St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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W ending our way down to the first floor we enter the Latin room where Tommy stands ready to receive our wonderful rendition of Lucretius. In one hand he holds the little red book which we love CD so well, and in the other, an automatic pencil for making Zips. Three quarters of an hour affords ample time for us to impart to him our store of knowledge and then follows a discussion as to whether man will eventually freeze or starve to death. This question does not concern us very deeply for our names will no doubt adorn some cemetery before either event takes place, and besides there is little choice between these two modes of departure. So when we have received our allotment of seventy-five lines for next time, together with the reminder that it is a very short lesson, and the advice to beware of all quadrupeds in connection with Latin, we pass out of the room. Next we go to English, and spend an exciting hour in tracing the language from its cradle up to the present stage. To make it more exciting we read choice bits of Anglo-Saxon verse with e's thrown in where they do the most harm, and then give vent to our feelings by declining oxa. Finally when our nerves are about to give way under the terrible strain, with climbe, clombe, clumben ringing in our ears we seek the Math. room. ' I Within those wal's we wrestle with cosines, tangents and other mysteries - that Wentworth and his contemporaries have devised forthe tortureof succeeding generations. By and by the bell sounds again and we go .to dinner. - After dinner those who have tobacco usually go to their rooms for a quiet smoke, while those who have not, start out to bum it. Pleasant moments pass quickly and before we realize it, two o'clock has come and the bugle calls us to drill. Then for an hour we march around the back campus to the tune of While Old Glory Waves, bearing with meekness all reproaches from the oflicers who never make mistakes, and listening with eager ears for re-call. I With drill, ends our work for the day and-we are at liberty until six o'clock. Some don their football clothes and go out on the gridiron to prepare for a contest with an old rival. A few of the more studious ones begin to bone lessons for the morrow while others lose themselves in the latest popular novel. At six o'clock we assemble once more to sniff the odors of some new dish that the skillful hand of Braxton,.the cook, has prepared. A walk down town or a game of marbles occupies the time from supper until half past seven, and then begins our struggle to Master the Math., Greek, and Chemistry that the Profs in their wisdom have heaped upon us for the coming day. How we wish we could be Profs, for a week and assign lessons to those who pile them on us. . But there is no time for reflection. Just as we are in the midst of the Iliad, taps sound, the lights go out, and another day of college life is ended. I 15. 11 l 0