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Show BEQTJTESCAT ENGINEERS. The rivalry between the students of the various departments of our universities to a certain extent has replaced the old class feelings. And "if the brilliancy frequently fre-quently experded In Interdepartmental Jokes was de-voted to more scholastic purposes pur-poses college professors would have an inspiring task. One of these amusing battles bat-tles of wit between the "Engineers" and "Lawyers" of the University of Missouri Is reported as follows: Ir. front of the main building on the csrppus Is a long, oval flower bed, which during the winter term Is merely a bare. brewn plot -of soil. This was a new "field" for engineering feats. One night In early spring, when the young buds were beginning to break, the followers of Archlmldes busied themselves planting lettuce seed in this plot. For several days the sun shone warmly, and the engineers en-gineers waited. Then, lo! one morning the whole university came down the main walk to find before It, in flaunting, crisp green against the bare earth, the legend, "Engineers. 1904." This was too much for the lawyers. All day they plotted in their building (called the "mule bsrn"), and that night they, too, were busy. Next day when the engineers came to gloat over their victory, a tall, white board stood upright at one end of the plot. On the board. In gloomy black letters, let-ters, was painted a hand, pointing suggestively sug-gestively downward over the word engineers. engi-neers. ' And beneath the hand was the mournful epitaph. "Gone to Rest." ' |