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trial and if she does not prove to be a foot-ball
town other arrangements will have to be made.
The oflicers of the association are as follows:
R. K. Moody, Kansas, President.
W. M. Johnston, Nebraska, Vice President.
D. 0. Holbrook, Iowa, Secretary.
Alex Maitland, Missouri, Treasurer.
Hal W. Reed, General Manager.
SCHEDULE OF GAMES.
November 4. Kansas vs. Iowa at Kansas
City.
November n. Nebraska vs. Missiouri, at
Kansas City.
November 18. Nebraska vs. Kansas, at Lin
coln; Missouri vs. Iowa, at Iowa City.
Thanksgiving day Iowa vs. Nebraska, at
Omaha; Kansas vs. Missouri, at Kansas City.
EXCHANGE.
a first-class graveyard, for he is bound to die
early.
Eighty men are trying for position on the Yale
Record. Ex.
The University of Chicago has adopted orange
as the college color. Ex.
The University of Michigan will erect a
Grecian temple as her contribution to the World's
Fair.
Professor "Name six animals in the frigid
zone."
Student "Three polar bears and three seals."
Ex.
Teacher "Johnnie, what do you think is the
chief end of man?"
Johnnie "The end wot's got his head on."
-Ex.
It pays to be an editor" of a college paper, at
the University of Pennsylvania. There, all
editors are excused from a certain amount of
their English work.
Her face was sad, and wrinkled and worn;
Her dress was old and tattered and torn;
The street was covered with ice and sleet
And the poor woman's shoes were full of feet.
Ex.
"Rocky-a-by baby!" began the new nurse in a
Boston family.
"Desist!" exclaimed the infant, imperiously.
"I am aware tnat the vibration of the atmosphere
will cause a cradle suspended in the tree-top to
oscillate." Dodgerville Herald.
Women are now allowed to pursue advanced
courses of study at the University of Virginia.
They are not allowed, however, to attend lec
tures, but may receive separate instruction. Their
examinations are also separate. While they may
pass the same standards for proficiency as men,
they are not allowed to "graduate" after the
manner of the men. Ex.
We sincerely pity the poor innocents who have
to attend chapel upon Saturday. To sit under
the droppings of the sanctuary on school days is
often quite a task, but to do it on Saturday must
often be nearly work. We are aware that stu
dents take umbrellas when they go in damp
places. We wonder if they leave them behind
when they attend compulsory chapel exercises.
We wonder if so many of our exchanges that
publish foot-ball notices after foot-ball notices, do
not do it because it is much easier to fill their
papers with this sort of "hand me down" ma
terial, than to write up something original. Foot
ball is all right in its place, but it should be re
membered that this place does not extend in time
all through the college year and in position all
through the college paper.
The Annex appears in holiday attire quite ob
livious to the burning coals that the Niagara In
dex has heaped upon its head. The "hoary
headed monk" of the last named paper must
have been ressurected tor just long enough to
put two or three dying gasps upon paper. The
Index reached us without scorching itself on the
way. We can account for this in no other
way than by supposing the paper something of a
salamander.
There is a tendency in many colleges to in
crease the amount of elective work in the differ
ent courses. The idea of early specialization is
becoming very prevalent. This change in pro
cedure should be ventured upon very cautiously,
for no one subject can be fully mastered by a
person who has not a broad education. The
worst phase of this question is, that a specialist
too often finds this out too late: There is noth
ing like a broad and sound education upon
which to build the superstructure 01 a specialty.
A building without a firm foundation will never
be a sky scraper.
The colleges of the United States will be fully
represented at the World's Fair. Students will
act as guides. Students will sing. Students will
play foot-ball. Students will probably engage
in boat races. And to make the occasion char
acteristic, students will go home from Chicago
broke. The most tempting ofTer that we have
yet seen, however, is the opportunity to roll in
valids, cranks and old maids about the grounds
on patent chairs. If any student comes out
from this ordeal alive, the management should
present him with a P. II. U. from Chicago Uni
versity, and give him, without grudge, a deed to
"111 be flam-boozled'" said the self-elected
representative of the University of Nebraska, as
he rolled over from the wrong to the right side of
his downy sand-burr bed and wearily picked
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