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Miss Nonentity.

"WELL, have you seen her, girls?" "No, what's she like, anyway?" "Like? Oh, she's a perfect booby! Has the most nondescript face I

ever saw on mortal man!" Oh, she's a man, is she? But why mortal?" " Be quiet, you sarcastic thing! How can I blat while you ' re blattin'? Hon­

estly her face is perfectly expressionless and I don't believe she knows a thing ! She 's got black hair and eyes-kind of dead and lusterless, you know, and as fo r ideas well, she doesn't look like any mental p r ocesses ever go on behind that wooden face of hers, does she, Hattie?"

Hattie concurred vigorously. " Why this verbal cascade, oh my beauteous Isadora? What's stirred you

up now?" chirped a fresh young voice as Betty Van Dyke 's piquant face appeared in the group.

" The new assistant in Modern Languages," explained Isadora, she of the tall plump figure, modish coiffure, and vacuous countenance, "she plays second fidd le to Vercy, you understand. Does some student work, too, I believe. Oh, Betty, you should see her. There's a vague empty solemnity about her face, that i s almost an expression. And she never by any chance says anything bright or -original. She's not of our set, that's plain!"

"See our Isadora slinging bouquets at herself! Oh, my!'' gurgled Dickey McHawk, hopping derisively about on one leg. Dicky was a Philistine of the first water, in whose make-up there was small reverence for the established order of things. To this incorrigible, Miss Smythe was a joy and a delight and he never wearied of "drawing her out", a process which she could only resent for she never could hope to cope with Dicky's nimble mind and merciless tongue.

"What's her name, anyway, my chicks?" queried ,Miss Van Dyke, hurling a German grammar at the belligerents who were scowling darkly at each other, Isadora in real anger and Dicky in pretended.

"Nonence, I believe. Yes, Alice Nonence.'' "Miss Nonentity, I should say," sniffed a small, sallow girl of saturnine

expression.

"E\lrekaI Edna Cosgrove, you have hit It! How perfectly it fits her. Oh, have you noticed her walk, anybody? A sort of castiron poker-up-the-hack gait," and Hattie Atwood gave a side-splitting exhibition.

"What'• she done to you all, anyway?" asked Min Van Dyke, surveying them

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with a quizzical smile, "why are you all down on. her? She· can't help her looks,. poor thing. Miss Nonentity-that's pretty rough, I think!"

"Wait till you see her and you'll agree with us!" "Anybody can tell she's a ninny!" they choroused with so much virtuous superiority that Miss Van Dyke felt decidedly squelched.

At this junction a small cyclone bore down upon the group, scattering it rig~t and left, and three flushed, excited damsels poured forth a stream of volubility upon the demoralized remnants.

'Have you heard, girls, have you heard?" "The committee to select the play has reported and they've agreed on-" "Much Ado About Nothing! Isn't it mean?" "Simply bum. I wanted Romeo and Juliet!" "I wanted Hamlet! That is so sweet, so~" "How perfectly luny of the committee! Didn't they know a lot of us wanted As You Like It? And-Oh, Betty, I didn't know you were there!"

Betty, who was chairman of the co.mmittee, smiled amiably upon the· confu­sion of her critic. "Yes, I know that some of you wanted Hamlet and othe·rs were just willing for a chance to spread themselves in Romeo and ~uliet."

"What does the great and ilustrious William Shakespeare Dufferin think of i t?" quoth the jocular Dicky, with a cheerful Weller-like wink.

"Why, he rather likes it. He-er-in fact, dear friends, the pompous Duffy has conceived the idea that he'll make an ideal Benedict!" And this bomb Alfred Traffail exploded with a grin of enjoy_ment at the destruction it wrought.

"Benedict!" shrieked Miss Van Dyke, while Dicky and Penny hung limply to. each other, "oh, ye gods! Duffy's broken loose again. Let me get out of this quick!" And she sped fleetly down the hall, stopping only when the sound of shrill wrangling voices dropped to a murmur. "There are so many .nonentities in the world," she said, smiling scornfully, then stopped short flushing deeply, for she stood face to face with-Miss Nonentity. She felt sure it was the new as­sistant, the moment her eyes swept the quiet impassive face and sombre dark eyes. Never had she seen a face of such unearthly repose, or so utterly devoid of light and shadow. And yet she was impressed by the strength of the chin and imagined she ~aw indications of great reserve force and marked personality. ln­voluntar:ily, the thought leaped into her brain, "Behind that Sphinx face lies a mind, and its not of the Isadora Smythe order, either."

"Wonder if she has a sense of humor," mused the girl, as she passed on, "she's far from stupid-looking and the girls have fibbed disgracefully about her walk. Their idea ,of grace is the embodiment of their frightful kangaroo bendJ anyway. Miss Nonentity, indeed!"

