Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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was published in February, 1873. i Have been extant twenty-eight years. Although I sell at a moderate price, I am still in the first edition. Illustrated well by blue eyes and wavy brown.hair. Frontispiece is suggestive. X Public opinion is that while I am in good I literary form and my carriage is superb, - X Ilack richness of content and that the interest is not well sustained, that while -..- - a slight reading is not without profit, a deeper consideration is not desirable. My colloquial style is perhaps too stilted. The dramatic element is weak, diminishing gradually to the close. The sales would have been larger had I been labeled comedy Qlialstaff or Bottomj while as it is, only the most discerning are able tg pierce my melo-dramatic role and see the real comedy, beneath which, when viewed as a whole, is most admirable. Up to the present date I confess being some- what a disappointment to my authors. They have lately sold the copyright and it is hoped that by this change of management and under my new hyphenated title, Ishall acquire 3, certain popularity, at least, with the dilletante. frufuxiuflg

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E I made my debut-He! He! He! into this comedy divine -Oh! Oh! Oh! twenty-one years ago- A- 'ggi Hai Ha! Ha! A great hit '-b. it was to-Gig! Gig! Gig!- ! ' W X Le! Le! Le! Some people ZX ' think this world is to be taken Q4 ll serious-Oh! Oh! Oh! but wi I think it is a huge joke-Ha! Q.. J Ha! Ha! Ha! Everything I wears a smile-Hah! Hah! .N J If ,Q Hah! If it should get any , funnier I do not see how I Dnil - N- , ,,-N-4f-- X' - could stand it-Ha! Ha! Ha! I f-fvff' The doctors say I may die sail b with an attack of the-Gigg-ling-long-gi-tis-I-Ie! He! He! He! The Faculty are so' funny, the Seniors are so Lit' l' i ' ' funny, and Chancellor, Oh ! My ! The other day I saw a ,,'i It funeral-Ha! Ha! Ha! going down the street- He! He! ' -' He! The mourners were all-Oh! Oh! Oh! dressed in black-Hah-! Hah! Hah! The corpse was in the lead- Ha! Ha! Ha! all still like, you know-Oh! Oh! Oh! it A was the funniest thing I ever'saw--Hah! Hah! Hah I- Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!-He! He! He! Hel He! 'PZGALL 1 i tif - W . , . M' X f 1 wi . ggLAgMMmu,, MAL! A A, , ff, - f Agmaisituthn... . :sh

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F425-A3'1f'i?.ff I am. a part KN Y--!,,,,,.,,7jf-4 inseparable X X , .1 V and unchangeable Q Juli- of this University. Ihave filled my ' position in a 'way ' unequalled by my predecessors and A U - U A which can never 7- ti: be.excelled by any who may follow. I am, to state a concrete fact, the leading Donkey of Drake University. My accomplishments have caused much astonishment in the world of science, chief among these is my ability to talk. I can say many words- words-words-words. I think I may modestly say that my gift second in importance is that of furnishing amusement. Why, it is an honest and undisputable fact, established by many and varied experiments, that when I shamble into the class- room staipl professors will smile. The value of that smile is inestimable. It causes new life and vitality to be thrown unto philosophy and theology. If I stalk through the halls maidens titter and young men grin broadly, and visitors realize that they have met something unusual. Again, when I poke my head into the library heavy-eyed scholars glance up, long-faced theology students grow broad of countenance, then serious again, wondering wherefore the creator hath made such a being. Yet, after all, it is but I and I am only 541+ P. S.-The appearance of my hair is not the least in- dication of the nature of the cosmos of ideas within.