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The University Courier.
The boys in the engineering department are busily engaged in drawing plans for the proposed new machine shops.
A new lathe is being constructed in the machine shops by the electrical engineers. It is a beauty. This lathe, with the one just ordered from the East, will give the engineers five lathes.
Prof. Shepard and the junior electricals have been engaged the past week in calibrating volt meters sent from different electric plants in the state.
The electric colored lights at the Fraternal Aid entertainment Tuesday evening were worked by George Rush and Fred Miller.
Full arrangements have been made by the government to have Prof. Blake continue his fog signal experiments the coming summer, off New York Harbor.
Prof. John Fiske, of Harvard, visited the University Tuesday and expressed himself as much pleased with the institution.
The Glee and Banjo Club met Tuesday and distributed the club pictures. Each member got two pictures, one of each group.
A Negative.
The old man stood for some time at the juncture of the walks on the campus and seemed to be contemplating with disgust the large, bold sign-board which gave instructions to visitors. He was evidently a populist legislator; for although he was a curious looking old fellow, yet he had a certain air of dignity and importance about him (and also of unbaled hay and live stock) that could not be mistaken. As I passed I heard him mumble to himself: "Not by a dern sight. I guess I steered myself across these here pains before there was a timber on this blamed knoll, and I don't go spending myself for no blamed guide to show me through a school house." And as I went on I indistinctly heard something muttered about "spending the people's money fer derned nonsense."
LITERARY.
Negatives.
Although it was his first University party, yet he felt himself most intimately acquainted with every phase of college life. He had been flirting desperately all the evening with a charming little lady and was finally introduced to her. In sincere, yet unguarded tones, she remarked : "So glad to meet you; and do you know I used to know your father?" No, he did not know it, but he concluded it was probably true, for he had heard of the great age of the "college widow."
Two tramps forlorn, on Ninth and Main Sts. "One of the Finest" slowly advancing.
1st Vag. "H's got his eye on us, old hoss its Kitty bar the door."
2nd Vag. "You're too easy; stand back a little and I'll make the bluff."
He jerked a red bandanna out of his pistol pocket and stuffed a corner into his button hole. Brass buttons came up this smart young man and velled "Rock Chalk
The policeman passed on with many a scowl at "those d-d drunken students."
He was a University student, and as he stepped on the car he had that complacent, selfsatisfied air which accompanies the successful passage of examinations. Every seat seemed taken, but a benevolent old lady nudged along and made room for him beside her.
She scrutinized the young man closely for a few moments, when she suddenly remarked: "Why Willie Brown, how you have grown! and how is your mamma?" A deep crimson suffused his face as he assured her that she was well, and it was rather a wicked glare that he shot back at the smiling passengers, as he got off at the next crossing.
Recently and most vividly the fact has been impressed upon my mind that the shirt is one of mankind's greatest boons. Just stop for a moment and consider what a gigantic part the
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