The University Courier.
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EXCHANGES.
The Courier's muse has been sadly affected of late by this swift and, to say the least, versatile March weather, and so has not seen fit to grind out any sort of an effusion. Consequently, with alacrity and a clear conscience we borrow the following bits from the Harvard Lampoon:
Hymns Ancient and Modern.
ANCIENT.
Complexion like the winter snow Just tinted by the sunset glow, Throat white as alabaster, Teeth of pearl, and hair of gold, And figure—sure in Venus mould Th' immortal gods have cast her.
And I am proud her slave to be ;
And deem it high felicity
To die if she will it so ;
Ye fates! tonight propitious be.
For I approach divinity ,
My life depends on "Yes" or "No."
MODERN.
Stunning girl,
Out of sight,
Guess I'll pop
Tuesday night.
Bully shape,
Pretty eyes;
Papa's rich;
Quite a prize.
Sure to have me;
Can't say no;
Lots of rocks;
It's a go.
Harvard was recently the recipient of $2,000,-
ooo, from ——.
William Astor has promised $1,000,000 to found a university for colored people at Oklahoma.
The students of Leland Stanford and Berkley propose to have a grand University ball on the first Friday in April. They wish to make the affair the chief social event in San Francisco society and to establish the custom of having an annual University ball.
President Harrison has declined to accept the position of Law lecturer at the Leland Stanford University.
"Money is not at the bottom of everything," sadly remarked the college man as he plunged his hands down into his pockets. —Exchange.
Noah was the first pitcher on record. He pitched the ark within and without. The game was called on account of rain. (Exchange.)
F. A. Stocks, '84, has resigned his position as Chief Clerk in the treasury department at Washington and will go to Chicago as government disbursing agent of the World's Fair.
The Princeton faculty have recently placed the students of that institution upon their honor in examinations. They simply require each student, without supervision in examination to subscribe to the following at the end of his paper: "I pledge my honor as a gentleman, that, during this examination, I have neither given nor received assistance." This is the result of a student feeling against cheating in examinations.—Hesperian.
The class in Bacteriology had been testing the air in the laboratory to determine the number of bacillis in the atmosphere, but none had been found. The professor was about to give up in despair of finding any room in the University where the air would be impure enough to admit of the experiment. As a last resort he asked if any member of the class knew of a place where they would be more likely to succeed. Several rooms were suggested but none seemed suitable. One student thought the atmosphere of a sewer would be prolific with microbe germs, but the professor reminded him that there was no Parisian sewer now available. The suggestion, however, was to the point. For, a junior who was evidently in the habit of spending the chapel half-hour in the library, roused himself and asked "How would the library do, professor?" After a slight deliberation the professor concluded it would do, and the test was made on the following day.