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Show for hillocks and valleys, henco the study of physiography will receive an imi'3tus as a secondary course. ' ' Invaluablo instruction will be received re-ceived in modern American-English as site is spoke, adding much to the color and effectiveness of the player's diction. ''The originators of this idea will not selfishly limit the pleasures of the game to their own sex. Members will instruct their best girls in the art, and we expect to soon hear from tho woman's wo-man's dormitory the steady drone of the dice and tho enticing feminine ple:i, 'Baby needs a new pair of shoes. Jo-o-me, yo ' seven.' "As a social pastime, may I predict that crapshooting will in time take the place, in a large degree, of dancing, in the rear future I confidently expect to see large ballrooms fil-od writh coed students, gathered in cheery camaraderie camarade-rie around a number of crap games, oblivious ob-livious to the strains of the jazz orchestra." or-chestra." Method of organization of the society and its meeting will, for the time being, be-ing, be kept a secret among the charter members. An active, but surreptitious, campaign has been started for now members, known as "customers." In stead of using the customary handshake of fellowship, members of the society will greet each other by rattling their bones. Ralf , E. Spangler of Salt Lake Makes Merry in Chicago Paper. Should the skillful shooting of the merry bones, Hie rolling of the flix-faeed flix-faeed ivories become a nart of the higher curricula of the country's great educational routers? There have been different opinions expressed ex-pressed on the subject. Following is a dissertation on this momentous question ques-tion by Ralf E. Spangler, son of Mr. and Mrs. liobert V. bpangler of Salt Lake, which appeared recently in The Daily Maroon, of the University of Chicago, Chi-cago, where the younger Spangler is now a student. He writes: Our favorite contributor reports that a movement is on foot among a group of enthusiastic uudergrads to establish a course in crapshooting at the University Uni-versity of Chicago. . He submits the following account, including a speech, which he took down short-handed, as you might say, from the lips of a prominent promi-nent man-about-campus, who was so modest as to wish his name withheld: "Craps," he staled, "is one of the most ancient and honorable pastimes. It originated among the Africans, and has thus since the beginning been a gentleman's game. No ono need lower himself to play craps." In respomo to a storm of protest, the speaker explained that he referred to mental lowering, and not physical. He resumed: "Craps is fundamentally a democratic demo-cratic game, and as such is worthy of support from the University of Chicago, which is notorious for its Jeff ersouinn tendencies. The game of craps was tho mainstay, both lit home and abroad, of America's fighting army. At the roll of die, or t lie rullying cry of 'Come, you, 'ieven,' the ex-servb-e men will (father again to tho support of the game. "I appeal to the students to .ioin and support the Society for the Promulgation Promul-gation of Crapshooting, which is to be organized today. As soon as organization organiza-tion is effected a immilt.?e will be elected to call upon members of tho faculty who have not recently lost at the gumo. Our tentative program is to start a popular demand for a course in eraps in the physical culture department, depart-ment, preferably under the able tutorage tutor-age of the athletic instructor. "There are a number of reasons why this movement .should find favor in the eyes of the l'ecultr. The gnmo gives an impetus to the study of other departments. For example, all the elements ele-ments of eeonomics are graphically portrayed por-trayed to tho crapshooter risk, speculation, specu-lation, supplv and demand, and particularly, particu-larly, the law of diminishing returns, 'flic game teaches philosophy as well as does the learned professor of this subicct, with the added value of prac-1 prac-1 ie;l experience. Kwry players knows tho necessity of studying the terrain |
