New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
The Coming Tower

The Coming 7ower
"HAEC OLIM MEMIN1ssE IUvAB1T"
was a freshman green,
planned to be one of the cultured few with
high and beetling bean.
So took on Latin, and German w,
French, History Ito the civil war;,
Trig Algebra Ia ghastly bore
and freshman chemistree;
Here, then, are the facts I still retain from
nineteen-two and three:
We aeon the "bloody Monday" fight, and
made the sophs retire.
Dear Lehigh licked the football team by
score that something dire;
BiU' came on from Chicago U.
With some bar-ro0n stories-nnd qood oneo.
too;;'
got on the glee club, and made psf U, and
sang in the chapel choir.
AS sophomore I am proud to state, was
taking the hurdles clear.
dreamed of coping the old Phi Bette by the
end Of my Junior year.
soaked up Logic, and Physics III,
French Lit. (I was there with the loud
oui, Quit,
Psychology, Shakespeare, Verse-not free
and couple of courses more.
Here's what l recall as l look back on nine
teen-three and four:
Weary chairmoncd the Junior prom (his
girl aoos Harriet White),s
played third quarter on the football scrub,
achilc Loup played centre and right;
Joe Baudermon ran a record mile,
The baseball team arus perfectly vile'
I made the track team after a while, and
tussed each Saturday might
By Junior year he'd laid away those hopes
of Phi Bette key,
But I toyed with the thought of a proud
NJ. A., and a possible Ph.D.;
So l grabbed off Plato, and Kant, and
such,
Church History, Banking (the worldly
touchD,
The German bards-whom we termed "them
Dutch
such French as I might contrive;
And the following info. still adheres from
nineteen-four and five:
Tom Reileys team smeared r. P. I. to the
tune of a large an,ount;;'0
made the gym and the track teams both;n
they ducked young Blum' in tho
tount;
The Glce Club trip acos Lakewood treat,
The baseball team got badly beats
And got third at the Wesleyan meet"-
but third place didn't count
A Senior now, was bald and grey with the
studious life I'd led,
But proud of the knowledge slowed away in
my small but wel-formed head.
I killed International (so-called) Law,
Took Spanish and Chaucer (the latters
raw,
Wound up with thesis Bernard Shaw
how much Of that stuff still sticks?
Well, here is the dope l recollcct from nine
teen-five and six:
Bill and wrotc the senior show (his book
wos mere detau),
and Loup played "Elsie, the Cannibal Queen,"
and looked like half dressed. svhale;
The Senior ball avas dream divine,'
The Senior banquet mostly wine,
And f. P. A. ran q piece Of mine'' in tho
Nc,o York Euening Mail. SMEED.
l. That is, the class of 1906
Q Weary won't like this but it's true.
3. 46-0, if you must know
a. William LeBaron, the talented author of
Il Love You''-adv
5. And a wonderful song kansas"
G. And maybe he wasn't stuck on her.
I. AS usual.
g. Some girl, too. She married shortly after
that
g. Major T. T. Rcey, D. S. c.
10. 63-0. no less
II. pretty good, too but badly handled.
I know l could have done the low hurdles IN 2e
if Mike Cam had only understood me- Stimmie
Draper (Arthur S. Draper, London correspon-
dent of The New York Tribune) did the pole
vault that year. He rotten.
IL. I'm not Of the name He was going
to the college. or something but didn't
IS. See note Z.
IA. Inc track up there Is narrow that only
three of US could run.
Is. took Adele Martin, a queen. She mar
ried Bill Wdman almost Immediately afterward
16 1t wasn't very good.
Well, unless somebody writes a mcrrier
more momentous contribution than
the preceding the 1919 watch will be
Smeed's. Readers who haven't time to
read "The Education of Henry Adams"
may read The Education of Deems Taylor