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Ube Exponent VOLUME: VI. rLBRUARV, 1902. NUMBER IV.
The Prophet of Trans01igration.
THINGS are known only by their opposites. As we find in the natural world
that eve·ry force has its neutralizing force, that every negative has its posi ~
tive, and that action and reaction are equal and opposite, so in the course
of human action we find that some great evil has brought about some great good.
The dark . days of seventy-six produced a Washin.gton who was able to ride safley
over the troubled waters of a revolution and plant his standard on the shores of
Uberty. Although Mahomet may have indulged in visionary schemes, yet the Rise
of the Saracens occupies no mean place in the development of nations.
The word- revolution carries with it a feeling of awe and apprehension. To
the imagi.nation of everyone, like the key of the ill-fated Fatima it suggests traces
of blood which can never be blotted out. Bunker Hill and Brandywine are to .the
Americans, · perfect synonyms of blood. Danton and Robespierre need only be
mentioned to the Frenchman and there will come fleeting back to his memory,
ljke the ghost of _ Banquo, the bloody a~ys of ninety-three. And the names of
Chades IX and Mary de Medici bring back with startling vividness that terrible
night of St. Bartholomew. But let us believe with our old English Carlyle that
these were "downrushings" and "downpourings," then we may call the milder
forms of revolutions "reformations." There is a vast difference in the change
brought about by Martin Luther as he plead his cause before the "Diet of Worms"
and the stormy days of the French Revolution. Luther was the reformer of a
corrupt religion, but Buddha, our "Prophet of Transmigration," was the reformer
of a corrupt people. Every great nation boasts of some great man. Greece can
sing of its Homer dealing in the thunder bolts of Jove, Rome has its Virgil telling
in epic song of the piety of Aeneas, and England may point with pride to the tomb
of its Shakespeare; b.ut in our vast Eastern Empire one can find but one really
great man. Born some time before the Christian Era and when warfare was the
c hief occupation of mankind, it is not su ~ prising that the biography of this great
ma.n is only a conglomeration of legends. Great men very seldom leave evidences
for glowing biographies. Many times a cloud passes ~efore certain periods of
their lives, and although it may be teeming with legends and traditions yet it is
void of facts; so with our Prophet of Transmigration. But whatever may be our
guide, whether tradition recognized as such or concealed in the garb of truth, still
let it ,guide us eastward from the shores of "Araby the blest" to the verdured hills
where the Ganges collects its myriads of little rills and rushes on headlong to the
ocean. Her:e let us behold, after the fulfillment of his youthful days, our prophet
4 THE EXPONENT.
going forth to be tempted. Do you look for him at the head of a long cavalcad~ of soldiery accompanied by all the splendor and paraphernal ia of a king seated on a throne of glory? Then look again for he is not there. Do you look for him in the castled walls of his ancestors, taking leave of his loved ones? Then you look i n vain for such was not his lot; look rather at his agonized countenance as he. takes the parting look of his wife Yasodhara in his own princely chamber, an!cl mark well the changes of his face as come fleeting back the vicissitudes of his y outhful days. Must he leave forever all traces of those happy days? Can he no. more watch the brooks of cool and refreshing water as they leap over crags and' precipices and wind the i r tortuous courses to the Ganges?
In this court yard he had broken in contest the lances of his father's best wara r iors and in that pleasure ground yonder he had ridden his snow white steed Kan· taka; but his time for departure had come ; the Devas had sung it and all portents are fulfilled; and with scalding tears he apostrophizes, as i t were, the sleeping,: Yasodhara.
