Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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PRIZE TRANSLATION. Anacreontea. NE night the Wagoner had turned The wain across the sky, and oier The earth man. lay in slumber earned By toil, when Love stopped at my door And tried the bolt. Who knocks? I cried, Thou drivestthus my dreams away. 'Tis but a babe --then Love replied, Fear not, and open now, I pray, The door for I am drenched: the night Is dark,-I've wandered far. And when I heard I pitied him. A light I kindled, let him in, and then A babe with quiver and a bow I saw, and he had wings. Beside The fire I made him sit and so With rubbing then his hands I tried To warm them in my own. The storm Had left the water in his hair A-drip-I squeezed it dry. When warm He was at length, with sitting there He said: Come, let us try my bow- Perchance the wet has hurt the string. He drew and let' the arrow go Right to my breast with piercing sting And cried: Come, friend, rejoice with meg My bow is still unharmed by rain, But thou art hurt - he danced with glee And laughed: Thy heart shall know the pain. I -Margery Strong 26

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a word and sneaked right off down street. We haven't seen him since. I-Iow did it happen, old man? Funk: Has she got you hooked, too? I've known her to have two at a time before now, but never room-mates before. 'F ess up, old boy. How was it? Harry fenteringj : That's why you couldn't go to the celebration is it? You're a slob, Tom Griswold. Good bye. I'll send for my things tomorrow. Fellows, I'm sorry to leave the house but I'll come back when I can room with a gentleman. G1'i.s'.: Hold on, I-Iarry, let me explain. You know I didn't mean- A South.: I don't care what you meant but I saw what you did. Explain? You can explain it to each other. I'll have nothing more to do with either of you. Explain to the door when I have gone. tExit, slamming the door.j Gris.: It's hard lines to have a man's best friend call him names like that, but 1,111 glad it's over. I did it all for his sake. It's saved him and I can be ,happy even if he doesn't ever speak to me again. You see how it was, don't you, fellows? I knew she wasn't worth the time he was wasting on her and tried to tell him so, but he wouldn't listen, so I undertook to prove it. Gosh, she's easier than I ever would have thought a girl could be. She's got good sense, though, if she wants to use it and she certainly can talk and I see where she got I-Iarry to thinking she was just about right. She can be just what she thinks a fellow wants her to be and puts up a speel to suit. I gave her the softest jolly I could put up. I didn't know how I could shine there, never having tried it before, you see. Well, it fetched her in about three shakes, with the bonfire episode happening in at just the right time. It's pretty bad on a fellow to have it come off before the whole school, co-eds and all, but I can bear it if it's going to pass Harry in his year's work and put him to digging on that debate. I Aimes: Put her here, old man. That's better than a Duchess for noble sacrifice and dramatic effects. , May: If the whole push of us had as much love for each other as you have shown, Tom, Delta Theta would mean a lot more than it does. Funk: Fellows, let's give a yell for Tom. One, two, three, All: Who are, Who are, Who are we? ' New York, New York, New York-e-e Uni-Uni-versi-te-e-e. , Griswold. Gris.: Thank you, fellows, thank you. I am glad you think I have done right and I only hope Harry will see it that way. I be- lieve he will, too, when he has cooled off a little. Of course it was mighty hard on him when everyone knew he had been rushing her all winter. I was glad the fellows didn't rub it in any worse by yelling for him. Tell him, when youget a chance, why I did it and I'm sure it will all turn out for the best. Here, 1et's have something. Here's the stuff. Open up that bottle of wine, Henry, and let's warm up and then turn in. Everybody get a hand in and we'll drink to the success of Delta Theta's latest stunt. Q All: And to Toni Griswold's. May such friendship be ever present in the old frat. u . . South. Qenteringj : Forgive me, Tom. You were right. .I see it all. fPicking up a glass.J Here's to the best fellow in the University. fAll drink. Curtaing 25

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LIST OF PRIZ-ES. The prize of ten dollars, offered for the best story, was awarded, Through a Glass Darkly, by Ruth Mosher, ,O4. ' The prize of ten dollars, offered for the best poem, was awarded the collection of three poems, Lines to President Fairchild, Lines to Pro- fessor Burroughsf' and Lines to Professor Rice, by Paul L. Corbin, '03, O. T. S. The prize of ten dollars, offered for the best farce, was awarded, The Rhime of the Ancient Amazons, by Mary E. Ryder, 'o3. The prize of ten dollars, offered for the best collection of illustrated jokes, was awarded to Ellen S. Belden, 'o3. The prize of ten dollars, offered for the best full-page art drawing, was awarded A Miniature, by Jeanne F. Payne. The prize of ten dollars, offered for the best collection of amateur photo- graphs, was awarded to Mr. Adkins. The prize of tive dollars, offered for the best collection of jokes, was awarded to Mary Rudd Cochran, 'o3. The prize of five dollars, offered for the best drawing for a class-heading, was awarded The Senior Class Heading, by Katherine E. Chandler. The prize of five dollars, offered for the best metrical translation, was awarded the lines from the Anacreontea, by Margery Strong. No historical sketch being handed in, the prize was returned to the donor. - We were able to offer the above prizes through the kindness of our friends, James Petit, Chicago, Paul D. Cravath, New York, President Bar- rows, Professor Martin, Mrs. Johnston, Professor Wager, Miss Luce, Pro- fessor Grover and Mrs. E. W. R. Lord. 27