St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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-Concert in Buck's room. The surveying class skipped. St. John's, 03 University of Virginia, 9. St. John's, 93 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 7. St. John's, 6 g Roanoke College, 9. I The. Rider H O, thellong and dreary lesson l. . O, the dull and tedious lesson! Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Grew the frown upon his forehead, Ever harder, harder, harder ' Boned the fellow on his Horace ' Boned the verb, and '.'cussed the teacher In the room and round the hallway. Hardly with his tattered pony, Could the rider force a passage 3 ' With his lips all set and fixed Vainly sought he through the booklet, Sought for verb and noun and found none Saw no trace of quid or quibus, On the page beheld no footnote, ' Stopped he there and went no further. On the morrow in the class-room, Flunked the rider dead as logwood, For the teacher in his- keenness, Had , perceived the tattered pony Lying there behind the text-book. Now upon his homeward journey Goes the rider, but not willing 3 a ' -For the Profs in all their anger Had decreed that he must leave us. O, the pony and the rider! I O, the riding of the pony! 209

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. 7.. Everyone celebrates the end of exams. byuskipping Gh11I'Ch. ' r 8-Went to see the Baltimore fire. 4 7 4 I J l': ill QW , I ei M r ' l 9-Fox decides not to skip any classes this term. l 10-Fox skipped everything. . i 11-Tommy chastised the boys for wasting water. I 12-An abnormal precipitation of moisture took place. . 13-Very slippery. No one but Dignity was able to stay on his feet. i i 14-Valentine Day. Many received in Pinkney. H l P 15-+The RAT-TAT Board began work. ' 16-Sherwood began to make out his spring schedule. l 17-The Miscellaneous Editors struck. 18-Sherwood completed his schedule. 19-Prep Gosnell returns from the wilds of Granite. it 20-General sang Sweet Bunch of Daisies. r V' 21-Scabby skipped f'Cakalus. i 22-Washington's Birthday. Bones, Cissel and Hop celebrate. 1 23-Class meeting in Monk's room. Monk lost his pitcher. Gadd. W 24-Jam returns from Hagerstown and begins to study-baseball. ' W i 25-Pokey got off a newjoke. . B i 26-Gore ate seven serves of meat and thirty-four cakes for breakfast. y ' 28 A 27-Monk Ruland wounded by Cupid's dartg seen writing his girl's name on a buckwheat cake with molasses. - ' -Hick, Old Lady and Somer went on the water-wagon. f 1 29-Old Lady fell off. W 30-March arrived. , ' ' ' lj A 'i if ' MARCH 2-Mack went to Baltimore to attend a fire sale. i- 3-Sinclair told another of hi-s love experiences. . 6-Church, dinner, sleep. ' it I 19 Il il . lil li Til. Ni? ll: la i s l li l S, Ct ugi l QE: i 1:1 'ii l - 7-Juniors skipped Ducky. ' . 8-Hutchins reformed. I , ' i 9-Mumps on third floor. , A 10-Cissel and Pokey discussed the man, tree and squirrel problem until 12 ' o'clo'ck. ' V , f V 11-Boys filled General's letter box with ginger snaps. ' 12-Nothing doing. ' V' 13-Kemp treated to ice cream. Q . . r 14-Mooney sang his illustrated songg - f ' ' . 15-Sis Hopkins went to Washington to get a patent on his laugh. A 16+Gore begins his laboratory work. , Q. ' 17-St. Patrick's Day. Pat Wood and Riley wore the shamrock. 18-Hecht and Melvin fight. ' -Tommy has a new back fence built. r -Buck begins to make plans for,June Week. V -Jamison gave up smoking 9 30, p m Jamison took, a cigarette 8 00 a m Harris bed was on the bum Bill Wrightson was O D Bill bought a new hat First baseball game St John s 3 University of Maryland 8 20 ' 21 . . . lj, . .' , . , . . yi Q' . ' 23+ ' A . - ,Q - ' 24- ' ' . . 4 - '52 s . p 25- f s . r c fx li ' . 7 ' , 7 . . J ' r al W s - B l Q ' ' ll V ll 13 65 . l ll A ll if i ' ,-Il' A V H

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Fl. 'Z' PROF. D.- Did youlhear of the execution this morning? g WILLING- No, what was it? s . . PROF. D.- A couple of notes got hung in WT1ghtSOH,S louglef' BURROUGHS- Say, Stick, how long would it 'take to complete a course in stenog- raphy without shorthand? ' ' PROF. R.- Mr. Mc--., give me an example of a dependent clause. MR.Mc. - I went down stairs that I might take a bath. PROF. R.- Now, what does that express? ' ALL- A condition contrary to fact. ' ' If wishes were ponies, all freshmen might ride. KEMP-iiMOHk, do you like -boneless fish? I V ROLAND-CVainly struggling with the anatomy of aa herringj, Yes, ltttl don't care much for fishless bones. - , ' A l s , COOPER Cat a football gamej+ Look, isn't that fellow playing halfback the one who got killed last year? , Q ' ' r BEAM-UNO, the one who got killed is. deadf? l l FOX- Did you ever hear that a sea voyage improved whiskey? CECIL?- NO, but I've often heard that whiskey improved a sea voyage. There's many a zip on account of a skip. . HEARN Cto Parsley, who has beengazing steadily at him for three minutesj- What are you looking at? P - PARsLEY- Nothing, . RILEY- Hutch, let's go to see 'The Runaways tonight! HUTCHINS- What are the prices? RILEY- One and a half, and two dollars. 210