Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-12-22
Black Hills College Department. iii

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President Hailcher IL in Rapid City
today. attending u l,0ard meeting Of the |
sclloOl Of mines.
lhe PliioMathean society gave tl.s.
foll"wt,g program OH Saturday evening,
the occasion being the celebrat,on of
Poet Whittier's birthday:
!. Life nf Whittier, Lillian McDon.
aid.
2. Angels Of Buena Vista, Maggie
Degnan.
8 A sabbath Scene, Albert Adams.
I. Piano Duet, Prot. Tyler and Miss
MOrrell.
5. Wreck of Rivermonth, Mamie
Stanley.
8. Review of Suowbound. M. s.
Dudge0n.
Z. Piano Solo. l'rof. Tyler.
g. The Gap, aims Well. Vesta Titus.
8. Reading of Maud Muller, II. Is.
Hare.
10. Critics report.
II begins to lo"k as though college
curriculums may some day contain
thorough courses in scientific base ball
AMI foot ball. Professors Of mathmat-
les ami languages nave long lmded it
over their student victims. But their
time is almost lle,e. The coming man
is the professor of athletics. Future
faculties will be besieged with petit us
to be allowed to substitute wrestling
for Greek, font bali tor Latin, etc. How
soon this will he, we know not, but the
sig"s Of the tim. p'int to such q state
Of things at no distant day.
The present tendency in education
seems to b- in the direction Of u few
very great institutions Of learning.
This denotes q feeling that we need one
or two universities greater than any
that we now have to form suita,l
capstOne for our nation. ] schoul system.
The new university of the Methodist
Episcopal church ut Washington is 4
notable example of this tendency.
Magnificent grounds have been secured
and congress has provided for the OPEN
ing of the finest residence street in
Washington 10 them. This will be call
ed "lhe American University" and a
grander name would bt. hard to find,
What a little world within Il world is
ours here at the college. With tradit-
ions. customs. associations, factions.
riv .lries and llomOrs. we are all swept
along in an active, miniature counter
part of the life of tile world abOut. For
the nc iv,ties of the stermer life without,
there se:tainly can be no better prepar-
alton than our years of experience in
tile college career. Our great object
should be tn develop the whole cllal 9. :
ter of the individual into a rounded,
symmetrical development. which shall
qualify us for the sternsr duties of life
as we shall find it when weleav- college.
Now that winter mrntlls are upon us,
it may e well t., give the public some
information about tile ''storm" signal
of ,hs weather bureau. 1t indicates
hi q, winds accompanied by snow, witt,
Temperature below freezing an is used
to announce the al proach of these
storms. The Telegram ordering tue dis
play of the sterm flax will state tht.
time at which it is to be hoisted, and it
will be lowered at the expiration OF "a
hours, unless counter orders are received.
When both storm and cold wave flags
are to be hoisttd. the storm signal will
bedisplayed above tile cold wave sgnal
because the crest Of tile cold wave gen.
orally comes after the storm has b+e,,
succeeded by nearly calm and clear
weather. The cold wave flag indicates
Just what its name implies. A cold
wave may be preceded or accompanied
by stormy weather: or it may come
without much wind, with no precipita-
tion and clear sky. The storm flag is