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THE RED AND BLACK
VOL 2.
UNIVERSITY OF (JEORCIA, ATHENS, C.A., FEBRUARY 9, 1895.
NO. 18
A College Episode.
Mli, W. W. GORDON, .IB., TKI.I.S THE UNI
VKRS1TY CLU11 A HTOK>.
“ Undor the ‘Bob Toombs' oak,”
This night, arrayed in cloak,
Fail cot to be.
Conceal your features well,
And, at tbe sij^.at ’>a'.l,
Embrace the true.
When the appointed hour, 8 o'clock,
The University Club held its quarterly finished striking, the leaders, all wearing
the candidate slid down the post, drew
a pistol, and bc^an snapping it at the
crowd.
Then followed a si eno of rare confu
sion In their efforts to escape the
brothers turned over the lamp; and it
becamo a reign of terror, with “ The
Lord for us all, and the devil take the
miliar with that groat struggle in detail,
ami his matter was clothed in that lucid
style which has always made his ad
dresses the talk of college.
The speaking ended with Mr. F. C.
Kyats, whose subject was ‘‘Tile Humes
of the South." There is no subject
which offers a broader Held for olo-
meeting last night. Arrangements were sheets and masks, filed out from I hindermost." Some jumped out of the ipience, and when we say that the speech
made for the annual banquet in April and i, c |,i|„i the chapel, went up to thocandi windows, and John I.lghtwull, in his did justice to the theme we are confer-
the same committee as in former years
was appointed.
date, who was appropriately clad in a I haste, carried the sash with him, hut ring the highest praise. Mr. ltyals aptly
long garment, which quite hid his face, I naught could stop his mud career. Some spoke of the Confederate monument In
The following were appointed a com- and found him, according to his instrue- lied to the ante rooms and locked the Savannah,
mittee to draft resolutions upon the death j tions, with his arm encircling the tree. I doors. Walter Whitman and ■'Fattle" | The judges, Mr. Barrett, and I’rofes-
of the late Josiali L. Warren : Maj. 1’. W- Thereupon, the foremost one struck him ' Holliday caused a panic to those behind sors Stralian and Uncock unanimously
Meldrim, Maj. A. U. Lawton, Jr. and heavily upon the shoulders, and, in a I them by getting wedged together In the
Mr T. M. Cunningham, Jr. The chief hoarse whisper demanded
feature of the evening was a paper read j “ Is this Mr. Weeks?”
by vlr. W. W. Gordon, Jr., on an episode Mr. Weeks calculated it was.
of the Zeta i hi, being a humorous ac j “Then.” said our spokesman, "for-
countof an incident which occurred du- sake all your worldly possessions, and
rin“ Mr. Gordon's attendance upon the follow us, that you may be initiated this
university. Ho said ; night into the glorious fraternity of the
Whether he came from the depths of, X.
the Blue ltidge of North Georgia, where Mr. Weeks heaved a sigh and drew
the moun’nin solitude like a “seeptered from the depths of his brown jeans a
hermit” reigns supreme ; or from the re- handkerchief, that might have served as
mote regions of South Georgia where a family heirloom, and a plug of chewing
Brer Tarrapin hibernates in marshes un- tobacco; and was about to discard them
disturbed and where the voice of the when he was informed that a literal corn-
turtle u heard in the land, we had not pliance with the command was not ex-
ascertained, hut 'twas evident he was 1 peeted, at which he appeared visibly re-
from the country somewhere, and his. lieved.
name was Weeks, Ananias Weeks. was placed between two leaders, a
Mr. Weeks was tall and not very stout procession was formed, and two and two
single doorway at the entrance; and they
almost of fright before the inomen
turn of their hack on* extricated them ;
and many were the running records bro
ken tiiat night.
When the fears of the brothers had
subsided sufficiently to permit them to
return stealthily to the hall and ilives
tigato it was discovered, not only that,
the pistol which had stampeded them,
had not been loaded, hut it had been
manipulated— Hot l»y Week’s, hut by
Donald Parker, a hardened veteran of
the law class.
Mr. Weeks—“Country Weeks”—Ana
nias Weeks -had suspicioned the designs
of these fraternal conspirators; had se
cured Don Parker, whom lie had known
before, to Impersonate him and net as
leeided
place.
tiiat Mr. Itcnnctt had won the
Written forTuie Kien and Buck.
Violets.
Y r iolcts, violets, emblems of love,
Placed on my coat by a maiden so fair,
Gently you sleep, though thy fragrance
is dead,
Deep in my heart thy emblems 1 wear.
Faded, so faded now in the morn,
Only last evening she gave you to mo,
Placed you so tenderly on my lapel,
Long will I think of her when faraway.
Although thy fragrance and life is so
dead,
Still in my heart the remembrance PI
keep
—Indeed,hi* critics,those envioussports- we marched down, with mint of the I hli xuhitltutc, (which he accomplished 0 f .ho, who no dear to me, placed In my
. IrudiUL'" thiil r pnitic., University in line, to the basement of j most successfully, until they made it too ( ,, |r( ,
Ular victims, averred that lie was excel, 'he 1*1.1 Kappa hall, where the ceremony 1 warm Tor him) ; had mifigled with ft.e T | |11KM '),| OH *„rns with emblems so
slvely thin; and this characteristic was waa to take place. Arrived at the hall, crowd unnoticed, and hail carried
unduly enhanced by the close fit of his
trousers and the abbreviated coat he
wore. Mr. Weeks’ complexion w;»* fair—
inclined to pinkness and a trill** bumpy.
