The Swarthmore Phawis is a model col lege periodical. It is usually filled full of a lively college spirit which makes It delightful reading. Everything in the paper seems to relate to col leges and to Swarthmore College in particular, It has sufficient literary character to give it digni ty,yet is not burdened with any ponderous articles, which is the principal fault of many of our exchanges. —We learn from the UniversiO , Cynic that its editors are hererfter to be elected by the body of students instead of chosen from the fraternities, We agree with you in thinking the plan a wise one and hope your paper will receive support expected from this change. In your article, " Should the Navy be enlarged," we think you place a little too much confidencein "Yankee ingenuity." Yankee ingenuity could not prevent the capture of our sea -board cities in case of war unless it were exercised in building a navy before the war was declared. —We always welcoine the Have/fordian. The corps of editors go to work like old hands. The article on "Education in Politics" is especially worthy of notice. It points out clear ly the necessity of being acquainted with the great political questions of to day. These practical articles on practical subjects are the. kind we like to see in college journals. Classical articles .may lie well enough, but they always ap pear rather tame and lifeless when compared with a • lively article on some subject of every-day interest like the one above mentioned. LANCIL'Ide ON ADV ANTMI 01 0 VOL APUK DeVOlld the cheerless Arctic circle, in the renlins of ice and snow, Sealed in her cozy snow house, I can court the Esquinutux. On far-I'BmM Aft. Desert, :Island, Buckboard riding in the mud, (inn talk of Hubert Browning, With a cultured Boston bud. In a yacht upon the ocean, When becalmed I feel unwell, I can share a bit of lemon With a NOW York demoiselle, 'Neath the palm tree in the tropics, Watching monkeys frisk about, .1 can talk of .Evolution, With it fiiir l3raziliau "spront.'l In the far-oif :Fiji Whoa my fate is fairly booked, THE FRE I=l=l E LANCE. ] can court the chieftain's daughter, While I am waiting to be cooked. What is this strange advantage Which 1 have where'er Igo ; When I ( S i'.'. charm a Boston beauty, And can court an .Esquiniaux ? 'What you ask is very simple Why 1 always talk a strcuk, For when i am with strangers, 1 converse in Volapuk I- IPlltutt as - Mt=l 11ler dainty twin enfold, And she Unshed her sweet consent When he his story told. "And do you swear to keep your tri She asked, with loving air ; He gazed into her upturned face, "Yes, by yon elm I swear." A year passed by, his love grew col! Of his heart she'd lost the helm ; She blamed his fault, but the fhct The tree was a slippery FROM DAY TO DAY, Only from day to day Wu held our way, Uncertain every Though Lupo and guy dosi Touch with their lire Each fresh endeavor. Only from day to day IVe grope our day Through hurrying ho But still our castles fair Lift to the air Their glistening Lowe And still from day to day Alwit; the way Peekon us liver, TO PalOW, fOIIOW, 0 er hill and hollow, With fresh.endettvor, Sometimes, triumphant, gl The bugles play And trumpets mud Prom out those glistening And rainbow showerA Bedew the ground. POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. it is bad luck To be hanged on Fri To marry a red-haired girl. To be bitten by a mad dog. To be killed by a railroad train. To lend your test friend live dollars. To take a twenty-cent piece for a qu To call on your best girl and find yot I LL-OM NNE()
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