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"Where Yuh Been?"

THE PRESS

By Milwaukee Journal.

The "Rah! Rah!" of college days has turned to a hearty "Haw-haw!" among a certain group of Milwaukeeans. They are the boys who once were the Crimson and relished nothing so much as seeing the Blue dragged in the dust. Their laugh--well, you know it isn't a tender one.

A young Milwaukeean, just graduated from Yale this year, has gone to work for a local public utility. Like all good Horatio Alger heroes, he was ready to start at the bottom and work up. So his employer sent him out on the read to learn some of the fundamentals of the business.

His superintendent, having watched the young man at his work and guessing that here was something, a little above the average, said. "Say, youngster, you look like an educated fella. You musfa went to high school, didnja?"

The worker in overalls modestly admitted that he had

"Well, you're more than 20; where yuh been since then?" the superintendent asked

"I've been to Yale," said the graduate, still modestly

"Yeah, I see," the superintendent told him hastily magnanimous "But, say, when you get through with this job, you ought to go to college in the fall. You look like a pretty bright fella!"

Which is why the Harvard boys are guffawing.

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