The San Francisco call., 1908-12-04
STUDENTS NOMINATE
|. OFFICIALS FOR YEAR
E. j. HelSley and F. A. Adams
to Be Members of STAN
ford's Executive Body
David IL. Walker Jr. to Be Editor
in Chief of the Daily
Pal0 Alto

| STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Dec. s.
representatives from the junior and
sophomore classes to serve on the ex-
ecutive committee of the student body
and as editor in chief of the Daily Palo
Alto Were nominated this afternoon at
the regular meeting of the associated
| students.
E. ]. Helsley of Ceres and F. A.
Adams of San Francisco were renomi-
mated TO represent the junior class.
while R B. Wheeler of Riverside was
nominated for the sophomores
David T. Walker Jr., '0e, of San
francisco, the present managing editor,
was named as the next editor OF the
college daily.
Wheeler has been active in class ath-
letics. Helsley is a varsity track ath-
Iete and Adams, who majors in the
law department, is known as the editor
OF the 1910 Quad and member OF
many undergraduate honor societies
walker registers in the mechanical en-
gineering department. He has been a
member of the Daily Palo Alto staff for
tnree years and was a member OF the
1909 Quad board.
The men nominated for positions on
the executive committee will be elected
for one year. The editorship of the
Daily Palo Alto is for one semester,
beginning after the Christmas holi-
days.
The student AFFAIRS committee of
Stanford university has taken action
recently in the case of a student who
committed fraud in his class work.
The student has been dismissed for
the coming semester. No name has
it is understood about the campus that
the student was one who had taken
part in athletics. He is said TO have
copied an experiment from a fellow
| clasSmate.
| The big formal dance OF the present
semester known as the sophomore
cotillon will be held tomorrow night
in Encina club room. The dornitory
will be draped in colors and will be
| banked with ferns, while unique paper
butterflies will constitute the ceiling
| decoration The dance committee an
nounces that all tickets have been sold
and that 125 couples will be on the
floor and many San Francisco people
will attend. The dance will include
several original features.
The oral portion of the annual Bonn
| helm contest will be held at Stanford
university tomorrow night. The three
students who were awarded the prizes
in the dissertation will appear in the
university chapel and discuss their
papers before the judges. The prize
awarded to the best speaker will be
500. ]. D. Hauser was awarded the
| first prize Of $40 in the dissertation.
j Hauser comes from Sacramento. The
second and third men are j. R. Tuttle.
'0s. and w P. Mealey. '09. The subject
to be discussed is Ethical aspects of
the doctrine that great commercial ma
tions should maintain large navies.'
A series of some of the best carbon
photographs ever exhibited in this
country will be shown here under the
auspices of the local art club. The
prize pictures are the property of DR..
Herbert G. Pointing of Berkeley. He
exhibited the photographs in London
and was awarded a fellowship in the
Royal Photographic society. an honor
seldom bestowed on any but the best
English photographers The collection
consists of "a prints specially made and
hand sensitized by the exhibitor. The
exhibition will begin Saturday of this
week.
DR.. H L Wilson. the noted archaeolo-
gist of John Hopkins. spoke before a
meeting of the Classical club of Stan
ford university last night on "Amerf-
can School of Classical Studies in
Rome" Officers were elected by the
members of the Classical club. as fol-
lows: Miss l. Howell, '0s, of Los An
geles. president. Miss A Wallace. 10.
secretary; and Prof. H. r. Fairclough.
honorary president