History as She Is Made
News item: "Cleopatra did not commit suicide through love, according to a Munich savant, but because the ancient Egyptians believed that death from an asp bite would insure apotheosis afterward."
"Twas not love of Antony killed Cleopat," She wanted apoth-eosis:
A Munich professor's as certain of that
As a doctor could be of sclerosis.
There's not any doubt in his Germanic mind
That history must be rewritten;
The proof is in Shakespeare, the facts you will find
In the act where Miss Cleo was bitten.
A Clown, though a simpleton, used the right word:
He said of the asp he presented:
"His biting's immortal." We thought it absurd.
"Not so!" says the scholar. "He meant it!"
Why doesn't he find out why J. Caesar fell?
Perhaps he had some kind of -osis;
For Brutus, his best friend, did not dare to tell.
And that, of course, means halitosis.
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A second-hand copy of Bierwirth's "Beginning German" bears silent but eloquent witness to the spirit of progress in German A. On page 15, opposite the sentence where Anna is being introduced to Charles, there appears in the margin this comment: 'O Lord, how do you say this?" And on page 115, where Charles and Anna say they are not looking for anything but aren't you looking for something? the margin is illuminated by this note: "O mein Gott, wie sagt man dieses?"
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He Guessed Her
A testy young chorister, Esther.
Impressed on the priest who confessed her
That temporal joy
Could never decoy
Or even allure or molest her.
To test her before he had blessed her.
He firmly for evidence pressed her:
Her pious devotion
So stirred her emotion
He swore that the devil possessed her.
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John Harvard Says:
One would never think, to look at its present neglect, that there is more noble history woven about Holden Chapel than about any other Harvard building. For the first hundred years after the college was founded there was no chapel. Then, in 1741, Mrs. Jane Holden of London made a gift of four hundred pounds "to build a Chapple for the Use of ye College."
On the eve of the Revolution of the General Court of Massachusetts, protesting against the quartering of soldiers in Boston, was "rusticated" to Cambridge where the House held forth in Holden Chapel during the last years of its service under the British flag. Then the war came and Harvard was in the very midst of it. Holden became a barracks, housing no less than 160 men. When the soldiers left the chapel was little better than a ruin.
A new era dawned upon Holden and upon Harvard in 1783, when the first professional school came into being. For thirty years the Medical School held its meetings in Holden Chapel. Harvard had new become a university! There was a time when that little box of a building housed the Medical School, the Chemistry and Physics Laboratories, such as they were, and four recitation rooms, one for each of the college classes. This was Holden in its heyday of which Edward Everett wrote "the Chapel was Holden" the entire university." But as new buildings were added Holden sank once more into obscurity and neglect, from which it has not recovered to this day.
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The Junior Prom turned out to be an affair where Juniors were prominent but not predominant.
