Show HE almost which h has hasA s THE y A pervaded the halls and rooms of this fir building for the last four months has been broken by the footsteps of hundreds hundreds hundreds hund hund- reds of toiling and rejoicing students The solemn face of the tinted and gloomy walls has broken out into celestial smiles The keys grown almost rusty through disuse have again been brought forward to serve their purposes the doors have been thrown open the recitation rooms ag again in resound with the gentle voices of bashful girls and the gruff voices of eager boys the professors are seen wending wending wending wend wend- ing their ways through the long corridors wearing that same dignified and solemn aspect in short the University has assumed assumed assumed as as- much of its wonted air The careworn careworn careworn care care- worn face though of last years year's hard hardworking hardworking hardworking working student cannot now be seen seen and the tears which more than in one instance trickled down the face of some disappointed girl when wren the results of the spring examinations were Announced have entirely dried up The noble cause of education has brought together and binds in common ties the poor boy from the country and the lad of the city the awkward girl from some distant village and the graceful damsel of our own com com- The machinery of our University University Univ r- r sity has been oiled the steam has been turned on and the great wheels have been set in motion With renewed energy and vigor students students students stu stu- dents from all parts of the Territory come together to enter upon the labors of another year No doubt some will be unable to brook the failures and disappointments disappointments dis dis- appointments ts of college life and finding the burden too hard nard to bear will drop off along the wayside Bitter as does the work of the school-room school sometimes become monotonous us as is th the drudgery of plodding daily through the crabbed R pages of text-books text there is yet unfeigned pleasure in meeting each day our near friends and talking over with them the different t phases of our careers And when the sands ands of this school year shall have run out when the wayfarer is permitted permitted permitted per per- to lay down his load how happy will win be the student and how delicious wi will I be his recompense when he remembers remembers remembers bers that he has worked hard and faithfully faithfully faithfully faith faith- fully to perform his full duty never shrinking nor turning turning- away from but meeting with courage and det determination the knotty problems as they arose |