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THE HESPERIAN 15 Professor Stagg, of Chicago University, has in vited a number of eastern and western university base-ball teams to hold a tournament at Chicago during July. The tournament will be held under the auspices of the Columbian National Inter Collegiate Base-ball Association, of which Prof. Stagg is secretary. Yale has refused to attend, but this will make no difference. There are plenty of good teams in the west that will fill all places left vacant by eastern colleges. The west ern colleges to be represented are Ann Arbor, Northwestern, Chicago University, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin and, possibly Brown and Wesleyan Universities. We clip here a piece of metophor which is very expressive, but which looks as though it had gone through a corn sheller. We will say that it did not come from a senior oration : "Peace has poured oil upon the troubled waters, and they blossom like the rose. She has come down among us in her floating robes, bear ing the olive branch in her beak. In one hand, she holds the scales of justice, and with the other folds her wings. The American eagle broods over his nest in the rocky fastnesses, and his young shall lie down with the lamb. We have gone through the floods, and have turned their hot ploughshares into prunning hooks. May we be as lucky in the future, preserving forever our goddess of liberty, one and inseparable." LOCALS. And now for the Interstate. Make room, there! "We Would Win(g), if we could," says Colo rado ; but you see it is not so to be. Geo. Town has been having a siege of measles. He was unable to meet his classes for two weeks. It is probable that the new library building will stand unfinished for at least a period of two years. Prof. Caldwell has been suffering from an at tack of grip, and for a day or two was unable to meet his classes. Weeks (drilling an awkward squad.) "In doing the 'bout-face, you must advance the right foot three inches to the rear. Please don't forget that." The oratorical convention was particularly in teresting this year. Both Doanc and Wesleyan were divided into factions, and the fight was a "beauty." There is a good deal of failure of eyes among the students. The Sophomores are especially afflicted, and are beginning to be recognized by the "glass front." The entire cadet band, consisting of thirty menf have been engaged to play the Lincoln order o. Hibernians to Omaha and back again on St Patrick's day, the 17th inst. Imp No. I, (in Hades.) "What's that confu sion there at the main entrance ?" Imp No. II. "Oh, that's the inventor of foun tain pens. He's just arrived, and Satan is giving him an enthusiastic reception." J. M. Davis, '95, has returned to his home in Bronson, Kansas. Mr. Davis has been here but a little over one semester, but has made number less friends about the University. It is sincerely hoped that he will return for the work of '93-'94. The contemptible practice of "swiping" library books is anything but honorable. It is doing a great injustice to the students at large, for the sake of a little self-gratification. It dosen't show cuteness either. Any fool could '"swipe" a wagon-load. It was very unfortunate that the decision of the judges in the oratorical contest was erroneous. The D. S. thud was very audible, when it was learned that Wesleyan had received the third in stead of second place. Judges should be very careful that no mistakes of this nature are made in making up their decisions. Captain F. D. Eager now sports a bran new officer's overcoat, which was presented to him by the owners of tne Worthington Military Academy in North Lincoln. The coat was presented to him March 9, and since that time Captain Eager has been walking two feet above the earth in or der to catch all cold breezes to give the new coat a fair test. Read the first editorial in the last Nebraskan, and the reason for the local about the Hesperian "write up" of the local contest will be apparent. We left that duty to the Nebraskan, and it should not blame us if it failed even to suit itself. We are sorry now, of course, that we did not write up the contest, but we expected more from the Ne braskan. "They miss us when we're gone." WASTE-BASKET WAIFS. Glory! Glory!! Glory!!! That is what we are here for, we editors. To work, to write, perchance to flunk. To suffer the slings and flings of heartless subscribers. To raise our voices where all may hear, but none re member. To work, to rustic, and, perchance to swear when loving hearts remind us of our errors. To work to work no more. Not no more work but no more than work. Just work. To lie on pallet beds where thoughts so scanty come. To wonder where our minds have gone. To chase them up once more. To sleep, perchance
