The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-22
AFFAIRS At UNIVERSITY.
JUNIOR CLASS I'd GIVE PRONE
MADE IN HONOR OF SENIORS.
Interest Reviving I'm Track Ath-
Ietics Among the students-Pros-
poets for Active season Are Good
Junior Annual to BE Ont Soon.

The chief event at the University of
Washington this week will be the junior
promenade. to be given Wednesday evening
at Ranke hall. The affair will be in
honor of the senior class. The track meet
which was to inaugurate the season IN
Northwest athletics next Saturday has
been postponed owing to the lack of in
terest taken In the project by other eluos.
The approach OF the big collegiate meets
in the early part of May has revived IN
terest in sport at the university. since
the football season closed the. athletes
have had to take a back seat, while the de-
batting clubs, the Oratorical Association
and the Dramatic Club held the center OF
the stage. Now the conditions are re-
versed and the athletes are becoming the
heroes of the hour.
The coming track season promises to be
one OF the most brilliant in the history
OF the state. II Is said that athletics IN
general have recovered from the effects of
the Kloudike excitement in 1897 and 1898
During those years the ranks OF the star
athletes of Washington were practically
depleted by the rush to the north.
Now new men have been developed and
have taken the places of the former vet
Grams A new race of athletes has sprung
up that is expected to maintain the best
traditions Of sport in this part of the
United States. This is especially true of
the colleges in the Northwest. Eastern
Washington has a number of strong coli
iege teams Oregon bids fair to surpass all
her previous efforts In athletics. while
Idaho is coming rapidly to the front.
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The track team of the university is
showing up well. Track Capt Morford ex-
presses himself as satisfied with the prog
ress already made. and says that the col
lege is strong in all the principal events
with the exception of the pole vault. There
are many experienced men in the team,
Morford himself has been one OF the crack
distance runners in Western Washington
for several years The star Splinter or
the university is Cauikfns, who made
brilliant record in the meets of last sum
mer c. Hin will be remembered as the
noted long -distance runner of the 1897 sea-
son, Sterling HILL who Is better known as
a football player, starred In the hurdles
and quarter-m mile last season: Thayer VIII
be remembered for his rapid rise In atm
letics from obscurity last summer.
the front are Huntoon and Cosgrove; the
football players; Chestnut. Davis, BIRD,
Fields and LindiH Other promising men
For the first time in many years the col
lege will be represented by bicycle racers,
They are c. Rathbun, Denny and Eshle-
man. the first of whom has already sew
era medals to his credit
While the men are working harder than
ever in athletics. the university goods
the AFFAIRS OF their own association. The
basketball team Is unable to secure COM
petitors, and will probably get no outside
games this season. Matters are not mucn
better in their track team.
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The senior class met Tuesday to consider
the final reports of the committees on
class day and class printing. Their plans
are being kept strictly secret. but II -
said that their class day exercises Will
be something novel and unique. oid
said, will be paid OFF with compound in
terest and there will be many amusing
hits at the most prominent students.
The junior Annual. which has been
the subject OF much speculation In univer-
sity circles, Will be out some time this
week. 1t Will consist OF over NV pages,
containing original stories and poems by
the students. one act farces on local uni
versity affairs, and will be illustrated with
haf-tones II will have a large number
of caricatures OF the professors and stu
dents. All the departments and student
organizat tons will be written up in a semi
humorous style. As 1t is the first publi-
cation OF the kind ever issued by the coli
lese, 1t is awaited with great eagsrness.
The Glee Club, which will make a tour
OF the state' In few weeks, has selected
Brightman, Schneider. Hammonds and
Fadden; second tenors, Boyce. Schoder,
tones. Densmore, Campbell. Duffy. John
son and Wannamaker. bassos. HILL 8,
Wright. Hopkins, j. f.. Wright and Prig-
more. Clarence Mcdonald is business
manager.
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AT the last meeting of the w. T. Harris
Club the subject of discussion was ma.
dame de Maintenon" Papers were read
by Miss Amanda Fleischer and Charles
Isandes. Miss Anne Mitchell read an ar.
ticie entitled est. eye" The latter part
OF the meeting was given up to general
discussion on these topics.
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The Students Assembly passed two
amendments 10 it's constitution Friday.
The first provided that the annual election
OF officers should be held toward the close
of the college year. instead of at the
beginning The other amendment pro-
yides for the election of the business man
sger OF the Pacific Wave by the students.
Heretofore he has been appointed by the
publication committee.