Ven ay come down to dis har school,
From leedle Podunk town,
Ay reyister as Freshman green
Ay feet like leedle clown.

Ay ban some green,
Yust like hay,
And ven bad boy sell campus seat,
I tink dat I skoll stay.

Ay yoin de class, da beeg law class,
And funny do it seem,
Ay see Dog Eager short and fat,
And yoin da football team.

On de team I play as half,
De team day call da scrub
And every day da Varsity,
My nose dey used to rub.

My nose was skin
Till me got mad lak Bull
An fen I say I quit dis team
Dey say day play me full.

My knees vas brok
My shins was sore,
By horse day dall da "Charl."
I qvit dat game, I play no more'

A leedle girl she tak my eye.
Ay rush and rush and rush.
Ay sit on bench from morn till night.
And slush and slush and slush.

Von day ay yoin fraternity,
Day tal me I was fool.
But now ay tank das fin good ting.
And a tank ay stay in school.

Von day ay get von little slip,
It make me feel like loon.
It was from Carl dat Engberg man.
And say come round qvite soon.

Ay go around un see dat Carl
He make me feel lak mule.
Ay tank hey ban von Svede man too.
But ay can not stay in school.
"OLA."

The Sluffer

   The sluffer is an ever-present though by no means essential feature of all our colleges and universities. He occupies what is, according to the best authorities, a constantly growing sphere. His activities are usually limited, especially those even remotely connected with studies.
   It is a well-founded supposition that the term sluffer is an offspring of the verb "slough" which means "to cast off." Now casting off is one of the favorite pursuits of the sluffer. He casts off whenever opportunity presents itself, and sometimes when opportunity isn't even in the vicinity. Able sluffers have been known to cast off as many as a dozen difficult subjects within a single semester.
   In most of our upper establishments of learning there are classes especially set aside for sluffers and these constitute what are commonly known and referred to as "sluffers' courses." These courses vary with the schools, but there is evident almost everywhere a predilection among sluffers for the schools of law. In fact, the trail of the sluffer usually leads from the school of medicine to the school of engineering, thence to the college of arts and sciences, and finally brings up in the law school.
   The sluffer always possesses an intimate acquaintance with two things--the delinquency committee and the ragged edge. He meets the delinquency committee shortly after his arrival at college and is soon after introduced to the ragged edge. Sometimes the delinquency committee is so impressed with his accomplishments that it decorates him with the exclusive order of the tin can. Occasionally a sluffer manages to bull through or is summarily

presented with the full quota of required subjects and is permitted to graduate by a kindly disposed faculty.
   But the average sluffer does not graduate. After surviving the mad hustle of college life a year or so he pays a farewell visit to his old associate, the delinquency committee, then hies himself back to pa-pah's store; the Daily Nebraskan carries a personal to the effect that "Percy Speeder has been forced to withdraw from the University on account of ill health," and the "hop" managers and bar boys of the old rah-rah hamlet know a familiar and welcome figure no more.
E. H. T.