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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1912.
Good Evening! Have you sold any of your old clothes today.
Every man stamps his value on himself—Schiller.
Let justice be done, Mr. J. Reber, who won the invitation meet, should receive the cup as his personal property.
One of the best effects of thorough intellectual training is a knowledge of our own capacities.—Alexander Bain.
1st Stude (during a discussion about pet names)—How is this? I had a girl once who wanted me to call her Ducky because her name was Swan.
2nd Stude (weariedly)—I'd have called her down.
SHELL
THE UNIVERSITY IN A NUT
The students at the University of Wisconsin have undertaken another activity that well might be followed by the students here. It is a broad way of showing one of the relations of the state university to the people of the state by a scientific exhibition in a nutshell, of the work that the University is doing.
"The University in a Nutshell." Such is the slogan which the administrative board of the University of Wisconsin exposition adopted as the best illustrative phrase for its most important student undertaking—a university exposition.
Thousands of feet of floor space in the gymnasium, the armory and the new athletic annex were set aside to furnish room for the proper staging of the exhibits. The exposition was held under the auspices of the Students' Union, the administrative board consisting of about twenty-five students. Each of about seventy departments had an exhibit, prepared by a senior student and six assistants. In these exhibits as a whole the entire activity of the university was reflected.
Germs played no small part in the exposition. There were local germs and germs from Chicago, Milwaukee and other large cities. Plates were exposed on street corners in Chicago and Milwaukee before the exposition. There also was shown a specimen of the kissing germ.
The literary department showed an open-air theater with a sixteenth century stage. The horticultural exhibit consisted in part of a miniature orchard containing trees, houses and fields and the commerce department including business methods and systems—Chicago Record Herald.
THE CAMERA
A young woman of well known family
A young woman of well known family who has been pestered by publicity was photographed at the Washington horse show. The instant was one when the camera's accuracy is in effect inferior and the rider's violent taken is as ludicrous as an excerpt dragged from its context in a sneech.
What the eye sees at any instant it merges with what preceded and what follows. All is softened. The eye gets general impressions rather than sharp details. The camera gets the details. A laughing woman is a joy to the eye. She is a horror, usually, in the camera.
The young woman, finding the photo-raph printed, refused to ride at the show.
it is easy to understand and sympathize with such sensitivity. If it were to be published that "Miss" appeared striding like a grenadier and shouting like an Apache, mouth open and teeth flashing, her entire face distorted in her expression, she would have been there would be a general disposition to rehabilitate such freedom of description.
When the too truthful or untruthful camera presents a picture of a young woman apparently doing these very simple things, it will be at all, the results are about the same.
The snap shot is no friend of youth und beauty.—Exchange.
SNOBBISHNESS AT COLLEGE.
A good many writers have said things about social conditions in American colleges, but none of them has made a deeper impression than Mr. Owen Johnson with his "Stover at Yale."
When a discussion of this kind begins one usually says that there are snobs everywhere and always in later life as well as among college boys. This nearly ignores the real point at issue, which we take to be this: Are not social honors and social disappointments more keenly felt among college students than among college boys? Is this due solely to the fact that the boys are young? Or is it due partly to the way in which colleges have organized their society?
Reports from New Haven say that a good many Yale men, otherwise sensible, pass their last college year in disappointment at their failure to make Bones and Keys. There is nothing quite like this among grownups. Have you ever met anybody whose life was blighted because he or she was not a member of the Knickerbocker, Union or Colony Club? In this question we have hinted our solution of the college society problem. It is this: Reduce the membership of the Yale senior societies, for example, until it bears the same relation .o the whole class that the membership of the three clubs above-mentioned does to the adult population of New York.
Or else this: Assemble the leading men of New York in Madison Square, have them wait there until a select few have been "tapped" by members of the Union or the Knickerbocker, and then notice whether social conditions in New York approximate those at New Haven.—New York Globe.
AS IT IS AT YALE
Statistics have been compiled for the Courant to show the ultimate effect of proms.
Percentage of men who later marry the girl they have at the prom in the sophomore year, 8 per cent; junior year, 15 per cent; senior year, 27 per cent.
Percentage of men to marry having a different girl each year. Different girl each year, 4 per cent. (Evil effects of fickleness)
Percentage of men to marry having the same girl all three years; same girl all three years, 76 per cent. (Shows advantage of constancy.)
