Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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reps. KINCL-WALK-IN-THE MUD LEWIS. PRIME MINISTER-RATTLE-BRAINED JAY CABEEN. Mo'1'To-1105 rcbzzs mmmz' zqwicols s1'11zz'!1Yuml1n'. COLORS-Balcd Hay and Strawberry. YIiI,I.mHOOdO0 ! Who do ? That's what we do. Hoodoo what ? , Every one but Preps! Preps! Preps! Ki! Yi! Yi! Ow-ow-w !! HIS CURIOUS little animal is found in great numbers in the woods and fields around Galesburg. It is a migratory animal, remaining dormant through the summer, and then coming down to college in great droves about September lst. In many ways the Prep looks somewhat like a man. It stands erect upon its feet, using its hands as a human being does. Its body is generally long and lean, and the ears and feet are large and well developed. Traces of brain have sometimes been found also. It will eat almost anything, but is particularly fond of candy and peanuts, and can scent a soda fountain from a great distance. The Prep when first captured is very shy and can hardly be induced to talk or stay out after 8 o'clock at night. It is easily domesticated, however, and may be taught many amusing tricks. It will easily learn to carry a cane, go to chapel and eat pie with a knife. Intelligent ones are some- times taught to part their hair in the middle and wear cuffs, but this requires a great deal of patience. The Prep is a singularly imitative -animal. It sometimes displays almost human intelligence in its actions after having been in the society of man for a short time. They divide themselves into classes, and fight ferociously among themselves in imitation of their betters. They also have assemblies, supposed to be literary societies, which, however, are mostly given over to rioting and destruction of furniture. It generally takes about three years to civilize a Prep so Preps.- Unfinished things one knows not what to call, Their generatimvs so equivocal.

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that he becomes docile and intelligent. He is then called a Freshman. Many Preps have been endowed with great talents and have attained fame. CSee Memoirs of Morris the Great, Vol. XVII., and Cabeen on Billiards as a Fine Art. j The Prep is one of the few modern species in which the evolutionary process is at present going on. Numerous striking instances of this may be cited. Many years ago, when the Prep cage stood where the Union Hotel now stands, one autumn day there came with the immigrating horde one of the wildest and most unique specimens ever seen. The trainers of those days had much to do to control his exhuber- ant spirits. But they perceived occasionally glimpses of an intelligence much beyond the average of the herd, and perse- vered in their efforts to develop him. As time went on he became more highly civilized than any other Prep before or since, and after completing his course of training at Knox he was sent to the noted trainers-abroad that he might have the advantages of the foreign modes of instruction. And now the truth of the doctrine of the reversion of species mani- fested itself. When freed from the control of his instructors, he could not be induced to engage in any of the varied pur- suits of men. The practice of medicine was hateful to him, and he could not endure the bustle of railroad work. He returned to his old haunts, and there among the untrained Preps he was employed by their trainers to beguile them from their old ways into the College cage. And so at length he has come to be the counsellor and sage of all the Preps, and desires nothing more than to be known as one of them. Under his guidance and instruction, many a Prep has shown that if properly treated and well trained this creature is capable of much good, and may even ultimately climb to the 'highest balcony of fame, and write his name at the top of the scroll in large and scintillating letters of green paint. iii' 1 5 ref, I I ii lt .. H MQ . l l , l if I L? I, 9 .f, - A X 5, X i241 - ,5 f Geo. l'lteh.- This fellow ls wlsc enough to play the fool.