May 8, 1914

FRESHMEN'S DAMAGE BILL

Bustanoby Sends One to Columbia for $132 for Wreckage

Columbia's freshmen have got to pay for their class dinner frolic at Bustanoby's restaurant last week, when they held off the invading sophomores with utter disregard for costly china and glassware. A carefully itemized bill for $132 confronted Charles S. Danielson, bursar of the university, when he opened his mail yesterday morning. The charges were for breakage and general damage to the fixtures at the restaurant.

By university regulations, unless the class pays the bill out of its treasury, each member will be assessed individually for his proportionate share of the damage and will not be graduated until payment is made. Inasmuch as the freshmen have a treasury that is none too full just now, and will be loaded down with debt after their crew goes to Poughkeepsie, it is probable that the bursar will be obliged to adopt the alternative of placing an assessment on the individual accounts of the members of the class.

The freshmen, in order to have more time to consider the proposition, appointed H.C. Monroe, Q.A. Dobie, and R. Bryan a committee to confer with the bursar. This committee may not report to the class until next Fall, so that Bustanoby may have to wait some time for the money.