University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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must have been looking forward to a feast with some such body as we, when he likened toiling minds to 'K sweet bells jangled out of tune. We have thought, we have wrestled, we have pulled and torn at the children of one another's brain and fancy until well nigh mad. And yet withal we have been a rare committee. From tobacco clouds and pencil smears we now emerge with open mouths to drink in the fresh air of your kindly thoughts and comments on our work. What thought now of the carefully written discourse, which was to con- vulse the Committee with uncontrollable jollity! What thought now of the same discourse when not a Cornmitteeman, save the writer, was seen to smile, andthe verdict passed through the smoke, Write this o'er again, 'tis not worth time spent on it? H Nor do we even stop to think of the care employed in weeding the relined from the ordinary, the jocose from the scurrilous, the friendly from theinconsiderate. Past is all the seething and boiling of our imaginations 3 past all the witcheries by which we coaxed into light the elfins of our fertile minds, and learned from them the art of sorcery in picturing our whilom thoughts of others. Out of the steaming room, whose stifling air, as it escaped into the cool outside would ring z- Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn g and cauldron bubble: Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron broil and bake, Eye of newt and toe of frog, YVool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind Worms, sting, Lizard's leg, and owlets wing For a charm of powerful trouble Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. At last the cauldron has boiled out, the last power of fragmentary frog and bat has been employed and the smoke is clearing away through the open windows. V We have done our best by everyone. Fleshless Schell-ing even have we painted like unto a well-proportioned man. To be sure, if you turn the page and see him as he is, there will be a literal shelling, and you will ex- claim,- O Hamlet, what a falling otf is there. But, if you love him clo not turn the page. If you love him not, look on. There is meat here prepared to suit the taste of every one. And now again with the simple desire that you will apply to all you find herein, the true test of kindly good humor, leaving ill-will for those who bear it-and we bear none-we would put our last touch on the curtain and let it fall over the college life that is behind us. We would dedicate the result of many an hour of earnest work, as well as of unalloyed pleasure, to our classmates. 8

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