Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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South.: I hope they can get them. Nobody has had hold of any faculty property since 'oo got called down so hard, and it will make a great uproar if we take Cap. Raymond to the bonfire at the head of such a procession. G7'IS..' Right you are! Now let's plan just how it's to be done. I sup- pose we'll have to fix it up so the co-eds can have a look. Tomorrow is calling night but of course they can't leave the halls. The old place in front of Stone'I-Iall it will have to be, I suppose. South.: VVe'll get the stuff down here right after supper if they can get the keys, and get it all ready by seven-thirty while some one goes around and picks the team up on a drag. There's nothing like having the captafin in your frat., they'll all have to go with us if he says so. By the way, you and Fred will have to ride in the first rig just to let them know whose stunt it is. Everyone knows you're a Delta Theta and anyway you're president. Gris.: I'm sorry Harry, but I can't do it. I've got a date. I'll have to resign to my vice-president this time. You'll have to do it. S0'llafh..' I-Iow's this? I thought you'd sworn yourself strictly to single blessedness for the rest of your college days. I wonder who it is, but I sup- pose you won't tell. But say, you ought to have seen my fairy today. She looked sweeter than ever. V r Gris.: I-Iarry, I wish you would quit spending all your time with Miss Hastings. Look at the marks you got on your mid-year exams. If you keep it up you'll flunk that Philosophy and you haven't got any extra credit so that you can afford to flunk a five hour course the last semester. And you know what would happen if you didn't graduate: your mother would never get over it. . South.: Yes, I know, Tom. But, darn it all, l ll get through, I've got to, that's all. Uncle Ned will never give me that job if I don't. But I got a good mark today. Gris.: Yes, because she was out of town yesterday, but I'll bet you haven't got your lessons for tomorrow. With your work on the Daily and that inter-collegiate debate you haven't a minute to waste and yet you loaf around with her by the hour. I don't see what you find so attractive about her, anyway! ' South.: Don't preach any more. This won't get my lessons. Gris.: The fellows will be back before you could get through looking at her picture and started to studying anyhow, and I will preach. This has got to stop and if preaching won't do it I'll find something else that will. . Your mother expects me to take care of you. It's a, blamed poor job I'm doing of it this year. You've gone through your first three years without any need of a guardian angel. You haven't had a single case on your hands as far as I know and now in your senior year when you ought to know better, you get mixed up with Sue Hastings. She doesn't care for you, Harry. She's had half a dozen fellows on her string since I've been here and you know several yourself. She's older than you. She graduated from the college and is nearly through the Con. now, I guess, isn't she? She's only here for a good time and it's at your expense she is having it just now. I've heard that she is engaged to Hardy, '99, and I believe it's so. She was different with him, than she has been with the other fellows. And he's just the kind that wouldn't give a darn what she did as long as he was sure she would wait for him. South.: Oh, blame it, I'm not getting in so deep I can't pull out. I'll 22

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The Base Ba!! Celehmtzbh. NEW YORK STATE UNIVERSITY. TOM GRISWOLD ....................... .............. P ost Graduate, N. Y. U., 'or HARRY SOUTHWORTH ........................................... N. Y. U., ,02 HENRY AIMES, GEORGE FUNK, ARTHUR MAY, A All Members of the Delta Theta Fraternity SUSIE HASTINGS ........................ '99, N. Y. U., '03, Conservatory of Music ACT I. SCENE-Griswold and S outhworth'.r room in C haptcr H ousc. PRESENT-Griswold, Southworth, Aimcs and Funk. TIME-10:30 P. M. Southworth: 'Twas on a cold and stormy night, brigands-- G1'iswold.' Ring off. Do you hear! We didn't come here to have you tell us your stale old stories. South.: Gee, watch the feathers Hy! All right, Tom, we'll bc good- Everybody be still while the Lord High Post Grad. dispenses his wisdom. Gris.: Well, fellows, if Delta Theta is to come out ahead on this deal we've got to quit our nonsense and think of some real good stunt and get it off tomorrow night. And you know I've belonged to this old frat. too long to see those blasted barbs come out ahead when it comes to running an atheletic celebration. Funk: And there's sure to be a celebration. Massachusetts has a bum team this year and with Haines in the box we can lick the 'socks off any team in the east. The geezers beat us last year too, and that! makes it all the better for tomorrow night. Aimes: Well, what's to ,be done? Who's got an idea? Funk: An idea, my kingdom for an idea! Yes, I'd give my .horse for an idea if I had old Kirk's Plato for tomorrow. If we don't hurrry here I won't even have time to horse it out. South.: What's the matter with working in Prexie's live stock. That swift new pacer hitched up with the brindle cow would make a good pair. They'd certainly do for openers. Gris.: Does anyone know how we can get at 'em? Prex is too sharp to have anything around that isn't well guarded. Aimes: Where does his man sleep? Does he stay in the barn? Funk: No, he lives at home, right down this street. It's old Mike who ran our furnace last winter. And I'll bet I can work Mike for the keys. I know the old boy, just leave that to me. Gfris.: All right, but be sure you get them. We've got to get into that barn if we tear the roof off to do it. Aimes: And have you seen that swell new runabout that Dean Boswell has had for a few days? While we're in the faculty stables let's finish the job up and give Boswell a turn. Hitch Prexie's cow to the new runabout and get an old cart for his pacer and we'l1 have starters at least. Funk: Come on, Henry. We'll go and see what the prospects are for making the raise. We'll be property men .and let these stage directors work up the setting while we are gone. Get a hike on you. fExeunt Funk and Aimes.j 21

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quit the women pretty soon and go to work, but it's all bosh about her be- ing engaged. ' fEnter Aimes and Funk.j G'l'1.S..' VVell, how about it? ' Funk: All O. K. We saw Mike and he wouldn't give us the key, but he said, with that broad Irish smile of his, that he sometimes left the west window unlocked. Then we went down to Boswell's and he doesn't even lock his barn, so we're all right. fCurtain.j ACT 11. ' Scene-Steps of Stone.Hall. '.l.Il1TlC-7 :45. ' QEnter from top of steps, descending and taking a seat in the shadow at one side Miss Hastings and Toni GJ Miss H.: Oh! there's a fire! What can be going on? Are they going to celebrate our victory of this afternoon? Gris.: Yes, and with a vengeance, too. Miss H.: Oh, I'm so glad you came. You can tell me all about it. It was so good-of you to come when all the fun is going on. Oh, what a rig. Isn't that President Tenney's horse? And, oh! The cow! What is it? Some fraternity prank? . Gris.: Yes, Delta Theta got it up. There's the captain in the first rig and the manager and coach in the second. The rest of the team are in the drag there. They are doing it up brown. That's Dean' Boswell's runabout they have the cow hitched to! ' Miss H.: Why, thatls Mr. Southworth in the first cart with the captain isn't it? Do you know him? He is a regular little boy. To know-him you would never think he was a senior. Gris.: It seems to me you have a good deal to do with him for a fellow you consider only a boy. Miss H.: He does hang around me more than I like to have him but it is hard to get rid of him. Then he is so easily worked and it is nice to have some one to take your places and send Howers ,and candy. And I'ni satisfied if I have a good time. Oh, what are they doing now? Gris.: just bringing up the tar barrel. Weill have quite a blaze when they put that on, but it won't come right away. They have the speeches first. It is too bad that you have to be contented with a boy for a friend. Now, I- Cconversation drowned for several minutes. Actions take place that are quite unseemly in a P. G. Bright light suddenly throws couple into bold relief. Grisowldd's arm around her waist and her hand in his. Cries of What's the matter with Tom Griswold and Miss Hastings? They're all right, etc.j Miss H.: Oh! Mr. Griswold. Gris.: Don't you care. They'vc put the tar on and it will burn forever and a day, but weTve got to sit it out and face the music. They will soon forget us. Miss H.: Mercy, it is dreadful to get caught in such a position and I am sure Mr. Southworth saw us, he was looking right this way. Well, there are others. This isn't the first time an accident has queered me. But to have it happen where everybody could see. q 23