Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-16

make the article more scathing than ever;
the cartoon. too, comes in for its share Of
use and is quite a power at times.
Calico ROasts.
At institutions where there Is co-educa-
! ton the fair ones form the butt OF endless
! comments and witticisms. and their peace
Of mind is constantly disturbed by these
attacks. which are generally harmless
enough in their way, but very caustlc when
! occasion demands. An example may be
| cited which has to do with Columbia uni
versity and Barnard college, A few years
ago the authorities granted to the girls the
| right to swim In the Columbia tank on
| Wednesday nights. OF course the natatorial
| affair was exclusively for women and pry-
4 Ing male students were not allowed within
a mile Of the place. This piqued the male
students sense Of Justice. so they set to
work to drive out the girls by making them
! appear ridiculous in the situation. Within
short time after the incident the Columbia
Jester came out with an issue devoted en-
| tirely to the swimming affair The poor
girls were roasted In prose, in rhyme and
| IN picture with little regard for their feel
| lngs, and not a single phase of the affair
that might be turned into ridicule was
overlooked To cap the climax the two
| center pages Of the issue were devoted to a
pseudo reproduction OF page from the
New York Journal, concerning a sensational
Barnard Murder Mystery" and therein
was set forth glowing accounts Of how a
| young Barnard maiden was in some way
| "dastardly done to death" Suspicious Of
foul play were aroused, It seems, when a
single lock Of hair, a hairpin and one or
| two other feminine articles were found ut
the bottom of the tank one morning when
the janitors were cleaning it out. OF course
the issue sold like hot cakes, and within
| an hour or so after the number had APP
peared on the campus. the edition OF over
| 1000 copies was exhausted completely suf-
fee It to say after that the girls with
| swimming aspirations turned their atten-
| lions elsewhere.
Batteries Turned on the EIdera.
Not only do the students attack local
subjects. but also matters of general inter-
est. The daily press and weeklies come in
for their share Of good-natured criticism
and often some very clever parodies are
written on them. The following, from the
Princeton Tiger. purports to be an extract
from a description of a professional base
ball game printed in the Sin:
The yard of willow cleft the ether sharply
with no tangible result. As the man OF
Steel was again unmasking bis batteries,
toray, only to die an awful death with
his head resting on the middle pillow. A
the plate, and after romping merrIly amid
the buttercups for a time, Centerfielder
S sT T rstgrpsd holding the sPheroid that
Skinner recalled MIR Riley's Seem Things
at Night" and declared armistice until
the following afternoon.
And they say that the great national
game is degenerating!
The subject of "cribbing" at examina-
lions is always a popular topic for Jokes
and squibs of all sorts, and around mid
years and at the end OF the college term
the student papers usually print a col
lection of choice thoughts on the theme.
From the Columbia Jester comes the fol-
lowing clever paraphrase of shakespeare's
lines;
A TIMELY SOLILOQJJY.
To crib or not to crib-that is the ques-
Whether tits nobler in the mind to suffer
The stlngs and sorrows of examinations
UT TO use cribs to bridge great floods OF |
And BY. answering pass them. To pass; and |
Without the use of ponies. cribs, or trots
Ahat we are prone to- tits consumma-
Devooutly to be wished Mayhap to funk;
10 rtq h, perchance be dropped: aye, |
The thought of being dropped makes cow
from using cribs in truth comes soon to
hausht' III. Amlet, '0S.
The illustrations in the college comics
are, as a rule of a high order Many who
are in the front ranks of illustrators and
artists today served their apprenticeship
while students on these same periodicals,
and were glad to get their drawings pub
lished In them even without remuneration.
Student support OF collge papers is al
ways, hearty, and the editors ne,er ba,,a |
any difficulty in making the ventures pay.
As In the case of the larger magazines.
the advertisements pay for the cost of
printing, and very often there is left a
very neat return for the editors efforts
at the end of the year.