Our Preps
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Our Preps
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Date
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1884
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Description
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Article from The Sombrero
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Transcription
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prep, waltzed me out of the door, and projected me downt hte steps with a grace and dignity that would have become Susan B. Anthony.
The first term of my prep existence, I was terribly afraid of the tutors. I never spoke to them without making a salaam and putting dust on my head. The second term, I became careless, and when the tutor in German fired his stock-shell, "I will not speak to you about that again," into my unguarded camp, I fainted on the floor and the seat of my Sunday pants. I was resuscitated with much difficulty, and when I did recover, I was not profited by what should have been an awful lesson to me.
The third term, I chewed gum, threw paper wads at the tutors, wrote notes to the girls, learned to play marbles for keeps with the freshmen, drank all my milk without using the rubber tube on the bottle, and did many other things that I may be sorry for some day.
At present I am pursing a very luxurious course indeed. I have been left only twenty-seven times since the first of April-nineteen times on the same girls-and am becoming quite a society man. Nevertheless I should like to be a freshman. It is unpleasant and mortifying to go into a barber's shop and hear Sam call out, "Well, my little man, do you want your hair cut?" I don't know what he does it for. I think I look almost as old as the members of the girl's fraternity. But I will be a freshman some day, and then I will tear things loose at a lively rate, I can assure you.
This may appear to be an individual history, and not that of a class. "Appearances are deceitful." I have examined into the matter, and am convinced that every prep has to endure just such a life as I have depicted. So, what is true of one holds good for all.
Yours for milk,
PREP.
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Source
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Author: The Students of the University of Nebraska
Title: "Our Preps"
Periodical: The Sombrero
Volume: 1
Pages: 25-26
1884
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Our Preps
