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some of the faculty, if you’ll excuse our speaking of it, seem to enjoy a good time themselves once in a while. Well, we can’t blame them. If they want to fall in love with each other, it’s alright with us. A student need not fear a dull time. He’ll find plenty of places to go if he wants to go, and if he doesn’t want to go nobody objects. We are not snobbish. We may be a little slow about asking a man to join our “ frats,” once in a while, but that depends altogether on the man. Some of us dance; some of us do not. Some of us studv a good deal; some, by the way. do not show the effects of overwork. There are no dudes!!—the last one left school a year and a half ago. The people of Fayetteville have as a general thing been more than cordial in welcoming the students. Of course, one or two mentally dilapidated individuals have objected to our giving the college yell when we feel sort o’ hilarious, but their objections were speedily withdrawn tor cause. For what cause? Because a United State?- Army officer of 225 pounds is a rather dangerous looking member when his ire is up. Comprtnez-vous f At Commencement Fayetteville is especiallv gav. Evervbodv goes to everything they can go to, from the Competitive Drill to the Commencement Exercises—except chapel. We don’t appreciate chapel much-unless the appreciation is insisted on. Some of the profs don’t appreciate it either. Strange, isn’t it ? THE STUDENTS ’s d ■ But, after all, it takes something more than a faculty and a few lecture rooms to make a university. The other requisite is a student body, and we have it. All sorts and conditions of men are to be found around our walls, to say nothing of women of all ages and degrees of beauty, from the wrinkled grad whose years are beyond compare to the dainty little subfresh of fourteen. The phases of student life are nothing out of the common run. We are all here and we do just what we please, with the exception of going to chapel and drill. Some of us fall in love, and none of us are above a little flirtation once in a while, even Price and Ross don’t object to it. When first he comes to Fayetteville, the mind of the freshman is in a topsy-turvy state. If he has any friends they very probably meet him at the station. If not, he is met there just the same by a howling mob of hoarse col¬ legians, all glad to see him and know him. and. perchance, to have a little fun at his expense. He is shown the way to his boarding house, perhaps the dorm., and his troubles have begun. But before a week has passed he is heartily in love with alma mater , and he wears the Cardinal and veils u Bom-a-lacka ” whenever he gets a chance. Perhaps, if he is rather unsophisticated, he is called upon a few nights after his arrival by a few students in uniform, who gravelv inform him that as his name begins Tb 9
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life with W or R or X or whatever the case may be, it is his turn to go on guard at the University, and many tales are poured into his ears of “Rig Dick’s” strictness and the necessity of close vigilance, until with faint heart but with great delight at the confidence displayed in him, he marches up to the ’Varsity, looking ghastly white and phantomlike in the moonlight, and faithfully guards the same until drowsy sleep o’ertakes him and he is at last awakened by a few belated revelers just from a dance or frat. meeting, and they give the thing away. As a general thing he gets home about 2:30, though one student got back at 12:45. Soon drill begins, and he endures the torments of the awkward squad for about three weeks and then his uniform comes, and he probably wears it wherever he goes for a month, and after that he hates it. Maybe he is asked to join a fraternity, and, as is the case with some, maybe he is not. If lie joins, alright; if not, he is still a ’Varsity student, and he has as many friends as he deserves. And right here it is to be observed that at the University of Arkansas a man is what he makes himself. If he dresses and acts as a gentle¬ man, he can move with the best; if not, he has few with whom he may associate. Wealth mnv count for a time, but its pre-eminence does not last long, and true worth is the great criterion. And so the student’s life goes on. He is taken to call on some of the girls; works math; learns to cut chapel; examinations come, and for a week he is worked to death, but at the end his freshman year is finished and he feels wise. But his glories really come when he enters sophomore. Then it is he joins with impressive dignity in a freshman reception and thinks how ' much he has learned in a year. lie is appointed ser¬ geant, joins the Glee club, and can get inside the ropes at the foot ball games. Perhaps he is given a place on The Ozark or Cardinal staff; if so, he develops a surprising talent in the literary line. He wonders that it has lain dormant so long. Soon June comes again and then he is a junior. Now is the time he falls in love, and as he writes verses to the fortunate one in his own inimitable style he smiles at the recollection of his former love affairs. They seem so silly, now’ that he is a junior, and she-well, she is a freshman, but that doesn’t make any difference, because girls are not expected to have much sense anyhow. He goes with her everywhere, does her lab for her if he can, ex¬ plains to her the foot ball games. He goes out with the crowd on Hallowe’en, and with a jolly set he parades the streets with tin horns and canes seeking fun and a good time generally. They congregate around the Square, yell themselves hoarse, go down the street to Lorwein’s and take-ves, lemonade. At last senior comes with its privileges and glories. For nine short months he feels that the earth is scarcely large enough for him. With straight shoulders and quick steps he marches his company ’round on dress parade and casts furtive glances from the corner of his eye to see if she is looking. Intermediates pass and he longs for June. Just one more event and it comes. This is the State Oratorical Contest in April. Each year the students go to Little Rock on their special, with the engine and cars covered with cardinal bunting. They run the whole distance almost without a stop, flying through the little towns on the road in a fashion calculated to strike terror into the hearts of the inhabitants, and when Little Rock is reached the girls get in carriages and the boys form column of fours in the street with the cadet band at their head, and up the hill they march, and on up Markham to the Rich¬ elieu, and Little Rock knows they are there. And after the contest, be it won or lost, they gather ’round a banquet board at the Capital or the Richelieu, or some other place, and drow n their sorrows with toasts that are not dry and speeches that eloquently bespeak a full heart. But June comes at last, and for another week hi gives himself over to fun. 1 le gets his diploma and possibly makes a speech that is not so brilliant as it is long, and on his last night, when the frat. gives its final banquet, he delivers his toast with tears in his eyes and dances with her for six short hours, and-he is an alumnus of “ the dearest old place on the face of the globe.” 10
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