Evening star., 1896-12-19
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Catholic University.


deat, Rev. Father Duffy: vice president. ].
j. Mott; secretary. Francis Gnfon: treas
urer James Igo; advisory board. Fathers
Tettermer and o'Nen of the divinity
| SCHOOL Messrs. McTighe and Murray from
the philosophical school and Messrs
cashman and Scott from the law school
Meetings viii be held twice each month
Dr. Maurice Francis Egan. head OF the
department. of English literature. I.c,ured
sisi as a Poet
The examinations in elementary law
We're held Thursday, and Friday.
cAfahgements for the installation Of Dr.
oohatN, the new rector, which will occur
carry IN January are being made.
Howard University.
\ special song service will be bela IN
Miner Hall tomorrow evening, and all The
musical numbers on the program. which
tciio~s, will be compositions by Handel:
overture, Messiah Miss Kate Dononue:
song, Joy TO the World" fun chorus:
scripture rccitals. young ladies or Miner
nan: recitative. Comfort Ne." Professor
W j. Stephens: invocation: solos tal '.tIa
Shall Feed His Flock" Miss NJ n Oman
der; tb), Gene into Him." Miss Lucy A
turner; pastoral symphony. Messiah Miss
ma Mary NJ. Wright; address, Life of Han
del, Professor ". J. stephens: solo, Tie
was Desplsed. Miss l.. Hunter: SOLO But
Lneu Didst Not Leave" G. H. Harris:
Christmas tine. Awake, My Soul" fuli
| chorus; Christmas Carol" quartet. Misses
Wright and Hunter. Messrs. Harris and
Nutter.
Father Stafford delivered a lecture to all
classes W ednesday afternoon on Hamlet"
The Brotherhood of st Andrew me,
| Hall. e
| The Livingstone Missionary Society moi
| Friday evening, and the following program
| was rendered: Address. NJ. Hall; song by
Quartet, Messrs. Payne. Tart, Barham AMI
oh Nest; paper. Mission Work, : }. W: ia
GODS y. l.. Stewart is president of the
! society, and J. II. Hughes is the secretary
The Theological Literary and Debating
Society will debate the question. Resolved
That preacher should always accept a
| call to larger field" Affirmative n.
Stewart: negative J. West.
examinations in all departments are in
progress and will conclude Wednesday.
when the Christmas vacation begins.
The varsity eleven will play the ColoreC
High School eleven Christmas day on TN
| college campus.
Columbian Iniversity.
Last evening the Enosinian Society die
| cussed the question: Resolved. That tn,
| United States should Immediately compel
| Turkey to cease her atrocities in Armenia"
The speakers were Messrs. Hays, Hobson,
| Broadus and Q. Harlan on the affirmative
and Messrs. Jones. Hoover Rogers and
| Beatty on the negative. The Glass News
| edited by Mr. Hoover was read at the
CONCLUSION of the debate
The Law School Debating Society to-
night will discuss Resolved. That women
| should have the right of suffrage" For the
afnrmative the speakers Will be f. NJ
Church, A. r. Seibold and f. p. warfieid;
| negative. j. III. DE Witt J. A. Finch and ID.
p Moore
Wednesday evening DR. Whitman de-
| livered lecture on An Evening With
browning at the request of the college
| students.
The Pi Beta Phi Society met "Wednesday
| afternoon and transacted routine business
| Maj. j. W. Powell, chief of the bureau of
| ethnology, lectured 20 the students of the
collegiate department on The Science of
| Anthropology Defined and Cha racterized"
| This is the first lecture in a special course
OF six which Maj. Powell will deliver on
Mondays and Wednesdays. The second lee
| ture. The Science of Demonomy Defined
| and characterized will be given Monday
afternoon.
| A novelty in undergraduate work will be
| maugurated. after the holidays in the Cor
| coran Scientific School A course of lee
| lures on Chemical Biography is to bo de-
| lvered by students of this department to
| their fellow students. each delivering one
| lecture. The course will he confined to the
| contributions of American chemists to the
| science.
Prof George p Merrill of the Corcoran
| Scientific School has just published In the
| Journal of Geology an interesting paper for
students on the Principles of Rock Wealth
ering.''
1 frOI. W lley oil the graduate school read a
| paper entitled The Mechanical Analysis Of
| Phosphate Slags'' Thursday afternoon, at
| the meeting of the Chemical Society, show
| Ing the use of phosphate slags as fer
| tilizer.
| Tuesday afternoon. before the Society for
| Philosophical Inquiry. Mr.. Howard deliver
| ed lecture On the philosophy of Relig-
| ion." AT the next meeting of the society
| January :. Mr. Harris will lecture on
Philosophy of Education in Its Subjective
| Aspects"
| Georgetown University.
The banquet rendered Monday evening 20
| the class of rs eleven. winners of the
| championship i'm the interclass foot ball
series, was an enjoyable affair Toastmas-
| ter Thomas NJ. Pierce opened the program
| with neat speech and the following toasts.
| interspersed with songs and sketches. were
| responded to: Glass of 81 Joseph Col
| iins: Class of IS William O'Leary: song
Hugh McCune." Chas. A Greene: Glass
| of '99'' Robert Walsh; Glass of 1880
| William Fleming; The Yard Association
| character sketch. Chas. Mclaughlin: Glass
| Spirit of aS.' w. w. Dixon: Society as L
| Found IT. Francis McAnerney: The Con-
| vent and Ladies i'm General" Clarke Wag-
| gaman: Glass Song of '9S." Bob Ridley:
DAY Scholars Ed. Brady: "A Few Points
on Study, James Walsh: The Future of
Life" Keane: Christmas and Home" Nc
Alaer- Fathers Ennis. Deck, Richly, Beck
| er ard Kavanaugh represented the faculty
The Philosophers held their annual ban
quet Monday evening. Mr.. Charles Shea,
| president of the class, presided. There
| were no toasts. The faculty was repre-
sented by Fathers Shandell, Brett and
Deck and Mr. Doulin, Sd.
The question for debate at Thursday
evenings meeting of the Philademc Society
| was. Resolved. That an income tax is the
most equitable mode of taxation" Mo
| Aleer and Mcmahon spoke on the affirma-
| tive and Curley and Cover on the negative.
The question for the Merrick Medal De-
bate has been announced, but is subject to
change at the discretion of the president of
the society or the rector of the university:
Resolved, That the United States should
grant beligerent rights to Cuba Sides
have not yet been assigned to the debaters.
j. OLeary, captain of the 9S foot ball
eleven, has been compelled TO give up his
studies on account of his eyesight and has
gone home.
Examinations of the fall term are i'm pro-
gress and the school will close on the 22d
instant until January 3.
The Morris Literary and Debating Soci-
ETY. discussed at their last meeting Re
solved, That romanticism is preferable to
realism in literature" affirmative, Harry
Riley; negative, Martin Monohan. ]. +. r.