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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-









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“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





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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.)



Cases of dual personality are very
common in this country, according to
Dr. Herbert Goddard, of Ohio State
University.— (N.S. F. A.)



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