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

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THE 1919 CROAKER No. He is not one of the characters of a continued story in the Cosmopolitan. When he came this fall he was all right, but now— THE SIX DAY SCHEDULE and you see the result. Oh, beg your pardon, we mean six day schedule of classes. As our friend the raven would say, “Nothing more”. WE DON’T WANT TO START ANYTHING BUT WE CAN’T HELP MENTIONING THAT —Mrs. Warhurst has no business Dodging about the campus. —Military Training affords the very best exercise we can get in school. —Ratliff makes good use of his car. —Ballcw is sadder. —We like Day’s style of collars and ties. —Schaffner ought to be in Iota Phi. —Feldman is a good student. —It’s pretty hard to keep the Croaker from coming out. Here's to the censor u-ith his Big, black brush: Who amputates and expurgates All our choicest gush. Our copy looks like Jim Jam Jems Before you get a look, But like the Literary Digest When his blackballs have been took. How does Calvin Richardson take married life? Ballew says “According to his wife’s directions”.

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?????? • ••••• SHOULD WOMEN VOTE? How would they look filling out a ballot when we have the following illustrious example of how one filled out a Croaker information blank. THE 1919 CROAKER Name............................Vera Hartley............................. Home Address.........................Salem, Iowa........................ Class............................ Sophomore ............................ Fraternity......................Alpha Xi Delta........................... Literary Society......................................................... School Activities and Honors............................................. .................Principal Activity—Making class on time................ .....................Sub-Activity—Making passing grade................... ................Honors—Mt. Pleasant High School graduate................. So far as we know, everybody of College standing has graduated from High School, with the possible exception of some of the Seniors. One soul whom you can always train, Your willing slave, whose every force Is yours to use and answer for— Who is it? Why, yourself, of course. —Ex.

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THE 1919 CROAKER WHO IS IT? Extract from Gladys Leach’s paper on surgical dressing— “Measure down Zl 2 inches from torn edges on each end—dear.” Appears like her mind wasn’t tied up with her work. FRESHMEN, NOTICE “How can you write clearly if your thought is hazy, vigorously if your will is flabby, concisely if your mental habit is sprawly?” (Taken off bulletin board in English room.) PREXY AT THE BAT A POME Band leader of I. W. C., How your mustache ’muses me! Do you know the girls all laugh It that tiny hunch of chaff ? ’I'hat fuzzy Charlie Chaplin hit, The campus winds will tangle it. Germs will lodge among the hairs, Disease will seize you unawares. That caterpillar on your lip Must bother you whene’er you sip, How did you work up courage ’nough To produce that downy fluff ? Dr. Booth (in Freshman History) : “Mr. Carper, tell me of the rise (rice) of the monasteries.” Carper: “That was the food the monks ate.” A TOAST We can’t efface her, ice can’t forget her; We love her still,—the stiller the better.