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the battalion.
For the first time in many months, the U. of T. Magazine
comes to us. Its splendidly written articles-class it without
doubt the leading college magazine of Texas. The verses
E. A. Blount, Jr. are excellent. “One Night” savors of the
wierd, uncanny tales of Poe.
Old iPFOYeFtos Bostoijized.
A cat may look at a King, a short homily calculated to
check the arrogance of royalty, is repeated in Boston as:
“Royalty may be contemplated with impunity even by a fe
line quadruped.”
There is an historical apothegm to the effect that Rome was
not built in a day, is modernized by the inhabitants of the
Hub city as: “The capital of the papal states was not con
structed in a diurnal revolution of the globe.”
The adage that old birds are not caught with chaff is senten-
tiously paraphrased by the axiom: “Experienced warblers
are rarely made prisoners by the husks of carbohydrates.”
“I’ll never kiss a man,” sa ; d Mae,
“In any land beneath the sky.”
So firm was' she it seemed to me
A useless task to try.
But perseverance won the day,
Ere desperation drove me frantic;
I kissed her—not in any land,
But on the broad Atlantic.
—E. A. B. in U. of T. Mag.
Odds ai)d Kijds.
Nigbtabus darkabus,
No lightorum;
Climbabus gatepost,
Breechabus torem.
Cadet Blank returned from hunting the other day with a
turkey. A great many conjectures arose as to how he obtain
ed the turkey, and many doubts were expressed as to its be-