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

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INSPIRED AT HERSHEY HALL Our new dean, Miss Voorhees, ’s come to our house to stay, To uphold the constitution and keep the dates away. To make us all to go to bed at ten o’clock, an’ keep The rules and regulations, and get eight hours of sleep. And all us wicked children, when ten o’clock has come, We set around the chafing dish and have the mostest fun. But we has to be most awful still—say nothin’, most, about— ’Cause Miss Voorhees ’ll get us if we don’t watch out. Oncet there was some little girls who wouldn’t say their prayers, And wouldn’t go to bed at ten, away up stairs. Oncet Miss Voorhees heard them holler, as they went down the hall, And she up and took their names down in a book, that’s all. Then she read the constitution, her looks I can’t express, But she kinder lost her temper, just that one time, I guess. And sent them all to bed at eight, or some time there about, And Miss Voorhees ’ll get you if you don’t watch out. An’ one time there was a little girl who always laughed and grinned, And never went to bed on time, though she knew it was a sin. And oncet she was restricted, but she had to comb her hair, So she wouldn’t go to bed at eight and said she didn’t care. And when house meeting time came round she thought she’d go and hide, But there was Miss Voorhees standing by her side. And she ’bout snatched her baldheaded, for she knew what she’s about, And Miss Voorhees ’ll get you if you don’t watch out. And Nellie Curran tells us, when the alcohol burns blue, And the chocolate fudge it sputters, and the coffee, too, And we hate to go to bed at ten, and we like to have our say, And we talk of what we ’spec’ to do with school days far away: “You’d better mind Miss Voorhees and douse your light so clear, And when Miss Voorhees reprimands shed the penitential tear, And cherish all her precepts and mind what you’re about, ’Er Miss Voorhees ’ll get you if you don’t watch out.”

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IN SOPHOMORE ORATORY Miss Ingersoll: “Arc you cold, Mr. Armbruster?” Mr. Armbruster: “It is, just a little chilly in here.” Miss Ingersoll: “Well, don’t worry; there will be lots of hot air in here in a minute.” Once a molicc-pan Saw a bittlc-lum, Sitting on a surb-ctonc, Chewing gubber-rum. Said the molicc-pan: “Won’t you simme-gum?” “Tin on your nit-pyte!” Said the bittlc-lum. INTERESTED Frances Jamison: “Did you know that Mr. Wahl did lyceum work last summer with the International System?” Carrie Wentworth: “Let’s sec; that’s a moving picture company, isn’t it?” IVORY FLOATS Messenger (in “Y” pool) : “Look out, Hasty, or your head will go under water. L. Moats: “Don’t worry; ivory floats.” SOME DRY Olliver (waxing eloquent in Philo) : “Why, it is so dry in Kansas that the moon can’t get full.” BEFORE THE THANKSGIVING BANQUET She: “Is it to be a formal affair?” He: “No; very infernal.”