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;'.'?7?i'|^ ■;5* ■-■.A* GALLAUDET COLLEGE CORPORATION PATRON. WOODROW WIESON, President of the United States. PRESIDENT PERCIVAE HAEE, M. A., Eitt. D. • SECRETAKY. TREASURER. CHAREES S. BRADEEY,Esq. GEORGE X. McEANAHAN, Esq. DIRECTORS. Hon. JOHN. F. SHAFORTH, Senatorfrom Colorado. - Hon. JOHN B. RAKER, M. C. from CaUfomia. Hon. W. E. HUMPHREY, M. C. from Washington. EDWARD M. GAEEAUDET, PH. D., E. E. D. from Conn. Hon. JOHN W. FOSTER, of Washington, D. C. Hon. FRANCIS M. COCKREEE, Interstate Commerce Com. Hon. JOHN B. WIGHT, of New York. THEODORE W. NOYES, Esq., Washington, D. C. EDWARD M. GAEEAUDET, Ph. D., E. E. D. Emeritus President and Professcr of Moral and Fblitical Sdecce PERCIVAE HAEE, M. A., Eitt. D. President and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Pedagogy EDWARD A. FAY, M .A., Ph. D., Sc. D. Vice-President and Professor of Languages JOHN B. HOTCEKISS, M. A., Eitt. D. Professor of History and English AMOS G. DRAPER, M. A., Eitt. D. Professor of Mathematics and Latin CHAREES R. EEY, M. A., Ph. D. Professor of Natural Sdence HERBERT E. DAY, M. A. Professor of Physics and Biology ISAAC AEEISON, E. E. Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering EEIZABETH PEET, Assistant Professor in English and in charge of College Women HEEEN NORTHOP, B. A., Librarian and Instmctor in Mathematics and English VICTOR O. SKYBEKG, M. A., Instmctor in Natural Sdeace and Latin FREDERICK H. HUGHES, M. A., Instmctor in English and Latin ARTHUR D. BRYANT, B. Ph., Instmctor in Dravfing HARLEY D. DRAKE, B. A.. Instmctor in Af ricoloire O. E. McINTlRE, B. A., Instmctor in Gymnastics DEPARTMENT OF ARTICULATION PERCIVAE HAEE, M. A., Eit. D, EOIS EEY, A. A., Professor in Charge. Eindenwood Junior Col., Mo. ASSISTANTS. IRVING S. FUSFEED, B. S., In.<Tttetor». Columbia Univ., N. Y., ANNIE E. JAMESON, O. I. McINTIRE, B. A., SARAH H. PORTER, M. A. Westminister College, Mo. yrtnnal FeUoim. Normal Student. HEEEN E. CAM, B. A., MARY D. DEEM, Geo. Washington Univ. D, C. State Normal College, Miss. THE BUFF AND BLUE Volume XXIV Number Two ^if!iftmhtTt t33I5 CONDUCTED BY THE UNDERGRADUATES OF GALLAUDET COLLEGE WASHINGTON, D. C CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1915. O, LOVELY WOMAN! REGINA M. OLSON, '19—39 CAN YOU.> R. M. O., '19 44 TH5 WOMAN IN BLACK ...,..,...,F. P. G. '18,..... ..45 EDITORIAL-. , ,.50 WISE AND 53 ALUMNI. 56 KAPPA GAMMA 63 LOCALS -.65 ATHLETICS. , 71 EXCHANGES. — • 76 THE BUFF AND BI,TJE is published monthly during the college year by the undergraduates of Gallaudet College. The subscription price is Sl.OO per college year, payable tn ad• vance. Single copy, IS cents. Advertising rates given on applica• tion. All literary cojnttinnications should be addressed to the 1/it- erary Editor, and all letters on business matters, to the Business Manager, of THE BUFF AND BI,UE, Gallaudet College, Washington, D. C. Entered at the Washington post-office as second-class mail matter. TK^B^^^^'^^'^ BLUE. Literary Department 1 <■>! ■ VOL. XXIV NOVEMBER, 1915. NO. 2 O, LOVELY WOMAN! UNDAY afternoon is not hilarious at best; and when the S morning has been spent in grinding for a reexam in Trig., Sunday afternoon is particularly depressing. Wherefore, Ted Eaton wandered disconsolately into Meyer's Drug Emporium, three blocks from the college. He heaved a weary sigh as he noticed the cool emptiness of the place, and walked toward the sodafountain. Three paces away he cut another sigh in half; his melancholy fell from him like a mantle, and he stared at an unheard of apparition. That in Meyer's Drug Empor ium! Meyer deserved a gold metal! Gone was his weari ness; gone were his visions of Trigonometry; peace settled over his soul, and all he wanted in life was icecream soda served by her hands. Then he became aware that she was waiting for his order, and though his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, he manfully rose to the occasion, and managed to convey to her that his highest ambition was peach soda. He got the peach soda,and drank it very slowly. He ordered another peach soda and drank it even more slowly. He contemplated the ordering of another peach soda, but precedent warned him of the consequences and he sor rowfully desisted. The first peach soda elicited the imformation that the <Jispenser thereof was named Mary May, and that she wis helping her uncle in the drug store "just for the fun of it." 40 THE BUFF AND BLUE During the course of the second peach-soda, Eaton quite dissolved under the combined influence of the natur• al peach and the artificial one. It transpired that Mary May adored football: did Mr. Eaton