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Show - Enforced the Rile. Wo aro indobtod to fclnronco S. Jone,s who la attending tlo University of Columbia, Mo., for tho following, which will bo of Intorest to students who roud Tho Advocator Rocontly on oxumplo of school spirit proporly directed enmo under my observation. Tho quadranglo around wbloh most of tho buildings nro loented was bolng mnrrod with trails uoross tho grass. Repeated requests and romiudors, oven to stretching wiro nlong tho bordor, scorned to bo unhoedod by somo of tho students, who continued tnko tho short cut and muko n beaten pnth through tho quadrnnglo. Thou tho junior ongtneosF decided to stop tho nuisnnce. First our rofraotory class mombors woro puniehod nud brought Into lino. Thorenftor thoso very mombors wcro among tho f oromdst to apply tho 'chl-ohi' to othor ofggflors. Soon tho wholo engineering $oliool co-operated with us, nud it wns a Bad dny for any man who 6hould trespass. "Prosldout JcsBopublicallynpprovcd of our determination to onforco tho rule, just so wo used no objectionablo mbthods. Ono of tho last that wo punished was n senior ngriculturo student, who thoughtlessly stopped from tho granitoid walk onto tho grass, and thon, bothinking himsolf, quickly BtoppouJmck. Too Into. A crowd of us cnglnoors woro upon him; somo woro nt his fcot, othors ut his hoad, holding him out horizontally, horizon-tally, faco downward, and Blanks, tho smallest man in tho class, was on hand as usual to apply tho paddlo. Now 'tho groon grass grows nil around' unmolested." |