Otterbein University - Sibyl Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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IDlunta (Camr (ihr S ' ilml Whylom, as olde stories tellen us, there dwelt in the rock-cave of Cumae a worthy spinster who trod not in the ways of her ancestors. Neither the gossip of spiced pickles nor the knitting of worsted shawls did she consider her vocation, for through her distorted features, foaming mouth, and frantic gestures, Apollo told men things which they already knew or which, by way of modernity, they inter- preted in the light of their own experience. Men there be who have cast aspersions on the good lady ' s character — nay, mere — who have diminished her reputation by multiplying her personality into Iwelve Sibyls. But did she not serve pink tea and water wafers and chronicle small beer to wave-worn Aeneas? If further furbishing of her existence were needed, look to the twentieth century bargain hunter. I o 1 arquin the Proud she offered to sell her nine books of mystic lore. 1 wice he refused to pay her price. Twice she burned three volumes. And then, ' 1 were pity to haggle with a woman, was his sorry comfort when for the three lemaining books he paid the original value. Whether or not this deal in high finance points to the two fires and a failure of the pawnbroker ' s balls, it assuredly indicates the two fits and a fracture of the bargain counter. Let the statement that the Sibylline books were destroyed in 83 B. C. not shake your confidence in this Sibyl ' s prophetic utterances. The American eagle, for the nonce deserting the dollar-mark, received from the ancient p riestess her fluttering leaflets, and bore them to the office of High Priest Clippinger. The distorted features. however, the foaming mouth and frantic gestures of divine inspiration, the present editors modestly disclaim. Thus it comes that the 1911 Sibyl, instead of being written in Greek hexameter, is written in American limerick. I he present board, aside from the question of whether or not your graTid- mother was a monkey, has its remote forbears in the college of fifteen men, to whom Farquin entrusted the Sibylline books and who consulted them upon oc- casions of national danger. Such an occasion is the outflux into the world of a Senior class, panting to fire a volley of solidified knowledge into an inert humanity. Annual Sibyls were published from 1901 to 1905, and bi-annuals appeared in 1907 and 1909. It seems only fair to warn this roly-poly old world of the recon- struction preparing for it in the next four classes to graduate from Otterbein. And 5o this Sibyl ' s oracular mutterings are to introduce the world in general, as well as any wandering individuals from Mars, to Otterbein, its people, and its surroundings.

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The 1911 Sibyl Volume VIII Pitbltshr bij Ihr Suntnr lass nf ©ttrrbrtn HlnuuTsily, BOARD OF EDITORS AND MANAGERS S. W. BiLSING, Editor R. L. Harkixs Helex Converse Mary Boi exbauch DwiGHT John Hazel Codner M. A. :Muskopf Florence Sheller Ruth Detwiler Ethel Kephart J. H. Flora. Business. Jfaiiager Ralph Hall H. P. Lambert R. W. Moses :m. Iv. Hartmax Barbara Stoker C. M. Wagxer Ralph Smith Kdith Bexxett Deax Cook IvEiLA Bates

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