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Colonial Goose.

Air: "When I first Put this Uniform on." (Patience.)
When I started my College career,
I said as I sat in my class:
"Now I shall endeavour
To show that I'm clever
By coming on top with a pass."
I earnestly studied away
At my Latin and Greek every day,
And my cranium bulged
When the news they divulged
That I had become an M.A.!
But how in the world can a mind
By this poisonous plan be refined ?

By a logical inference, none
But a 'Varsity Senate could see,
By suff'ring a course of exams.,
You are fit to receive a degree.

But now I can never give praise
To the 'Varsity's useless routine,
The system is bad
Of creating a grad.—
It resembles a sausage machine;
And as for the ordin'ey pass
It is worse than a music-hall farce,
By diligent cram
You can pass an exam.
If you have not attended a class.
But how in the world can a mind
By this poisonous plan be refined ?

By a logical inference, none
But a 'Varsity Senate could see,
By suff'ring a course of exams.
You are fit to receive a degree.

Such a state of things couldn't exist
If the Senate made use of its brains,
But if any one jostles
Those obstinate fossils
He gets no reward for his pains.
Some day we may possibly see
The death of the senseless exam.
When the Senate reduces
The many abuses
That go to encouraging cram.
If that body their duty don't shirk
We'll have some original work.

By a logical reasoning all
Are readily able to see,
That suff'ring a course of exams.
Shouldn't fit one to have a degree.

"Titulinus."