stated our mission tlian the old man jumped to his feet, banged the 

 table loudly, roared at us and drove us out of the house in a ludicrous 

 state of bewilderment and dismay. The next morning, as I was stand- 

 ing and talking to Dr. Atwater in the classroom, Dr. McCosh came 

 in for his lecture. Coming up and laying his hand on my shoulder, he 

 said: "Dr. Atwater, last night a couple of his friends came to me, to 

 intercede for that silly McAllister lad and I gave them all a bit of a 

 fright. That McAllister lad needs a lesson." Never again could the 

 Doctor give me the least "bit of a fright"; he had too plainly shown 

 that his rages were all pose. 



At that time, it was the custom for the Faculty to send grave delin- 

 quents to the President for reprimand and Dean West used to tell, 

 with great gusto, the tale of one such interview. After spreading before 

 the culprit the catalogue of his enormities. Dr. McCosh wound up by 

 saying: "You've disgraced yourself, Sir, you've disgraced your family, 

 you've disgraced your college, and tomorrow it will all be in the New 

 York papers and the next day in the Philadelphia papers" — this with 

 no idea of sarcasm. It was not, however, till I became a member of the 

 Faculty that I really made the acquaintance of Dr. McCosh, though 

 the experiences of graduate year were a step in that direction. 



Had we been able to foresee what lasting and incredible injury 

 McAllister was soon to inflict upon Princeton, we should have besought 

 the President to send him away and keep him away. After some hazing 

 of Freshmen, the latter had retaliated by shaving the heads of a couple 

 of Sophomores; there was also a scuffle in the street between the mem- 

 bers of the two classes and, after the parties had separated, some idiotic 

 student fired a pistol at random along the street, the bullet striking 

 another student in the leg and inflicting a flesh wound. The news was 

 immediately telegraphed to New York and, the next day, reporters 

 swarmed into Princeton and concocted the most lurid and sensational 

 tales about pistol battles among the students, in which, though there 

 were no fatalities, there were many wounded. 



To make matters worse, a lot of Juniors, chief of whom was our 

 friend McAllister, thought it would be a great lark to "stuff" the re- 

 porters with all the preposterous tales of hazing outrages that they could 

 invent. They told how Freshmen were dragged through the canal with 

 ropes until nearly drowned and how, quite as a matter of course, they 

 were subjected to all sorts of indignities and outrages. Whether the 

 reporters actually believed this nonsense or not, is of no importance, 

 but they published it, and a great deal more, and for days the newspa- 



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