TO YE ACADEMIC WOPS
Who, by your never-ceasing acts and indiscretions have made this section not only possible, but necessary;- we dedicate these perhaps humorous, perhaps pathetic pages.
FOURTH ACADEMIC
Stop, passerby, and look a bit
On many a finely-featured fellow—
At Allar, Bailey, Barnes, and Britt,
And Gerwe, Dautremont, Costello;
At Feeney, Flaherty, and Lew,
And Butler, Glanz, and Horty, too.
Forget not Hudson, Ott,…
DA PENUTTA MAN
I know dat I am feela blue
Baycause I am no hear fram you.
An' ev'ry day I sigh 'n cry;
An' feela like I wanta die.
Baycause you're far across da sea
In my own sunny Italy;
An' I am watch penutta stan'
An' try to be American;
To get…
The following letter was opened by mistake, and was found so true to
life that it must herewith be printed:
Blackhawk Hotel, Davenport, Iowa, 1-23-19.
Mr. Joseph Mack,
St. Ambrose College.
Dear Mr. Mack:
I know that I am imposing on your…
(For Ed Hines, March, 1919)
Oh, two is still a company
And three is yet a crowd,
And four upon the boulevard
Could never be allowed.
'Tis sweet to wander off afar,
Alone, with none to spy
Save some bright winking tiny star,
If one's sweetheart be…
Below is printed our single pastoral poem entitled:
LOUIS THE GAY DECEIVER
A sweet young maid from
the city,
Engaged to Louis Klise
Went down to pay him a
visit
On the old farm, so
nice.
She saw him place a doorknob
Right under a…
THAT DURNED OLD LAZY FEELIN'
That durned old lazy f eelin'
That gits yer in the Spring,
When the robin starts to twitter
And the medder-lark to sing.
It's then that you're so blamed tired,
That the work don't do a thing.
When that durned old lazy…
PROPHET DANIEL'S (KEELER) VISION
He dropped asleep (in Gerwe's room you know), and saw a vision of
St. Ambrose in 1924. He saw as:
Master of Discipline—Rev. E. A. Cone.
Director of Choir—Rev. John T. Gerwe.
First Prefect—Bernard Rank.
Humorous…
