Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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A fine fellow is that man Gor- don. He is quiet and studious and has never been known to depart from the even tenor of his wsy. He has always stood in the shadow of his own light and I have never suc- ceeded in getting an interview with him. But as for Edith Calhoun, who is ever budding over with wisdom and mirth, always rt ady for a laugh or a joke or a lark, she actually took time for a little tete-a-tete with me and the result was — (Phonograph almost explodes then buzzes on in- cohorently for about two hours and finally continues in its usual tone ) ' Now Glenn Porter ' s point of view is from an entirely different angle. He is mere prone to self-commun- ing solitude than noisy revels. His principle virtue is that he is a good student while the worst fault he has is admiring the ladies at a distance. After much exhaustive reseach and many personal interviews I have found thatWilda Barnes, for the good of all concerned bid fare- well to our western coed to spend her time at Oxford, but two years seems to have made sufficient im- provement, for now she is a gentle, joyous maid with thoughtful mein.

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his whole heart. Gossip says that if Grace McKin- ley does not set up a second-handed diamond store after graduating-, that she will accept a position as ' professor of Domestic Economy (?) in a Ladies Home Journal cottage. Henderson (Brrr-rr-buzz-zz May Henderson Brrr-r-r) the inevitable, the irresistable, the irrevocable New Yorker, who has made quite an improvement in the jests and jollity, quips and cranks and wanton wiles of Monmouth. But (Phonograph continuing in a drolling voice), the opposite influ- ence has the smiling countenance of David Cherry wrought. It wasn ' t his fault he was born tired. He has devoted much of his time to Pish (ing) and Reid (ing). At an impressionable point in her career, a certain young lady read Vanity Fair too seriously. That was Alpha (the beginning) but the end is not yet, however, as her pre- vailing virtues are hard study and perseverance tempered by mirthful moods and charming elusivenes ' s. We feel sure that a deep White mark will be left on this old world ' s countenance. Paul McClanahan has won much distinction as a declaimer, orator, debater, and deep .student: conse- quently there is a bright Jewell awaiting him.

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Somehow or other I have always been mislead as to Joanna Mitchell. Appearances of a truth are often de- ceitful. Sometimes the most unas- suming gray is lined with the most brillant plaid. The delight she takes in worrying her instructors and the number of spreads she has attended in the laboratory is a cau- tion. And that reminds me of Harold McClanahan. He got tired of the far west so started back east to finish his college career. We are rejoiced, yet surprised, for its only sixteen miles more, that he got no further than Monmouth. All the cats and dogs in the neighborhood flee in terror from him. He will make a successful physician. Interpreting the strange and mys- tic loquaciousness of Mary Clark as best I could, I judge that after she leaves the pomp and vanity of this college world she will spend many happy days in a little white school house on the verdant prairies of Iowa. Of their own merits modest men are dumb so I didn ' t gain much from Barnes ' s confidences but judg- ing from heresay I know that he is a nustler even when it comes to wo rking the Faculty. He is a true son of the Get-There-Eli college. It will not be wealth, nor rank nor state, but git-up-and-git that ' l] make Milford great.