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When, however, Cowan faced the group of grave-faced men it was soon evident that explanations were far from his thoughts. He had heard enough before the summons reached him to enable him to surmise what awaited him, and when Professor Nast explained their purpose in calling him before them, Cowan only displayed what purported to be honest indignation.
Oh, no, Mass' George," cried Pomp, excitedly, and beginning to imitate poor Sarah's sharp acid way so accurately that I roared with laughter. For every tone of her voice every gesticulation was exactly true to nature. "`What!" he cried; "`what you mean, you nast' black young rascal, bring dat ting in my clean kitchun? I get hold ob you, I box your ears. How dah you how dah you!
Dates and other particulars were liberally supplied, and the name and address of the captain of the team were given. Altogether, the letter was discouragingly convincing, and neither the coaches, the captain, nor the athletic officers really doubted the truth of the charge. Professor Nast, the chairman of the Athletic Committee, blinked gravely through his glasses and looked about the room.
The decision is heartily concurred in by the coaches, the captain, and all officials, and, being in line with Erskine's policy of purity in athletics, should have the instant indorsement of the student body. H.W. NAST, Chairman. The announcement, as was natural, brought consternation, and for several days the football situation was steeped in gloom.
He shrugged his broad shoulders and replied sneeringly: "What's the good? You're all down on me now; you wouldn't believe me if I told you." "We're not all down on you," answered Mills. Professor Nast interrupted. "One moment, Mr. Mills. I don't think Mr. Cowan understands the ah the position we are in. Unless you can show to our satisfaction that the charge is untrue, Mr.
The active membership of 1870 included such names as William Cullen Bryant, William M. Evarts, Whitelaw Reid, Parke Godwin, Horace Greeley, Chester A. Arthur, Thomas Nast, Joseph H. Choate, Eastman Johnson, George P. Putnam, Daniel P. Appleton, Dr. Samuel Osgood, George Griswold, E.D. Stanton.
There were two attacking parties, however, who did not wait for proofs Thomas Nast, the brilliant cartoonist of Harper's Weekly, and the New York Times. The incisive cartoons of Nast appealed to the imaginations of all classes; even Tweed complained that his illiterate following could "look at the damn pictures."
"You've sent for Mr. Cowan?" he asked. "Yes," Mills answered; "he ought to be here in a minute. How in the world was he allowed to get on to the team?" "Well, his record was gone over, as we believed, very thoroughly year before last," said Professor Nast; "and we found nothing against him. I think ah it seems probable that he unintentionally misled us. Perhaps he can ah explain."
Files of old magazines of that period might show him, in woodcut, as, "Type of Boston Merchant"; Nast might have drawn him as an honest statesman. He was eighty, hale and sturdy, not aged; and his quick blue eyes, still unflecked, and as brisk as a boy's, saw everything. "Well, well, well!" he said, heartily.
In Harper's Weekly, of which the editorial page was conducted by the high-spirited and gentle George William Curtis, Nast assailed the liberals in savage cartoons; in one Sumner was depicted as scattering flowers on the grave of Preston Brooks, and another showed Greeley shaking hands with the shade of Wilkes Booth over the grave of Lincoln.
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