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Show "SKULL f D BONES" limit TODAY University Junior Class Fraternity Fra-ternity Will Have an Unusual Un-usual Celebration. The annual ".Skull and Bones" Initiation Initia-tion will bo held today at the University of Utah. The Skull and Hones society Is strictly a junior class fraternity and the day of the Initiation la one of the most amuMlmr of tlm ntlrn school voir. Last- year Skull and Bones men are seniors now and call themselves tho Order of the Owl und Key. ICach year tho Owl and Key men pIi-k fifteen men from the Junior class for the Junior society and give all fifteen men a public initiation the week before tho holidays. Last week the men were chosen and are Identified by a large wooden can opener which hangs from their buttonholes. button-holes. This Indicates that there Is no safe. door, or cecrct at the university eo Impregnable but what the mysterious Initiates "can open'er." l'i.Merday each of the Initiate" was given a letter by the particular Owl and Key who has him In charge. These loiters loi-ters contained all the mysterious duties the initiates are to perform before becoming becom-ing Skull and Bones men In full standing. stand-ing. As each man received his letter and read the contents before the large senior drinking fountain the crestfallen countenances bitokoncd gTeat inward woo and nervous tumult. At S:30 o'clock thlw morning these students nill appear on the campus arrayed In the most peculiar as well as mirth-provoking coslurnei some as washwomen, come uk Happy Hooligans, some idiot?, nome tramps, ballot bal-lot dancers, etc. So matter how ridiculous ridicu-lous the appearance, each man will be required re-quired to go to classes, provided h Is not forbidden entrance by the professors. profes-sors. The big fun. however, is fxpectd during dur-ing the student body meeting hour. At thiH time every man will have somo "stunt" to perform. For Instance, one man In tho garb of a Chinese cooley will be forced to carry a. lange amount of snow to the platform and then to get upon the stand and throw It out of the window with a flro fihovcl. Then four of the men. all of whom arc without the slightest musical musi-cal ability, will sing the words printed on a common laundry list to the tune of "Home. Sweet Home." This is only a sample of what will be done, but ail seem content with the fact that next year will bo their turn. The day will close with a sumptuous banquet for Ihe Initiates at one, of the down-town cafen. |