"Comfort thee, if comfort lives In changeless love ; for though thy dreams may be Shadows of things to come and though the gods are shaken in Their seats and though the world Stands nigh perchance, to know some way of help, Yet, whatever falls to thee and me, Be sure I loved and love Yasodhara." This temptation that is about to befall our prince and prophet is goi ng to be
one by no means easy to resist, not alone from the standpoint of intrinsic bitterness; but the environments which formulated his character must also be considered essential factors in the analysis of his temptation. He had been brought up in his father's court, the heir apparent to the throne and subservien~ to none. Hehad no temptations here worth speaking of; not so much as the temptations of a common courtier. He was the pride of his father, the king, and his subjects anxiously anticipated the time when he would ascend the throne, but perhaps the· greatest difficulty in his path was the effect of those numerous legends and pre· dictions which told of his earthly kingdom, its sp1endor and its glory. Perhaps on this account, as many men he had set his ideal too high and felt too impotent to. pass through the various changes of conditions to reach it, but nevertheless he goes forth to be tempted and to receive the light. If the evolving cycles of time could' be turned back in their courses and we "Could take the wings of the morning and' fly to the uttermost parts of the earth," we might behold him as he wends his way slowly over hill and valley, up mountain · passes and through highways, looking ever and anon into the distance where rise his father's stately palaces. As the. distance and the setting sun obscure these from his vision, before him appears a mango grove in which, after taking a needed amount of rest he proceeds to the jungfe of Uruwela where he spends six long years resisting temptations, search·· Ing for the light, and musing, as Edwin Arnold tells us, on:
"The ways of fate, the doctrines of the books, The lessons of the creatures of the brake, The secret of the gloom where all go, The life that lies beyond, like that arch hung From Cloud to cloud across the sky." Here he is then, not the princely Siddartha who had gone from his father's
court six years since-only the living skeleton of him-but the Buddha of the Hindooa. ·He had found the light at last and oh! what glory came with it. He. perhaps in h~a vision did not aee· a ladder with angels descending thereon, perha11t
THE EXPONENT. 5
Brahma did not appear to him at all but after Mar~ and the tehmhp~ing onebs ~ad left him the pent up impulses of six long years thrilled throug 1s very . e1~g.
• 1 d"d not confine the glory; but nature took up the song and with its No, has sou 1 • • •
I r "f"ied the savior of the world. The glorious sun had painted a cr1m· harmony g o 1 • • • cf son flush of the eastern skies; black night, hke a tattered robe with a got en
. h d lifted slowly its covering from the earth; and over the snow-capped fringe, a . . summits of the Himalayas the sun in its splendor and its beauty poured forth a
bright and glorious day. Buddha arose from under the sacred Bo Tree to begin his work which should
Teform mankind; he wandered from village to village teaching a new doctrine, and
by his paradoxical truths a_stoni~hing the ~~asantry. C?nve~s turn .to him, won b~ the universal charity of his philosophy. That bellowing hon I wall not destroy says the prophet of metempsychosis, "for who knows but that I kill the body con· taining a soul once dwelling in a human body. I will not cut down that tree, for within its shaggy bark it may conceal the soul of one of my fellow beings."
So taught the Buddha of the Hindoos, long before Pythagoras taught It in Greece, and long before Ennius sang it in poetic song for the benefit of the coming
l.atin bards. Although he had denounced all worldly honor and social ties, yet his human
proclivities were still to a certain degree extant. This is evident from his slow but sure route homeward where he could again meet with his loved ones and tell them of the light. Quick beat the heart of the longing Yasodhara when she heard of the approach of her lord and master; the king hitherto weak and feeble seemed imbued with a new strength when the wandering 1:raders tell of the coming of his son. Yasodhara drives out in her chariot to meet him with joy; but the king, wrathful at hearing of his approach as a mendicant, mounts his horse and hastens to reprimand him,-but what a change in intention when he beholds that kind, tender, and pitying face; he falls down in humble worship. Then courtiers, kins· men, subjects, all fall down and worship him; teaching them, he tells of Nirvana where all who rightly do their duty to themselves and their fellow-men will be unit· ed to the creator Brahma, how the light chasing away the dark clouds will at last pass into their souf. All night long stood the prophet in the midst of this multitude teaching, and when the morning dawned, in the soul of the great king dawned the new found light of his god-like son, and Yasodhara worshipped him, the blessed one. But his native city could not hold him ever; he was to regenerate the world, and so we find him year after year, first on the summit of some barren mountain fasting and musing, and then descending into some fertile valley-and again teaching the people the ways of life. But inevitable as the course of the suns, at last comes the sad and uncertain hour when Buddha too must pass to his Nirvana, not clothed in purple and lying on a bed of state, not martyr-like-loved by some and hated by others-but peacefully as he had lived he turned his beaming face ·toward "Those mysterious realms where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death" and behold, we hope, 11What eye hath not seen nor ear heard?"
