Parsons College - Peira Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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SOPH CYCLGPFEDIA. BALLARD HALL: A Hash-House of great popularity, with fine parlor ser vice. Bad place to be locked out of. BLUE. BOOK: The vehicle of a Hunk. Known in common conversation as the Blue Deathf' sold three for five at the college book store. CAMPUS: A spot of green grass over which Preps and Science Professors are forbidden to make unnecessary paths. N. B.-All please take the putty walks. CORDUROY: A peculiar dunny coruset line of dry goods used to loosely drape the shapely shoe-sticks of lower classmen and Preps. COZY CORNER: That portion of the Library ostensibly occupied by two Juniors, or any in like stage of progression. 'Pe CROW: Classic stream north of the campus, useful for limi! l oo inspiration and love dreams. 00 E U U I '51 ,Q +591 zfbff' EXAMS: Semi-annual cramming and dispensing of knowledge poured in on previous occasions. The time when the student gets what's coming to him. FRESHMAN: A verdant production of extreme youth: a human being in that state of development following Buster Brown sui'ts and perky hair bows. HUMAN OSTRICH: A dormitory girl invited out for a meal. JIM: The man who knows everything and everybody. The handyman with the keys and the broom. JUNIORS: Egotism raised to the thirteenth power. MATCHES: Those things which illuminate 'the campus on dark nights. NEW' CHICAGO: The elite provision center of Fairfield: famous for its lunch counter, built eggs and supeg a five minute walk from the campus. Marked on the map as the spot where l909 bought their Freshman pies. SOCIETY SPIRIT: Something the faculty believes is growing less pronounced. SPRING FEVER: That Weary Willie feeling which Professor Johnson so deplores. 83 A

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Tennyson as Quoted by the juniors. Miss Smiley closes the door on all tardy ones and with her usual dignity seats herself at her desk, while the class, with different expressions of haste, are trying to learn a quotation. She opens her books and the recitation begins. Miss Smiley: Miss Lee, will you give us the quotation in the beginning of the lesson? Mary Lee: The one about 'There is confusion?' I didn't know we were to learn it till I came to class. Miss Smiley: Yes, I assigned it a week ago last Saturday. Mr. Howard? Hubert Howard: I thought we were to make our own selection, so I learned, 'They sat down upon the yellow sand.' Miss Smiley: Your choice is rather brief and incomplete in itself: if it were prolonged a little it would be very good. Miss Foster, will you give us 'the assigned one? Edith Foster fbeigns hesitatinglyj: 'There is confusion worse than death, Trouble on pain . . . trouble on . . .' Why, I'm afraid I've forgotten that, but I knew it last night at Play Practice. Miss Smiley: Miss Whitmer? Myrtle Whitmer: I haven't it, ibut I can give the one you .asked for yesterday. fAnd proceeds 'to give it.J E Miss Smiley: 'Better late than never.' Miss Aurelie Zichy, are you prepared on today's? Aurelie Zichy: I didn't like the sentiment 'of that one, so I learned another instead. Miss Smiley: Next, Elsie Zichy: That poem wasn't in my book. Miss Smiley: Will you help us our, Mr. Downard? Claude Downard: Why I can't give it myself, but it is right there in the book. Miss Smiley: Mr. Wirtz, I will have to ask you for this fated quotation. Oliver Wirtz fgiving all and a few lines beyondl. Miss'Smiley: Thank you, that is far enough, Mr. Wirtz. 80

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Stands for Fearlessness, Fussing and Fun. Stands for Rooting and races we've run 'S for Exams, which are never a snap. , Stands for Socks the Sophs lost in the Scrap Stands for Horse, of a Latin variety. Stands for Making a hit in society. Stands for Everything good under heaven Stands for- Ndthing can ibeat 1911. QS 82A