Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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“NOVUM ORGANUM.” 9 While “Prex’’ with Presides soft was speaking Of secrets, hid and dark. Fio on “Blink’s” Goggled eye, if,t couldn’t spy, metliinks, A nook more snug for eaves-droppcPs ear! And now adieux; yet stay tli’ above’s dear Twin to sing, him o’ the ruby head And Hclcnic lino divine! On speed Thee, nimbly, gentle verse, this triad Georgian full to fill with Cap’s glad, Smiling name! Ho, here’s our goal! Not Ste(af )rn We’ll sing, but jocund now; we’ll learn A minstrel lay to vent our joys, Or else some interlude, that cloys Liko those seraphic strains that swell Our chapel arches through with spell As of Orphic lyre. ’Tifl true, O, Choir, thy chants do melt to tears; tlio’ How rapturous more, and now we’re mum If you’d a “Novum Organum!” a

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8 “NO YUM OR GANUM. We’ve toiled amain, tlio weary “plumb0 Nor base, nor rest bath found. No crumb Of hope, that he’ll amend, our gloom At all allays; then up; his doom Pronounce; his “papers” give! Yet still Our hearts relent and fain would fill This lad’s last cup brimfull with sweets. So then we’ll vouch for luscious treats ’Midst truths and garnered stores, When once you’ve opo’d her golden doors With Senior key. Oh, but wont you joy In your loved “Ego’s” much employ! My eye! You’ll grow of such account. That to the very “star(rh)’s” you’ll mount! Such “feastsof soul” will also warm Fierce Dick the “Duelist’s” stout arm To break a Law—all, oh, pray all That ne’er again those lists may fall On luckless mortal’s nose! “Spare speech,” Howe’er, pack close and tight, you’d filch His precious time! Now, thieves we’re not And so’ll quit quick; this Gordian knot No more we ’ll hack, but only laic “Bisk,”—nor him, save with mild, cleric Tones as seemeth well our lowliness. Good my Lord, may’t please your Holiness, Wherefore such fearful mein and visage Harsh? Thou well art famed for a carriage High; woro’t else, ’twould ill beseem thy rank. But, sure, the MKAT-AX-look that steels Your face and plays from head to heels Round “embonpoint” so very marked Is hardly meet! Who so hath harked To Cheney’s vaunts will sure ne’er rate This showing of a “Bishop’s” trait— Or foible, if you’d rather. But, If that’s the “why” you’re pleased, ne’er shut Blaine’s windows up; nay, let it pour! Welcome, c’re that, the tempest’s roar! Our task’s now done; the glass is run, Or will be in n trice. Not fun Alone hath been our aim ; ah, no! 'flie mirage’s antic scenes soon go— And leave tlf athirst in tears. A thought Sad we’d have some, then, for sins so fraught With shame, as ’hind the organ sneaking,

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oA.9 here is an evil that is not done under the sun. Unlike those known to Solomon, this delights in moonlight or darkness. The student whose bones are broken in his return from the stars, whither he has been shot out of a blanket, knows what we mean. The remedy seems simple. Let the civil law have the same power to protect person and property in College as elsewhere. The student will receive greater satisfaction, if he desires vengeance, in damages assessed by law, than in the expulsion of his tormentors. The common charities of college life sufliciently tax the student, and it may be easier to arrive unexpectedly at home than to obtain money to pay costs and damages. We do not entreat for ourselves the chance of such penal- ties without something in return. Much of the minutia; of college life might bo dispensed with, to the ease of one party and the quiet of the other. The test of honest labor should be the class room and not the manner of spending the re- maining time. Punctuality and order in the divisions of the day are sufliciently taught by the required recitations. The necessary college announcements could be made at a daily prayer, which, it might be impressed on the student, was a religious duty, and not a numbering of the Hock to see if any wanderer might be on that descensus Averni—the road to Mt. Vernon. This implies something broader and more manly than is customary iu our college government. Exactly