| Show Thai Blasted Hoodoo “Ilis horse went dead and his mule went lame And he lost his cows in a poker gallic Then a hurricane came on a sum- mer day And blew the house where he lived away And an earthquake came when that was gone And swallowed the land the house stood on Then the tax collector he came ’round And charged him up with the hole in the ground” This is the story Prentice tells us The settler he referred to got off lightly With us it is not a question of earthquakes tax collectors or poker These sink into insignificance Evervone knows that since school started a pall has hung over “campus classroom and corridor” alike What have we done? Has anyone started anywhere or started anything on Friday? Has a hlack cat crossed anyone’s path? Has anyone heard the ominous croak of ravens in the night? What has brought the hoodoo on us and what can we do to rid ourselves of its dread presence ? School anel the football season opened with a question mark Kirk had left us anel that large hole to the left of centre filled the minds of everybody with eloubt That doubt has been realized Utah Nevada California Washington and Oregon have done their utmost to show us that something L wrong in the athletic department The Thing doesn't confine iself to athletics At the beginning of the present school year the faculty tendered the students a reception It crept in unseen and the reception was converted into an eruption Student Life was next smitten The engravers the printers the express companv and even old Uncle Sam took up Its cause Orders were mistaken goods missent and letters lost Student Life struggled valiantlv in the clutches of the Hoodoo and put in an appearance a week late somewhat used up in the struggle but welcomed by something over ten subscribers Where will the Thing strike next? Prepare yourselves to shake it off Away with this doubt this uncerBrush the Thing aside and tainty let us see some of that spirit that pushed us on to victory a year ago Let us make a determined united effort to rid ourselves of this dark shadow that is settling over our Drive It grand old institution away! let in God’s sunshine and let us see the glork us old A C of ! ! ! old |
