University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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174 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA All these were mixed to form a class Unequalled for noise and yawp and brass. But ' down brakes, muse, the poet is dry Must wet his whistle ere he fly. (Poet irrigates and continues.) SECOND CHANGE OF MEET-IIER. N the Senior thesis readeth, And the creek musquitoes breedeth ; When the maiden -croquet playeth, And for softened Junior layeth ; When the shady nooks so plenty Favor dolce far niente, Time when Bachman ' s cool elysian Fairest seems to student vision ; When perspiring grangers swear, And the Co-ed bangs her hair ; When the dig the midnight burneth, And for home the Freshman yearneth ; And when Nature ' s read y making For her six months ' summer baking Then the Fresh of either sex is Cooped in mathematics Exes ; Cooped in Mathematics Exes.

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s. THE BLUE AND GOLD 173 On the cracker stale I will regale, And soar to the heights of song.

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B. THE BLUE AND GOLD 175 Then begins my wondrous tale Words to paint its horrors fail. (Poet orders some more nectar, and swigs the same at one swig. descends on him, and he continues.) Hark ! that awful noise in the hall ! Yawp and yell and howl and bawl ; The building rocks like a ship in a gale, And the Co-eds skurry down-stairs like quail ; Some on foot, and O scandalous tale, Some come down on the banister rail ; The poetic fire Some on foot, and O scandalous tale, Some come down on the bannister rail. The Prof, stops short in rage, and the ' n The flunking student breathes again ; What means this awful, awful din, As if the fiends the pit within Had come to earth at Satan ' s call 1 Freshman class union that is all. The Prex in dignity takes his chair : Mark his philosophic air ; Frown on brow, gavel in hand, He brings to silence the Freshman band ; My friends, said he, you have heard how most Of our gallant, gallant Freshman host