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Show r- ," : I . 4 Hf4. : AIL KAllflWS NOIES. :j Owing to the prevalence, or rather j scare, t contagious diseases in the city, the boys are limited to the college . grounds, but this restriction is more I than compensated for by more frequenn social happenings within the college. I On .Saturday evening the Rev. President Presi-dent gave a progressive high five party to the senior classes. From S until 10 I ttie recreation hall was alive with mer-i mer-i riment and good natured emulation to I win a few select prizes. When time ' was called Messrs. Furiey and Luddy had won the greatest number of games and accordingly drew for first prize, which went to the latter. Jim Cloonan was awarded the booby prize. He was worthy of a better fate. There are times when science has to lower hen colors to a continuous run of bad luck. After the games refreshments were served in the dining hall. Judging from the rapid disappearance of cake and other good things progressive high five nuiKt le : wrmilrfnl u nnoi i7,' It i is well Mr. Oliver has left Zion, or i others might he included in the list of ! those likely to swell the throng of un-I un-I happy mortals, whose feet are dangling i from the windows of rather uncomfort-! uncomfort-! able quarters. On Sunday evening the college was flooded with streams of melody from the orchestra under 'the masterly direction direc-tion of Professor Pedersen. The Irish melodies were rendered with a finish and perfection that would have delight- ed even Moore himself. This year's orchestra or-chestra promises to be the best that has ever dispensed music in the college. col-lege. Respectable critics pronounce it better even now than the one which, at the close of last year, charmed the exquisitely refined and highly cultured ears of the Rutte and Anaconda 400. Speculation is rife as to , where the grand excursion will be this year. Some speak of San Francisco, but the somewhat some-what finical are afraid the sands of the Nevada desert would seriosly affect af-fect their instruments and brilliant uniforms. Rev. Father Dubois, Trofessor Ped-ersen's Ped-ersen's able assistant, deserves great credit for the progress made by the second brass band which is under his immediate direction. The worst in the aggregation is certainly better than the first musician in a Chinese theatre. "Finis corona t opus" (the end crowns the work). This motto seems to be thoroughly thor-oughly understood by the students who are working with might and main to pass a brilliant examination. The rhetoricians hoje to present bouquets of choice flowers to their examiners. Tom Powers should sustain his reputation reputa-tion as "The Young Judge Eloquent." The boys in poetry are getting so well tuned to the harmonious numbers of Longfellow and Tennyson that the examiners ex-aminers had better have barriers to weaken the force of the rhythmical waves which may inadvertently burst from these incipient sons of song. Charlie Madden is expected to tell with great pathos the story of "Evangeline." The boys in humanities, with thoughtful thought-ful consideration, are anxious their examiners ex-aminers should have fire-proof umbrellas, um-brellas, as a protection against the shower of brilliant snarks sure to fol low when Willie Shields is called for his estimate of "The Immortal Bard of Avon," Jimmy Cloonan, though small in stature, is big in expectations. The first academies are convinced they will j carry off the palm for best answering. How could it be otherwise with a professor pro-fessor trained to exquisite perfection in the great eastern universities? The second academies smile with something approaching scorn at what they consider vain calculations on the part of their seniors. Have not they (the second academies) a professor who drank largely at the sparkling fountains of knowledge which have lately burst forth beneath the "Southern Cross," and afterwards still more largely atr the time-honored fountains of France, Italy and Ireland? The third academies say little, but think a great deal. They could not help answering well and intelligently with a professor who is laying a foundation as solid as the granite boulders which support one of the most picturesque mining camp of the Rockies. The commercial boys are reticent. Accustomed, as they are, to the grave business of banking, to giving and receiving re-ceiving checks daily for millions, their faces are more pictures of thoughtful repose than emotional enthusiasm. Like the Boers, they are masking their liatteries until the opportune time comes for a brilliant display. The "tots" warble in their own little way about what they will do in writing, reading, etc. Xo one doubts the writing writ-ing of the majority will be more intelligible intelli-gible than the hieroglyphics on an obelisk. obe-lisk. Although the "tots" have never been in the Golden State they have most precise knowledge of its beauties and the attractions of its metropolis. They can tell ail about the Seal Rocks, Golden Gate Park, the Sutro Baths, etc. Knowledge so precise and accurate accu-rate in boys so young1 as Jack Snyder and Joe Fogarty may appear strange, but perhaps their professor could explain. ex-plain. The scientific- hoys are more or let; of a mystery. While every one believe they are most profound in the soluble, there are vague rumors of some bright geniuses dazzling their examiners, by solving the hitherto insoluble problems, of perpetual motion, of changing the baser metals into gold and of trisecting an ordinary angle without the aid of conic sections. Feverish excitement is still rampant in baseball circle-;. The "Granite Stars" are twinkling as bright as ever. The partial and transitory gloom caused by last week's defeat, was more in I the nature of a "transit" than an I "eclipse" proper. Captain Gallagher de- ! clares he has at las seven stars of the ' first magnitude, whose blended light will so dazzle the "California Wonders" j as to make them see in the murkiest ' 3ky in a dark night .as Erebus, frisky luminaries playir.g hide and go seek above them. Captain Canning of the "Wonders" smiles with the air of one t who does not give much credence to his ' opponent's calculations. The Golden Sun never sank to rest behind the placid waters of the Pacific with defeat written on the banner floating over his Green C baseball team. While no one who knows Captain Canning would accuse ac-cuse him of being a boaster, he avers that when the majestic orb of day ends the first beams indicative of the true i baseball season, then the "Stars will j pale their fires" and endeavor to hide , their "diminished heads" beneath the granite foundations of the deep. ' Paul McCormick, the popular and ' very gentlemanly student from Billings Mont., arrived on Sunday and was given a warm greeting by his companions. compan-ions. He must have great recuperative powers, an there are few if any signs of his late attack of ' pneumonia. He brought with him a' fine sword, which he bears with becoming dignity aa Captain of the Cadet Corps. A new supply of guns will soon replace the rather antiquated ones used by the Cadets Ca-dets up to the present, but the timid need not be afraid. These guns will be only used for drill, self-defense, and in shooting down the rabbits and pigeons, if by their rapid increase they threaten to eat up everything in and around the "ranch" minus the bricks and professors. - ... Mrs. Kissick and Mrs. Pinkerton call; ed on Monday to see Eugene Harrington, Harring-ton, whose father, ex-Mayor Hairing-ton Hairing-ton of Butte, was some months ago operated op-erated upon so successfully by Dr. Pinkerton. j Everyone in the College is elated over i the recovery of Harry Ivers, the bright, j intelligent, charming little day scholar, j who is a general favorite. Thanks to the eminent medical skill and assiduous attention of Dr. Fowler, Harry has been brought safely : through a most , crucial illness. . j |