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Show oo College Boys Rout Old Rah-Rah Myth; no July 4th Stuff NEW" YORK, Aug. 4. It's an old story, but when tho time came to stop the exhaust on tho Fourth of July speeches and get down to some real work, it was the Slwash boys and the rest of the George Fitch brigade who ' enlisted without the jazz band accompaniment. accom-paniment. Yes. after many years of ancient jokes, closely related to tho mother-in-law squibs and everything of tho sort, the "Rah-Rah" boys, for such they were called by vaudeville comedians come-dians and the burlesque "heavies," were amond the first to get in lino for the big scrap. The thing, wo naturally didn't expect ex-pect wa that the vaudeville comedians come-dians and tho "burlesque heavies" wouldn't come forward. If they did they were traveling so rapidly in reverse re-verse English that they couldn't be lamped at the time of going to press. Every college eleven of roputo in the country js shattered to small and slippery bits by the patriotism of thoso who were to make up the gridiron grid-iron teams of next fall rowing, base, ball, track and other sports Indulged in to any great extent by American universities have also evaporated. Likewise gone. Also vanished. If tho comedians had beon right there must bo enough bulldog pipes and those trlagular flags (tho kind you always see In the movies or on the stage, but peculiarly seldom in the "dorms of tho colleges"), to form a net for every U-boat that over stuck its nose out of Zeebruggo or the Kiel canal. But there seems to bo no glut on the market. As regards the decorations In tho "dormB" we might add that although they're never like they are on the stage, they are reminiscent of the stage in that pictures of the feminine constellations aro plastered all over the walls like Leonard's mitt on Kil-bano's Kil-bano's layout. But that's neither here nor there, The fact romalns that all tho college boys havo proven themselves Hindoos for. punishment. They're ready for what comes oven if they don't have i to. prove their courage. A chicken j with a weak heart could never stand I having his face ground in frozen mud and massaged with cleats as the pigskin pig-skin heroes are in the habit of do-' do-' ing for practice. No less than fifty-two of the bunch i that bore tho colors of the University Universi-ty of Pennsylvania this season have ! joined some branch of the service. This bunch takes in everything from water polo to soccer and back again. It would seem as though nothing were left at Old Penn but the buildings. build-ings. The same is the case with all colleges, col-leges, evidently. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, together with Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon and others of the bigger places, as well as the small ones, have all given what they could. Which simply shows that there are other tilings in a college curriculum besides an education. Spirit counts a great deal, and the fact that Ted Meredith Is in tho aviation avia-tion corps means nothing moro than something hundreds of his fellow athletes have dono. But when we notico that the crack runner is going go-ing to run once more in Philadelphia this month allows us one observation. observa-tion. That is this: While Leonard and tho rest of tho pugs aro saying they'll fight when the timo comes, and continue boxing, Meredith and his breed enlist and then get permission to run occasionally. There's quite a difference. |