Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15
COLLEGE NOTES.


scholarship.
me coming summer session OF the
university OF California will offer in
struction in % departments. 1t
claimed that more students spent las,
summer a. this institution thar at
any other American university. exceot
Harvard.
The government is to sell the
arsenal grounds in indianapolis, anu
there is local desire to acquire tie
| property as location for the uni
versity of Indianapolis. which is at
| present four mnes from the city and
has no opportunity TO expand.
Interest in debating at New York
university has almost disappeared
during the last two years. A foinr
committee OF faculty and students has
now been chosen TO attempt a revival
OF interest in debating and to arrange
intercollegiate debates for next year.
James Parker Hall, associate pro-
lessor OF law. has rendered his res
ignatiOn to the trustees of Leland
stamford university. Prof. Hall will
go to Chicago university, where he
will hold full professorship in he
new department of law that will be-
| opened oAere IN October.
1t is now settled that the new social
building, which is to he built at
Brown largely through the contribu-
TONES of John D. Rockefeller, should
be located in the middle campus a.
the corner of Waterman and Brown
/ streets After consultation with the
/ architects, it was found that it was
the only site which was large enough
to accommodate the ,dilding.
Official ngures showing the enrol
ment in the university of Michigan
this year have been gievn out. The
total is 2.709, three less than last wear.
| The regular session shows a net gain
| Of 26 and the summer session a loss
| OF ~. In the literary and engineering
department the only gain have been
made The losses in the medical and
dental schools are due to the increas-
ed requirements for graduation.
There is movement on foot among
| the professors and students of Greek
| in the university of Pennsylvania to
| revive the production of Greek plays
| by undergraduates. 1t is proposed to
produce play next winter.
Sophocles's "Antigone" is proposed, to
be accompanied by Mendelsshon's
music for the lyrical songs. Penn
sylvania men have not appeared in a
Greek play since 1885, and the proposi4
ton for performance next year is
9ttra citing IDI1STaI ir+arac+
Prof S. w. Burnham of the uni
versity of Chicago has resigned the
clerkship of the United States circuit
court at Chicago to devote his entire
time to astronomy. Burnham, it is
said, is better known as an astronomer
in Berlin, st. Petersburg and other
seats of learning in Europe than he is
in Chicago. His chief renown per-
haps, was through his work in astro-
photography, in which he is credited
with much that proved a value TO
scholars in all parts of the world
Prof. Burnham was senior astronomer
at the Lick observatory in California
when he accepted the appointment to
the federal court clerkship
a hSbahC tOCh pldCS dJ buIlti tOIltSe
in Indiana the other day on the
resolution that pie is of greater ser
vice to mankind than ice-cream."
Young men championed the cause Of
pie and young women argued for the
superiority of ice-cream. Cream won.
Tt was argued by the men that pie
was wholesome and nourishing dish.
and that by passing through the fierce
heat of the oven all germs were ax-
terminated. Moreover, pie is a
national dish, an emblem of patriot
ism, a symbol of thanksgiving On
the other hand, ice-cream is the hot
bed, or rather the cOld-bed Of all
sorts of microbes. Fifty people have
been poisoned at a wedding by eating
iCe-cream. But the young ladies con
tended that pie was not only common
place and unromantic, but that it
raised the mischief with the digestive
apparatus. Still. further ice-cream is
q refined and esthetic dish.
Harvard students are making var
or the system Of sub-ietting college
rooms from student to student. The
three old dOrmitories in the yard
Hollis, StoughtOn and HOlwO~thy-
are most eagerly sought by all who
appreciate what they stand for IN
College history and the bursar has at
his disposal for next year only three
Of the coveted rooms. This condition
has arisen because students who
have been fortunate enough to possess
rooms in the old halls do not sur
render them to the college when they
leave. but hold them and sublet them
to eager successors. So great is the
demand for the rooms that large
bonuses are paid to obtain them, IN
addition to giving this money, the
going student is said to invariably
compel his successor to buy his old
furniture at a good figure. The under
graduate world has become con-
WINGED of the injustice of making the
possession of the priced rooms an
heirloom and is making every effort
to stop the custom. a large petition
is being circulated begging the faculty
to arrange that the room allotment
may be open to all. It is said that
certain room in HolwoIthy hall has
Leen in the possession Of one family
since the civil war Another room
has been held by two brothers for 10
years.
EPIGRAMs FROM FOUcHETTE.
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