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POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS.

THE GATHERING OF THE FRESHMEN.

GANDER Green Adolphus Gosling

By all sorts of oaths he swore

That a chosen crowd of Freshmen

Should the Black Crook see once more.

So he issued forth his mandate,

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And they came from all around,

Very little Freshmen sprouting,

Button-mushrooms, from the ground.

From east, from west, from north and south,

From Little's, Beck Hall, too,

From Matthews, Hollis, Stoughton, Weld,

Came forth the half-fledged crew;

And some wore Chantillys of price,

To hide the furtive cane,

And some magenta handkerchiefs,

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