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' V. AH! Rah! Rah! Ski [ ' Ma! IIoo Rah! Hoo Kahl Varsity, Varsity, Minnesota ! Is ever ringing: down the old hall, as one voice alter an- other takes up the familiar Varsity Yell and sends it echoing from floor to floor of the • Main Building. It is the 6th day of September, ' 92, and for the thir- tieth time the doors are open to receive the annual host which gathers from all quarters of the land to begin or continue their higher education here. What a merry throng of youths and maidens in about equal numbers, for the T ' of M is and ever has been a co-educationa! institution. Very properly so seem to think those half dozen young men who have comemed two fair damsels nnd are engaged in a diplomatic contest for a monopoly of feminine attention. Fortunately, before any serious complications arise, the tinkling of an electric bell announces Chapel, and the little party simultaneously start to obey the summons, but in their abstraction begin climbing the broad stairs and are likely to scale three flights before realizing that the old chapel succumbed last spring to the ravages of an annual f blaze, and no longer calls them to the heights for worship. We will not wait to see, for the Gophek ' s representative is here to show you around and we must lose no time. The lecture room in the Law school, our temporary chapel, will be crowded, and while the students are there at the morning ser- vices our opportunities will be good for examining the Main Building. Don ' t imagine it is our largest one by any means. We call it Main because it is oldest, for a long time was largest and because it is here still that the chief events in coHege life occur. Xo stately brown stone edifice you sec. but a plain square structure of rough native lime stone, whose beauty has not been improved b ' 30 years of exposure to wind and weather. But we students love its homeU ' old pile, and when its walls go down, as we know they must ere long to give plai-e to modem striictiires. we will look on regretfully and bury so many happy memories in their dust. Let us enter at the basement for it has several peculiar features. First, on the left is the little book store, where we can supply ourselves with all the necessaries of (student) life, from chalk crayons at a nickle a dozen to the most expensive volumes from the scien- tific press. Any book from the City Library can be drawn here also, for that magnificent and munificent public institution has established a station in this little store for the special accommodation of the f . students. Step across the hall and learn that even in this institution man doth not live by know- ledge alone. About three years ago some enterprising Freshmen conceived the glorious idea of founding a restaurant here. You see it is not so very extensive, but it draws a crowd of hungry students at all hours of the day (and night) by gentle hints of vegetable soup, doughnuts and pies galore, which prevade the upper halls. This is conceded to be the most attractive spot in the building. Xo, we must except the one just opposite — in character as well as situation— across the hall. You should come later in the morning to note the secret of £s attraction. Between 10 a. m and noon you will find everj- chair, Our Uniuersity
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(Dur Uniuersity window ledge and other available place occupied b.vTdeeply interested students, and if you query as to what particular study is so deliRhtful as to be so universally elected, would learn that here our well-beloved professor of Political Science is lecturing. His lucid style, ever abounding wit and genial manner making the study of that science not only profit- able but accounted among leading pleasures of life at the U. These rows of little closets or lockers on either side of the hall are so many separate cloak rooms for the students. Here is one left open. You notice the mirror on the door inside? That locker is a Gent ' s. Here in the rear are the apartments of Prof Yattaw, a dignitary who is master in a superlative degree— say 90° Fahr.— of his specialty. Steam Heating. But I hear the hum of voices and tramp of feet above. Let us hurry and watch the throng coming back from chapel. Such a merry crowd. The great hall extending the en- tire length of this floor is already full, and the Registrar ' s office (first door to the right in front) is overflowing. Again and again the patient Registrar informs the applicants that their cards will be found in the P.O. boxes. The postal department is worth our atten- tion. It is always an interesting corner in which to take notes on human nature. Note e. g. the look of irremediable woe that comes over the face of that poor little Freshy who left her country home in some distant part of the state a whole long, long week ago, as she stands before her box and peers into it for the hundredth time since her arrival, and still stands and stares into its vacancy with an expression of mingled wonderment and grief that an actress might covet if called upon to render Innocence Gazing at Death. Contrast her face with that of the world-worn, cyncical Senior, who takes a load of documents and letters from his number, and, with an air of business indifference stuffs them into his pocket without even stopping to notice the superscription. Or mark the fltishing cheek and quick susjiicious glance around (to see if all the IT is not marking) of that lovely Sophomore maiden as she snatches from her number a thick letter, whose mas- culine superscription no one gets to see before it is hurried into her pocket. With what more than Delsartean elasticity of step she hies away to the Ladies ' Parlor, a large airy room on the same floor, furnished for repose, and barred (Lex Universitatis) most rigidly ' gainst male intrusion. She douJ)tless hopes to find a quiet corner there, where sunk i-p. a deep easy chair or preempting a whole couch she may read the missive. Alas for that hope! burst of Latin, logic, Greek and gossip greets her as she enters and her own voice soon joins the medley. The gentlemen have also an exclusive parlor — it is the last door down the hall there — but it offers no greater advantages for quiet meditation, albeit no giggling, gossipj ' girls are ever found there. It was formerly as nicely fitted up as this, but gymnastics proved so disastrous to aesthetic furniture that the authorities were obliged to leave it as now — a little plain! These doors labelled respectively Gopher and Ariel we may not enter. The former is a special museum of Fossil Jokes, petrified quotations and etchings illustrative of po- etic embryology. The latter the sanctum sanctorum of our one literary journal, pub- lished weekly during the college year by the Students of the U. of M., terms $1.50 per year (always in advance), single copies 10 cents. Come now across the hall into the old library. It extends from end to end of the build- ing on this floor. Put on the soft pedal now. Silence in this room is the writing on the wall here. Like all warnings this is sometimes lightly heeded, if not quite disregarded— now by some absent minded I ?) student, talking in his sleep as it were and now, through exercise, if not abuse of official privilege— by one of the several librarians, whose constant service the 27,000 voulmes demand. Who shall silence the silencers? may be whispered
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