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Show POKER BAD; EUCHRE GOOD Son? Amended to Please - Censors, of MctticdLst College ;;' CHICAGO,. May Balking at poker. . Northwestern university regards euchre as avery good Methodist gams. . The fact that money is won nd-ot la the" game appareBtly 4oe rtoi -snake any difference. Five members of the faeulr ty censorship committee, in editing the manuscript of "The Xuest of the Quezarre." a comic opera written by students and to be presented In Evans-ton Evans-ton soon, came to the following song: Now and then in a poker game My coin I sacrifice. And ven shake, for a trifling stake, A wicked pair of dice. Mrs. Martha Foots Crow, dean of the woman, interposed an objection to the lyric. "I do sot know much about poker, she said, "but I know it is bad and we should not allow it to be sung from a Methodlet stage." There was silence from the rest of the committee. Prof. James Taft Hatfield did not think the song so very wicked, but Mrs. CroWs objection prevailed. Prof. J. Scott Clark, a member of the committee, told Herbert Blake, the author au-thor of the song, of the decision of the committee. "While we find we cannot allow you to sing about poker, there will be no objection ob-jection if you substitute euchre," he said. "1 am,not a Methodist, but I take it that euchre Is a pretty good Methodist Metho-dist game, and I think there will be no objection to It." |