Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . l examination of water wasthen scarcely ever considered as a matter of importance. 34 Memories of Brown It was the custom of Mr. Elliott, the registrar (oftencalled Pluto for short, for some unknown euphemisticreason or other), to mow the grass upon the east campusin June, and make it into hay. Upon a certain night inJune, 1856, toward the close of our sophomore year, thishay disappeared, or at least a large part of it, and theHope College well curb was found upset at some distancefrom the well. The well itself was st
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . l examination of water wasthen scarcely ever considered as a matter of importance. 34 Memories of Brown It was the custom of Mr. Elliott, the registrar (oftencalled Pluto for short, for some unknown euphemisticreason or other), to mow the grass upon the east campusin June, and make it into hay. Upon a certain night inJune, 1856, toward the close of our sophomore year, thishay disappeared, or at least a large part of it, and theHope College well curb was found upset at some distancefrom the well. The well itself was stuffed full of haycocks,and Mr. Elliotts services were in demand to remove thedamaged fodder. For a time the water strongly resembledherb tea, but it soon resumed its wonted purity. I have in my possession a note from President Sears,requesting me to call at his office the day after this oc-currence, which I very gladly did, since I was enabled,like Sam Weller, to prove an alibi, for I spent that nightwith one of my classmates outside the college walls. S. W. Abbott, Memories of Brown 135 John Hay as a Parodist of Emerson I N 1857 Emerson contributed to the Atlantic Monthlysome lines entitled Brahma, which began as fol-lows: If the red slayer think he slays,Or if the slain think he is slain,They know not well the subtle waysI keep, and pass, and turn again. The first number of the Atlantic containing these linesarrived at Brown University in the fall of 1857, ^^^ spec-ulation was rife among the students as to the meaning ofEmersons stanzas. Some students of the baser sorteven suggested that Emerson had in mind the festivegame of euchre. Whatever may be said, however, as to the difficulty ofinterpreting these lines, no college student can have anydifficulty in understanding the meaning of the followingwords by John Hay, which were published in Novemberof that year in the annual publication known as the Brown Paper: Sa! Sa! If the hazed freshman thinks hes that he
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