Education: On the Midway

Close to the crenelated, neo-Gothic heart of the University of Chicago is one "Doc" Bratfish. Few Chicago men-students in the last 25 years have not had a shave & haircut from him. He it is who each year examines upper lips and fires a gun to start the seniors' mustache-growing contest, rewarding the most luxuriant growth with a shaving mug, the most girlish down with hair restorer.*

Barber Bratfish did not arrive upon the Chicago scene in time to serve such illustrious undergraduates as Milton Sills and Carl Van Vechten...

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