Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Washington? Birthday Ovation New York to slip out of without paying. I'll show youf' And with that he threw a large sized tip of a nickel on the table, picked up his hat and coat and walked out past the unsuspecting cashier. I wish you all could have the benefit of hearing Charlie Luke sing Love me and the world is mine, some night about I2 o'clock. Regularly once a Week Charlie will stop at the head of the Walk going down to Patton and reel off all the verses of this song. If you are not awake you soon will beg and Charlie performs this stunt so regularly and seems to get so much satisfaction out of it, that I think it's what we might call a bar relief. Lawrence Thompson, W. C. T. U., Chapel Choir, and Whig I-Iall enthusiast, is a horribly inconsistent man. He has- been preaching against drinking in this town for more than three years, and the first thing he did at a tea the other day was to put his foot up on the rung of a table and blow the whipped cream off of the chocolate and all over the company. I guess all who were present at the Senior dance at the Inn last Fall will remember Dud Guillaudeu and Tren Marshal on that night. They came up from downstairs during supper and played charades with each other, much to the amusement ot the students present, but decidedly to the discomfiture of the ladies. But they were good, all right. In fact, Mr. Taylor, the manager, seemed to think they were so good that he locked them up in a room so that he could have them play for his own special benefit after the dance was over. That same night Tay Pyne led a cotillion down to Ren- wicks about I o'clock, and finding everything shut up, he gave orders to remove the iron grating and enter through the cellar. They then wandered through the kitchen and proceeded to scramble a few dozen eggs. Some one re- marked, Suppose these eggs are bad, remembering, no doubt, that they belonged to Renwick. O, says Tay, What the devil do we care, we are not going to poach them. O, 15

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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

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The N asskm Herald Taylor has a good head on him all right. He had a peach of a one on that night. I..et's have a look at the would be pol-iticians in this col- lege-Hammy Hamil and Tom Taliaferro, the man who spells his name one way and pronounces it another-little Tommy Taliaferro, called T. T. sometimes for short. These two students were Democrats. At least, they thought they were. To tell the truth, they didn't know much about it and they attempted to boom in this college last Fall Mr. Katzen- jammer for Governor. Tom Taliaferro did it principally to be contrary. VVell, they worked hard and we admired that anyway. I But it was such a hopeless task they started out on, and they were such a helpless pair for any such under- taking. It was a pitiful sight to see these two walking across the campus hand in hand trying to gather together some supporters. I think Sport Moore, Louis Kaplan, and a couple of waiters from the Nass finally joined their ranks. After a while they decided they would hold some sort of a meeting so they got together to dope out a big speech that Hammy would deliver at this gathering. Well, the meeting got started anyway. Hammy got up to speak with that smile of his on that won't come off, and said, Gentlemen, 'elect Mr. Katzenjammer to the Governorship of this State. He is a man for the people, with the people and against the public. If you elect him, he will do you good, better than you have ever been done before. I don't know what kind of a line of talk he thought he was handing out, but he got no further and both Hammy and Tom wisely decided to withdraw from politics for good. Talia- ferro went back at once to his favorite hobby, leading cotil- lions and running some sixteen competitions simultaneously for Asst. Business Manager of the Tiger. And Hamill went back to peddling chocolate and running a lunch room up at University Hall. Here's the bum politician sitting right behind me. Have a look at him. The night after the eXam's Mike Kelly' and Jorge Munoz joined forces at the Inn and formed the Irish American team, intending to enter a six day's race at the aforesaid 16