Highland University Nuncio from Highland, Kansas • 7

THE NUNCIO. 7 of grammars and antiquated specimens of moral philosophy, but the most sensible way to acquaint one's self with the idioms and exceptions, of which some languages chiefly consist, is to use them. College Life. The Senior class, known otherwise as the sunflower class, respectfully requests the respect due them in their present advanced station. It is from the immense weight of responsibility resting upon us that we make this very reasonable request to the lower classes.

In view of the fact that the Seniors have chosen a sunflower for their class emblem and request the attention of the lower classes; the Freshman class, represented by the chinch-bug, and the Sophomore class by the grasshopper, reply that they will give the Seniors the attention ugually given to the sunflower by the chinch-bug and grasshopper in a dry year. STOLEN FUN. Some dogs supposed to be A 1 are in reality only 9. A rope cannot describe a perfectly straight line until it is taut. A southern writer describes Chaucer as the most talented dialect writer of his age.

"Doan yeivt'ink Miss Stanley Wictoria has a berry benign smile? Benign? yes seven by nine. ''All looks bright before me" said the dying subscriber who was sadly in arrears. "Yes" added the editor, "you will soon see it blaze." An Iowa paper acknowledges the receipt of an "egg laid on our table by the Rev. Mr. Smith." Mr.

Smith was a layman however as well as a minister. At Sunday School (teacher sternly): "Now children who led the children of Israel across the Red Sea into the Land of Canaan? Little boy in the back seat: who was it?" Little boy (badly scared) "It wuzzent me, sir, we we just come here from Missoury." President's Reception. On Tuesday evening before the opening of school, quite a number of old students and friends met at the boarding hall and passed a very pleasant evening with the faculty and new students. The music for the evening was furnished by the band. And everybody went away feeling that the opening of the school year was a pleasant affair.

Teaching the languages by conversation in them, is an idea rapidly becoming popular. The practical knowledge of a language cannot be obtained by a perusal.