The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-01
AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
First Meeting of the Pathological Club
for the Session.

cially mentioning the good work ac-
complished by Commons Hall.
The Commons, established by Mrs
Frederick Baker, of New York, as an
entirely new departure for the Univer-
sity, and while it is thought by the
town people to be damaging to their
interest, it is believed by the wiser
heads that eventually it will be the
making of Chapel Hill as an independ-
emit town, instead of always looking to
the students of the University for its
livelihood.
In the Commons at present there are
eighteen tables, each capable of seating
a club of ten, with a student waiter.
Five of the tables have just been put in,
and viii be occupied at the beginning
of the month.
DR.. Alderman went ON to tell of the
men in college who are working their
way, and of the different sorts of work
which they have undertaken. There
IS one student" said DIR. Alderman,
'who, during the early morning and
afternoon is a farm hand, working
between the plow handles. He walks
two miles to college every morning
and this man makes A / on Latin,
Greek and Mathematics"
Two men only a short while ago"
continued the president, "came into
my office and asked for dead tree
which rs ON University land some dis
tanoe from here. These men intend to
cut down and carry this wood to their
room in college with their own labor,
to burn this winter. These are only
examples. l might go on and mention
other cases equally deserving of COM
mendation, for over half of the stu
dents in the University to-day are do
ing some kind of work to make their
way"
The sentiment known as college spir-
it has never been so mark
ed in the University as in
the other great universities of
the country until this year. Students
of the Varsity like Atlantians, no mat
ter how divided on all other subjects,
have become united on one thing, and
that is the greatness of their college.
just right here | might we'll men,
ton the popularity of the new presi-
dent who, by the way, when he spoke
to a student ON the athletic field last
week, was taken, on account of his
youthfulness, to be only student in
the college. Every time DR.. Alderman
appears in the Commons, or in any
place where there is a gathering OF
students, it is a scene of applause and
hurrahs.
The class elections are being held al
ready, the Junior and Sophomore class
es having elected their officers. The jun
Tor class election resulted as follows:
President, j. G. Mccormack, of Max
ton; Vice-President, p. ID. Gold, Jr.,
Kappa Sigma, Wilson; Secretary and
Treasurer, o. NJ. Suttle, Pi Papa AL
pha, Shelby; Historian, G.. I'll. Johnson,
Phi Delta Theta, Chapel Hill; Orator,
L. j. Bell, Beta Theta Pi, Rutherford
ton; Prophet, j. NJ. Carson, of Ruther-
fordton; Poet, p. II. Eley. of Williston,
Tenn; Essayist. p. Tinsley Cheek, of
Mebane.
The Sophomore class has elected the
following: President, Warren Kluttz,
Phi Gamma Delta, Salisbury; First
Vice-President, Gilbert Swink,of Win
sbon; Second Notwithstanding Dom
nelly, Phi Delta Theta, Charlotte; Sec
retary, G. X. Ross, of Charlotte; Treas
urer, E. NJ. Land, Kappa Alpha, Little
ton: Orator, T. G. Bowie, of 0bids: Es-
sayist, C. b. benson, Beta Theta Pi, of
Raleigh; Historian, r. g. Kittrell, of
Kittrells; Statistician, i. ii. Davis, of
High Point, and Member Governing
Board Commons Hall, Romulus Num-,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, of Newbern.
The University of West Virginia will
open the football season here on the
18th of October.
On Tuesday evening, Sept. 10Th, the
Pathological Club held its first meeting
for the new session. In the hall were
the familiar faces of the professors
and students concerned with language
study Mr.. May, the new instructor in
Modern Language, who has just come
to us from Harvard, was present; and
DIR. Linscott, of the Latin Department,
q recent graduate student of the Uni-
versity of Chicago, was announced on
the programme for a paper. Prof.
Hume discussed the earliest printed
translation of the DE Imitatione
Christi" (1420) He said that the au-
thorship of the original was very gem
orally given to Thomas Attempts. Hav-
ing described the valuable text just re-
ceiyed from the Early English Text So
ciety, he commented on the
grammar, and rhetorical structure of
the translation. Prof. Harrington
spoke of the first Roman comedies.C Com
edy, he said, was more popular at Rome
than tragedy, but the beginnings have
for the most part been lost, and so
are yelled in obscurity. He gave text
criticism of the few remaining frag-
ments, and discussed the various con-
lectures ON their titles and subject
matter. Prof. Toy read paper on
Kuno Francke's (Haryard) new book,
ssSocial Forces in German Literature"
German literature is here treated not
from the linguistic OF literary point
of view. but from that of the student
of civilization. A description was Civ
en- of the leading movements of Ger
man literature as determined by the
social, political, religious Developments
of the Germans, showing an alienation
OF individua1istic and collectlvistic ten
denotes.
The Philogical club, meeting on the
last Tuesday evening Of each month,
has become a valuable factor in the
higher life of the University.
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