Amador ledger., 1900-03-09

ago, and to take part in the great
annual games of the Intercollegiate
Association at Chicago. Princeton has
offered its track for training.
Only once before has California
team been sent east-in 1925, when the
Berkeley athletes won the Western
intercollegiate championship, defeated
Princeton, tied Pennsylvania, and dis
tiuguished themselves at Mott Haven.
Among the athletes who are most
likely to make the eastern team are
Track Captain William P. Drum,
whose year of service in the Philippines
has not impaired his skill in the spriuts;
Cadogan, the quarter-mile runner; Ben
Bakewell, the hurdler; Hoffman, the
pole-vaulter and high jumper; Woolsey,
the shot-putter and sprinter; Plaw. the
hammer-thrower; and Broughton, the
road-jumper and sprinter. Track
Manager Ezra Decoto and the students
are raising a guarantee fund OF $4,000.
A crew from the University of Calf
ornia will row against the great eastern
universities at Poughkeepsie in the
spring of 1901. Boating has never held
its proper place in California athletics
because of StanfOrd's inability to find
water. The Intercollegiate Rowing
Association hopes to make the Pough-
keepsie regatta all American Henley.
Major General William Montrose
Graham, U. S. A.. retired, reviewed
the University Cadets this morn
ing. General Graham's son, First
Lieutenant Malcom Graham, U. 5. A.,
now stationed at Iloilo, was formerly a
mem Der of the present Senior class.
Major Robert MouthOp, 90 command
ea :he parade today and Major Harri
son :. Robinson. 100, the review.
Lieutenant Sidney A. Cloman, who
was Professor of Military Science and
Tactics at the University of California
when the war with Spain broke out,
is now civil and military governor OF a
little group of islands near BorneO. 700
miles from Manila, whose Mohamme-
lam natives have long practiced poly
gamy and slavery.
When DR.. Joseph LeConte entered
his lecture-roOm last Monday morning,
he found it beautifully decorated,
crowded with students, aud. a fine Cop
ley print of 1.-The Prophets" on his
desk, the students gift in honor OF his
seventy-seventh birthday.
I'VE have tried, said the venerable
scientist to ''his children, " ''to give
you the true spirit of science, and more
than that, the true spirit of learning"
President benjamin Ide Wheeler of
the University OF California will return
from the east next Tuesday. The Pro-
motion Committee of the Pacific Com
mercial Museum has voted to meet i'm
mediately after his return in order TO
hear the results of his interview with
tho President and other members of
the government while he was in Wash
ingtOn.
President Wheeler's Alexander the
Great and Merging of East and
West in Universal History" which
was printed as serial in the Century,
has just been issued in book form as
one of the Putnam series, Heroes of
the Nations
A second edition will soon be out of
Professor C. c. Plehn's 'Introduction
to Public Finance" which is now used
as textbook by Yale, Cornell, Chi
cago, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Stan
ford, California and a number of other
colleges. This edition contains much
new material, including chapter on
the financial administration of war.
President Willsie Martin of the SEN
ior class has appointed Miss Lena M.
Macaulay chairman of the committee
for the morning exercises of Glass Day,
F. w. Aitkin chairman of the after
noon committee, and Percival Dolman
chairman of the committee on Senior
Ball.