Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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One of Rickaby’s songs immortalized a favorite hangout for college students of pre-war days in “Down at the Old Horseshoe,” with its rousing chorus: “Oh it’s ‘Adam and Eve,’ an ‘order of sliced,’ ‘Two in the water hard;’ Or ‘shorty brown’ with ‘a side o’ beans’ Or ‘sinkers’ (ditch the lard!) Or ‘stack 0’ wheats’ or ‘two in a bun,’ Or ‘gimme a graveyard stew,’ Lordy, Lord, there’s been such fun— Down at the old Horseshoe!” and another of Rickaby’s verses set to music by Auracher inci- dentally betrayed the taste in collegiate slang of the period in the refrain, When the battle’s hanging and The conflict thrills us through, When the foe is pushing hard, Why, what are we going to do? Oh, we'll whoop ’er up for Knox, We'll whoop ’er up for Knox. Rickety—Raff! Chiff—Chaff! Whoop ’er up for Knox. Oh yes, we'll make the welkin ring Til ev’ry bleacher rocks. Zip! Rah! Boom! Rah! Whoop er up for Knox.” And so with a song we greet you, reader of the 1939 GALE, hoping that you will join us in at least one chorus as a toast to the future and as a pledge to “Auld Lang Syne.”

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“He passed through life singing,” said Albert Britt of William Bentley when the latter's service of fifty-one years as Director of the Knox Conserva- tory of Music had closed. No higher tribute was paid that widely loved musician. And so would we sing—we of the class of 1939, who publish this book. We are the last class to have known Dr. Bentley; we publish our book in the year of Dr. Thompson’s retirement; in our freshman year we heard for the first time in many a season “Hail Knox All Glorious’ sung with the fervor of an honest-to-goodness football victory behind it; last year we swelled the choruses celebrating the passing of a century. For these reasons we salute a second century with song—the formal college songs of Dr. Bentley, Dr. Thompson, Miss Russell, Mrs. Firth, and others; and those informal songs that Siwashers have sung for these many years—the jolly carols of Harry Auracher who went on to write musical comedies, of Franz Rickaby who showed rea! promise in his collections of folk-songs before ungenerous death stilled his voice, of Carl McKinley who became a distinguished teacher of music. Paul Smith celebrated the slow trains of his era at Knox in “The Dummy Line,” including such verses as: “The Lord made me and the Lord made you, The Lord He made the C. B. and Q. This is true for the Scripture sings That the Lord He made all creeping things,” and “lve got a gal down in Mobile, She’s got a face like a lemon peel: She’s got a wart in the middle of her chin, She calls it a dimple, but a dimple turns in.’ 3)

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ay WITHIN COLLEGE WALLS a ON CAMPUS De THY SONS SO BOLD