play? Mr- Eaton did; could he have the pleasure of her company to the next football game? Joys of joysl he could, and the world be• came at once a roseate sphere. He departed in a frame of mind that minimized to the terrors of re-examination and gave him a place with the happy-hearted of the earth. Arriving at college he descended like an avalanche upon the long-suffering upper-classmen. "Say," he demanded mysteriously, "do you like peaches?" "Yes, when they're not green," was the heartfelt reply of Keith, the quarterback. ''She ain't green" was the ungrammatical response. "She!" chorused a dozen voices. "Poor Teddy! he's hit again." "Its not again" retorted Teddy, "it never was before; and if you know a skirt when you see one, just take a peep in Meyer's drug store—but iust remember this: I saw it first, and it's mine!" Stalking haughtily from the room, he met Morsman, the foootball captain, in the hall. "What weighs upon thy young and tender heart, my child?" inquired that dignitary. "About a hundred and ten pounds of unmixed femin• inity," answered Eaton. "Let me assist your tottering steps," was the solicitous reply, "I wonder that you have not succumbed to earlier attacks. The best thing you can do is to take a heart-tonic and forget it." But the next day, when Captain Morsman went to Meyer's drug store for headache tablets (?!) he met there all the members of his football squad, and many others whose sole ambition—up to this time—had been to be of his football squad. O, LOVELY WOMAN! 41 "Football training, fellows," he said sternly, and marshalled them out, whereupon those who were not in training rejoiced, and thanks that the number of satellites around the sun was lessened. And the football squad bemoaned their fate, that they had for a captain that rarest of all rare things— a woman hater. It was a few nights later that Keith w andered into Morsman's study, and found the owner thereof with his feet on the table, reading. "What's that.'" asked the inquisitive one. "The Song of Solomon," answered the woman-hater, "Ragtime.'" hopefully inquired Keith. "No, you poor idiot" came the pitying reply, "listen to this: 'I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved, that knocketh, saying: Open to me—' " "Shades of Glen Warner!" murmured Keith, as he fad• ed from the room. Meantime the team practiced for the game with Ford- ham College; and between practice hours, Teddy Eaton bought chocolates at Meyer's Drug Emporium for his sister Alice. Stern rules forbade his own indulgence in sweets: what other excuse had a perfectly healthy young man in a drugstore? Of course there was an obvious excuse inthis particular drug store; but Eaton had to have an excuse to see the obvious excuse—and that excuse was candy. His sister Alice was surprised and touched at these tri• weekly evidences of Teddy's thoughtfulness. "DearTeddy!" she said, "college has done so much to improve him!" At the Fordham game, the Peach, otherwise Mary May, sat in the grandstand, between two loyal supporters of the Red and the Blue, who were out of the game on account of honorable injuries. Now their injuries to their bone and muscle were diminishing in direct proportion as the injuries to their hearts were augmenting under the battery of her eyes. 42 THE Bvrr AND BLUE "Look there now," exclaimed Brinsley, "they're going to make a fake pass-—watch old Eaton—Rah! rah! rah!!" he yelled as the half-back eluded the guards and raced thirty yards for a touchdown. "How did he do it?" innocently inquired Mary May, and Brinsley explained it. Likewise he explained the other trick plays—the special pet plays that won more than half their gridiron battles. Mary May listened in naive wonder at his wisdom; exclaimed at the players' cleverness and cheered wildly for the Red and the Blue. After a particularly lucid explanation of a forward pass Rollins caught Brinsley's eye, and intimated in pantomime that he had handed out enough of the knowledge which high-salaried coaches were engaged to pound into him. "What's the difference?" argued Brinsley afterward. "She didn't have any more idea of what I was telling her than Prexy has of the composition of my brain." "Prexy knows the composition of your brain, alright," retored Rollins, "I guess he knows a vacuum when he meets it." The next game was a widely-heralded event; the annual meeting of the warriors of the Red and Blue with their pet rivals from New York. Every day, the mew had practiced faithfully, regardless of weather, regardless of the human framework, regardless of Mary May. For two consecutive years they had beaten the New Yorkers, who now swore vengeance with ten per cent interest.