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TJ1E HESPERIAN 11 U. E. Johnson, director of Held day sports, informs us that the fair grounds have been secured for field day, and that every thing will bo in shape to make this the greatest athletic event over witnessed by the people of Lincoln. EXCHANGE. Sympathizing Subscribers Should Send Substantial Succor, Bus. Mg'r. Acom&fian. Prof. Geo. E. Howard has been chosen commencement orator at Leland Stanford University. A scientific expedition from the University of Iowa will leave Baltimore about May 1 in a sailing vessel for a voyage of scientific re search among the Bahama islands. The students of the Slate university of Iowa are wearing a college pin. This is a new departure for them and started in the desire to have a badge to wear at the World's fair. The base ball teams of Harvard and the University of Virginia played a tie game re cently. The champions of the north were surprised and dumbfounded at what was a virtual defeat. The University of Missouri did not fare very sumptuously at the hands of the legis lature this year. Her appropriation was only $15,000, whereas $46,000 was asked for. An appropriation, however, of $250, 000 for a main building was made. In the Indiana state contest one of the orators gave one look at his audience and then fainted. We always thought a Hoosier audience was a tough looking set and now we are satisfied. Hereafter the Indiana orators will be blindfolded before attempt ing to speak. College Life. "Prof. Conway McMillan's new book on the 'Flora of the Mississippi Valley,' is in the hands of the printer. A singular fact which is shown in the new work is that the plant life is strongly southern and eastern, rather than northern, proving that topog raphy and climate, rather than geographi cal situation, determine the character of the vegetation of a district. The list of plants alone occupies 500 pages of the new book." Ex. Tho old university graduates will light the world's battles successfully. V 001J.KGK invi. Ram it in, cram it in, Students' heads are hollow; Slam it in, jam it in, Still there's more to follow Hygiene and history, Astronomic mystery, Algebra, histology, Latin, etymology, Botany, geometry, Cireek and trigonometry, Ram it in, cram it in, Students' heads are hollow. Rap it in, tap it in What are Profs, paid for? Bang it in, slam it in What are students made for? Ancient archaeology, Aryan philology, Prosody, zoology, Physics, clinictology, Calculus and mathematics, Rhetoric and hydrostatics Hoax it in, coax it in, Students' heads are hollow. Rub it in, club it in, All there is of learning; Punch it in; crunch it in, Quench their foolish yearning For the field and grassy nook, Meadow green and rippling brook; Drive such wicked thoughts afar, Teach the students that they are But machines to cram it in, Bang it in, slam it in That their heads are hollow. Scold it in, mold it in, All that they can swallow; Fold it in, hold it in, Still there's more to follow. Those who've passed the furnace through With aching brow will tell to you, How the teacher crammed it in, Rammed it in, punched it in, Rubbed it in, clubbed it in, Pressed it in, caressed it in, Rapped it in and slapped it in, When their heads were hollow. Anon in The Lantern Two hundred enthusiastic students of Ice land Stanford have each given $2.50 toward the construction of a "noise-making ma chine," to be used at the next athletic con test between Leland Stanford and the Uni versity of California. It is to be a monster horn, worked by a steam blower, and made
