Our Game Book
HERE is nothing like a good game or two at College to develop some valuable
habit of mind in the Undergraduate, and to bring back the sparkle to eyes
wearied with bridge playing. The student in most cases will not be conscious of
playing the games suggested in the following lines. This element of uncertainty,
however, is just the thing which gives a charm to the sport—as the element of un-
certainty in rendering the second verse of the ‘Star Spangled Banner’, or the
Curtain Song to Freshman Show renders these performances so absorbing to the
singer.
1. “Hunt the Slipper’.
This is a very nice little game. It needs only two players, the student and her
maid. The sport may be hard at first, but there is nothing like a good obstacle for
developing qualities for success in life.
In the morning the maid hides the pajamas, negligee, and slippers of the other
player, who, in the evening, tries to find them in ten minutes. If she succeeds, she
gets a point. (But she will not succeed.) For every five minutes over the first
ten, the maid scores one point.
We would suggest as good places to hide these articles, spots like the fire-place,
the tea-pot, or the water-cooler. Once into the swing of the game, however, we are
sure that the maid will think of many places less accessible.
2. “Keep the Quizzes’’.
This is played by a professor and any number of students. This makes it
even nicer than the first, as it leads to the development of that team spirit which is
so useful in later life for such occasions as Class Reunions, Community Sings, and
Women’s Auxiliaries.
The game is begun by the professor, who, in the argot of the sport, “drops a
quiz.” If he can do this when the majority of the class is busy with a play, or
has a long report due, he begins with a head-start of one point. The game then
consists in the professor’s seeing how long he can keep the results of the quiz from
the class. He may resort to any means he chooses to do this, although it is consid-
ered rather unsportsmanlike for him to leave for Europe. If the class succeeds in
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