University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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II. After' What Manner They Came Unto Their Own. Those pioneer days, when they who sought the truth ranged through the halls with their eyes on the pink kalsomine, and their unw-ary feet heating staccatos on the well--oiled stairs. were three rings and a menag- erie of wonder and ani-azement. Everything from the Megathcrinm in the museum and the Zeus in the symposium to the latest in rod-striped shirt wa.ists spelt novelty in black-f-accd initials. Thanks to the strenuous knocking ot Profs and the hector- ing of Soph and Senior above them, the green layers gave place to gray. Some learned out of books. some learned outside of them. Some picked up the University Billingsgate with surprising rapid- ity. Some, coralled by the fraternities, rejoiced in the alphabet Agents of the Greeksg some, remaining Barbs, exultcd in the lltt0l'lI1OSt conlines of Galatia. As the curtain rose the novitiates plunged recklessly into the horrors of a political campaign. For the first and last time 0 Naughty-two was embroiled in interfactional wa1'. Incipient f ji bosses. Rival candidates. Plots and counterplots: oaths and 6 the breaking of oaths. In the auditorium of Snow Hall two hun- dred shorthorns watched the heroes stream into the lime-light of QQ. .the arena. Then the bosses opened the throttle, a little steam. X a head-end collision, and Walter Re-nn pulled Victory out of the I wreckage, two votes to the good. V Two parties, colors, and a yell were the first vintage of the class. The yell came out spontaneously beneath the weight of On Mecszaihs numbers or upon suflicient provocation. The cherry' and white showed up. semi-annually in the Reception-room. and rather A oftener on the grandstand roof. The parties were counterparts W , of all such infantile diversions where youths standing around x J S .,,,- the walls, their heads hanging like ungainly suntlowers, wishcu fi ' Q themselves at homeg while the misses sitting at home anathema- tized the fortune which doomed them to Waste their fragrance on the desert air of a back-parlor. By the second event the boys G3 had braced up so that they did not outnumber the girls more than four to one, and could unhlushingly sit and play crokinole in a corner beneath the gas-light. III. In Which the Chosen Go Forth Against the Midianites. Just what it was that caused an ebullition of the lighting - spirit is all uncertain. Perhaps it was the martial spirit of the timesg perhaps the old Adam in the garden: peradventnre it was the ladies who looked down into the lists and said as they pinned ..', M lb 'Q K 2 2' . C9 r Ks E .. V . . .. f' H ,W ,L their tokens on chosen knights. Fight for me to-night. How- ... H, .I-md: vv-'I fi mfluf ever that may have been, a very quiet class planted the bomb that shook the 'flittle tin gods in the council chamber and made the Hill think its Enceladus had the jimjams again. ,, A May pole of gas-pipe, a hole in the Campus, a cherry and 'W white canvas and the Legion-aries were calling for obeisance to Q , s the image. So determined was the attack, the guards scarce had In . time for a prohibitive if before she was spiked fast. People ought to learn sometime that Prohibition doves not prohibit in Kansas. When the Little Chancellor mustered his forces over .PZQQS against them. told them they were pm-.wnur nun. yrulu- on his gr-ass,

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uid - -H Genes1s. ROM the t11rq1111isv 111' the Kansas slay the Spirit 111' tl11- Prairice - loolied flOWll 1111011 her l'av0re1l Sl2lll'I 1111011 the S2ll'l!l'0ll tint 111 sunflower and lJj0ltl1'lll'UllQ 11111111 the l1r0w11 heads 11f Wheat and the tassels of the 1-orng 1111011 the land which l'lll'IllSllGS daily nov- , cities for the WV0l'lll, Carrie Nations Ill' patent Aglllllillll0-CEi1ti'll6l'S. fl'1lVi'kll'll the Acfropolis on the Hill she saw 11. new g2llt'l'Zlll0Il headfwd. Vi'l1e1'11at the Spirit of the Prairie rej0i1'111l. it was the time wlien 11111 people of Kansas, ex11e1:t,i11g a l1o11ntif11l yield, l'02lf'llCIl into the River 111' lilill1 a111l Honey and fflllllfl that their Dipper had l1aal11a1l. But the Clllltll'0ll 111' mon, lll1'lll'lillO with i.l11: llOlJ0l!lll spirit of tl111 Wtst. raised the flaps l:1'U1Ill the tents 111' their fathers, saying, C11111e, let llS dwvll here in flZll'klll'FS 1111 l0llf3QG'l', We have let the Sand 111' the plains silt i11t11 11111' hair long Gllflllgllf' S11 tl111y issued forth and the 'l'r:1il l1-1l to I aw11.111'11 and l.G?ll'I1lll,'.'C. I. Tells How the Chosen Came Down Out of Egym. l7l'Ulll all the 11111111ti1zs that f'llt l'lil l' tl111 Kfiiwaw 1e1m1n111:1w11altl1 they 1a111-1: 1'r11n1 lllll' 1'11al-l111ls 111' Cl1er11l11111, from 1.1111 wl1e'1t-1iel1ls 111' Wvilllilllll- 51111, i'1'0111 11111 prairies 111' C11111an11l111: 1l1111111:jl1 11111 lJl'UXVlllll13Q llllltfillfl ggiziss-. past thu Wllllfl-tl'lllllitZKl sy1a11111rPS and the 1:1'i1111+011-l1111'1'is11l Slll'lllll'llS. till Ill 11111 1'1111t 111 