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Kansas University Weekly.
EXCHANGES.
Yale and Princeton each have about twenty men out for spring foot-ball practice.
This exchange page has been written hurridly at a late day this week with but a small portion of our exchanges at hand.
It is very noticable that the poorest papers from the smallest schools publish the greater number of long articles of the essay kind.
A High School student who has been studying botany is now trying to cross the milk weed with the strawberry, to raise berries and cream. High School Times.
Our esteemed fellow laborer of the exchange department of the Baker Orange gave three phunnygraphs one week and devoted the remainder of the column to the study of the Bible.
After five years consideration the governing body of the University of Kentucky has just voted to admit fraternities. Upon this the Enroll comments: "This will of course greatly benefit the University."
The Columbia Call publishes a picture and biography of Maurice Alden. He is one of the speakers of the public debate being held at Columbia College on the admission of Cuba. The Call says the debaters will give our congressmen some pointers.
Recently a young lady in Columbia, who had just been introduced to a young man, claimed to him that she was a student of the University, and upon being asked what course she was taking, remaked; "I am in the epidemic department."
--Ed Howe: If you want to post yourself in a certain line, why not slip quietly into a library and study the best authorities on the subject? Why listen to a dull "paper" written by a man who knows as little about the subject in hand as you do? There is an immense amount of nonense about the "clubs" people belong to for "improvement." This is one side of the question at least.
The M. S. U. Independent, in commenting on the fact that for three succesive years Central College has carried off the honors of the State Oratorical Association, says: "I believe her literary societies to be the most potent factor in fitting these young men for oratorical contests. The college authorities take great interest in the literary societies of the school and when the new college building was erected they provided the two literary societies each with a maganificent hall." And the writer goes on to give reasons why this line of work should not be allowed to fall behind, just because the University is becoming a great one. Does not this contain a moral for Kansas University?
The students appropriately observed Arbor Day—the night before—by planting a goodly number of trees on the quadrangle, but the janitors, less patriotic than the students, removed them the next morning. -M.S.U. Independent.
Cincinnati University is making rules to determine who shall wear the "C" on his sweater. It would be a good thing to have similar action here. Such a knowledge when properly limited, to be accounted a great honor.
Wisconsin won the Minnesota-Wisconsin debate Friday night at Minneapolis. It was on the regulation of trusts or pools.
"In the Spring a..."
Dey's sugah in the win' when the sassafras bloom,
When de little co'n fluttah in de row,
When the robin in de tree, like er young gal in de loom,
Sing sweet, sing sof', sing low.
Oh, de sassafras blossom hab de keen smell o' de root,
An it hab sich a tender yaller green!
De co'n it kinder,twinkle when it first begin ter shoot,
While de bumble-bee hit humble in between.
Oh, de sassafras tassel, and de young shoot of de co'n,
An de young gal er-singin' in de loom,
Dey's somefin luscious in em f'om de day 'at they was bo'n,
An dis darky's sort o' took er likin' to'm.
Hit's kind o' sort o' glor'us when yo' feels so quare an cur'us,
An' yo' don' know what it is yo' wants ter do;
But I takes de chances on it 'at hit jest can't be injur'ous
When de whole endurin' nature tells yo' to!
Den wake up, niggah, see de sassafras in bloom!
Lis'n how de sleepy wedder blow!
An' de robin in de han-bush an' de young gal in de loom
Is er singin' so sof'an' low. —MAURICE THOMPSON.