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Oldest Living Graduate

The Halls of Ivy · 1952 · 25 min · 3,873 words

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of Ivy starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. Good evening, Mrs. Ronald Coleman. Anita Coleman. Inviting you to join us again on the campus of Ivy College. That's a rock. To Ivy. Ivy College, that is, in the town of Ivy, USA.

Most institutions such as Ivy seem quickly to acquire an atmosphere of age and permanence, so much so that it's hard to imagine a day when they were brash new infants in the field of education.

But everything good has a beginning, and Ivy's beginning is commemorated each year at the annual Founders' Day celebrations. This year's honored guest is Ivy's oldest living alumnus, Silas Livingston, who arrived late last night at the home of President William Todd Hunter Hall.

And so we find Dr. Hall's lovely wife, Victoria, quietly planning a breakfast tray in the kitchen. No, let me see. I think I'll give him one soft scrambled egg, the toast, the fruit juice, farena, and green tea.

Hmm? Tard it. If you were 91 years old, is that about what you'd like for breakfast? Victoria my love when I am 91 and you are a girl of say... Easy does it. I'll never admit to more than 73.

And you are a slipper for a girl of 73. A breakfast will no longer be eaten. Meals will be a matter of chemically concentrated food. A red capsule for breakfast, a white capsule for lunch, a blue capsule for dinner.

And for political banquets, all of them. And three cheers for the red, white, and blue. Anyway, there won't be any more jokes about the bride's biscuits. No, no. The comedians will have to modernize. They'll do things like, Mary has a little lamb, and thinks that it perhaps will end its days, like beef and ham compressed into a capsule.

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