Show v Home Horne Hits and Happenings Zee ee oe Does order in the halls apply when one is on the laboratory stairs Dr Park is giving ing the Utah Magazine quite a boost Well may he be proud of it Mr Harold Brown of Alford England was a visitor at the University last Mon Mon- day We were surprised to see Mr Wil Williams iams executing the clog dance in the hall Our sedate E. E R. R you know Mr McGhie has been composing a little romance lomance Why not let the CHRONICLE CHRON CHRO ICLE have the benefit of it The rhetoric pupils are required to write a composition on Wind Wouldn't Mud J be more appropriate T There here was an increase in attendance at atthe atthe atthe the public schools of this city of more more than a thousand over last year Owing to the of the military military mili mili- tary battalion there will be a change in inthe inthe inthe the recitation hours for next term An interesting debate occurred between the Alpha Omega and literary societies of this city Saturday evening Many members of the former are students at the University A number of innovations have been introduced introduced introduced in in- into the new base ball rules as adopted by the national league The most important change is to move the pitchers pitcher's position to exactly the center of the diamond making it about sixty feet j y from home base or about five and one- one half feet farther away from the batsman than ever before A little space twelve inches square within the bounds of which the pitchers pitcher's foot must be when he delivers delivers delivers de de- livers the ball has been substituted for the theold theold theold old pitchers pitcher's box The flat bat has also been abolished There seems to be consi considerable erable difference difference difference differ differ- ence of opinion as to what the effect of these changes will be Some authorities ties think they will vill put a premium on bunting bunting- while others think the practice will be done away with altogether 0 t x 1 r. r t j d f An enthusiast who witnessed a game between the Los Angeles and San Diego r teams about the first played under the the new rules writes es as follows u With the pitcher three sixty-three feet from I. I the batter which is the distance he will r have to pitch this year the game will be bea a very lively one and every player will willbe b be b- continually on the move even the poorest batters will hit the ball The pitcher with great speed peed will have haye no advantage advantage ad ad- vantage over the man who delivers a slow blow and tI tricky ck y ball H I do not think the score will necessarily necessarily be larger this year than last for alth although ugh there will be more hitting the pitcher will ill be closer to the bases babes and can prevent the base runners from flying off so far and gett getting the start for the next base that that-he did under the old rule cc On the whole I think the change a good one and will do away with the evil that has heretofore existed viz letting one effeminate stripling who can pitch a t a kinky kinky ball do all the playing and eight robust athletes stand out in n the field spitting spitting spitting spit spit- ting on their gloves watching him do all the business The national game is supposed to be bea a manly lively athletic game full of ginger action and brilliant plays and not nota a contest between two house hot-house dude dudes The he bells ring the fatal hour has ar ar- rived We vVe go like lambs to the slaughter Our examination questions are printed but the pi inters of this educational center of the intermountain region cant can't do the right kind of a job so the Professor will write the questions on the board Prove that the normal sub-normal sub tangent sub- sub tangent of a curve does not meet the coordinate coordinate co co- coordinate ordinate axis until they touch unless the series is divergent convergent or something something something some some- thing to that effect Shades Shad s of Professor Sylvester our brain reels a cold chill strikes us we seem to see a flash flashy of lightning and colony of stars f J f Like a panor panorama ma every incident of our past life is pictured to us again repentant thoughts and resolutions surae surge 0 throe through h hour our b. b brain ram b but ut too late we sink once twice three times When we awake it is almost dark The room is deserted save for the janitor standing standing- at our side telling us that he must lock up We vVe leave the room to drown our sorrows in the ink bottle Oh ye ve powers that be if ye would have mercy on us protect us from examinations examinations' examina examina- We Ve had examination an last Friday we who have been studying differential calculus calculus cal cal- calculus culus and we who have ie wrestled with the intricacies of higher algebra We Ve knew it was coming it was approaching approaching- with the unerring regularity reg of our printers printer's bills or of the Delta parties But our professor professor dear dear kind man man cautioned cautioned us not to sit t up too la late e at night loading up for it ire He had known people who burned the midnight oil cramming for examinations examination only to fall down on them at the critical moment besides the ex examination examination examination ex- ex would be comparatively easy Ah Ali th that simple word how much trouble has i it not caused us how it g gloats oats over us in our misery Well we took the professors professor's professors professor's professors professor's pro pro- fessor's advice and on the eve of the fatal day went up town with the boys to get a little fresh air and nd figure out by means of certain astronomical observations and the theory theory- of probabilities what the weather would be for tor the morrow for we were also billed to have our pictures taken for the VV Worlds World's s Fa Fair r and wanted a clear day Our calculations were knocked out by a raging snow now storm This laid the photographing out so we had a few spare minutes to fill u up w with th radicals cosin's ordinates co-ordinates and n l a few extra tangents bl but t we got too close tt to a radiator and a iO girl Say but isn't Miss Rain popular H How w proud We Ve are that we are grown up land and tall and handsome |