Rondeau Metropolitan

In Harvard Square, when lorries ply,

And noonday clanguors wrack the sky;

When purring demons streak the pave,

Engulfing, like a tidal wave,

What flotsam 'hap the winds blow by;

Fain would I pause with anguished eye

To view the maelstrom ere I try

A passage. E'en how quake the brave,

In Harvard Square!

Since few less timorous than I

Emerge alive, on then, to die!

But stay: look well my corpse to save!

Let the Rotunda be my grave--

But let my hallowed impress lie

In Harvard Square!

Big Three Open Season--Harvard vs. Rensselaer, B. C. vs. Catholic U., Yale vs. Middlebury. --Boston Post.

Times do change!

Holy Chrysanthemum Curley

The tale is told of an ancient king

Who swore by his good right hand,

And still the curse of the "great horned spoon"

Wakes memories through the land.

But bozos and boomerangs, those are new,

As muttered in accents surly.

Are they the cuss words of hard boiled Marines

Or conventional curses of Curley?

Written at 86 (By John D. Rockefeller.)

I was early taught to work as well as play;

My life has been one long, happy holiday.

Full of work, and full of play--

I dropped the worry on the way--

And God was good to me every day.   --Springfield Republican.

Written at 8, and 6 Months   (By Johnnie Mockefeller.)

Mama tells me I must work as well as play,

And I'll be happy as can be every day.

Work and play, each blessed day--

I'll grow up big and rich that way,

For God will be good to me every day.

Higher Learning

Austute note from the high minded "Eli Book" (New Haven):

"Freshmen will do well not to spin tops or go roller skating: these privileges are reserved exclusively for Seniors."

--Such is the advantage of a college education.

Sad Stgt.

A lady grown far over-wgt.

Sighed dismally over her fgt.

Crying "I am so stout,

When I travel about

I pay overwgt. charge in the frgt."

The Crimson Fifty Years Ago

The removal of the gas-light from the entrance to Weld is no improvement, and we hope it will be restored.   Nov. 20. 1874.

The Foot-Ball Eleven will play a match game with the Tufts College Eleven, according to the McGill rules, on Wednesday, June 2. There are now several vacancies on the Eleven, and the Captain desires to state that candidates for these places will have an opportunity to kick, on every evening behind the L. S. S., shortly after tea. May 21. 1876.

Freshmen will be careful to knock at the door before entering the Secretary's office. Sept. 30. 1876.

Rah! Rah! Rah! Here we are again! Bartlett's College Pharmacy. (adv.)   Feb. 11, 1876.

All those able to try for the freshman tug-of-war team please be at the gymnasium at 3 p.m. today as the number of candidates is at present very small.   Feb. 6, 1889.