Old John's Translation

Every one in Boston knows of old John the Urangeman, that picturesque and almost historical personage who presides over the aftections of all Harvard men. And every one who knows John knows also that his life's motto is that familiar plirase which expresses briefiy and to the point the wish that Yale inay be torever relegated to the region of sorrow and perpetual darkness. One afternoon strangers were walking throngh the yard at Harvard, and on every hand they saw the college seal hearing this motto, "Christo et Ecclesiae." Not being on sp'eaking terms with Cicero, Ciesar and the other Romans, this did nothing but to arouse their curiosity. Finally they met John. "I say!" said one of the visitors. "1 j see these words everywhere. Can you ! teil me what they mean?" John looked carefully at the Latin insciption, bit bis pipe a little harder and then replied gravely: "Oi don 't jist know, i'r'nd, bnt üi t'ink itmeans'Toh wid Yale.' " - !