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THE GLEANER
Ode to Latin
Dread of our Fathers 'twas of old,
'Tis now the cause of our decline,
Beneath whose awful yoke we bend
With shattered heart and weakened mind. 0 mighty Horace spare us yet!
Let us forget, let us forget.
The shouting and the laughing dies, Joy quickly must from us depart; Still we must make the sacrifice E'en tho' it nearly breaks our heart. 0 Roman .Virgil spare us yet!
We must forget, we must forget.
But soon our spirit wanes away, We study as a last resort.
Until we bow beneath your sway An humble and a contrite heart.
0 Horace, Virgil don't forget!
We'll get you yet, we'll get you yet.
FRED JOHNSTON: With apologies to Rudyard Kipling's mighty "Recessional"
Late-Cause and Result
One's life is usually influenced by some strong ambition. At present the main ambition of my life is trying to get ahead of the school clock. Perhaps it would be a little clearer if I stated that the school clock controls the school bell and as a result, my ambition is trying to beat the school bell.
The school clock occupies a very prominent position in the principal's office. Enter the office and one dare not escape with- out first looking at this majestic structure reposing on the wall. Below there is an electric apparatus which, when the clock is set in a certain way, rings, at nine and half-past one o'clock, the bell, which so often in its wild ringing brings woe to many 'hard- laboring students.
Sometimes at home our clock is fast and therefore I think I have plenty of time in which to make my tedious, schoolward journey. Often, however, in this I am mistaken and lo! when I reach the corner of Fourth and Main Streets I hear that much loved electric bell ringing its warning to lingering students who are able to hear its merry peal. At other times, however, the school clocl~ is at fault and as a result the bell rings sooner than it should. As a rule the public school belis all ring at different times so that by the time I get near the school my mind is no- thing but a jumble of bells.
After that buzzer rings there is a great deal of Marathon Page Thirty-two