Eureka Reporter | 1903-05-15 | Page 5 | One on the Professor

ONE ON THE PROFESSOR prank of college students that really was funny in a college town two students were passing by a painless dentist dentists s office shortly after nightfall when one ot of them as if it he had thought of something remarkably tunny funny suddenly ran and took down the sign about a yard long that was hanging from two nails the next morning when the latin class was assembling every student as he took his seat and looked toward the teacher teachers s platform seemed to be un am able to keep back a burst of laughter the professor of latin belonged to a type of which a specimen can be found in many a college faculty he ile had no idea how to keep order in his class and would fly into a rage at the small est interruption and launch forth into a tirade of abuse forgetting all about the leson in this way he had won tor for himself the nickname of gasbag tommy this morning the laughter of so many of the class seemed to in furfare him and he began to apply all al I 1 kinds of epithets to the offenders without diminishing the merriment how ever at last he noticed that everybody was looking oi er his head turn ing around he discovered with con inar increasing easing rage the cause of the mirth it v m as a dentist s sign and the them words on it were gas administered Adminis