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THE HESPERIAN
pleasant and entortainin'. Cain't hardly
seem natnr'l fur our Deborie, after all her
achoolin', to cum back and take up with
the same feller she would hov likely as not
if she'd never bin away. Looks kinder like
wo might hev got along without the pinchin'
and scrapin' and savin' and had her a com
fort us in our old age, a larnin t' cook and
do housework. But I reckon if she's satis
fied you an' me'll be, Kebcccic, though I'd
kinder sot my heart on a doctor or a lawyer
er some feller like that fur her.
Oka Gldnt.
The Gymnasium Girl.
The ever popular exhibition of the gym
nasium girls took place Saturday night in
Grant Memorial Hall. The enthusiastic
crowd began to gather at the door of the
Armory before 7 o'clock, and at 7:45 stand
ing room in the gymnasium was at a pre
mium. About 800 tickets were issued and
everyoue who was fortunate enough to get a
ticket was present; many who did not get
tickets came in through the windows. It
was a mixed crowd, embracing every organ
ization in the University, from seniors down
to "preplets."
The figure marching and circle drill wore
the most interesting events of the evening,
but the bag passing contest between the ad
vanced class and membors chosen from the
first year class was the most exciting. Both
sides worked hard but the extra year's prac
tice of the advanced class gave them an ad
vantage and they won with ease. Miss Barr "
and her assistants certainly deserve great
credit for the manner in which they con
ducted the exhibition. The cadet band fur
nished the music.
T. F. Sanford, professor of English in the
University of California and a graduate of
Yale, is here investigating the methods used
in teaching English literature. He will visit
several of the high schools of tho state be
fore he returns.
The Student A Little Learning Is a Dangerous
Thing.
M
et that new style hair-cut at Westerfield's.
(Toast responded to by T. P. A. Williams, 'W, before Alum
ni Association of State University, at Alumni Ilnnquot In
Urnnt Memorial Hall, February 10. 1801.)
Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentleman:
The Chancellor thinks that I have not
reached even tlio danger point yet. (This
in response to the introduction of toastmas
ter Canfield, in which he said Air. Williams
could not be cited as an illustration of the
alleged truth of the declaration of the toast.)
The student is a necessary evil resulting
from the transgression of the First Man. If
Adam had not eaten of the tree of knowl
edge, if he had been content to remain in
the state of blissful ignorance where ho was
placed, then, as we say, "things might have
been different." But "in Adam's fall we
sinned all," and so nowadays men born into
tho world must spend a probationary period
in conning over textbooks and in passing
through examinations and other trials and
tribulations before they can regain that bliss
ful state of ignorance to which you and I of
the Alumni Association may justly lay
claim.
I am not going to speak to you tonight of
the ideal student, the man who is never late
to class, who never skips a recitation, who
is always on hand at chapel time, who
graduates with the highest honors of the
class and dies a venerable patriarch at the
ago of twenty-four. I am not going fo
speak to you of the student as ho should be
or as ho should not be, but of the student
as he is.
What is he? Webster defines a "student'
as an individual, non compos mentis for the
most part, who is afflicted with occasional
attacks of sanity. You may doubt tho latter
part of the definition, but of the truth of
the former part there is no question. Have
you never seen a body of students go down
tho streot singing "I feel like I feel like 1
feel," for a half an hour at a stretch, and
thfin see them switch off into that other
prodigy of intellectual achievement, "Forty
eight Bluebottles Hanging on the Wall,"
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