Like Nydia At Pompeii

After the mass meeting last evening the annual rush between the freshmen and gymnasium the first-year men walked through the lines of their opponents at will. It was the best conducted rush that has taken place in years and so good natured was the contest that not a single injury is reported.

However there was one freshman who fainted away and he was taken around behind the old hospital and revived after a time.

The annual rush always resolves itself into a hat smashing contest and the students are no respecter of persons during the hours that follow the annual athletic mass meeting. It is just as likely that a sedate professor, if he would venture during the late hours, would have his head covering smashed as a first year man.

Prof. Campbell, the blind instructor in the chemical department, was not recognized and some student grabbed his hat and made away with it.

William D. Russell, of Detroit is about the only man who walked through the crowd with his hat on his head and who was unmolested. He is blind and is a well known by every student.

Prof. Knowlton lost both his hat and his cane.

Prof. Durand Springer was the loser to the extent of a hat.

But it is impossible to estimate the exact number of smashed hats, torn coats and destroyed neck-ties.

However there was a sad echo of the event last night, the rush had subsided but bare headed students thronged the vicinity of the campus. About midnight Tuttle's restaurant was crowded with lunching students. Some mischevious student came in and grabbing the hat of another man ran for the door. The second student started to recover his property and the crowd rushed for the door to see the outcome, The second student got out in the road and picked up a large rock. He hurled it into the crowd and it struck Mott G. Spalding, an innocent by-stander, behind the ear, knocking him insensible and cutting an ugly gash in his head. Physicians were summoned and sewed up the wound. Spalding, who is a junior law, from Freeport, Ohio, was not a participant in any way in the rush of last evening.