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AD 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. With the Goal in Sight, Ames Game
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