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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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DRILLING THK AWKWARD SQUAD A. P. PoOBMAN A V I N Q heard much of the indignites heaped upon unlucky freshmen, I considered myself very fortunate in that 1 had enough advance credits to enable me to register as a sopomore the first year. I thought t h a t I should avoid all the troubles of the freshman year, but soon found t h a t I was getting those of both years. They seemed, too, to be so mutually retroactive t h a t the mixture was the product of the two, rather t h a t their sum. In no way was this more clearly shown than in my early military career. All the other sophomores in the company had uniforms, so desirous of appearing exactly like them, I siezed the first opportunil of buying one second-hand. The lit was abominable. I t was too full in the chest, too high in the neck, too t i g h t in the sleeves and too short in the legs, but so anxious was I to appear in uniform t h a t 1 eased out my suspenders, stretched up my neck and swelled out my chest as much as possible. The inspection officer must have been a victim of mental aberration just then, for I passed muster and so was doomed to wear the thing for two voars. By carefully observing the other sophomores, I was able to get through the first weed; without any erious blunder* The next week, though, my military troubles increased by geometric progression. Vfter the roll-call, the captain ordered, "Sophomores, two pan to the front." Of course, 1 went, The freshmen of the company wero then divided into «(|uadH of four men each, and each squad placed in * IIQ
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