Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1907 — A Difficult Roll Call. [ARTICLE]

A Difficult Roll Call.

The professor of English in one of our western colleges was noted for being very absent-minded. It was his custom to call the roll each morning before the lecture. One morning, after calling a name to which there was no response, lie looted up and, peering over his spectacles, he asked sharply. “Who Is the absent Iniy in the vacant chair I see before, me?’’—Lip piucett's. '