Evening star., 1897-03-27
U N I'VE RSITY NOTES
Columbian u0iversity.

IItfs Si - NGlflpftli. Hlt.'iStE Va tlt'ifl anu
track sports, is hustling 10 secure strong
relay team 10 represent ;te Columbian in
the games at Philadelphia on April -.
The Law School Debating Society on
Saturday. April 3. will discuss Resolved.
That there is an absolute freedom of the
Will" The speakers are A. R. Toiman and
G. o. Guynes. on the affirmative. and c. q.
Schwartz and p. w. Stephens, on the mega
tive. On April 10 the question announced
Is: Resolved. That the United States gov
ernment should assume control ana operate
the Nicaragua canal" n" speakers viii
he F. w. Crist. X. +. Oliver. T. IL. Bllck-
ford. affirmative; II. F. Bright. ]. b. Lam
kin. w. L. Earnev. negative.
The members of the senior class had their
photogra phs taken this week fer insertion
in the class history. which is being com
piled by Mr.. Woolard. the historian Of the
class, and which will be published in aoout
six weeks.
The junior class haze arranged for
class banquet to he given On Fri lay. April
the 10th. The place has lot yet been decil-
ed on
Prof. Lester F. Ward delivered a special
lecture on Sociology" on THURSDAY aftcr-
noon before the students of the department
of political philosophy.
paper The Weathering of Mica
ceous Gneiss In Alo"narlc County, Nir
ginia,' by Prof. George p. Merrill of the
Corcoran Scientific School, Is a recent pub
lication by the Geological Society of
America.
Next Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock Or.
Anita Newcomb MCGEE will speak before
the Woman's Anthrooologiral Society on
THE Koreshan Community"
The next meeting of the Society for Ph!lo-
sophcal Inquiry will he aeld Oh Tuesday,
April g. and Mr.. Powell Will read a paper
on THE Philosophy of Constituencies and
Its Limitations by Material Environments"
In the public lecture course yesterda.' af-
ternoon Prof. NJ. ID. Learned spoke on
Germans in the United States" On Mon
day afternoon at go o'clock Prof w o.
Partridge will deliver tla of six n ri
lectures, which conclude the course. The
subject of the first lecture is Life and
Art
The final lecture in the students lecture
course of the Corcoran Scientific Sctoo!
was given last Saturday evening by c. Le-
roy Parker. who took for his subject "Jo-
seph Priestly, the Defender and Destroyer
of the Phogistic Theory Tonight post
poned lecture will be given.
Catholic University.
Archbishop ireland of st. Paul, who has
been in the city for the past week. was
a visitor at the university Monday after
noon.
DR.. Conaty attended the anniversary or
the Western University of Pennsylvania
held at Pittsburg the sd. oath and 18th,
| and delivered an address ON The Reia-
ton Between the College and the UniVer-
sity." Next Monday he will speak before
the Catholic Club of Baltimore at their
! celebration of colonists day on The Ideal
American
DIR. Garrgan preached at St. Stephens
| Church Wednesday evening on Forgive
! ness of SIN" On tomorrow evening he VIII
| preach at Norfolk.
| Thursday afternoon Daniel w. Shea Ph.
| d.. professor of physics. gave a lecture on
The Rontgen Ray Phenomena" in the pub
lie lecture course. 1t was illustrd ed by
| numerous stereoptic views and was highly
! enjoyed by large audience. ON Thursday
| April /. DR.. ID. S. Day of the United States
| geological survey viii close the public lee
ture course with lecture on The Ever
| gladeS of Florida
| Monday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock Carroll
D. Wright, commissioner of labor, Will
lecture on Social Economics.
Howard University.
| At last Wednesdays meeting of the Theo-
! logical Literary and Debating Society the
| question debated was. Resolved That
prizes should not be offered in schools"
]. w. Neil spoke in the affirmative and s..
| Nance in the negative. duet was also
| rendered by S. j. Lee and James Jacobs.
| For the next meeting the question is, Re
solved, That the Romans have done more
| for the advancement of civilization than
| the Egyptians" The speakers will be q.
| w. West on the affirmative and j. L. Wash
| iEgton OF. the negative.
| At the Livingstone Missionary Society
| meeting on Friday evening missionary
papers were read by NJ. NJ Sparks. VIM. X.
| PAYNE and w s. Nance. N F. Stewart is
A special lecture on Memory" WAS given
In the chapel Wednesday afternoon by
| Prof. Pick.
| The Christian Endeavor Society elected
the following officers at its last meeting:
| President, G. s. Murray; vice president.
| Mss S. A. Hooe; secretary, Miss NJ. T..
| librarian, John Hammond. The standing
committees will be announced by the p:esi-
dent at the next meeting.
! The mock congress (Alphi Phi) held no
meeting last week on account OF the Chris
| tian Endeavor social being held the
regular meeting night.
The concert by the Glee, Banjo Mandolin
| and Guitar Club last night at Lincoln Me-
! mortal Church was well attended. An eX-
! cellent program was rendered. Arrange
ments have been made to give another con-
| cert at the Metropolitan NJ. +. Church un-
| der the auspices of the Bethel Literary So
| ciety about April l, and also one in Balti-
| more in the latter part of April.
Georgetown University.
The Debating Society of the Law De-
partment will hold their second public de-
| bate at O'Clock this evening in the Law
School building, on E street. The ques lion
| to be discussed is. Resolved, That foreign
immigration should be further restricted"
The speakers will be NJ. T. Conboy of New
| York and Mr.. Lemuel E. Via of Virginia
| on the affirmative and Mr.. Charles NJ. kel-
! ly of Maryland and Mr. Charles NJ Doran
| of Virginia. The judges were Timothy c.
Carroll, o. W. Catchings and George c.
| Meigs, esq. The officers CO the society are
| Eugene Logan. president: Charles NJ. Do
| ran, vice president; Edgar Merritt. secre-
| tary; g. W. Bingham, treasurer. and Fred.
| Schade, sergeant-at-arms. The committee on
| public debate is composed of j. Raymond
Stafford Michael ii. King and Stephen J.
| Casey. This committee has also arranged
for two intercollegiate debates with the
| Law Department of the University of New
| York, the first debate to he held in this
! city in CASTOR Hall at the university build
ing. The date has not yet been decided,
but will probably be April 26 The George
town speakers VIII be Charles Roach.
North Dakota; ]. Neal Powers, District of
Columbia, and James A Ryan of Teancs-
see. The University of New York speak
ers will be n. ID. Stern, J. J. O'Connell and
]. F. Zimmerman. all of New York city.
The question to be debated is: Resolved,
That beIligerent rights be granted the
Cubans by the United States.''
The Morris Literary and Debating So
ciety at its next regular meeting will de-
bate the question Resolved, That the
Dingley tariff bill should be passed with
out amendment" Paul Dillon will speak
in the affirmative and p. Mclaughlin in
| the negative