But Miss Nonentity she remained to the end of the chapter •

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II

The Shakespeare Club was one of the most thriving organizations in the University, especially in the spring, during the preparation fo its annual play. As the days sped by, and no one had opportunity to forget its existence, for the halls fairly s~ethed with eag~r groups excitedly discussing every feature of the proposed play, which was fast crowding out the subject of Miss Nonentity's peculiarities. : "N~ver saw ~nythi1 r:ig like Jt," decl~r~d Dicky McHawk to Betty as t;hey stood ap~rt watcJ:!ing ti:J.e, cliques a'}d f~ctions at war, "the fever rages fiercer this year than ever before. I expect a giddy brawl any moni,~nt. Edna Cqsgrove a11d Wats9!:' · have _had it up, anµ clown five times al.ready. E'dn~ thinks she ought to be Beatrix and Terry begs leave to differ. The whole gang's red-h.ot for Much

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Th , e been reading it up, you see, an' it's just occurred to 'e·m ·that

Ado now. ey v I ,, A d D' k I fine chance to turn loose floods of latent gen us. n 1c y

here's an unusua .

chuckled. "Madeline Fluffy and Hattie Atwood won't speak to each ot~er," gig9.led a.et·

. · " d there isn't one in the club tha·t Isadora hasn t squabbled with tie, sotto voice, an . , ,

. h I t three days. Just watch her now! Maddern a whole hornets during t e as o th L kl"

· 't h ? Oh Dick for Heaven's sake, look at Duffy. ver ere. oo • nest, 1sn s e ' ' . . . .

The person indicated was a tal I, large-boned ind1v1dual of. ponderous bearin~,

a solemn rubicund visage and an air of self complacency which contrasted lud1·

crously with his general appearance of imbecility. President o_f the Shakesp:are

Cl b (b virtue of his name, Betty Van Dyke declared) he was an ostentatious

flg~r~ 1/ the preparations and as he harangued the little group of which he was

the center, his face assumed a hue bordering on apoplexy. . ·

''You don't 'spect he'll burst, do you?" grinned Dicky, delightfully.

"Dunno. Hope not, I'm sure. He's swellin wisibly, though. Ship ahoy,

Alfred Mortimer Du Plantagenet De Traffail ! Come over and tell us the news."

The tall Sophomore came, (for who could resist Betty Van Dyke?) but protesting

vigorously against the liberties that incorrigible took with his name. "Don't

make It any worse'n it is!" he implored. Betty apologized handsomely.

"'Tisn't near as bad as William Shakespeare Dufferin and Madeleine Fluffy," she

added consolingly, "there are freak dime museum names for you! But tell us,

Alfie, In your silvery dulcet tones, how goeth yonder grand free fight?"

Traffail shrugged his shoulders deprecatingly. "Well, ·Duffy is to be Benedict

-save the mark!" Miss Van Dyke flung Dicky an untranslatable look which

send him into fits of laughter. "And Beatrix?" she asked, resignedly.

Here a shrill angry voice from down the hall jangled on their ears, "Well, I

don't care what you · think, Madeleine Fluffy! Beatrix should not be a brunette.

The idea is absurd! Why, I saw a show last winter-'The Queen of the Bowery'­

and the heroine was blonde and perfectly magnificent. And you'd agree with me

if you didn't want to act Beatrix yourself!" And Miss Smythe tossed her own

blonde head spitefully. Betty and Traffail exchanged despairing glances. "Is it?" she asked, anticip·

ating his answer. He nodded. "Oh, shade of Ada Rehan ! Isa and Duffy! A

sweet pair they'll make! Whose idea is it, in Heaven's name?"

"Idea nothin'!" snorted Traffail, "she fought her way there over the slain

bodies of rabid female aspirants. She's got thirty or forty scraps on hand, three

or four hair pullin' contests, and all counties not heard from yet!" ·

"Look here, chaps, you'd better run," warned a dark, erect young fellow,

flaunting junior colors, as he sauntered up to the trio, "I heard the rabble pro­

claiming that Traffail was expected to do Leonato, Dick to split the ears of , the

groundlings as Dogberry and--" ..

"Great Guns! Crane you're as good as a burglar alarm. Comrades, the time

has come to scoot! 'The foe! they come; they comet'" And · Dicky· in the lead

1:hey scuttled down the hall pell-'mell and out upon 'the campus. . . .:I ' .lt '

111. "Actually, girls, she laughed today!"

"Misa Nonentity? · Impossible!" ·

"And yest~rday when ·Periny1 Lee got foxy In French, those black eyes of hers flashed like lightning." · · - ' · ,. · · · 'i' • · • •• , ...... _,, .. , 1 .. ;·'.· .'

