Happiness and the Pursuit of Love
or
Omnia Vincit Amor
T was eating time in the great hall—eating time with its bowls of cereal, with
I its bottles of milk; eating time with its cauldrons of tomato soup, and cups of
steaming muggle; in short, it was eating time. Is this the dawn of love? you
ask me. Wait and see; do not spoil the story.
“Bunny!” she murmured, “Bunny!” and erstwhile she would wring her
hands as one bestrick and mutter into the telephone, “He cometh not!”
The love of Bunny and Jane was of that pure and almost divine type, only to
be found in Pembroke West. Of this same type was that of Bobbie and Shef,
Emily and Hill, Brushy and Jack.
But even superior to this was Ginny’s love for Bill Hart. “They had never met.
Years before she had seen his face painted on a poster. She had turned pale; fallen
into a swoon. Her Hart had spoken.
In the room of the eternal triangle (frequently quadrangle) there is another
group of revellers. But where is love? We look upon the walls and only female
faces stare down at us. We look into the muggle can. No evidence there. We
stand on our heads and look up the chimney. No masculine features strike our
anxious gaze. Yet the desk is bestrewn with letters. Whence come they?
The minutes pass and keep passing. In Prue’s room big subjects are being
discussed. We can tell that each here has known love in her own way—not in the
way we mean, however, and into their private secrets we may not probe.
Let us look once more for true love. Missy and Peggy are eating out of their
yellow bowls. They Jook innocent and pure. Has love come into their lives? No,
only elephants. Do you never look back upon the time when you watched the
Noah’s Ark animals walk two by two across the floor? Well, you skunk!
Old Taylor strikes twenty-five times, then half-strikes thirty-six more, then
dolefully strikes out.
From PEMBROKE East.
College Rings
“Let’s get together, girls,” they said,
“And have a college ring.”
“Hurrah!” the undergraduate cried,
“That will be just the thing!
Then when we meet in ’83
Pll know you’re you, and you I’m me.”
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