Free Public Library. 
 
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 \\ 'oi'ccster, Mass., 
 
SEYMOUR DURST 
 
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The Columbia A. B. ABS. 
 
 A Pictorial Primer 
 
 Of Things Light Blue and White 
 
 The Verses 
 by 
 
 Melville Henry Cane, 'oo C. 
 
 The Drawings ' - 
 
 Will Hunt Schanck, 'oo Arch. 
 
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**Colum6ia^ ColutnlJia* 
 
 jFor aitna ittater^s jfatne 
 
IS ro^ AvLD 'Alma Mater^. 
 
 AlvMNI and all- that- COME-LATER- 
 EvER-V MAN ON HI3 LEG>S ! 
 
 Drink the toa6t to the dregs • 
 May CoL^AMBIA ever grow greater^! 
 
.^ONE SHOVLD CITHER- 
 
 ' WITH EASE, 
 
 5 
 
 INTR.ODVCE5 THE TJMR. 
 
 'ARNARDE 
 
 V ^- ^ I CAN INTRODVCE YOV 
 
 TO HVMDRED OR TWO 
 WSr AS BRIGHT AND ATTRAC- 
 
 : 1^ TlVEA5THEs5E 
 
\t> a Cry -for a Cxxttj^us 
 
 bur\^ 5ouVf\ r\e\d >nc 
 vied \>e o\ eased >n\^ ourV ^ 
 
 \or. 
 
 for Q Y\Qy-<jround \\ke -Vf^oT wou\dnVcramp us. 
 
Though jTwre ofd 
 
 wear- 
 ^ word, 
 hardly a 
 
 'Wordt 
 rc'-word. 
 
IS FOR. EvENIN<S5 ElY5IAW. 
 
 'Don't work 30 ha.r.D !' 
 crie5 my phv3iciam. 
 
 5o I TO JK DANCE frT^ 
 
 Or. a. BVRLvE^OyE . PERCHANCE, 
 JVSr TO KEEP IN THE PINK OF CONDITION. 
 
iJonds :fer Freshmon 
 
 ^ ^ and FraK" 
 The FbcuIK', i*- f^lunks, and 
 
 .* 'a' riTah:- 
 IPyou donh" like }tSe5c ^TSur 
 Tl^e exams will bnna more. 
 
 Which ni serve ts^ou hot- 
 
G serves for Grind and for Gym, 
 That he goes there the chances 
 
 ^-_^._c^<>--^ are slim ; 
 
 And so, too. is the Grind : 
 He's no body - all mind , 
 Thai's the paramount trouble 
 with him. 
 
Har/emhh HaU- 
 ^IJI room. 
 
 a ^maJI room / 
 vuVown, in TtTe 
 
 y/or/oUs3 
 'c dormrforroa^ , 
 lar^e aj a 
 ba/I-roorriL. 
 
is/fjr Ice , where you/ocke^ 
 
 W/lfS" a nttte wood block 
 
 Q Q tKqI^ 15 hockey. 
 Ice, I learned from a sports 
 Is a needed ^upporl^ Q 
 yyoxirz. on a long skate and/^el 
 
 rocky. 
 
 I4 
 
as a y(;/:e ive ivere It^'^ea/ei/ 
 
 i^e B/^ /x?cfi — ir// ffyo y^e 
 
 Soit^fd save 
 
 conceiTec/' 
 
when we slaved in sub- 
 jection, 
 Slood Jor Km<j5 , but^we 
 broke ttSe connection. 
 Now we won't^jond /6r kin^s 
 
 In a /ree 5latc of^ iRTng^, 
 &\^CfoT cjueens we've o morkcd 
 
 predilcctTon. 
 
L \5 Low, FIR5T OF 
 
 Light- BLUE MEN, 
 
 "^y^ A MODEL OF LORE 
 
 When we study 
 
 ... , AKTD ACUMEN; 
 
 AT NIGHT 
 
 We JU5T BORROW 
 ... ... .... HI5 LIGHT, 
 
 For IN HIS LIGHT... 
 DEBIMU5 LUMEN. 
 
^Ta^ '^nr TfT^^^c^ 
 
y\ r/S THE L0AFA3LE NOONT/ME. 
 
 I r.^^^^^-.-si ® ^ 7VNE'T/ME. 
 TTiEN WE 3MOKE AND IVE JOKE 
 AND MATCH CO/N3 T/LL WE'/^E 3J^0/<E 
 FROM mE F//eJT OF OCTOBE/^ 
 
o 
 
 stands for C)uUnc^ on Ocean 
 Which yoiA Irkc \f^you far^cy ^^<\ 
 
 5tartTh<^ law jeems to* nac 
 
 Much tHe ^oirvic ;^oure a'TBea 
 
 fn your course, noirrctomrncj —one notTbn . 
 
*P ^ncts placid "F^uc^K keepsie 
 Where the boatTnc^ crank, annua/l^ 
 T Y T 5k»f5; he 
 
 1 5 -^illeci witfr 
 
 F^rtfTe I 
 
 3Iue andWh 
 And IfToMcjK 
 
 wilti drink. 
 
hints' ol^ Qrious Quarreb <^ 
 In which underclassmen win Icitirels 
 
 For jkor lin^y may loosen ones morah. 
 
.where 
 Dame Pa//aj 
 Direcff fpTinaj , ajce/fc 
 
 and ca//ou^. 
 
 Tlhafa boy i^e'// cal/ 
 ed Pallaj awhf/e /hr- well, A.I ice. 
 
Our ^Uhry" i^ey ISke 
 
 CHARLOTTE 
 
 RUSSE 
 54r 
 
 Vor GranlS^Tomb, but^ 
 ltet break- 
 
 jbd wiffTcommufeKs 
 and ^ran^cr^. 
 
that's for Tavern; now, is it ? 
 
 There's no tea in the tavern I visit . 
 But with high-balls, gin. sherry 
 And cocktails with cherr)^ 
 
 One finds no occasion to miss it. 
 
y»iLu M SCI 
 
 15 an Underqrown U-tfee. 
 Girls gush "Wharan 
 
 awfully cute tree!' 
 Now, to planh'^tich a runf" 
 
 Is, in shorf7 a 0006 slunhT 
 Bul^whof^ more fe my tSsfe 15 
 O a fruit-tree. 
 
3, 
 
 ^y4v^. c/t/hur; ^^aar- ^^^sg^ 
 
Vm like LQn^fEllow5::^f 
 
 sScalin^ Mornin^^ide 
 
 Its absurd, day^ like 
 
 To work hard jbr decrees, 
 For ffiere are no decrees 
 
 when lis Zero.