The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-01-05
UNIVERSITY NOTES

CN1F EkSl1l NOIEN
Professor Hardy represented the
university at the Tri-state Athletic
conference held at Minneapolis on
Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week. Considerable business of i'm
portance vas transacted, two items
of which will affect athletics at Da-
kota Wesleyan, more than others. On
erof. Hardy's motion a rule was
adopted the number of years that a
man may play football, or engage in
any other intercollegiate contests to
five. The old Conference rule was
four years. The other rule that was
adopted, also on Prof. Hardy's mo-
ton was regarding the transference
of an athlete from one school to an
other. Henceforth a man will have
had to be a student of any college
at least n half year before he a
be played against a college which he
formerly attended. These rules and
others have been adopted by the tri-
state conference, but before they be-
come effective thy will have to be
adopted by the state conferences of
each of the states represented namely
North and South Dakota and Mime
lsota.
Professor Van Benthuysen is
spending the vacation revising and
rewriting his typewriter manual. His
publishers, the Bobbs-Merrill Com
pany of Indianapolis, has requested
him to re-write the book putting it
in two volumes in place of one as for
merly. When completed the set will
undoubtedly be the most complete
and up-to-date book on the subject
published anywhere. The illustra-
tons for the book are being made by
Miss Blaisdell of the Art Department.
The January issue of the Progress
Magazine will contain a notable arti-
|cle on the Evolution of the Merch-
ant" written by Professor a Ben
thuysen. Advance notice of the ar
lticle appeared in the advertising
pages Of the December issue of the
Magazine.
Word has been received to the eff
feet that John Elk is suffering with
an attack of scarlet fever at his
home in Lily, this state. He was
feeling perfectly we'll when he went
home at the beginning of the vaca-
ton, though he had been exposed to
the disease on one or two occasions.
Arthur Pitman spent Christmas
with his mother at Morningside,
sioux City, returning to the city on
Tuesday of this week, for the pur-
pose of studying and writing papers.
Arthur intends to graduate this year
in spite of almost insuperable diff
culties and is making up outside OF
lschool almost a whole years work in
three different studies.
! Last Monday night DR.. and Mrs.
|Seaton entertained a few of the boys
that have been left in town at a
Christmas dinner and an evening at
Somerset.
The Baraca class of the Methodist
Sunday school in which most of the
,students are members ,apresented the
teacher. Professor van Benthuysen,
with a beautiful mantel clock for a
Christmas present.
DR.. Weir and Professor Temple are
in the Twin Cities this week attend
ing the meetings of the American AS
sociation for the Advancement OF
Science and Affiliated Bodies.
The librarians have catalogued
and placed on the shelves some five
hundred and fifty new books that
have recently been added to the Ii
brary.
The date for the ~intersociety de-
bate between the Daedalians and
Kappas has ben set for January g.,
1911. This debate was to have been
held on December 20, but on account
of the fact that school closed so ear
ly, it had to be postponed.
Word has been received from
Yankton college to the effect that
they choose to defend the negative of
the question which Dakota Wesley
an submitted to them some time ago.
This means that on a question con-
corning the relative merits Of a Board
of Charities and Corrections having
administrative powers. as in South
Dakota, as opposed to one having
purely advisory powers. ,Yankton
chooses to defend the board having
administrative powers, leaving us