AROUND COLLEGE. -James D. Rogers, '89, spent Thanksgiving in town. -Prof. Hopkins occupied the college pulpit, Nov. 24. -Dewey, '91, has recovered from his long siege of illness. -C. W. E. Chapin, '89, has been visiting his parents in Clinton. -Do no forget that the prize poems are due the first Wednesday of the winter term. -Joseph Rudd, Jr., formerly of '90, passed the week, Nov. 21-28, with Prof. Chester. -Ives, '92, entertained the members of his class at his home on Marvin street, Nov. 16. -Prof. George P. Bristol of Cornell University made a short visit with Prof. Brandt, Nov. 29. -Prof. Scollard delivered at Waterville, Nov. 21, his celebrated lecture "A Flight East." -Seavey, '90, attended the Princeton-Yale foot ball game in New York, Thanksgiving Day. -Arthur H. Stebbins, '87, of the Utica Saturday Globe, has been visiting his parents in Clinton. --Samuel H. Adams, Union, '91, and Edward Angle, Union, '86, attended the Junior Promenade. -B. J. Allison of Stony Point, spent Sunday, Nov. 23, at the Chi Psi House, the guest of Durkee, '92. -James H. Wilkes, '91, and Frank McMaster, '93, have been visiting at the home of the latter at Cherry Valley. -Mr. T. F. Fitschen, Willams, '89, now in Auburn Theological Seminary, spent Sunday, December 8, with Dodge, '90. -Rev. Anthony H. Evans, pastor of the First Pesbyterian Church, Lockport, N. Y., spent Thanksgiving with Prof. Kelsey. -A meeting of the trustees of the college was appointed for Nov. 19; a quorum not being present the meeting was adjourned. -Barrett-Browning Society, of Houghton, held a pleasant entertainment, Nov. 8, which was well attended by the college students. -Prof. Root has accepted a call to Christ Church in Utica. He will, however, retain his position as professor of Mathematics in college. -Perine, '90, and Lee, '91, represented the Psi Chapter of Theta Delta Chi at their annual convention held in Boston, Nov. 22, 23 and 24. -A Senior in German finding some incongruities in Miss Lee's edition of Faust, made the remark that he found the text very Miss Lee-ding. -S-p closed his Metaphysical essay with this tender sentence: " It has been a happy pleasure to have learned this doctrine from its expounder." -Dr. North left for Chicago, December 9, to attend the Fourth Annual Reunion of the Western Association of Hamilton Alumni on December 12. -About thirty of the students heard Jefferson and Florence in " The Rivals" in Utica, Nov. 29. All returned enthusiastic in their praise of the evening's entertainment. -Prof. Chester has been seriously ill for two weeks. He contemplates spending the winter in the south. It is rumored that a tutor will instruct the Juniors in chemistry during the winter term. -The Banjo-Guitar Club is receiving instruction from Prof. Lucas. The Glee Club has again engaged Prof. Barnes to give them lessons. Concerts by this organization will be given next term. It is hoped by the students that their success will be marked. -Prof. (speaking of probable and improbable) explained his idea with the following illustration: A pint can not hold a peck, but it is well known that a peck can hold a pint. Owing to the presence of P-k, '91, the illustration occasioned some 'loud" smiling. -No less than sixty Hamilton men heard Booth and Modjeska in Hamlet, Dec. 10. That they were all well paid goes without saying. The patronage given to Jefferson-Florence, and Booth-Modjeska shows how highly students appreciate entertainmens of a first-class order. -College and School is a new monthly publication devoted to educational interests, as its name implies. The first number, the December issue, contains matter of a very high grade. The monthly is given to the discussion of topics which rank it among college journals with the exception that both in subject matter and in treatment it is far in advance of ordinary college publications. Among the articles in the first issue is a scholarly and practical discussion of "College Sports," by Prof. A. S. Hoyt, of Hamilton. Prof. Clinton Scollard has charge of the department of The Editor's Notebook." There is a wide field for a publication of this sort, which College and School promises to most successfully fill. -Mr. Charles B. Rogers, for two years a member of the class of '87, gave a lecture on "Students Life in Berlin" before the college, Nov. 30. The lecture was highly interesting and Mr. Rogers was greeted by a large audience, including many visitors. Mr. John D. Cary, '85, of Richfield Springs, N. Y., lectured Dec. 7, on the Life and Writings of