THE HESPERIAN
Gradually as tho twilight begins, thu this way 1" Thoy muster gradually, not in
crowds from tho outside "spreads" begin to tho best of voice, for salads and tho other
come back, and the walks and tho grass- dishes that abound at spreads aro not the
plots too, are thronged with people, groups most suitable diet for singers, and besides,
of friends, couples arm in arm, till thoro the hoarse cheering of the day has done its
seems barely room to move. It is well indeed work. Still they do their best, and tho old
that admission is by ticket, though in somo favorites "Drink, drink, drink, drink,"
way a few ingenious "muckers"1 have evad- ''Schneider's I3and" and the like, are sung
cd the cordon of police and are running to entnusiastic applause from yard and from
through the crowd and staring wonderingly windows, with cries of "Mo-o-r-c," the stu
nt all the sights. Perhaps they too may be dent's equivalent for "encore." "Fair
students some day, and may have their Class Ilcrvard," ends tho singing; and all turn
Day, and walk with a girl as beautiful as again to tho dancing and to the receptions
these.
in the college rooms.
Xow the lanterns aro lighted, hanging in There is one more event, the fireworks,
long festoons from tree to tree, swinging in In tho middle of the yard has been erected
the soft breeze of the summer night. Thoro a set piece, usually "John Harvard," and
is a multitude of rhem now, shining through at about ten o'clock this is touched off amid
the whole length and breadth of tho yard, tho usual chorus of "Oh's" and "All's."
making it seem aland of fairy unreality. In Then tho crowd molts away. Tho rooms
front of every building, at every corner, arc darkened. The colors lanterns are
burn little heaps of red iiro, casting a deep taken down. Tho stars and tho black sky
glow on the walls of tho brick buildings, and reassert thoir supremacy. The old life is
flushing to pink the granite severity of lTui- finished; tho new life of labor and anxiety,
versitv Hall. of failure or of success, is begun. Class
Every room in tho dormitory is lighted, Day is ovor.
and in each some senior is receiving a host Ukkhkrt Latks.
of friends, all reuniting, with a little sad
ness perhaps, for the parting may be along je Captlvation of tbe Corporal, or
one. Scenes fron) Carop Life.
There are quiet groups thai walk among m sm m ih( ,r (lWj
tho darker taees where tho boughs sloop 7yiefliishing cheek and the timid glance,
heavier. One catches the spirit of tho even- yyg jjfWUtcrjJtg shell and the canon's roar,
ing better wandering so and beside, is T&e stilt small voice that he fears much more,
net this a night when happiness may bo The fife's slu-Ul note and the bugle's call,
or unmade, for who knows what may not be The hands that part and the hopes that fall,
wlMMWrn?n !, 11nn nf some oniot cor- Th sod below and the sky above,
"i'v,vu " w " --
uc-r, in the darkness of the twos !
In the Gymnasium, out of sight across the
street, behind Hoi worthy, the dancing has
begun, and in Memorial as well, though
there is little pleasure in it, so say the
dancers who come back, the crowd is so
great.
And the cluvice of war and the chance of love.
Things that make a soldier.
I.
JIow he Corporal went Forth to Slay.
The Corporal of company B stood in his
tent before a mirror carefully brushing his
moustache. The sun shone brightly through
,. .i.,. A., r,f flio tn.nt nml the breeze played
A little way from where tho number or unuar ftf w,.v,.lAntRtWdinfflpd
the class burns in KaslMit on the side of coyly with apairofbicydepantsth.it danglui
mc ciass bums in kabllom f mm the center rope. The camp was almost
Uolworthy, senior l,as ,nonto ru.sed . ws61mk tlle d
l.l.tW Another follow and "uotl", to , - J g
and the yard rings with the cry,
4Ljiee ciuu swuiio" v,.