Wells College - Cardinal Yearbook (Aurora, NY)

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Quiet in the l3uilcling. T was Tuesday afternoon and I was busy, so busy that at that moment quiet seemed of all things the most desirable. Gath- ering my books under my arm I betook myself to the Li- brary, that place of rest for troubled souls, and when I entered and closed the heavy oak door behind me, I felt calmed by the peace which pervaded the room. I found a secluded corner and opened my book to begin work. How grateful is this stillness after the confusion outside! The Physics lesson is difficult but in this restful atmosphere even Sound wavesi' may be con- quered. Suddenly, somewhere beneath the floor, almost under my feet, a door opens and I hear the noise of a heavy ball, hitting first the ceiling and then the floor and laugh after laugh from girls who seem to vie with each other in exerting their lung powe1'. Soon the jumping begins. Thud, thud-the girls are jumping the rope-each thud accentuated by a burst of laughter. Then music begins, 'drst slow but gradually quickening, a voice mocking my misery while I find myself fitting the words of Mr. Gage to NMa Hannah Ladyf' It is maddening. Suddenly another sound is added to the tumult, the class is at the chest weights. 4'Up, down, over the head, while one poor weight with each stroke utters a hoarse groan at being wrench- ed from its socket. How long will it last? Is there no peace, no quiet, no rest for the weary? f'Class take wooden dumb- bells. I-Iave you ever heard sixty dumb-bells wielded by thirty able bodied girls come into contact at the same moment, not once but many times and then inally drop on a hard wood iioor in one grand crash? They have certainly made the dumb to cry out! How can a poor mortal center her thoughts on sound waves, when sound waves such as these are concentrating their attention upon her? UMark time! Left, right, left, right ! March lv Again the music, laughing, chuckling with glee, and sixty feet keeping time to its measure, marching, run- ning, skipping, leaping, with an occasional halt to make the con- fusion more noticeable when the torture recommences. There are two solid walls between us, but ffwalls have ears'7 and in this ease, unfortunately, the noise 'fgoes in one ,ear and out the other? 138

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IS for Reynolds And the Riches We Waste In tickling our palates And pleasing our taste. STANDS for ff Self-Gov? By Whose notes We are warned, When the dictates of conscience Are recklessly scorned. IS for Tired Of Talk at the Tableg We escape to the H Darkls 77 Whenever vve're able. STANDS for you Who are reading these verses We hope you have paid for them Out of your purses. IS the Vaudeville Which was given to make Money for boats To go out on the lake. ,S for Wells And for President Watersg The last has a son The first has the daughters. STANDS -for ff Xams Which to understand better You are asked to refer To the deadly sixth letter. IS for Youngs, That maker of cakes Who feeds us with dainties And much booty takes. 'S for Zabriskie, Our trusty trustee, Though he ends all these rhymes The first, he pslnould be. 137

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In this place on Tuesday afternoons Dante might have con- ceived ' 'The Inferno. The music grows quicker, the feet more hurried. My endur- ance has reached its limit, and I put my hands over my ears to shut out the final crash. Silence! Gym, has finally ceased its troubling. But alas ! The object lesson in sound Waves had prevented me from learning any facts concerning them. I, was only conscious of their potency. I returned to my room Where my room-mate was playing the mandolin and several Freshmen were singing their class song, to sit down in quiet to learn the remainder of my lesson. After all, mere noise is only compara- tive. Agnes Myer:-'fi Ah thou art mild, too mild. I pray thee swearf' 139