· , '~Wha't' do you •'pose VercY: says? That he bets she can give ua valuable point. .. .. - · p • ,-~ .. ! . ..... .• -'.- _.,... l 1. ·> . !" •• ..,:<! t.,, ~? .. :1~4 ~3· f?-·J ~~ ·;.: ...... . ~,· r"

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ers on the play! Says she's had training." "Pointer from Alice Nonence? I think not!" "Well, we need pointers from someone, that's flat, my fair Harriet. Our ren­

dition of 'Much Ado' is simply monstrous! A mixture of 'deestrict skule,' slush. and tenth rate vaudeville! Bah!" And Betty Van Dyke shrugged disdainfully •. The other girls squirmed uneasily, for Betty's opinion meant much to them.

" What would you advise us to do?" quavered Madeleine whose ardor had been considerably dampened by a fortnight's practice of the play.

"Call In Alice Nonence and ask for some badly needed instruction!" retorted. Betty sharply. Of late her nerves had been sorely racked and her usually sunny temper ruffled by the Shakespearean rehearsals. Oh the agony of those rehears .. als! She had a keen sense of humor which saved her from the intense irritation of those who couldn't help taking seriously such flaunting exhibitions of bad acting.

One day she brought Miss Nonence with her to the concert hall. Dicky, too, had urged her to come, arguing that she would never again have such a chance to see "passion torn to tatters" outside of a lunatic asylum.

But Miss Nonence had not come to criticise. To Betty's inquiry, "Isn't it. frightful?" she had replied by a swift humorous side glance that was a revelation' ·to the girl.

It was soon clear that Isadora's satellites deeply resented her presence and' grave inscrutable gaze; this gave rise to a hundred demoralizing rumors. The rehearsals grew noticeably worse. Miss Cosgrove and train criticised freely,,. copiously, tirelessly. The faculty grew anxious.

"Just a little more and the whole thing'll bust," prophesied Dicky inelegantly. A week or so before the night set for the drama, Louis Crane accosted Betty

i n the hall with an air of subdued excitement. "What do you think? Duffy's resigned! Positively refuses to play Benedict..

Hoppin' mad! Says he's been slandered and by thunder! he's not going to stand it . And now the blooming play can can just wobble along without him."

"Oh bliss! Joy! Let's chant the Te Deum! Now if some one'd only kid· nap Isadora!" And Betty jigged around in a perfect frenzy of rapture.

"They've asked me," with a shrug. "Catch me playing Benedict to Isadora's, Beatrix! Ugh!"

''Why, I thought you two were thicker than thieves," teased Betty. He f111shed a little. "A fellow doesn't necessarily respect the girl he goes­

with," was his defense, and Betty considered herself well answered. "I told 'em I 'd take the role if they'd get another Beatrix," he added, then paused, arrested by a sudden sparkle in Betty's eye, "you were thinking of-"

"Alice Nonence ! The only one that can do it!" Betty nodded triumphantly •. " She's been trained in the Boston School of Dramatic Expression and is an old hand at Much Ado."

The despair of the management over Duffy's defection and Crane's refusal> was down right comical. Then Fate stepped in, most opportunately, and willed that Miss Smythe should unravel the angle by falling ill.

How it was that Crane and Miss Nonentity stepped into their places as Bene· diet and Beatrix, the stuplfled management cannot tell to this day. True it is that they protested against Crane on grounds of his reputation for o•erweening conceit, but were overridden by the popular cry, "Anything to save the playP~'

How they gasped to see order evoked from chaos by the exquisite tact of Mias: Nonentity, the butt of all cheap college wit& Her perfect self-command ancf,

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uiet low voice somehow seemed to discourage the rant and gush which had

q I d for dramatic art. The master mind now controlled all others. former y passe . They began to watch her closely, and imitate, to siez~ upon every. suggestion.

Under her tuition Crane's abnormal vanity seemed to disappear, leaving only the

eager, intelligent pupil, whose clever handling of his role struck the beholders

dumb with amazement. At rehearsal Miss Nonentity's Beatrix, though inspired by good sense and good

taste, lacked artistic fire and colorl Still all agreed that it was a vast improve-

ment on Isadora. "Mark my words, she'll astonish us all tonight," prophesied keen Betty, at

the last rehearsal.

IV.

The big concert hall was crowded to suffocation the night of the play. St_u·

dents, faculty and townspeople, ·their curiosity aroused by the changes made i n

the cast, turned out en masse, chiefly to see Miss Nonentity play Beatrix.

Behind the curtains feverish anticipation reigned among the players, most of

whom were undergoing more or less severe attacks of stage fright. Would t hat

curtain never go up? Oliver Wendell Holmes says that in amateur theatrica ls,

the curtain always sticks, a rule of which the present case is a bright and shin­

ing example, for twice our amateurs' curtain balked outright. But barri ng this,

the affair was singularly free from hitches.

