The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-01-26
q. OF M. NEWS.

| An exciting game of basket ball was play
ed in the gymnasium last Saturday evening
between the Gardiner Athletic Association
team and the varsity. Hard and evenly
matched playing in both halves resulted in
score of II to 10 in favor of Maine. The
usual dance followed the game.
| Rev. G. B. Merrill of the First Baptist
Church Of Bangor spoke to the Y. NJ. c. A
in the Art Guild last Sunday afternoon on
"The Normal Law of Life" Miss Mabel
| D. Hanson of Bangor was the solOist.
The U. of NJ. Debating Club has accepted
the challenge from Bates, and arrangements
regular meeting was held Tuesday evening
in the Art Guild, which has been secured
for the meetings, adding greatly to their
pleasure.
The Conversation Club, composed of the
older faculty members, met with Professor
Merrill this week. Professor Hart led the
discussion ON Some Unsolved Problems.
Both of the Junior societies-the Me-
chanical and Electrical Engineering Society
and the Junior Civil Engineering Society,"
meet as usual on Wednesday evenings.
| Tomorrow, Friday, evening comes the
first of the University Assemblies. 1t is to
be held in the gym. with music by Pullen's
Orchestra of Bangor. The plan of these as
semblies is new one introduced this year
to take the place of the growing number OF
fraternity dances in the gym. The plan
was formulated and is being carried into
effect by a committee composed of repre-
sentatives from each of the fraternities and
a member for each thirty-fve of the non.
fraternity men. The chairman is A. w
Collins of Caribou, Phi Gamma Delta, and
| A. Wood of Belfast represents Beta Theta
| Phi.
President Fellows is in New York tc
attend the dinner of the Maine Club this
| Thursday, evening. The Maine college pres
idents are to be the guests of the club
whose vice president is j. s. Ferguson, U
of NJ. '89.
Professor Stevens recently lectured ir
Old Town and Hampden on the "Ideals Of
American Education" Professor Spring
has been in Augusta to address the Current
Events Club, and Professor Huddleston is
giving series of lectures in Bangor on ar,
subjects.
The Glee Club gave successful concer
in Lincoln last week. The manager of thu
band is arranging for concert here OF
February 10th, to be followed by a dance
| The manager is also arranging for con
cert, or series of concerts, in Bangor.
Professor Baskerville of the College o.
the City of New York gave one of the mos
interesting lectures of the series last week
He spoke on Radium, and his lecture wal
illustrated both with stereopticon slides ant
attendance.
Professor Peers gave an extremely inter
esting lecture on Cultivation in the Isle o
Jersey to the members of the Agriculture
Club last week.
The students of the University were very
fortunate last week in having with them al
the chapel hour Friday Doctors Josial
Strong and William H. Toman of the Amer
ican Institute of Social Service, who lectureC
in Bangor the evening before on civic prob
lens. Both men are authorities in theil
line of work and their addresses were ex
tremely interesting and enlightening.
Saturday, February 4th, the mid-yeal
exams. begin, lasting for a week, as regis
tration begins the next Saturday. Schedule!
have been out for some time, and everyone
is getting ready to follow the advice of tn,
Campus ''to kill those exams"
Maine Alpha of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
gave an informal dance at their attractive
new chapter house Monday evening.
Among the new courses to be Offered
next term are course in theoretical nava
architecture by Professor Walker, and g
course in library history, equipment anG
administration, by Prof Jones.
Gamma Chapter of Delta Sigma have in
vitati0ns out for an informal dance at the
Mt. Vernon House Saturday evening, Jan
28th. The committee who have the affail
in charge are Florence Balentine, 'O5
Orono; Edith N. Aiken, 'O7, Brewer; anG
Marguerite D. Pilsbury, 'Os, Belfast.
1t is significant fact that Maine occu
pies the 10Th place among twenty-five col
leges in the football ranking for 1904, pub
lished in Outing for January. The rank
ing is based not only on comparative scores
but on conditions under which the games
are played, Importance Of games on schud-
ule and the eleven's alI-around record. No
college is considered where disregard for
wholesome sport is patent and persistent.
| Gym. work for women students has be
gun under the direction of Captain Sym
Onds. There are good prospects for the
formation of some basket ball teams