Florida State College
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 122
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Excerpt from The Argo, 1901-1902, Vol. 2 There is a brilliant young Normal at this college who is now called by the suggestive, but hateful, name, Brier Patch Williams. The way he came to have this name is as follows: For several weeks the High School boys had been initiating all the new boys (especially the Dormitory boys) by seizing them bodily and casting them into a deep and gloomy hole called the brier patch. Now it happened that the dignified and brave Normal Williams was thus ingloriously initiated, and not being of a yielding disposition, he swore vengeance upon all who thus maltreated him. So when a few, in fact very few, Third Year classmen were obliged to return to the college one afternoon for physiology work, the brave Williams, collecting about him a crowd of Dormitory boys, in number about twice the Third Years, proposed that they, Williams and the crowd, should treat the Third Years to a dose of their own medicine and put them into the brier patch. Accordingly this was done, but no sooner was it done than Williams regretted his hasty action. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.