Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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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

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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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lVASHINGTON7S BIRTHDAY ORATION. 23 weak cigars that Cap Kafer habitually calls for at Snook's. But, ladies and gentlemen, please donft take these two men as examples of our class. VVe have more real sports than one would at first imagine, although I am sorry to say we lost one of our leaders in that line when, on coming back from Trenton one night, Bummy Booth remarked that he had turned down the last page of his sporting life. But we still have some generals left. Doc Hillebrand said, I believe, that there were no stories to tell on him, but if he really did not want to hear any, he should have gone to Florida as he announced his intention of doing after he had made, as he said one time, a much maligned beast of burden of himself. Perhaps when the infant Miss Taylor, that noted New York belle, said the two nicest men she knew were Doc Hillebrand and Toot Hen- drickson, Doc decided to stay North and be near this com- plimentary young person. Much has been said of late years of the Heavenly Twins, but it is not generally known that we have the originals here in college. They are Tommy Snyder and Buss Boyd. No, they do not look alike. Far from it. But I will try to show you they are trying to grow alike. For some in- stances, Tommy skates into a hole in the ice and is nearly drowned. Buss follows up and skates into the same hole. Then, last year Boyd bought a new wheel, and instead of getting a '99 model got a '96 one, just to 'fhave one like Tommy's, and a few days ago Boyd was found with a needle, making a sore spot on his hand so as to have one like Tommy got working in the gymnasium. Before I forget it, I wish to read you this notice which appeared in the Printsanythfing a week or so since : There will be a meeting of all men interested in forming a brass band to-night at 8 o'clock, in 15 S. M. Rf, I was unable to attend the meeting, but I understand it was successfully carried on by two scared Freshmen and about twenty Sen-