Marc Cook." The fact that Mr. Cook was graduated from Hamilton in 1874 made the subject doubly interesting to the students. The lecture abounded in humor and pathos, and was frequently interrupted with applause. The closest attention of the audiThat the course of lectures intro ence was held for nearly an hour and a half. duced by Prof. Hoyt will be continued is the desire of every student. --At a meeting of the class of '90, held November 26, the follow resolutions were adopted as a manifestation of sympathy with their classmate Frank H. Mead in his recent sad bereavement: "Providence in its inscrutable wisdom has visited our classmate, Mr. F. H. Mead, and taken from him his beloved wife. In this sad affliction, occurring as it has, almost at the beginning of their wedded life, we extend our heartfelt condolence and sympathy to him and to those friends so deeply and unexpectedly bereaved. W. R. LOOMIS, R. B. PERINE, Committee." -College aud School has this to say concerning Hamilton's last Junior Promenade: One of the most enjoyable social events that has ever occurred in connection with the college, took place Friday evening, Nov. 22, in Scollard Opera House. The occasion was the reception given by the Junior class. The custom of giving a 'Junior Promenade' was re-introduced by the present Senior class, and everything depended on the success of this second effort, in order to firmly re-establish the custom. The Promenade' of 'go did all this. And the succeeding classes can not afford to allow these pleasant affairs to be discontinued. As a college we have had too few occasions of the kind, and all efforts looking toward a successful future for the Junior Promenade ' are to be encouraged. * * * In making this the most brilliant event of its kind ever held here, the Junior class owes its heartiest thanks to those friends in and out of college who, by their presence and support, contributed so largely to this success." -The seventy-eighth annual catalogue of the college is out. We welcome it, although its publication has been long delayed. We notice several new features and changes. As a frontispiece we have "Silliman Hall," the pride of Hamilton. We are pleased to find the calendar and summary of the triennial catalogue at the opening of the volume. The new absence and excuse system is fully explained. Dr. Peters adds another asteroid to his long list. The year 1889 is marked by Nephthys, discovered October 25. Again there is change in the manner of selecting valedictorian and salutatorian. Since the publication of the last annual catalogue 1,028 volumes have been added to the Library. The 35,000 volumes have been arranged and catalogued under the Dewey system. The change in the regulations governing the award of the Kellogg Oratorical Prize is a radical one. The wording of these regulations is very vague and inadequate. In the first place, how many prizes are to be awarded? In what part of the curriculum do we find chapel debates? Are these discussions (more properly) and orations found in the requirements for both Junior and Senior years as the regulations imply? Oh, for the genius of a Hamilton to devise and interpret our regulations! Taken as a whole the catalogue is an improvement. 66 " -A student was telephoning for seats to Booth and Modjeska. The operator supposing that he had rung up "Central" and while waiting for the reply the student began to converse with him as to how many young ladies from Houghton were to hear Hamlet, where they were going to sit, etc., etc. Receiving no reply the operator was about to ring again for "Central when the customary Hello" came over the wires. Not recognizing the voice as that of the Central operator he looked at his switch plug and found that instead of ringing up "Central" he had called Houghton, and that Prof. B. had quietly taken in the conversation, and that after it had ceased he called "Hello." The operator grasped the situation, but how he managed to explain matters the student did not wait to discover, for hastily leaving his order for tickets, he made a rapid slide toward Chet's" to escape possible recognition. Moral: Think twice before you speak in telephone offices. INTERCOLLEGIATE NEWS. -Only half of Cornell's 1,300 students pay tuition. —The typhoid fever scare has nearly died out at Yale. -A son of William K. Vanderbilt has been elected captain of the Yale crew. -A son of President Garfield plays as one of the half-backs in the Williams eleven. -The students at Lehigh are now compelled to wear the cap and gown on Sunday. -Harvard is considering the advisability of shortening the college course to three years. -The Andover faculty would not allow last fall's foot ball game with Exeter to be played. -The Dearborn Observatory, erected to hold the great telescope of the Chicago University, is finished. -Mrs. Caroline Donovan, of Baltimore county, Maryland, has given $100,000 to Johns Hopkins University. -Yale's rush line averaged two pounds heavier than Harvard's, but behind the line she averaged six pounds lighter. -The trustees of Johns Hopkins have adopted a resolution for the purpose of heading off recent efforts to start a college paper. -Syracuse University.