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24

On the Banks of the Boneyard

narrow for our feet. I still have that stove-pipe hat and I get it out once in a while to amuse my young friends—I think I still have that Ascot tie also. Most of the men wore mustaches, sideburns, and other facial adornment. We got our hair cut once a month "in the new of the moon" because it was said the moon would keep hair from growing so fast. Picture a senior dressed in the uniform described above, falling off the back end of a new electric street car as it swung with great speed around the corner of Green and Goodwin streets in Urbana on a muddy Sunday morning in June of '92, and you will have my perfect alibi for missing the Baccalaureate sermon preached by Dr. Washington Gladden of Columbus, Ohio.