Jane will wear no Sunday hat, and Jim no Sunday tie,
So Sam can go to Harvard to adorn the Zeta Psi.
Then nearly every morning, at the druggist's, for a bluff,
He'll ask the clerk for vichy, to make him think he's tough.
That boy will smoke a cigarette, and quite forget the plow!
And mother will not know her son a year or so from now.
_Harvard Lampoon._
~Speed.~
They tell how fast the arrow sped,
When William shot the apple,
But who can calculate the speed
Of him who's late for chapel?
_Trinity Tablet._
~A Senior Schedule.~
We're a-studying of Literature
As hard as e'er we can;
We dote on Revolutions
And the Brotherhood of Man.
We're returning to the People
With a truly Lyric Cry;
And for Democratic Spirit
We'd lay us down and die.
We're a-reading of Philosophy
To find out why we be,
And a-learning that External Worlds
Lie wholly in the Me.
We don't believe in Matter,
And of Mind we're not quite sure;
We're inclined to think Uncertainties
Most likely to endure.
We're a-studying Geology
Of Pre-historic Times,
Before the Tides of Primal Sea
Got written into rhymes;
When the "Old World spun forever,"
And the poets never knew it,--
And all the Rocks, and Stones, and Things,
Were nicely mixed up through it.
We're a-looking at Fine Pictures
Made by People what are dead;
And we criticize Cathedrals
With a Ruskin at our head.
We're a-growing awful learned,--
There's lots more of the kind,--
But we do not mind confessing
That it's all a Beastly Grind.
MARY HOLLANDS McLEAN.
_Wellesley Lyrics_.
~A Change of Heart.~
I knew he cut his classes, and I'd heard him flunk in history,
And how he dared say "not prepared" so often was a mystery.
He'd sometimes cram for an exam., but seldom knew a word in it.
His parted hair grew long and fair; I thought he looked absurd in it.
I felt regret whene'er we met, and bowed with utmost gravity;
I didn't dream he'd joined the team--I thought him all depravity.
So when I found, at Haight Street ground, how great was his agility,
I oped my eyes in marked surprise, amazed at his ability.
He tackled hard, gained many a yard, place-kicked and charged
successively;
He turned the edge of the flying wedge, and interfered aggressively!
He bucked the line! I thought it fine, and shouted out excitedly;
He passed the ball behind them all! I saw the scheme delightedly.
He slipped about the line without
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