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a pistol shot from the hand of a reckless Sophomore not
cut short the career of a Hapsburg in Europe last summer,
it would not now be necessary inform the world that about
the middle of last August, while people were busy
speculating as to whether Belgium would have Germany
licked before England could come to her assistance,
things were shaping themselves in the western hemisphere
for a conflict fully as important to Nebraska as the one
on the other side of the wave Brittania claims to rule.
The "Things" referred to were a band of habitual football
players from a little town in South Dakota who, with
patriotic
"Stonewall" in the Michigan Aggie Game
persistence, deferred the day of graduation for
the purpose of putting South Dakota on the football map.
Taking advantage of the sudden public interest in
European geography and the cheap rates to the Chicago
stock shows, they silently stole to central Wisconsin,
where the little lakes bear musical Indian names and the
tourists bear the summer resorts and get charged extra
for the music in the Indian names, just as they do at the
Dutch Mill and Central Shining Parlor (not advertising),
and began to mobilize for the fall campaign.
We must now turn our
attention to Lincoln, Nebraska, for a moment. Sometime in
the latter part of September, 1914, Mr. Dales of the
University treasury department, who needs no further
introduction to most of our readers, took possession of
$26 formerly belonging to one Victor Halligan of North
Platte. Mr. Dales probably did not realize at
With the Goal in Sight, Ames Game
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