To this end the CLASS OF 1904 will ex-ert its strong-est ef-forts, and you are here-by warn-ed that any at-tempt to re-vive this lam-ent-able cust-om will bring down up-on you severe chast-ise-ment.
"We must be cruel only to be kind; Pause and reflect, who would be dined.
"Heed and prof-it by these PRE-CEPTS, dear child-ren, that you may grow up to be great and noble men like those who sub-scribe them-selves, "Pa-ter-nal-ly yours, "THE CLASS OF 1904.
"You are ad-ver-tis-ed by your lov-ing friends." This startling information, printed in sophomore red on big white placards, flamed from every available space in and about the campus the next morning.

The nocturnal bill-posters had shown themselves no respecters of places, for the placards adorned not fences and walls alone, but were pasted on the granite steps of each recitation hall.

All the forenoon groups of staid seniors, grinning juniors and sophomores, or vexed freshmen stood in front of the placards and read the inscriptions with varied emotions.

But in the afternoon a cheering mob of the "infants" marched through the college and town and tore down or effaced every poster they could find.

But they didn't get as far from the campus as the athletic field, and so it was not until Neil and Paul and one or two other freshmen reported for practise at four o'clock that it was discovered that the high board fence surrounding the field was a mass of the objectionable signs from end to end.
"Oh, let them stay," said Neil.