ning of vacation is no longer determined by tlic end of exam
inations, it would seem just as convenient and much more
pleasant to have vacation week include Easter Sunday.
The idea is respectfully submitted to the Faculty.
Long strips of crimson Hushes
While Night’s dark shadows fly,
A golden glory streaming
Athwart the eastern sky;
A calm, expectant stillness,
A hush of all things, earth,
A ring of gold,—and clouds unfold;
The Day has had its birth.
“1 have a few more points to touch upon," said the
tramp as he awkwardly climbed over a barbed wire fence.
“Why is the dough which our worthy friend, the baker,
over on Perrysvilie avenue, kneads every night before retir
ing to his peaceful couch after the arduous labors of a busy
day so that he might find peace for his soul and arise re
freshed the next morning to again take up the diurnal rou
tine of his business in order to earn the wherewithal to keep
the wolf from the door of his devoted family like the sun,
called by the poet of old ‘Aurora, daughter of the morning,’
whose first beams spread an effulgence of glory over the sur
rounding landscape far and near, touching with roseate fin
gers the summits of the distant mountains and dispelling
therefrom the mists which have collected during the noctur
nal journey of the sun around the antipodes?”
Now, hearken to the answer.
“Because when it rises, it is tighl.”
The Free Lance.
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