There are seven students in Siwash College whose bad conduct has caused them to be barred from all amusement by the college faculty. There is to be a football game between Siwash and Hambletonian College which they want to attend. An item in a newspaper telling how another college took a vacation because of a funeral, suggests to them a brilliant idea. A young chap by the name of Hogboom is persuaded to disappear and get a telegraphic friend of his in his home town to wire news of his untimely death, with the idea that the funeral may be held in the morning and the boys will then be free to attend the game in the afternoon. The plan succeeds admirably and the boys take the telegram to the principal of the college, who wires for a verification of the sad news. Hogboom, at the other end, receives the professor’s telegram and answers it. All college exercises are suspended for that day. Not content with this Hogboom decides to go back to the college and watch the proceedings, even attending his own memorial services. The boys are horrified but helpless and when the great day comes he coerces them into secreting him in the organ-loft, where he can hear the eulogies to be pronounced on his past career. But he has forgotten that the one special girl in whom he is particularly interested will be grieved by his death and when she appears, a situation that he hadn’t bargained for develops. From his hiding place he sees her tears and would gladly call the whole affair off. To make matters worse, his rival takes a seat beside the girl. This is almost as much as he can stand and when the latter proceeds to comfort her, taking her hand upon his shoulder and wiping her tears away it is too much for him, and seizing the chair upon which he is sitting, he bursts through the side of the organ loft and appears upon the platform before the astonished multitude. From there he descends, climbing over the backs of the seats until he reaches her and proceeds to do the comforting himself.