The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-07
UNIVERSITY NOTES.
A Joint Debate May BE Held With the
Montana Wesleyan University.

Missoula, Nov. e,-The literary socie-
ties of the university have received a
challenge rom the literary society of
the Moi ana Wesleyan at Helena for
joint debate TO be held in either Hell
ena or Missouia some time in Deem
ber The societies held a meeting and
promptly accepted the challenge, and
are getting to work 1t is expected to
hold the debate in Helena this year,
and that next year the debate will be
held here. If it is held another year.
The literary societies will hold pre-
liminary contest in debate this coming
Friday night, to determine the best de-
baters. who will represent the univer-
sity in the contest 1t Is decided that
admission to the hall on the night Of
the preliminary contest will be ex-
tended only to the students of the uni
versity. Already number have sig
nified their Witness to enter, and it is
hoped that the contest will be spirited
one and that the university will have
a representation of the best debaters
at the contest at Helena. This contest
is a beginning of the contests in a
friendly way that the different insti-
tutions should hold with cath other.
Contests among students from differ
ent institutions arouse a spirit of EN-
thusiasm, stir the contestants to their
best effort and give them an opportu-
nifty to see what is being done at other
institutions. Most students, like other
people, do their best work under pres
sure Of some kind or other, and such
things put spurs to them that nothing
else would. This debate will be a good
thing all round and should be followed
by the organization of the state oratori-
cal contest so much spoken of.
The professors who used the X-ray in
attempting to locate a 5000 bullet in
the foot of one of Missoula's returned
hunters last week are nursing both
wrath and Indignation. One of the pro-
fessors said that 5000 rifle that would
not send bullet through a mans foot
was not fit gun to hold while facing
a bear or to use against elk or moose,
yet the man still asserted that the
bullet was in his foot. Careful exami
nation with the scope failed to reveal
any bullet, as did the Photographic
plate, and the professors stand on their
original assertion that there was never
a bullet in the foot. Later develop
cident confirm this theory, as it has
been learned that there was no acct
dental discharge from the rifle at all.
The learned professors have been made
the victims of a modern Ananias and
are planning some way to get even.
They say that they are not in
any particular need of any prac
are they want to choose their own
subject. They will be more cautious in
the future when they are asked to as
sist in a case of this kind. They will
demand a complete history of the case
before proceeding with the scope.
Earl Douglass took his geology class
on a prospecting tourn on University
mountain one day last week. They eX-
plored the dark recesses of the old
abandoned mine dug through the solid
rock on the face of the mountain and
| extending in some hundred feet. This
| gives good opportunity for studying
the rock. In addition they prospected
the ridge of the mountain. measured
the dip of the rocks, their mode of
weathering and like geological phe-
nomena. This is the first of series
of outings proposed for the geology
class and in this region they must be
productive of much information in a
| practical line.
Several of the professors took trip
up the Mountain of the Mitten last Sat
urday. The luggage consisted of guns,
camera and provisions. A geologi-
| cal reconnaissance was made of the
| mountain, pictures of formation TAKEN
and study made of the different fea-
lures of the mountain. They returned
| late, but hungry, and are ready for an
| other trip.
some ~ or more or the students OF
biology accompanied the professor ON
| an outing up the Rattlesnake last Fri
| day afternoon. The tramp was for the
| purpose of making study of outdoor
| life in the waters at this season of the
! year. Other trips have been planned
| if the weather continues favorable
Professor Wescott is enjoying the
beauties of western autumn much more
now that Mrs. Wescott and their boy
have arrived in the city. Although the
| professor came but few days before
| the opening of the year and had every
thing to locate in the shops and labor
| atory, he has gotten a good start and
the students are doing some remarkably
| good work.
The football boys do not wear so
| broad q smile as they did on the MORN