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 Professor Dunn, late of Willamette University, and an alumnus of the University of Oregon, is a welcome addition to the present faculty.

There is evident a determination on the part of the students to maintain the previous record of the institution in the matter of field sports. The athletic association has done much to establish and stimulate a healthy interest in football, and already material for a strong team is in sight.

The opening of the newly consolidated university at Portland, Or., is equivalent to the founding of a great school whose future is assured. It is a splendid and harmonious blending of three institutions in one, a welding together of educational forces already closely akin, and the result must, of necessity, be beneficial to all concerned. The location of the buildings, the site upon which will in time be erected a magnificent group of halls and dormitories, in addition to those now in existence, is one of unequaled beauty. Far up above the silver sweep of the bright Willamette, where the ships pass up and down bearing the commerce of the nations, it stands. Mount Hood and St. Helens look in at its windows, and not so very many miles away the majestic Columbia rolls its mighty current seaward. There is room, room to turn around in, and to grow, as grow it must. Under the administration of Chancellor Crawford R. Thoburn, there is every reason to believe the university will become the leading educational institution of the North Pacific. The university began its fall term October 4, under very flattering circumstances.

Oregon is holding this autumn an exposition that is attracting crowds of visitors from everywhere. Eastern people, particularly, are finding much to interest them in the comprehensive exhibition of Oregon products. The vast natural resources of the state are well represented, and the manufacturing interests are a surprise to most of the visitors to the fair.

In the early days of Tennessee there was an eminent physician by name Doxy. He never used a common word in conversation. Of him the following anecdote is related: One afternoon, as Dr. Doxy was going out to his home, some twenty-five miles from Nashville, he stopped at a tavern eight miles northeast of the city to spend the night. The tavern was a noted place, known as the Gee Tavern. Mr. Gee was an old Virginian. He had brought from the Old Dominion an old servant named Jacob. This old colored man prided himself on being a Virginian, and that he had waited on the great men of Virginia, among them General Washington. When Dr. Doxy rode up to the tavern he called to Jacob, and said: "Approach, thou noble son of Africa, and detach this quadruped from his hitching- post, and divest him of his bridle, disencumber him of his saddle, and install him, and contribute to him some nutritious aliment that will be amply adequate to sustain him. When the oriental luminary rises above the horizon, I will for your kind hospitality remunerate you with pecuniary compensation." That night the horse escaped from the barn and ran away. Uncle Jacob thought it would not do to talk to such a learned man as Dr. Doxy was in common language, so he studied up a speech he should make to the doctor about his horse getting away He went up to the room and knocked at the door, and with hat in hand and bowing very low, he raised himself to his full height and said: "Marser, dat dar quadruple beast of yourn has actually pounced the old impanelment of de pound, and skater to phisticated de equilibrium ob de forst." — Richmond Religious Herald.

Not Feminine. — "Papa, the paper this morning in speaking of the battle at Cardenas says: 'She made no response to the New York's fire.' Battery isn't feminine, is it?" "No, my boy; you can silence a battery."

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