Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-05
U NlVE RSITY NOTE
Columbian University.

Columbian University.
| Inc athletic association, to whose MEM
| persh1p number Of the students have re-
Gently been elected will meet this evening.
| Plans are Under way for a base ball team
| to represent the university this season, and
1t is probable that some attention will be
| given to tennis.
| Prof. Jeffords' lecture was postponed
! from Wednesday until the 9th instant,
The Hamiltonian Society. at it's meeting
this evening, will have for discussion, Re
| solved, That the United States should an
| mex Canada"
The Law School Debating Society held q
| public debate last Saturday evening, the
question being, Resolved, That the United
States Senate should be elected by direct
vote of the people, The speakers were
Messrs. H. S. Lewis, L. D. Clark and +. c.
Hume, jr., affirmative, and Messrs. W. s.
Smith, c. c. Wyant and A. A. Adams, neg
alive. The judges, Messrs. Job Barnard.
Tracy L. Jeffords and w. r. Ellis, rendered
| their decision in favor of the latter gentle
men. The question this evening will be.
Resolved. That the government should
| own and control the telephone and tele-
| graph systems" and the speakers c. o.
Guynes and w. F. Kirk, affirmative, and
Messrs. W. F. Kirk and H. A. White, neg
alive. On the 10Th instant the question
will be, Resolved, That the policy of ex-
GLIDING Chinese laborers should be MAIN
tanned and vigorously enforced.
The Virginia Club of the law school will
give smoker next Friday evening.
The Columbian Parliamentary Law Soci-
| iety will meet tonight.
The students of the Corcoran Scientific
School held a meeting Thursday to elect
an editor to represent them on the staff of
| the Call
The Enosinian Society, class I. will dis
cuss the question this evening, Resolved,
That the execution of Charles I was justi-
fable The speakers on the affirmative
side will be Misses Smith and Parkinson,
| and on the negative Miss Smith and Mr..
Beatty.
Glass II has for discussion, Resolved.
That music is more elevating than poetry"
and Miss Ross and Mr.. Harlan. affirma-
tive, and Mr.. Rogers and Miss Mckeldon,
negative, will be the speakers.
A movement is foot for the building
of a new hospital, to be conducted under
the auspices of the university.
Work has been commenced on the new
law school and office building on 9Th street,
and the old structure is now being torn
down.
Georgetown University.
Work on the new grand stand has been
commenced, and it is the intention of the
athletic association to have 1t completed
If possible by the 26th instant, when the
first game of the season in base ball will
be played with Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. j. M. Dunn is the builder of the new
structure, and the permit states the cost
as $500. There will be three fiagpoles on
the stand when completed, and dressing
rooms and other conveniences will be fit
ted up below. The seating capacity will be
at least 1000.
The base ball team was out last Satur-
day for the first time Mr.. Mccarthy is
captain, and the most prominent candi-
dates for the various positions are Moran.
Walsh, Casey, Fleming, Maloney, Dowd,
Smith, OConnor, Bach, O'Donnell, Tracy,
Downs, Miles and Kelly.
url,oro q. .o,,,o 4,u, l.1a;a- a,,a1
meet with the University Of Pennsylva-
mia, but no definite arrangements have
been made as yet. The bowling tourna-
| ment has just been completed, with John
keane the winner and Joseph Fitzpatrick
second. There were fifty-SiX entries, and
the affair was considered great success.
The scores, though not very high, were
fair, considering the short time some OF
the contestants have spent at the game.
The consultations will be played off next
week.
Shortstop Demontreville. formerly of the
Washington Base Ball Club, but now with
the BaltimoreS, Is practicng with the
varsity nine.
The examinations for the second term
at the law school will be held on the 10th,
18th and 14th on torts, equity and con-
tracts, respectively. That in civil law has
already occurred. The result of the exam
nations held just before Christmas has
not yet been announced.
The law school debating society held a
public debate last Saturday evening, the
question being, Resolved, That the pro-
visions Of the income tax act of the act of
Congress of August 10, 1894, were consti-
tuticnal." and the speakers, Messrs. L. H.
Mattingly and Charles F. Conlon. afirma-
tive. and Messrs. Joseph Saloman and
Charles r. Yeatman, negative. The de-
bate was decided in favor of the negative.
Professor Douglass was absent from the
law school last Saturday evening, and his
place was filled by Mr.. A. E. L. Leckie.
Mr.. c. de B. Claiborne. manager of field
md fVonI Tod afprrv fI.a
meeting in New York of the Inter-Col-
.egiate American Amateur Athletic Associa-
ton.
Father Richards was out of the city last
week.
Howard University.
Prof. r. B. Warder and Seniors G. S.
Murray and Calvin Alexander returned
Tuesday from Cleveland, Ohio, where they
had gone as delegates from Howard to the
international convention Of the students
volunteer movement. Next Monday after
noon they will report to the students of the
university.
Last week Miss Edith A Rankin led the
G e. mass meeting, her subject being,
Getting Close to Christ" The topic this
evening will be, profitable Sabbath"
Last night the annual debate of the theo-
logical department was held for the May
nard prizes. The question for debate was,
Resolved That the migration Of the col
cred people to Africa is the best solution of
the race problem in this country" and the
speakers, N. w. Brown, G. w. Powell and
M. B. Sparks, affirmative, and W. E. Moore,
G. HI. West and C. Wright, negative. The
judges were Rev. H.B. Higley,D. D.; RevW.
V. Tunnel. d. D., and Rev. ]. H. Bradford.
D. D. The music was under the direction
of Professor Stevens
Second term examinations will probably
be commenced next week.
Brass Collars for Drunkards.
From Tit-Bts.
A colonial gentleman, who now sits on