Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-07
UNIVER SITY NOTE S
Matters of Interest iniThese Higher Insti-
buttons Of learning.
Changes in the Faculties and in the
Courses of Stndy-COllege
Societies.
Catholic University.

ifested in regard to 1.-THE department of ex-
| detrimental psychology, under the direction
of DR.. Pace. The doctor has in his depart
| ment much curious apparatus. Among 9TH
er things there is Lne, by means of which
he measures how long it takes one to think
and feel, how long it requires one to trans
init a sensation or execute command OF
the will. DR.. Pace is at present much en-
gagged in equipping room, which is i'm
pervit Us to all sounds. For certain expert
ments the doctor is obliged to have room
in which he will be able to secure as nearly
as possible absolute silence.
The students desiring admission TO the
Mcmahon Hall have entered and passed
the examinatio on with much credit Inc
various lectures will be begun To-Day.
Columbian University.
For the benefit of number OF the new
students in the college an extra French
and will continue, three times a week, I'M
til November Is. at which time these stu
dents will be far enough advanced to fol-
low the higher class of French.
DR.. Greene has returned from MS EURO
pean vacation, much improved in health.
DR.. F. Freyhold of the Corcoran Sclentinc
School has returned from Brazil, where he
has been spending several months.
has just published the first number of
Climate and Health" the new periodical
of the weather bureau
Mr. Cabel Whitehead has returned from
a vacation voyage to Sweden.
On October IA at pm. an examination
will be held for these students entering
the second years course In either applied
mathematics or engineering. prize con-
SiSting of handsome set of drawing in
struments has been offered by Mr.. Fred.
A Schmidt to the student who will make
the highest percentage In the examination.
The registration of the law school, when
1,,y CHI n IL
ment of fifty more students than at the
opening last year.
Judge Harlan will lecture in the law
school three times week on domestic re-
lationS instead of once a week, as here
tofore.
Among the organizations for the young
ladies' of the college is the Pi Beta Phi,
which was established in 1887. A prereQui
site for membership is high scholarship.
The club held its first meeting this year
last Thursday and elected the following Of
ficers: President. Miss Elinor Wilson; vice
president. Miss H. M. Johnson; treasurer,
Miss L. Bradford; secretary, Miss Anna e.
Kelton; corresponding secretary Miss Lii
liam Pace; cenSors, Misses Florence Bow
men and Frances NJ. Jacobs.
BY order of the president and faculty, the
students during all chapel exercises sit ac-
ccrding to classes senior. junior. sopho-
more and freshmen, and the record of at
tendance is kept by students selected by
the dean from the various classes.
In the Corcoran Scientific School several
additional courses in mathematics have
been made by Prof Hodgkins. Among
these are courses in analytic geometry of
three dimensions, theory of equations and
a series of lectures on the history of math-
ematics. The prospects are that the classes
will be larger than usual this year. as
many students are entering the school to
take advanced work. Especially popular Is
the course leading to the degree of B. S. in
mathematics. Four or five teachers in the
public schools have arranged to take this
course.
The Hermesian Society of the Columbian
Academy has been organized, with the fol-
lowing officers: President, Horton Everett;
vice president Wallace Richie; treasurer,
Earle Van Auken; secretary, Melville Lind
say. The club has arranged to meet regu-
larly every Friday afternoon at the society
hall in the academy building. where 1t will
hold it's debates and exercises of literary
character. The regular feature of the So
ciety is to join in public debates with SINH
lar organizations in other schools, and 1t is
expected that there will be four or five such
debates during the coming winter.
Dr. Albert l.. Staveiy of the medical
school has been recently elected MEM
Der of the District Medical Association.
In the absence of Dr. Prentiss DR.. Francis
p. Morgan will temporarily fill the chair of
materia medtca and therapeutics in the
medical school,
Some important additions to the college
faculty were made by the action of athe
university authorities yesterday. The de-
partment of modern languages has been
established on new basis. in which
French, German and Spanish will have
four instructors.
Dr. Lodge, whose predictions are in the
lire of political and historical philosophy,
and whose services are most valuable in
this as in other departments of culture,
has at his request been relieved of all
French classes save the senior. and Mr..
Geo. H. Henning has been chosen his as
sistant. Mr.. Henning is distinguished
graduate of Harvard. who afterwards pur-
sued his studies in French philosophy and
conversation in Paris. DIR. J. H. Gore. who
raised the standard of German in the col
lege and made it most attractive course,
has. also at his request, been relieved of
all the German classes; and he will in
future confine himself to the department of
mathematics. DIR. Hermann Schoenfeld,
who graduated at Leipzig in 1887 will have
charge of German under the supervision of
Prof. Gore. A new chair of history has
been created. and soon an announcement
will be made as to the occupant.
Howard University.
The medical department began on Tues
day evening. DR.. Rankin delivered the
opening address. in which he gave a rapid
resume of the improvements in surgery
during the last twenty-five years. He said
the science of surgery, as now known, was
not thirty years old. In conclusion, DIR.
Rankin gave the percentage Of successful
operations performed in this country and
abroad
The Banjo. Guitar and Mandolin Club
vss reorganized on Wednesday. 1t will be
particularly strong in both talent and num-
Der this year. The members have agreed
to meet twice a week at the university to
practice.
Mr.. Brodnax, travelling secretary of the
Students Volunteer Missionary movement,
spent Friday at the university, and lectured
to those who will devote themselves to
foreign missions.
There is prospect of as large, If not
larger attendance than last year." said DR..
Rankin. The departments are all doing
excellent work, and give evidence of earn
est and faithful study. The teachers are
discharging their duties to the full salts
faction of the management of the universe
ty'
The laboratories and museums for the de-
partment of natural history have recently
received from Germany a complete man
nikin also new slides for the stereopticon,
ard additional specimens for the mineral
cabinet.
Georgetown university.
The quarter mile running track around
the campus has been completed; 1t is a
thing of beauty to the aesthetic as well as
the athletic eye.
The handsome collection of birds, which
was formerly in the Riggs library, has been
removed to the university parlors and
placed in handsome glass cases, erected for
the purpose.
Among recent additions to the collection