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Show Vogner, so to til intents and purposes we are all Ihilistines '''-"J" " - "The jarring chords," sajs the professor,. 'are really the highest art" The" fiat has gone forth." A tas the - symphony. Vive la - boiler, shop. Let-us avoid the soul-soothing airs of ' Verdi or Bchubert and get us to an institute of saw filing wherein the only genuine brand of harmony doth dwell. Let us follow in adoration after the wagon loaded with sieel rails, as it rends the atmosphere into agonized thorns, and let us give ear unto the Thomas cat when he puts the stilly night all" to the bad; but when we hear the magic of a Yiolirf or catch the soft "measures "meas-ures of the slumber song a mother croons to her liabe, let us arise andrend a speedy way to the timber tim-ber of great altitude, or.failing that, seek the seclu sion that the underbrush grants. V Bring on your discords We can't all lire in Chicago Chi-cago and hearken to the rumble of the cable car, tho 'renzied clang. of the trolley and the all-pervading shriek of the L car as it whoops the loop, but we can ponder over what Prof. Millikan has told us, get a phonograph fromChicagd and rent a coyote. Let us have discord if we have to Join the Democratic Demo-cratic party to get it. ; , ' Melody in Discord. ' We have frequently had occasion to remark upon the mysterious ways "and the more mysterious sayings say-ings of the component parts of that mass of intellect intel-lect known as the faculty of the University of Chi- cago. They have been many indeed, but of all the collection we recall nothing more impressive than the theories set forth in this dispatch: 'Chicago, Dec. $S. Love of music and hate of work are Identical, according to Prof. Robert "WVMllllkan of the University Uni-versity of Chicago, who, by informing them in a lecture on "Music" that their predilection for harmonious measures was merely laziness, no more, no less. ("You are too indolent to appreciate the beauties of discords," dis-cords," said Prof. Millikan. "The Jarring chords, which cause shudders to chase themselves down the back of the rnUslcally Inclined, are really the highest art, but are too complicated to be appreciated y many who believe themselves them-selves to be artistic." Prof. .Millikan then produced musical Instruments, and showed the students how thev might cultivate hidden rhapsodies rhap-sodies out of the misused discords. .Those of us who call it Vogner and go in for pr&nd opera but at the same time do not stop our ears when there is a little ragtime in the vicinity, and those of us who revel in ragtime and don't know that Vogner and Wagner are one and the eame, are in the 6ame boat, according to the dictum of Prof. Millikan. The true Vogner devotee is perhaps a little lit-tle nearer to the Millikan ideal, but it is said on good Authority that occasionally there is some melody in |