joe was inventing an infernal machine with which to wreck the Sophs, on exams. ; Dickie was tabulating a few more of his favorite Greek verbs ; Puss was contriving a scheme by which he would be able to get even with a villain who had cheated him out of thirty cents in a horse trade ; Handsome Jim was looking cute ; and the Stoker was meditating on the past. Evidently the au.spices were not favorable to Long John ' s project. However, after the usual business had been disposed of. Long John arose and said: Brethren of the Assembly : I wish to introduce a scheme which if car- ried out. will revolutionize the history of David.son College. Yea, it will make this part of the mundane sphere as pleasant as working quadratics. The old walls of yon College which have heretofore resounded only with the shriek of the fleeing Fresh. , and the hoarse yell of the exulting Soph. , will echo to the siren voices of (mer)maids, and our campus will blossom with Eden ' s fairest flower. I refer, gentlemen, to the introduction of the Co-ed. system in our institution. When Long John had finished there was a moment of deep and awful silence, broken at length by Wooley ' s inveterate Waugh ! Henry Louis thereupon informed Long John that his little gag wouldn ' t work, and that the campus needn ' t blo,ssom at all if it didn ' t wish to, and that (mer)maids were hoaxes, anyway. Long John swore a great, deep, far-sounding oath, and asked Henry Louis if he meant to snow his project under without its being voted upon. Upon leceiv- ing an answer in the affirmative, he lifted up his voice, and the stillness of that May afternoon was broken by a most unearthly yell, such as mortals but once in a lifetime would hear and live. It was Long John ' s war-whoop. Half a mile away strong men heard that whoop and trembled, while women fainted. The Fresh, and other rodents fled in terror. The Sophs, took refuge under the Col- lege and in otlier strongholds, while he upper classmen conjectured that it was the fog-horn of the ship that never returned. Within tlic council hall the confusion was still greater. At the first .sound of that awful voice, Dickie dived under the table, followed by Tommie ; Wooley disappeared in the register; Henry Louis and Bill Joe lan over each other in a mad scramble for the door; Handsome Jim worked his shunt circuit ru. e and got to his room without the loss of either his good looks or glasses ; the Stoker only possessed presence of mind enough to jump through the window.
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