| Show Equipment Eludes Engineers w My Mp Job For a Shovel Shovel Sags Says Dean w ci r t w. w w Apparition Brings Weapon Can you imagine laying a cornerstone cornerstone cornerstone cor cor- cor- cor for a building without having a stone corner-stone Can you imagine going shooting without agun agun a 3 gun Can you fancy skiing without without with with- out skiffs Then Then you can also picture in your minds the difficulty of breaking breaking breaking break break- ing ground for the new Engineers' Engineers building without a shovel A great crowd was assembled north of the Physics building near the site for the new edifice The program was already 15 minutes late in starting and the mob was getting impatient The band was well weIl blown from overtime pla playing The President donned donne and doffed his hat nervously Speakers for forthe forthe the occasion walked in circles with hands behind their backs as if memorizing memorizing memorizing me me- their th orations The Engineering Engineering Engineering En En- Dean was heard to re remark remark remark re- re mark Si Semper probably probably probably ably referring to his pet Irish transit trotters The student and a St. St Pat henchman looked be- be bebing hing bing every tree in ir every ditch in all buildings but were baffled The shovel had disappeared And how could there be ground break groundbreaking ing exercises without a shovel Someone suggested getting a ascoop ascoop ascoop scoop from the furnace room someone someone someone some some- one else a pitchfork from the stables stables sta sta- bles and 3 a ar Beta wanted to deal a spade out of his deck One nefarious nefarious nefarious ious villain desired to pull the dump clutch on the big truck into I I which the dignitaries ries had climbed and get a talking picture of tho the presidents deans former cleans deans and queen skidding out of the improvised im- im improvised im rostrum on ora their august mg whereabouts The situation became more tense and the shovel more sought after It looked as though the official ground-breaker ground would have bave to claw terra firma with his finger nails much after the manner of a go go- pher-digging pher a new hole A shovel A shovel My position position position tion for a shovel it was thought one of the deans deans- or ex ex- claimed Suddenly in the distance loomed a galloping spectre It seemed unreal un unreal un- un un-I un real untrue Not so for the dancing dancing dancing ing figure brandished high over hish his h head ad acl the cov coveted ted shovel l or was it all aU a vision The apparition drew nearer and shovel gleamed like I a 3 battle axe in the two o'clock sun Who Vho would have dreamed that amere a amere amere mere shovel a di dirty ty earthy instrument in instrument instrument in- in strument could look so preciously formidable The apparition a grinning grounds ground's custodian halted planted the shovel up to the handle in the sod sad and vanished Everyone sighed The shovel had arrived and the groundbreaking ground break ing exercises were spared the ig ignominy ignominy ignominy ig ig- of being gopher |
