Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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!• ’91 -i m.mbkkr. ., May 1st, ISS8. Dkkkk .J. kk Now is Ilie hnmy spring, and i suppose you are 'Irivi,, your .lad's mules to the oM plow. , ani „,ad „|lIv 1 '«Mil I have io do now is driviu wlmt the hoys call a pony. Well, 1,1 •vo i » I hev came 1 will 1 11 you wut lias mppened. I got here on the 14th of September, and tl.o’t I was going ■hi .ill tin (| nice lime. ) nt when the professors began to giv ' ! 1 eX| kl ,ne to git them I was all l.s.k hark. The furst alter we got hear they eommeneed to lak almnt a nisli. I askl • i n.mi, ,| Swali what it was he sed it was a Iree file. That nile rr °' r ,w a ki,ll,’ l K. M. A. V elected offisen. I wiisn’t tl vl ,l ' We k“»a«e. The meen kurres pul ' ,r,n «' ’ f-r t down to ImhlHinl hall. The sop |imi|«,| „s- .„„1 then we lia l the dumdent light you ever see «as worse than when your dog li.ked l ete Knell’s l.rimll.sl |»i| v,n- - l,,s ‘ l s,nrlKHl (he peaceful slumbers of tin SII . . lt | ,lre , le teniale pen. warden), the facul I; more Wi |, ,lm °f ,M, h,k ,lle ,e,,ers hack and put a rupp Knjrlisl, |, I rol sls,u,,K W«ve us all 15 demerits (all excep 1$,,,. . 1 azN !o Not hen happened that term excep only pive mo i ,... i . siin'-in. Tj ’ ,aten Prose the furst time. That 1,11 ktln i do much, hut sum of us had a quit CO

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v Class of v (Officers President,............................ Vick President, .... Secretary,............................ Treasurer, ......................... Poet,................................. Historian,.......................... Toast Master,......................... Prophet,........................... Hash Ball Captain..................... . K. J. THIMBLE J. P. REED . W. H. (.ILL H. B. IIUBBAKD . C. A. RICKS J. S. REEVES . A. L. THURMAN O. W. DAVIES . .1. P. WALKER ID Senator, V. E. WILSON

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1 time in Newark iV Ml. Vernon; hut von shud see usdoin husness this term. We have got a no fill good base hall kluh, and liev skart the sops most to death. We are to play them tor a kaig of nails, tliogh I kaiit see what the kollage tellers want of a kaig of nails. I hev hearn it sed that there wus a kaig or so out here already, hut es 1 hev no use fur nails (except as suckers on tishin lines) i didn’t go. hut the next day i went to the room where it wus and it smelt offui. 1 wunder it those» nails wus sj)oilt. We haven't played any base ball yet, as tin sops are afraid the other teems hev sick men. They hev got a regu- lar league of kluhs in kollage and the champions will get a nice baner or a kaig of nails when we (inish. Of corse our nine will beet, and then i'll bring home enough nails to shingle dad’s barn, perhaps he'll get me a new pair of pants. You just ought to see my pants; then patched in 5 places, «V the fellers call them Joseph's pants 'cause they is so varigated (watever that is). It's gettin sweaten hot, but I'm feared to go barefooted 'cause it ain't style, but I kant stand it much longer with them hot old hoots on. Hev you lieen swimmin yet { Sinn of us is goin soon tV goin to take a feller named swab A: giv him a bath 'cans he needs it. Well, it's most half past eight «V I can't stand l ein up so late, so I'll (|iiit. Yours till death, YOUR OLD V. A. T. 21