Our mail to the west, must travel very
slowly indeed. But then it is some distance
to Columbus, 0. We fail to see what other
reason there could be for the Lantern to just
find out in the last number that we had a
"mounted knight on the front cover" when
the same said knight appeared nearly a year
ago. But such is fame.
" How old are you ? " a rude boy asked
A very ancient maid;
And thus the antique spinster tasked,
In gentle accents said—
" Pray look at the thermometer,"
The careless boy obeyed,
" You're sixty-one
When in the sun,
And forty in the shade."
When walking down the busy street,
With new and glossy tile,
You fancy every one you meet
Admires your stunning style.
But how it makes you want a shroud,
When suddenly and pat
There comes an exclamation loud,
Where did you get that hat?
Where did you get that hat?
—Washington Capital.
" Next month The Burr will appear on the
sth and loth of each month."
We are glad to notice the enterprise mani
fested by the editors of The b'urr. The cut
of Captain Warriner is quite a pleasing fea
ture of the December issue.
SONG OF A SENIOR
Tell me not in mournful numbers;,
That we graduate next year;
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For the faculty still slumbers
And we have no need to fear.
Let us then be noble seniors,
Never whispering in the hall;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
For we'll not be here next fall.
Dickinson Libcrerl.
The Pennsylvania College Monthly, for De
cember, gives a short review of an article en
titled "College Chaplains," which brings out
some new thoughts upon the religious ele
ment in American colleges.
A NATURAL ERROR.
They met at a church reception;
A ninety girl was she,
He came from o'er the ocean
And registered ninety-three.
In the course of the conversation
She spoke about her brother,
Said " He's a Michigander,
You ought to know each other."
THE FREE LANCE.
Shall I write you a glowing love song,
In the twinkle of Dobson. or Pried,
Full of airy meaningless nothing,
By poets oft sung and said ?
Shall I rhyme to your delicate eyebrow,
To your eyes of starlight blue?
Shall I immortalize you in a sonnet
As others have tried to do?
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—Moonshine.
The cost for postage of sending this year's
college catalogue to the Harvard Alumni was
$5OO.
Vassar has introduced a system of self
government similar to the college senate sys
tem of Amherst. The plan works very satis
factory among the young ladies.
State College has a Telegraph Club. The
members are all connected with a circuit of
wires and are learning the craft.
A new College Y. M. C. A. building, the
gift of Mr. Eugene Levering, of Baltimore,
has just been dedicated at Johns Hopkins
University.
The statistics collected in regard to the Ox
ford-Cambridge oarsmen of England, show
that but thirty-nine men have died out of 294
rowers in the last forty years, showing that
the after-life of a college athlete must be a
healthy one.
Courtney, the well-known professional oars
man, is coaching the Cornell crew.
The Columbia Law school has 447 students,
314 of whom are graduates.
Thirty men are in training daily at the
Pennsylvania State College for the base-ball
team.
When it was announced at the English uni
versity of Cambridge that ladies would hence
forth be admitted to the university examina
tions, the students turned out in a body to
cheer Miss Helen Gladstone and the incoming
young women students.
Up sake the foreigner,
His - English rather loose,
A blush o'espreading his features,
"Are you a Michagoose ? "
But, alas, I cannot pen a sonnet,
Nor rhyme to " eyes of blue,"
I can only keep on loving, •
As, mayhap, the others will do.
Yale Courant.
COLLEGE ORBIT
—Cornell Era
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