St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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4 I 2 ? I I :S+ l 4 I l l l 5 l S i 4 l l 1 L 1 r f ! il ! D is i 1 l V l I 1 i s E 5 Jqtv t fa 1 3 Soliloquay of a Boarding Club Student Backward, turn backward, 0 time in thy flight Feed me on gruel again just for tonight. I am so weary of sole-leather steak, Petrified doughnuts and vulcanized cake, Oysters that slept in the watery bath, Butter as strong as Goliath of Gath 5 VVeary of paying for what I don't eat, Chewing up rubber and calling it meat. Backward, turn backward, for weary I am, Give me a whack at grandmotheris jam, Let me drink milk that has never been skimmed, Let me eat butter whose hair has been trimmed, Let me once have an old-fashioned pie, And then I'll be ready to turn up and die. The M'fi1'1'01'. J alta' Shakespeare's Ideals 'The Merry Wives of Windsor -Powell, jones. Measure for Measurei'-Reed. Much Ado About N othingi'-Townshend. A Midsummer Night's Dream -Bradford. Merchant of Venice',- Seward'.,' As You Like It -Riggin. The Tempestv-Dougherty. VVinter's Tale -Woodcoclc. Comedy of Errors',-Masenheimer. Macbeth -Keyes. King John -Blecker. , King Richard the Second -Spencer. Anthony and Cleopatra''--Tarbutton and Smith. Julius Caesar -Spates Romeo and Juliet -Cronk and Elgen. 'fKing Lear -Professor Daniels. Hamlet -Garey. Qthello,'-Neville. W Two Gentlemen of Verona -Padgett, E. R., and Padgett, I-I. Love's Labor Lost -Cummins. I 197 .L-.... , . .. .. ,,L.,:,r- F

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French and German quotations in the course of his talk. His speech was enthusiast- ically received. Mr. Jim Clark moved that we rise hell around these digginsf' There being no further business, the lights were put out and we had a fight. CGUNTRY TARBET, 1 Secretary Rough House Club. The following are the qualifications necessary to become a member of the Rough House Club. U I. Every member shall be a good liar. . , II. Every member shall keep his mouth shut when called before the Faculty. III. If any member fails to answer to the call of the President, he shall be accused of all the damage done' during his absence. IV. Members shall practice the art of putting rooms on the bum. , V. No member who is familiar with the Seniors for Pokey eitherj shall be tolerated. . VI. Every member must be able to jump a whole flight of stairs at once. VII. No married men allowed. VIII. No one shall be admitted to the club unless he has received QQ demerits. . IX. It is necessary for each member of this club to sleep with his shoes on. X. No Freshmen allowed. XI. It is the duty of every member to raise as much racket as possible during chapel. iffy? .I 51-Q! as .I57 196 n-4'+ 1 1 .Az r I i l -av :ia X . , li . I l 2 '1

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The St. Iohn's Zoo J' NE of the ideal features of our College life is the enjoyment we derive from our excellent collection of fowls and animals. A For some years we have been carefully collecting from the most remote regions these specimens, and we at present have such a collection as would make the dullest zoologist open his eyes in wonder and envy. Owing to some negligence on the part of Sub-Director Soho, one of our most prized animals, the monkey Cfiontainej, escaped last year, but we have as a partial compensation a kind of baboon, which, in honor of our beloved escaped monkey, we call Monkey Facev Qfieysj. In the year ?96, while fishing on the Chester river, our efficient Director Fell caught an excellent specimen of Ranae. He brought the frog QTarbuttonj here, and we are now greatly indebted to the Director for this animal, which has grown to be quite a large specimen. VV e keep the frog on the third floor of Pinkney Hall, where his croaking is a great amusement to the boys. The Major often takes him to the armory for the pleasure of Company A. The rarest specimen we have is, perhaps, the dwarf Reed, discovered in South Africa by Stanley. This cute fellow is of a race known as Pigmies. The little fellow, we fear, is not satisfied in this distant clime. When persons are near he is very quiet, but when left to himself he participates in all manner of yelling and hideous noises, which causes the monkey-face baboon, whose cage is 'next to the dwarfis, to become very melancholy. We have had several local zoologists CPokey Daniels and Bob Wliitej to' examine these characteristics, and the opinion seems to be that the restless disposition of the fellow is due to the fact of his separation from his natives. . Three years ago the animals received another very precious addition to their ranks. This specimen was brought from Calvert County by Sub-Collector Hutch- ins, who says the natives of that barbarous county called the thing a ffwhife rat Uonesj. Sly Reynard always slips in where there are fowls to eat, and so we have had our zoo much enhanced by the appearance of a. fine specimen of fox. He is a full-grown red animal of a very sly nature, and is noted for beino' . H H g very quick to catch on. He was brought from Baltimore County last year. What has attracted the Fox to our clime seems to be the large variety of birds we have. I shall give a brief description of the most prized ones in the following paragraphs, which shall include the Jay Bird, Woodcoclc and the Crane: I 198 f 4 3 A. 4 i a l I l 1 l l . l 1 1 l l k