"T TUB II K 8 P KJ 1 A N 1:1 Iti.vby's Retreat. Be happy look pleasant ! Bury your troubles but don't sit on their grave to bo haunted by their ghosts. WkATHEK A LA NKHHA8KA. I take up my pen while the beautiful snow Whisks in, and the glad sleighbells riug, Hut there gleams in tho hoavon's coronal bow, So I write a poem on spring. Durvs Oam.. I hear, ili clearer than words can call The crash, bang, whang of tho old call bell, As the hour draws rouud. My nerves are shakou and shattered, unepun; I am summoned to answer for deeds left undone At the old bell's sound. Mascot fok Ponck ik Lkon. The old sage who sought for that bright, "fount of youth" Ami to find it ihe broad ocean crossed, Might have realized hope had he seen Howard's Tt1a.sk t'one-alisl down .,t I'uradise Lost. ho following diligently solicited ans jvers have eomo in response to our circu ""' question, "what, is a kicker" . good ,S' li,,k(M': is nn insPiration t0 - K. Pearson: A kicker is a long-ear- '(! boast, ihi'J' .Boow (from observation): A '"w PPpintPd office-seeker. i. larmalee: A commissioned cadet. . Mumtord (from experience): A nmW eleven shoo. geo .Shedd: A sure-goal half-back. " v. nnkorton: 1 agreo with Pear son. poKiiil;I1Sc,,,reo"s Ifc is a ,nnch fear6d 4S fe-patient" fore- A. Riloy: A dissatisfied advertiser. Hvei. 1011s A House ol' Kepresentn- ffrrnSi -iustly jiidge trilo ftein7r0ngs of Exile" Department delivered itself of another volume of pooins, "The Sub stance of His Houso." Now one would know to read these rhymes Where pessimistic daemons yawn, That they were writ for other climes Where men had all their wits tu pawn. May next tho book that swells the pile, Belched forth into our literature, Sing sweet the nnssago of a smile And loud extol the 'Laughter Cure'. KKEDV MOUItNS FOtt ItOOMKIt. Farewell, companion of my heart Thon sharer in my fondest joys, Now who will rise my lire to start, Or who will start to lire tho boys. Farewell companion of my lite, For theo 1 shed remorseful tears Tho while I hunt another wife The thoughts of thee shall bless my years. Sympathy sweet Sympathy I saw that face with its miser frown With its Hood gates of feeling all shut down, - Eyes barren of meaning and empty their glare The form bowed, secretively, and weighted with care. 'The soul in it- prison may languish and high, The soul-light for want of true symyathy die; 'Who is itV you nsk-nh, dear student let's own That in vain we have tried to bear burdens alone Let us smile as we pass may our sympathy warm Prove the true burden -bearer, the student-life charm; Let us mirror our sunshine with joy all replete In the faces and lives of tho students wo meet. SWEET CIIAMTY. Few there arc of all I ween, Whose Uni. course has reached its close, Hut one day sat in room eighteen, And saw the dust on Caesar's nose. Oneo Caesar's wars had charms for mu, But my ardor it has froze, To sit before his bust and see Tho smears of dust about his nose. There's dust about his face, that's true; There's also some on Cicero's; But worst of all tho dust in view Is that which covers Caesar' nose. Perhaps there'll come a time some day It may come soon, who knows When Uni. can afford to pay To clean tho dust from Caesar's nose. But if the time shall never como When this fair state can spare tho dougu(s; And fortune should upon mo smile (As 1 have reason to suppose,) Ml set a half a million by To wipe the dust from Caesar's nose. 1 I