University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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BO'MI) OH EDITORS A. H. REID, Chairman. K. L. COWDERY, J. L. VAN ORNUM, E. R. JOHNSON, FLORENCE P. ROBINSON, J. S. ROESELER, A. B. WINEGAR, W. W. CUTLER, F. BEGLINGER, FANNIE FARNSWORTH. BUSINESS H. L. RUSSELL, F. E. DOTY, Chairman. W. E. BLACK, D. T. KEELEY, I. SHRIMSKI.

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PREF @E. §ND it came to pass in the five and eightieth year, in the month when the leaf falleth and the little grasshopper turneth up his toes, that it entered into the heart of them which were called Juniors, to inscribe in a book the mighty deeds that were done in those days. For these Juniors dwelt in a temple of learning, where there were many things worthy to be recorded, verily they dwelt in the temple which in the Badger tongue is called U. W. Now this book was to be for the afflicting of the nations, yea for afflicting them with divers and great plagues: plagues of puns, and plagues of cuts, and plagues of verse, and whatsoever plague pla£ueth the brain of man, with these were the nations to be plagued. And in those days, there ruled in this temple of learning certain mighty men, and the mighty men sware unto the Juniors saying: “By the great horned spoons, ye shall do that which it hath seemed good in your heart to do; for the mighty men are with you, even to Elisha the Badgerite of the tribe of Keysan.” But behold as the cold and dismal days drew on an evil spirit came into the temple which did stir up dissension between the mighty men and them which were called Juniors and the conflict waxed hot. So all the days of the book were five and seventy days, and it died. . And behold in the six and eightieth year there arose yet other Juniors, and they filled the temple, yea sometimes overflowing into the fields about the temple and the very orchards thereof, and they displaced the Juniors that went before them. Now when the spirit of wisdom had come upon them like the wandering bean from the bean-shooter, they said in their hearts: “ Let us not do like unto the Juniors of ’86 and ’87—for 11