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Show ^DedicationTT WAS our own original idea to dedicate this humor section to A Professor Levi Edgar Young, but that idea was so good, and we pause to brag just a little, that the Editor adopted it for the book.Nevertheless, we point with pride to the "Utah" professor who has, throughout the years, maintained his own youth by never once deserting it in us, his fellow students.We present a favored poem of Professor Young's to show his spirit, that of the perpetual freshman.The Plight of The Timid Freshman Written for the Celebrities Jester by Brander Matthews, Columbia 71There's a skirt around the campus Who is up here just to vamp us, And we've got to get up early If we want to dodge that girlie.Even if we're shy and fearful She will promptly spill an earful; She will sing her glad roman^aâ€" As you'll learn in the next stanza:He was not a stalwart scrapper And he shrank from every flapper. She was bound to take the doughnutâ€" This he got into his slow nut.When he said his name was Jimmy She began at once to shimmy, A-contorting of her torso Sometimes less, yet often more so . . . |