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Show Black Beanies Brought About By Banner Boo-boo; Lewis And Clark In Beautiful Botch ies for a week or two.' " 'Oh, come on now,' laughed the president. 'Do you really think they'll swallow that?' "'Well,' answered the hatter. hat-ter. 'After all, they are Lewis and Clark students.' "And to this day, the administration adminis-tration has been working fervently fer-vently to use up that vast supply sup-ply of beanies. In fact, that's the main reason they've strived over the years for in'creased enrollment, enroll-ment, and lower admittance standards." By Associated Collegiate Press A reporter for "Pioneer Log," Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Port-land, Ore., happened on a friend who looked thoroughly puzzled and frightened. "Those orange and black hats we're supposed to wear," he sighed. "What are they for?" "Oh," replied the reporter, "they're part of the Lewis and Clark tradition." AND THE reporter explained it this way: "Dean Fester Spurner taught a home economics class back in the old days. Unfortunately, no one signed up for the course one term and she was stuck with 20 bolts each of orange organdy I and black burlap, out of which she had planned for the girls to make their Homecoming formals. "SO DEAN SPURNER, with her customary grit, was determined deter-mined to produce a school banner. ban-ner. But she hadn't taken a doctorate doc-torate in home economics, and she certainly was no Betsy-Ross. Consequently, she ended up with 129,000 shreds of burlap and organdy or-gandy and no banner. "She brought her problem to the college president, who called a meeting of the board of trustees. trus-tees. He told the board that the church had seen fit to present the annual grant of 40 bolts of material to Lewis and Clark College, Col-lege, and if the church heard of it being reduced to this condition, condi-tion, the college might be bypassed by-passed in the awarding of future grants. "AT LAST, one of the trustees, a hatter, proposed to take the 129,000 pieces of cloth and make 21,500 beanies. He explained: 'You start a tradition. Irou make all the new freshmen wear bean- |
