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given. Some one toasted to "The White Man's Burden"; as the fellow who delivered it is a Socialist, and a prominent lecturer in the Socialist Temple in San Francisco, he naturally interpreted the theme in such a way as to make neophytes for his religion. One toasted the Man with the Hoe, and told us that it was the duy of the college graduate to raise the Man with the Hoe from his condition of ignorance and hopelessness and to enable his descendents to enjoy the privileges of learning.

An old member recently returned from Manila, toasted "Our Boys in Manila," "Kipling," the "School Ma'am," "Our Society," "Our Alma Mater," the "Ideal Co-ed," these were a few of the toasts responded to. My toast was a trite and familiar one at a banquet - "Our sweethearts."

After we had tousted our last toast