Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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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.

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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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I have observed tha Fletcher Gardiner is counted ' just an alright fellow ' and I ' m not at all surprised, for he is sober and industrious with a well developed bump of humor. Then he plays foot ball well too. It is true that he is largely given to material things, lacking in senti- mentality. It seems to be fore-or- dained that there is a diversity of genius. Three years at Monmouth well demonstrates that Nora Corette be- lieves variety to be the spice of life. She has a diversity of know- ledge, a stock of originality, and a well equipped supply of funny stories. I wish I could tell you just what I think of Frank Galloway, but I don ' t want you to think that we have circumnavigated the periphery of the sphere of universal know- ledge and dignity for we must yet speak of a few more who reside in the scholastic atmosphers of Sen- iordom and I would not lack words to do them justice. Olive. Sprowl believes that the economic well being of humanity depends upon unscrupulous neat- ness and a smiling countenance. She has a very practical mind and the finished grace of appreciating the mercenary side of the literary (?) profession of ' Books, stationary, etc. (Phonograph buzzes about fifteen minutes before it begins the next and then continues.)