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KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Pennsylvania, and will be by Yale, all by large scores. Do you think there is no interest taken in such a team? There is plenty of praise given that team, and even here at Yale Columbia and their coach are praised by the students, and both New York and New Haven papers have given them a great amount of credit. From the lack of material and reverse circumstances the impression is that Columbia has made a wonderful showing.
Most respectfully yours,
JNO. W. HUNT.
Dooley on Frats.
What's a Frat? inquired Mike anxiously as he dropped in one evening on his college friend Pat.
A Frat is it? inquired Pat. A Frat, me boy is nothing less than a trust, an knowing yer politics as I do I behave after that ye will have nothing to do with 'em. A trust as me friend Jennings O'Brien has remarked, and it was before they discovered the ice trust—is the ruin of a nation and therefore iv a collidge. If a man comes up to collidge whose father is in the sugar trust, the Frats resaive him wid open arms, because, as ye know, Mike, a Frat needs "filthy lucre" as much as a preacher or any mon! Another wan is ilicted because he is discinded from the mon who was valet to Columbus, and he is supposed to give socil " - klat" to the Frat. What is "E-klat?" Well I dunno, but that's what they call it anyhow! Another wan is illicted for no special purpose only he looks good and will be a powerful drawing card wid the ladies, and them Frats are great on de ladies, Mike, and the ladies ar-re great on Frats, ye might have noticed in de ollidge paper not long since de account of a lady what went to one of dere doins. It beat de "Inauguration Ball" in her estimation. Well, when de young man mentioned before as being iligible shows up dey take him to dere place of business and stand him up in front of a dure and ax him to wait a minit. By an by a mon
on the ither side iv the dure says: "Who's dere?" and de new feller sez: "A faithful pilgrim who desires to go troo de ordeal," he sez, "Wait till I tell de head Faker" de inside man sez. Den de mon comes out an sez: "My son are ye not afraid," he sez 'of weakening in the turrible ordeal" says he, "when dey stick de hot irons in ye or when ye have to walk de burning desert," he sez, "or jump off de precipice," he sez: "I am not afraid, so help me Mark Hanna" he sez. So dey blind-fold him and stick him wid hot irons, which is chunks of ice, Mike, and run him over de burnin' desert, which is only a large block iv ice, and push him off a precipice made iv tables, onto a bed. If he is not kilt dey sez he is initiated, but if he is, dey turn him over to de medics. When de feller comes too, he sees a lot of fellers wid sheets wrapped around 'em and sauce-pans on dere heads, gathered around a little mon sitting on a throne, which is nothing but a chair on top of a table. An' de executioner hands him a card what sez "We thank heaven we are not as common folks" and axes him to swear to it. Den he must kiss de big toe of de "Head Faker" on de throne and say "Verily thou art greater than Mark Hanna." Den he is a member iv a society wid a name loike a Chinese newspaper! I know dis is true, because me frind "Parson" told me so.
I'll not jine, sez Moike, the ordeal is too har-rd.
An' that's where ye show yere wisdom, says Pat, for since ye don't own de Southern Pacific ye couldn't anyway!--P. H. A. in Silver and Gold.
Golf.
Now you can play golf! The Oread Golf club has ammended its constitution so that non-resident students can join for the sum of two dollars. This is done because the club feels that the students who are not here all the year deserve some consideration. In view of the fact that credit in training is given for golf, a large number of the students ought to join the club.