see. 95 MIM area me ~ oo ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS 9 » Page Five Sparks Fly as Genius Burns — in Throes of Yearbook Toil #« Perhaps no one but the editors of the Senior Yearbook is interested to know that it has gone to press, Per- haps no one is interested to know that there is a Senior Yearbook. To such we say: there is, has been, and will be, while tradition lives and flour- ishes on this campus, an annual of the graduating class, possibly and preferably humorous. ‘True, many members of a class have no desire to see their portraits, taken during quiz- time, reproduced en masse, or to find their eccentricities made public after four years of mutually-protective si- lence. There are, however, great- hearted individuals in every. commun- ity, who for the love of labor ‘will tackle any prospect, however unat- tractive. Of such a mould are year- book-editors produced, Only a few arise in every generation, It occurred to us to interview the Yearbook-Editors informally, that is, to listen at the window of the News Office, from which so much informa- tion and invective is regularly foisted on the ears of the casual passer-by. The final meeting of the staff before the copy went to press appeared to be in progress. ; “M——.,,” says -C , “have you got your Athletics with you?” “No,” replies M——. “I’m not quite finished, but I’ll give it to you in Shakespeare class tomorrow.” “Hell,” says C-——, “we wanted it |. tonight. _We have to criticize it.” “We can do it after dinner Wednes- day,” says S ; “Listen,_M——.,””__bellows...C_-—, “vou get that in tomorrow or you'll hold up the whole show another week. Now where is B I have to speak to her about the Ads. I’ve got a letter here from Frank about engraving that I can’t make head or tail of. Oh, there, B——, have you got the engrav- ing ‘sheet? Well, I gave it to you, didn’t I? Oh, s-o-r-r-y, here it is. Now, give me a ruler. 8% by 6%, that sounds funny — are those the measurements A got before. M ; measure this page, wilf you No, here, this. Not the copy-sheet, you egg.” ° “Well, now, what about the Dedi- cation? I personally think last year’s was terrible. lLet’s write one to fill up at least six or seven lines. Now, suggestions. S , what do you want in the Dedication?” “Say something about her popular- ity on campus,” says S ‘ “Yes, the interest she has in the col- ‘lege,’ adds M——. “And her European fame,” contin- ues C——, “we mustn’t forget her Eu- ropean fame. How does this sound— ‘She is known abroad and loved at home!’ ” “Lousy,” shouts S and M ; “Well, say something yourselves, idiots.” “Just change what you’ve got a little, C——,” says S , “turn it around a bit.” “Yes, leave out the ‘abroad’ and ‘at home,’ ” suggests M——. “Well, let’s leave that and get on,” declares C——, “TI’ll finish it myself.” “Now here’s my Drama. You look, at it, M ; S——’s seen it already. I’ve. tried to mention every damned member of the class who’s ever taken. part in plays.” “But do you have to mention every- one, C——?” says.M d “It’s much better to,” says C “It’s their Yearbook; they want to see th®mselves in it, don’t they? And be-| sides an awful lot of our class have’ done work in- drama.” “T haven't,” says M——. “Yes you have, silly,” says C - “vou were property-manager in Fresh- | man Show, even if you don’t remem- | ber it.” . “Well, I think it’s very good,” says | M——-, “it’s long, of course . . .” “QO. K.,” says C——, putting it, away. ; “Now, where is the Prophecy? Some | of it’s rewritten, M , so you’d bet- | ter look it ,over. _We cut out what you didn’t like about X and Y, though | we still think it’s pricelessly funny." says. C ‘ “Well, C »’ says M , “you know jolly well this yearbook is com- ing out the first of May, according to.our plans for early delivery, and if you want to be miserable your last month in college, I don’t.” “We'd better go around wearing chain-mail-under--our*-gowns,” says S—. “Dr. Herben might know where we could get some. I’m not going to have spent one year of my young’ life doing honors and then be knocked dead on a dark night before I get a degree out of this institution.” “Now, M , where’s your May- ic “but I don’t know if you'll like it,| .i“Fire away,” says S ; |C Day poem? You’ve had that assign- ed since God knows when,” starts afresh. “Well, I’ve got it here,” says M > Caen “Let’s hear it, silly,’ says C—-—. * * * “It’s not what I expected, M 1 said a Chaucerian parody,” says “T will not parody the classics,” says M , with sudden vehemence. “IT. think it’s damn funny,” says S—. “That settles it,” says C ; “Now, who’s going up. to Newark with me -on Saturday?” says C . ~ “Not me,” says M “T went last, time and I hadn’t my sleep the night before, what with working on my copy to get it in on time. I will not listen to our Year-book nonsense being read aloud in a New York Pullman ear. simply won’t, so you two can settle it between you, and what’s more, now we’re all through, I’ll just tell you this: I don’t think there’s one funny thing in this yearbook except our pictures.”” With which she left. ““Hell’s belts, we don’t think either,” says S and C——, “and why..we. ever said.we’d do. this,..we don’t know.” We watched the Editors striding up the hill from Goodhart. We followed, making up our mind to buy a. Year- hook. . SO Be kind to the grass! Wit’s End (Continued from. Page Two) it seems silly to be: plain when you don’t know what being plain means nor whether it is better to be plain or complex. The question is. whether Four Saints in Three Acts will last or whether it is a flash in your pan and should be put in the circus. As one has said who has been peer- ing over my shquider as I hit the keys, and the words were said _ sol- emnly, not harshly, but. solemnly, “There is no virtue in anthologies, in- the Ides of March, in the Infirm- ary, or in the writings of Gertrude Stein, you will add in a moment. But the writings of Gertrude Stein cannot be included in that flash in the brain- pan, as they have to do with the fu- ture and only fortune tellers, who were outlawed by a statue of Oliver Cromwell, can tell. what. is going to happen to Four Saints in Three Acts. , It belongs to our children and our children’s children. It may even be- long to the second childhood of our own generation and so we will have to sit around and wait. —Cheero - THE MAD HATTER. Princeton University males, in a recent. poll on what. living man. they would like to be if they had a choice, chose Pres, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler.—(N. S. F. A.) 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