Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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WAsHING'roN's BIRTHDAY ORATION. 21 seized with the idea that he was a cavalryman, and in- sisted on Cecil Griffen getting down on hands and knees while Stump rode him piggy-back with true military bear- ing. This happened up in University Hall, that scene of so many studious evenings, and it was in the same building that IVaggaman started his photographic career. VVaggy was quite mad on the subject, in fact, he was so keen for taking photos. that he made a tour of University Hall one night armed with an alarm-clock, which, in his warped imagination, he conceived to be a camera. Every inmate of the hall had to stand before its face and have his picture taken while the alarm was being set off. I have never seen any of the finished pictures, but VVaggy assures me that they are works of art. There is one man in our class who for inconsistencies of Nature exceeds all others. That man is VV edge Dean. He wears No. 125 boots, while 65 is the mark inside his hat-band. You should hear Dean tell, in his own peculiar way, about that quart bottle of sherry he bought and drank all alone and of the dream he had afterwards. A moment ago I saw Kid Stuart looking at me with expectant gaze. No, I have not forgotten you in your sorrow. No doubt you are still brooding over the loss of those two S10 bills which were so deftly extracted by deli- cate lady fingers from your hat and which were as deftly replaced by two Sl bills. You should draw a moral from that, never to use your hat as your purse. However, you had something to start on. That is more than can be said for Tuck Dewitt and Col. Knight when they went to New York to the Grant's Tomb Celebration. They had only Sl between them, and they spent that as soon as they landed in New York, having dead-headed their way that far on freight trains, kc. Even then Col. Knight might have turned an honest penny by osculatory exercises, for I heard a young lady, who surely ought to know, remark the other

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20 THE Nassau HERALD. by the way, I feel highly honored by the flattering refer- ence he has just made concerning mej. Could you imagine Ike Brown, who was so modest as to try to keep his picture out of the Brfic-a-Brac, leading the guns of the Penn. Light Artillery to their position on the forward hatch of Transport No. Umpty-ump? Did you ever hear any of Bill Edwards' experiences in the Infirmary '? He waged a little war there all by himself against the nurses. Perhaps you would not believe it to look at him, but Bill had the measles Freshman year, and he and I were in the same room at the Infirmary. Oh, no ! I did not have the measles. VVell, Bill got delirious and he was bound he would get out in the hall where it was light, and read a letter some girl in Tren-, or some girl had written him, while the nurses were bound he should stay in bed. So the war began. Every few minutes Bill would run out in the hall, triumphantly bearing the letter towards a gas-jet or window, but, before he could reach either, the nurses would start the pursuit, and how Bill would run for his bed. They tried to keep him in it with safety-pins and every other infantile contrivance, but noth- ing daunted Bill but a trained nurse, and I would venture to say he was more afraid of one of them than of the whole Yale rush line. Our Glee Club took a trip not so very long since, and among the heelers was one Artie Poe, who had his picture on every program. On one of the many occasions when a young lady asked her escort, with great excitement, to point out Artie, this remark was heard, 4' VVhy, is that Poe ? That dirty little man, who looks as if he had not washed for a week ? 7' Somehow it is always the little fellows who are the big men. It was way back in Sophomore year that Stump Stuart, having just won a golf match or something, was feeling very gay, and this gaiety being increased by some goods purchased at a liquid emporium, Stump was

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22 THE NAssAU HERALD. day that Col. Knight was so sweet, and clean and kiss- ablef' But Tuck's presence forbade this their only Way of making money, so they bummed about all day, slept in a free lunch house, and were thrown out of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they tried to wash their hands in the morn- ing. They saw the celebration just the same, though they had to walk all the way from the Tomb to Cortlandt street because they didn't have a car fare between them. Speak- ing of being stranded in New York, reminds me of the time Freddy Scott went over to take his girl to the theatre. All the money he had was in the shape of a check, and he went all over town trying to get it cashed, but he couldnlt. So there was only one course open, and he took it. IVould you believe it, he had the unlimited nerve to go to his girl's house and ask her to give him the money to take her to the play with. I'll bet he felt like 30 cents. And by the same scale I guess Norris Miller felt like about 13 cents when he came back to College a year ago. Miller thought he was quite a shark on constitutional law, and he tried to impress some points as to the rights of Congress on a gen- tleman he met on the train. You know Miller has a way of shaking his finger at you, and he H not infrequently told the gentleman 4' in question some of the very obviously fine points of the subject in a rather decided manner. Just as the two parted company at Philadelphia, this gentleman turned and said : Of course, Mr. Miller, I don't know very much about this subject of the rights of Congress, but as a member from YVisconsin, I have held a seat in that body for six years, and I feel moderately sure of my groundfl By the way, has anyone heard if Harry Lathrop has recovered from the effects of that cigar he tried to smoke in Philla. awhile ago?' He should have known enough to have waited until the quartet was through singing for the evening, or else he should have started in on one of those