St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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.H Tale of Hollow:e'en A band of Sophs went forth one night, And thought by stealth to escape the sight Of a watchful prof, who, just for spite, Liked to catch a midnight rover. ' 'Twas Hallow-e'en, and their minds were bent On a ,big bonfire, so, with looks intent, One by one from the hall they went l To a secret 'place of cover. I The night was still, and overhead, A few faint rays of the moon were shed On the scene below, while snug in bed The prof was soundly sleeping. A ' , His soul was free from worldly strife, Q His sleep befitted a scholar s life With Greek and Math his thoughts were rife Late hours he d been keeping The leader said w1th confident air We ve fooled him boys this time for fair He ll run h1s fingers through h1s hair When he finds that we have beat him He thinks he s smart but I guess he ll see That some other folks are smart as he When he discovers this night s spree And the boys with laughter greet him Now Tom and Harry and Jack and Ned You go round to the kitchen shed There are lots of barrels and an old straw bed In the Northwest corner lying Bring them out here right quick and look Be careful not to wake the cook Better fasten the door with the big 1ron hook In case he should come spying 1' l . , . - 7 7 7 ' . ll , U l l U . , V ' 7 7 7 , . , . . ' 7 7 , 7 7 , . . I . , A J 7 . - ' ' 77 cr ' ' . 7 'I l , 7 , 7 I 7 , -. . , 7 7

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Extract from a .Ypecclz of M. L. B. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:-The multifariousness of the concatenation of illicitous procedendos, conglomerated, has conglutinated the differentiated synallagmatics. How- ever, our primogenitureship forisfamiliates from the homogeneousness of our geneagenesis the oontraremonstrant.against ultramontanism. But the hornologoumena genethlialo- gizes propunciamientos epigrammatically characteristic of acromonogrammaticism. Blandiloquious are the verbatizations consociated to the naturalizations of homoemerical beings having a possessionary vernacularization in an extraneous rurality. A hieroso- lymitan must subhurnerate rurality. A transubstantiationalistic imaginationaiisms of his subtercolurnniated cireumstantiality. Tachydidaxy anagiyptographies in such a sesquipedalian methodologicalism that the extensometer of expansibleness discovered an inter-cavernousness which terfminologioally resilenced the undertakings of those experi- mentarian philosophizers. The obstreperousness accornpanable to such anthropomor- phologicisms intimidates the auditorial personages, and revivicates a reminiscentiality of Aldiborontiphoseophomio in the tragicornipastoral travesty of Chrononhotonthologos. CAt this point, the stenographer fainted so We are unable to give the rest of this great speechj A , ,sQj,a X' Gghxi? Q ,:.'g?:. W M 173

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The rest of you fellows come with me g I know a place where there use-d to be A pile of boxes, we will see What they can do to aid us. s ' They're filled with straw and not very light, But weQon't care, we're men of might, And we're going to have a fire tonight, As sure as Heaven made us. , Away they started with a will. N They searched the shed from roof to- sill, Nor did they leave the place until The last barrel they were taking. Grabbing their burdens, away they go, A long procession, all in a row, Each with some fuel to bestow Onthe fire they' would soon be making. The leader arrived with his load of trash, Boxes and paper, an old window sash. s He threw them down on the ground with a crash While words of praise were spoken. Pile up the barrels, he quickly said 5 The boXes next, and then the bed, And give me a match that's got a head, For this darn thing is broken. A few vain trials and they got a light, And soon the fire was burning bright, The blaze shone out upon the night, Such a bonfire never was seen. The leader then said, Boys, draw near, Now altogether, we'll give one cheer For the grand old class we love so dear, r And one for Hallow-e'en. 175