Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-10
STATE UNIVERSITY NOTES


University hall. Such a room has been very
much needed and will be greatly appreciated
by the women OF the university.
The Easter recess this year will com
mence Thursday morning, March 80, and
continue through Monday, April 3. This is
a week earlier than is scheduled in the
printed calendar of the university.
The Mandolin club, which has been dor
mant for many months, was revived for the
Charter Day festivities and was well re-
ceived in its one number given. The num-
Der will probably be increased to twenty
and heard frequently in the future.
Henry Eames who is at the head Of the
piano department OF the University School
of Music has given in several cities of Nc
braska his lecture recital on Russian music,
which Is said to be full of interest and which
displays his unusual pianistic ability.
The March Kiote made its appearance this
week. 1t comes forth in a new cover with
the sign of the double Kiote upon 1t. The
stories are by Harriet Mossman Cooke,
Grace L. Reynolds and George c. Shedd
the verse by Prosser Hall Frye X. A., and
Edwin Ford Piper, The Yelps are excellent.
The polyphase electrical apparatus loaned
by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing company for experimental work in
the electrical laboratory has just arrived
and is now being set UP. 1t includes ro-
tary converter for utilizing either direct or
alternating currents and a two-phase motor
for illustrating power transmission.
The Athletic board is planning to publish,
for the first time in the history of the in
stitution an athletic annual 1t Will con-
tain all student records in convenient form,
besides numerous half f-tone illustrations of
the universty's prominent athletes and
athletic teams 1t will be official publ
cation, with Dr. william W. Hastings, the
physical director as editor-in chief.
The University School of Music is enjoy
ing year of prosperity along with other
departments of the university and will re-
cord its largest enrolment this year. There
are many plans for its development which
it is hoped may be put into practice next
year and students of music in any branch
VIII find here an institution fully up to date
and furnishing the best musical advantages.
A very pretty illustration of the strength
of properly disposed material was recently
given in the breaking of a model roof truss
designed by one of the students 1t was
built of wood and weighed but five pounds,
and yet it withstood a strain OF more than
ton before finally being crushed. The
test was made upon the new testing ma
chine belonging to the Department of Civil
Engineering
The great pipe organ of the Transmisss
sippi Exposition, which was heard by tens of
thousands last summer and fall, is the gift
Of the alumni of the university to their alma
mater and has been placed temporarily in
the gymnasium. Concerts will be given upon
1t from time to time and as soon as it is
permanently located in a building provided
it will be the Joy and pride of all friends of
the university for many years to come.
1t is remarkable fact that two of the
six or seven greatest pianists in the world
have visited Lincoln this season. Madam
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler whom the world
of music has feted and cheered with deaf
ening applause for years. was here about
| a month ago and not long ago Teresa Car
| reno came who for the last twenty years
has been in the forefront of piansts of the
| world and who still retains her lofty place
as one of the greatest interpreters of COM
positions of the masters who has ever
lived Surely Lincoln should be proud of
| this fact and it Is evidence that 1t is fast
becoming a musical center.
The second meeting of the Latin colo
quinn was held Tuesday evening Prof.
Barber presided and the meeting was opened
| by presentation by MIR. King of several
articles from the Classical Review. This
| was followed by a discussion OF the meters
| of Virgil, taken from the English Journal
| of Philology and presented by Mr.. Jeffords.
Mr.. Manss then read an article from the
| American Journal of Archaeology on the
excavations in Palestria and Sardinia. Prof.
Barber then resumed his discussion of Ben
netts Grammar, begun at the last meeting,
and the remaining time was taken up by
| DR.. johnson on the Collegium Fratrum Ar
valium.
The School Of Domestic Science served hot
| biscuit and syrup on Charter day. All the
arrangements and processes were according
to the latest and most approved methods.
Five hundred biscuits were made and served
during the afternoon. Miss Rosa Bouton,
the head of the department, deserves credit
| for the excellent footing upon which the
school has been placed. One of the students
| of this department, Miss Madge Virgins,
has lately been appointed by the governor
of the state to free scholarship in the New
Era Cooking school of Worcester, Mass.
! This Is one of the best schools of the kind in
the country and Miss Virgins is to be con-
graduated upon her appointment
Miss Eflle X. Price, international college
secretary of the Young Women's Christian
association, spent last week at the univer-
| sity. She delivered address at chapel
Monday morning, which was exceedingly
well received. Miss Price has unusual gifts
! as a public speaker and the daily meetings
for young women have been largely at
| tended. reception was rendered Miss
| Price Monday evening by the Young
| Women's and Young Mems Christian associ-
ations, to which all students and the faculty
| were invited. A large number availed them
selves of this opportunity to meet Miss Price.
The meetings of the week closed with a par
lor conference on Saturday afternoon.
| The university reaches the largest number
Of adults in the state through the farmers
| institutes. The Institutes had been cher
| ished by the various state societies and the
| university, until the last legislature saw fit
to entrust the care of them to the regents
and made the small appropriation of $1,000
a year for the management of them. The
| report of the superintendent cover but
the first year of the management with state
aid. The holding Of forty-two institutes and
| the results returned, to say nothing of the
| experience OF years without state aid, prove
| that this important work should be con-
F.! tlnued The work has been much more
closely organized for the present year and IL
is believed that the mistakes of the past will
| not be repeated. AS form Of practical uni
versity extension In an agricultural state
| farmers institutes would seem to be the
| realization of the ideal.
In correspondence with DR.. Ward on ath-
| letic matters touching the university, Cas-
| par Whitney writes in a recent letter as
! follows II have confidence in the sports
manly standard OF Nebraska. | am
sure you must have difficulties with your
students. 1t is so all over the west and
particularly in the Missouri valley--the un-
dergraduates do not seem to appreciate the
ethics of amateur sport. / imagine you
must, on occasions, become much discour-
aged; but / assure you that there Is a
great deal OF encouragement In
the last six or eight years / have
made four complete circuits of the United
States and you cannot imagine the tremen- =
dous Improvement in the intelligent con-
ception OF the spirit of amateur sport like
wise in the improved healthy wholesome
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