, 1898-07-20
UNIVERSITY NOTES
UNPATRIOTIC UTTERANCES OF
PROF. NORTON OF HAIR
WARD UNIVERSITY.
What Authorization Will Be Used in
Speaking Of the Glass of 1902
Arranging for a Play-Energetic
Seniors of SO Already Preparing
for Commencement.

nv VI ~ hliNduy fItpdl lHS
for Commencement.
At the opening of the sixth annual
session of The Clark University sum
mer school, an address was made by
Senator Hoar in which he severely re-
buked Prof. Norton of Harvard for
his slurring remarks upon Americans.
He spoke of the reconciliation OF the
north and south by the war and the
sympathy for the United States from
England and expressed qualification
over the closer bonds of union with the
mother country. He continued:
In strange contrast with these tok-
ems of respect are a few d%iscordant and
| see that Prof. Norton of Harvard is
quoted as telling the youth of the uni
versity that it is characteristic of the
American people to be trining. They
have acquired a varnish Of civilized
life, but their natures have not been
refined.
Poor Prof. Norton. color-blind and
music deaf. At this day when the north
and south are coming together. when
mother England is learning to know
her daughter and to love her again, he
says that it is a characteristic of the
American people to be triiiing, and he
feels, with Horace Walpole, that he
should be proud Of his country if it
were not for his countrymen.
Heaven knows that | do not say this
from any desire to infict pain, but it
is due to the youth of the country, it
is due to a Harvard. that somebody
shall say this: If such utterances are
to be u%nreproved from our foremost
university, manhood and courage and
honor will follow athletics to Yale, or
will follow classical learning to the
English Cambridge"
600
1t is a college custom of long stand
ing hat the senior class be called by
the last two figures of the year in which
they graduate, as for instance the class
CT 9S. 1t is n matter of some interest
and much discussion among college
students what the class of 1900 will he
called. An article from a college pa
per expresses this difficulty:
We have examined the annals of
Harvard, Yale and Princeton for nick
names of the class of 1900 in vain. We
have not sought to inquire as to the
tarvards class OF 17O0-probably
they hardly had at that time any avail
able class cry, being satisfied to listen
to an occasional war whoop of the In
dams. For 1900 shall it be naughty
naught?' or 'oughty ought?' or nine
teen" or 'umpty aught?' or double
zed?' or 'nuff zed?' We confess it is
quite beyond us to answer"
900
Prof. Soule returned Sunday from
his trip to the Colorado mountains.
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A number of photographs have beer
taken by the students Of the electrical
storms. Some of these pictures have
turned out very well.
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Miss Harriet Fox leaves. today for
Cheyenne. where she will visit with
Miss Hattie Knight for some time.
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Arrangements are being made by
some of the young ladies of the COL
legiate department for a play which
they hope to give at the beginning of
the next college year. The proceeds of
this play will be used to accomplish a
long felt want of the college girls,
namely, that of furnishing the study
parlor. The play will be chosen and
practiced this summer.
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Germany is pre-eminently the land
of chemistry. Its great chemical So
ciety-the Deutsche Chemische Gesell-
schaft-is probably the largest scien-
tific organization In the world, having
1859 members. over AZ per cent of
whom. however, are from other coun-
tries. All nations are represented. the
United States having 2S5 members and
Great Britain 235.
The senior class OF 90 will be moth
ing if not energetic. The members OF
planning for next commencement. We
would suggest to this class that it defer
this thinking at least until next Sep
TENDER.
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Prof. Buiium returned home Monday
from mis- trip TO Denver, having made