Ills eyes were small,and, in color, blue—
faded blue ; and bis bead, which was
likewise small, was covered with a scan
out
was
sweet.
a knock on the door given, and a deep his deception so skillfully that he
sepulchral voice thundered, “Admit the forthwith, by a unanimous vote, elected w * ,cn
candidate,” upon which, Mr. Weeks was an honorary member of the illustrious
ushered in, slightly assisted by the fraternity of Zeta Chi.—Hav&onah Nows,
knees of his companions. There was 1 _ _
hut one dingy lamp in this large room,
audit casi a very weird light on the! Mr Bennett VA/jna.
tv null of long Mid lanky yellow hair- 'until. r« gathered around. First, the
Mr Weeks’ feet were shod—I sp- ak ad-; candidate was marched about the room
visedly, for none but a blacksmith could >»<> ,,VRr *''"»»> '»''>» anil Indian clubs—
have driven auch hob-nails into place- "••' room having served as a quondam
were shod, I say,with hrogans-lun< ; gymnasium-and, as be navigated the
of Bixby’s best', or. in fact, of any other tl "’ 1,r,,thcr " groaned and made
blacking. In short, Mr. Weeks’ appear- “> "7 nerves,
ancew.w at once truly rural and pic- T ien Boh Avant. as the orator or the
evening, delivered an address to the can
turesque.
Mr. Weeks arrived in January, at the didate, extolling the society to which the
beginning of the second term, and it chancellor and so many distinguished
became a hard struggle between all the graduate* belonged, and wound up by
fraternities to secure this prise. The 8. telling him that his body must climli
K. A.'s had offered to make him the chair- the heights to tvpify the elevation his
man of the “University Reporter," the sml ' w:ia about to attain; and to that
A. T. O.’s said that they could effect a llfi recommended that the candidate
combination of several element* of his ‘-■■mb the Iron post in the center of the
clana upon him,and would therefore ten- ■'« » l the ■»“•> time can
.ler him the presidency of the freshman tioned not t<i resent such assistance an
class ; the K. A.'* assured him that lie |might receive, since the brothers,hsv
Last Saturday the contest for Demos
thenian Anulversarlan mine off.
The speaking began at II a. hi. with
Mr. II. S. White, of the Law cl ms. Mr.
White's subject was "A Lofty Aim No-
eessary to Success.” lie handled Ids
subject in an admirable manner, proved
its truth by the lives of great men and
closed with an eloquent peroration.
Mr. J. If. Ilutncr followed, his subject
being “Gauntlet or Gospel.” As Mr.
Butner staled Ids speech was on a sub
ject somewhat out of the beaten track
of University oratory. Imt it. was foil of
thought and argument, clothed in line
language, and enjoyed by all present.
The third speaker was Mr. J. J. Ben
nett. Mr. Bennett's reputation aa a line
speaker and writer of speeches has late
grown,
And far away from the city am I,
Still will her fair face, like the violet's
sweet,
Shine brightest of stars in my memory's
sky.
Kindled by il.imes from the lire ill love,
Shine will that star with its radiant
glow,
Lighting the night of my sorrow of life,
Till the sunlight of joy beams upon
mu once more.
Then sleep Httln violets, thy task is ful-
lllled,
Though thy fragrance so sweet has left
long ago,
Eyes of the fancy thy beauty still sees.
Surrounded by thoughts of that mai
den I know. G, W. R.
Football Captains for '95
1
Harvard
I’rineeton,
wo,.Id he m ule the leader of the "O It ' ing a tender pity for his faults, would ly spread beyond Georgia’s borders. IBs Pennsylvania,
try their bent to bora the droea out of •P*«eb on “Secession" wm much the Tale,
German Club," and as sueli should shine
the brightest star in the social liimament hi* body and lit him to take an exalted
of Athens. But the Z. X.'s took him station in the fraternity.
for a drive to Fowler's and on In* way
The candidate then toiled and climbed
home, overflowing with enthusiasm, he reach this high degree, and the broth-
declared that our argument* hail con- er* all shouted in unison, “Climb, bro-
vinced him that the intrinsic merits of ther, climb—Climb, brother climb.”
the Z. X.'s far surpassed the glittering But a* the brothers crowded around
offers of the rival societies that he felt him to participate in the ceremony, there
proud to he permitted to pledge, himself seemed to he a remarkable amount of |
to the noble order of the Z. X. We lost dross in the candidate, and in their eu w:l " treated by Mr. •
same an that delivered for tin* Slirop- Drown
•hire medal, hut hi* delivery of it waa a Amherst
marked improvement. It wan one of ( ornell,
the beat speeche*,roii*idering the sound Michigan
neM of it* matter and the earnestness of
the speaker, which has waked the echoes
in the Demosthenlan hall for many years.
The next speaker scarcely needs an in
troduction. The “Franco-Prussian War”
Thompson II is
no time in arranging for the initiation, thusiasm for his welfare, they laid on kdl in a manner which frequently com*
Chicago
Illinois ...
Minnesota
Williams,
Dartmouth,
Trinity ....
Virginia.
On the very next day the candidate was the hickories too severely, guick as a
ej» lOO
A wa
manded the applause of the listening Lafayette,
banded » card 00 which was written : Hull the sp A was broken. With a shriek crowd. Mr. Haskell shewed himself fa- University of Georgia,
Brewer
l/ia
.. Williams
Thorne
Nott
Pratt
. WyckofT
. Ilenninger
Allen
Hotchkiss
Larson
Mickey
McCormack
.. Langford
Mttdd
Boericke
Stubbs.
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