Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Washington's Birthday Oration Now you don't know what she meant and I don't know what she meant, and I doubt whether l?ootch knows yet what it was all about, but I guess Ward Chamberlain could tell a thing or two if he only would. Look where he sits-with his father, too. Ah! I blush for him. My dear sir, 1I'll let you in on a secret about your son., One night, about twelve, I was coming across the campus when a ragged-looking Senegambian stopped me and asked: Is yo' Mistah Chamberlain, boss Bw I am notfv I answered, indignantly. Well, Ah ,ve got a note fo? him, an' Ah don' know where he rooms. Iiet's see if it is important, I replied, anxious to do what I could for anyone in need of assistance. I stacked up against the nea.rest lamp-post and opened this note. Ward won't mind if I read it, I know. Dean' Dub: We mist the larst troley and are now at the Nassau Hotel. For heaven s sake help us like we did you in N. B. MADGE, CHICK. But Ward Chamberlain is not the only gay Lothario in the class. There's 'fWatty Watkins. Poor Watty,' has been here so many years that I feel as if he ought to be treated with the reverence one gives to old ruins. But if he is not an old ruin, he is well in the way of being a young one. You should have seen him in his third Sophomore year playing Romeo from the window of his room, next the bank building, with a shapely damozel, who, I hear, handles more money in a day than Watty,' has seen in the eight years of his college course. Had you then observed this ruthless breaker of hearts, you would have hesitated whether to give the title of class lady-killer to Watty', or to Gus7' Ober. Gus must be in a bad way as to reputation by now. It seems that he was spending a few days at Atlantic City o-r Palm Peach, or some other expensive place -money's no object to '4Gus, you know. Well, Ike Roberts ran down to see him, dropped into the most luxurious hostelry, found Ober's John Hancock on the register, and, disdaining S

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sex, Mr, Chillyt' was unanimously chosen. I saw no notice of it in the Princetonicm, however-but then, Mac Taylor probably used his influence. I understand that he wants to be elected the handsomest man. It was during this Wilmington trip that Pop Hermann, who, as everybody knows, used to become beastly intoxicated on twenty cents, demonstrated that he really required the expendi- ture of-thirty cents to get satisfactorily loaded. He'd better look out 5 strong drink may get a grip on him, and then it might cost him as much as a dollar, say ten years from now. Thatis better than Louis Layton, anyhow-he gets his fill for nothing. by looking out the window when the round is up to him. Bill Singer, also, distinguished himself at Wilmington by his cele- brated toast: Here's to Bill Singer, than whom there are none suchf' Bill always did have a modest appreciation of his own worth. B-ack in Sophomore year, he went, with another crowd, to Hightstown to play football. After the game the team was fed at the school. When all had gathered in the dining-room, each man stood behind his chair, and a silence fell over the assemblage while the head of the concern cleared his throat before saying grace. The quietness seemed to irk Bill 5 he felt that it was up to somebody to do something, so he rose grace- fully to the occasion. Stepping back one pace, he leered coquet- tishly at the co-eds. Come on! fellows, he shouted, let's give a cheer for the Peddie girls P' That was almost as good a bluff as the one Pootch', Prewitt cast with one of the fair dames from New Brunswick, who came over to spend a. week in Princeton on the invitation fat least, so Jim Eddy said, and the Lord knows that brands it as a-an exaggeration, sayj of Al. Phillips and Mac. Frazer. It seems that 'Tootchv met the girl on Nassau street one evening, and, feeling lonely, asked if he could hold her hand. She reluctantly consented. There was a long and embarrassed silence and finally the girl looked questioningly into Pootch,s soulful blinkers. KI wish you would behave like a man, Mr. Prewittf' she said. You remind me of a chicken V7 7 CC

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frontal assistance, proceeded to Room 231, Where Gus was reg- istered to be reposing. He knocked, no answer. He knocked again 3 still no answer. He raised up his delicate voice and howled: Hello! 4Gus' Ober ! Finally the reply came, muffled, but in unmistakable, rippling, feminine tones: 'CML Ober is not here now. Ike fell against the door jamb and yammered. There the clerk of the hotel found him in a trance of amaze- ment. It took that individual, four bell-boys and a private de- tective to explain that 4'Gus Ober had been moved out of Room 231 the day previous to make Way for the present female occu- pant. 0ne's imagination fails one when one endeavors to picture 'fIke Roberts walking familiarly in Without having previously knocked, but, after all, I don't know that it would have been much Worse than butting into the boudoir of Fanny Le Grand Griswold, the male Sappho. Ober Was showing a bunch of queens through the palatial apartments of the two. When they came to Fannyts room they looked at it in amazement. '6Why, said one, fingering the pink bows on the bed-posts, It looks as if a debutante slept here l One doesj, replied Gust, promptly. 'Grisy' comes out every morning-about elev-en oiclockf' ' I wonder what Hungry,' Higgins would have done in a room of that sort? Not long since he called on a prominent illus- trator in New York. He stayed quite a While. When I saw the rising young artist later, he asked who this man Higgins of The Tiger was? Ol his all rightf' I said. Yes, he was all right-till he began to call me by my first name and spit on the floorf' I Wonder what makes Ik', Slee look so shamefaced when I say anything about chewing tobacco. It isn't everybody that is as polite as 4'Casey'J Paull or Percy Rivingtxrn Pyne twict. Percy ist surely the most cordial person that has been around here for a long time. The other day he was Walking down Nassau street, where he passed Fred. Fair- banks, Sport,' Moore and Hell-devil Skillman accidently abreast. Percy bowed with characteristic disregard for social status. H'y, y' fellows F' he called. 9