Everybody agreed that the cast simply surpassed itself. True it is they had

never played so well before: Harriet Atwood as Margaret, Traffail as Leonato,

Terry Watson as Don John, Dicky McHawk as Dogberry, Betty as Ursula-all i n

the supreme inspiration of the moment acquitted themselves creditably. Even

silly Madeleine rendered Hero far better than anyone ever dared to hope.

But it was Miss Nonence that took the house by storm. She was simp ly trans­

formed; to the students she seemed another being. From the moment she came

on, to the moment the curtain fell, the delighted crowd was hers. She was not

Alice Nonence, she was Beatrix, the true Beatrix,-sparkling, tender, passionate,

elusive, haughty-the creature of a hundred moods, now capricious, now pensive,

now maddeningly sweet, yet captivating in all. A compound of fire and ·tender­

ness wonderfully blent, with cheeks flushed daintily, with every varying mood

pictured In the brilliant eyes, and every fibre of the lithe figure aquiver with v i·

vacious life, she taxed to the utmost Benedict's skill in verbal sword-play lashing

him with her caustic wit, to the delight of the audience.

The two were simply superb. The merry war they were constantly waging,

their stormy love-making, and the harmonizing of the two fine thoroughbred

spirita,-it was all brilliantly done. And yet Alic~ Nonence knew, as the others

did not, that hers was not the work of an artiste, but of a very clever amateur.

It was over at last! The enraptured audience had gone; the curtain rising

repeatedly upon the bowing actors had fallen for the last time. Betty was the

first to grasp the hand of Miss Nonence, as all crowded around with congratula­

tions. 0 Shakespeare should have been here to see it!" she cried; "you are simply

unsurpaaaed!"

And the heroine of the evening laughing mlacheviously, retorted, "In the role

of Beatrix or Miss Nonentity?"

C.Z.H.

T I:I E .E X P 0 N E N T. I f • ~

Barbarisms.

I N its onward stride, civilization has neglected to throw off some of the habits and practices of primitive man. The relics of the past are the most manifest in the bar barisms t hat have come down to us in various shapes. When we

look carefully at our institutions and natures of the present time, we cannot help but see that there are clinging to the great host of modern culture and refinement the small but tenacious parasites which may be called barbarisms.

According to the Greeks the barbarians were those people who were not i n· habitants of Hellas. The word had its origin in the attempt of the Greeks to imi· tate the sound of the language of the foreigner, which he did as near as possible by saying "barbar." " Barbar" stood for nothing particular but it had a sound similar to that wh'ich he 'thought he heard in the words of the foreigner. Then this word "barbarian" was incorporated in the 'language a-ccording to the principle of onomatopoeia. But today the word has ·a different meaning, for although a nation may speak a language different from some other civilized na'tion, yet they do not call each other barbarians on that account solely. The barbarians of today are those who have not attained a high civilization, or to p'ut it more positively, those who ' are rude in their habits of 'life from want or ignorance of culture. It is with the meaning of the word in this sense that we intend to deal in this article.

There are today relics of the ·barbarians or barbarisms in almost all depart· ments and conditions o'f life. For: the linguist there are those of languag!e; for the artist, those ' of art; for._the ' politician, those of politics; arid for the ·preacher, those Of religion.

If some uncultivated but good-hearted old Souther~er should ask you to call upon him, he would not say, "Please call and 'see me," but rather; "Now you'uns must come down 'and see us'ns," or if you should inquire for the distance to a cer· tairi place-, lie would probably say: It's about two sights and a right smart bit." Now who can 'fail to se~ that ' this man and his language a~e both ba:rbarisms~ And so cases of barbarisms in language a're almost innumerable, but there- are other cases of barbarisms and we· 'do not have to go far · to see them'. s 'ut before we change the scene from ttie 'good o'ld southern farm to a street of some of our 'towns . or cities, let us first see what some other barbarisms rtt'ay be as they 'exist amorig uncfv'lllzed men. ' in 'barb.arous dbu'ntries today there ' may be fo'u"nd men who undergo almost 'u'nimaginable pain' to have their bodies indelibly decorated. Here W'e 'have a ' tatto'oed man." ' 'No\¥ let us shift 'our sceiie' to the civilized world a.rid "we ha've 'not lhe' ta'ttooecf' man but' the pretty m'aide·n· YSho"has striven · to mal<:e 'f1e)rself more _ t>eaut!tu't"by' t~e 'exce$s~v~ use" of cos'ni~;f!cs.' . ~r bett~r· Still we may see ' the spinster of' forty -five; wlio'm' 'the artistic' genitu~"of cf Micha.;r Angelo cdi.HC:t ~ot make beaut~ful, decorated with ·all the colors of the spectrum; ·1ii' ' both· ~f these~ cases It is' 'riot the attempt .. to p~~tray.'the "beautiful that ·'c~nstitutes the bar· harism, but it is the method of doing it. If the two· ladle.a' ~na'tne 1tat'too6cf man

