THE BEST CLASS'S POEM On the hill beyond the river, Opposite the township schoolhouse, Stands the little red-brick college, Where the pupils green,the Freshmen, Gather to perform their duties. Big Chief Edwards heads the council. Next are Clara, June,and Henry, Who make rules and take the money. Bowyer, champion pigskin passer; Dovel, rivaling Valentino; Glass and Johnson, jovial room-mates; Hunt, who does not take things serious; Martha Beam, rotund and jolly; •Dickey Cooper, little shaver; Hastings, Dobbins, Mills, and Strobridge, Tarr and Anderson and Jurkat, From the school across the roadway; Gerren,from the Keystone country; Plummer, Hutchison,and Ater, Studious and unassuming; Harbison, Outram, and Cowgill, Silent, shy, but thinking deeply; Pete, who parks down on the Av'nue; Ray,a boy with high ambitions; Peters, caring naught for roll-call; Morrison,from colder regions; Nagley, player of the tom-tom; Two Smith boys, though no relation To the ones who make the cough-drops; White, who journeys from the Corn State; Hopper, ardent basket-baller; Betty, Chevrolet admirer; Murphy,talented musician; Crowell and Burbick, youngster members; Edna Collins, stately student; Mary Aggie, ever happy; Meahl and Spracklen, Stuckey, Louis, Make the list of girls completed; Pierson, earnest, quiet, friendly; Funk,who has a sense of humor; Walker,from the Armco city, Now complete the tribe of Freshmen— Freshmen, starting in last autumn To the little red-brick college Opposite the township schoolhouse On the hill beyond the river. "YANK" JURKAT. 47 14
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