The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-13
NOTES FROM BROWN
INTERESTING J0TTINGS FROM
 PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY.

Baseball Situation at the College
 Farce Track Meet-Elections of Off,
 flcers of the Y. NJ. c. A.-First of a
 Series of Smokers.
 Friday afternoon of last week con ference on the Educational Function of the Ministry was held at the home of Professor Fowler, of Brown unfyer- sity. The religious educational com mittee of the Rhode Island Federation of Churches had charge of the confer ence, and Informal addresses were made by the Rev. J. R. Brown ani the Rev. Lester Bradner, Jr., both of this city
 The interest in baseball at Brown un- iyersity is shown by the recent forma- tion of an intercollegiate league com posed of the different fraternities and the non-fraternity men, eighteen teams l in all. Games have been arranged for every day from April g, through to May 20, with the exception of Sundays, saturday, April 19, and the days during junior week, May to II. When the leaders in the four divisions into which the teams have been divided have been 1 decided, the sche eiule for the champion ship will be arranged
 On Saturday of last week farce track meet was held in the gymnasium 1 to raise funds for the track team. The meet was not so well attended as it might have been, but 1t was most suc- cessful in producing plenty of fun and laughter. The title of farce champion was won by G. w. Parker, 10, of At lantic Highlands, \, J.
 The schedule for the class and 'yarss- ] ty track men has now been announced. The interclass meet will be along new lines, being made up entirely of handi- i cap events, a system which has worked very successfully elsewhere, and will | probably occur on the 18th or 18th of April at Andrews Field. On April 27 I the relay team will run at Philadelphia in the one-mile relay for the champlon- ship of New England. On Saturday, May I, the track team will compete against Williams in a dual meet at 1 Williamstown. On May il Brown will meet Nj. I. T. on the latters field in Brookine, Mass. On May 25 Brown will put forth her greatest efforts at ! Worcester, in the annual New England meet, and the following Saturday will take part in the glib intercollegiates to i be held at Cambridge.
 The elections flor officers of the Y. M. l c. A. resulted as follows President, s. s. Paine 'OS, of Newton Centre, 1 Mass: president, R. & Pinkham,
 OS, of Wollaston, Mass; secretary, H. l.. Oldfeld, '10 of saylesville, R. IT; 4 treasurer, l. Littlefield, '09, of Provi- dence, R. L
 ] The first of a series of four smokers i will be held in the Brown Union Audi 1 torium next Monday evening. The house committee has prepared an in 1 teresting programme with short talks 1 by several of the faculty members on odd and unusual subjects, and the pro gramme will be followed by sing in the smoking room
 l The preliminary trials for the Car penter contest In elocution begin to- day in Wilson Hall The final contest will be held in Manning Hall on May [.
 The trial debate for the Mohonk prizes open to members of the senior 1 and junior classes, will be held Tues day evening of next week, on the sub jeet "The Applicability of Internaton- al Arbitration to the Russo-Japanese I Differences of 1904" The judges for the trial debate will be Mi w W. Morse of Providence. and Professors Huntington and Brown It is hoped that at the final debate on April 2S ex- Governor Utter the donor of the prizes, will presiie.
 On Friday evening of this week pr. Wllfred T. Grenfell, of the Labrador Medical mission, will give an illustra- ! +ed lecture in Savles Hall