Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-30
UNiVER SITY. N @ TIE S
Columbian University.


ested in tho new publication, which was
presided over by President Whitman. An
! election of officers took place and resulted
as follows Editor-in-chief, DR.. B. L. Whit
| man: associate editors, DIR. Otis T. Mason,
DR.. Charles E. Monroe and DIR. Lee Davis
Lodge; business manager, r. T. Barrett,
college, 81. A corporation was formed,with
! Robert 7. Martin as president and Or. Lee
! Davis Lodge secretary and treasurer.
1.-THE Columbian Review" the name given
the magazine, will be issued quarterly and
| contain about 300 pages. Articles Will be
contributed by members of the faculty,
| students of the graduate school and mem
| hers of the alumni association; the articles
| will be of literary, scientific and phl!c-
| sophical character, emtodying the result,
| shares. of which there will re ei.nty, have
been put at $40 per She, and the control
ling interest will ,e Md by the charte.
members, in order that the controlling in
Ierest me- BE held practically by the uni
Sers.tv The subscription price has been
I'D at 81 per annum, and from the present
;, prospects all feel confident that the Review
! will rank among the first publications OF the
| kind in the universities of this country.
| The class in applied mathematics will be
| formed on Monday by Prof. Francis r.
| Fava.
Dr. H. N Craig, 49, medical school, has
been appointed resident physician at the
| Children's Hospital
| A number of the law students met last
| week for the purpose of forming quiz de-
| batting society They adopted constitution
| and decided that the society should be
| known as the Blackstone Club. F. b. Good
heart of Tennessee was chosen president.
| and Charles E. johnson vice president. The
| club will debate once month. The rest OF
| the time will be devoted to quizzing.
| NJ. A. Coles, president of the law class OF
| las a member
Virginia legislature from the Northumber-
| land district, as an Independent:
| DIR. Montague, who left on Wednesday for
Easton, Pa, to represent the college at the
convention of the Association of the Col
| leges of the Middle States and Maryland.
has returned. DIR. Montague invited the
| association to hold its next meeting here in
| the university building.
| At the last meeting of the Enosinan So
| ciety spirited election of officers took place,
| which resulted as follows: H. H. Donnelly,
president; Mrs. S. F. Ramsey, vice president;
Miss Helen Ruth Biddis, secretary; j. w.
| Beatty, treasurer; critic, Miss Grace Ross:
| librarian, j. Tyssowski; sergeant-at-arms,
A. r. Stuart: first editor of the Bee, c. L.
| Parker; second editor of the Bee, w. K.
| Ward; first editor of the News, F. L. Biscoe;
second editor of the News, C. K Robinson.
DR.. Herman Scheonfeld inaugurated last
week his new course of Slavonic languages.
| The class has taken up the study of Polish
as the first and richest of these langua ges,
| to be followed later on by Bohemian.
| At the last meeting of the Dental Glass
Association of the university the following
| officers were elected: Thomas B. Cochran,
| president; E. v. Young, vice president; E. NJ.
| Carter, secretary, and z. F. Concklin, treas
urer.
| Georgetown University.
| At the last meeting of the Philodemic
Society it was decided not to accept the
| challenge of the Debating Society of Bos-
| ton College, as they Uhe Philodemics)
will require all their time to prepare for
the annual Merrick debate.
The Toner Scientific Society will discuss
| glaciers at their next meeting.
Arrangements ale already made for the
| base ball team of 90. From the present
| prospects it is more than likely that the
| team will be as strong as heretofore. Cole
| man, who played first base in tie Rock Hill
College team, will probably hold the same
position at Georgetown Fleming and Dillon
| will likely play second base and Mclaughlin
third.
An enthusiastic meeting of all Interested
in dramatic art was held at the university
Monday evening for the purpose of organ
izing the Dramatic Club. The meeting re-
suited in the election of Mr.. Carroll Boone.
S. j., professor of elocuticn, as director of
the club. The other officers were elected
as follows: President, Outerbridge Horsey,
'96; vice president, A. J. Smith. '96; secre-
| tary, Charles F. Valentine, 80; treasurer,
Andrew Berry, sc; censor +. X. Delany,
~, and stage manager, Thomas c. Nelson,
's6 The club will produce several light
plays soon after Christmas. Later in the
year, however, they will give Hamlet"
On Thursday next the Philodemic So
ciety will elect the four debators for the
Merrick debate. which will take place on
Washington's birthday.
The Athletic Association is now arrang-
ing for series Of cross-country runs for
the winter. The first two contestants will
be Douglas and Delany.
The new quarter-of-a-mi!e track is en-
the new fixtures were donated to the col
lege by Walter S. Martin, president of the
Athletic Association.
Catholic University.
The lecture course on geology to be given
by Mr.. Robert T. Hill will begin on Thurs
Cay.
Dr. Shahan of the divinity faculty will
occupy his new home on street in Eek
ington next week.
Prof. John Quinn of the department of
Greek will give his next illustrated lecture
Friday on the gold-ivory statues made at
Argos and in Athens.
Judge William C. Robinson, dean of the
law school, returned to the university on
Tuesday from New Haven, Conn. He was
accompanied by his wife and children, and
they are now permanently located in their
new cottage erected in the university
grounds.
A large donation of valuable books for
the Divinity Library arrived at the uni
yersity last week from Rev. ]. J. Dough-
erty of Hornsdale, Pc.
James NJ. Wilcox, who recently died at
his home near Philadelphia left by his
Will bequest of $500 to the endowment
fund Of the university. Mr.. Wilcox had al
ready given $4,000 to the University Fund
Association.
The University Library received this
week from Mgr. Satolli a number of yalu-
able books on Tuscan art This is the third
donation the library has had since the be-
ginning of the scholastic year.
One of the innovations recently intro
duced into the Hall Of Philosophy is
course on Roman law, given in the Latin
Academy by Rev. Thomas ]. Shahan, d. D.,
of the divinity faculty.
EyesiSht Saved by n Magnet.