Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1900 — Patriotic Students Rebelled. [ARTICLE]

Patriotic Students Rebelled.

“A certain college announced one year that its students were no longer to be granted Washington’s birthday as a holiday.” tells an alumnus in the Ladles’ Home Journal. “Outraged apd rebellious as the students were, the edict was final. “The.nionring of Washington’s birthday the faculty came, into the dioiug room only to find it draped in flags and tricolor' bitnting. At the entrance they were obliged to pass by a bust of the father of his country, with the Ignominious sign, ‘Not Kuuning.’ hung about his neck. A large portrait of the same slighted person, facing the dining room door, received a royal salute from each student- as she marched in soberly to the strains of ‘America.’ “Every girl went to her. classes that day in holiday attire—white gloves, dressy gowns and feathered hats—and joined lustily in the patriotic choruses which preceded every recitation, while the entire senior class, impersouaiting Washington, wore placards explaining to the apparently ignorant faculty tv ho, that neglected gentleman was. “Only once during the day was the enthusiasm of patriotism cheeked. That was when a quick-witted professor required one of her classes to translate into Latin the declaration of independence.”