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braska" in the same issue, the statement concern
ing the time spent upon that work should be
modified considerably. I found almost no time
to think of the work during the school year, and
the close of school found but one chapter planned.
1 beg to remark regarding this city, that it will
not bear comparison with Lincoln. It is due to
the ellbrts of business men here to say that it has
been freed from the stagnation of Mormondom
too short a time to have made great progress.
Enterprise appears on every hand, and shortly
Salt Lake City will become a tolerable place to
live in. The streets are very much broader than
the streets of Nebraska's fair capital, but the
amount of paving is still small. Street car service
is poor, although mostly electric. Smoke con
sumers are not yet in general use, so that this end
of the valley is filled with smoke much of the
time. I have no desire to remain here, and shall
probably return within six weeks. My sister
Grace, also of the class of '88, is now here. In
the course of a month or two she expects to visit
Florida and Tennessee.
Sincerely,
Jay Amos Barrett, 'S8.
ATHLETIC.
RECREATION IN THE GYMNASIUM AS SEEN THROUGH
A KEY-HOLE.
On Thursday last the athletic editor, wracked
by a headache over McLaijrin's theorum, wended
his weary way to the gymnaisum to find that not
civil but only electrical engineers were allowed to
enter the forbidden portals. But despite the
bristling lance of Jaques, the keeper of the gate,
he resolved to see the unseeable though he per
ished in the attempt. Accordingly, slyly slipping
into the room leading to the commandant's
sanctum sanctorum, he applied his eye to the
key-hole, but such strains of music greeted his
ear, such glare of light and galaxy of moving
figures met his gaze, that it took him some time
to differentiate the known from the unknown.
The editor had read of Roslinds and had heard
raptures on Roslinds, in fact, had seen Modjeska
as Roslind, but after a few moments' reflection
decided that the Pole was not in it. He had
heard of "old friends with new faces" seeming
strange, but to him old friends with new gar
ments seemed far stranger. Both the costums
and wearers were pretty and graceful in the
highest cU-gree, but the heavy gymnastics were
perfectly astounding, ile saw nothing but girls.
There were girls in the windows, girls on the
bars, girls flying through the air on the trapeze
and in the rings, girls running up and down the
ropes and over the ladders like so many monkeys,
and lots of g;vls on the floor. The editor thought
he had never seen anything so lively and inspir
ing since he was a young man. The light and
laughter, the fantastic mixture of Gray, Green,
Brown, Black and White, caused him to forget
those dreadful formula with which he had so
lately been wrestling, and made him think he had
been transplanted to fairy land. Then the editor
returned tc consciousness and began to take
notes of what was going on.
Space allows us to mention the names of but a
few of those which seemed especially skilful, but
we arc informed by the directness that each one
is a star in some special line and that all are good
in general gymnastics.
Here are a few of our notes:
"Miss Phoebe Gerrard, high jumping; Miss
Jessie Lansing, champion heavy weight; Miss
Walker, jumping the horse; Miss Hazel Norton,
trapeze, (this was especially fine;) Miss Matlie
Burke, high kicking; Misses Spurck and Kors
meyer, boxing; Miss Helen Gregory, resting."
Just when the editor was enjoying himself most,
Jaques discovered him, and informed him that "if
you are discovered you are lost." Nothing re
mained but to go, but as the key-hole has since
been plugged the editor thought it no more his
duty to inform our readers of what is going on in
the gymnasium. There the young ladies are
given that strength and beauty which so charac
terizes the university girl.
On December 30th the Western Collegiate
Foot-ball association met in annual session at
Kansas City. W. M. Johnston, R. K. Moody,
Alex Maitland and D. O. Holbrook represented
the state universities of Nebraska, Kansas, Mis
souri and Iowa, respectively. The constitution
was first taken up and was amended so that any
team refusing to meet any other team as per
schedule, subjects itself to a $50 fine. Also, each
manager must send a list of his players to the
general manager at least ten clays before each
game. This was done in order that, none but
students of the several universities shall partici
pate in the games. Power was also given to the
managers of the two teams playing in any game
to change the date of the game.
Application was not made by any state for ad
mission into the association, as stated by our
worthy contemporary, The Nebraskan. There
was considerable discussion about pooling the re
ceipts of all the games, and it was decided to
pool the thanksgiving game. This almost in
sures any team against loss on the Thanksgiving
game which it is almost impossible to put off.
Last year furnishes a good example; at Kansas
City the profits were $200, while at Omaha the
loss was $100. Omaha will be given one more