Let China tell of the reforms of Confucius, let Persia boast of its Zoroaster, let the Mohammedan turn with proud eye toward his Mecca, but after we have paid 1:>Ur respects to the Nazarene carpenter, then let us turn our face toward the land of the rising sun, where taught that great reformer; although he may have erred in much he was the greatest of his race; Buddha, "The Prophet of Transmigration."
F.W.H.
6 THE EXPONENT.
The Professor.
M V first meeting with the Professor, was under adverse circumstances,-for:
him. I was walking along a deserted street in the residence portion of the
city, one election night at about half-past twelve o'clock. Passing the corner
a drunken voice accosted me "Say, stranger, can you tell me where Professor Morris
lives?" I looked around, and beheld an elderly, grey-haired man, sitting sadly
.upon the edge of the walk, and evidently in the last stages of intoxication. I
assisted Prof. Morris, as he called himself, to h'is dwelling.
Arrived there, nothing would do but I must come in, and see his collections.
At last, to please the old man, I went i n and looked over the cases filled with fos
sils. I soon discovered that any admiration I felt must be restrained, for if I said
the least thing in praise of any fossil, the Professor at once insisted upon my ac·
cepting it as a gift. At last I managed to get away, loaded like a dray with rocks
and fossils, which the generous Professor insisted upon my taking with me. T he
day after he came around, sober, to get his specimens again.
The next thing I saw of the Professor he was starting with a two-horse team
to the mountains, to do some prospecting work for various eminent citizens. Pass·
i ng through a small mining camp, a day or two afterward, I saw the Professor,
hilariously drunk, upon the street. I afterward found out that when anyone sent
him out to prospect they sent a man with him to steer him past all the saloons and
get him into the hills where, out of reach of whiskey, he does good work.
The old Professor took a liking to me and one day told me a little of his life.
His 'father had intended him for a doctor, but the sight of an operation disgusted
h im; so he took to the study of minerals, and came west in the early days. He
showed me a newspaper published in Helena, containing the first news of the
Custer massacre. One of the Geological Survey men told me that the Professor's practica l
knowledge of minerals was enormous. If he would only let whiskey alone, he
might do something. The last I heard of the Professor, he had been elected to a
county office, and had been drunk two-thirds of the time since.
W .S.B.
7 THE EXPONENT. , : • '
The United Brigades of .A.01erica.
IT has been said that" The greatest of all things is to be a man. Glory cannot glorify.
it, wealth cannot enlarge it, station cannot dignify it, empires cannot increase it.
For whoso is a man carries within his own breast the essential principle
of all greatness, and when wealth is gone, and glory faded, and empire wrecked
the man stands amid the ruins, great as before. For the man of ideals there is no
failure; the only failure possible for him would be infidelity to himself and of
such failure he is incapable." Let us consider one of the foremost organizations
designed to produce this effect upon its members.
The United Brigades of America, in brief, is a national organization, essentially
for the purpose of raising the moral and spiritual standard of the young men of our
country, through the agency of a thorough military training. It owes its origin
largely to a similar order established in Scotland some years ago. At the time of
Its first appearance in America, its national character had not been developed. It
was · not until about ten years ago that the parallel and in some cases diverging or·
gans scattered in various parts of the country began to assume some plan of stable
government. As it is partly a military and partly a civil organization, so the mode
of government which was found to be most feasible is partly military and partly
civil. The unit is the company, organized in connection with some religious or edu·
cational institution, for the purpose of military training, and consequently modeled
after the corresponding organ of our regular army. It has in addition, for its
civil government, a constitution and a charter, the latter of which entitles it to
representatio_n in the "National Assembly" of which I shall speak presently. Fol·
lowing out the plan of the organization of the army, twelve companies form a regi·
ment which in turn for mobile purposes has been divided into three equal battalions.; ·
three regiments form a brigade, all the brigades of one state forming a division.
