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THE CHEMWA AMERICAN
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Published WeeKly at tKe United
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The boys and girls of Chemawa are
really fortunate in having the oppor
tunity of hearing good, practical lectures.
This is an advantage they have over
many students elsewhere. Mr. Swartz's
lecture Monday evening was one of
practical value and interest.
Great progress is being made in piping
the grounds at Chemawa so that they
may be kept well watered during the
summer months. A prodigious amount
of work will be required in the under
taking, but the improvement will be of
a permanent character and of such a
nature that it will be a source of
pleasure and pride to all. Those who
have been detailed for the work have
certainly made things move, and Supt.
Chalcraft is much pleased with the
progress, made and the determination
and will of the boys. He reports that
it keeps him pretty busy laying out
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worK ior tnem.
"IF". AND "AND." ,
We are eternally saying "if, "also
"ana," to whatever may be a trifle un
reasonable or obscure. That there is
little logic in such diction is amply
illustrated by the following from the
Westminster Gazette:
The Vienna men of law once dis
tinguished themselves in a unique man
ner. A Wachau peasant had been
caught in the criminal act of throwing
stones at rabbits. He had not hit them,
and the rabbits had decamped without
0 much as suspecting the attack, but
the peasant was hauled before the high
courts of justice. His defense was that
the rabbits had been close to his garden
and that he had only tried to frighten
the greedy rodents off his cabbages. All
the same, he was condemned to three
days' imprisonment. The peasant ap
pealed against the sentence, but in vain.
If a rabbit had been killed, said the
authorities, the peasant would certainly
have stolen it, and stealing a rabbit was
an unlawful action. And thus the man
from Wachau went to prison for three
days, and the wise judges of Vienna
bounded into fame for their method of
applying the "if and '"and" theory.
Last night their was a game of basket
ball between players from the Albina
Athletic Club and Chemawa on our own
floor. The game was hotly contested
the score resulting 13 to 11 in favor of
Albina. By a chance Chemawa acci
dently made a basket for Albina. Oth
erwise it would have been a ae score.
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