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had all used their paint in painting a beautiful pict~re, it would have been a

benefit to posterity and might have made their names 1mmort~I. . ...

t b bl the class of barbarisms that are most tenacious to our c1v1llza-

Bu pro .a Y . · t · t• f the present day is that of superstition. Superstition may ex1s tn more

ion o h There are superstitions in connection with the supernatural and than one p ase. . .. then there is simple credulity or beliefs tenaciously held. Of the superst1t1ons

intimately connected with the Deity, Bacon says: "It were ~etter to have ~o opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy .of h.1m; for the one is

unbelief; the other is contumely; and certainly superstition 1s reproach of the

Deity." There are thousands of people who fear to turn to the right or the left for

fear they will go contrary to some sign. If they want to plant a crop ~f potatoes

or butcher a hog, they search through all the almanacs available to see if the

earth is in the right sign in the zodiac; as if one group of stars had any more to

do with the earth's chemical changes than another. Some come closer home and

use the moon. But we know that the moon exerts just two influences upon the

earth; it gives it light, and it attracts it. Now the only influence that could at

all effect growth is its lighting influence and astronomers tell us that this is so .

slight upon vegetable life that it is practically valueless. There are a great many

other superstitions that are just as foundationless but still occupy an important

place in the popular mind. To close an open gate is a bad omen-if it were a

dark night it might be a bad omen for the next fellow, not to close it-to be one

of a party of thirteen is certain death, etc., etc. It is needless to enumerate them

all. They are all familiar to us. Many there are who firmly believe them and

those who do not, many times, go contrary to what may almost seem their in­

stinct. Of superstitions of this kind Lowell says: "A superstition, as its name

imports, is something that has been left to stand over, like unfinished business,

from one session of the world's witenagement to the next."

We are not only barbarous in our superficialities and methods but we are in­

nately barbarous. Barbarisms that are consequences of natural instinct are the

most dangerous. It was this instinct that caused the Romans to build the Coli·

seum and gloat over the gladitorial shows; it was this instinct, rather than the

love of God that established the inquisitions and torture chambers of the reign of

"Bloody Mary;" and it is this same instinct today that impells Americans to drag

helpless victims from jails and burn them at the stake amidst cries as hideous as

any savage could utter.· It is also this instinct that takes people to a prize fight

rather than to a lecture and will cause them to dese·rt a humble meeting ' house

to rush to some scene of conflagration.

It is hardly safe to predict th.at we will ever reach that state of civilization

where barbarisms will entirely disappear, for as each step of advance is made it

will carry with it some relic of the past. ·

F.W.H.

Ube l5xponent. A Journal Published Monthly During The College Year

By The Students Of The Montana .5tate Agricultural College.

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Concerning Ye editor came to College one morning, and found an obstruc· &ates. tion in the gateway in the shape of three post holes set thus: . •• We declare he stepped in all three before he got past. In the af·

ternoon the holes were occupied by three posts, and we were informed that they were an orthodox college gate-to keep out cows, etc. We believe they will an­swer this purpose as it is just possible for a person with a well developed calf to make the passage successfully. One six foot Freshman invariably steps over this new and orthodox gate-and we believe he has found a solution to the problem.

Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.-Bacon.

College The new catalogue system adopted by the College wil1 enable Information. the necessary information concerning the institution to be

spread much further for the same expense than the old system. The o·ld catalogue• cost about 25 cents eaeh, and it was an enormous expense to

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. · The circular system ought to reach more people, and it will d1str1bute many. . .

h I The College Hand Book issued by the two Student Chr1st1an As-cost muc ess. . .

. · Ill be In the form of a leather vest pocket memo, and will contain a soc1at1ons, w .

vast fund of information about student affairs, etc., not found in the eatalog~e.

· b k · Itself expensive the cost being about 20 cents each; but the advert1s-Th1s oo 1s , . . .

· t overs most of this and the publication threof 1s one of the m1ss1ons 1ng sys em c ,

of the College Y. M. and Y. W. C. A.

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TM power of lwpe upon human exertion and happiness ·is wonderful.-Lincoln .

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Why Among other things that the College needs and really ought to have is a

N t? bicycle stand to protect the wheels of the students from the many rains

an~ snows of the season. Many students live at such distances from the College

that walking is an impossibility at times, and where they own a wheel they most

certainly will ride, but after arriving at the College there is no place to put their

wheels and they are compelled to leave them up against the buildings where they

are exposed to the destructive rains. Such a structure would not cost very much

and would be a very great convenience; and we hope that next fall it will turn up.

Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.­

Franklin.

