Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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The Nassau H erald gun is loaded. Don't shoot , the reply came back, the gun is loaded. I don't care, Dick, I've got to shoot. Since we are in sportive vein I recall a ca-noe trip conducted by Mel Spencer and Malcolm McDougal McDermott, the man with the open smile and the pump-handle hand shake. The day of the Syracuse baseball game Sophomore year these brave spirits crossed the canal and after some very subtle and smooth work by MeDermott they had Madam Eagle Eye cringing and crawling to such an extent that she loosened up on a canoe. They found the deepest waters of the Millstone and there turned over. Mel didn't know that Mac couldn't swim so he calmly looked on while Mac rose twice, sank twice, and put away about a gallon of the living water of the crystal stream. Gln Mac's third trip to a view of the Empyrean Mel grabbed him and was in turn clawed by the wild eyed McDermott. Mel realized that he was struggling with a frantic man and slyly remembered reading in the World's Almanac that a drowning man must be knocked un- conscious before he can be saved, so accordingly he popped Mac under the ear and then the sufferer thought he was trying to kill him. Mac redoubled his efforts to write Chinese script on Mel's face, and it was only by standing on the bottom that Mel was able to extricate himself from the mad man's clutch. At this juncture Shell Potter was sighted leisurely plying a cargo of Huff up the limpid waters of the placid stream and at once Shell was all action. You certainly used your head Shell! He deposited said fluff on the bank and steamed off full speed to the rescue looking his best, silk shirt, claret tie and hose-also silk-tan pumps, and the neatest of flannel trousers. Sinking his determined jaw against his Donaro-also new-he sped triumphantly forward when suddenly the waters rose up, met him, then closed noisily over him. Coming to the surface he gave the shivering Mac one look and yelled: Hell, Mac, look at my clothes. Now Mel's brain became active. He saw that he must swim around and get the paddles, coats, hats, etc., so in order not to injure his trousers he slid out of them under the water, and 8

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Washington's Birthday Omtion leave for Princeton to tutor. This was his proposition: days of toil with small bunches of detestable food, grinding, grind- ing, night and day, nor time for work nor time for play Qbut ever with a thought for the absent onej, then to bed with dreams of her. She reluctantly O. K'd this program and Dud slid into town and into the arms of Dusty Rodes. Yes, Dusty was back early for though he is one of our best students in the words of Brother Lyman Abbott Veeder, he is an intellectual nit. They dropped in at the Nass to see if there was a reduction for wholesale orders and ever since it has been the wonder of the gentle Fargo maiden how so bright a boy as Dudley could have missed nailing that exam. Now Phil Watters wouldn't have missed it for Phil is our boy prodigy and incipient Lord Tennyson. Gne day Phil was embroidering an every day sonnet he saw in a newspaper when he chanced upon the following item. My dear Miss Fairfax :- You probably do not know who I am but I follow your Advice to the Lovelorn very closely. I have at hand an invitation to a week end from a young lady with whom I would like to become better acquainted. Now I have a pair of silk pajamas given me last Christmas. Tell me, would T make an impression if I should leave the pajamas behind and ask her to send them to me. Troubled, W. H. Flammerf' . Beatrice answered:- Get a pair of fur pajamas with slip- pers to match, Billy, you'll make more of a hit. We have read how Washington's army suffered at Valley Forge and the saddest part of it is that Fred Osborn and Dick Duane were destined to ornament this and not that day. These indomitable hunters could easily have supplied an army while their genius would have given them the power to run a Continental Congress at the same time. Thanksgiving vaca- tion they went hunting in Maine. Strangely enough Fred saw the first deer and called down to Dick I see a deer and Pm going to shoot . Don't shoot , the reply came back, the 7

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WasIzi11,gto1i's Birthday Oration slipped them ashore. This was scarcely done when Bill Scott appeared in a third canoe also ballasted with a crafty maiden. It was now the lady's turn to show marked presence of mind and perspicacity and here is an excerpt from her conversation Now this is no time for formality, and, Qlooking at Melj you must climb into our canoe for you look awfully cold and some one has scratched your face. Hurry and climb right in, try hard, my brother can do it and he's only ten years old. We'll pass it to Mel though, for try he did, in an exhausted kind of way, when Bill suddenly caught on and took the embryonic life-saver further up stream. Among the noble qualities of Gen. VVashington none stands out with greater force than his self-sacrifice and generosity. He provisioned the army at times entirely from his own private resources. Many a cold night a sergeant from South Carolina would drag himself to the General's tent and receive the solace that his constitution needed. VVith such an object no doubt.Vermyle assembled his cohorts in Princetonls once famous gurgling parlor where this little tragedy of real life was enacted and some of our best boys lost character as fast as a pair of Gulick's water proof shoes on a wet day. Ver. Fellows, What'll yuh have ? Freddie Colver. Give me a mint smash. Ted Janeway. Ah, I'll have a milk punch. George Stewart. T want a raspberry phosphate with a claret chaserf' Count Taylor. Two King Williams.'l Ver. Waiterl Five beers. Now I have an inside tip, as it were, for Larry Lowe and Johnny Allison. johnny is the punctilious student who once wrote the creed instead of the pledge on an exam paper. Boys! You'll have to dress much more carefully for T. G. Lyte is going to get three collars out of the wash next week, and, he has ordered a complete john Drew uniform with a VVilliams Walker shirt. He expects to make a killing in the Saturday night P-rade on Nassau street. VVith clever thrust and subtle twist George bottled Duke 9