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12 THE HESPERIAN .4 Bixby's Retreat Last year the fighting editor wintered in Siberia and returned by the way of the Pi.iii Islands. This year he will discover the south pole. Any wrath due him will be corked up until his return. An open letter to Billgreen: Dear Billgreen: Where are your whiskers? I hate to see those whiskers oil' That undulating red. I fear you'll get the whooping-cough And have wheels in your head. Turn out aud cheer the foot ball men Each sunny autumn day We'll swallow loane eutire anil then Teach Denver how to play. Why lVarse alone can vanquish Doatie And Shedd can handle Butte. While Iowa Plat. cats alone Aud erys for more to boot. Then Kansas and Missouri 1 think 1 plainly see, They'll leave to Harry ury And Wiggings and to me. t'NCI-AblKIEl. We have traced the winter flowers Aud the fragrant flowers of spring. We have studied summers Iwauties With the pleasures fond they bring And we've also catalogued Most of the autumnal blossoms, But Dr Bessey says-. There is no known nomenclature That adequately classitius A perpetual blooming idiot. Well corporal Mumford you're a brick To put the new men through. To drill at quick and double quick. The prompt way that you do. A sprightlier man I've never seen, And all your troops are raw Remember, use your decipline Not "Whoa there.,' "Gee" and "Haw" The air is tilled with martial sounds Siuce Mumford drills a squad, Admiring co eds throng the grounds While Mumford drills his squad. Ambition swells anew in me, Siuce Mumford drills a squad; Prof, Davis stops his wheel to see How Mumford drills his squad. Dear Freshman, I am after you The good book says: "Thou shalt not steal " I would have swiped those "Synonyms"- J he joke on me, and so I squeal. If wisdom's ways you wisely seek Five things observe with care: With whom you hash, for whom you hash And how and when and where. "'Tis sweet to be remembered" By the genial registrar. There's nothing like a "notice" thence To tell you where you are. We've had our share of orators Forensic, tragic, funny Mc'Mulleu, Weaver, Barker too Whose sweet words flow like houey. The "Ideal" Wing, and Hadley Q. McNitt, Uatlield and all Have charmed us by bewitching tkill Through many a weary fall. But there is yot a grander sway Of which we never tire It is the flowing eloquence Of Otto W Meir. The tides of war come on apace The fates can never stay them 'I he Bryanites have placed the chip McKinleyhes must slay them Here's health to Watson's golden jaw And Alh-n's quenchless smii The Killen Law schools' champion Mull", Maguirc's silvery wile. (Coiniiiunlckted.) IN THE MBKAKV. She sat down in the library ; She studied hard. She read so very fast so very: She bent her head. She was a girl who belonged to a "frat": She saw a man; .She didn't care a straw for that,, She read again. She looked up from her work once more! She saw him come. She saw him wait there near the doon She knewhiin then. She slats her book shut as quick as she can "(Jo to, book lore!" She sits for an hour on a bench with the man She studies no more. Kttai.b. 1200 T Street for good meals. i-..nnUeitOI11boiV'1"1S clb right across tiom Nebraska Hall, $2.00 per week. Both ladies and gentlemen are welcome at the boarding dub at 1200 T Street. J' If 1 i C.-N -f&mm.9tx zt ate-dftwi "L , JM.
