Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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e ie- M we no M Q P' WL . A' 'Q ee le r - . oin' to School. f t? 'fm rf ef e- sf W M fr s fe f? e i l IIBQ El. 3.l1blb5Cb!'l18l'lI1. When we were young in olden days, And youth shown with its brightest rays, When oft the question to our ear, By people that we held most dear : ' ' Where goin', Sonny ? they would cry. Goin' to school, was our reply. Five years have gone and passed away. Some are dead and some still stay To ask the same that cheered us so, In the days of long ago : Where goin', Sonny? they would say. Goin' to school for another day. ffm' 101 Ten more years have flown past, And the time is coming fast 5 The campus you then view, And again the old is new. Where's Tom goin' ? some one said. Goin' to school, was in the paper read. He boarded the train one Autumn day, To the college he was speeding away. Smash ! Crash ! A wreck, 'tis said. He was lifted up, and he was dead. Where is Tom ? asked the village fool. He received the reply, He's gone to school

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If a mine had been exploded under that regiment the effect could not have been more striking. The adjutant managed to regain his composure, however, and with his face black as a thunder cloud, answered solemnly and with the regulation salute : Very good, sir, return to your post The dentist, again waving his sword, attempted to obey, but in returning his saber to its scabbard he stabbed his horse, and it promptly ran away. There was a long interview that night between the dentist and the colonel, and after it was concluded the colonel had another interview with a certain young lieutenant in the regiment. The dentist does not attend retreat any more. IOO

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Cbe fable of Handsome jetbro, who l was Simply Qui 0ut to be a Dentist. ' N ILLINOIS SQUAB came home from dental college with a zebra collar and a pair of tan shoes big enough for a coal miner. When he alighted from the train one of Ezry Folloson's dray horses fell over, stricken with the crainp colic. The usual drove of prominent citizens who had come down to see that the train got in and out all right, backed away from the educated youth and chewed their tobacco in shame and abashment. They knew that they did not belong on the same platform with one who had been yenderi' in Cincinnati for goin' on twelve weeks Ending out how to be a dentist, by heck ! An elderly man approached the youth who had lately got next to rules of college. The elderly man was a yap. He wore a hickory shirt, a discouraged straw hat, a pair of barn door pants clinging to one lonely gallus and woolen socks that had settled down over his plow shoes. He was shy several teeth and on his chin was a Ji I 9 at? 5 ' . , , , a 0 'if '- - ii ii l lll il l l l ag t1l,ll,lll,lt t a iWmi lg a t itil I is i iw H lilll'lib all 5 .-.-.-.-...,a.a.,.,,f ,.,. 1WWIIlllllllIltllibIlllllllhmvllllllnllllinlblllmylviia-,t.uil IO2 tassel-shaped bunch, like a whisk broom. If you had thrown a pebble into this clump of whiskers probably you would have scared up a field mouse and a couple of meadow larks. Home again, jether, be ye? asked the parent. Yeh, replied the educated youth. With that he pulled the corners of a sassy silk handkerchief out of his upper coat pocket and ignited a cigarette that smelt like burning leaves in the fall, The professional man went home and the parent fol- lowed at a respectful distance, now and then remarking to himself: Well, I'll jest swan to guinney ! Brother Lyford came in from the East Eighty to get his dinner, and there was Jethro in the hammock read- ing a great work by jonathan C, McQuillan. Git into some overhauls an' come an' he'p me this afternoon, said Lyford. 'L Ah, rats! Not on your tintype! I'n1 too strong to work, replied Jethro, who had learned oodles of slang in Cincinnati, don't you forget it. So he wouldn't stand for the harvest field that after-