Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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ELECTION DAY Quadri-nitro-dynamite Blows fifteen times as high When it is mixed with G. O. P. Our Congressman will cry, “We have heen Democratic, But it’s now the Fourth of July.” OCTANE 88 Filler up with the high-test Pain. Check the oil and the holy water. Is anyone anymore still quite safe? They’re all pedestrians led to slaugh¬ ter. Thou annointest my head with motor oil, and leadest me through the Valley of Detonation in the presence of ad¬ verse pressure gradients. Gentlemen, this machine needs a new washer, for as you can see quite plainly, it leaks. Well after all, Casey Jones was an engineer too. 25

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The slide rule amazes all non-engineers. That one piece of equipment can multiply, divide, and find any root seems impossible. Surely it must be the size of a Mark computer. Recently an engineering student discovered his rule to prop open the window at night. L. A. roommate using his precious slide During the Winter labs seemed like fun. But ivhen Spring arrived the green grass and warm sun beckoned and, oh, hoiv the laboratory sickened us. The fun had worn off; lab was now just work. 24

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East is east and West is west, but I can never remember which one she lives in. There wasn’t quite as much going on in the girls’ dorms this year: no dis¬ appearing coke bottles or mysterious white drapes in the living room of Met¬ calf, and half the fun of roughing it in Hodgdon was gone when the men from Bell finally got around to putting in a few phones. Many people wondered what all the digging around the dorm was for. Rumor had it that Maintenance was trying to brace up the building so that it wouldn’t slide into the lake. The male student body is asked to take note that Hodgdon Hall, home of one hundred and fifty Jaxonites, has a total of three telephones this year. Everyone at Hodgdon reads . . . 26