New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-22
IN THE LOCAL COLLEGES.
COIJiNBLA,s MANY INTERESTS.

Athletics ut Columbia are being agiA'eu ssS''"
aticaIly. Lloyd Coils. the captain OF ths ss@S
team is following the policy adopted BY DIS preoe'ee
sor Herbert Mapes. and expects to have soou 'ea"
when the Invertebrates come along. The question
of the tugof-war contest Is being careiuly oiscssco
at the college. The attitude OF many coieges' III '"c
intercollegiate Association ut the convention ia't year
has caused the Columbia men to doubt whcher OF not
to defend the contest. II IL possible that me ."sh
uar will be stricken the list OF contests IN the
sDrIng games OF the college this year. number oi
Columbias best athletes Of former years are oacK 'h
vear Unman who won the intercollegiate hammer
contest two years ago, Is back, rs well as Nosours
Connell Harding, Whitney and Coils OF previous inter
collegate teams All OF these men may not DC aple
TO 20 into training however. OF the ncv men. Peii'
,Dj and Levy, Law, C3, perhaps the most proms-
ing Pell jumped twenyone feet six inches last year
In the interschoas games bcating tie intcrschoslc
record while Levy has done good work In the hall
mile. Harding OF the Law School, Is IA good man to
count OIL also
The following officers for the PeiholoSian Literary
Society of Columbia were elected last week for the
year. w. +. 5. Hart president; George T. Morgan.
vice president sanford L. Roter secretary; john ~
Wilson, treasurer Frederic Il. Turner, corresponding
secretary committee criticism, stephen H. kealIs,
Edward q. Rotter and Ernest H. Lowerre.
Columbia's venture in the direction o. lectures for
the people under the auspices OF the university faculty
Of philosophy of tile college has proved successful Do
You'd the expectation Of the college authorities ana new
courses are being arranged. oourse of SIX lectures
ON the History OF Musc' will be given on successive
Mondays. beginning March Z. at O'Clock, In Iiaml-
ton Hail, By Professor William J. henderson AppA-
cation for tickets for these lectures must be made TO
the secretary the president of the college, Mr. Beeoe
The subjects OF the lectures are d. follows:
March :. Lecture / The Elementary ierof zen.
era OF the condition and progress Of music from
3o4 A. d., to 1923 \. ID. Inc % FRENCH. uaio-
lelgic ana Netherlands schools of composers. ITO
March Ia, Lecture 1.-The spirit Of Music. General
view Of the contest between chsslesm and romnhu'
from the period OF the Netherlands master 70 the
present time Intellectual and emotional character u
tho three great epochs Ol musical history -PoSP"''
March II, Lecture III-The Evolution Of Form.
veopment Of the sonso and the symphony. Haydn.
Mozsrt and Beethoven. schumann's Innovations. Tine
symphonic POEM and the modern overture rs "r'''en
- March %. Lecture Iv--The Evolution Of STYLE:
and j. $ PaSh The classic scale style o. C. p r5s
n nsss an style ssslnn%s $l ssh%mSaa r.
and Ap sarx a. n neo"e ae AND Beasjoycax Pe
"% EurydIce nontevcrdes orfeo' Rise Of the Nfs
poan school and degenerasy q Italian opera rerrs
| Farnestncss Of representative Germans. Mozart ana
Weber, Supremacy Of vocal technique, vr.,o nr.,,..
April H. Lecture VI-Refolmers and Music. DRAMAS
G%s %na on ter aa and their
Wagner's musical system
| The school OF Mines is also active under the uni
versity faculty Of mines, in providing lectures.
course Of eight lectures on the Vegetable Kingdom
will be given, beginning Wednesday February "a Al
O'clock BY Professor ~ L. Brtton, Of the department
OF botany Tickets 10 this course will be issued on
payment Of the fee Of So in the other course mel
iioncd The subjects Of the lectures, all Of which VIII
/ be illustrated. Will be: . 49,
FchIuary "a Lecture I-General Considerations
Methods OF elias slfcation The vegetable sub kingdoms
The number OF existing species Of plants Inc slupe,
and smallest plants; Bacteria shme'hiouius' sioe"
mould yeast dlatOms, desmids.
March - Lecture 1.-THE Algae.
March o. Lecture Ill-The Fungi and Lichens.
March Is. Lecture IV-The Moses and Ferns ana
their Relatives.
March 30. Lecture V-Thc Cone-beartng Trees and
/ their Allies.
/ March 80 Lecture VI-The Endogenous Flowerns
Plants ~,
April g. Lecture VII--The Exogenous Flowerins
Plants. A..
April ID. Lecture vIII-The Past History OF the
Vegetable Kingdom.