THE ROOM AND THE BROOM.

"Man is but dust, and to dust he shall return" seems to be the motto of the janatorial department of the University. Yet the average undergraduate has little desire to hasten the process so thoughtfully provided by Providence. Hence the daily advent of the goody and her dust-provoking broom is a constant trial. He leaves each morning for his nine o'clock with the tragic assurance that he will return to find a smooth, even coat of the vital principle spread over his table-top, his "English Composition," and his haberdashery. The suggestion that for that venerable engine of superficial sanitation,--the broom, the electric vacuum cleaner might be substituted, will doubtless be met with the objection that the change would be financially impractical. The answer is that even one vacuum cleaner would suffice for each dormitory. Every room could be cleaned in turn once a week, and on the other six days the broom would perhaps prove a more capable adversary for the ever-present reminder of man's mortality.