The San Francisco call., 1896-03-02

~ SotASSe ulS OF FORMER Gays
was a strange, uncanny wight,
His digging ~as done afar from the sun,
Ii silence and AT night.
But behold the hange as years roll on,
The college dig must toll
w here The sun beats hot and the shade Is not,
A-turnlng the mouldy soil.
And this is the song of the college dig,
As the dirt and gravel ny;
AS the pick-strokes punch and the shovels crunch,
And the wheelbarlows trundle by:
''Oh, give me spade Of the iron-gray.
Aud pick OF stoutest steel;
And barrow good OF oaken wood,
With pneumatic-tired wheel!
"For the college dig must dig must dig,
That the classes get to come
May go 10 work DER never quirk,
And straight retire home,
'And the folk who come in future years
Shall walk the road we make,
A nd in our praise their voices raise
AS the crookless way they take.
'Then, brethren, bend we body down
To delve amid the mould:
Though our hand be worn and our trousers torn,
And our feet be damp and cold.
"But when our noble work is done,
And we toll in the tt no more,
We may sit us down in our college gown
And dig Rs we dug OF yore.
$50 give me spade of the ron-gray,
And pick of stoutest steel,
And a barrow good of oaken wood,
With pneumatic-tired wheel"
GIee Club Concert.
BERKELEY. CAL, March 1.-The Uni
yersitv of California Glee Club will give
their first local concert of the season to-
morrow evening at the Auditorium, San
Francisco. Manager Veeder has been
actively engaged for the past three or four
weeks in arranging the business details of
the concert, and to-day be stated that he
expected it to be the event of the season.
Ever since the beginning of the present
term the club has been practicing almost
daily with the hope of getting into the
best of form for tomorrow night. Several
new features will be introduced, and the
university mandolin club, which was
formed last fall, will make their first pub
lie appearance. This will be the first con-
cert which the club has given in San Fran
cisco since the Joint entertainment which
they held last fall at the Auditorium IN
connection with the Stanford Mandolin
Club.
The entire university is expected to turn
out and make the event in the nature of a
merry climax to the work of the student
aborers on the campus, which will be
completed tomorrow afternoon. The first
and last mum bers will be combination of
the Mandolin and Glee Club. Mrs Olive
Reed will sing ben Bolt" with humming
accom- paniment by the Glee Club. Charles
Z. PARCELS, the violin soloist, will act as
accompanist in some of the selections.
The programme is to be entirely new, the
club having recently received large num-
Der OF the latest songs from the East.
Frank Stringbam, barvtone, will sing a
solo in which he will make hits on local
institutions and on Stanford. The "Stan-
ford School Scholar" will be one of his
pieces.
Following is the personnel of the club:
First tenors, Morse, Bakewell Elston and
Somers; second tenors, T. A. Smith. Tay-
I. Smith and knight; first bass, String
ham, Whipple, Rawlings and Russ Sec
ond bass, Veeder, Parsons, Hutchings and
Wedemeyer.
justices Court Attacked.
BERKELEY, CAL, March 1.-The le-
gality of Justice James court has been at
tackled in the suit of Thomas Gomford
against Christian Melcher for $113 IS bal
ance of an account for rent. The ground
which was taken in the motion TO dismiss
the case was the unconstitutionality of the
act establishing the Berkeley Justices
Court. in that it fixes for Berkeley an ar
bitrary classification unrecognized by the
Constitution, ana in conflict with the gen.
eral laws and the Supreme Court decisions.
The question of the constitutionality of
the local court of justice Is raised about
every so often, and the citizens are becom-
ing used to the proceeding.
Petition for Reinstein.
BERKELEY, CAL, March Fired W.
Koch, U. G. '96, went to Sacramento this
morning with petition from the students
Of the university to Governor Budd, ask
ing that Regent Reinstein be appointed 10
long term as regent, at the next vacancy,
which occurs in May. The long term ex-
tends through sixteen years.
unitarian Concert.
BERKELEY, CAL, March 1.-The Chi
cago Ladies Quartet assisted by Miss Net
tie NJ. Jackson, impersonator, will give
concert and entertainment at Shattuck
Hall next Thursday evening under the
auspices of the Unitarian Society. The
quartet consists of Pearl Hodson, soprano;
Elizabeth Ludwig, mezzo soprano; Alice
Merrill Raymond, alto, and Grace L.
Dickie c0ntraltn