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UNIVERSITY LIFE,

The Poor Student in London.

COLOUR OF THE SEA.

Causes and Their Effects.

What sort of person (says Mr. Although sea water le ap H.A. Splors in the Sociological parently colourlose, when small Review in the' poor student" in quantities are viowod, it has been London University? In Paris. I definitoly established that its ros] Take it, the typical poor student colour, like that of air, is bluo. is the promising youth who comes Noar land the son is usually up from the provinces on angreenish or loadon, for the rich oxiguous allowance from amarino blue is chiolly associated thrifty-peasant lor all-but-with very doop water. In one poasant) parent. Arrived in the particular "arm of the soa" the capital, ho herds with others in tint is commonly brown, yol- poor hotals in the Latin Quarter, lowish, raddish, or chocolate; in and since it is a sogregated fact, any other colour but the one quartor in the city, he meets his that we love, writes a contributor follows constantly in the cheap to a Home journal. restaurants, cafe life, in the

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Variations in the colour of the

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"Growler" That Reappeared.

the Tomplo into the Strand, ar Some days ago, as I came from exolamation from my companion made me look down towards

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and there was a full in the traffic. "What on earth-?" said he, "By all the gode, a hanson!' said I.

And that was the blunt truih It came blundering towards us and with it came something that seemed as remote as the Middle Agon. Tho fantastic shape of the cab, the aged face of the

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stroots and the Luxembourg so are caused by the vast amount cabman, the ridiculous whip, th Gardens: ho gota cominunity life, of fino dust that is always floating slow-moving horse all he forms connections (as our in it. The minuto particles, which things hold us spoochloss. young. mon üd at Oxford are brought down to the son by thore туда a pathetic appeal and Cambridge), ha gets the rivers, are too light to settlo Thero was a taxicab rank quite into touch with the worlds amidst the continual movement near us, to which we glanced of politics, journalism, lottors, art of the waves, and so remain in shamefacedly. Hail wo s and if he is a young mais of talent suspension. According to

the moned a taxicab that horse and, ho makes good his footing in one composition of the dust, different ite old driver would hava haunted, or other of these spheres. In any rays of the sun's light are rofloct-us. Wo should have been traitors COSO he has two or three ed, thus giving rise to a variety "Wo can't miss this eience," stimulating yours with incalcul of colour offacts, Round our said J.' ablo effect on his after life.

xhores the tiny apecka are often The typical poor student in mado of sand, giving a yellow drivor, who if he experienced any! Ho held up his hand to the, London is a different sort of tint, which combines with the surprise concealed it. We got in. person altogether. Thoro is no natural blue of the water to pro- thrifty peasant

We are much of an ago, my parent, and duce the familiar greenish shade. friend and I. and I am sure he subsidy, however

small. In the Mediterranean Sea, famous saw "what I saw a street of The young man of intellectual for its rich colouring, the suspend twenty-old years ago, hansoms promiso, in all but comparatively od dust-specks are very abundant and four-whoalore, with their offluent classes, is expected by and variogated, and bring about lamps glowing. I am sure be heard the traditions of Anglo-Saxon the most brilliant and delightful the chime of hoofs long silent. life to maintain himself, from the result. earliest possible moment. So the

Boarding the bansom was in London equivalout of the Paris PHOSPHORESCENT FISHI. itself an experience. Ons has student just described is to be found, I fancy, in the youth who the Noctiluca occurs in swarms. There we

A very small organista called forgotten what it felt like. We sat down and the doors shut upon. comes to London to earn his round the British coasts, and is over the top of glass that lo

Bat, gazing out living in some small job, a city chiefly responsible for the pheno- down in case of rain, and how elerkship, or even more typical-menon of phosphorescence in sea one had to communicate with the ly a minor post gained through water. Some types of stinging driver through a tiny trap-door examination in a Government jollyfish round our shores also office, and who becomes an oven- omit a fooble light, and phos- ing student at the University, phorescent matter is prowout in irreverent girls tittered as we say at Birkbock College or the decaying fish, which gives beauti-passod them. Men pointed us School of Economics, Thoro is fal nuances to the water, often out to each other. But we waru no University Quarter in London, making it appear at night like both still rather overawod. Taxi- and generally speaking it is not liquid silver.

