Show Graduation Brings Evaluation By Karl Keller A senior is a long-time thing one might easily classify the collegiate years as Junior and Heartburn visitors to campus inevitably for all the these that book that grape that careless or that nostalgic studied stare that is a A senior is a soon-through thing a sort of extended not making the and then lasting for years as a senior bad you can't become Eros and Id-man and then a senior is perhaps one who is educated enough to now able to forget all learning here-Jr he writes poetry and t television Knows history but can't remember sPeak three languages into bronc riding as a and can recite formulae but refuses to a senior feels his four years are wasted if he's otherwise he may be peacefully resigned to at a hermitage he knows too that love must be that platonic love is like being invited down into the cellar for a bottle of giner ale if a senior is married he has dren in last four Soon senior will stride up to the shake the president's hand with a firm grip to show his but only moderately so as not to appear conceited or happy with leaving the and get a diploma with someone else's name the school prize winners will be announced the athletes will each be honored in turn the officers and leaders will be recognized the honor- er will be the sponsors the faculty honored but the poor guy now who worked so hard to get straight gave his wife 3 worked his way through collegiate plunder and and now badly bald and is forgotten a senior calls home to the folks an it is he's educated but he forgets just why he has become a martyr to the actual he has been made to think so much of late that he's bleeding ink but never dare defy the prescribed academic fate of graduation he just scratches his square head and mutters to a lost that's just a lost but he gets himself a degree and he feels This then is a senior ragged individualism tired blood exhaustion of the cerebral type a new world ahead more like a chasm no heap of hope just loneness is his new world Individuality with capital I's a new a a senility ahead but maybe time in between to think of great great collegiate when learning was fresh and enthusiasm I |