Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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had ignominously gone to bed. For heavenis sake come down and look at Arty Morris g he is paying real money fo-r his chips I Nig.'J Cooper might well be surprised 5 he was never guilty of such carelessness. Tom McPheeters is another Real Sport. One night at the Inn, Tom sat at the foot of the long table and wagered vast sums on the fall of the ivories with Charley Dugro, who lounged in artless opulence at the other end of the ta.ble. In order to hear each other it was necessary to shout the amounts of each bet so that everybodyin the place must know of their reckless gamb-ling. Bet you a hundred to eighty that John Steen can't four l yelled Tom McPheeters. Got you, replied Dugro. Johnny threw a seven and passed the bones to George Scott, the moral leper. Hundred and fifty he sixes before he eights P' shouted Tom. Got youj, said Charley. George Scott threw craps and passed the dice to Alec', Galt for luck. 'fGheese it V' yelled Tom. Make it an even four hundred, asked Charley, pettishly, I hate to- bother with odd sumsf' 4'All right-how much is that I owe you ?J' he asked, when Alison lost ten cents and passed the ivories to big Jim Ames. i One thousand and fifty-call it an even thou-sand and letjs quit for to-night V' howled Charley, just as Deacon Richard- son ordered forty-five cents' worth of Bud. for himself, Eddie', Havens and Bunnyv Reed. Once out of the grill room the two bold, bad gamblers found it raining. f'Lend me fifteen cents for a cab, Tom, pleaded 4'Dug. Aw here! what do you think I am-a bank P asked Tom. z'What did you do with that dime I lent you last week ? Tightness fin the pecuniary -sense onlyj is not one of Steve McGlave's faults. I understand that he even blew himself to a sort of Seeley dinner at the Bingham Hotel in Philadelphia' one time with a chorus ladyi' from a popular extravaganza, 13

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Washington's Birthday Oration in the Big Burg. He took her to see Coquelin cadet play Cyrano and then came back to Princeton, conscious of having made a swell hit with the lady. A few days later he received an anony- mous copy of the New York Journal containing a full page article entitled 'fCan a Man with a Big Nose be Truly Loved ? Rex must have thought not, for the stuff is oft. 'fDanny Horton would do well to follow his example. Jim Eddy Qwho knows everything about everybody, and tells it everywhere-J told me that '4Danny once contemplated doing it, at least he said that he was going to give up Wine, women and song. I think he managed the song all right, but, then, Danny never could sing. Just look at those eyes! I fear the booze bug has got him-soon he will be worse than Bunhead Wilson- thatis all! 1 D:-Lnnyn knows more about music than some other people, though. One night last year Spike,' McKaig went down to the Elm Club with Johnny Clancey, Jack OiNeill, S'al. Cadenas, Fred. Bayles, Charley Doe and a bunch of the regu- larly barreled, to have converse of sweet song. 'iSpike can play the pianola you know. But on this occasion he put the roll for f'Down Where the Wurtzburger Flows in backwards. They all listened with rapt attention while 'iSpikeM worked his feet. When it was over, Otto Hack sighed ecstatically. MI think that torreadorps song from Carmen is one of the finest things in the worldf' he said. It seems funny that Otto should have such a reprobate room- mate. 4'Art Morris was president of the Saturday Night Club that used to meet at least once a week in 6 West Brown and tell stories to the gentle music of rolling bones or clinking chips. 4'Art'sv career as a gambler began early in his college course. On the night before Washingtonis birthday, four years ago, a quiet little game QI wonder why games are always small and noiseless ?j was in progress in Sutherland's. A lot of guin- mers were standing about as usual- Bill7' Porter, Homer Scott, Nig. Cooper, our dear departed classmate, Jake,' Sheasley and some others. Suddenly Nig.D Cooper burst shrieking from the room and rushed madly upstairs. Come down In he called to George Munger and Harry Strater, who 12

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Washingtonls Birthday Oration but he had to share her society with about eight other fellows before he got through. Tell you about it? C, no! really I couldn't, ask Steven I Will say, though, that Nig. Couch also does very Well in one of the title roles of the Sleeping Beauty and the Beast. I leave you to- judge Whether Nig. could, physically, take the part of the beauty. Let me change the subject before I get myself into hot water. Have you heard about f'Ike Gilchrist's trance in the Cafe Mar- tin? I understand that there is some talk of investigating it, scientifically. I hope it Will be done. I, for one, Would like to know just what it Was that MIke did see. O, yes! I forgot. You don't know about it? Well, it seems that fflkei' and Hoort Ameli and '4Chief Pierson and some of the other boys Who like to look upon the Wine when bubbles come up through the stem of th-e glass and make a happy little effervescing cloud dance in the body of the amber fluid fthatis Worthy of Court Nicoll, the Boy Poetj and Ike,,' I imagine, had been Watching the bubbles so long that they had ma.de him dizzy. At any rate he sat in gloomy silence and stared into vacant nothings. He couldnit have been looking at Ken Co'olbaugh's head, for Ken Was absent, as usual. What's the matter, Ike P .asked Chief', Pierson at last, but he elicited no reply. Ike,s eyes were bulging out, cold beads of perspiration stood out on his brow. He held his breath. He rested his hands on the table with a tense look about his mouth, and, still staring into space, cried, Shoot, damn you! just shoot W Bill Coulter could probably tell all about such visions. You know Bill elects all his courses in the 'afternoon novv, because he don't believe in getting up at any such impossible hour as eleven o'clock. Of course you see right away that such an arrangement Would give the faculty great pain. They argued with Bill about the matter, but to no- purpose, he simply could not get up to chapel. They gave him pensums and suspended him with no result. He rather enjoyed it. Finally, last May, they decided to take steps. ' Mn Coulterfi said the spokesman of the faculty, in his usual urbane and conciliatory tones, Mn Coulter, We have de- 14