Syllabus . Xtterar^ IRortbweetern in tbe past. Social Xife [T CAN safely be said that social matters have flowered out somewhat sincemy college days at Northwestern, when a dress suit was practicallyunknown, and even a college glee club had not come into being. Thefavorite entertainment was perhaps a class social, once or twice a term,which was usually (in the first two college years) accompanied b}- thestealing and recapture of the refreshments, either by waylaying thedelivery wagon on the street, or by a burglarious entrance into privateapartments. The homes of Evanston students ofTered the
Syllabus . Xtterar^ IRortbweetern in tbe past. Social Xife [T CAN safely be said that social matters have flowered out somewhat sincemy college days at Northwestern, when a dress suit was practicallyunknown, and even a college glee club had not come into being. Thefavorite entertainment was perhaps a class social, once or twice a term,which was usually (in the first two college years) accompanied b}- thestealing and recapture of the refreshments, either by waylaying thedelivery wagon on the street, or by a burglarious entrance into privateapartments. The homes of Evanston students ofTered the usual shelter for this festivit}-, thoughI recall a Freshman social which we held on the top floor of University Hall, which wentmerrily until the Sophomores, who came storming up the staircase, were bolted b}- a memberof our class (our chaplain, if I remember), who fired a blank cartridge at them, and was onlysaved from going into the lake by fraternitj- influences. After that the social was resumed,being only interrupted temporarily by the
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