College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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Omar for the Alumnus 1. Lo, n ight hath dropped her sable wings once more. As several thousand times she ' s ' done before ; And Revellers gather in the Banquet Hall, To swap the ancient bon mots known of yore. 2. From far and near come devotees to sit. And listen to what passeth well for Wit; Wit once mayhap, but now the Yellow Leaf — Yet fresh, full-blooming, dull, no, not a whit. .•J. Far from the Happy Days when we did con Those queer-shaped, ugly marks of Xenophun, When Horace caused our Heads to sadly bum, And General Casar day by day marched on. 4. And when great Julius had passed in review Old Euclid would appear with sometliing new; Bran-new to me, yet old as are the stars — To bring his own fresh Heartaches not a few. 5. How well do I recall those ancient days, When Doctor Wliarton sang his Roman lays, As seated on our Ponies we did ride To victory or to Death — ' twas but a graze. 6. Or seated in Professor Stubbs ' s Pew, With boards of black and Jletric Charts in view ; .Just after one short slumbrous Dinner Hour, To hear him say — So you are flunking too? 7. Or up in Dr. Tyler ' s room, where hold The Sages and Philosophers of old — Where Syllogisms trod their solemn March, Oh, all that glistens brightly is not Gold. 8. A Book of Horace underneath the Tree, A ' ith Senior Math., and French enough for Three — All buzzing through a much beclouded Brain, Oh, sawing wood were Paradise for me! 9. Some say that Learning is a dangerous thing Vhen taken in small sips from that great Spring, But if the Masters want to make you drink. Why, go ahead and let them have their fling, — 10. De mortuis nil nisi ianum, I Have always said this maxim should apply; But why on earth did Livy ever live, And why should Epicurus ever die? 11. Some things there are of which you ' ve never heard. As De guiding truant pupils who have erred ; Some twigs are bent the way that Trees incline,— For information see Professor Bird.

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FACULTY PUZZLE.

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12. Do you recall how we chased X and YT And cauglit them not as swift the hours did fly? How we retired to bed but not to Sleep — And morning came and still no X and yhyf 13. Those Anglo-Saxon phrases that we met Which Dr. Hall said mark, le.st we ' d forget — Oh, ofttimes in the night I now wake up, And fancy frrendel grimiing at me yet. 14. A rainy day, a splashing on the Pane, A sweetly solemn thought for home again; Full forty pages— Parallel to scan — A fervid msh for Castles tall in Spain. 15. A Dance the night before; a sleepy Soul — A thought to wake when first the Bell did toll — Sleep on, Beloved, while as yet ' tis day — And thus we miss the calling of the Roll. 16. ' Tia ten years full since I skipped down the Path Of Senior Ped. and Chemistry and JIath., But what I know of them has come to Naught — Who hath but little shall lose What he hath. 17. I know that H two, S O Four, is One — And H two O we partly live upon — But two per cent, would cover all I Know Of what Lavoisier ' s lived and breathed and done. 18. The theorem Binomial ' s passed away, And how to pay the Grocer has its Day; Sic laborcs jucundi — that is all — And hustle marks the action of the Play. 19. I know not whether Socrates or Noah First sailed to find this beauteous Western Shore, Le roi est mort; and Vive le roi. Hurrah — And thus doth pass away what ' s gone before. 20. I tried to think a bit on yesterday Of what Professor Garrett used to say; — But all that I remember of his Talk, Is Mr. Pleasants sick again to-day? 21. Ich used to know some German bits forsoot ' , That Doctor Bishop taught me in my Yout ' About a little Madnclwn ' s sclwnsten eyes — But das ist gone und mehr of it to Boot. 22. Je used to think that French was rather gay, Je read the petit chanson ' s in Super — But it is comme il faut to say that now I order pommes de terre and consommi. 23. I used to know that rhyme of Barbara Tiieh Aristotle told to Potiphar — Ah, mcmoTT ' s attic now is full of such — And friends don ' t ask, but wonder where they are. 25