Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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C tcncf Julius Caesar, he ' s a teaser, History ' s a mystery And it happened that during the course of one year the people of Ah were entered into a war with the people of another ' allev. And great were the feats of the heroes, and laden were the altars with sacrihces to the gods. But the people of Ab were defeated in the war, and returned to their valley to live again in peace. Ab was mindful of the war and the courage of his people and he wished to write of their exploits so that the tale would be known to his children and his children ' s children. And he wrote of the battles, and of the duels between the heroes, and he named the ships, one by one, which had carried his people to the land of the enemy. And some of the deeds were clear in his mind, and others came to him as in a dream, and all of them he wrote down upon the great tablets of stone. And as he wrote it appeared that he could also make known the manner in which wars should be fought, and the reasons that men engaged in them. And all these things he set down also. And after many years, he had finished his story, and he called forth the people of the valley and read to them the stor ' of their battle. And in the writings of Ab it seemed that his people had won the war and had returned victorious to their ' alley. So the people of the valley were happy, and they called him the truth teller and revered him ever afterward. Dr. Cyrus H. Karraker Mr. William T. Johnson Dr. J. Orin Oliphant PHI ALPHA IllllA, N.itic.n.il llistnu hMtcinit 23

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And Ab and his wiFe continued their journey, crossing the range of high mountains and entering the peninsula. And the people of the land were warm and friendly and colorful and the food they served was hot to the tongue and brought tears to the eyes. One day as Ab and his wife were crossing a wide plain they heard the snorting of an animal and turned to see a great black beast with curving horns charging down u|5on them. Ab mo- tioned his wife behind a boulder and tried to hit the beast with his club, but the club struck a rock and was broken in twain. As the great creature snorted and pawed the ground, Ab took off his cloak and waved it before him so that the enraged monster tore it with his pointed horns. At last Ab picked up a pointed stick, and as the beast charged for the third time Ab plunged the stick behind its head. And the animal fell and was dead. Ab ' s wife came from behind the boulder clapping her hands. And she took the rose she was wearing in her hair and threw it at her husband ' s feet. Ab picked it u|i and kissed it, and walked off the plain to the clicking of castanets. A South American custcim a BuckncU custom Miss Beatrice E. Gonzalez Mr. Frank A. Sprague SIGMA DELTA PI, National Spanish Fraternity 22 ♦. ».;•»- »;■. '

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mw mimiismnmiimvi mmiiieaii Dr. Clarence H. Richardson Mr. U ' illiam K. Smith Dr. William I. Miller TH X matCc Kct ;4 t%a(tamcf I ' ll! .MLI tl ' Sll () , . ,ii](,nal Mjthcni.itics I r.itci n)t Ab was erv angr and his roars filled the ca e and echoed o er the peaceful Valle of the Buf- falo. And the wife of ; b was very sorrowful and her tears made the flames leap into red and blue fin- gers as she cooked the e ening meal. For it had happened that the wife of Ab had gi cn in trading more tiian the lilt herring which b had allowed her, and the moon would pass into its crescent be- fore the cave of Ab would smell again of the roasting meat. And Ab took pity, and tried to tell his wife the value of a herring, and how manv herring strung together would keep food in the mouths of their children for the cycle of the moon. But the tears of his wife fell faster, and she refused to learn of the herring, which were of no importance to her. So Ab was forced to keep the string of herring around his own belt, and when it came time to trade for food, he would go to the trading rock and return home with the food. And the wife of .Ab was io ful, for she was content to cook and care for the children and ha e no care for the countina of the herring. Sometimes students know what they ' re talking about 24 I :i.a.iJjii.i.!ii;iu;.a ' i;;.is