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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Thursday and Saturday - 25th & 27th June 1908

Memorabilia

Memorabilia.

"This costume chaste is but good taste misplaced."Patience.

She once thought much of blouses—
A stripe to wear in town;
He sported nobby "trowziz"—
Sing ho ! for the long-tailed gown.
But now we care no more for cut,
And stripes are no importance, but—
Oh, dear oh, sing ho ! for the long-tailed gown, etc.

Our new "debating ladies"
Are very hard to reach.
They say a spade a spade is—
Sing ho ! for the maiden speech.
They say (and we mostly think it's true),
"There's nothing on earth that a girl can't do "—
Oh, dear oh, sing ho! for the maiden speech, etc.

We once thought Mac was funny,
His jokes are sadly off;
The latest for my money,
Is who but the brand-new Prof.
He has sentenced us all to six months' hard
Picken up roots in his own back yard—
Oh, dear oh, sing ho ! for the brand-new Prof.

Philosophy and digits,
They hardly seem to mix;
And gowns produce the fidgets—
Sing ho! for the freshman's fix.
What positive integral worth is incurred
By the wearing of gowns (which seems absurd) ?—
Oh, dear oh, it's all in the freshman's fix, etc.

—"E.'