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14 THE HESPERIAN Pi 5Ii i it of the OlHco-scokcrs, and greatly were the people rejoiced. And the Kins; appointed a day of fasting, saying; "Let all the good house-wives labor day and night, from Sabbath to Sabbath, sac rificing the fat fowls and preparing a great feast, so that the day of fasting may be an inward joy to men.'" Then the toilirg house-wives did as he commanded. They got fat fowls from the land of the Turks, and undressed them and roasted them in the burning furnaces, and thev took the fruit of the vine and of the olive tree and prepared it; and made bread, cakes, cookies, pumpkin pics, mince pies, apple pies, quince pies, puddings, doughnuts, ginger-bread, and angel food; brought forth apple jelly, poach jelly, sweet pickles, sour pickles, raspberry jam, marmalade, persimmon sauce, apple butter, poach preserves; cooked potatoes, beans, beats, onions, turnips, carrots, corn, tomatoes, cabbage and cauliflower; made oyster soup, noodle soup, ox-tail soup, and catsup; cranberry sauce, plum-pudding and Turkey. "And when the meal was ready. They all sat down to sup; And they ate, and ate, and ate, Till they ate the last scrap up." Go, all ve good people, and do likewise F. B. MISCELLANY. Some one has most fittingly remarked that the most succesful University has the most idiotic yell. While this theory may be all right, it is not at all improbable that more hard study has been put on yells that have been miserable fakes, than upon those that have proved very acceptable. The reader is left to judge which of the following im aginative creations most nearly comes up to his idea of an idiotic conglomeration of truly tuneful harmonies. First of all let us start with what is first, best, and dearest. U-UU-n-i, Ver-Ver-Ver-Si-Ti, N-F Bras-Ki, O-My!!!!! This sounds quite emphonius when compared with the Illinois University which strikes the au ditory nerve as foilows: Hah! Hoo! Rah! Zip! Boom! Ah! Hip! Zoo; Rah, Zoo; Johnny blow your Bazoo, Hip, Yiete Ri ! U. of I ! Champaign ! The larger and more prominent Universities choose more moderate outbreaks. Northwest ern'i new yell is: Wah-hoo, wah-hoo, N. U N. U. rah! rah! Northwestern, while the University of Wisconsin has: U! Rah I Rah! Rah! Wisconsin. The Iowa Agricultural College, Sophomore yell is: Rip I Rah! Roar,! Still we soar! Gourds, Gourds, '94. ' But the suggestive yell is that of the North Dakota University, which whoops as follows: Odx-Dzo-Dzi! Ki.Ri-Rij Hiy-ah' North Dakota! Sioux war cry. We walked together in the wood, We wandered far and wide ; About the same in class we stood, We flunked there, side by side Man wants but little here below, That cannot be denied ; Hut woman wants the earth you know, Then isn't satisfied. I.e Circle Francais, Une conference aura lieu ce soir, le 22 Novembrc, chez Mile. Pound, a 8 heures. PROGRAMME. 1. ;mIiIssu(U' In vie al Madame (leStacl, 'J. Appreciation ile Curriniie. .1. tun rle Citation ile " I. " " A. Airc(intionlo " ile r.MlemaL'iic, 0. Clitmt - 7. Courte Citation ile" ile r.YUcinagnc, S. Ol.srus.slnii. It. ConviTMitton. 10. '!.. Marx illitK'," Vous ete.s fpnc il'as 'hlhtcr. . M. alley Mile. Pound Mile. loiiiili Mile. Faulkner Hum! M. LHiinor Mile. KonsiiicuT Cliui'tir THINGS IX WHICH THE STUDENTS SELDOM INDULGE. Betting. Chewing gum for digestion. Ponying for the last time. Fating real pastry at a boarding club. Appearing solenmcholy in the library. Studying for the real good that's in it. Paying society dues and paper subscription. Writing an essay in more than one hour. Loving one's neighbor as one'self Playing foot ball for anything but glory. Sitting in the front part of the Chapel gallery for religious purposes. Performing chemical experiments without a diffusion both of odors and of apparatus. Heads of reat men all remind us If we choose the proper way, We can get up in the morning, With a head as big as they. Ex.