Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — HOW AN ACADEMIC HEAD WENT OFF. [ARTICLE]

HOW AN ACADEMIC HEAD WENT OFF.

Of Dr. Soule, of Exeter Academy, one writes: “The old doctor was constitutionally opposed to drinking. One day a classmate of mine, whom I will call Smith, got gloriously drunk. The doctor called him up and made him detail the course of the spree, which included a visit to the three or four groggeries of the village, and the absorption of three or four glasses of ale, three glasses of wine and a horn or two of whisky. In holy horror, as Smith ended the enumeration, the Doctor held up his hands, saying, “Why, Smith, if lat my age had drank that much, I should have been carried home on a

stretcher.’ Tossibly,’ said the imperturbable Smith; ‘some heads are constitionally weak to spiritual influences.’ The Doctor smote off Smith’s academic head that instant, and he went home on the evening train.”