ED1TOa's NOTE.-This le the farewell issue of tbie year and by the present litaff. Aud to see it go

out brings a. feeling of pleasure to the staff that tbe years' work is done-but hand in hand with it a.

pang of regret tba.t ft Is really over. Th~ work ha.a been nothing but ple&sant to each one, and is one

of the plea.suree of College life.

The editor, lneaying goodbye, wlabes to thank the nine who have stood by him in th~ work ao

f&fthfully: It is a pleasure look back and remember that on two occ&slons-when he wa11 inca.pacitated­

tbe ..lssociate Edittor took tbe work right along without a hitch; and that the financial end of the

paper was a.lwa.ys smooth and In good ruunin1 order under the care of its manager. Thanks also to

the merchants who11e &dvertislng has helped maintain us; we hope their returns have recompensed

t hem In a measure for their patronage, More thanks, also to those who have given friendly euggestions;

they are always welcome. -

We fear that the ca.re11' of a Senior will forbid our taking the helm next year a,ain-but it is a, source ot

pride and gratification that it has been re-offered. For the benefit of future genertions of editors we

offer the following sucgestions, gleaned from two years' experience on the staff: first, one business

manager is not enough; h.e should have at least one, and poasibly two assiatants; second, three or

four regular literary edi.tors would be advantageous; two cannot handle the department ea!!lly enough:

third, do a.ll you can to abolish the "news" department of the magazine and have it published at

least bi-weekly in newspaper form under anotl.er name; we tried this a.nd found that we tried too

soon; but next year the College ought to be able to suppert two pe:riodicals-and confine THE EXPONENT

to literaf'JI material onl11, which ought to be the true function of the monthly magazine; let ue have a

bi-weekly next year, Lastly-to the business managers-keep advertisements out of the reading

matter, for ma.ny like to have the volumes bound. That's all.

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Dr. Holmes' definition of sportsmanly bearing: "To brag little, to show well, to crow gently when in luck; to own up, to pay up, and to ~hut up when beaten."

:¥• S. C. vs. The baseball team suffered its first defeat in five years at the Jackman hands of the Helena Business College. It was the first game Business of the season and the want of practice easily lost us the game. College. The score by inning~ was as follows:

J. B. C.-0-0-3-2-1-0-1-3-0-10. M. S. C.-0-1-2-0-2-0-0-0-0-5.

M. S. C. vs.

J. B. C.

Our boys went to Helena confident of victory, having got into pretty good form, and won out in an easy contest, Saturday, May 10th.

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M. S. C. A. B. R. I. B. P. 0. A. E.

--------------1-------------Flaherty, C. D., 2nd b .................... 5 3 3 10 4 2 Flaherty, R., s. s ............................ 6 2 2 1 0 1 Flaherty, W. A., c ....... ................... 6 1 0 6 2 1 Williams, C. F., c. £ ........................ 5 1 1 1 0 0 Krueger, 1st b ................................ 5 1 0 8 1 0 Schabarker, p ................................. 4 2 2 0 7 0 Thompson, 1. f ................................ 5 2 2 0 0 0 Morris, 3rd b .. ...................... ... ...... 5 0 1 1 5 3 Erwin, r. £ ...................................... 5 2 1 0 0 1

------------Totals ...................................... 46 13 12 27 19 8

}ACKMAN BUSINESS COLLEGE. A. B. R. I. B. P.O. A. E. --------

Saxton, 1. f......... ... .. .. .. ... . ... .. .. .. .. . .. 2 2 0 · 2 0 2 Phillips, c. f... ... .... .. ... ........ .. ....... ... 5 1 2 2 0 0 Gleason, c.. ..... . .... .. .... .... ....... ......... 4 1 1 12 2 0 Murphy, s. s..................... ............. 5 1 3 1 5 2 Clarke, 2nd b ................................ '. 5 1 1 3 4 1 Smit.h, r. £.................. .................... 5 0 0 0 0 1 Hoon, p 0

................................ -....... 4 1 2 0 2 0 Martin, 1st b......... ......... .............. 4 1 2 5 0 I 5 Cooke, 3rd b.................. ............... 4 1 1 2 0 1

Totals...................................... 39 9 12 27 13 12

M. S. C. vs. On their way to Butte the baseball team stopped off at Whi·te~ Whitehall, hall to play a game. Only six of the regular team were on the

diamond, aa Schabarker, Williama and Morrie had to remain at home on account of tho Glee Club concert at Manhattan on Friday evening, and

THE EXP 0 NE N 'i'. 13

. t t b Schabarker. This crippled the team very much and no one ex· an engine es Y f th · k t d

· · t Whitehall's veteran leaguers; but one o e qu1c es an Pected to win agains . .

. t up The game lasted one hour and twenty-five minutes. prettiest games was pu • Score by innings:

white ha 11-2-2-0-0-1-0-0· 1-0-6. M. s. C.--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.

