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Show GHERKIN BUSTS VESSEL IN PATTING OWN BACK! 'Butter-hair" Birkin seen brazenly tooting his own horn. Out. of the ranks of backwoods loudmouthers, another Lothario has come into the glaring foreground of student birds. With plus knickers and hay-protruding collar, his presence has been a grind in the gears of equanimity- that is Keith Birkin, erstwhile playboy and hayboy. His pestiferous personage is always to be found peeping with inimitable childishness from the most prominent part of a sororit}' tea or open-house. Last spring in a burst of undeniable big-heartedness, the Sigma Chi's offered this gangling upstart a bid, why, they since have been unable to discover. He is not an athlete and therefore has no right to be devoid of brains. Advices from reliable sources indicate that his favorite form of emotional expression is to take down his hair and have a good cry. In Birkin, and his like, the staunch Elks and former chapter backbones visualize the inevitable degeneracy of the spirit of in hock is our suitcase and the bovs of '55. Birkin is here seen prospecting for Lincoln's hat, no doubt dropped ar John Wilkes' Booth during the Boxer's and Wrestler's Rebellion. 344 |