Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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CALENDAR Ann with me. Well. I took her an ' I lived to rue the day. It was a wonder to me. though, ' cause I thought I never would live through it. the day I mean. I may have seemed nearly dead when we came down from Timp. but I was certainly re- juvenated when I heard that our Cougars had beat Colorado College in our first game of foot- ball with a score of 3-0. But it seemed that I wasn ' t the only one that felt hilarious. The upper classmen thought that it would be a fittin an ' proper way of showin ' how much our first victory meant to us by makin ' all the Freshmen go up an ' clean the Y the next Satur- day. Anyway, we were rewarded for our labors ' cause the next Monday was a holiday for Con- ference an ' the Slate Fair. Lizabeth Ann went up- to the city to take in all the sights, but after my labors at cleaning the Y an ' climbin Timp. I fell indisposed an ' stayed home an ' read the book by President Harris an ' Professor Butt that had just been published. I learned a lot I didn ' t know before but all the time I kept wonderin ' what Lizabeth Ann was doin ' an if she was gettin ' cosmopolitan — ' Unc, if you wouldn mind. Fd like you to talk so I could understand you. Gee whiz, how should I know what ' cosmopolitan ' means. ' Cosmopolitan ' , whoever heard of a word like that? ■■ ' ell. alright. Ephi. Y ' see thta ' s my college education showin ' itself. Well, to go on. I kept wonderin ' what Lizabeth Ann was doin ' an if she was keepin to the straight an narrow path in that wild and wicked city. She came home pretty soon, though, an ' set my mind at rest. It was awfully hard to concentrate on school after that an ' I surely welcomed the holiday that came the next week on Founders Day. That was certainly a big day at the B. Y.. Epi. e had a parade — I b ' lieve there ' s a couple of

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CALENDAR mi lil liapiJen? An tlial ' wliat 1 tlnumlit too. wild knows what might happen. ' ' Tho next Monday, that was ahmit the twenty- second of September, instead of the regnlar as- sembly they held class meetins an believe me Epi, they are certainly an education. I went to the Freshman nieetin ' an ' it was surely funny to see them all with their green caps an green ribbons on. Y ' see, Epi, in those days the Fresti- inen weren ' t like they are now, but they were as intelligent lookin as the rest of the c illege people an ' so they had to wear green caps to distinguish them from the upper classes, ' special- ly the Sophomores. ■ ' Well, at this meetin they nominated those whom they wanted for officers an ' of course your old uncle was nominated but the next Monday when they had the elections was defea ' .ed an one, Russell Welker, from Idaho- that ' s his picture right there — was vic-toriims. The only rea--on he won over me was because he was from Idaho. Y ' know in that school if you weren ' t from either Idaho or (ioshen you weren ' t anything an ' as I wasn ' t fr un either place I had a pretty hard time. .Speakin of elections, about that timi the girls had iine for the A. W. S., . .ssociated Women .Students, an Vida Broadbent, bein ' already the vice-president of the student body was automatically the president, but l.ibby ( . ' ook was elected vice-president an ' inasmuch as she was from Idaho that explains how she got in. You can see, Epi. that the girls at the H, Y, U. weren ' t very slow. 1 remember right after the girls had their sensational election, the Block Y club came out before the public in the form of a skunk exhi- bition. ' Oh gee. Uncle Cy, talk about the wild an ' wooley west! Well, of course, Epi, I dont mean that just exactly the way it sounds. They calle l the new men that they took into the club, skunks ' while they were bein ' initiated. Ki e men were taken iu that time. Kay an Leuven. .SpeiU ' er Larson. Wesley .lohnson, ( arl Harris, an ' Wilford Mur- dock. . n ' speakin ' of initiations, the Theta Alpha Phi, a dramatic fraternity, came out with two or three Desdemonas. a couple of Othellos an ' one or two Ronieos on the first of October. My. Epi, that was certaiidy an interestin ' time right about there, The next Friday, about October third, lieth Ntaeser got his daily publicity stunt ovir in the form of his usual student body announc ment. Y ' know. Epi, I have cause to remendier that an- nouncement ' cause it left a distinct impression upon me. You can inuigine what it ' d be like to drag a good sized woman u|) a mountain like Timpanogos an push her down again, an in fact I could have been likened to the old grey mare, inasnmch as I wasn ' t what I used to be after going through an ordeal like that. But anyway, no vision of a hike like that came before me as 1 listened to Mieth ' s announcement of the fact that the annual autiunn limp hike would take place the next ilay an ' of course I deter- mind to take that hike, and to take ' Lizabeth Piigf Eleven

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CALENDAR pictures of the parade there an one of President Harris an President T. N. Taylor brealvin tlie ground for the new lilirary Iniildin rif;ht there at the top of the page an that niglit there were sounds of revelry hy night at the hig Pounders Day Ball. Nothin much happened the next week. Epi. cause 1 had to let my studies interfere with my education an 1 hardly even saw I.izaheth Ann. I made up for it later, though, when we had another holiday for Teachers Institute on Oc- tober 23. I took Lizabelh Ann up to the city myself this time to save me the awful worry Id been through the last time she went up without me. We went to see our Cougars play the Uni- versity of I ' tah beasts in a fast game of football but Kpi. it was too fast for us cause everyone Irft that field registerin humility an a number of other emotions over the final score of that game. The six on our side didnt do much good when cimipared to the thirty on theirs. We don ' t think of that game now, though, nor do we think of the game we lost to the Montana Ag- gies about three weeks before the U. disaster. Yon know that little sayin Epi. about always lookin (m the bright side, so we just put that into practice. We returned from Salt Lake just in time to see the Idaho club go on a moonlight hike to Maple Klal. It was very pretty to see the torch parade goin up the mountain. The next night, that was Thursday. October 30. the music department put on the opera. ' Olivette. An that same night Mrs. Pardoe read. ' Mme. Butterfly — yes that s her picture right here. .She read down at the high school auditorium an the opera was in College Hall. Of course we wanted ti take in both events so it necessarily meant a mad rush after the readin . We could have made it alright if it hadn t been for Lizaheth . nn. That afternoim she d been dissipating at a reception for the girls of the institution at the home of Mrs. J. William Knight, an as a result it was almost a reptilion of the Tiinp hike. O. Epi. these girls! The next night, although not exactly feelin up to snuff. I took Lizabelh nn to the student body dance. The mendiers of the Mask club had charge of that particular dance an they turned it into a |)irate ball. There were certainly some mean lookin pirates there, an they (lidn t have any too gentle ways about em at least some of em didn t. Ell tell you. Epi, that party was no ordinary one! The chests of gold that were floatin around there — an ' the rum, well, that rum was flowin freely an I guess thal r. plenty said. Pretty soon I got into the spirit of the thing — an not through spirits ' either an I was trippin the light fantastic with the best of em. Oh. Epi, your old unc ' e was Slime Valentino! Come to earth, Unc. What d you mean. ■ ' aientino? ' ■ Why. Epi! Em surprised at you! Haven t vou ever heard of alentino? Rudolph ' alen- tino the greatest shiek that ever shieked? From the time a fellow was (dd enough to wear long trousers in those days, he aspired to shiek like