Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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THE Boivna. I 2:7 I am going where the Profs are more genial and the course is of more practical use to me. My health will not permit such a great mental strain as the studies here require. You donlt think I'll find that place short of the region described in Milton's Paradise Lost. I What do you call that-a roast? O, well. you have not been out much this term, so I cannot expect you to be up with the times. What do you think of my soci- ety record so far? I would be satisfied with it if the girls were not such fools about go- ing with those 4-homely intellectual chaps. Dress and culture in etiquette have no in- Huence over them. I would much rather be with the boys. Say. Alex, drop that Analyt and go d. t. with us to-night and see what real fun is. Yesterday evening I felt rocky a plenty, so after feeding my face in the dining-hall I blew down to the Arcade with a couple of other heelers. It was such a dead smooth night that we went down the motor track at an easy pace, and along Church Street to see the city girls. Christy was decked out to beat the band, and was bound for a hoe down somewhere. johnson was on the street-you know he boards d. t. this term. I-Ie dresses swell, but I don't think he cuts much ice with the girls after all. Struck Shaw down there, and he wanted me to get in the push with the rest of them. So I sat down and had some ham and eggs with ice-cream for desert. The good Chamber- lain blew in, and gave us the glad handg but he was loaded for more, so we gave him the cold shake. Now, Alex, that is what I call fun. This morning, O, howidifferentl I woke up with a dark brown taste in my mouth, cut Zoology, and shoved in a sick ex- cuse to Stanty. Probably he put down a zip for me. My high expectations at the be- ginning of the term! O well. I didnlt know much then. Wait until later, I think Mor- pheus wants my company for a few hours. Now I am ready to answer your question, and will in a few words state my views along that line. I know I'm very different from the ordinary I. A. C. ite, but I know awhat I think A man may have a good thorough book education, but if that is all he knows he will never be a man. One must understand humanity, The ways of the world are fully one-half of man's education. Well, what if that is all I have learned this year, there are more years coming. The term isiover and you can say in all sin- cerity, This has .been for me a year of pleasure and profit. The former, no one can questiong the latter, coming years will unfold. Yes, Alex, I have had all the fun there is going and some profit. Marked has been the progress of the Class of 797, after two years in which the heterogeneous mass has been in the great part assimilated. Next year I am coming back to-study.

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26 . THE BOMB. - ' and, if it is an improvement, require him by the class laws to wear said mustacheuntil he completes his college course. tt--- -- - The 4'Mustache Club is a success in our eyes, but some of the other classes think it is an invisible improvement on the faces of the majority of the boys. Although you are not particularly interested in the new club formed to hold the Freshman boys in check, what do you think of it? Well I can't agree with you that it has been a dead failuref' but I do think we are left. What queer creatures those girls are! just because we vowed that the Freshman boys should not accompany upperclass girls, those Soph- omore girls are absolutely crazy to go with them, and the boys just wonlt be squelched. W'e've stretched Shakespeare ten times, and still he is Owen us a great' debt. Then to cap the climax, the Freshman class president declared at the reception we were giv- ing them-yes, audaciously declared that they had equal rights with the other boys in , . k. school! -I guess we had better drop the whole matter. It s too big an underta mg. Come, Alex, roll out and hear the birds sing. It's 4:30 a. m., and we must get out and practice with the base-ball team, or get left sure thing when we play the Freshies. What will you bet on the game? I'll bet the supper at the Railroad lunch counter that the Sophomores Win. All right? Shake. just buried them! Score. 22 to 2 in favor of the Sophs. Now we must play the Seniors. Wonder how we'll come out in that. I feel shaky over the game? Not much! Still I don't bet on the Sophomores this time, and we rnustn't flaunt many colors. I Alex, you are a big chump sitting here delving away at some dry study when you might be out yelling for your class. Why donlt you wake up and have some class spirit? VVhat am I roaring about? Why we beat the Seniors all hollow! Whoopee! And then the trip down town and the superb supper! Whiat was the score? VVhy, haven't you heard! 18 to 12. Ntow let the Seniors boast that we are lacking in intel- lectual ability. I can inform them of the fact that it takes a greater intellectuality than the Seniors possess to gain what we are gaining. I tell you it takes brain power aswell as muscle to win a ball game.. A remark that I overheard to-day makes the insinua- tions of the Seniors pale and fade away. It was to the effect that it is the general opin- ion of the Faculty that if we apply ourselves strictly to our studies in the coming two years we may strike as high an average as the present Seniors. ' Let them howl and boast, we care notf? Field day has come and gone, and we stand victorious. The record shows that we have not neglected our athletics. The majority of the prizes were awarded to us. It isn't much pleasure to talk this over with you, for you care not a whit about it. O, really! would you like to know the score? Well, Sophomores 65, Seniors 455 juniors 24, Freshmen 3. I am justly proud that I entered I. A. C. in 1894, although I doubt my graduating here. Really I have not the slightest desire to graduate. I wish I could work the stand in with the Profs. that you have, none of them like me. The course is more diffi- cult than there is any need ofg not that I cannot pass, but that I simply do not care to. UL- I TNOTFYTGPICYC all that jssued from, the machine was a confused jumble of such words as -f'Mustache, I 13115 Clulj- X C- Ay Cl1lCk6nS! t'Turkeys! Prex ! ! ! Then came a time when all that could be iearc was tie woi ings of the phonograph s own inwards. Something had gone wrong.

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