1897 Imago

SPEAKING OF STUDENTS. W E have them. Gathered together during the last three years by providential effort, we have become an indispensable necessity of the town. Our limits stretch not from Dan to Beersheba, but from Ireland to Craig's Station, Illinois. On the principle that studying between meals undermines the constitution, we are trying to escape an early death. The bright un rises in his course and finds a race of students in bed. He sets-yea, rises again in time to see the last stragglers getting back from Selma and Clifton. The round of duties is interrupted only by the examinations and an occa– sional class fight. Then pent-up rivalry breaks forth to the detriment of good tempers and skulls. However, the smoke of battle soon clears away, leaving no traces except an occasional zero on the grade books. Like all animals, we have our characteristics. We are gregarious, preferring Bob Wilson's grocery to the solitude of the study room. We are philosophical, allowing no faculty lectures to sour us on human nature. In reply to those who do not see the usefulness of a college education, we point with pride to our base ball and foot ball victories. We are patriotic, as is evinced by the noise we make in de. fense of our institution. We are conservative, even to the basement, for it harrows up our feelings to have the girls invade the gymnasium and burst the punching bag with a pair of Kickapoo Indian clubs. Great things can be expected from us in the future, for have we not said so? We are already setting the pace for this county or county and a half. More power to us, as we plod our weary way to the college and joyfully listen for the last hour bell, meanwhile quietly anathematizing teachers, long lessons and the re– volving fates. But earth would not be desirable without alternate layers of joy and sadness. Au revoir. 42