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Old Thayer Commons' Hall.

With boarding there or baiting!

We saw the joke and called it good,

By students' standard testing,

But Time, in an avenging mood,

Sometimes brings truth from jesting.

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Or is it "Irony of Fate"

That takes the themes we jest with

And makes the truth discovered late

Sometimes to be expressed with?

How e'er that be, I often see,

As Holmes' broad field I enter,

The very wall within whose hall

So many memories centre.

But there no more the student feeds

Brain nutriment demanding,

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