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THE GLEAN!!.:R
A School Idyl
Contributed by a 2nd Former (not original)
Ram it in, cram it in, Children's heads are hollow.
Slam it in, jam it in,
Still there's more to follow. Hygiene and history, Astronomic mystery, Algebra, histology,
Latin, etymology,
Botany, geometry,
Greek and trigonometry, Ram it in, cram it in; Children's heads are hollow.
Rap it in, tap it in;
What are teacers paid for? Bang it in, slam it in;
What are children made for?
Ancient archaeology,
Aryian philology,
Prosody, zoology,
Physics, clinictology, Calculus and mathematics., Rhetoric and hydrostatics, Hoax it in, coax it in, Children's heads are hollow.
Scold it in, mould it in:
All that they can swallow. Fold it in, mould it in :
Stili there's more to follow.
.Faces pinched and sad and pale, Tell the same undying tale-
Tell o£ moments robbed from sleep, Meals untasted, studies deep.
Those who've passed the furnace throuO'h. With aching brow will tell to you '=' How the teachers crammed it in,
Rammed it in, jammed it in,
Rubbed it in, clubbed it in, Pressed it in, caressed it in, Rapped it in and slapped it in- When their heads were hollow.