Percentage of men who marry other man's girls, 7 per cent. (We are 58%).
By means of the above figures you will be able to determine just what your chances are. But do not leave it to Fate. In matters of this sort a great deal depends upon individual effort. —Yale Courant.
TWO MINUTES WITH
CAMPUS CELBRITIES
A. —I have had one for 50 years, and I mean to have one as long as I can. I am a funny man in some ways."
Q—Deacon Templin, I believe?
A—Dean! Dean Dlin Templin.
I have been dean of the College for abstention from money in it, and very little influence.”
A. —No. I always try to have the correct time. I am a great man to farm. Yes, I could raise some whiskers if necessary."
Q. "—Do you set your watch by the Physics Clock, Professor?"
Q.—I beg your pardon?
A.—I never told a lie. Roughly speaking, I go hungry half the time.
I seldom get enough to eat. I don't like to get far away from home at night."
Q. —They say that you have a pa-t, Mr. Templin.
A. "Very few. I never told a lie in my life."
Q——"I did you work your way through school, Mr. Templin?"
A. —Yes. I am still doing it.
own a piece of land down in Texas.
If I ever meet the man who sold—"
"Have you many faults, doctor?"
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Q—"They say that you have access to the position at Oak Hill for the summer."
Q. —"I beg your pardon?"
A. —"That will be one of the last things that I will ever do."
DOTHEBOYS HALL
Mrs. Squeers stood at one of the desks, presiding over an immense basin of brimstone and treacle, of which delicious compound she administraced a large installment to each boy in succession, using for rhe purpose a common wooden spoon, which might have been originally manufactured for some gigantic top, and which widened every young gentleman's mouth considerably, they being all obliged, under heavy corporal penalties, to take in the whole of the bowl at a gulp.
By Charles Dickens
There was a long row of boys waiting, with countenances of no pleasant anticipation, to be trealed, and another file who had just escaped from the infliction, making a variety of wry mouth indicative of anything but satisfaction. The whole人 attiried in such manner, ill equipped with heavy armaments, as would have been irresistibly ridiculous, but for the foul appearance of dirt, disorder, and disease, with which they were associated.
"Just over," said Mrs. Squeers, choking the last boy in her hurry, and tapping the crown of his head with the wooden spoon to restore him. "Here, you Smike! take away now. Look sharp!"
"Now," said Squeers, giving the desk a great rap with his cane, which made half the little boys nearly jump out of their boots, "is that business over?"
Smike shuffled out with the basin, and Mrs. Squeers, having called up a little boy with a curly head, wiped her hands upon it, hurried after him into a species of washhouse, where he found a large kettle, together with a number of little wooden bowls which were arranged upon a board.
Into these bowls Mrs. Squeers, assisted by the hungry servant, poured a brown composition which looked like diluted pinchouts without the covers, and was called porridge. A minute wedge of brown bread was inserted in each bowl; and when they had eaten their porridge by means of the bread, the boys ate it with their hands and had finished their breakfast; whereupon Mr. Squeers said, in a solemn voice, "For what we have received, may the Lord make us truly thankful" and went away to his own.
After some half-hour's delay, Mr. Squeers reappeared, and the boys took their places and their books, of which latter commodity the average might be about one to eight learners. A few minutes having elapsed, during which Mr. Squeers looked very profound, as if he had a perfect understanding of all the books, and could say every word of their contents by heart if he only chose to take the trouble, that gentleman called up the first class.
Obedient to this summons, there ranged themselves in front of the schoolmaster's desk half-a dozen scarecrows, out at knees and elbows, of whom placed a torn and filthy book beneath his learned eye.
"This is the first class in English spelling an philosophy, Nickley," said Squeers, beckoning Nicholas to stand behind him. "We'll get up a Latin one, and hand that over to You now, then, where's the first boy?"
"Please, sir, he's cleaning the back-barrier window," said the temporary guard.
"So he is, to be sure!" rejoined Squeers. "We go upon the practical mode of teaching, Nickley—the regular education system. C-l-e-a-n, clean; verb active, to make bright, to scout. W-l-i-n, winn; d-e-r, der, winder; a caementer of the book he does and goes it. It's just the same principle as the use of the globes. Where's the second boy?"
