Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Woshingz'01i's Birthday Omtion Hew away and Corky meandered home, feeling much relieved for having gotten so much out of his system. Ladies, I still say ladies merely, for I notice a couple of them back there taking advantage of their Leap Year privi- lege. O, rubber! Well, ladies, do you know we have a real live Singer building in this college. This is no other than I. Rumble Wood, the third edition of Innocence Abroad. I-Ie sings and sings beautifully too. There he sits over there. Isn't he cute? Book Warner is a man without much affection for the colored people. In fact, he has no use at all for the niggers. Book comes from Baltimore, and before he entered Prince- ton he was thinking of preparing at some Northern school. I-Ie wrote up to the principal of Mercersburg, I think it was, stating that he was thinking of entering there, preparatory to Princeton. But he must irst know whether or not they admitted colored scholars COf course, if they did, Book would never go near the place, though he did not mention this fact in his letterj. The principal of Mercersburg wrote back to this effect. It has not been our custom, hereto- fore, to admit colored men, but after thinking the matter over we have decided to make an exception in your case. Well, you can imagine Book's feelings when he read this. It was all they could do to restrain him from going up to Mercersburg and committing murder. Speaking of affection, I think Dick Cowan and I-Iac Barler are two of the most affectionate students that ever lived. You should have seen them crossing the campus on their way home from the big party down in the I-Iollow last Spring. They walked along with their arms around each other, and every few minutes they would stop, and embrace each other. First one would exclaim, and then the other, O, Ki-d, aren't we just looney. Marshall Bruce is in rather a bad way. I-Ie has gotten so thin that it is almost impossible for him to take a bath on account of getting between the sprays of the shower and refusing to get wet. Penn Harvey is a very much worried boy. He has been T3

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The N assau Herald evening clothes. About quarter of eight the next night fthe tea was all over at seven, you knowj the few who had remained for dinner were sitting around and Louis dropped in on them. Well, just ma'be they weren't glad to see him. It was about the biggest frost that could have been invented. Louis took off his hat and coat in the most matter of fact way. No one knew just what to do. Finally, one of the young ladies decided to take the situation, and Louis in hand. She asked him if he knew he hadn't been invited. I-Ie said Yes,,' very cooly. She asked him what he expected to do. Why, stay right heref' said Louis. She didn't stop to argue with him any more but grabbed him by the coat collar,-she must have been some buxom child of nature-and hustled him out. Louis had been thrown down many times by girls but this is the first time he had been thrown out. I-Ie felt very much put out over this affair, and has absolutely refused to go inside the house since then. Corky Nichols is a funny man. I met him up at the Imperial the day of the Carlisle game, last Fall, and hap- pened to ask him how he was feeling. O, fine, said Corky, if I felt any better, I'd have to go to bed. Nick had a wonderful experience after the club dance last Spring. I-Ie was walking up McCosh Walk about 3 A. M. mad as a hornet. I think he must have been in wrong at the dance and received a large-sized lemon from some heartless maiden. Corky sure had his Irish up and he proceeded to take it out at once on a woodpecker, a sad bird as he called it, that he discovered in a tree on President Wilson's lawn. Well, such a fight as they had. The woodpecker started to pick at Nick and up the tree Nick went after him. You all know some of the choice words and phrases that Corky can let slide when he's a mind to, and how blue the air gets on such an occasion. Well, the air was not only blue that night, there were several large rainbows hovering around that tree. Presently the poor old woodpecker, thoroughly disgusted at the language Corky was handing out to him, I2

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The N assau H erald looking around for a job for next year but he has found it impossible to secure any employment, for all the firms are afraid of violating the Child Labor Law. I might mention in passing that Gib McClintock got up in a street car in Philadelphia the other day and gave his seat to two ladies. Spike McKaig and Bill Poster got a hunch to go to New York one Saturday night about I2 o'clock and left with several others, Ed. Miers among them, on a three minutes notice via Trenton, for the Big White Way. What do you know about that? Spike and Bill had to go to chapel the next morning fSundayj and so were forced to return to Princeton on an early train long before they were ready to. As they walked into chapel Bill handed St. Peter two theatre ticket stubs and asked him for a couple of programs. Well, of course, I don't know but this seems like a very peculiar performance to take place in chapel on Sunday morning. I reckon they thought they were about to see the Top o' th' World. I rather think they felt that way at least. But I guess we can excuse Spike and Bill on account of their being up so late, or rather, so early the night before. Guy Grandin has a wonderfully clever scheme of beating his way on the P. R. R. For instance, when he gets on a train he takes off his coat in a hurry and plants himself down in a seat and becomes absorbed at once in a big news- paper, to give the impression that he has been on the train for some time. Well, when the conductor comes through, Guy never looks up from his paper but just sings out mileage In this way he has been able to save many thousand miles. We appreciate Guy's getting the better of a monopoly such as the P. R. R. but we can not exactly commend such a scheme as his to accomplish this end. There is another money saving device that Guy has worked to advantage on several occasions. I-Ie was sitting around a table at the Waldorf with some other students one day. When it came to his turn to pay for the round, he rather reluctantly said, Well, what will you have fellows ? When the check came in he fingered it for a few minutes and then said, Do you know fellows, this is the easiest place in I4