cabs buzzed by, but we did not oven possible for a poor

Seawoods, floating just bolow envy them their apood. We were man to live within the city it-tho surface, give very realising how plousant it was to Holf, except in a slum. So be pronounced brown huc to shal- 50 at this paco once more-jog. lives scattered in dull lodgings low water, but flenting colour ging along with time to look at in remolo suburbs- Shepherd's offects are chiefly caused by re- buildings and faces, and some- Bush, or Tufnell Park, or Catford floction of the colour of the sky, thing of gontlemanly leisure and -and gots tho very minimum of Turner has faithfully copied dignity stealing over ono. association and of that stimula-some of thoso marvellous effects The jinglo of the harness WES tion of city life which a Uni-of light on the English seas. Not very pleasant after the scorting versity Town ought to offer to a few peoplo, however, considor and rasping of motor engines. Its students.

that his colours are oxaggerated; We began to imagine what fan it Appropriately onough, an old but they should go to the Bristol would be to engage this man motto of Birkbook Collogo, now Channel, where Turnor painted every now and then.

Wo wore the officially recognised college many of his pictures, if they would both sorry when we reached the for Evening University Education realise. the banuty wrought by address wo had given. We got in London, in "magnù civitas, the sunlight and the clouds on out, and while tumbled in ny tragna Halitudo." If there is anythe water.

pocket I looked at the driver. 1

in the roof.

class of its student population to At sunset the whole sea can thought his eyes had a queer ez- which London owes a duty, and often be seen changing to a glow-pression. for whom something ought to being crimson or a glittering gold. attempted in any University ro- organisation. It is surely this.

NEW SCHOOLING.

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The Way of the Future.

On the Continent educational reformers are advocating a now typo of school, the so-called "new school."

"Pull down the schools !"-ona of the leaders of the modern ro- volutionary school has said-"pull down the schools, and substitute for them growing-places for the young!" In this slogan we havo

We watched him drive away into the twilight. One hud uu coric teeling that he was driving) back into a time so easily forgot ape-whether of the Family, the top now; that he was not quite Church, or the State.

human; that the whole adventuro The objections to the educa-was a strange dream, tionni ideals of the now school Anyhow, there we were on the aro obvious, and Dr. Schepoloru pavement, and ho had disappear. in Tilskvern feels constrained told. It is difficult not to betiovo nek whothor these ideals did that he was the phantom driver really" originato in a desire to of a phantom cab-Cor, in Daily give children tho bost possible Express: education. This doubt is re- inforced by the fact that the ideals were first realised in post- war Germany, The main ob- jaction to the new school, in Dr. Schepelern's opinion, is that it rejects the only task the school alone can perform, viz., the task

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Dr. Sehopelorn thinks, nover:id uce and has micro seats, and be told how badly this disenyo me good. Then tho fevor left my Malaria sufforere do not need to the commencement the pills did of the Family, the Church, or the havo something to contribute to It is possible to soat as many asso debilitated after malarial-at-boon shattered gave no no THOID norvos which had State. It should be the task of the the school of the future, and that school to help the child to realise meanwhile it is doing useful 24 passengers in this way. Some tasks that they feat robust health trouble, my general health im- Its objects, net to co-operato in work in investigating tho space has been saved by a ro- and strength will never be theirs proved enormously. I stili tako realising the objects of the grown-psychology of the child.-Ex. arrangement of the double doors, again. It is for the information Dr. Williams' Pink Pills when- In the new cars there will be only and encouragement of those that over I am a little run down and two pairs of doors, but they will Mr. J. E. Wyesinghe, book-keeper have found them an ideal tonio." be of somewhat groster width, so to Mosers. Walker Bros., Colom-It is by purifying, enriching se to allow of the passage of a bo, allows the following stato- and increasing the blood stream fullar volume of people. Botter mont of his own personal exper; pale Poople build up the health,

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SCHO AND SILENCE

In eddying course when leaves began to fly,

And Autumn in her lap the store to strew, As 'mid wild scenes I chanced the muse to woo, Through glens untrod, and woods that frown'd on high

. Two sleeping nymphs with wonder mute I spyl

hue

"And, lo, she's gone! In robe of dark-green

Twas Echo from her suster Silence flew, For quick the hunter's hom resounded to the sky!

In shade affrighted Silence melts away.

Not so her sister.---Hark! for onward still,

With far-heard step, she takes her listening way,

› Bounding from rock to rock, and hill to hill.

Ali, mark the merry maid in mackful play,

With thousandsonic tomcsile laughing forent filli

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