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By Their Speech Shall Ye Know Them

It has always been our aim to present the lives and loves of our classmates
in the modern mode, and under the circumstances, and in the light of the fact
that we have been joyously informed that there has never been a class quite
like us before, and, if the gods are kind, there never will be again, we feel
that our class history cannot be written in the manner of class histories in the
dim, dark past. We are therefore attempting to present it through a review
of the clichés which have been on every talented and brilliant tongue during
our four years of preparation for the life to come. It all started when the lady
of social repute gave a dinner and during the preliminaries announced that she
had intended to have caviar canapes and then decided not to. Everyone
raised their voices and shouted as one person “cliché”, and that is how it all
originated. We have been raising our voices and shouting more or less the
same things for many years and through them it is our belief that our careers
can be most accurately sketched.

: 11. Two inches taller and I would

9 have been the world’s greatest

Hamlet.

© | 12. You know I think there’s really
something to that man Santayana.

13. Freshman! ‘Telephone!

14. What did you really think about
Ulysses?

15. Have you started your long paper
yet? Good, neither have I.

e 16. Mine’s a tragedy—I simply can’t
write comedy.

17. I know, but the English faculty
doesn’t want to know the facts of
life.

18. Virginia Woolf may be the best
modern novelist, but she doesn’t
mean anything to this baby.

19. Caps and gowns make me feel

FRESHMAN YEAR awfully intelligent.

20. I’m going to chapel.
1. Can you go out with men around oxi



here? 21. It doesn’t make sense. I had a
2. She had blonde hair when I knew credit average all semester and
her in prep school—can you be- then end up with a sixty.
lieve it? 22. Isn’t Mrs. Collins cute?
3. What do you talk about when
you go to tea at the Dean’s? 23. There’s something positively om-
4. Do you realize she has never inous about the Dean’s office.
even been to a speakeasy? 24. Freud has a _ positively filthy
5. I’m only going to stay two years mind.
—just to please the family. 25. Parade Night makes me feel like
6. Id like to see her outside of col- I was back in prep school.
lege. 26. Ill bet I draw the prize Lantern
7. She’s never known any men real- girl.
ly well, if you know what I | 27. I think the Seniors are really
mean. quite human.
8. Do they ever check up on where | 28. Wouldn’t she have to be Presi-
you sign out to? dent of Self-Gov?
9. You show a marked tendency to- | 29. Well, it’s all right if you live in
ward flat feet. Pembroke, but Rock has gratings
10. “Marching along, marching along, on the windows.
Fifty score strong, 30. Vll never get my merits—not
Great hearted gentlemen singing with that dandy Freshman Eng-
this song.” lish.