College Courses

The nimble correspondence schools

     Will shortly be hard pressed;

The colleges are waking up

     To do their level best.

The correspondence school has long

     Had courses while you wait;

The easy going college says

     ‘Twill soon increase its gait.

Missouri now includes a course

     For making poets fine;

Of course the other colleges

     Will soon get into line.

And now another is to hatch

     An even greater scheme;

 The papers say ‘twill start a course

     In making pure ice cream.

But colleges won’t stop at that,

     Nay, nay, ‘twould not be fair;

There ought to be a course for fudge,

     And chocolate éclair.

And by and by when they have taught

     All these fine arts in turn,

Perhaps some school will start a course

     On how to really learn.

Feb. 24, 1910