Show r O f i I f f i Exchanges and i o Eighty men mea are trying for position on the Yale Record Ex You cannot dream yourself dream yourself into a character you must earn one by directed well directed labor The The Ham The student who takes the short and irregular lar cut to acquire matter for recitation in his lesson is not the student who is little by little through sound thinking and rigid discipline growing into a a stalwart scholar Otterbein Aegis The number of millionaires at present within the United States is by no means so great as some alarmists have declared A careful census census census cen cen- sus of those reputed to be worth a million or ort t f more has been lately compiled by the New NewYork York Tribune and it i i now known that the number instead of being being- thirty thousand or more is only a little over four thousand Goddard God God- dard Record Her face was sad and wrinkled and worn Her dress was old and tattered and torn The street was covered with ice and sleet And the poor womans woman's shoes were full of feet Ex The oldest college graduate in America is J James ames Kitchen of Philadelphia who was in inthe the class of 1819 at the U U. U of P. P third One-third of the University students of Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope die prematurely from bad habits acquired in college third one die prematurely from the effects of confinement at their studies and the theother theother theother other third third go ern Europe Johns Hopkins now asks of undergraduates an examination in gymnastics before a Degree is conferred All that we are is the direct result of our thoughts If our thoughts have been noble pure and good then such have been our lives If our thoughts have been pure and elevating our good deeds shall shine far and wide and elevate mankind If a man speaks or acts witha pure thought happiness follows him like a shadow that does not leave him Ex Ex Of the one hundred professors at Chicago University ninety four are Americans Jones was dead an and l a bulletin stating that Geo S. S Jones Jonell Esq had departed this life for Heaven at 12 m. m was posted by br a sympathetic family on the door A passing wag full of mischief placed the following notice on a telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph sheet under that of the family HEAVEN arrived 1230 p. p m. m Jones m.-Jones not yet Excitement intense Ex The Colorado Collegian contains a very interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting article on The Ideal of from which we quote the following thought was an echo of his life His ideal was the absolute allegiance to truth his method the emergence emergence into the pure light of reason by losing the life and sense ense and imagination God is the all this all this is the key to the pantheistic thought of All finite forms are but the fleeting manifestations of the divine es es- sence Man like every mode is but a bubble which forms and bursts in the ocean of infinite Being The spirit indeed goes back to God who gave it j it exists somewhere in the uni uni- verse But who can tell whether the self conscious conscious conscious con con- personality is maintained or A w hether that is merged and lost in the abyss of the divine substance substance Curious it may seem Spin Spin- oza the intoxicated God-intoxicated man was branded with the charge of atheism Ob Oberlin College will probably introduce a novel feature in the field day sports It is proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed to reproduce the Greek Olympiad with jardin hurling etc the contestants to appear in Greek costume costume Ex The Yale Princeton-Yale debate takes place on March There will be three speakers from each college each one of these to speak twice the speeches to be ten and six minutes in length Yale will have the choice of side and Princeton that of subject E. Ex The inter-collegiate inter chess tournament between between between be be- tween Columbia Harvard Yale and Princeton resulted in a victory for Columbia Ex It is the proud assertion of Vassar graduates that no Vassar girl has ever been divorced from her husband Ex Here are some of the curious answers to examination examination examination ex ex- questions collected by an English teacher Esau was a man who wrote fables and who sold the copyright to a publisher for fora a bottle of potash Titus was a Roman em- em supposed Teror-supposed supposed to have written the Epistle to the Hebrews his Hebrews his other name was Oates Gates Oli Oliver er Cromwell was a man who was put into prison for his interference in Ireland When he lie was vas in prison he wrote The Pilgrims Pilgrim's Pr Progress gress and married a lady called Mrs OShea Wolsey was v a famous general who fought in the Crimean war and who after being decapitated several times said to Cromwell Cromwell Crom Crom- well Ah if I had only served you as you have served m me I would not have been deserted deserted deserted de de- in m my old age Who Vho was Henry the Third A A. zealous supporter of the church and d died ed a What is a Papal Bull A sort of cow only larger and does not give milk Perkin raised a rebellion in inthe inthe inthe the reign of Henry the Eighth He said he was the son of a prince but he was really the son of respectable people Ph Phoenicians The inventors of Ph Phoenician blinds Bacchanal A native of in South Africa Chimera Chim Chim- era A thing used to take likenesses with Watershed A place in which boats are stored in winter Gender Is the way whereby we tell what sex a man is Cynical A cynical lump of sugar is one pointed at the top Immaculate Immaculate Im Im- Immaculate maculate State of those who have passed the entrance examination at London University Hydrostatics Is when a mad dog bites you It is called hydrophobia when a dog is mad and hydrostatics when a man catches it Briefly describe the heart and its function or work The heart is isa a comical shaped bag The heart heartis is divided divided into several parts by br a fleshy peti peti- tion These parts are called right artillery left artillery and so forth The function of the heart is between the lungs The work of the heart is isto to repair the different organs in about half a minute What is a volcano A volcano is a very powerful rock What is the them m meaning aning of mer de le glace Mother of glass What fossil remains do we find of fishes In some rocks we find the fossil footprints of fishes What are the metamorphic rocks Rocks that contain metaphors Explain the wor words s fort and fortress A fort is a place to put men in and a fortress a place to put women in What is a Republican A Republican is sinner mentioned in the Bible The two chief volcanoes in Europe Sodom and Gomorrah Read John Yohn Burns BUrtIs at Home on page 78 of the February Review of rf Reviews John Burns is a man mall in every sense of the word Born in England a poor man by trade trad a blacksmith he has by native energy and absolute integrity fy I I made a world-wide world reputation as a u friend of humanity He is a natural leader of men and he has never led the workingman into into an an unwise unwise unwise un un- wise movement In the struggle between capital capital cap ital and labor in England John Burns has ever represented the side of labor but unlike the demagogue he e has been able to see both sides of the question and to realize that both sides have yet a lesson to learn Of himself he lie says I have helped to organize upwards of one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred trade unions and have been connected with something like forty strikes It means reading and study that I can tell you jou |