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Kansas University Weekly. EXCHANGES.
Primus: "What prompted you to leave college.
Secundus: "The faculty."—Ex.
Tis strange, to say the least,
In this advanced hour
That the grinding mill of college
Is still run by "horse"-power.
- The Stentor.
The University of Michigan Daily actually finds every day interesting material for publication. Mr. Harrison, the editor, is a Kansas man.
To demonstrate quickly and easily how perversely absorb 'tis to sound this name Cowper, As people in general call him named super, I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse trooper. James Russel Lowell.
Si flunkeamus
Nos petamus
Altissimos ramos
Unde pendeamus.
— College Life.
The best two exchanges on our list, from a typographical stand point, are from Texas—the "An-X" and the Monthly from Southwestern University. Both are monthly publications, the former edited and managed exclusively by "co-eds.," and the contents of each are as satisfactory as its typographical appearance.
"You seem sad, my red-skinned brother," said the missoinary.
"Red-skinned brother's heart heap sad," said the noble son of the prairie. "White man shoot better, fight better and now Injun hear college yell. He know Injun can't war whoop for sour apples. Waugh!"—Ex.
"Hast thou a lover," asked he "Oh. maiden of the Rhine?"
She blushed in sweet confusion,
And softly faltered "Nein."
He felt rebuffed, and knew not What best to say, and then A sudden thought came to him,
And he pleaded 'Make it ten!"—Ex.
A young lady in the University of Minnesota writes a plea, in the Ariel of that college, for the co-education of men. She says: "May we live to see the day when men knock at the doors of Wellesly and Bryn Mawr and, upon admittance bear the magic name of Coeds."——
Washburn students last year rendered in a Greek play in the original Greek, and this year they have played Minna von Barnhelm in German. Why should Kansas University allow her enterprising competitor to surpass her in theatrical as well as in oratorical performances?
A local poet wails:
Lives of lovers oft remind us That we may ere many moons, In departing have behind us Footprints on our pantaloons.
—Exchange.
A thoughtful boy in English III,
One day said, "I'll allow, sir,
I've heard a cat purr merrily,
But I've never heard a Cowper,"
—Dodo, in University Chronicle.
The Salute of the State Normal limits the proportion of its space devoted to advertising matter in a way several other college papers could imitate to their benefit. Topeka Capital in "Comments on College Papers."
Perhaps the Capital cannot always tell, maybe it is the business men of Emporia who limit the Salute's advertising.
"Say, mamma, we boys ought to have one of these pancakes in our nine."
"Why my dear?"
,,'Cause its the hardest batter in town."