The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-27
COMING OF SPRING.
As seen BY 4
STUDENT
A Few Rambling Thoughts of
Correspondent Material
and Immaterial."

Few things of startling nature
have occurred during the week at the
U. N. D., but there have been plenty
Of events of live interest to relieve the
monotony of routine work.
Not least important of these were
the two baseball games-that of the
Props and Engineers Tuesday and of
the Laws and Commercials Thursday.
Most of the students were out to enjoy
these games, and it might be said that
many plays of a comical nature were
witnessed in the last game especially.
The pleasure of watching ball game
has thus far been marred somewhat
by the chilliness of the atmosphere.
Despite the predictions of prophets
or the wishes of evening strollers, or
even the charming verses of English
poets on 1.-THE Coming of Spring." the
Spring" still delays his coming. The
long looked for "green" of the campus
has not made more than the faintest
of appearances. Green streaks may be
seen, of course, along those parts of
the campus underlaid by steam and
hot-water pipes, but that it nearly all.
However, it has been noticed that
the covering of straw is being removed
from shrubs and flower beds, and even
Adelphi fountain looks like itself again.
A general cleaning up of the campus,
the raking up of dead leaves from
lawns, has taken place. The idea is, of
course, that fine green grass will some
time in the future be looking for
chance to flourish.
Baseball men, too numerous to men
ton, dot the open places on the cam
pus every day. Track men, too, a few,
dressed as though it were already sum-
mer, are seen hard at work on the west
end of the athletic field during after
moons.
The point is that these are signs, and
IL they do not succeed in bringing
warmer weather it may become neces-
sary to increase the quantity and some
what the quality of the Sunday track
work. This last variety of spring
omens we have never known to fail.
Another event which should have
some mention is that there has been at
least one university wedding the past
week. This surely is good enough
record for one week.
Baseball managers are busy arrang-
ing games that seem slow in arrang-
ing. Professors are beginning to urge
their students to get all extra work of
their hands and to get as much done
ahead of time as possible. Somehow
or other as the term progresses study
becomes more and more imperceptible
in students. Events always crowd
thick into the last few weeks of a
school year, unless the school is dead.
There are delayed essays to write, the
ses to complete and "incompletes" to
get out of the way. A few are going
to graduate; at any rate, perhaps three
or four score. These have class plays
to prepare, speeches to learn, gowns
and caps to plan and to purchase and
some other things to do. Almost all
these have lessons to get, too. Think
how busy these, then, must be! Then,
too, time must be taken out for con-
certs, shows and oratorios. How to
compel oneself to attend these things
"ay, there's the rub"
There are many more circumstances,
some dryer than others, that it seems
best to leave until another chapter is
to be published, but the attempt has
been to give pictures of university life
from one point of view-that of the
writer, who is a student and who lives
on the grounds every day and mostly
every night, seeing things when in
sight, but doubtless missing good
many.