-A college senate has been instituted at Syracuse. Freshmen are expected to raise their hats to upper classmen. ---Archbishop Farrar has sent his son to the United States to be educated. He will pursue a regular course at Lehigh and then go to the Polytechnic Institute at Troy. -I am glad of every college that is endowed, no matter who endows it. Every institution of learning increases the culture, which I believe will build up the government of this great country of ours, under which all are free and equal.-James G. Blaine. —A lady has given $10,000 to establish a classical fellowship for ladies at the University of Michigan. 2,300 students are registered at this institution, the largest attendance of any American university. Twenty-four young ladies graduated as lawyers last spring. -The University of Michigan has entirely done away with the marking system, and has abolished all prize competitions and class honors. The experiment will be watched with interest by other large universities, which have for some years been discussing its feasibility. -A fitting memorial window is being erected in the Sage Chapel, at Cornell, by the students in civil engineering, in memory of Edward S. Nevins, the hero of the class of '90, who lost his life last winter while endeavoring to save that of a young woman who fell through the ice. -Ex-President Andrew D. White has returned to Cornell University after his visit abroad, and has begun a course of lectures on "The Causes of the French Revolution." During the winter he will give the same course at Yale and in Philadelphia, and also a course in Washington on the "History of the German Empire." -The average age of the Freshman class at Yale is eighteen years and one month; the average weight is 130 pounds. The oldest man is thirty years and eight months, the youngest fifteen years and ten months. The heaviest man weighs 242 pounds, and is anchor on the Freshman Tug-of-War Team. Tobacco is used by 13%1⁄2 per cent. EXCHANGES. -The Evening Post gives a page every week to Collegiate news. The Wibbenberger for November is deserving of much credit. The prose matter is good, but there is need of more poetry. -The Polytechnic has a good editorial urging cordiality among college men. It is not necessary to urge anything of the kind at Hamilton, but the editorial applies well to all city colleges. -The Phillips Exeter Monthly compares very favorably with many of the college publications. The November number completes a pretty story entitled "A Brigand's Love." There is some good original poetry in the number. -The exchange editor of the Amherst Literary Monthly, in criticising different college monthlies says: "No single phase should be cultivated to the exclusion of the rest as, sad to say, is the case with the 'Alumniana' of the Hamilton LIT." We are always glad to receive just criticism and to profit by it, but in this case the criticism is hardly fair. True, our Alumniana is one of the chief phases of the LIT. and we are proud of it. No college publication in the country can compare with us in that respect, but no one can truthfully say that that branch is cultivated to the exclusion of other matter. We at least do not fill our pages with stories of love and adventure. Let the editors of the Amherst LIT. take care lest in looking at the mote in their brother's eye, they consider not the beam in their own. CLIPPINGS. -It seems to be the function of faculties to act as suspenders for college breaches.-Life. There's nothing new under the sun, they say, In fish or in fowl or flesh, But he who'll run up to college to-day Will find there is much that is fresh. -"Well, I'll be dammed," said the river when it saw the contractor. There is metre prosaic, dactylic, There is metre for laugh and for moan, But the metre which is never prosaic, -Life. Is the "meet her by moonlight alone." -Madisonensis. |