Show ro G n. i Exchanges and Reviews e e Jt 3 The University of Michigan offers a six years' years course which when completed gh gives s degrees in both science and medi medi- I cine The best endo endowed ved college in the country country country coun coun- try is Columbia with Harvard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard and Cornell stand next with each There is a movement on foot at the Leland Leland Leland Le- Le land Stanford University looking toward the formation of a girls' girls rowing club Such innovations as this must come come from the West Ohio Wesleyan University recently challenged Denison College to a literary contest consisting of essays a debate and declamations the essays and declamations to be furnished by the ladies Charles the Second said Charles the First addressing his son just jl St before the execution let my fate be a warning to you never be without an insurance insurance ance nce policy Harpers Harper's Harpers Harper's Bazar Two professors at Iowa College have established a prize of 2000 to be awarded award award- ed to the member of any athletic team in inthe inthe inthe the College who shall have the highest hig-hest average scholarship during the year No 0 student does justice to himself or society who shuts himself up with his own course and his own special work and text books and shuts out the newspaper the best things in current literature and G f Gf the practical world in general 4 The plan proposed by The Red and Black for obtaining a permanent lect lecture re refund fund namely to convert the endowment established by Gov Bross into a lecture fund has been adopted by the Students' Students committee and the students and if the heirs make no objection Lake take Forest willin will wilf willin in future have an established l lecture fund My 1 wife and I says a traveling man man were once in a hotel where we couldn't get any boiling water After we had discussed discussed discussed dis dis- cussed the situation my wife asked me if I had an envelope in my satchel I got one out when she told me to fill it with water and hold it over the gas jet I hesitated hesitated hesitated hes hes- but finally did it and expected to see the envelope blaze up every moment But it didn't blaze The envelope took a little soot but that was all The water boiled in time the envelope was as as s good goodas as ever when the experiment was at an end I dont don't know the chem chemistry stry of the process but try it yourself and see if it will work ExMAN Ex liE MAN AN AND HIS SHOES How much a man is like his shoes For instance both a soul may lose Both have been tanned both are re made tight F By cobblers both get left and right i F Both need a mate to be complete And both are made to go on feet They both need heeling oft are sold And both in time will turn to mould With shoes the last is first with men menThe menThe menThe The first shall be the last and when The shoes wear out they're mended new When men we wear r out they're men dead too They both are trod upon and both Will tread on others nothing loth Both have their ties and both incline When polished into the world to shine And both peg out Now would you choose To be a man or be his shoes Houghton Record The last of the series of articles My Father As I Knew Him by Mamie Dickens appears in the April number of the Journal This article is very interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting giving an account of Dickens' Dickens last words spoken in public the railroad accident accident accident acci acci- dent of 1865 his meeting with Q Queen een Victoria the closing days of his life life and hi his burial burial in Poets Poet's corner Westminster Abbey A Avery very appropriate epitaph for Dickens is his own words Of the loved revered and honored head thou not turn one hair to thy dread purpose nor make one feature odius It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released it is not that the heart and pulse are still but that the hand was open generous and true the heart brave warm and tender and the pulse a mans Strike shadow strike and see his good deeds springing from the wound to sow the world with life immortal A COLLEGE IDYL f Ram it in cram it in ti Stude Students Students' lt h heads adsa are e hollow I tai N i jiL x l i Slam it in tn jam it in tn Still till theres there's more to follow follow- lr if Ltd t Hygiene and and history lt tl Astronomic mystery Algebra histology Wit W tl jd f Latin etymology f E WI J Botany geometry Greek and trigonometry tJ W Ram it in cram it in z r 1 t J. J Students Students' heads are hollow hollo Rap it t in tap it in iri- iri V t What are Profs paid for Bang it in slam it in in- in M I U What are students made for l it a A tf Ancient archaeology a 1 i B Ii Aryan philology I f fr l H t Prosody zoology J 4 Physics I o Calculus and mathematics Rhetoric and h hydrostatics hydrostatics- a 1 Hoax it in coax it in f rA Students' Students heads are holl hollow w. w d i ii J Rub it in tn club it in tn r un j All there is of learning 11 1 Punch it in crunch it in Quench their foolish yearning ir For the field and grassy nook g j F. F Meadow green and rippling brook Drive such wicked thoughts afar Teach the students that they are But machines to cram it in Bang it in slam it in in- in That their heads are hollow J Scold it in mold it in All that they can swallow Fold it in hold it in Still till theres there's more to follow Those who've passed the furnace through With aching brow will tell to you How the teacher crammed it in Rammed it in punched it in c Rubbed it in n clubbed i it i in r Pressed it in tn caressed it in tn I Rapped it in and slapped it in t When their heads were hollow j f Anon Anon in ill The Lm Lantern k 1 01 Read the biographical sketch of Goethe in Petersons Peterson's r The events in inthe 1 I Ithe the life of the great German poet are related related related re- re in a pleasing style and an insight is given into the character of the most silent of men yet the greatest of modern German German German Ger Ger- man authors The Life of a Sister of Charity by byJ J James ames Cardinal Gibbons is one of the finest articles published in the Journal Cardinal Gibbons says Greater love than this no man hath that a man lay down his life for his friends A life of consecration to the works of mercy and charity holds joys so pure and sweet and gentle having once tasted its happiness are willing to relinquish it As long as there are sufferings to relieve and to soothe the Sister of Charity will be found faithful in the exercise of her calling You will be amply repaid for reading the Homes of the English Poets in Petersons Peterson's s Magazine |