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Show I COLLEGE YELLS EMBALMED 1 Canned "Itah-Ilahs" Would He a H Great Treat a Tew Cen- H turlcs Hence. Somo thoughtful Austrian has In- fl duccd tho Imperial Acadamcy of Scl- enccs of that empire to secure phono A graphic rocords of tho numerous lan H guages and dialects of Austria-Hun- H gary, thoso rocords to bo canned and H scaled, ns It were, for tho enlighten. H mcnt and delectation of futuro goner- IB ntlons. Tho Idea was so good that tho H academy has seen fit to extend It. Ex- H nraplcs of languages nnd music havo H been secured In New Guinea and In Bj cortaln sections of India. A party of H scientists equipped for this research HJ was sent to Australia last summer and HJ another party Is to start for Grecnlnnd Bj at an early date. All theso records BJ are transferred to special archlvo BJ phonographs nnd carofully stored BJ away. BJ Whllo tho field for this form of col- Bj lectlng Is widening, says the Cleveland B Plain Dealer, It might bo pertinently B suggested that tho American college H yells should be Included In these In- Bj tercstlng archives. To some people tho vigorous "rah-rahs" and other ex- H ubcrant syllables In uio by the young . I collegians would prove fvlly as lntor- I estlng as the heathenish guttorals and ' I tomtomlng of tho New Guinea sav- I ages, or the Sanskrit chants of the Hlndustanese. So let tho addition be H mado as completo as possible, with due cognizance of tho "Hoo-rah kl-raht" of our own Case school and tho "O B Skotllol" of our Western Hcserve. |