University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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Through the tall, white-columned porials Of these buildings hewn for learning, We've passed a pack of hungry martals; Chur appetites forever Turiing. - - - fur not for plepsurcs murdane and drode, Have we searched ameng these tranguil halls, Food and wine for the pallate of the soul Iz the stuff for which owr foncy calls, In the high-vaulted chambers of the Library's inberior Are enonugh wweighty tomes to make e twise feel inferior. And if we didn't vead pven half the books there, Trwas becarse o coed uswally drese our store, L Ll L - And the broad veranda of that Temple of Culture Was a revicwing stand for the College Fulture; Where the fellozes could assembly in the Blue Hew Academy, And study the merits of comparative anatomy. - - - - Cloge ta the left stonds the college cynosure, Back of wwehich les the amvete: i g inclosure Where, tn all prebability, they buried the ough-dey That came eul of cur pockeis cn that pav-as-you-go-day, - - - - Under the Mitchell Hall dome, Historionics Held sway over thoge swoho were acting elironics. Awnd the pluys that fleteed o'er the footlights svere towics Tmpelling the critics to veviews of syvmphonics, w - w - Ensconced ameng T squares, slide rules, and cob webs, Were the patient and plodding engineei ing sub-debs, Tucked away weatly in the building called Evans, The Blueprinters could shoot craps soith seientific sevens, - - L L Hack te the Goed Earth, wes the clarion coll Of the hayseeds inhabiting fv-clad Wolf Hall, A toast of corn brewe to the tillers anenymons Who elected pursuit of vocabions agromminens. - i a - In the Chemistry Building stalked the lads with a flare For mixing the elements and getting hot air, To concoct better formulae is theiy foremost ambition, Which is . K. with us if they omit qmmunition. - L - By the smooth-wworn woall stands the ofd dormitory Where the residing collegions were guite reformatory, How oft the Adwinistrator's ire rose, When the guys played around wwoith the fire hose. - - Ll - Far from the maddening erowd is Qld College Where once our farbears convened to get kuotledge. Today, nowhere elge condd veou find a finer And more austere hewsing For o dence kall and diner,