One boy, Max Spangler, brought on a great laugh when the following question was put to him: "What great improvement in navigation did Fulton introduce ?" "Neckties," answered Max abstractedly.
"Neckties ?" queried the instructor in astonishment.
"I--er--I don't mean neckties," stammered the German-American student, "I mean steamboats." When the afternoon session was over the students hurried to their various rooms.

The sophomores and the juniors who were to take part in the contest talked matters over, and as far as possible laid out a plan of action.

It was decided that the largest and heaviest of the second and third-year students were to tackle the smallest freshmen first, while the others were to hold the rest of the first-year men at bay.
"We'll get fifteen or twenty neckties first clip that way," said one of the sophomores, "and it doesn't matter who we get them from.

A little chap's tie counts as much as that of a two-hundred pounder." In the meantime the freshmen were busy following Tom's advice and sewing their ties fast to their collars, shirts, and even their undershirts.

Then Dick, who had, unconsciously almost, become a leader, called the boys into an empty recitation-room.
"Now, I've got a plan," said he.