Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

both his words + manner we could tell that he was “deeply enraged” and also that he meant what he said.  For a moment everyone was quiet.  Then we seniors walked a short distance away and consulted as to how to get Astry down without Probert seeing him, as he might report him.  Then we decided to try the same plan as before, when we wanted to get him up the tree.  We made a rush for the post, but keeping as near the tree is possible.  In the struggle, Jack slipped down among us, and mingled with us, escaped notice.

Frankly speaking altho Jack was down, we were still “up a tree” as to how to get the colors down.  By this time many others had arrived; some Juniors and Freshman, and