so highly prized by the ancients. The merest ribbon would be an incentive. Heretofore, owing to lack of facilities, all interest has been centered in the ball team. Our ball team is our main representative abroad, and should be well supported, but we need something which will insure the active participation of the body of students. Let us all make it our duty to aid in improving and maintaining our general athletics. We have men who could ably represent us in the intercollegiate sports if given the incentive to 'work. A number have signified a desire to support a prize list. Will not all do so ? WEare glad that the light novel is fast leaving the private library of the stu dent here. Only a few years back, the cheap' light and trashy novel was to be found in the hands of nearly all the under class men, while now it would be very hard to find one, and we doubt if a search for them would be suc cessful at present. There .now seems to be a universal demand from the student who reads at all, for a better class of books. A few read for pleasure and amusement only, while many more read for pleasure, combined with a de sire for useful knowledge. The general com plaint from the students is that they cannot find time enough to derive benefit from read ing. Such time as they can spare from their required work is spent in the college library and the literary society reading-rooms. The engineering society now subscribes to the leading periodicals .pertaining to mechanical, civil and electrical engineering, while the col lege places at the disposal of the chemistry students the best works printed abroad and THE FREE LANCE. in our own country. These facts, along with the better class of students have established a higher ideal of literature among us which we trust will continue THE GIRL, THE MAN, OR THE PANTHER WE were sitting, my friend and I, late one afternoon in my city apartments, fitted up with all thoSe peculiar comforts that men enjoy, and bearing that air of solitude and coziness that belongs to but one place in the world, namely t bachelor's den. Charley had been on a recent hunting tour through the West, and this was the first chance for a good talk I had had with him since his return. He was a tall, broad-shouldered son of Diana, but withal a good-natured giant, who delighted in nothing so much as a jaunt over hills and through forest in pursuit of game, no matter of what variety or size. I noticed, however, that his usually ruddy countenance now bore a paleness as of the effects from some severe illness, and that there was a careworn expres sion upon his brow that I had never seen there before. We had been talking over some casual hap penings during his absence, when suddenly a band of music passing along the street below struck up one of the airs of the Troubadours. Charley started and involuntarily leaned his head forward to catch the sounds. As the dulcet notes floated in through the window, he apparently listened more and more in tensely, until at last, when they melted away into an indistinct murmuring far down the street, be seemed lost in a fit of absorption. I regarded him with amazement and inquired the reason for his strange conduct, but. for a long while he deigned no reply, until finally,, lifting his head and looking at me with a curi ous expression, he said, "Did you ever have your life preserved in a complication of dan gers, and not know exactly how it was done ?'
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