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The Very Idea! By Bill Gaines Several years ago there was on the campus an immense country boy that probably got that way from juggling cotton bales, judging from appearances. He was at least six feet.six inches tall and weighed two hundred pounds if he weighed an ounce. And his feet must have supported docks in their time. One night he felt $he' old urge to up and doirg among the fair frauleins so he journeyed out to Shandon. He ar rived safely and was soon comparing the young lady's eyes to cherries and her lips to the stars, this being the second time he had ever been to see any girl under sixty and having read Elinor Glyn. It seemed only minutes after his ar rival that the old man upstairs started a tattoo on the floor with his' brogan. The country boy sighed, shaking the flowers on the mantel, andtook his de parture, as they say in story books. He walked slowly down Divine Street, thinking of the pleasures of the even ing just past. How sweet she had looked when he came into the room and deposited her hundred and fifty pounds on the sofa in that coy manner that was all her own. And her lisp I He was at the height ofcontentment when she mur inured words in his ear, not even mind inm; the occasional dabs with his bandan na that he had to make to remove the moisture that gathered there attendant on her lispings. Oh, yes, she was sweet. At this juncture, a little man not half his size, stepped out of the shrubbery at the side of the wolk, and jabbed the exciting end of a .32 into his bread basket. "Hands up !" he growled in true Western fashion. A man in a nearby house was awak ened the next instant by a terrific yell that stretched the welkin to its utmost. He ran out of the house to find the would-be gunman struggling in the arms of our Pete, the ploughboy. After six cops had arrived to conduct the little hundred and twenty-pounder to the croek, the householder asked Pete "Why did you want to yell for help when you already had the man?" "Me yell hell !" returned our hero, "that was him hollering for help l" Carolina has this year the most grat ifying results from the custom of fresh men wearing red caps to distinguish them from their supposedly more erudite brethren of the upper classes that it has received in years. The campus of a morning row looks like a station por ter's union on a holiday with all the scarlet headpieces tucked in every con ceivable form and fashion over the locks of the younger class. It is not the intention to be derolga tory to the freshmen when reference to red caps are made. Crimson toppieces have in the past done their duty nobly. A red night cap kept Grandpa's ears fromn yielding to the insidious advances that sciatica, lumbago, fallen arches and an tinsavory past were supposed in those days to make around the head. A red cap is a very welcome sight at times. As long as the freshmen continue to wear red caps and leave off wvearing red neckties, the campus will be safe for all that will to roam. "Judges", is of the opinion that the campus is getting better as the years go by. tHe no longer is bothered with the younger generation twisting each other's necks on the green at th side of Davis College or playing hands be hind the Hen House or telling smutty storica in the rear of the gymnasium. And it all is to be laid at the door of electricity. The city installed in the rear of the gymnasium a powerful light that has all but rtuined the innocent pleasures that used to be enjoyed in that spot. There is much better light. ing all around than 'there viras formerly and i. .has resuited In a dearth of call ings-Nif the Dis. Corn. Tom. Rlon ..shotlf .have been, care ful beeorkj lihts. ~ *nyh ;'i.i nt TECH AND FLA. COMPETE FOR PASADENA TRIP Georgia And Gator Teams Fight To Represent East In Rose Bowl,. CARNEGIE LOSES' PLACE University of California Likely To Represent West In Amer ican Tournament" Georgia Tech and Florida are fiJit ing it out for the honor of representing the East in the Tournament of the Roses, staged in the Rose Bowl in Pas adena January 1. However, Tech seemq the favorite and will probably make the trip. Carnegie was the leading contender for Eastern sectional honors until top pled from her high pedestal by N. Y. University. Georgia Tech hasn't lost a game this season. Knute Rockne's Notre Dame cohorts received their un doing at the hands of Mizell, Thomp son, Lumpkin and Co. The rest of Tech's opponent's should be easy sailing with the exception of Geo:gia, which has hopes of turning the tables on Tech; for the upset which they received at the hands of this team last year, but thi. is improbable. All of the South is look ing to Tech to carry their banners into 'he fa.r west with victory in view. The likely representative for the Wes' will be the University of California. Tennessee and Florida each occupy the top ring of the Southern conference with Tech but neither of these had the outstanding record that Tech can boast. The Northern teams have always, un til recently, held the upper hand in the popular sport. Yale, Harvard and Princeton, until a few years ago, were looked upon as super-hunan football t . Start the School ear Jjight ina _ LEARDUl.Y * with Styled I.. letic swing.. .pat o- ternsdignifiedyet youthful . .. cre ated according to the pre ferences of college men. Pep up your car with Learbury Red Boy windshield stickers - --free for the astk. ing. Auhenic Se teams which crushed everything in their path. In the last itwo or three years many of them have met their nemesis at the hand of some "mediocre" south ern team. Alabama led the rush of southern teams to the fore a few years ago by winning the Rose Bowl Tournament and tying its opponent the following year. Last year Georgia downed Yale in New Haven, much to the surprise of the football experts. This year has been the most success ful one for southern teams. Carolina went to Chicago, conceded not even an outside chance by the "dopesters." Af ter fighting it out for four quarters the old Gamecock spirit told on the Chi cago warriers. The result which has been told time and again, ended in Car olina's favor 6-0. Virginia journeyed to the battle ments of Princeton. They emerged from the game having held Princeton to a scoreless tie. A few weeks later Maryland beat Yale mt:ch to the con sternation of Yale supporters. All of this gave added impetus to football enthusiasm in the south. Much publicity and recognition have been gain ed due to the above scores compiled by southern teams in intersectional games. U.S.C. A sophomore is a young gentleman who will take a freshman cap, and then heat the poo- rat for not having one. Now that football is over, lessens may get some attention. That is, when all the co-ed acquaintances have dates. This Changi Work To-day, you can see ings erected noisel electric welding. The structural steel dropping his clatter mer for the electric at swiftly, rigidly, ecoi buildings are being by electric welding, ~ steel with joints as the metal itself. Building silently! seems impossible in trical age. 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