"Please, sir, he's weeding the garden," replied a small voice.
"It's a very useful one, at any rate," answered Nicholas, signifie-
"To be sure," said Squeers, by no means disconcerted, so he is! 'o B-0; t-b-t, tin, bottin, n-e-y, ney, bottine; noun substantive, a bottine of plants. When he has learned that bottiniya moans a knowledge of that plant, that's 'em. That's our system, Nickley; what do you think of it?"
"I believe you," rejoined Squeers, not remarking the emphasis of his usher. "Third boy, what a horse?" "A boot bit," said the boy.
"So it is," said Squeers. "Ain't it, Nickley."
"I believe there is no doubt of that sir," answered Nicholas.
"Of course there isn't!" said Squeers. "A horse is a quadruped, and a quadruped's Latin for beast, as someone that's strong through gryphs."
everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else where's the use of having grammars at all?" "Where, indeed?" said Nicholas, abstractedly.
"As you are perfect in that," resumed Squeers, turning to the boy, "go and look after mine; and rub him down well, or I'll rub you down. The rest of the class go and draw water up, till somebody tells you to leave off; for it's washing-day to morrow, and they want the coppers filled." So saying, he dismissed the first class to their experiment in practical philosophy, and eyed Nicholas with a look, half-cunning and half-doubtful, as if he were not altogether certain what he might think of him by this time. "That's the way we teach school here, Nickley," he said, after
that's the 'why' whywd edit for a house, Nickley's, he said, after a pause.
THE COLLEGE MAN
DEVISES SHORT CUTS
The Self-Made Merchant Asseribed It to His Laxiness But the Salary Was Raised at Every Step.
From Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son.
That sporty way of answering, as if he was closing a bet, made me surer than ever that he was not cut out for a butcher. But I told him, and I insisted on seeing the foreman. I sent word by another route to see that he got plenty to do.
I forgot all about Jim until about three months later, when his name was handed up to me for a new place and a raise in pay. It seemed that he had sort of abolished his job. After he had rolled roaring machines awhile, and the sport had ground down one of his shoulders a couple of inches lower than the other, he got to scheming around for a way to make the work easier, and he hit on an idea of a sort of overhead railroad system, by which the barrels could be swung out of the storerooms and run right along into the cars, and two or three men could do the work of a gang. It was just as I thought. Jim was lazy, but he had put the house in the way of saving so much money that I couldn't fire him. So I raised a gun, a clock, a timekeeper and checker, Jim kept at this for three or four months, until his feet began to hurt him, I guess, and then he was out of a job again. It seems he had heard something of a new machine for registering the men, that did away with most of the timekeepers except the fellows who watched the machines, and he kept after the superintendent until he got him to put them in. Of course he claimed a raise again for affecting cush a saving, and we just had to allow it.
I was beginning to take an interest in Jim, so I brought him up into the office and set him to copying circular letters. That was just before the general adoption of typewriters, when they were still in the experimental stage. But Jim hadn't been in the office plugging away at the letters for a month before he had the writer's cramp, and began nosing around again. The first thing I knew he was sighing the agents for the new typewiring machine on to me, and he kept them pounding away until they had made me give them a trial. Then it was all up with Mr. Jim's job again. I raised his salary without his asking for it this time, and put him out on the road to introduce a new product that we were making—heef extract.
Jim made two trips without selling enough to keep them working overtime at the factory, and then he came into my office with a long story about how we were doing it all wrong. Said we ought to go for the consumer by advertising, and make the trade come to us. instead of chasing it up.
That was so like Jim that I just laughed at first; besides, that sort of advertising was a pretty new thing then, and I was one of the old-timers who didn't take any steak in it. But Jim always took all his trips, and finally I took him off the road and told him to go ahead and try it it in a small way.
The zoology students of Antioch College enjoyed a snake feast recently and now live in mortal fear of the results. The boys caught a large black-snake and skinned it. Instead of studying it they decided to have a snake feast. The reptile was soaked in salt water and cooked. The boys were afraid of snakes. Other students learning of the dinner told the boys they would become ill and might die. As a result they are fearful of the consequences.
The undergraduates of Yale have been making fun of the senior societies and their "tap day" exercises by going through a parody of the stunts.
No capital earns such interest at personal culture—President Eliot.
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