The morning call., 1894-02-14

mittee OF investigation into the MarsbaPs
books had white washed the report and
had not exposed the Irregularities. Mr..
Acton stated that the committee had
shown there was a S75 deficit 10 the Mar
shal's account. but il was impossible to fix
the blame upon any particular Marshal.
for the matter had run for several years.
The point at issue was the non collection
OF sewer connection fees by the marshals,
the matter having been iaXly attended to
for several years. Mr.. Brewt0n A. HOgue
was elected Town Attorney In place Of
MIR. E. &. Robin son, resigned.
A large number of complaints having
been entered against the poundmaster,
Mr.. Hughes. the office was abolished and
Mr. Hughes lucrative position TINS taken
from him.
A Modern Greek Drama.
The Skull aud KEYS. social secret fra
ternity of juniors and seniors, has decided
to give Sophocles' "Eiipus," in one Of the
San Francisco theaters during the closing
DAYS of this half year. The stage will be
remodeled to suit the needs of the Greclan
drama, the Greek chorus, with It's strOph-
zeal and anti-stro phical chant, VIII be
faithfully reproduced. The play was
given in Harvard a few years ago with
great artistic success. and the attempt VIII
be repeated here similarly, except that the
words will be the English rendering OF the
Greek. The expense will be cOnslderab bic,
probably some $500 or $4,000. and the COM
mittee from the faculty, consisting OF Pro-
fess0rs Clapp, Flagg and Senger. of the
Greek department and Dr. Richardson OF
the Latin department, while most heartily
In favor OF the presentation, request tnat
guarantee fund be raised to cover the eX-
pense before it is undertaken. The char
acter OF Gdipus will, il is said, be repre-
scented by Benjamin Weed OF the senior
class.
Youthful Gymuasts.
The Columbian Gymnasium, recently
started at the Boys Armory by several
enterprising Berkeley boys. has been SO
well patroniZed that junior and senior
classes have been formed. the former TO
meet in the afternoon and the latter In the
evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays. Elmer L. Smith, who has charge
of classes at the Reliance Club and the
Oakland \. NJ. c. a, has been engaged TO
give instruction TO the classes.
University Notes
The question of having an emergency
hospital established in Berkeley is now
being mooted. At least provision at
pharmacy in East and West Berkeley for
taking care of wounded man seems
necessity, for a serious injury may be
greatly aggravated by the enforced delay
until the patient can be taken four TO SIX
miles to the Oakland HOSPITAL.
Professor c. w. Bradley will leave
on Thursday to examine the English work
in high schools in various parts of the
State.
Lectures will be given for the Asso-
slated Charities on March 10 by f. G.
Burgess on Boys Clubs" and on March
- by +. E. HAYNES, instructor in econo-
mics, on University Settlements"
Professor A. Ii. Thompson of the
United States Geological Survey has pre-
scented The engineering department with
thirty-eight fine geographical maps of
California and Nevada.
A new society, TO be known as the
OmicrOn Delta, has been organized. Only
members of the freshman and sophomore
classes can be active members. The club
is for social purposes.
Cyril NewhalPs lecture, "Rambles
Through southern England" was not
given on Friday evening owing to the
severe rain. 1t will be given this coming
Friday evening.
Stanford wants Berkeley to enter an
Oratorial contest for 500 medal This
is apart from the intercollegiate debate.
The president OF The senior class has ap-
pointed committee, consisting of Messrs
Avery (chaiTman). Jackson. Denman, Weed
Hays. Wilder, Mann, Wright. aud Miss Peix-
otto and Miss Castelhun, TO consider the ad-
Visibility OF making changes 10 the coming
commencement exercises, ab0llshIng the
student essays and orations and obtaining
some distinguished thinker TO make an address
on the occasion.
The pathological Club, recently formed,
held lis nrst meeting Friday and discussed the
topic of 'Thrushes IN General" with special
reference 10 the species In California.
Professor Clapp, head of the department of
Greek, has announced that he will give series
of readings from g eek tragedy, open TO the
voluntary attendance OF the students in gen.
eral- The readings will be given al North Hall
w ednesday afternoons al O'Clock. Euripides'
'Medea" Will be read al the first meeting, Feb
ruary %.
Henry Durant. convicted last week of
stealing tools from w. z. Grant, Berke-
ley contractor, was sentenced yesterday 10
four years Imprisonment
A recital was given at the Presbyterian
Church last evening by Miss Newlands
and Miss Ames.
The students, in their capacity of cadets,
are beginning TO object to too close an
imitation of a military academy. The
regulations are enforced with a sirictness
never used before. The last thing to
arouse them is the announcement that the
battalion will not only march over to the
fair grounds and drill for a couple of
hours on University day. but the battalion
will be brought back to Berkeley with its
guns and accouterments at Q o'clock i II the
evening. The cadets think this is too
great An eXaction. and il they exhibit
themselves for the universities sake their
guns should be taken care of when the
drill is over and they released for the
holiday.
A meeting of all the football-players
was held yesterday afternoon to consider
plans for the next season.