THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
told by a member of the ring that they were thinking of running me for the presidency of the Athletic association in Maxwell's place but my consuming desire would not allow me to accept such an honorable position and I refused the offer, and further, I have said I did not want any office in any University organization.
As to the breaking of oaths, which Mr. Mitchel says "we do not like." I will say this: an oath loses its sacredness when the objects for which it was taken, and the means adopted to attain those objects are wrong and corrupting. Nor is he bound by them when taken in the form of a joke, or when by the arts of deceit he is run into an organization because there is no free and open consent of the mind. According to some people's methods of reaching conclusions, that if a man took an oath to serve the devil eternally and as the devil would not like it, if he broke his oath, and everybody said the devil was right because the devil said it was wrong to break an oath of this character: he would have to go to hell to complete the bargain and keep his oath. W. S. Pope
W. S. Pope.
COLLEGE WORLD.
"Dear Father: Once you said 'My son To manhood you have grown;
Make others trust you, trust yourself And learn to stand alone!
"Now, father, soon I graduate,
And those who long have shown
How well they trust me, want their cash,
And I can stand a loan."
Trinity Tablet.
Sing a song of touch-downs,
A pig skin full of air;
Two and twenty sluggers
With long and matted hair.
When the game was opened,
The sluggers 'gan to fight.
Wasn't that, for tender maids.
An edifying sight?
Brunonian.
First Student: How did it happen that you failed again?
Second Student: Why, that wretched examiner asked me the same questions that I couldn't answer last year.—Ex.
They call the bicycle "the devil's chariot" in Turkey, and the Sultan forbids its use. Du Pauw Weekly.
Our Willie passed away to-day. His face we'll see no more: What Willie thought was H2O Proved H2SO4. Ex.
"Where are you going, my pretty maid?" "To feed the calf, kind sir," she said. "Can I go with you, my pretty maid?" "There isn't enough for two," she said. Browning King & Co's Monthly.
A Kansas 'Varsity girl found a life mate as a result of a mock marriage; the only thing omitted was kissing the bride which, however, did not invalidate the ceremony.—M. S. U. Independent.
"I have called," said the captious critic, "to find out what reason you can give for representing the new year as a nude small boy."
Laughter and tears are meant to be the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility. One is wind-power, the other water-power. That's all the difference.—Ex.
"That is done,' responded the art editor, because the year does not get its close till the 31st of December."—Ex.
On and On.
My sweatheart's on her dignity My brother's on the sea; While I am on a howling lark. And my "dad" is on—to me.
The Sigma Nu's here are rejoicing over the selection of Win Harrington, an old K. U. boy, as one of the debaters from Leland Stanford in the Stanford vs. U. of C. debate.
Seven members of the chapter, Sigma Nu, went down to Kansas City to attend the intercollegiate contest. Mr. Anderson, a SigmaNu from Fayette, Mo., won first place. The fraternity held a reunion and reception at the Midland after the contest.
Miss Harriet Gressinger gave her graduating recital on Wednesday evening, March 27. at Music Hall. The Board of Regents of the University attended the recital, and expressed themselves as well pleased with the work of the music department. Mr. Marshall assisted Miss Gressinger.