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THE NEBRASKAN 75 "thin i.s too severe. No mortal over sinned ho badly as to deserve this. It i.s unjust." Kaseinatod, 1 drew nearer. As I ap proached it seemed as if there was something familiar in the chant. Finally I recognized it. A great revulsion of feeling came over me. I was no longer surprised. The pun ishment no longer seemed out of proportion to the crime, I only wondered that it had not been more severe. I felt the heartiest sympathy for the other ghosts. T now un derstood the convulsions and spasms. It was Lottie Collins dancing "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-aye". The torture was too much. I gave one shriek of agony and awoke. D. A. Haooaud. (Exchange. The management of the Nkhkaskan has asked us to take charge of the exchange col umn. This is to be a new feature of the pa per, and, approving the idea, we were con strained to accept the responsibility of be coming its editor, despite a natural dillldence arising from a lack of experience in newspa per work. The policy of the column will have to be developed by trial. However, it may be proper to remark that our desire is to make the column interesting to the stu dents of this and neighboring schools. How far we shall succeed remains to be seen, but, to the end that every possible means of suc cess may be within our reach, we request every college editor to whom this issue comes kindly to place us on his exchange list. " The principal parts of the verb Mlunco,' " says an exchange, "arc llunco, fluncere, suspendi, expulsum." "The best of us being unfit to die, what an inexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death." Hawthorne. A club is being formed at the University of Wisconsin for holding the cross country runs that are so popular in eastern colleges. This is a branch of athletics in which N. S. U. could profitably take a hand. Sympathetic Subscribers should $cnd Sub stantial $uccor. i.v. Only Si per year, see? Whitmore. The Hopkins mansion, valued at$i,ooo, ooo, which was recently presented to the University of California, will be used for an art school and museum. The Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy has been assigned i ,200 square feet ad joining the space allotted to Harvard for its exhibit at the World's Fair. The Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity at Kansas University has elected six mem bers of the senior class to membership, and will elect four more. The election is based on the grades of the candidates, more espe cially on their grades in literary work. The nmn who litis n thousand friends Has not a friend to spare ; Hut he who has one enemy, Will meet him everywhere Kmurmn. By a recent arrangement of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin the results of original investigations made by the students or faculty of that institution, will be pub lished. Only original papers will be pub lished, and the issue in each case will not exceed 1,500 copies. W. C. Coleman of the Kansas State Nor mal will represent Kansas at the interstate oratorical contest at Columbus, Ohio. The subject of his oration is " The Philosophy of Reform." K. S. U. received sixth place in the stale contest. May we be more fortu nate on the 10th than our neighboring sister. MY CONSTITUTION. Name immaterial; object fun; Officers, numerous ; membership one ; Meetings, continuous ; Voting, unanimous ; Treasury, emptiness thus it doth run. Colletian. Michael F. Sweeney, of the Xavier Ath letic club, raised his record for the running high jump at the midwinter games of the University association in Philadelphia last month. He jumped six feet three inches i