Hamilton College - Hamiltonian Yearbook (Clinton, NY)

Page 153 text:

C86 Beffer fliaf Qleger 'IDenf. DITOR'S NOTE.b-One day last winter a Freshman was holding his way down town soon after the mail had gone down. Being in a pensive mood his gaze was bent upon the ground, and suddenly fell upon a sealed letter. Now this letter had probably been dislodged from the mail bag, owing to the terrific speed at which the express travels. Picking up the letter, the Freshman, who was an honest lad, 1nerely glanced through its contents, and then handed it to an Editor of THIS I'IAMIL'l'ONI.-KN. Thinking that it might interest our readers we publish it entire: CHURN 'rms LE'l I'Ell.J CL1NToN, Jan. 30, 1893. ll0f Dmf' Szzffzbnyz .- I have so much to tell you that I hardly know where to begin. But it must all be in the strictest conndenee you know. You should have seen the row we had last fall with one of the Freshiesf' It was a complete walk-over for us, and altogether reHects great credit on our class. One night we heard that a Freshman would be out for a walk and with our characteristic speed--which, by the way, you will remem- ber we learned in a hot encounter of 26 of our men with 6 Sophomores last year, when we would have used their remains Qthe 6'Sophsj in nx- ing up a sickening spectacle, if only you had been with us, and if Ball had not hurt his little Hnger the day before in closing the laundry bag -well, to proceed, we lay in wait for the Freshman, and with 8 of the biggest men in the class at our head we made a dash on him, and after a pretty severe and I may say quite dangerous struggle we succeeded in getting him on his back and tying him hand and foot. I tell you what, old man, you never cast your peepers on a prouder lot of fellows than those 22 classmates of yours that night, with a strong Freshman at last safe in their grasp, and luckily no one injured, except Greeny, who came near scratching his face on the low shrubbery in his efforts to get out of reach of the Freshmanls kicks. Now say, old man, don't ever give it away, but I want to tell you 137

Page 152 text:

1RIJetoric vs. love. HY HARRY PELOUDIL. Fedora's found another fad And I am wild with apprehension Lest her strange fancies drive me mad, My mind is put to such a tension. A Rhetoric each day she consg She studies with a Rhetorician, And such a learned air she dons, My learning seems a mere tradion. Blush-rose was once my name for her, If now I use the dear expression, She calmly dubs it metaphor, i And I must own the soft transgression. And when my faithful love I tell, In guise of some romantic story, She hangs upon each syllable, And cries, 'f a charming allegory. Should this sad state continue long,- As long as melancholy Lent is,- Farewell to light and love and song! I'll surely be 11011 6U71If0S flzwzfzk. If I could get my clutches now- CSO desperate is my condition,j Upon that language manf' I vow l'd choke the wretched Rhetorician ! 'IIQOVGNTUGF 231'b, 1892. 'Twas a dull drear day in November, Thick and fast the white snow fell, YVhen the red, white and blue 1' rose mn the Samoa of fllbonterep. Ever blue were the heavens, Never distressing the day, And Paradise seemed painted On the sands of Monterey. The sea gave back the sunshine To the landlocked little bay, And hearts were always cheerful By the sands of Monterey. But one heart was all restless, And would long to be away,- Leave the beauty of fashion, To the sands of Monterey. For, far off to the Eastward Where a little village lay, Was a maiden, and she drew him From the sands of Monterey. H. VV. L., 'g5. il mvllbiiigbtliiieverie. The candle, relic of a bygone age, Casts flickering shadows on the neighbor- ing wall. I see the mystic castles of the Rhine: And ghostlike, spectral forms appear, and small Wee, fairy sprites play 'round the flame. The candle sputters, then grows bright again. A raven sits above my chamber door: And Poe's wild bells go ringing through my brain. Skyward i Hark' the ' ' s 's ' ' ' , V . y are tolling for hislost Lenoie. And the students cheered full xx ell. And au P068 Sadness HHS my heart with The glrteers were for those who were pres- Pam' C' E. K. For those who fought for the right, For those whose beneflcence gave us This pole with its banner of might. O, Emblem of freedom and manhood Fit crown for our College hill, Through many long years of advance-. ment Ne'er may thy cause suffer ill! May Hamilton's sons as aforetime Prove themselves patriots true, Prepared, when their country shall call them, To stand for the red, white and blue. I ' 1 why mot? They sat beneath the morn's soft light In a poplar's shadow, out of sight. Then he, to show devotion deep Made this attempt-a daring leap- You're all the world to me. She said as quick as lightning's flash NVith downcast eye and drooping lash, Now Jackie, won't you say Likc that old Cristo in his play, ' The world is mine? G. A. W. 'q4. 36

Page 154 text:

confidentially that the Freshman came very near breaking away at one time, so that we had to get a couple of clothes-lines from Dimoo's house and tie him up more securely, and then like a triumphal procession we moved up the hill with a body guard of 15 men, the rest of us armed with clubs in case of some of the other '4 Freshies U might hear of it and come out to help. Old 4' jocko showed up great. I-Ie was everywhere at once, skirmish- ing about in thickets with five men at his back all provided with hick- ory billets, and blood in their eye, Nancy I' really did himself proud, and I think he was the bravest of us all, for he wouldn't carry a club or weapon of any sort because he thought it was wrong. Say, Sully, he should be a professional nurse, he is so kind and tender, and if a Freshman ever does get him I think he should be treated as nicely as he treated that Freshman last night. It was mighty squeamish busi- ness for me, I can tell you, and I think we all would have felt better with you in our midst, 4' Sully, for you had as much wind as the Freshman had nerve, and Hwindl' goes a good ways when there are plenty of fellows behind you to supply any deficiency in the article. Then, too, that grinning spectre of the sickening defeat of our whole class at the hands of 6 determined Sophomores might have been fright- ened from our quaking minds with a conscious knowledge of your ever present and scintillating Irish H gabf' There is nothing like show of power when you haven't got the real stuff to brace a class up, and a good man to wield the horn offsets 4 or even 6 men with clubs. IfVell, we got the Freshman up the hill without incident, save once when a slight stampede occurred in the rear of our ranks, when a junior 'told some of the class behind that 5 Freshmen equally armed were hur- rying up after us. This was all a Fake, as we afterwards learned, but it all goes to show that a class on an expedition like that should be on the alert continually. The circus we had with that Freshman in the Gymnasium is some- thing you wouldn't have missed for a cock-fight. 'We made him drink milk tainted with kerosene-we thought this at the time and were quite gleeful over the fact, but afterwards learned that 'L Nancy thought it wrong and cruel, and unbeknown to us replaced the kerosene with sugar-made him skip the rope and speechify, and all sorts of humil- iating things till I thought the upper classmen would just bust with laughing, VVe couldn't get the Freshie to holler for our class, how- ever, and we're going to hold a grudge against him for a long time on that account, Well, we got through just in time, for just as we got in 138