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

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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.

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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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THE 1919 CROAKER LIFE’S LITTLE IRRITATIONS Firebaugh’s notes. Psychology Class. Prof. Blair’s greeting to a tardy-student. Carson’s pleas for Vacations. (Vacations are all right. You get me?) I’m not prepared today. College Bred—A Four Year Loaf. CATECHISM Q. What is the picture? A. It is a building. Q. What is a building? A. It is an office. Q. What is an office for? A. Where men go when they think they are transacting business and nobody will bother them. Q. Are there any of those men around here? A. Yes. Lots of them. Q. And do they go to their office and think they arc transacting business and nobody will bother them? A. Exactly. Q. Do you know anybody like that? A. Several. Q. Do I know them too? A. Yes. Q. Who arc they? A. Oh, Doc and Doud, Ballew and Hetty Green and Carper and Wilson and Moomaw and several more besides Hileman and Perdew. Q. Are they old enough to have offices? A. Yes, most of them. But you have to be so old, you know. End Lesson 1 To Let:—One empty dome. Inquire Pete Haseltine. Dr. Lcist in German Class: “What is the difference between life and love?’’ Louise Reaney: “I don’t know. What is it?” Dr. Leist: “Life is one fool thing after another, while love is two fool things after each other.” Mopping up gravy from a plate with a piece of bread may not be “good form” but it is “good taste”.