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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
Few university athletic associations have as sound a financial basis as has that of K.U. Many of them depend for support upon subscriptions from students and are kept busy trying to get out of debt.
The larger universities are considering the advisability of abolishing the playing of games on Thanksgiving day. This is a good move. There are other days just as good for the games, and the way that Thanksgiving day has been taken possession of by athletics is indeed deplorable.
The Senior class of the University of Minnesota has adopted the cap and gown. About twenty members of the class however, believing. as they say, that the custom of wearing caps and gowns is "extravagant and undemocratic," have absolutely refused to abide by the will of the majority.
Missionaries now learn at home by the use of phonographs, the language of the people to whom they are going. Why not go a step farther and supply the greedy savages with some automatic, indestructable, non-edible phonographs, loaded with a few Gospel Hymns and a half dozen sermons and prayermeetings and thus save the poor missionaries entirely
"The Kansas University team put up a poor game at Lawrence. They haven't near the team they had last year," said Judge Lawson, who in company with Messrs. Rollins, Robinson and Young, was at Lawrence Saturday. to see the Kansas-Nebraska game. "But they will put up a better game at Kansas City and we must work or they will beat us," he added.-M. S. U. Tiger. He was a prophet.
IN CAP AND GOWN.
In cap and gown I saw her go—
The daintiest sight the world could show,
The cap aslant with mocking air,
The gown blown lightly here and there-
I watched her with my heart aglow.
Throughout the passing centuries slow. In many garbs maids come and go. Sweet souls! They have been twice as fair In cap and gown.
O, Grecian girls in robes of snow,
O, satin belles of long ago,
However gay your dress or fair,
I tell you, ye could not compare
With the new maid, ye cannot know,
In cap and gown.—Ex.
Browning, King & Co.'s Column.
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