The Record Union

Won Out by a Nose.

A Brown man of the class of '99, whose admiration for Latin and Greek perhaps distances his love for athletics, came very near losing his degree because of the fact. Just before commencement young Mr. Senior engaged in a race for the coveted document which he probably will long remember. The college man won—won out by a nose. It happened this way:

The young man in question had passed all the examinations and naturally was entitled to the parchment. Two days previous to commencement, however, he received a notice from the faculty to the effect that he had neglected his gymnasium duties a sufficient number of days to foot up half a term. As the gymnasium course is just as much a part of the college curriculum as any of the regular studies, and as the senior had not made up the half-term collection of "cuts," he would not receive a diploma, the notice stated.

The eleventh hour had arrived, but the student did not lose heart on that account. Bright and early one morning he entered the gymnasium hall, took off his coat and commenced swinging dumbbells, jumping hurdles, etc. All day long, until after sunset, he worked away for dear life and the degree, and before he left the building he had the satisfaction of knowing that the morrow would find him on the platform with the rest of '99, awaiting his turn to receive the precious document.

This is said to be the narrowest escape ever recorded at the college on the hill.—Providence Journal.