Catholic University of America - Cardinal Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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The CARDINAL I936 l50 Fire Fighters There are firemen and firemen, we are told, and, after four years at college, we begin to re- gard this profound and subtle remark in the light almost of an aphorism. No prophecy from the Delphian Oracle ever was more true throughout the years than these wordsethere are firemen and firemen. Now the ordinary type of fireman functions of course at the ordinary type of fire, or the ordinary type of false alarm, or the ordinary type of poker game. On him and his drab and commonplace life we do not intend to expatiate. It is rather, the extraordinary type, or, if you are a biologist, the mutation, whom we intend to treat at this time. This fireman belongs to a very definite and pe- culiarly well-marked class of individuals. These in- dividuals always live in the third or fourth floors of red brick or grey stone buildings. Their llecto. derm is usually a sweater of a reddish substance, not unallied to the wool which humans wear. They play bridge and sleep all day, and are downtown all night, that is. when their duties as lireman allow them this leisure time. They look with dis- dain on the heavy fire hose; they cast aside the prosaic hrefighteris celluloid hat and heavy boots; their steeds are not heavy-hoofed lire horses, not are they the cumbersome fire trucks. Their arma- ment is much more subtle, for the fires that they fight must be searched out with great acument not to say marksmanship. Their favorite conveyances are small cars, usually Fords, of as ancient vin- tage a will llrun. For the crass fire hose, they say llpoofl'! All that seems to be necessary for the complete performance of their duties is a paper bag, pound size, a third or fourth floor window and some uninitiate, temperamentally alight with the fires of emotion, who is so unwary as to stand within the radius of their deadly and unswerving aim. It is to these hardy and vigilant firemen that we pledge our toast! Theirs is never a false alarm ethey always hit the mark! The result of their work through the years cannot be encompassed by a mere totalling of campus tailoring bills. Their reward in the great beyond will be a fiery halo- the prize for each campus social light whom they quenched, the emblem of their untiring effort to send the cohorts of Catholic University into Brook- land with the wariness which must be the man's who is to meet the wiles and ambushes of that wilderness of femininity with an iron spirit and a careful demeanor. Firemen of Catholic Univemity, we Jalute you! THE PIKE I lihe to walh along the pike, And fee the fellowj every night A; they go walhz'ng hath .ro Ilow T0 Trinity, 4r though they hnowe Ar though they hnow thir very hour The world will team and that the flower They chatted with thir afternoon Will never live again to bloom. I like to Jee them 41 they pame, With lingering look! and then a dame 0f promijed love that neler will die Until another wink and eye. U Iztil another wz'nh and eyeh Why nothing then cam he awry, If when they walh along the Pike The Jame two tzever greet their sight.

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