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Homecoming Bare float platforms awaiting their dressings ... gowns hang- board tally ... old-timers sipping cider on alumni hill ... car ing on dorm room doors, flowers on order, football uniforms horns and radios red flags and chains chrysanthemums laundered and ready ... all the night before Homecoming ... a and Yellow Jackets roll up the score clouded sun and cool swift breeze and a snapping warm bonfire ... enthusiasm a cool swift breeze. . . . mounting .... Fraternity banquets welcome graduated brothers . . . black Soldiers in parade cadence ... chicken-wire and tissue paper velvet sheaths . . . boutonnieres and dark suits . . . Lester bumble bees ... feminine tractor driver ... alumni and par- Lanin, colored lights, The Grand Ball, knights' shields and a ents snapping pictures . . . waves and smiles and hands in slippery floor ... myriads of feet and refined voices.... pockets . . . a cool swift breeze. . . . Clothes strewn in empty dorm rooms . . . lights burning late Milling around the gravel track . . . small children and hot- ... there's always an extra bed for an off-campus date ... dogs ... Win, Western Maryland ... rifle-twirled pathway stay out till the last minute ... a swift good-night in the cool, for the Queen ... half-time tradition ... favorable score- calm breeze ... someday we'll be back.