Show 1 Between Classes Only three weeks to Commencement Why does not someone compose a college college college col col- lege song The CHRONICLE has asked this question before but Mr Stephens is still waiting to make the music and the student who might be famous is gradually burning a hole through his bushel Just think how a glorious Fair Utah thy sons to thy Jubilee throng would shake the walls of the theold theold theold old Theatre Even now methinks I can see Stephens Stephens' baton pounding away at time and space and hear the Faculty breaking forth into one long rapturous high Do as freely as if they had not been trying to kill off five hundred of their men fellow-men within the last few days j while a multitude of vivified thermOmeters thermometers thermometers ther ther- otherwise ca called lIed students recently marked at at zero rise by the hundreds and fill hll the quiet air with knots of crimson and silver and whoops war And And the dream is so intense that I Ili It t li IA 11 awaken with a start to the sad reality of no music no yells no Students of English doubtless will be interested in the following l list st of England's Eng Eng- lands land's laureates Ben Jonson 1616 1616 1637 Sir Wm 1637 1637 1618 1608 S Dryden 1670 1689 1670 1689 Thos Shadwell f 1692 1689 1692 Nahum Tate 1692 1715 1692 1715 Nicholas Rowe 1715 1718 1715 1718 1718 Lawrence Eusden 1718 1718 1730 Colley Ci Gibber 1757 1735 Wm Whitehead 1757 1757 1785 Thos Warton 1785 1790 1785 1790 Henry HenryJ J Jas as Pye 1795 1813 1795 1813 Southey 1813 1813 1843 1843 Wordsworth 1843 1850 1843 1850 Tennyson Tenny Tenny- son 1850 1892 1850 1892 Alfred Austin Hurrah The Annals of Hygiene says that thai the food value of sugar is very great A pound of sugar contains much much more energy and power to support animal animal animal ani ani- mal life than a pound of meat If candy is taken under such conditions that it will not derange the digestive apparatus it is perfectly wise and rational to be a candy eater Who is Eugene Field was the question Oh the man that died the other day Everybody made a big fuss but I dont don't remember much about him was the answer And such is fame Speaking of Field here is one of his sweetest poems AT THE DOOR I thought myself indeed secure So fast the door so firm the lock But lo 10 I 1 the toddling comes to lure My parent ear with timorous knock My heart were stone could it withstand j The sweetness of my baby's plea plea plea- That timorous ba baby by knocking and Please let me in its it's its it's only me I threw aside the unfinished book hook Regardless of its tempting charms I And opening wide the door I took My laughing darling in my arms f t. t i Who knows but in eternity ity r f 1 in Ifs tr I like a truant child shall wait f fd Th The glories of a life to be Beyond the h heavenly fathers father's 3 gate And will wIIl the heavenly father heed f The truants truant's supplicating cry As at the outer door I 1 plead t I it O 0 father ther only I n The other day I saw a fourteen year year- old laddie literally devouring Hans Christian Anderson and the sight did me good It is so seldom now that you see a child reading fairy tales Children Children Children Chil Chil- dren nowadays are not like they were a afew a a. a few fe years ago to he sure sometimes I think there are no children nowa nowadays nowadays- The little girls go into long clothes the moment they are shortened and th the little boys wear divided trousers skirt-trousers mens men's coats stiff hats and up stand-up collars collars collars col col- lars and carry canes smoke ke ciga cigarettes ettes and escort little girls to grown up peoples people's balls It is absurd certainly but it is true and the fact that we wonder wonder wonder won won- der whatever their mothers can bethinking bethinking be be- thinking about does not alter the case Girls come out at seventeen go through the usual gay routine and at at- two twenty-two or three become s so satiated with pleasure that they cannot really enjoy life Unless there is excitement the days grow dull and stupid and they are considered as going out of date date date- been on the marriage market for so long Disgusting expression l Why not keep children children as long as as- possible Why should girls of seventeen seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen be full-fledged full young ladies ladies' with heads full of nonsense and young men synonymous terms by the way when they should be as unconscious as primroses primroses primroses prim prim- roses The primrose drinks in all the golden glory of the sun and gives it out again so gently oh so so gently that the eye is not dazzled but just made glad but the primrose knows nothing about about- it And all girls should be primroses primroses- yes and all boys too only it will insult insult- their dignity to say so For some plain able reason boys always prefer to tobe tobe tobe be cocoanuts Perhaps they think that you you will better appreciate the II milk of human kindness if if you break four fou fingers and one thumb trying to get it out Well this this is not talking ab about ut fairy fairytales fairytales fairytales tales is it But never mind Travel Travelis is the best educator you know and variety is the spice of life But to come comeback comeback comeback back to the pI place ace we started from another proof that the earth is round like an orange let your little brothers and sisters and nephews and nieces and god children read all the fairy tales they want to Normal students might say 1 No No but what possible harm could dear old Hans Andersen do anybody anybody anybody any any- body For myself I cannot imagine a childhood without noble princes and beautiful princ princesses and mermaids mermaids' a and d ghosts and gnomes L L. 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