The University Courier.
. OCTOBER 24,1883. No.4.
THE FORTNIGHT.
The die is cast, the stroke has fallen, the fat man has slipped upon the banana-skin, and Ohio has gone Democratic. Many of our students were considerably worked up over this national blessing, or national calamity, each one regarding it as the color of his individual politics determined. A suffering student-public may congratulate itself that the excitement of a close fight in the contest elections has taken the attention of noble Junior and Senior war-horses from matters of state, else there were danger that those attending chapel be turned into as many animated volumes of Von Holst and the Tribune Almanac.
Some of our rising upper class men evidently think:
The quality of politics is not strained;
They drop, as does the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; they make to bloom
With wisdom of the Junior the dry soil
Of wide-mouthed Preps and Freshman; they become
The mighty Senior better than his plug,
That attribute to awe aud majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of Profs;
Above this plugged sway stand politics,
Enthroned in the hearts of Congressmen,
And attributes to Presidents themselves;
Thus students are most like to Presidents
When politics season study.
When politics season study.
As co-education and woman-suffrage are making such rapid strides, and as we must be nothing if not consistent, no doubt the
young ladies will soon agitate their tende minds with grave and awful questions of state. But here arises another difficulty What if the noble Senior and his best girl, his particular affinity, get upon opposite sides of the political fence,-we shudder to think upon it.
In this connection we rise to felicitate the editor-in-chief of our E. C., that great and fearless adovcate of the patent-medicine cause in the west, the Lawrence Daily Journal. After consistently and unhesitantly riding the fence of country politics—until the fence broke down under him—he has at last, when all hope seemed lost, fallen upon his feet, as it were, and lighted on the firm floor of an office. By the unpurchased votes of his charmed and enthusiastic fellow-studeuts, he has been elected—SECRETARY OF OREAD SOCIETY!!! We congratulate the gentleman, that his noble resolve of leaving the pestilential marshes of country politics for the exalted heights of Oread statesmanship has been so soon and so fittingly rewarded. Long may the hand that has written those mighty "leaders" inscribe in faultless chirography the important transactions of Oread Society!
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