Columbia University Teachers College - Tower Yearbook (New York, NY)

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A WHITTIERISTIC BALLAD She was a snake-eyed damsel, a peroxidental blond, And she had a knock-kneed, green-eyed swain of whom she was most fond And 'tis about this she-male thing and her scraggy, lock-jawed lover That my moralated, scintillating little tale will hover. Now one sad night a-catching flies she sat, our blond petite, When lo! a wurbling, gurgling sound she heard across the street, Then lifting up her dank, red eye she cast it o'er the way, And there framed in a window stood our hero plain as day. Of course she did not know him then. Cared he for that? Ah, no! He burbled all the louder in a nasal tremelog And then, not satisfied with that, the dub reached for the phone, And made a date with VBlondy in a most seductive tone. We1l', she met him in the fish-pond with a Marcel Cprice one beanl, And he kissed her in the phone booth tif you know just where I meanj 3 i But 'twas in a' spoon-holder that he wooedthe blushing dame, In gooey, succulentish tones 'tis said he won the same. L'Erwoie! Now the moral of this little tale, kind reader, list with care: Tho you have eyes arsenic green to match your pinkish hair, E'en tho, in fact, you're quite grotesque, my girl, take it from me, ' Just grab your chances and in time, maybe, you'll get a He. 72

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E es ut ice artha. er Dramatics Time: Early Fall, l9l6. Place: The Big Gym -T. C. Prologue 1 Enter Muse of Drama. Looks around. Because of all the jolly times I've had here in this hall I've figured out the best of plans, to start this very fallg I gathered quite a lot of folk from everywhere I'd go, And put them all together in the Class I-9-2-0 And in each one's ear I whispered as I brought her to T. C. k You must study while you're up here-but must never forget me. So new at the festival season These Freshmen with a will Have come with the Spirit of Humor To try out their new found skill. ' H ' I Exit. THE LIGHT OF THE JEWEL. T. C. Festival-191 7. Freshman Stunt. . ' The Spirit of Humor as Portrayed in American Literature. nicer- lie Cady h Taft a. Rogers Hotchkiss Janes Heathen Chinee Myrtle Middebrook 1 - - Icabod Crane - Mrs. LGCKS Margaret Yost - Q, b - Rip Van Winkle - Mrs. Aleshine Frances Schang Y, - - Bi-e'cr Frog' - Tom Sawyer Elizabeth Alleman - Uncle Remus - Spirit of Humor Miriam Abrams . - - Bi-e'er Rabbit ' Exit. 74 in