Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

change in the college rush. Now they have a tall pole set upright and at the top they have a metal tip on which they sodder a small metal pennant.  Such an emblem is both rustproof + take-down-proof.  This was the motive power of our next plan, that is, our next plan to put up our colors.

In the meantime, we must set about pulling down their colors.  At noon on the way out, we formulated a plan, which, as Day afterwards said “was the beginning of the diplomacy that finally brought results.”  Hurrying down ahead of the rest of the school, five of us (Day, Smith, Astry, Bill + myself) threw together and bought a long bamboo pole at Flodings’ drugstore.  Our plan was to tie a rag, soaked in gasoline, on the end of the pole, light