llllllllll. Ol'f'illl tl111y 11111s11a1111111l. 21-01111 as the most l101111l'11l 11:1t1:h of alfalfa i11 s111'i111Zti111e, l'Oll2,ll 1l111 llfllll' 111 a lll'Hll'lf'-Ilflf-I villagv. li'l11111lay lllOl'lllllg tl111y g?llllCl'1lll in Fllilllfll 1'0r ihc first 1'1111v1111-ati11n, I0 111111-11 1l111 l,l'l'll3E5S0l'S 11111111 tl111 sl11i1'11-1:at1's 01' the River 111' l111111'11i111:g Slllll irrigat11 the arid 1'11111'11l11ti1111s ol' li'l'F!Slllllilll lll'8.lllS. Scanl. they were 111 llllIlll'0l'S, l111t goodly to 1111111 11111111 and full 111' l1lllCYl'Ulll gl'6!2ltll0SS. Slll'lll 1.'11111l111 , heads were larger than 11111lev11l1111111l l'Pl'flllq1llll'1lS and llll0Olllll ll 1112111111115 VV'2ll'l'2llllG1l. Anyone who has lived i11 a. villaga 11111 1111 tho jark- watcr with 11 C'0ll1llG 111' imi1':1ii1111 111-11-lc fronts fvrls flattvrcrl by il hid 1-1 11, l1'111111g W11n1an's Clll'lQtl2lll Ass111:iati1111 affair, and even one wl111 rogistwrs i'r11m the centers 11f1'ivilizaii11n 11111111111 l'0jll'9SS a fcsling 111 im1111rt11111:1- wl11111 Eve agents 51111111 l1im, witl1i11 his Hrst llkllf-llfilll' on the I-li1l. for the laun- 1lry he never ex11e1fts to lilave. S0011 thziy l1r11l11s i11111 the Y. W. ring tl111111- selves, illlll many a 0nQ l111f11r11 11111 year was gone llGC2llll0 a Prince among Crafters. l11 lfllklllkil the 0l'flf.tll'S 1l:1i3111rw1l the lll'lllI' 111' tl11' 11ew111111111rs: the Profs smoked the Peacci 1'-'ip11. 1111e11i11g th1-ir vlasses with puns or pleasant l,1ear-st01'icsg the 111111er classinen forgot for a moment their jihes and 101'- 1'11e11ti11gs, then all, when the hearts of the C.llll1ll'f ll wore- warming towards them, waded i11 and went. after the l1arna1-les.

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if .. ' '4 X, . 1 ic? fl 0 I ,lik ff, HN' they laughed a hollow equine laugh. Some renegades in the trear ranks cried, Down! some few were getting their pass-out checks behind the evergreens, but the line of triple brass, measured by the Faculty's Bertillon System. made good. The Chancellor looped the loop three times before he got in an effective broadside, then held a Court of Inquiry all his own, for names were hidden deep in bosoms of sweaters and the Head was reported to be poor at remembering faces. For the rest, the Freshmen Class, aided by the doughty men of Naughty-naught, did battle right valiantly against -fyfanffkfjiyff-5U'5'9all comers. When the colors wont up the steps to the chapel- desk, all said it was a glorious day, -and when the much bedrag- -l gled warriors sang t'Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow, , the words came with a ring of unaccustomed truth and vigor. ' jg , 169 After the excitement had died down and the lessons for the as it . . . . ,. year were liuished, Naughty-two want back whence they came, 1 fl w x leaving the corridors to the scrubbing gang and the Campus tn ' E' Lf Ji.- ' the weeds. I ' In September, when the rooming-houses tacked up flaming Rent signs, the class came back. With that unanimous vote . which had grown to be the custom of the Naughty-twos, they Odewance ' ,I , Lazgk 1 ll T ll H 9295 . r r , A Glorious Dqq F' N . l i T ,,I r ,flhilf Cfzarrmfzff Garb elected Emery Chief. Though depleted in numbers, the class with the most charm- ing girls and the graftiest grafters on the Hill could not be re- pressed. After xt certain memorable night. when the Sophs .met double their number ot' granger Freshman on McCook and smote them hip and thigh and occasion-ally in the neck. war was openly declared. Naughty-two outgeneraled them. Met them again a. week later. Same result. To the proposition '02 is the better class, wrote Q. E. D. in big black letters. Taught them. Forgot the maxim of the great Napoleon and fought them too often. lt they haden't, would have come out completely victorious the sec- ond May Day. As it was, they made the pole kiss the blistered sod where the blue grass looked up the day before. Then the Council brought out the carpet, well worn by the knees of many suppliantsg turned the lights on the nakedness of the baldheaded truth and on the culprits in all the iniquity of their moral undress. The Chancellor called it unarchy g Haworth, recalling his Soph- omore days, called it the immutability of man : and Williston called it thirty days. They had a regular May Day among themselves, and, adopting manners to stop it next year, ended by saying, ll-laiianaf' after the cuss-words of the Mexicans. IV., In Which the Juniors Move Into the King Row. Half-way to the top and still climbing. Got up so high peo- ple could see them shine. Dropped the purple toga on McGilllvray, and when the spring came, passed it on to Jones. Held two grand parties during the Sophomore year, but resolved to make them show like lead nickels in a pile of double eagles alongside of the Junior Promenade. Bought up a. hall, brought in the Seniors. and xvultzerl through a happy evening, while the heathen raged without. I Throughout. the course, whenever it became necessary to hook a political oflice, Naughty-two seemed to have hold of the