Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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 r X-- mmtmmHvv UL.m+i NNNMMMMMWMMMIt' • rfirr % !il Esther Benbow says that love is a ticklish sensation that you can’t get at to scratch. PLAYING “TRUTH” Amy Core: “Miss Howard, who of all on the campus would you rather have a date with?” Miss Howard: “Mr. Becker, because he is so nearly my size.” Amy Core: “Me for ‘Mitt’ Nauman then.” After Kemble had told about catching Geneva Schell, and saving her from a bad fall. Taylor: “Well, what I want to know is, how long did you hold her?” Stone talking to “Batty” about his Thesis: “Gee, but I’m getting tired of this grind.” “Batty”: “Let’s get married.” “Jeff” says: “This Dutch is getting as expensive as the dickens. $1.15 for a book, and now I’ll have to pay 75 cents for a pony. It isn’t worth the credit.” Stanley: “I tell you it pays to have an economical wife. My wife said we could use the $1.50 for a cab to lots better advantage.” YES,IT PIIGHTHWE BEEN WORSE. FOR INSTANCE,--------------------- x erfw O’wAn • YOU STOLE ..... CflpflNO Gorin riRsx. y 7 hr N.

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 SELECTED BY A FKESIIMAN COUPLE AND AN ACADEMY COUPLE Oil love, let us love with a love that loves, Loving on with a love forever; For a love that loves not the love it should love I wot such a love will sever, But when two lovers love this lovable love, Love lover with a love that is best. And the love loving lovable, love lasting love Loves on in a pure love’s loveliness.” 0 chide not the love when its lovely love loves With lovable loving caresses, For one feels that the loveliest love love can love Loves on in love’s own loveliness, And love, when it does love, in secret should love, ’Tis there where love most is admired, But the love that don’t care where they love Make the public most awful tired.” TALKING ABOUT BOTANY Mabel Core: “I've got a lot of specimens, and I like the work all right, but I hale awfully to press Dutchmen’s Breeches.” AN EXPLANATION Burns tells how he got his Doctor’s degree: “Miss Booth gave me a I) in history, and then not to be outdone the English Prof, gave me another D, so I had a I). IX” VN v. Bob Fye: “Say, Fimmen, 1 heard a trade last for you.” Fimmen: “Well, Bob, I’ve heard several about you.” Bob: “Well, now I wonder who’s going to do the most lying, you or I.” AT PRAYER MEETING Truitt: “Say. if you had sat down on my hat, you sure wouldn’t have been able to say any prayers tonight.” Miss Sowers (discussing Romeo and Juliet). Prof.: “And what did you think of the love scenes?” .Miss Sowers: “They are all right when properly acted.”

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lQia r ££L C I X y 9 iP? A FEW CHOICE SELECTIONS ‘‘Turn on. good friend, we’ve undertaken to show you, if I’m not mistaken, what other people see in you; The daffy things you say and do; and if perchance your cheeks should burn with anger, make another turn; Read on apace, and you may find fun in some other fellow’s grind.” CLASSICS “For none more likes to hear himself converse.”—“Dune.” “I am so fresh that the new-mown blades of grass turn pale with envy as I pass.”—Burns. “Oh, rare the head piece, if but brains were there.”—“Pogic.” “Well, now, it’s this way.”—Percy. “Three things doth shine, the moon, the sun, my hair.”—Hale. “For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.”—Barnett. “I hear a hollow sound, who rapped my skull?”—“Ding” Hall. “Too green to roast.”—F. Hendrickson. “What a falling off there will be.”—End of Semester. “He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.”—Dee Thompson. “His heart is dilated with the most unbounded love.”—Weston. “Stuck on himself, and has no rival.”—Joe. “I am struck dumb by the depth of my own thought, and stunned by the soundness of my logic.”—“Jeff.” “Men even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.” —“Stormy.” “Too short by half.”—Sherman. “God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.” (Stop and think.) “A book’s a book though nothing in it.”—Editor. “As long as the moral law.”—Peterson. “Holds the time and distance record for talking and not saying anything.”— Ackerson. “Not dead, but sleeping.”—Coach. AT STAFF MEETING Aimee Core: “Say, Floyd, what is your swear word?” Floyd: “I’m not partial to any one, I change my swear words every time I use them.” Aimee: “I change mine every time dad gets after me.”