Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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case of the Civils of “equilateral triangle, fifty feet square,” beside other points as new to our dizzy brains as are these. Now we find ourselves at the end of our first year, we are not as green as we once were, and although we don’t sport such high collars, skin-tights and flaxen beards as our immediate predecessors, we feel pleased at the show¬ ing made by ’86, and now we would close this, our contribution to our Seniors, with the toast to ’86. May she thrive and be long prospered, never her name blighted by dishonor, and in the future may we look for names which shall be noted, and which were on the class roll of ’86 of W. T. I. 20

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had been having a “meet” with a Junior, “in his sleep,” and was about to force him to throw up the sponge. On the following day our work as Preps began, and ¥ it passed quickly and quietly; and at the end of our first half year — though we did have to furnish “ soapinc for the whole school—in ’86 could be found as fine a set of fellows as has ever entered the Tech. When we came back in August, we were joined by the Chemists and Civils of ’86, and all hands entered upon our studies in earnest. Since those early days “Johnny” has led us at times to Holden, “Teney” has lectured on the billiard problem, and all but the Cs have had to endure “Smithey’s” fragrant exhalations of CO2 (authority from Dr. Fuller) We have been “reckless ” with “ Gladdy,” and “improper ” and “slangy” with “Whitey,” but as we now take our meals regular, we think we will pull through, and see the beginning of our next school year. We have been universally successful in our endeavors as a class in all we have attempted. We have our victors at Field Day, and hope to see an increase. One of our numbers has overpowered a “Mephitis Mephitica,” our “heterogeneous” student has acquired a gift of oratorical expression that is charming, and “now, gentlemen,” what have we learned ? “Of the green odor of chlorine gas,” “of wooden bowls made of earthenware,” “of the hypo¬ thetical period” (see Whitney’s Grammar), and in the 19

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of Qptop0. BY ONE OF THEM. -Me ’ S ' 7 JiH- I. If you want to be an angel, With your resting-place in Heaven, Just go and join the cherubs In the class of eighty-seven. II. Glacldy loves them while they’re drawing; Badger loves them in the shop; But to masticate their English © Makes poor Baldy fairly hop. III. They are innocent, but cunning, Though they look as meek as Moses; Just let them loose around the shop, And they’re thorns among the roses. IV. To make old Badger roam the shop, Like down from off the thistle, They look like Mary’s little lamb, Then let slip a lonely whistle. V. Why inspects he thus that little hole, As a good priest does his missal? Quite easily explained, my friend, He’s searching for that whistle. VI. Whence comes that voice stentorian ? Whence comes that mild reproof? My friend, it’s only Badger, And he’s howling at the roof. VII. When old “ Three Toe ” is around, They seem exceeding quiet; But when he ambles from the room, There’s a Cincinnati riot. 21