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ON SWEARING.
Swearing one of thcMiiost useful ac
complishments thd the average man ac
quires in his college career. We do not
mean that college men have an entire
monopoly on the profane vocabulary, as
some percocious urchins attain to a fair
degree of proficiency in this line, but we
claim that they do not swear in a scien
tific manner they- do it mechanically,
merely to make a noise and not for the
purpose of entertaining their friends.
But have you not seen a student who
could hold his listeners entranced for
hours at a time simply by the fetching
and spicy manner in which he related the
most every-day occurrences? And .yet,
take from his conversation all wards be
ginning with d and g and you will be
surprised to find that all the sparkle has
vanished, it is as flat as soda water with
the soda left out the same sort of stuff
that you and I bore our friends with
every day.
The art of swearing naturally and
gracefully is a pass-port to the good
graces of small boys and hotel-waiters.
When you have once rent the air with a
few jagged oaths, n waiter understands
at once that you are F. F. V. arid ever
thereafter will obey your most impercepti
ble wink.
There are also some emotions of the
human heart which absolutely refuse to
be voiced in honied language. A preacher
once told us that when he was dressing in
a hurry and his last collar button slipped
under the bureau, he found "O My!" a
very serviceable expression. Confiden
tially, that preacher must have been a
man of shallow feelings, and we cannot
recommend his prescription to our read
ers, for next day when our collar button
slurried away behind the bureau, we said
"O My!" at least a dozen times, and still
felt that more than half of our feelings
had been left unexprested.
If you can get along without swearing,
and are content to be bullied all your life
by the people that do, then you have
our sincerest sympathy; but if you swear,
swear fiercely. Beware of cheap imita
tions no matter how high-sounding they
may be. Of course, it is amusing to see
a first-year man swear and then blush,
but don't guy him, he will get over it
(the blushing) and Jack Apple's profan
ity isn't a marker on what you will hear
this now blushing novice disgorge next
session.
According to a popular magazine
writer, there is but one remedy which
will effectually prevent men from swear
ing; he claims that the North American
Indian has never been heard to swear;
when he becomes slightly irritated with
his neighbor, instead of wasting breath
by telling him to go to h (which the
neighbor would probably refuse to do) he
simply picks up his tomahawk and sends
him there. This is an excellent custom
and one which the faculty would do well
b enforce at the university, it is true that
0ur Special Rates
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which we are making to Students still continue., "
During this week we will make a big reduc
tion to all University Students and Professors.
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if such a custom were suddenly insti
tuted, not a few scalps of students and
prof1 rirobably of some outsiders would
be permanently disfigured, but it would
result in an unheard-of silence which at
night would be broken only by the
pianos playing intermittently across the
way. Ex.
EXCHANGES.
Yale has chosen as the subject for the
Harvard debate to be held in New Haven
on March 30, "Resolved, That Puerto Rico
be included within the custom boundaries
of the United States." Harvard has the
choice of sides.
In the Olympian games at the Paris
Exposition, Pennsylvania will have rep
resentatives in 110 meters hurdle, 100
meters dash, 400, 800 and 1,500 meters
run, 400 meters hurdle and a steeple chase
of 2,fi00 meters, besides all of the field
events. The team sails for Europe June
20, on the S. S. New York.
Richard Armstrong, captain of the
Yalo crow in '95, has been selected to
referee tho Cornell, Columbia, Wiscon
sin and .Pennsylvania boat races, at
Poughkeepsie, in June.
Henry Ives Cobb, uio architect, has
nearly completed the plans for the
American university near Washing
ton.D. C. Thoro will bo twenty-. i'eo
massive bu.ings of marble and
granlte.on a well elevated campus of
ninety-three acres.
The University of Chicago is plan
ning the erection of a now club house
for tho use of tho students. It will
bo ilvo stories high and will contain a
large banquet and dining hall, which
may be used for dancing if desirable.
Bowling alloys, billiard tables and
other means of amusement are pro
vided. The cost is to be $200,000.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR
iwvtCH.
March id, F., iraliadian Literary So
ciety: Inauguration of officers. Close
of School of Agriculture. Delian Lit
erary Society: Girl's contest program.
March 20, T School of Music: Sixth
students' recital.
March 23, -., Palladian Literary So
ciety: Boys' program.
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