The San Francisco call., 1909-09-15
TESTS TO SHOW #
FUMES HURT CROPS
Investigation to Be Made by
Prof. r. w. Doane of STAN
ford at Redding
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. II.
Special investigation will be made in
Redding as to the injury done to-
plants In the neighborhood of smelters
by r. W. Deane, assistant professor
in the Economies department. Pro-
fessor Doane will leave the campus
this afternoon for an indefinite stay, as
the extent of his experiments can not
be determined yet.
Friday afternoon at $40 o'clock the
zoology club will hold an open air
meeting in the neighberhood of the
San Francisquito footbridge for the.
election of officers and festivities.
Those who have registered as zoology
majors may consider themselves mem
bers without any formal initiation
AS the result of a lecture delivered
before the Faculty club in Instructor
Maleney of the hygiene department on
the subject of fencing. the members
have formed class to be instructed in
the art.
E. L. Talbot, '02. visited the campus
today. Talbot has just returned from
the interior of Korea, where he has
been in charge of the construction of
dam for the Unsan mining company.
II. p. Knight, H. has been appointed
to the staff of the 1911 Quad as josh
editor, in cooperation with B. o. Bliv-
en-. The change was made owing to the
failure of S. N. HiIlyard to return to
college. Bliven fills the vacancy left
by the resignation of r. ]. Miller.
The members of the board of con-
troll and the editorial board are:
Board of control, J. e. Thompson,
w. r. Pittinger, j. H. Leeds, J. d. Rut-'
ledge and G. A. Ditz.. chairman; edi-
torial board. c. G. Christian, manager;
S fdisSF %Rg IN shisF W { For@aar @ joahss sahssies s
Bliven, H. P. Knight; art, F. E. Hill,
nns,o: Miss G. ,sI s HsTdg ,,ss drsma,ies E. J.
z. c. Matthias; women's activities.
Miss A. Ehrepberg. Miss Z. Porter; fac
ulty and sororities i,sssc Miss ai NJ Hayes; fra
son; organizations. honor societies.
music, W. H. Mcconnell; debating
classes. g. Holcomb; photographs. X.
Chamberlin.
An organization of Stanford women
for musical purposes, known as the
Schubert club.s will hold tryouts to-
morrow for mems parts in the chorus
given in the assembly hall October 22.
From II until 2 tomorrow the junior
class will hold an election. The chief
contest will be between ]. A. Killian
and w. NJ. Wyman for the presidency.
The other Offices are: Vice president,
j. A. yisel; secretary, Miss H. Ely;
treasurer, H. c. Ferguson, and sergeant
at arms. Hilton
The following election board will
serve tomorrow: w. S. Porter, r.
'woodyille, Z. C. Matthias. A. Taylor,
B. NJ Tyson. C. A. Swigart, c. e. New
man, 7. n. Turner and s. Good.
Moral Aspects of Public Versus Pri-
vate Control of Public Utilities" will
be the subject this year for the an
nual essays of the Bonnheim disserta-
tion. Prizes are offered for manu-
scripts and for public discussion. Five
prizes of $25 will be awarded FOR the
essays and one prize of $125 for the
best public discussion. The essays
will be due October %, and the dis
cussion will be held December 8.
In answer to the call made by the
number OF freshmen gathered yester-
day evening to form the 1918 society.
]. E. Shelton, 10, called the meeting
to order, giving a short talk on de-
batting as college activity G.. r.
Morgan, 10; r. J. Miller, IL, and r. z.
Hill, II, spoke briefly.
officers were elected as follows:
President, j. Gross; vice president, N. r.
Ferguson; secretary treasurer, A. G.
Bradford. The following were ap-
pointed to a program COMMITTEES: r.
Eliel, c. Levy and N. r. Bradford.
An address was made this afternoon
to the students and faculty by DR.. E.
Armstrong. professor of chemistry at
the South Kensington laboratory OF
London and president of the chemical
section of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science Doctor
Armstrong is the guest of Professor
Franklin.
Tryouts held yesterday evening for
position on the university band re-
suited as follows.
Comets, T. x. Stark II, H d. Owen
II. f. E. Tincher 'l2 c.. La Grange 81.
w p. Green IL, c. III. Gilbert '13; from
bones f. r.. Messner '13. S. p. Wing
s13, II. Raines II; barytones, b. d.
Ward IL, r. w. Harvey; bass, r. Beal
'12: altos, T. NJ Cramer II. G. W. REV
burn 10 l.. ID. Howland 10; drum, G.
Stewart IL. sa saxophones, J. H Paine IL,
Elliott IL. c. G. Walker II, C. ii.
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