Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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.DOIVNTBROOK F1411? 1924 Professorial Preludes A ONli-ACT PLAY 'HE scene is laid in the town of Ormogud, in the country of Kumenlern. I In an ancient temple are gathered the Chosen Few of Kumenlern, who sit about in expectant silence. A section otithe wall swings back as if by magic and a number of priests enter in succession. Each delivers a message to the Few and then moves on to make way for the next. Black robes Hap about their figures and a peculiar fourA-pointed head-dress covers the massive denies. Each goes through a sacred rite before he begins his discourse and since it is not well to pass the secret incantations 0f the priest 011 to those who are not of the FCVVV-WViSdOIH is dangerous-ewe must content ourselves with the hint given in the Sacred Preludes. The Few regard the first priest with a respectful silence as he goes through the thingamadoodle with which he invokes the spirit of wisdom. He walks quickly to one side of the room and Kuhly opens the windows 3 and 331100 inches, then rubbing his hands in satisfaction over this exact science of refrig- eration that he has devised returns to the altar of wisdom and beginse HHere is a delightful bit! 01in the Great One could have written this? The Few 100k doubtful, unconvinced, whereupon he continues: Now don't imagine my coffee was cold this morningve We draw the veil. The second priest is, strangely enough, a woman. Her ancestry seems to have been of VVeIIsh descent and her symbol is the entwined serpents of Mel'- cury. Tentatively, almost suspiciously. she shifts the atmosphere, then thun- ders at the cowering audience. nOpen the windows! Who dares enter my presence with covered heads? Thus dispelling the Spirit of Bacteria she continues. Another of the Mysterious Sex follows her this one distinguished by a more meaty appellation. TtDidst retire at the mystic hour, Oh, my followersTJ'i she inquires. But few have observed this rite and she, astonished, pursues the matter further. HHow many have laved themselves in the icy waters of the Spigot as the dawn brake ? The fourth hesitates upon the threshold of the temple, gazes almost fear- fully upon the Few. and, turning a ring upon his finger three times he seizes a piece of chalk and twists it in his hands as he speaks. The priest awes his followers with these mystic signs and proceeds. The next of the saga is a descendant of the man whose duty it was to tend the bow and arrows of the Great One. and she it is who studies his more subtle shaftswthose 0f the mind. The next assignment in Titchener. she chants, ti'is three unto thirty. Omit the fine print.U So these learned ones pass before the Few in solemn procession and their number lies between seven and seventy. Here have been shown the incanta- tions of five of them. Selah ! Twenty-lwo

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