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Page 31 text:
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The Men of ’23 SING then. 0 Muse, of these far-off half-forgotten things, and battles long ago! Rehearse the glorious deeds and of the olden Titans tell me. that when Eternity Rock shall have mouldered away—yea, e’en after the tribe of Bonncy is no more—children may listen wild-eyed to tales of these mighty men of ’23 . . . Tell how all the domains of King Rcdmikc gave their choicest youth to form the mighty host and how even from the abiding place of the dead. Brook- lyn, beloved of Morpheus, came many men of valor (chief of whom was earth- shaking Shapiro, the cunning teacher of history). With loud acclaim were they welcomed by She, who looketh both up and down: awe-compelling was the greet- ing of brazen-throated Mac, and so fascinating Burchard’s tales that great 1-ouie, 'tis said, for threescore seconds held his peace—a marvel which transcendeth all other deeds of Olympians. Now monsters lived in those days, savage creatures with human form, vul- pine hearts and the heads of wild asses. Sophs” was the name of this ill-favored tribe, with whom heroic '23 waged strife so remorseless that its mere mention appalls the decadent youth of modern times. (Indeed, to this day entering classes enact mimic conflicts in commemoration of these olden bloody battles; but such modern exercises have less substance than consomme which one hath made by boiling the shadow of the wing of a chick that starvation hath killed.) Valiant were the leaders of those days, skilled in the stealing of tables. Men still sing of Herb Gadc and of Marty Jcrkowitz, who, in the course of time, deserted his class and now, within the roped-off square, triumphantly wields the cestus (changed is his name to Mcjcrk). And Johnny Flicgcl there was, leader of the sinuous snake dance. But mightiest of all was the Strong Arm Squad, six men, of whom the slightest exceeded in weight eleven score pounds. Hither and yon they rushed, wherever the battle was thickest, and great was the slaughter riiey wrought. Tell, Muse, of ponderous Shapiro, chief over these tyrannosauri, when alone in the enemy alcove the attack of all '22 he withstood—not only in the alcove remained, but of its hundred occupants cleared it! In Harlem was a temple to Thespis, the “Opera House” men called it. Once did guileful Antovillc, most cunning of all '22 men, speak winged words to the theatre's director, contracting for that evening to furnish skillful amateur actors. Of the flower of ’23 he planned by stealth to seize a dozen, and into galling service to press them. His scheme succeeded—the luckless stammering Fresh- men were thrust ’fore the staring eyes of the audience. Terror seized the men of '23, congealed was the flow of their blood. . . . When lo! through the gates of the theatre poured rescuing hordes of their comrades, vengeful heroes who recked not of the place wherein they were fight- thirty-tWO
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LEO KLAUBER President of the Student Council; Captain of the 1923 Basketball Team Most Popular
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