tricity, and some of the most cherished memories
of our college career will cluster around his quaint
sayings in the class room and his slow deliberate
way of talking. The new students did not meet
him, as his failing health prevented a return to du
ty in the Fall, but we upper classmen and the great
body of alumni who have gone out from their Al
ma Mater, will always have a warm spot in our
hearts for "Old Josiah."
THE memories brought back by the seventy or
more of our boys who went down to Lewis
burg to see the Bucknell game are more viv
id than pleasant, and the language with which
they describe their trip is, in the majority of cases,
more forcible than elegant. When Bucknell came
up to play us last year, we treated both the team
and their sympathizers like gentlemen, and our
boys had a right to expect a similar - reception
down there. How our expectations were fulfilled
is easily shown, by the fact that one fifth of the
male part of the audience carried bludgeons and
pick handles instead of canes. To state it in a few
words, the only thing that prevented our being mob. ,
bed by the thousand or . more thugs and plugug
lies that had congregated from all the towns for
miles around was our extreme forbearance and our
decision that discretion was the better part of val
or. The treatment we received was barbarous.
Not even in the tough towns of the• coal regions,
have we ever seen such intense and bitter feeling
It only needed one return blow or one angry word
for the insults and epithets that were showered upon
us to precipitate a bloody and disgraceful row. It
is the merest piece of good fortune that some of our
men were not badly hurt by the showers of flying
stones, rocks, and all sorts of missiles that fol
lowed them all the way down from the grounds to
their hotel. To be chased by a howling, stone
throwing mob of roughs can hardly be expected
to stir up pleasant reminiscences, Then add to
that the fact that we were warned that any cele
bration or parade on our part would be met by
THE FREE LANCE.
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being stoned from the roofs of the principle build
ings along the street and the further threat that
Captain Haley would be mobbed on his way to
the station, and an outsider may be able to form
some idea of the kind and brotherly affection ac
corded us.
For the benefit of the great number of our boys
who may easily have received a contrary impres
sion, we would state that there really is some civ
ilization left in Lewisburg ; and, though the ani
mated tailor's dummies that were dignified by the
name of police, even sided with the toughs and
helped them out, the better element felt greatly
mortified and did all in their power to apologize
and make some sort of reparation. They recog
nized the lasting disgrace that the day's occurren
ces would inflict upon the town, but they were
unable to do more than they did in preventing it.
The students also should be exempted from blame,
for, though a few did join in the rowdyism, the
mass were heartily ashamed and sorry of the treat
ment we received and tried their best to show
their friendliness. 'lt is probable that the only
thing that prevented a row when our team passed
from the hotel to the station was the fact that they
were surrounded by a body guard of Bucknell
The outcome of the whole matter is that if we
are to play Bucknell in the future we will have to
meet them on our own or neutral grounds. To
use a slang expression, it will be a cold day when
our boys go down there again and run the chances
of getting their heads mashed and their throats
cut merely for the pleasure of defeating a small in
stitution like Bucknell on her own grounds. We
have gone past her in the race and entered a high
er class in all branches of college life, athletics,
students and equipments, and we can now, like
the larger institutions into whose class we are rap
idly advancing, tell smaller colleges, that, if they
are anxious to play us, they can come here and do
so on our own grounds or forego the pleasure of
suffering defeat at our hands. The old rivalry be
tween ourselves and Bucknell is dead. It is all