In the latter it has diverged from the army in letting its divisions coincide with
the states rather than dividing the country up into departments regardless of po·
litical divisions. The national organization, made up of these various divisions, has a constitu
tion which provides for the calling annually of a representative body known as
the "National Assembly," composed of two delegates from each company. This
body makes general rules and regulations for and considers matters pertaining to
the welfare of the national organization, appoints general officers, and elects
annually a commander-in-chief and staff. It may be of interest that for the past
year General Joseph Wheeler, U. $. A., retired, has held the position of command·
er-in-chief. Throughout the United States there are scattered some two thousand compan
ies, which at the outbreak of our late war with Spain had a total membership of
sixty thousand, about thirty thousand of which were liable to military duty, form·
ing in themselves a little army as large as the U. S. Army at the time.
R.B.
8 THE EXPONENT.
Maud Muller On Ice.
M AUD Muller, on a winter's day, Picked up her skates and started away.
The air was clear and crisp and cool
And Maudie-what cared she for school?
So she quickly sped o'er the frozen snow
G.aily singing "The Hamburg Show."
She reached the pond, and in a trice Buckled her skates and was on the ice.
Then, from her automobile, she drew A box of fu·dge and some peanuts, too.
And away she sped o'er the surface there
With an ease that's not found everywhere.
The judge came by on a little stroll And spied her performing the Dutch roll.
So he stopped on the brink, with a smile on
his face And thought he'd ne'er seen such a picture of
grace.
But as he gazed on the scene intent, Off came her skate, and down she went.
The gallant judge awoke from his trance
And said to himself "Now here's my chance.
I'll help her to rise, and adjust her skate, And then,-we'll trust the rest to fate."
But alas for the judge; he little knew He'd reckoned without his overshoe.
And the moment he touched the ice, ker· whack!
The judge lay prostrate on his back.
The maid rose up with sprightly mien
And gazed, in her turn, on the scene;
THE EXPONENT.
Then coyly approaching the prostrate judge
She sweetly asked, "Won't you have some
fudge?"
He painfully 'rose, with wrath in his eye
And hastily bid Miss Maud good bye.
And he limped away with a troubled mind,
Declaring that fate was most unkind.
Maud Muller laughed and said, "Dear Mer·
That's the funniest sight I ever did see."
The Judye looked down when he reached the
hill,
And saw Maud Muller skating still;
While the strains of "Salome" reached his
ear, In a feminine whistle, sweet and clear.
And the saddest words, if up-to date,
Thought he, are these: "Don't trust to fate."
9
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I T has long been a source of wonder to us, why a monthly publication should contain local "news." When the EXPONENT first came under our notice,that was cne of the foremost points to provoke mental comment,-that a journal
appearing but once a month should make any pretensions to bear news of sufficient freshness to merit being called such. When, four months ago, we were called to take up the work of editing the EXPONENT, we let the Local department remain as it had been,-out of deference, perhaps, to the methods of our predecessors in the harness,-relegating it, however, to a space considerably smaller than had hitherto been allotted it. After the publication of our first issue this year, the November issue, there was considerable comment on the paucity of local mat· ter; and even some upon the absence of such personal stabs and " gags" for which some high-school papers are famous, but which have no call upon the dignity with which a college paper is supposed to conduct itself. Believing it high time to end. this farce of publishing, in a monthly paper, matter purporting to be news but in reality a column of items with whiskers on them due to old age, we have done away entirely with the Local department; making, to compensate in a measure for the same, the above changes in the staff. In the column headed "Current Events" we shall endeavor to summarize in brief, readable form the leading events for the month of the entire World, together with their respective dates; a1though this may seem at first glance inconsistent with our previous statement regarding bewhiskered news, if one remembers that all three of our city weeklies publish columns of college news, and that one or more of these weeklies is probably read by each one of our students-often merely for the college news-the inconsistency will be seen
THE EXPONENT. 11
to be rather in putting such matter Into a monthly. If the students desire a paper
containing local college news, they may well take a hint from the students of
University Schoot, of Cleveland, Ohio, and support two publications, a weekly for·
local news and a monthly for literary and other material; this school has its
"Record," a monthly magazine of stories and a very creditable one moreover; and·
its "News/' a weekly that does not bely its name.
we shall devote hereafter more space to the literary department than has
heretofore been given.
