GLIDING along smoothly and annexing victory after victory
the Midgets completed a basketball season of which they may
well be proud. Although they played but five games all were
good ones and held the interest of the spectators quite as much
as did…
Junior baseball
LOPPING off the old heads is Father Adrian's favorite diversion, so no one was surprised when he barred all new candidates who were over 16 years old from his Junior baseball
squad. There were no high school opponents in the field,…
Midgets
IN Baseball, as in Basketball, the Midgets have a team that
any other aggregation their size may do well to hold to a low
score let alone conquer. While in Basketball they were
forced to bow to superior weight, no such advantage…
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…