The Hanover Scene

dear editor

your October scrivener filled this space with a piece called summers lease this author has crawled out for a worms eye view of the hanover scene in lower case entitled autumn leaves dont flinch now this is not a foliage rhapsody what it means is that autumn has left this autumn has been full as tanzis basement the foliage was fine but suddenly it was pfft the squirrel that hid in the young oak tree and threw half chewed acorns on cars in the parkhurst officers parking place is now decouvert as the french say a most improvident squirrel but gay and scampering on the raked grass till snow falls decouvert too the long strong line white wall black window verdant blind the lyric row of gleam and dream emerges through the leafless elms better watch it this gets like something written in the third grade put it this way the strip tease is over and unless it sounds too incestuous let it be said that your alma mater revealed in massive red and gleaming white is a truly handsome sight in halloween season the witches mixed a merry brew in the old blue bowl they rode high and gay in green that day next week though out of season they rode grim in the humid dusk of hanover scaring the pants off pious folk and vermiform appendices like this epicist the lion roared in the darkening gloom and was beaten down just soon enough the stately row of park street elms looked like a stencilled pattern in the ominous brown sky but the final score was dartmouth twenty six Columbia twenty other witnesses must write the wretching witcheries of ithaca and oracles treat the yet uncovered mysteries of nassau but surely armstrong the all american bridegroom and clayton and fitkin and jenkins and carey and sullivan and other such have given some bright moments to this one hundred and eightieth dartmouth autumn ebullient is the word for postwar vintages of fifty one and fifty two ebullience and counter ebullience surged through dorms in ebb and flow of sabotage and struggle of which the major victim was the damage account of buildings and grounds the epic struggle of the football rush closed in a clouded issue ultimately resolved by palaeopitus with solomonian solemnity and justice lake success please note at least one score was made through broken fields of squealing squaws and girl papooses too curious on the trampled turf the fifty ones assembled at the clarion call quote to consider administering traditions to the freshmen unquote but the forces of emancipation would not down in late november retrospect recall the brave October hue and cry when burst the sudden blaze of action and of scene where quietude had been the crowding throng at convocation which seemed young again the bustling pace which imperceptibly subsided into cycle and routine of study and hebdomadary trek to female seminary in spots you see this verse is even blanker than it is in other spots fraternity was rampant for its allotted span and neophytes .betrothed to clan and clan where now the courted charmers grovel employ fraternal pick and shovel endure nocturnal trial and woe before they take the vow of bro downstream the black Connecticut ebbs low and barely trickles on the rocks below the dams but where john ledyard launched his log the rivers silent dark recalls the change of season yesteryear and soon the icy fringe will grow from shores where now the images of birches lie diffidently yours anonymous