University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-02-18
NEWS FROM
OTHER SCHOOLS

OlHEK SSHOOAS
Pennsylvania has fencing schedules
this spring with ten other Eastern Uni
versities.
Miss Barbara Reid has been elected
president of the all-junior class at the
University OF California.
Chancellor Strong. of the University
ci Kansas, has been elected president
of the Kansas State organization of the
y. NJ. c. A.
The cO-eds at the University of Tex
as have organized swimming club.
The women's gymnasium contains a
swimming pool.
The University of California is now
playing Rugby football schedule.
Some of the games have been interfered
with on account of rain.
Joseph W. Folk. former governor of
Missouri. is scheduled on the lyceum
course of the University of Washington
for lecture to be given May II.
Columbia University is honoring the
of h. 1rth Ia of
Charles Darwin by course of lectures
on the life and work of this great sci
enlist.
The Texan. the student paper at the
University OF Texas. has just published
ii Freshman Issue Of that paper. Ev
erything in the number was devoted
to Freshmen.
The German department at the Uni
ver>ity of Indiana is preparing to give
plays in the original German. The
work will be- credited as class work and
some of the best German plays will BE-
taken up.
\ triangular debate will be held
March 81 between Yale. Harvard and
Princeton. The subject is: Resolved.
that all corporations engaged in inter
state commerce should be compelled to
take out federal charter
Columbia University. New York. is
still agitating the question of intercol-
lc"iate rowing. There has been gen
cral apathy concerning rowin" at that
school this winter and Columbia may
from the annual boat races.
Michigan has new literary maya
zine. 1t is called the Gargovle. Its
first number. which contained b pages.
made a big hit with the students of
that school and the issue of l.000 copies
las all been sold
Hugh Jennings. a famous profess
>ional baseball PLAYER and manager. is
now at Cornell University for few
weeks. where he will assist i'm the early
was graduated from Cornell in 1901
President Eliot. of Harvard Univer-
sity. has started on a two months visit
Of southern and southwestern colleges
and universities Dinners and enter
tainments are being arranged for him
by Harvard clubs i'm every large city
which he will visit. His trip will cover
about a dozen states.
Fifty students have been dismissed
rom the University of Washington as
, result of poor showing in the semes-
.er examinations. \ large number OF
Students have been placed OH probation
md unless their work improves within
he next few weeks. they will swell the
ist of fifty. The faculty of the uni
,crsity is making strenuous efforts to
,ai>c the standard of scholarship of
hat school.
Weight Vagaries.
Here are two personal experiences of
ny own that are striking. writes Eu>-
ace Miles in the January Metropoli-
an. After having put on rather too
much weight. probably through excess
nd Oth her mistakes OF food and drink.
played a severe tennis match and
o>t seven pounds in weight. Then
took a glass of wine. and at once, by
his. put on two pounds. Then | took
meal slightly larger than usual. and
mt on another two and half pounds.
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