Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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The meeting o’er, for home they start, But he, ’micl flutter of the heart, Forgets his overshoes; He back returns, at last they’re found, Soon at the door he ’gain looks round; The maids he nowhere views. A wicked Prep these tidings gives, “Thy maid has gone to where she lives; ' The Freshman stood aghast. With maledictions ’gainst his shoes, With breathless haste, face changing hues, Swift in the night he passed. In wild despair he plucks his hair; Two fleeting maids before him there He ever seems to see; One slight of figure; at her side One great of stature, tall and wide, With laugh of childish glee. The damsel’s house at last he gains, Nor finds the damsel for his pains; His way he backward turns; The sorrowing maids he met alone, “Good evening, Mr. P.,’’ says one, Toward whom his spirit yearns. Ask me not what that Freshman feels, Perchance his reason stoops or reels, Yet one deep vow he swears; Now when he maidens takes to church, Yes, every time he’s on the perch, No overshoes he wears. 26

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A FRESHMAN IDYL ’Twas on a night in winter cold, There sallied forth a Freshman bold, For he would go to church ; And great of heart and swift of feet, Now seeks he for a damsel sweet, For he would also perch. He seeks for him a Freshman lass, And forth from out the door they pass, And her companion true; Though Freshman lads for Freshman maid Are numbered five to one, ’tis said, This brave young man takes two. At perchers’ gate the road is passed, And now the church’s walls at last Receive the Freshmen three; One, short and silent, at his side; One, famed for stature, tall and wide, With laugh of childish glee. 25

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CHAPTER I OF THE BOOK OF BEELZEBUB. Now it came to pass in the third year of the reign of Grover, surnamed Cleveland, who reigned from sea to sea over the forty and five provinces, when William, surnamed McKinley, was Gover¬ nor over the province of Ohio, that Eli, the priest, surnamed Zollars, was chief Rabbi over the school of the Prophets at Hiram. On the thirty-first of the tenth month of the year 1895 , there was trouble among the sons of the prophets on Hiram Hill, for behold it was on the evening of this day commonly called, in the Book of Superstition, Hallowe’en. On this night for a long time Satan had gone forth and entered both into the young men and maidens, and did bewitch them to do evil in the sight of all the Elders and Judges of Israel, and to exceed¬ ingly vex their righteous souls by assembling themselves together and making a great fire to the Evil One, and then by going forth into the city and tearing up the sidewalks, stealing corn fodder, put¬ ting the chariots in the top of the temple, and doing divers other deeds well pleasing to Satan. Now it came to pass on that night, that about two score maidens who lived at the Inn, called Bowler, and who are ruled over by one elderly maiden named Martha, sent forth two score messages to the noblest sons of the prophets and requested them to sup with them that night. When this company had assembled themselves, and mirth and gladness ruled the house, behold, about two score and ten young men of the baser sort came together, and, being filled with the spirit