M 5 C In this game all the regular team was present and

• • • work made an easy victory. The score was: vs . 4 M 5 M M. s. c., 12; School of Mines, ·

• • • $ ~ ~

good batting and

The next game was with the Bozeman Clerks. In this game the Co l·

M. 5 • C. lege for the first time of the season got back to its usual form in hitting Cl::ks the ball Schabarker proved too much for the C lerks and very few hits

were made. Score, M. S .C., 15; Clerks, 1. $ $ $

M 5 C On Arbor Day the School of Mines sent its team to Bozeman, to defeat • • • at the hands of our boys in blue and gold. The score was terri ble,

M. ~ M. viewed from a Butte point of view, being 30 to 5 in our favor

.,,..; $ $

May 12, Faculty, 13, Academics, 8. May 17, Academics, 11, G. C.

H. S., 13. Other 6ames

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~ Fl!OM THE EXPERIMENT STATION. ~ '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Al• falfa.

The work of seeding the field crops is practically finished. Even though

the weather has been cold, windy and showery in general, the soil

has worked easily and the seed gone in in good shape, fully two weeks

earlier than last season. Reports have reached the Station recently from two or three farmers located

on the northern foot.hills about Bozeman which give satisfactory resu lts regarding

the growth of alfalfa without irrigation in that section. This adds strength to the recommendation of the Station that this cr op be

given a general trial on the foothi 11 lands. Last season, shade trees were set half way across the north border of the

Station farm. This planting work is now being continued across the balance of

the north side and also along the western border. The trees are Carolina poplars.

Because of the rapid growth of this variety, it '{l.'ill soon add much to the general

appearance of the farm.

Corn More attention is to be given to the production of corn at the· station. It

is generally regarded as being an impossibility to ripen corn in Galla·

tin valley except the earliest table sorts. A fine sample of early flint corn has

·been brought to the station by a Gallatin valley farmer. Under a c.o-operative

system the station is securing corn £rown in var!ous parts of the state at about

the same altitude. This grain is gradually becoming acclimated and is likely to produce surprising results.

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1~ THE EXPONENT.

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Com• With this issue of the

ment. Exponent the college year draws to a close and we

have to bid our exchanges farewell

for another vacation. We have never

had a better list of exchanges in the

history of our paper than during the

year just past. We thank them all

for their consideratioh of our efforts

and wi II be glad to welcome them

again to our table at the beginning of

the next school year. JI,

The April Critic has several stories

abounding in touching love scenes and

.perilous adventures. $

The "Current Events" column of

Spice is very interesting. $

The booklet form of the April Cri·

terion is quite attractive. JI,

We have received the April Dictum

Est. It is an artistic little paper, but

the great exchange column which its

contemporaries speak of so highly,

seems to be non est in this issue, $

The Student Herald from Manhattan

Kansas is very welcome to our ex·

change table. We are always glad to

receive new exchanges from. state co·I· leges a.nd universities.

Wise and Other•

$

Boy (hoeing) "Looks like the fish would bite

wise. well to-day, dad." · Dad-"You keep on

hoeing that corn, they wont bite you." .JC

A lady in waiting-an old maid.

""' A fellow doesn't have to have a knowledge of cube root in order to square himself.

To me she is indeed a peach,

Mellow and sweet in tone.

Outside the softness, just In reach,

Inside, the heart of stone. JI,

The monkeys, our ancestors, were

educated In the higher branches. JI,

To remove paint-sit down on it

before it is dry. JI,

Nebraska's foot-ball team la out for

spring practice. JI,

A can of oil, A smothered coal, Another cook Has reached her goal •.

$

Victor Earle, captain of the Colum·

bia gymnasium team, won the all

around championship of the university,

scoring 218 points. .];I

In Boston-"How much are these

string beans?" "Seventy-five cents a

quart." "lsn.'t tha rather altitud'in.ous?"

"Yes madam, but these are very high·

strung beans." JI,

"I have been told that the soil is

very fertile in South Africa."

"Yes, but threre is one thing that

it seems pretty hard to raise.' "What's that?" "The British flag."

JI,

A fir tree stands ~lone On a dreary northern height.

It sleeps. With ice and snow

It is garbed in robes of white • It dreams of a lofty palm tree

Which, far in an eastern land, Alone and silent, mourna

On a blistering bank of aand.

G. H. Lewia in The Tuftonlan.

THE EXPONENT. 15

The new college gate is a regular

Chinese puzzle. $

The Glee Club sang in Livin·~ston May 17, in the Congregational church .

.Jt I

Dickey Cummins is working with w. J. Lightfoot, U. S. Examiner of Surveys.

$

Miss Kinney's vocal students gave a recital in College Hall Friday even­ing, May 9.

$

Lee Williams will put in his sum­mer surveying in the Bitter Root country.

Miss Lois Patterson gave a musi­cale to her friends the evening of Ar­bor Day, at her home.