\i \~ \ti
The winning of Honor is but the revealing of a man's uirtue and worth without
duadvantage.- Baeon. u; ~ \#
WHEAT at $23.00 per bushel, potatoes at $10.00 per the same amount, and
cabbage and onion seed at $6 and $8 per ounce respectively! These figures
on the above commodities, in our fertile Gallatin Valley, sound like a fairy
tale. Yet itwas recently our esteemed privilege to look over a letter written in March1
1865, by Mr. J. J. Davidson-the grandfather of one of our young lady students of
that name-from Gallatin Valley to relatives in Wisconsin. And in that letter was
told this same "fairy tale," then a stern reality; and it gave us a glimpse at the
trials and hardships undergone by the pioneers who came to Gallatin in those old
log cabin and stage coach days, braving Indian dangers where nothing fiercer than
a wandering coyote may now be seen. Written by the flickering light of an open
fire, too was this same letter; and that where now we, by a simple twist of the
hand, let lcose floods of light from a cluster of electric lamps on the ceiling. In a
generation and a half these changes have come about; and the occasional perusat
of one of these history-bearing letters is well for us, who now attend the finest col·
Jege in the state where once the aforementioned hardships existed. It serves to
bring u~ face to face with the birth of our state in a manner that cannot but be bene·
flcial
A T this time of the year, .when there are no out-door athletics, there is an es·
pecial need of one taking some kind of systematic indoor training. Every
student should avail himself of the special opportunities offered by the
gymnasium and drill hall . Don't go over and stand around, but take off your coat
and "go into it." There is plenty of room to use some of the apparatus. But
don't begin too vigorously. Take some of the lighter exercises and gradually work
up. Above all things take some work each day, but not enough to wear you out . . ,
Two sets of new boxing gloves have recently arrived and give promise to be
much in use. There is always room to use them here while the same cannot be
said of other places about the college. Also a good punching bag is proving very
attractive.
The gymnasium is open from early morning until late in the evening.
12 THE EXPONENT.
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L~~'::!!!x!!'!:;:::!::J Summary
of the Year's Results.
The results of the past year at the Experiment Station Farm are of great interest to farmers. The Station being es· tablished and maintained for the sole purpose of study of agriculture, crops can be measured and cost kept track of more c losely than is possible with the busy farmer. In mak·
i ng experiments with grain, a separate trip can be made to the field for each bundle of grain, if needed, and this care is possible all through the work of the farm. In view of this fact, some of the results of the last year's work may be of interest.
The farm camprises 160 acres, of which, during the summer of 1901, one hun· dred nineteen and eighty-one one hundredths acres were used in the production of farm crops. The total yield was as follows:
A VER.A OE YIELDS OF C~OPS. GRAIN.
Ba.r ley, 2 7.15 acres , yield 1482 bu., average per 54.61 bu.
Wheat, 8.63 acres ; y ield 380 bu. 24 lbs; average per acre 44.08 bu.
Oats, 25.71 acres; yield 1 ,911 bu .; average per acre 74.32 bu.
Mummy peas, 2.04 a cres; yield 107 bu .; aTerage per acre 92.9 bu.
HAY. Clover, 43.61 acres; yield 146.3 tons; 3.36
tons per acre. Grain hay, 6.36 acr es; yield 24.24 tons; 3.8
tons per acre . STRAW.
Barley, aver"ee yield of straw per acre, 3,335 lbs. Oats, " 2,795 lbs. Wheat, " 3,315lbs. Rye, " 2,822lbs.
POTATOE.S AND ROOT.5. Potatoes, 1.31 acres; yield 342 bu. of 45 lbs.;
average per acre 261.64 bu. Sugar beets, 1 acre; yield 10 tons 120 lbs.; av
erage per acre, 10 tons 1 20 lbs. Mangels, .11 acre; y ield 3 tons 900 lbs; aver
-age per acre 31tons 162 lbs. Rutabagas, .21 acre; yield 12 tons 908 lbs.;
average per acre 24 tons 1530 lbs.
TOTALS.
