El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-09
COLLEGE NOTES
Interest In TenniS-QreSldent San
ders Returns From National
irrigation Congress At Mon
tdnd.

Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
MES1LLA PARK, N. M, Oct 5.-Mist
Ethel N. Peet, of Monticello, Indiana
who has been spending the summer
near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, came uI
from Ell Paso last week, and Is a tenn.
porary guest at the Girls dormitory.
Miss Pees will probably enroll as a
student again this year.
| Among the visitors during the past
week at the Agricultural College, have
been Miss Gertrude Armijo, Mr..
Feliz Martinez and Mrs. Feliz Marti-
| nez of Ell PasO, who went through the
| various departments of the Institution
on Tuesday afternoon last.
The first mum Der of the college pa
per, tho New Mexico Collegian, will be
| issued about the 7th of the month. A
| few changes were made recently in the
editorial staff of this paper, and the pO-
sition of assistant editor-in-chief
created, to which Mr.. William c..
Meeker has been elected. Mr.. Charles
L. Post is editor-in-chief OF the Col
legian.
The only girls society in the college,
| with its mysterious title, P.S. u w. f.,
has already held several meetings this
year. and appears to he in prosperous
condition. This organization has gain
ed an envisble repu tation for it's enter
prise and energy, and the excellent
manner in which it has conducted its
public exercises 1t will hold an open
NEE ting next Friday afternoon.
The Coium bian Literary Society,
which is the leading society in the col
iege, and which has been established
since 1891, has recently received q
large ad di'ion to its membership. Its
meetings so far this year have been
largely attended, and it's literary ex-
ercsies of consid cradle merit. The
society founded the college paper, the
|Collegian, and has managed it since its
inception. The president of the socie-
ty this term is Mr.. w. G. Meeker.
The Mesilla park private school
opened on Monday last, with Mics
Myrtle Bailey as teacher, and with a
fair attendance. This school is sup
ported entirely by private enterprise
for the benefit of those families attend
ing college who have young children
to be educated. 1t is not connected
with the college officially in any way.
The apparatus and instruments OF
the United States weather office here,
which for a number of years ever
since the service was started-have
been located in the farm building
have been removed to the Science
Hall, one of the new buildings, where
the conditions and conveniences for
taking meteorological observations are
much better than in the farm building.
The interest in tennis grows apace.
A list of eligible candidates for the
college tennis team has been posted on
competition and q good deal of prac-
tice among the 'eligibles for position
on the college team, which will consist
of elk gentlemen ana two ladies.
The base ball game played last
Saturday between the Stenogrsphy
department and all the other classes
combined proved to be one of the best
ball games ever played On the grounds
of this institution. The Steno-
graphers had big undertaking on
their hands to meet the pick of oil the
rest of the student body, but with the
good players that the class possesses,
they made an excellent game. For q
while the score was very close, but
the com bined good play of the college
team resulted in a defeat for the open
Gil Showers" by a score of "a to 81.
have again issued an open challenge
for second game, to be played next
Saturday afternoon. The attendance
of visitors and lady students at last
Saturdays game was good. The
captains of the respective teams are
Victor V. Mead for the Stenogrsph-
ers, and Frank BrOyles for the col
lege.
Mr.. Hum boldt Casad left on Wednes-
day mornings train for Santa Fe to
represent the college at the Horticult-
ural society's fair, now being held
there, AMI to take charge of the col
lege exhibit of preserved fruits which
has been forwarded there from Albu-
querque. Mr.. Cssad took with him
an additional exhibit of fresh fruits
from the college orchard, and some
flowers from the college flower garden.
The present showing of verbenas.
gaillardias, Gahlias and cosmos, in the
flower garden, is exceptionally good.
Professor G.. A. Refers efforts to es-