Michiganensian. [1900]

map and make some cutting drive about "no gentleman," and bloat himself up on his superior breeding. John saw people with initials on their
sweaters. He tried it and limped for two days.
Once John was invited to a "hot frat" for dinner. He put on his
lawn tie and duck vest and was ready to join. He was a liberal cuss with
his advice to seniors about their work and did his best to warble out their
songs. Finally he asked them to sing something they all knew. They
had him framed up to rights and shook him at the S. C. A. He never did
approve of frats anyway. After due manipulation of his intellectual
centre, he decided there was nothing in Ann Arbor except himself, he did
have any great lumps of affection for, so he became a successful student,
graduated with honors, and can now be found dispensing everything from
condensed milk to plow points in his progenitor's old hang-out.
Moral. -If you are swelled on yourself, you are apt to get punctured
in a college town.
[While literary merit can not be claimed for the above, the editors
feel that it portrays many of the side pictures of college life that it would
be impossible to set forth in a more dignified article, and therefore have
published it.]
To Pobbu.
^ t IN lang syne past, thro' many ages,
Philosophers, learn'd men, and sages,
With transcendental dialectics,
With syntheses all a priori,
And reasonings most secretori,
Have caused their share of epileptics.
From Bonny Scotland, thro' time alway,
Philosophy has held her sway,
And ever will and ever can.
So here's to Robbie her wise son,
Whose fame throughout this land doth run,
We love to honor such a man,