University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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FARRAR DRAWN BY ANNh G.

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5. Maaaawww N 115139 manemz bl ht from the burdened heart of the unfortunate composer. ttO for a new stunt Iii he sighs; and well he may sigh, if he hopes to do anything but make a contribution to the rubbish heap. Every device possible has been called into requisition. We have had poems, satires, dramas, prose serious and funny, and dreams galore. All sorts of spirits and goddesses seem to be up the chimney or in the Closet of the editor, ready to appear through the Hames, or to treat closed doors as if they were as unsubstantial as a University dinner. It always happens, too, on a tt midnight drearyf, when the wind is C1eaking you1 shutters, or if you live on Dawsons Row, is undulating your carpet into gentle waves. But we have tried in vain to summon some tascinating Vision fIOm the realm of dreams. We have swung the sixteen-candle power bulb in mystic Circles, and muttered all the incantations of Dr. Faustus; but neither Mr. Lewis Morrison nor any other spirit-white or red, deigns to favor us, not even our illustrious founder, who is usually very accommodating along this line.' Even the regions of poetry a1e closed to us f01 we defy anyone to grow sentimental, when he has nothing better to look at than a Randall Building radiator. However, all situations have their redeeming qualities, and the Ila! az'r fur- nished by the aforesaid article may prove useful. The Academic Class of the Un1versity of Virginia was founded in 1826 by Thomas Jefferson. After some years it sank into partial obscurity, but was brought again into prominence by being rediscovered by Christopher Columbus II, of Latin fame, who was rewarded by a long and successful career under the Peterian dispensation. Some- where in the dim distance Mr. Robinson, M. P., alias Bory, appeared upon the scene, and by his political sagacity reorganized the Class. He was also the originator of the i0 Academic Upper Ten, who call themselves by two Greek letters, but whose real name is Lively Politikaters. The above mentioned M. P., and his band of supporters were undisputed cocks of the political wall; for many years, and played an important part in one of the fiercest struggles that ever disturbed our Academic peace. There was in the Class a modern Alexander the Great, known to his friends as Genial Willie, who could have put it all over his Macedonian ancestor with baseball bat, boxing hl T has become conventional for the class history to open with a lament aka. am g gloves, or tennis racket. This popular and accomplished Academ was recognized by ; the Livelies as a well-nigh invincible Champion in the political lists, and they decided 9