Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1889 [PAGE 35]

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Base Ball at Monmouth.

[As most of our readers may be aivare% last fall, at the intercollegiate or, torical contest, at Monmouth, our ball nine participated in the series of games arranged for the stale college, championship. The following is the A fuses* description of the lrip.~\ MUSE divine, who d< o'er college worlds Preside, and note with joy each ripe return Of autumn's golden days when through the streets And avenues of quiet C h a m p a i g n town. The festive student rushes, headlong-bent T o find some good, cheap club, where he can live Upon the fatness of the land and have pay two dollars only, at the end Of each and every week; and having found It, out upon the campus, runs, and calls With clarion voice and accents clear for some Fresh, "to brace up," and bring a ball win with To limber well each bone and joint of Soph. And Junior proud, and (Senior gravt ind with The rest, the childish Prep, who lately from His mother's lap, with head upon his frame As large as any man's, comes heir t If it be true, that there are thinj in this Great world he does not fully comprehend; Thou, who, above all this d biefly love Ti frantic strif- ihe wild intense delight Of our great national game, do thou, my inn [ndil i lofty strain on this great theme ' how the Champaign ! « > > did fight and win Monmouth Lei thy rich tongue with richer ch than is thy wont, pour forth a si in of Bloquem Bitting well a noble Deed. I was on a OOOl and qni< <»f That gay month, which |»o. most unmindful ( )f the actual f. lo call tin t In the \ ,0 i. that upou j he Pi m the gr I I.. B. k v\. Depot, a little g r o u p of l < > > »U i waiting for

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