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Show COLLEGE YCLLS EMDALMED Canned "Rah-Itahs" Would B n Qreat Treat n Few Centuries Cen-turies Hence Somo thoughtful Animas ias Induced In-duced the Imperial Acadamey of Sciences Sci-ences of that empire to secure phonographic phono-graphic records of tho numerous Ian-Rung's Ian-Rung's and dialects of Austria-Hungary, these records to be canned and Bealed, as It were, for the enlightenment enlighten-ment nnd delectation of future generations. gener-ations. The Idea was so gooil that Urn academy has scon fit to extend It Examples Ex-amples of languages,' nnd n""'e have been secured In .New (lunea nnd In ccrtnln sections of India A party of scientists equipped for this research was sent to Australia last summer nnd another party Is to start for Greenland at an early date All these records arc transferred to special nrchive phonographs and carefully stored away. While tho field for this form of collecting col-lecting Is widening, sajs the Cleveland Plain Dealer, It might be pertinently suggested that tho American collego yell" should bo Included In theo ln- terestlng archives. To some people tho vigorous "rnh-rahs" u-i 'her exuberant ex-uberant syllable In use by H'o young collegians would prove fullv as Interesting Inter-esting as tho heathenish gnttor.ils and tomtomlng of the Now Guinea savages, sav-ages, or the Sanskrit chants of tho Hindustnnese. So lot the addition bo mnde as complete as possible, with duo cognizance of tho "Hoo-rah kl-rahl" of our own Caso school and tho "O Sketllo!" of our Western UeBcrve. |