Show OUR MEANEST S STUDENT i iThe The meanest student beyond the shadow shad shad- ow of a doubt in the University has at last been found He may have had a afew afew afew few rivals som sometime time in the dim dun past but not at present The Los Angeles Times says the meanest man in Los Angeles Ana b ba has hasa a soul so small it would rattle in a mustard mustard mustard must must- ard seed But Los Angeles isn't in it with our meanest student When Russell Russell Russell Rus Rus- sell Sage stole the luncheon of his office office of of- fice boy he was insipidly mild the proverbial proverbial proverbial pro pro- meanness of Hetty Green takes a place among the spectators and the man who made his shadow his heir to his bis Billions rillions Bil r-il- illions il- il lions was the soul of true manhood compared to our meanest student Why he has a soul so infinitesimally small it would not rattle even in a mustard seed A few days before the Christmas holidays holidays holi hoW days he came in into o the office and begged a Chronicle We are charitable though broke at Christmas time and so gave him a copy of the Xmas souvenir num num- num- num ber We even forgot because of our charity to remember that he had been there before on the same errand But we fainted away when he returned the next day with the bland request that he might change the paper for another As Ashe Ashe Ashe he explained Some thoughtless student had dirtied the first one he didn't care to to keep it but that would make no difference difference difference differ differ- ence to our taking it back and sending it to some subscriber or advertiser Yes we take off our hats hat's to a student as mean as that We Ve feel humbled before the and in humility humility humility hu hu- hu- hu greatness of his meanness our we feel unworthy of editing a paper paper paper pa pa- per that has a circulation among over seven hundred and fifty students with only a paid subscription list of about onehundred onehundred one onehundred hundred We feel that an enduring moment moment mo mo- ment should be to to these five hun hundred dred and fifty and fifty patriots and crowning it 1 I should stand stand- a t. t the the- beautiful bluesky blue sky our sky our our meanest student |