MERRY CHRISTMAS! The Courier Comes to You, One and All, Bearing the Holiday Greeting of the Management. -- We Come to Tell You the News, We Come to Cheer You. -- Oh, How Different Is Each Succeeding Christmas. In the Years of Childhood, How We Used to Look Forward to This Annual Fe... -- Years Have Gone By, Childhood Has Passed and We Instinctively Look Forward to Christmas as the Time When the Broken Fami... -- The Past Will All Come Back as We Gather at the Old Home, With Father and Mother, Brothers and Sisters, to Enjoy the Ble... -- We Feel Like Republishing the Article of Last Year, Entitled, "An UnChristmas." It Seems to Us Very Appropriate. Yet We... -- You Fortunate Ones Who Have a Home, and Who Spend Your Holidays There, Just Stop and Think of Your Classmates Who Are He... -- They Stay and Work, and Eat the Black Bread of Poverty. The Brave Boys Are Not to Be Pitied; They Are to Be Envied. -- It Is Hard for Them to Stay Away From the Family Board at This Time of Universal Rejoicing and Feasting, Yet Such Disapp... -- It Is From This Class of Our Students That the Most Trustworthy and Honorable Citizens Come. It Is These Boys Who Win Fo... -- The Courier Could Name a Large Number of Our Most Prominent Alumni Who Worked and Suffered in the Years of Young Manhood... -- Be Not Ashamed of Poverty. Let It Urge You on to Work With Yet Greater Zeal. -- "Is There for Honest Poverty That Hings His Head and A' That, the Coward Slave We Pass Him By, We Dare Be Poor for A' Th... -- The Minneapolis Messenger, Lieut. Gov. Riddle's Paper, Says That the Main Building, Unless Repaired, Is in a Fair Way To... -- The Water-Works Will Be a Rather Poor Protection to the University. By Means of It, Water Can Be Thrown but to the Third... -- Then by Keeping the Cisterns Full, by Means of the Water Works, Almost Absolute Protection Could Be Secured. -- WE Were a Little Surprised at an Article Which Appeared in Last Week's Gazette. -- It Seems Rather Out of Place for Our City Papers to Publish the Complaints and Carping of Every Dis-Appointed Official O... -- The Writer of the Letter Never Have Done Better Had She Never Written a Word of It. It Never Pays to Whine Over an Injur... -- The Latest Break Made by the Hesperian Student Is to Announce That the Cut on Its Title Page Is a Work of Art. Great Hea... -- On Examining a Copy, the First Thing We Behold Is This Work of Art Which by Any Means Is Very Suggestive of Hanging Out... -- The Mississippi University Magazine Contains Seven Pages of Original Poetry Besides Five Pages of Editorial Matter Writt... -- We Were at a Loss to Account for This Until We Saw His Salary. Walter Has Been Shoving Off Some of His Old Manuscript On... -- When He Gets Older and More Accustomed to Seeing His Own Writing in Type, He Will Get Over This. The Poetry, However, Do... -- A Suitable Place Has Been Cleared and All Arrangements Perfected, Whereby Students Who Wish to Ride to School Can Erect... -- How Many of Those Who Ride Will Accept This Offer and Erect Shelter, Is Not Known, but We Think That if There Is Any One... -- Subscribe for the Courier. -- New Year Cards. -- [advertisements]