Show r Chronicle Pencil Push Pushers rs of the Past i I often sit and think of the boys who used to push E f The pencil for the when they in m a rush k To manufacture ponies or sit up all night to cram For Gr Greek ek or Latin or perhaps a calculus exam You know said said that editors of college p papers papers pers do do tt lI Flunk all through the term and then just manage manage manag to g get t through Those good old days when Riter worked i 1 Pr Prof fr r Aber to a T TAnd And Williams you remember him seemed quite a a prodigy At writing rhymes and verses that would make your old old heart l thrill ril II I J But who always had weak eyes when Wright tackled him for drill i J Then there was sergeant Reynolds or was it corporal As fine a fellow fello as ever lived but now the truth to t tell ll More dignified since he became instructor at t the U. U Than when he used to write love tales or a a magazine review And Roylance Roylan e old philosopher philosopher as he e was oft often n c called Who made Prof Paul of Logan retreat appalled At the of freshman power pOYer argument a green could b bring ing to bear Against the Journal articles which Paul thought extra fair Hes He's an instructor too and quite a different man an l Hi His times time's c consumed now work working ng out some new ner ps psychology psychology ch logy pl plan What a time we we used to have to get excused from drill 1 I Incapacitated broken br arms wh what t lies lies' and still still Some of us would be suspended from all classes for a t I week If Lieutenant caught us fore wed we'd time to make a sneak Will Ellerbeck who hustled ads to make the paper pay He's Hes at the U. U of P. P and h hustling yet they say Joe oe Swenson whiskered red-whiskered Joe who had the job the year before And got out the big souvenir which created such a stir j He tried his hand as manager manager for some theater show But times were pretty hard and he co couldn't make it go I I N Naylor Captain Naylor aylor as T we we used se to call all him the then thenIs Is still in in the soldier business business Major now now but I Ill I'll II bet betten betten betten ten ten j J If No pun intended Hell He'll be colonel or general or something just as fine Theres There's talent in him for that calling if he once makes up his mind Parley White was another of the boys on the old staff Hes He's married now and settled down It almost makes fr me laugh lau h When I think how bashful Parley was and how he would vamoose When he saw the girls appear They thought him quite a goose But he stole a march on the rest of us when it came to f I. I getting wed wedIn wedIn In the matrimonial race at least he did co come e out ahead Then Then young A. A B. B Sawyer thought hed he'd try it for awhile But a pair pal of big brown eyes and a sweet bewitching smile t a Just haunted him by day and night Folks thought he wasn't well w This year hes he's studying engin engineering e in Ithica at Co Cornell nell I Old Probabilities the weather-bureau weather man Was what we dubbed him R. R V. V V Smith in other words who can canSay canSay Say Ichthyosaurus Plesiosaurus too And other names as long in m a way to puzzle you r f WhO wrote up as a piece of news Now dont don't think this a fake How the wonderful lives out in Great Salt Lake And poor old Black from Des Despret Deseret ret or somewhere down that way He had to leave this world of care God wouldn't let him stay Among us sinners here below he was too good I 1 guess a We didn't half appreciate him till he left us Ill I'll confess I suppose youve you've heard that song about Days gone beyond beyond beyond be be- yond recall 2 That makes a lump rise in your throat when eer you think of all t I The fri friends you used to know who've disappeared from view Who although you still think of them have perhaps forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten you That's Thais how I feel when in the twilight gathering fast Ii Those dear old faces rise rise again from out the misty past I. I C. C Haslett J |