Pile on the Students' Burden. PII 4 E ON THE STUDENTS' BURDEN. With apologies to Kipling. Pile on the students' burden ! Just as you think they need, Go, clear away the "flunkouts" Who Progress would impede; Be very stern, for truly 'Tis useless to be mild With new-caught sullen students Half manly and half child. Pile on the students' burden I And if ye rouse their hate, Meet their old-fashioned reasons With rulings up-to-date. With words and resolutions A hundred times make plain, The students' loss must ever Imply the library's gain. Pile on the students' burden ! Nor do not deem it hard, If you should earn the rancour Of those ye yearn to guard; The routine of your red-tape Will drown your victim's sob, Go on with cries and laughter There's dollars in the job, Pile on the students' burden I And through the world proclaim That ye are Learning's agents— There's no more paying game. And should your own past history Straight in your teeth be thrown Retort that college rulings Are good for Profs alone. And if by chance ye falter, Or lag along the course, Or should the men leave freely, Ye feel some slight remorse Hie ye to Rudyard Kipling, Imperialism's prop, And bid him, for your comfort, Turn on his Jingo stop 1
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