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

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24. I wonder if the Dining ITall ' s the Place It was as when I ran my crooked llaee, For Headaches eonie and go and come again, And indigestion follows on A])ac-e. 25. I wonder if they sing those same old Tunes, And have as Inspiration those same Moons; Oh, who would not a joyful Student be, Along about the waning of the Junesf 26. We struggled on and boned a bit each Day — We mixed a pleasant living, work and Play; And if perchance we flunked, why save the Mark — They sent us to the Doctor right away. 27. We toiled and worried till oft after Three — And met the Dawn with Heada-c-h-e; It mattered not, for all the folks at Home Were telling we were going to take A. B. 28. A. B. perhaps, and yet, some flew the track; Because the Faculty icould have ii« back — Or bad, brown eyes, so fatal to Degrees — Who would not be a victim for the Rack? 29. Were those days sad? I ask of each one here, — Were trials such as youth should ever fear? We flourished as the lilies of the field. And wandered through the roses year by year. — John Wetmouth. 36

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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

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Post Graduates .1. A. CAUSON. Knuwu :is ' ■Kit, aiul ■ ' Brainy Jim. Origin — I ' icUed ) by a tourist in South Carolina after an oarthqnakei — tlie only proof that we have that saA ' ages inhahitod that euuntiy in prehistoric days. Acliievement-s — Graduated from t ' hnison Collej c in ' !•!•; en- tered the Duo class here in ' 110; author of ■■Table ICtiiiuette at Spenoer ' s Boarding i-lall. Local Habitat— First Horn- Taliafeiro Huilding.and I ransiciU. visitor at II. K. A. House. Willi flicii f o yiiu inill.- as if i iiii hiul stnilloiml a xnurod. ' ' J. X. HILLMAN. Knowni as ' ■Noah, ' •Professor, ' and ■•Kthel. Oi-iyi,, — Was discovered in one of thu pyra- mids of Kgvpt in a mununifi. ' d state; was biougat lo this country l)y Dr. Wharton as a relic, and has since almost recovered cinnpletely from his long sleep under the inllnence of a pair of blue eves. ' Achievements — We trust we will have mure U) -ay imder this head in our next issue. Local Habitat— That dep;nds on h r s. He (Iriiireth out Ihe thread of his nrhosila fnirr than the staple of his anjumcnl . ' ' .T. X. ini,i, r. i. J. B. TKRRELL. K ' own as — .J. B., Snipe, and Polecat. Origin — Born in U. S. A. some tiim since ( ' i il War and reared on pretzels and sanr l raut. Local ?Iabitat — Brafferton Hnilding and Wil- Iiamsl urg Bargain House. .■ chipven:ents — Lord Tligli (iroom of tlie Col- lego Deniiicrati - .Mule: a memlier of the V. .M. C A. Board of Inquisition; renowned discoverer cf the juke wiiliont a point. With- A iinitnias and linimi 1 iiiirlunisrn llir I riinii riialr is roniplctf.