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atinct, of inborn intellect and of all other inbcrnidities which make of our rostrum a puppet stage and lay it open to a sketch so full of brilliant wit, of stinging sarcasm and of unintelligible thought as is this. Truly, a multitude of sins has this commodity kindly covered with care. Yet, as we are borne onward by the irrepressible wave of evolution, 'we must lay aside crude ideas and advance to noble heights. Let us find some- thing else, like unto it. which can take thc place of this inborn spark, for it must do as does the sun, which rises from its couch among the eastern hills, mounts to its zenith, only to sink at last into oblivion behind the western slopes. And let LtShope that the day is not far distant when the dawning millennium shall east aside the shackles which bind college students to the necessity of using thiS spark. May we soon see the arising of another generation which shall scorn to hide its ignorance behind an earthwork of seeming knowledge and shall cease to drive all the Christian spirit from men by their sudden striking of this chord of the lute of learning. "For there is born in the breast of every man a spark of that intelligence which was created for the gods alone." And we, hearing, are led to doubt by the folly of it. We doubt even their possession of a spark. So, as the shining of the blood-stained cross of Calvary once foretold a new star among years, may we soon witness the dawning of a new era in which Our eloquence shall be free from such thunderbolts of Zeus which drive audiences to pandemonium by their inbred sparks. 163