Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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3T THE1920 EMF ifOS S? Engineering X THE SMOKERS’ LEGION successors to THE ANCIENT ORDER OF CAMELS PURPOSE Never to let a five (5) Minute period pass without some form of smoke. MOTTO He who smokes hereafter, smokes forever; therefore smoke now. OFFICERS—NONE (All members being first-class pirates) PREAMBLE The underlying principle of this Grand Order is to promote the science of smoking so that the art may be saved from the Democrats. It will be re- membered that not long ago, on the sixteenth (16) of January In the year of our Lord, 1920, a good thing had to go. Therefore, be it Resolved, that the followers of the stem and butt, will not abuse a good thing, but always remember that those who follow us,— yea unto the hundredth generation, will also appreciate the aromatic weed introduced by the founder of this Grand Order—Sir Walter Raleigh. BY-LAWS 1. Cigars and Meerschaum pipes are strictly prohibited. 2. Members must furnish their own matches. 3. If sponging is necessary, do it with tact and diplomacy. 4. Do not sponge twice on the same man in the same day. 5. When “Cabbage” is used as a substitute, the other members should be given due notice in order to adjust their nose pieces (gas masks, etc.). REQUIREMENTS FOR A DEGREE Degrees are issued to all members after having satisfactorily obtained the golden luster, preferably on the tips of thumb and forefinger of right hand. Least, but not last, the applicant must have all those classes he did not miss during the subsequent semesters leading to the Port of Embarkation, at which time and in an appropriate manner befitting the solemnity of the occasion, be decorated with the skin of a perfectly good sheep on which shall be inscribed in nicotine brown the mystic letters “B. S..” which shall be con- strued to mean to the non-affiliated—“Big Smoker.” PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS’ ATTENTION To those matrimonially inclined, it would be well to heed the advice of a charming member of the fair sex who has gone on record as saying, “Never marry a man who does not smoke.” BENEDICTION Let us never forget the humble and secluded place in which we have heretofore assembled : but let us forever, with untiring effort, strive to obtain more spacious and comfortable quarters. — 3. Page Forty-five

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,5THE H02O E. CSrit There’s a potent, pregnant something that true hearted men admire, And it isn’t form or beauty and it isn’t dash or fire; It’s a steady, pounding offense when the odds are very great, And a heavy stubborn defense when the cause is lost for sure; It’s the soul of all good fighters who strike at man or fate, Play clean throughout the struggle, strive, grin and—just endure. It’s the stuff they have within them, That lets no knock chagrin them, Take it, smile—and hit— It’s Grit! There’s a wild and tameless challenge that denies a beast or man, That says “You may outplay me, you must win it if you can, W But I’m here to strength-dispute it till the final whistle shrieks, ] And you’ll find your path blockaded though you still may stumble through; But I’m here to stand the stamping, I am a man who speaks, And I stand or fall thus speaking; ’tis all a man can do!’’ Such are men who take a licking Take it smiling, never kicking, Keep coming, never quit— Pure Grit! It’s the thing the world is needing in the life-game everywhere, The strength that passes knowledge, the fighter Samson's hair. The strong will kill the weakling, but this spirit is not.weak, It’s the everlasting something that wins its goal at last; The earth shall stand and listen when the Never-conquered speak. When the final game is over and the season’s strain is past. All who strike at them shall know it, For the fighters always show it, Not wisdom, brains or wit, But Grit! Page Forty-four

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