AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 437 



When neighbor Harrison saw the tool he gazed on it with awe: 

 "A bigger drag than that State drag," he said, "I never saw. 

 If that's a State drag what a drag the Nation's drag must be. 

 And when they use it in the fields, may I be there to see." 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 I wonder where that drag has gone, since forty years ago. 



One day to show them that we could, we started out and found 

 The biggest monarch of the wood in all the country round; 

 And then, with axes lieen and sharp, we laid the monarch low; 

 They called us vandals for that lark, some forty years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 We wish we had not cut that tree some forty years ago. 



We pulled up all the green oak stumps that stood about the lawu 

 And when at last we had them out, we wished that they Avere gone. 

 For evei*y stump brought tons of earth; it took us many a day 

 To pick it from the pesky things, and draw the stumps away. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 We could not biu-n the stumps we pulled out forty years ago. 



And then we sowed that turnip seed. The yarn went all around 

 About such lots and lots of seed sowed on so little ground: 

 And as it grew, each mother's son who went along the plank 

 Declared the College must be run by some half-witted crank. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 The lies were thicker'n turnip plants were forty years ago. 



We wandered all the country round, by woods, and fields, and lakes, 

 Wherever insects could be found, or birds, or fish or snakes; 

 We gathered in a lot of them; most anything would go 

 Into the College Museum some forty years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 I wonder if they've kept them all since forty years ago. 



We tussled hard with grammar and with rhetoric and logic. 

 Philosophy and chemistry and algebra and physics. 

 But when' we had geometry, they cut our class in two; 

 To hear us all within an hour was more than they could do. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 'Twas then we had a merry strife, most forty years ago. 



The classes came at different hours; the theorems were the same. 

 Who'd demonstrate most in an hour, the victory could claim. 

 We tried it for a week or more; each class would winner be. 

 But they gave up at eight-four, when we did ninety-three. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 That made Prof. Tracey proud of us some forty years ago. 



We studied trigonometry and did some land surveying: 

 We mixed up physiology with harvesting and haying; 

 We studied horticulture 'mid the turnips and tomatoes 

 And spent our time at botany 'mid posies and potatoes. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 We had to work and study both, some forty years ago. 



The jolliest time in all the j-ear was when we went to town 



And visited the Fem. Sem. girls, each in her prettiest gown; 



But things have greatly changed since then; the Fem. Sem. had to go. 



It's been a school to teach the blind since forty years ago. 



Forty years ago: Forty years ago: 

 Miss Rogers had .^ome splendid gii-ls there forty yeai's ago. 



