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

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Dogmatism is merely puppyism come to maturity. Make your bed are. a coffin, and your coffin will be as a bed. Troubles are like babiesithey only grow bigger by nursing, The character that needs law to mend it is hardly worth the tinkering. Character Hies. lighter it is the quicker it goes. Yes, it has wings. and 0f connc the My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should he able to change her, like a bzmk-note, for two twenties. I never by chance hear the rattling of dice that it doesn't sound to me like the funeral knell of a whole family. TO discover the spots in the sun is to some men greater than the discovery of the laws that govern the sun itself. Honesty without sharpness in this world is like a sword without edge or pointevery well for show, but of no real use to the owner. There are fellows who go every day into billiarrl-romns to get their dinners, just as a fox sneaks into a farm-yard to look about for a fat goose. Married happiness is a glass ball-folks play with it during the honeymoon, till, falling, it is shattered to pieces; and the rest of life is a wrangle who broke it. I31 In their intercourse with the world people Should not take words as so much genuine coin of standard metal, but merely as counters that people play with. He Who in this world resolves; to speak only what is too good for the mass of mankind to understand, and will be persecuted accordingly. EPITAPHS. Mary Ann is gone to rest, With her head on Abraham! breast. liis a very good 1hing for Mary A1111! But kinder hard on Abraham. And be she dead? and 21m she gone? And is I left here all alone? Oh, cruel Fate, thou be'cst unkind To take she lfore and leave I 'hind! Reader, pass on, nor waste your time In bad biography 01' bitter rhyme; For ivhat I am, this cumbrotls Clay inaurex. And what I was is no affair of yours, Beneath this sod and under these stone: Lieth the body of Mary jones. Her name was Lloyd, it was not Jones; But Jones was used to rhyme with stones, Here lies the body of Betsy Bimi, Who was so very pure within She bust this outer shell of sin. And hatched herself a clieruhim,

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El nbaae from a Diary fcbruary 5 186- brite and fair. there is a new thing amoung the boys in school it is a frattirinity a frattirinity is sumthing you belong to and cant tell about Fattyr belongs to it and Whack and some other fellers. me and Beany says we wont join it if they do ask us we think they are mean not to ask us i dont care. it is the sigmer zeter whitch is hebrew, the boys in it has to fite for eech other Beauty says he can lick any too of them and i can to. fehruary Io, 186- cold as time. i have joined the sigmer zeter gosh it is the greatest thing i ever dremt of we have secrets whitch we cant tell on pane of deth. Whack asked me to join and Boog was asked too B0053; was scared when they took him in i wasent. they all said let Beany join but i said no i clout think Beany will make a good frattimity man and i blackhaled him we must keep the frattimity se- lect. when anybody is fiting a trattirnity man i means a sigmer zeter man and he is about to get licked he can holler help and a sigmer zeter in distress and all the others has to help him lick the other feller. february 12 186- Beany he found out i blackbaled him and he cought me away from the sigmer zeter boys and we had :1 Fite i have promised to let Benny join. gosh the initiation fee is to dolers i dideut no how to get the money but Beany says he noes where there is a emty house and we wil go tomorrow nite and get some of the gashxchers which aint no use to anybody it being empty and sell them to get to dolers for me and Beany two. there is another fruttirnity it is cl 1: ee it hasent any chapter at our school it is nothing to sigmer zeter i would not speak to a d k e if i met him in the rode, february 27 1867the sigmer zeter is broke up it was this way me and Benny sold the gwhxchers and got four dolers for our initiation fee and father found out about the frat- timity and made me tell all about it and he went and saw VVhackk father audieech one gave us a licking rite before the school, I have to work to pay for the gashxchers i gess i would be to hisy to go to sigmer zeter any more if it waeent broke 11p.

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Tn the midqt of a stormy discussion a gentleman rose to settle a matter in dispute. and began: 'lGentlemen, all I want is common-seuse? llExactly, interrupted Jerli llthat is precisely what you do want, To miss a kiss TR more amiss Than it would be To kiss a miss; Provided, that The kiss you mlsa The miss- herself Kl'ould never miss. But if you try To kias a miss. Hrith whom a kis: ll'ould be amiss: Yould better alway MisS the kiss. w. Mary had a little lamb, She fed it kerosene; One clay it got too near the fire, Sinca then itl: not heuzine, liHow did you get up here P asked St. Peter. nI diclnlt send for youf' The much-battered man rubbed the dust from his eyes. I stepped in front of a racing automobile, and it sent me sky-high, he said simply, Admitted ! said 51. Pelcr, sympathetically, as he turned the key, - 133 There are said to he fifty thousand muscles in an ele- phant's trunk. Ti mml have been packed by a woman. They were making the usual round of exhibitionsi l'Ohf' he exclaimed, ildo lrmk at that beautiful 'ApOllO Ilelveclerel ! ll 'Fshl'3 she returned. llDon't say Idear' so loud, EV- cryhmly'll know weire just married? THE SENIORS LAMENT. l'lotheration and vexation! Why this fearful c0114ternation, This unusual application To great books of education? Wihy, in all this exploration, Can I find no inwiration That can Check my desperation? Will this strange, new obligation Serve to drive to dissipation All the Senior congregation Hf our Dental population? Oh Will succeed my declamation? , what added degradation XVhat shall be my explanation When the base insinuarion, Nay, the very allegation Shall get into circulation, That I Copied my Thesation?