OltAINS. Barley ............ ......... ............. 1,432 bu. 36 lbs. Wheat .. .......... . ... ..... .. ......... 380 bu. 24 lbs. Oats .... ..... ... . . .... ... ........ ... ..... 1 ,911 bu. Peas ....... ..... .... ... ...... ............ . 185 b u. 3 0 lbs. Spring rye ... ..... ..... ... ... ........... 55 bu. 3 5 lbs.
Total ............... .. .......... ... 4,0 13 bu .
HAY. Clover ........ ............... ...... .. ...... ........... 146.8 t ons. Pea h ay ..... ............. ........... .............. 24.24 t ons.
T otal. ....... ................... ...... ........ 171.04 tons. STRAW.
Oat str aw ................................ ............ 35.9 tons Wheat str aw ...................... ................ . 14.3 t ons Barley str aw ........ .... .... ... .................. 45.9 tons. Pea straw ... ... ......... ............... ............. 4 .53 tons. Rye straw ...... .. .................................. .. 1 .4 1 tons.
Total ............. ................... ......... 102.04 tons. POTATOES.
T otal.. .... ........ ......... ..... .. , .. ..... .. ... 342 bu. 4 5 lbs ROOTS.
Sugar beets ........................................ 20,120 lbs. !l'.fangels ......................... ......... .. ,. .. ...... 6,900 lbs. Rutabagas ............................... .. ....... . 5,430 lbs. Carrots .......... .................................... 12,170 lbs.
The whole area was irrigated, the barley was watered once, wheat once, peas once, oats twice, and clover twice. Th is is furnished for the purpose of giving ou r r eaders some idea of the productiveness of a Montana farm under irrigation. I n doing so, however, we do not advocate such a wide diversification for the average f armer, as in many instances it would not be practical. The cost of producing th is crop cannot be easily estimated, being a test crop, a large amount of additi onal labor was required in measuring areas, the water used in each case and an endless amount of separate weighing at threshing machine.
THE EXPON E NT. 13
VALUE OF ·CROP.
VALUE OF CROP.
Barley, 1,432 bu. 36 lbs. at 65c per cwt .. .................. ... ............ ........... ... $ 604.96
Wheat, Fife, 380 bu. 24 lbs. at 65c per bu............................................ 247.26
Oats, 1,911 bu. at 20c per cwt......... ... 535.03
P ea.a, 185 bu. 30 lbe. at $1 per bu...... 185.50
Sp1ing rye, 55 bu. 35 lbs. at$1 percwt. 31.15
Clover bay, 146.8 tons at $5 per ton. 734.00
Pea hay, 24.24 tons, at $3.50 per ton
Straw, 102 tons at $1 per ton ........... .
Potatoes, 342 bu. 45 lbs, at $1 per cwt. Sugar beets, 10 tons 1,200 lbs at
$4.25 per ton ................................ .
Rutabagas, carrots, mangels, 12 ton11 500 lbs at $3.50 per ton .............. .
84.84 102.00 205.65
42.75
4-2.87
Total. .. ........................................ $2,516.06
The valuation placed on the above products is at current prices which a re be
i ng paid for the same on the Bozeman market. These products w i ll represent a
still greater cash value after having been fed to live stock and mar keted i n t he
form of meat. Proof of this assertion is based on the fact that duri ng the w inter
of 1899-'00, while clover was being sold in the stack, at $5.00 per ton, $7.93 was
secured by the Station from feeding clover to sheep; 11.2 pounds of clover were
required to maintain a lamb and produce a poun·d of gain. One ton of c lover p ro
duced 169.5 pounds of mutton, which, at $4.68 per cwt. gave the above result.
All of the above facts and figures were obtained through the kindness of Prof.
R. s. Shaw of the College.
EXCHANGE • .... We have probably a larger
Com• number of . Exchanges this
ment.month than ever before. As a
rule they are an excellent dis
play of play of school talent. Many of
them print photos of their foot-ball
teams In the January numbers, these
are all very good, but for grouping and
general effect as a team that pictured
by the NORMAL ADVANCE is the best.
