Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1903 — High Up In the Bell Tower. [ARTICLE]

High Up In the Bell Tower.

Thfc old dummy stands, massing Seniors and Sophs with hie skinboney hands. The rest will have to be in plain prose. War, wild war, has broken out again, at the school house,'and skillful Seniors and savage Sophs are battling against the jostling Juniors and ferocious Freebies. The immediate oause of the present outbreak-of ancient enmity, was caußtd by the enterprising bnt defiant act of oer- - tain joshing jostling Juniors who forced their way up into the belfry of the old F. W. B. (fierce wild bittle) building, Monday night and plaoed there a dummy student ‘with the figures T3on a big plaoard across his breast in derision of the seniors who are the class of ’O3. When the seniors assembled at the sohool house next morning and beheld the insuhing dummy their .rage knew no bounds. Calling their faithful allies, the Sophs, and under the lead of their most stalwart and huoulent leader, they foroed their way to tpe parrapets of the bnilding and seized and carried the offending dummy to the ground , floors By this time the Juniors has rallied with their subjeots, the Freshmen, and a long and terrible stuggle ensued for the possession of the dummy. The scene of battle was eoon transfeired from the building to the street. Many brave deeds were done, and many a brave champion bit the dust, and tried to bite the calves of the dusters. Back and forth the tide of viotojry seemed to roll, and long the issue huiig in doubt. And l there perobanoe it would be hang* f ing yet, had not armed intervention appeared, with a superior force, in the person of Prof. Headlee, the musonlar teacher of scienoe and director of athletios, who oharged through the ranks of the , contending forces and seized and oarried away the immediate object of the battle, the dummy. 4 A truce was theu declared, but war is likely to break out again at any time.