Holworthy Hall

“ Phillips, who was fast losing control of himself, rose, and looked down into Mount Auburn Street.
"Hurray for our side!" he choked. "It's—it's a demonstration!"
The multitude, which was largely composed of the gamins of Cambridge, who can be hired for any temporary emergency at the current rate of five cents, cheered obligingly.
"Speech! Speech!"
"Hurrah for Mac—t'ree cheers for McHenry!"
"Speech! Put out your bean, Mac!"
"Yea! Speech!"
"Speech! Put our your bean, Mac!"
"We want McHenry! We want McHenry!"
The reformer fairly bubbled with pride and excitement. ”

“ When he remembered to lock the door, as in the present instance, the only solution to the problem of universal peace was for the man whose room was directly over his to draw a baseball bat quickly but firmly across the radiator coils, thus creating an accompaniment so immeasurably superior in tonal quality to the banjo that McHenry generally gave up in disgust, with the loud remark that the world was going to the dogs, and nobody appreciated good music. ”

“ I was perfectly willing to to let bygones be bygones—"
"Dear man," said Phillips, "I know Pep McHenry like a book! He'd have called it off fast enough if we hadn't butted in on his uncle that way! What bothers me is that Pep has a disgusting habit of turning a little joke like this to his own advantage, at the same time that he's rubbing it in on the other fellow. I tell you, Pep's about as safe as a buzz saw to monkey with!"
"There's one thing we can do," said Spinden suddenly. ”

“ What are you going to do about it, Monk?"
"You fellows make me sick!" blurted Spinden aggressively. "Weren't you there, too? Don't blame it on me! How in thunder did I know that Pep was telephoning a real reporter to come out and make hash of our reputations? I told you he's clever!"
"What gets me," added Ward, "is how he's going to keep it up?"
"Don't worry about that part of it," advised Sewall. "You just keep busy thinking how we're going to live it down!" ”

“ Isn't that rather unusual?"
"Oh, no," said Pepper promptly. "The fact is that my friends are—well—"
"Naturally," opined Mr. Prince, "if they're the sort of boys who believe in moderation and dignity, they're diligent students. I hadn't thought of that. They're probably studying."
"Undoubtedly," said Pepper, with great relief, but his respite was of unmercifully short duration, for a tremendous rap on the door was followed by the entrance of John Phillips in an old master's gown and hood, Spinden with a luxuriant pair of false whiskers, and Ted Sewall in a cutaway coat and silk hat. ”

“ You play a trick like that on a man you can lick, and call it square!"
"Pause, dear friend," said Spinden amicably. "Let's walk hand in hand through the dim vista of the past. Perhaps you don't recall a little episode of freshman year. One Spinden, a trustful youth with no acquaintances in Cambridge, met one McHenry on the avenue on the first day of college, and took him for an upperclassman—that was because you were so darned cocky, Pep. Said Spinden asked for a little advice, after which he dashed over to Mem to apply for membership in the Dining Association. ”

“ The telegram was from the reformer-uncle, and it read, in substance:
Congratulations. Shall arrive Thursday morning and spend several days with you. Anti-Cigarette League heartily indorses your project. Stand ready to furnish money for propaganda among the students. Will be pleased to address your club at your next meeting.
"And this," said McHenry bitterly, forgetting all about the Dining Association, and the president, and A. B. See, and the dean, "this is your long-legged, slab-sided, red-headed, pigeon-toed idea of a joke! Spinden, I'll remember this!" ”

“ Cambridge, October 20.—It was reported to-day that a number of prominent undergraduates, led by James Pepper McHenry, son of one of Chicago's noted financiers, have revolted against the unbridled license of the Gold Coast. During national political campaigns, Harvard students have usually formed clubs in support of the various parties, and Mr. McHenry purposes to enlist a majority of the representative men in the university in a Prohibition Club, which will advocate total abstinence from alcohol or tobacco in any form.
At the State Prohibition headquarters it was admitted that Mr. ”

“ Let me say right now that as soon as I saw that stuff in the Herald the other morning I—er—took steps to make it count. I couldn't explain to everybody very well, and, as I say, I never cared a lot for high life, so—here's the first flash light. I won't tell you who it's from, but I'll admit in strict confidence that it's from a—young lady. Omitting the first few words:
"I can't begin to tell you, d——, to tell you how happy you've made me by giving up smoking for my sake. ”

“ Father says to tell you that you may have your runabout this summer.
"There's only one more piece of news," said the young politician, regarding his stricken friends with deep commiseration. "My doctor says that one reason I never got any fatter was because I used to kill my appetite by smoking too much. ”