Lehigh will again make application fur admis sion to the Inter-collegiate Foot Ball League. She bases her claim on the fact that she is the strongest foot ball college outside the Association. Since 1876 Princeton has sent out seven explor• ing expeditions to the Western part of the United States, in the interest of the natural sciences. This year an expedition will be made to investi gate the gulf stream. Commencement exercises seem to be growing out of favor. Williams, Dartmouth and Colum bia colleges have dispensed with them, and Mon mouth has limited her commencement exercises this year to nine performers. David Starr Jordan, president of the Indiana State University, has accepted the presidency of the Stanford University. This means the loss to Indiana of her most distinguished educator. The salary attached to Mr. Jordan's new position is po,ooo, with a residence. It is said the study of Greek is to be made elec tive at Oxford and Cambridge. It appears that progress points toward the dethronement of the classical languages in the modern literary course. As soon as modern languages have stored up suf ficient literary treasure to make the knowledge of classics superfluous, it will be time for the latter to "step down and out." At present we must protest, we are hardly ready to bid farewell to the ancients.—Ex. LANCELETS. EITAMPEDNI. The cattle rest on the dow•soakod ground, There's a hush in the air—not a single sound, Save the champ of the herds' cud•chcwing. But saddle your ponies, lot each prepare To ride for life, though the night seems fair-- In the sky there is trouble brewing. A quiver of light from that inky oloud, A rumble of thunder, clear and loud. 'Tie a night we may:all be riming. The herd, with a lurch of each heavy flank, Stands like an army, rank on rank. Boys, we must up and ho doing I THE FREE LANCE. Stampede's in the air, stampede's in the herd, So silently mount ye without a word, In the sky there is trouble brewing. When the storm will burst with its rain and hall, Never mind if the tenderfoot's face is pale. 'Pis a night we may all be cueing. When they start, ride straight, ride straight ahead I Through the sea of horns when the eyes flash red. Boys, we must up and be . doing I Turn the leaders, turn them I ride them 'round In a thundering circle, and on the ground They will rest in the morn oud•ohewing, —Janwa BMWS in NaBBall Lit NOT IN IT. You ask me for a little rhyme, And beg me to begin it, And so I'll occupy the time By telling who's not in it, The man who's training for the crow And thinks a little work will do, Yot boasts of form enough for two— lie eortainlylo not it The student who for honor tries And thinks that talking wins the prize, He has in storo a sad surprise— He'll find he is not in it. But when you on your sweetheart call, And fall to kiss her in the hall— Why, you're the biggest fool of all, You're certainly not in it. H; M. H. in Collinear& Spootatin TIM PASSING OF EVANGELINIO. Only the sobbing of the mournful sea, . Beating itself to tears upon the sand, Bringing a thousand old•day thoughts to me Of dwellers in the fair Acadian land. I see the English ships, with idle sail, Riding at anchor in the Gaspereau, And through the morning floats the piteous wall Of children—and the boats still come and go. Down the long shore she comes with downcast eye, In Norman cap and homespun dross of blue; E'en the rude soldiers' laughter sinks and dies, And they, ashamed, stand back to let her through The last boat load has gone, and o'er the side With wistful eyes she gazes 'cross the bay— And on the bosom of the ebbing tide The stately vessels float and fade away. Only the beating of the restless sea, Brings a thousand thoughts, like sad voiced birds, Of patient, meek Evangeline to me, And wings bear them beyond the reach of words. Kny WI, in Southern Colleytan.
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