A SONG OF FAREWELL.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12879, 24 August 1910, Page 6 (Supplement)

A SONG OF FAREWELL.

Chorus.

t^Thc following humorous verses, compiled to nrark the- departure from. New Zealand of Mr J. W. Joynt (formerly Principal of Nelson College), were *suhg by Mr H! F. Von Haast on Saturday njght at the dinner given by the Victoria College Graduates' Association in Mr J'oynt's honour (says the "Tinios"). (Tune: ""Father O'Flynn") :— Who is beloved by the whole University?. Who of ripe scholarship has not a scarcity? Students exclaim without any diversity, "That is our popular Registrar Joynt." Soon he is leaving and crossing the sea, ' Varsity Agent in London to be, Hence this farcwelling, our -sorrow j we're quelling, The praises we're swelling of Registrar Joynt. " "

Here's a health to our Registrar .Joynt. For to his record with pride he can point,.- • Patron aesthetic, and man energetic, and friend sympathetic — J.W. Joynt. Wlieji careless students forgot to matriculate, • Rush tp the office and- rage and <jesi. ticulate, I Who is allaying their anger articulate? That is the job of our Registrar Joynt ! When cables from Homo giro weak students a start, Whom do you find in his goodne.ss of heart, Soothing the failing ones,cheering tho wailing ones, coaxing the railing. ones? . Registrar Joynt. Who, when the taste in this town was a dreary 'un, . Life in the evenings a wasted and • weary 'im • ■ * . ■ -.-.'■ Helped to establish the drama Shake- ' spearean? That was our scholarly Registrar Joyut. Music and art were both languishing sore, When to revive them he came to the fore, Strengthening our fibres, and getting subscribers, and crushing the gibers— . ■ J. W. Joynt. Who performs tasks of the greatest variety, Freeing the Senate from all anxiety, Statutes interprets in case of dubiety? That is our versatile Registrar Joynt. Ho signs the card that Drings. failure or. fame, Cheques for the scholars inscribes with his name, •...■■■■. Things academical, legal or chemical, sessions polemical, ' Manages Joynt. He to encourage our speech oratorical/ Arguments lucid and words- metaphorical, ■ - ' Gave for that shicW now historical,' - • '■--; Treasured as trophy of Registrar ■ Joynt/ / Though ho ia : going so far from us all, Yearly his niom'ry .that shield will recall, Friend of the tournament, umpire, and ornament, soon we'll forlorn lament ■ ■ i Registrar Jojnt. What shall we do next yearly capping day, - When wo assemble that singing and clapping day, , ' And speakers and students indulge in a "scrapping" day, Minus the presence of Registrar .Joynt? Then all in vain will tho populace wish : '"•,-.'.. To see on the menu our long-standing dish, - I "Undergrads roasting . him* Senators boasting him, Graduates, toasting him— . .' . : ■•• ■ Succulent Joyni. Soon he'll be back by the lakes of Kil-' larncy, . - " And giving the colleens a taste of his blarney, jWith Kathleen Mavourneeu, anjd also • Kate Kearney, " m One on each sido of bould Registrar Joynt l .-'..- --| When he gets tired of code words and marks, . Back to his green little island lie harks, Boycotting daily, and. dancing jigs gaily, and twirlirig shillelagh— J. W. Joynt. Now let us see what you think of his . quality, Givo him a taste of your fun and frivolity, Shout out that chorus of jovial jollity, "Jolly good fellow" is Registrar Joynt. When he embarks on his new scholarship "We'll grasp his hand in a long part--1 ing gnp, Eyes strangely wetting, and always regretting, but never forgetting, Our Registrar Joynt.