Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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NORMAL OFFERING He cranked his Dodge and took his seat And went the way his brother had Until he reached the parting street: What there he saw did make him glad. To Happiness 'tis fifty miles If by the right-hand road you wind. If by the left in thirty miles You shall your destination find. 1 So to the left this brother turned At fifty miles an hour did ride Until a notice overturned And lying in the street he spied. Too lazy for to stop and read What warning this might have to give He sped around and on. This deed Decreed the hours he had to live. For six yards on, around a bend, The roadway had been washed away And left a narrow path to wend. That Dodge fell thirty yards that day The third and youngest brother gay, Determined to attain success, Had now set out to make assay To find the way to Happiness. He saw the pin his brothers passed, And so he stooped and picked it up Not thinking of the old forecast That all the day he'd have good luck. Then up the hill and down the dale He did his chummy roadster guideg He followed in his brother's trail 'Till suddenly the sign he spied. To Happiness 'tis fifty miles If by the right-hand road you wind. If by the left, in thirty miles You shall your destination find. So to the left this brother turned, At thirty miles an hour did ride Until the notice overturned And lying in the street he spied.

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NORMAL OFFERING Uhr Ifiallah nf the 1Hin. Elirigv Harm. There were three brothers, you must know, Who all ambition did possess, And they agreed that each should go To find the way to Happiness. The first three hours should be gone Before the second should depart. The third should give the second one Three hours more to get a start. The eldest had the precedence To his garage he took his way. He cranked his Ford with confidence That he would have success that- day. A half a mile he journeyed hence When to a forking road he came, And there he saw upon a fence, In letters large and bold the name, To Happiness, nor read he more But turned to right as e'er he'd been, Nor knew that 'he'd have saved a score Of miles had he the other ta'en. But finally he reached the town, And by a side street entered there, And on a side street settled down. Good luck and bad have found him ne'er. Meanwhile the second brother thin While walking through the garden greene Before him he beheld a pin His elder brother had not seen. He saw a pin and let it lay, Too lazy he to move it was. Bad luck will follow him all day, Or so declares the well-known clause.

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NORMAL OFFERING 27 He stopped and jumped into the road, Upraised the board erect once more. And read the danger it forbade. He went the washout to explore When lo! he saw a maid in tears. She did not know the way around. The brother soon allayed her fears And said he'd carry her to town. He took her in his roadster then And soon to Happiness they came. Their wedding bells have rung since then, And life is as the city's name. The second brother failed, we see Because although his eyes were keen To see the pin and sign, yet he D Too lazy was to act, we've seen. The eldest brother's eyes were dull, His opportunity it cost. What folly 'tis to scorn the rule Which states the truth with no words lost! RUTH E. SLADEN. A Svvrinun mistake. As Mary Gilmore descended the stairs of the boarding school to meet her friends who were going to the Annual School Ball, she met the Dean with whom she was very friendly. They discussed the ball for a few minutes and then Mary' re- moved her coat to show the dean her new evening dress. As she did so, a shining silver object dropped from her pocket to the stairs. The dean picked it up, looked at it, saw the initials, M. G., and passed it to Mary with the severe remark: Yours, I believe. Mary took it-a cigarette case. She could not have dropped it, but where had it come from, and with her initials, too? Smoking was forbidden in the school, and to have the dean iind her with a cigarette case led Mary to spend a very unpleasant