We would suggest that the exchange
editor who wrote the following would
read his exchanges more carefully
and use better English if possible:
"The new cover design of the Experl·
ment, the college paper of the Mon·
tana Agricultural College, Is a neat
publication."
w .. The High School ARGUS is probably.
the beat High School exchange we have. ....
The HUISACHE from San Antonio,
Texas, is a new paper with a new nam e
but its contents are instructive and
original.
* * COLLEGE CHIPS and the TABU L A
are also among our new friends. The
Tabula is an especially good exchange.
Ours el' a as lthers
See Us.
.. \Ai
"The Fight on Bat
tle Mountai n " in t he
EXPONENT is very
good.-H. S. CRITIC.
w w
"The Evolution of the Dandy" in the
EXPONENT is original, to say the
least.-The CRITIC.
• • The stories in the EXPONENT of
the Montana State Agricultural College
are especially interesting.-H. s. AR· GUS.
14 THE EXPONENT.
"Say, Weary, how do you feel?"
Wise and Other•
wise Weary-"I feel like a meal ticket with all
the meals punched out."
u; u;
Blind man-"How are you getting along?"
Cripple-"Oh, I can't kick: and how
are you?" Blind man-"Out of sight."
u; u;
Teacher (German)-"What is the rule about feminines in the singular?"
Student-"They get married." Teacher in Physiology-"What are
the last teeth that come?" Small Boy-"False teeth, mum.''
Y. M. C • .A. and Y. W1 C • .l. ITEMS. A fine course of attractions sent out by the Slayton Lyceum Bureau, of
Chicago, has been secured to appear in Bozeman under the a·uspices of the Y. M. C. A. The first attraction of the course, the Slayton Jubilee Singers, appeared January 21st, and were welcomed by a large and appreciative audi· ence. The second in the course will be a lecture by Col. L. F. Copeland, on March 18th. The third a lecture by Hon. Geo. R. Wendling, on April 5th. The Singers have already proved their ability; and the lecturers come to us highly recommended both by the press and by private testimonials.
u; The Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. held a joint devotional meeting in the:
Assembly Hall, January 23d. The meeting was led by a member from each' society. Special music was furnished by the College Band, a quartette from the Glee Club, and a vocal solo by Miss Kimpton. The attendance was good, there being about seventy-five present.
di In spite of already heavy courses many students are taking up the work in
Bible Study. Under the careful teaching of. Prof Tallman and Mr. H. Reese, the classes are getting much benefit from the diligent searching of the Scriptures.
u; The election of officers of the Y. M. C. A. for the coming year was held January
16th, in the Association room. The following were elected: Herbert J. Reese, President; Jacob Vogel, Vice-President; Elbert F. Allen, Secretary; Garfield Mor· ri s, Treasurer. The new officers took their seats with the beginning_ of the new Semester.
CURRENT EVENTS. Jan. 15.-Henry C. P ayne took the oath of
·office and assumed charge of the Postoffice department.
Jan. 16.-John D. Rockefeller made a conditional gift of $200,000 to Vassar College.
A. B. Cummins inaugurated governor of Iowa, &s successor to Leslie M. Shaw, new secretary of treasury.
Jan. 22.-Memorial services were held at Frogmore, Windsor, at Queen Victoria?s tomb.
Jan. 23.-Senator Mason offered a resolution in favor of .Admiral Schley.
Jan. 24.-Attempted assassination of King George, of GreecE,i, by a lunatic.
Jan. 24.-A treaty ceding the Danish West Indies to the United States is signed by Secre· taries Ha.y, of United States, &nd Brun, of Denmark.
Jan. 29.-Trustees of Carnegie Institution met in Washington. Mr. Carnegie presented the deed for gi.ft of $10,000,000; and officers are elected.
Feb. 1.-Ex~Gov. Shaw, of Iowa, took oath of office as secretary of treasury.
Feb. 2.-J. S. Zelaya inaugurated to his third term of presidency.
Feb. 12.-President Roosevelt visited the Charleston exhibition.
Feb. 18-20.-American Newspaper Publisher's Association held a convention at New York.
Feb. 22.-Prince Henry arrived in New York on the Kronprintz Wilh£lm.
Feb. 22.-National Spanish War Veteran& held convention at Springfieid Mas».
