University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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s. THE BLUE AND GOLD 173 On the cracker stale I will regale, And soar to the heights of song.

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sst 172 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ;rkelejj llomaunt. (Poet discovered in his favorite haunt. He rolls his eyes and grinds out the following.) INVOCATION. OME hither, come hither, my bonny bright muse, Come hither, come hither to me ; Lend me thy fire, and tune my lyre For loftiest minstrelsy. But first, ye mine host, do a schooner fill With Milwawkee nectar straight, Look ye alive and shekels five Put ye down upon the slate. And bring me, too, of the free, free lunch, And Bologna sausage strong ; On the cracker stale I will regale, And soar to the heights of song. SUDDEN CHANGE OF MEET-HER. Seventy-nine of glorious name, And Eighty so meek and mild and tame, Eighty-one, that jovial crew, Steady and solid Eighty-two, Eighty-three by Co-eds ruled, Eighty-four by misfortune schooled Never had been such a Freshman class As that, the members of which they pass. All coming Exes at length will arrive At ' Sheep-skin goal in Eighty-five. Hoblyde hoys from the S. F. H. S. , Wise in their own conceitedness ; Yahoos huge from Marysville, With debris mud on their gun-boats still ; Rural blokes in droves and bands ; Broad-braid toughs with tump-yez hands; Co-eds of every kind and style, Some here for culchaw and some for guile ; Blonde-mopped beauties to flirt inclined ; Short-haired maidens come here to grind ; r

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174 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA All these were mixed to form a class Unequalled for noise and yawp and brass. But ' down brakes, muse, the poet is dry Must wet his whistle ere he fly. (Poet irrigates and continues.) SECOND CHANGE OF MEET-IIER. N the Senior thesis readeth, And the creek musquitoes breedeth ; When the maiden -croquet playeth, And for softened Junior layeth ; When the shady nooks so plenty Favor dolce far niente, Time when Bachman ' s cool elysian Fairest seems to student vision ; When perspiring grangers swear, And the Co-ed bangs her hair ; When the dig the midnight burneth, And for home the Freshman yearneth ; And when Nature ' s read y making For her six months ' summer baking Then the Fresh of either sex is Cooped in mathematics Exes ; Cooped in Mathematics Exes.