AD PRAESIDEM HARV ARDIAN AE DEDICATUR

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

He banished himself from the pedagogues' graces

By using, they said, inappropriate cases.

He gave to instructors abiding offense

With what they averred was contemptible tense.

As one, they declared he was bound to encumber

All of his syntax with errors in number.

They scornfully called him an arrant offender

For always ascribing inaccurate gender.

Aghast at his singular usage of "ut,"

They ribaidly made of him ridicule's butt.

And never their irony suffered abatement

As vainly he juggled the indirect statement.

His genitive style, which he sullied with "quod,"

Made'em recoil as they would from a goad.

Their opinion of him was extremely deflative

Whenever they viewed his disdain for the dative.

None of them ever would take any stock

In his curious ways with the voc. and the loc.

Often, In flouting his wayward accusative,

Some of them got to be downright abusative.

From classical halls he was given the boot

For making the ablative too absolute.

His critics' avowals were hyperemphatic

That ever his Latin continued erratic.

They naturally knew there was no avail

In dispatching such a dunce to Yale,

So at last they gave him a domi diploma,

But not, you bet, in the language of Roma. K. DuPont Lamont d.