Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1912 — Why Not? [ARTICLE]

Why Not?

BY PERCY SHAW.

(Athletics has been made a regular course in the curriculum of Wisconsin University.—-News item.) •Tack up your duds, my boy; No more ploughin’ to do; You’re goin’ to work; College is callin’ you. Readin’ an’ wrltln’, pish! Them ain’t nothin’ to me; Muscle’s the thing these days, Sure you’ll get a degree. * , “Look at him, Ma! Well, say, i Si, ain’t I proud of you? ’ You’ll put them teachers down— J You’ll show ’em who is who. • J Hunt up the high Mogul ?,1 And biff him one for me; |. aGosh, he’ll admire you, "Boy! * J Sure you’ll get a degree. T 1 '■“Buy some new-fangled jeans, s Them as turns up, you know; fl Puff on a cigarette, 3 Wear;a starched shirt for show. 1 Can you march with the rest? Can a coon, climb a tree? '7 Want till you hand ’em one—- | Sure you’ll get a degree. $ “Four years of that, an’ well, You sign your name *B. A.’ | you a fancy price ' I From graduation day. ! , | Five times what fellers get J For Greek an’ Algebre. J You’ll make your parents proud. J Sure you’ll get a degree. ■.