Wells College - Cardinal Yearbook (Aurora, NY)

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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

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The Mort er Board. Solemnly into the chapel Walked the Seniors with digniied treadg Each figure a long gown encircled A mortar-board crowned each head. The freshmen with eyes full of Wonder Looked oft from their hymnals away, And e'en 'mid the prayer so impressive Their glance to the Seniors did stray. Said one timid maid to another, As loudly the morning hymn soared: Could you tell me the reason, I Wonder, Why each on her head Wears a board? Why surely, the other responded The reason is certainly plain, By the time you've become a grave Senior Youill need one to keep down your brain. To Lxeo. September, 298. Flap to me only with thine ears, And I Will Hap with mine. Give but a Wag of thy bushy tail, To that thy joy confine. For thou'rt the dog, the unruly beast That bites me from behind, And I must biff thee, tho' I would To thee be truly kind. I gave thee late a hearty cuff, Not so much hurting' thee, As hoping that thereby thou mighst Hereafter gentler be. But thou didst only biff the more, And jump upon my spine! I Would thy puppy days were o'er, Thou Woolly-skinned canine. A. R. G. '00 '01 and M. P. '01 Louise de Frees:-A few nights before the 1903 banquet H Girls somethings up. The Sophs are up in Cascadillalv 1-L2