Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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454 HISTORY OF 1916 S. We will go to Mexico, but will never, Never, NO, We will NEVER learn to turn our column three ll Company attempts to turn column three. General confusion. Cannon goes off, killing captain. Beautiful Chorus Girl Three cheers for the boys in brown!! Cheers. American flag falls. All point at it. Audience remains seated. Ofjicer: Freeebeeeer at-Garde! Battery charges down road. QCurtainj ACT III Scene: The slums of a great city. Interior scene in Hotel Garde dining room. Vicious apaches from Academic '16 are seated about, drinking absinthe. Rough looking customer is having row with waiter over the bill. Rough Looking Customer CHigginbothamj sings You pie eyed, skimy, Greasy, slimy G???!!! QQQQ ?'Z?Q2C2 G??!!Q-it Waiter lout! If I should land You with this hand, They'd have to blast it out. On this appears Four dozen beers, 1 And t'Was but three, old scout. All Yes, only three, no doubt! Waiter One keg contains four dozen beers, And that's what he has drunk. A Rough Looking Customer I never drink but thirty-six At once, you dago hunk. 1 For code, see Class Secretary.

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FOLLIES OF 1916 S. 453 Prime Minister Convention demands that We say something about the battery. 1t'd break Sam Atkins' heart if We didn't. Bring out the armyllllll Chorus men enter, dressed as battery boys Cboy scout suits, etc.D . Band plays military march, I Didn't Raise My Stand To Go To Bridgeport. They drill prettily, wig wag love messages to audience, etc. Band Urnplah, umplah, umplah, umplah. Battery Boys VVe're the men quite military, We are hairy, We are scary In our pretty corset model uniform. We are dainty as a fairy, But they 've found it necessary To print instruction books in euniform. While the drill has never bored usfi We admit the News has floored us With the stuff they ask us all to memorize. You can beat us, you can fine us, You can kick us or confine us, But welll never hear commands Without surprise. Captain Frank Scott Awgwan-yeeeeh whoop! The company presents arms, shoulders arms, drops guns, bayonets each other and one thing and another. Chorus Don't blame the battereeee, If we act kind of simpuleeee! We 're not responsipul For the prime official bull That they feed us, and they read us, America we love you. If we didn't we'd all be free. Ushers laugh here. you 'll agree. salutes,

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FOLLIES OF 1916 S. 455 All Beware, that man will pulverize Your body into junk. R. L. C. What, waiter, hast thou never heard The story of the Hoff? How I and Rufus Scott did gird Our loins, and polish off Not one, but Waiters by the herd, In Freshman year? Wouldst scoff? Waiter It is the mighty Waiter slayer, Higginbothaml ! Me for the fast ive-forty freight to far off Gotham! ! ll Flees. Enter Count Lorenzo with Fatima. Lorenzo Ho, Higginbotham, ruler of the Garde, The king pursues e'en now, and rides as hard As ever did Arch Green! Be on your guard!! R. L. C. You said a platefull Boys, pile high the steins To soak 'em with. And fill the air with Wines, And chairs and things-for he that dines Down here knows well what Hell this place confines! A bngle call Cplayed by Lysle on the mandolinl is heard with- outfi The K. K. K. band enters playing military march, followed by king and army. King There they are. To battle, boys, and see that this game does not end in a tie. Court Jester Yes, I'm all against strip poker myself! There is a terrific battle. The battery are delayed at first by the necessity of lacing up their puttees. The count is seized 4' Oh, Well, then, if noone else will, without what?