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Show Harriman's ReformsPause here, gentle reader and cogitate a few moments on the need of reform in the University. It is evident that reform is necessary. Immediate reform. Students have been congregating in the halls of the Park building to discuss the desirability of furnishing the engineering labs with nice fresh chintz curtains and they are even demanding that the president serve tea for worn out professors at the end of the days classes. Such things can't go on. It was conditions like these that brought about the downfall of the famous Roman empire. Too much work, not enough recreation, too big a demand on the students will eventually bring about the decay and downfall of this so highly developed institution of learning. What is to be done?Ah there, gentle reader, stave back that tear, withhold your laments. Our own Dr. Harriman has come to the solution. He has spent years trying to perfect a method by which the youth of our famous institution will be able to withstand the ravishing of four years of constant labor and tension.Students will be divided into groups of about twenty according to tastes in waffles, necties and to whether or not they eat artichokes with their shoes on, and will learn songs such as "Away With Rum/' "Little Bo-Peep," and "Dardanella." They will parade up and down the halls during noon hour and across the campus between classes, each group headed by an English instructor because the English instructors are the only ones silly enough to do this. There is only one thing wrong with the method and that is Dr. Harriman will not be here to enforce it.Page 336 |