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Sec. 3.—Roberts' Rules of Order shall be authority.
ARTICLE VIII.
Advisory Committee.
SECTION 1.—A committee of five members of the senior classes of the University shall be elected according to the cumulative method of voting by those classes in joint session to act for the college year with the five permanent advisory committeemen of the faculty.
Sec. 2. —The committee thus constituted shall exercise supreme jurisdiction over all matters of controversy. Such matters of controversy must be submitted in writing by complainant in order to obtain a hearing.
SEC. 3. The committee shall post, on the Monday preceding the day of election, a list of the approved candidates.
SEC. 4. The committee shall appoint the three judges who shall have charge of the ballot-box.
SEC. 5. The joint meeting of the senior classes for the election of the five advisory committeemen shall be held on the second Friday of the fall term. The editor-in-chief shall call the meeting.
SEC. 6. The advisory committeemen for the remainder of the spring term of 1895 shall be elected at a meeting called by the Chancellor on the second Friday in April, 1895.
LITERARY.
A Wall Paper Customer.
It is said that you can judge a man by the dog he keeps, or by the company his wife keeps. There are other tests as infallible as these but none of them can be applied to women. The dog which a woman keeps is devoid of characteristics, and as her husband is not particular about his company, this test is also unreliable.
However, there is one infallible test of female character; you can judge a woman from the manner in which she selects wall paper. If you doubt this statement ask any experienced retailer.
A certain firm that has wrestled with many a type of wall paper hunters was once visited by a typical customer.
She was a portly, full-cheeked, heavily-stepping lady, considerably past middle life, and had the air of one who has been unjustly abused. She entered a large book store and stood motionless just inside the door until a clerk approached.
"Keep wall paper?" she asked.
"We do."
"I thought you did but I didn't want to walk down this big store till I was sure."
The clerk did not know the cause of this remark until a little later. The old lady wished to buy a remnant of wall paper, a remnant of eight rolls, no more and no less. So she was led to the wall paper department where the following dialogue took place.
Old lady—"O dear—so many patterns here I'm afraid I won't get the best one after all, can't tell now what I do want. Hold on! there's a comely figger an' I like it too."
Clerk—"Yes, but this remnant has only six rolls. You want eight."
"O dear me, I might'a knowed that. Everything goes contrariwise with me. Well show me some more."
Considerable time passes during which the old lady finds all desirable remnants either too large or too small. Others are too "yaller" or too "dead" or "don't go with the carpet" or likely to "show dirt" or, when they have the proper color, they lack a "comely figer" or, when the figure is satisfactory, it is arranged in such a bewildering way that the "strips won't match" or, when the design is less of a puzzle and capable of being synthesized on a wall, "the body is poor" and "won't hold paste."
After reviewing the stock of remnants several times and having an objection for each pattern,