San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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14 WHITE AND GOLD TO THE FACULTY. Miss Billings says, the While she slashes Your English ex. With great blue gashes, l th no, it really isn't hard, You just must learn by the yard, And when in English you're perfected, - You may be editor elected. I I Says Mr. Bliss, Who's wondrous wise, And looks at you With four big eyes, I I Now History is a wondrous art, And should delight your very heart. I donlt believe in cramming-but Your lessons are not long-tut, tut. l ' With science lectures in his hands, Our handsome Willard Crandall stands. I lllll keep my dignity, I ' he sighs, These awful girls demoralize, I Will them to their senses bring- Theylll flirt With me? N ix, no such thingll ' In his long talks on Education Thinks Mr. Kemp, lth, Botheration! I hate to make the poor dears work, But if their duty they dare shirk Because I look so young and kind, Illl show them itls all Hin their mind. ' ' T o soothe our troubles comes Miss Way, The dearest teacher of the day; i lDear girls, I truly feel for you, That you must all these lessons do, But if you donlt get in and peg, Youlll end up with a big goose-egg. ' ' Then Mr. Black, our old stand-by, He comes along and heaves a sigh,- I lTis hard, I cannot see you work, And, since you havenit tried to Shirk, Illl give you, for your own elation, Just lifteen minutes' recreation. We sing, Miss Davis shoves us on,

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WHITE AND GOLD 13 sitting by the fire, Terry leaning against Sherlocks kneeewe felt that all the nice things were Terryls clue that evening, somehoweMiss Holmes, without any warning, began to tell us a story. It was about a girl, the eldest of four, whose father had died when they were all very young, leaving the mother to support them. It wasnt a pleasant story. The girl had talent that ought t0,ve been cultivated, but there wasnlt money and, worse, there wasnlt time. She had to go out to teach when she was sixteen, in a mining towne-rough boys as old as she, and older. There were six years of that; then she worked her way through college, and everything was looking hopeful, when she-the girlewas in a railway accident and was injured; she was laid up for two years, and all the money sheld saved was spent for doctors and hospitals. So she started over, never quite well again, teaching in a high school, and was beginning to look ahead again after a little, when her youngest brother lost all he bade which was precious little-in a worthless bank, and he with a wife and little baby. The girl helped him-gave him all she hadeshe was the sort to give and he was the sort to take-and started out again for a. third fight. That's all there was to the story, and Sherlock ended: Would you blame the girl if she'd lost heart, and faith in the world and men? Would you blame her if she had grown hard and cold on the outside in her en- deavor to keep the divine flre alive in her heart for the sake of her nearest and dearest? Would you, Terry? And then, suddenly, we knew.

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WHITE AND GOLD By keeping time With her baton, The HRevel of the Leaves we love, But When it's time for us to move, She keeps us till we feel abused, And then says gently, HClass excused. Miss Tanner, my respects to her, She ought to get a. million per, Her patience, 'tis a sure God-send, She makes us bow and scrape and bend, And when, from climbing ropes, weire sore, She calmly says, Do it some more. ' ' And Miss Prattis voice is soft and low, She never says, i i 'Tis THUS and so. ' iIf reading is so hard for you, Just come to me, Iill help you through, This Grammar is not really awful, T 0 hate it soyit seems unlawful. ' ' T is late, your Physics in a muss, You scowl and scold and fume and fuss, The dear old Prof. stands by and sighs- Heid rather hear his baby,s cries- Oh what is needed, don't you see, Is more Kinetic Energy. Then comes Miss Godfrey, cute, petite, I tell you what, she's awful sweet, And when your woes to her you take, She smiles and gives her head a shake, And then attempts to cheer you some, With this, iiThe worst is yet to come! And last, not least, comes Mr. West. With learning great he's truly blest, ' i Put not your faith in men, ' i says he, ' 'Your aim should be Geometry. ' ' N ow What he says is very true, Iim going to follow it, aren,t you? 15