Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1891 [PAGE 23]

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Of Freshmen gay, and Bopbomon ing, Who. led bj pride and youthful enterprise, Did vex the night of February Aral With r and odors strange and foul.

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S o t h a t it n e e d s m u s t h e p o u r e d o u t in r h y m e ,

Fo thee I conn-, a pilgrim low ami meek! To a^k thy guidance. Thoo alone cans! help,

ThOU s t u d e n t s p i r i t .

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On that eventful 'lay the mornii hroke Wit h in' M s t ban usual i ! iai Shol forth hi golden poii lHspersing /ill the o\ >f \>m J w ith regal pomp el up bis ori< < )t Light I frb i and ("ham j at Prom p ifal sleep, are filled * f v la And whistl* pol- and keltl en se Ami breakl I bells. The mornii "he-; The students baxte ? » seek < ils Where some, intent on bookish loreed To delve in mines < f knowled >

T h e m s e l v e s in k n o t - a n d * e r r e t h c o n ft * T h e F r e s h m e n t a l k Of mil - : of T h e awful n i g h t , a n d d r e a d e d S o p : nor- -

ay a n d s a d by t u r n - .

i :. it walk'st with gentle -tcp along the banks

Of olad*ic B o n e y a r d ; o r . t h a t , h i g h in a i r ,

Dosi look down on the sport at Crystal Lake;

< >r, c l o t h e d in li^rht. a r t p r nt in t h e h a l l s Whirn *-k tin- way t o W i s d o m ' s f o u n t .

Whom they have learned to f r fr <

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To thee 1 come. Wilt thou sustain me now And give me wisdom: so that I may sink So low, may ri ind still remain My proper self. <taicehad the new j a moon her circled court Fulfilled; anotl month had dawned; the air

With anim alk w a s r i f e ; for, k n o w

i > doubtful age were oa< f t in s* t cakes < »r aught to pi le the pah , butt an an External application; slij Molasses was put where it would do the Most good; the atmosphere was filled with smells Pestiferous: all this, and more, was in Their minds distressing im with anxious thoughts.

T h e o t h e r oil m e n plot a n d p l a n h o w t h e y May tease the terrified. In BeCI :ie

Assemble for a consultation.

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Tha n this day, tii*- Fr< hman class had fixed 'i heir cho . the one gi I day of all the year To them. Thai eveninj bey prop.- I to hold A banquet in Qrbana: this, itrange fa*e, R | abroad, some days before, jusl when, < >r wfa or h I cannot surely tell* Nov. an old-time custom, reverend, h occasions, for the Sophomores, — V Juni< -ra- Seniors lend their aid, 'I I the m tt their command, 'Jo • the Frenhmen i the butl of jokes

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(Jo to Urbana! Some say, yes; som< no. l s, We can't do anj thing I

A f t e r t h e y r e a c h t h e hall of b a n q u e t j S o we m u s t d o <Mir w o r k b e f o r e t h a t t i m e . 1

All nod assent, and, one by one, they tell Their various sohem >ld Earth prodH e r c r u s t , full m a n y B k i n d <»f m a t t i.

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Alone, ta innocent of outrage to i b anae of touch, or tnsl < IK oi Compounded by the hand of cunning man,

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-n * ir in • il ion i nd ei peel ion of dii hapg (. t oi' Dch ter them t3T held them in Its gripe before:

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Assume new shapes, new low and new smell of these the students talked; fo there ha< n [nvented vials filled with inks use Upon that fated evening. B < are j

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In evVv look

ad act, and word. But, when

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