$

Miss Polly Davidson has returned durin=: the last days of the semester to take some examinations.

Miss Grace Wylie '04 has been elected president of the Y. W. C. A. for next year, as Miss Hartman will not return.

May 2 saw Manhattan alive with students. Some sixty odd turned out and accompanied the Glee Club on its trip there.

Tuesday afternoon, May 27, the stu­dents met and elected Mr. Ham as Editor-in-chief of The Exponent for next year. Mr. Ham wi II select his own staff.

Mr. Harbaugh visited the College last week.

$

Benton '06 and Vogel '06 will repre­sent the Y. M. C. A. at Geneva this summer.

$

Prof. Baker entertained the C. E.'s Thursday evening, May 29.

$

J. A. Davidson '03 is in the employ of the Butte Street Railway Co. for the summer.

$

Professor Baker gave a delightful surveying party in the Domestic Sci­e:ice rooms May 29th.

$

Fred Brown, who has been attend­ing college at Berkeley, California, re­turned to Bozeman May 19th.

$

Miss Ellen Gottschalck entertained the class of 1903 recently. Her party was like all former ones, a great suc­cess.

.J&

Miss Altha Jeffers, of Ennis, made a visit to Bozeman May 27th, to visit her many college friends and to at· tend commencement.

$

Mr. Neil Clark will take charge of the Y. M. C. A. boarding club for next year and Miss Wight will take charge of the ladies' boarding club.

$

Messrs. Ham, Ferris, Ervin, W. A. Flaherty and Robinson will be in the employ of the Wylie Transpo-rtation Co. in the -Park this summer.

16 THE EXPONENT.

The Junior class will give a ban·

quet to the Seniors after the graduat­

ing exercises on the evening of June

4th, at the home of Miss Edna Lewis.

$

The girls taking a short course in

Domestic Science, gave a reception to

all the graduates of the different de·

partments of the college Thursday

afternoon. $

There are twenty-two students who

wi II be graduated from the County

High School this year. We sincerely

hope they wlll all enter college in the

fall as Freshmen. $

The Cliolian officers newly elected

are: President, Miss Edith Brown;

vice president, Gertrude Traphagen;

secretary, Grace Wylie; treas­

urer; Gertrude Moore; ushers, Misses

Kimpton and lcie Moore; chaplain,

Lucile Quaw.

This year's graduates are: W. E.

Collins, H. C. Thompson, and Miss

Mignon Quaw, General Science; Lee

Williams and C. F. Hutton, Electric

Engineering; W. W. Schabarker,

Mechanical Engineering, and F. A.

Sprague, Agriculture. $

One of the few girls of the class

'03 will basely desert her class next

month and---marry. Miss Gotts·

chalck will be missed sadly in colle·

giate circles, but we must congratu­

late E. B. Hoffman on his judgment

and good fortune. Many congratula·

tions. $

Herman Waters wound up the social

festivities of the Junior class by a

very enjoyable party. The first part

of the entertainment was a peanut

hunt, and then followed a guessing

game, the questions to be answered

by songs, in which Miss Penwell dis­

tinguished herself by guessing the 1greatest number, and was thereby

made the proud possessor of a beauti·

ful little china ornament. Music (and

ice cream) completed this interesting

evening.

""~ The glee boys made a concert trip

to Livingston recently but as they

failed to take along their audience

this time, as they did at Manhattan,

the trip was not a financial success.

$

Much attention is to be given to

the production of corn at the Station.

It is generally regarded as .being an

impossibility to ripen corn in Galla­

tin valley except the earliest table

sorts. A fii1e sample of early flint

corn has been brought to the Station

by a Gallatin valley farmer. Under

a co-operative system the Station is

securing corn grown in various parts

of the state at about the same alti­

tude. This grain is gradually becom­

ing acclimated and is likely to produce

surprising results. ~ ~

THE FOLLOWING IS THE PRO·

GRAM FOR COMMENC~

MENT WEEK.

Friday, May 30, opera house-8:30

p. m.-Annual concert of the College

Department of Music. A cantata,

"The Haymakers."

Sunday, June 1, opera house-8:00

p. m.-Baccalaureate service. Ser­

mon by Dr. J. P. McCarthy of the Con·

gregational Church, Helena.

Monday, June 2, College Assembly

Hall-8:00 p. m.-Graduatin3 exer­

cises of Departments of Business and

Domestic Science.

Tuesday, June 3, College Assembly

Hall-2:30 p. m.-Piano recital by

Miss Mary Waters, graduate from the

Department of Instrumental Music.

8:00 p. m.-Graduating exercises of

Preparatory Department.

Wednesday, June 4, College Assem·

bly Hall-8:00 p. m.-:-Graduating ex­

ercises of College. Commencement

address by Hon. J. H. Durston, editor

of the Anaconda Standard.