The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-17

agricultural societies or the province
Of Manitoba, which met in Winnipeg
last Thursday. His address was. Ag-
r~iculture, a Progressive Vocation. 1t
was the main feature of the evening
n the Canadians no doubt were in
formed of many things that had not
appealed to them before. The presi-
dent said that education has degen-
Grated into preparation to escape toll.
Other things he spoke of were the
great prospects of Canadian agricul-
ture and he laid special emphasis ON
the agricultural side of education.
Mr. Palmer is at Mandan this week
in the interest of his department and
is expected back today.
The Athenian Literary society held a
very interesting programme Friday ~
ening which was as follows:
Vocal Solo-Mr. Sonquist.
Selected Readings-Regnald Colley.
Lincoln Stories-Clara Larson.
Violin Solo-Mr. Hendrickson.
Debate-Resolyed, That the Honor
System Shall Prevail in all College
Examinations,
Afirmative-Rosabelle Magill and
John b. Wentz.
Negative-Leila Even and Clarence
Williams.
Locals-Mary Dolve.
Seleeted-Chester Holkesvig.
Alumni Dope-Levi Thomas.
Song-Athenian Quartette.
The Romance Of the Reaper, a lee
ture on the history of the development
of the farm machines, given in the
armory last Saturday evening, wa
very entertaining and instructive. The
lecture was given by representatives
of the international Harvester Co. and
consisted of lantern slides and nov
ing pictures of various farm opera
tions both new and old and with an
interesting story told in connection.
After hearing this lecture n could
not go away without a better appre-
citation. Of the great advance in labor
machinery that has been made by
American genius.
The fatality list appears to be large
among the various class teams and
others who practice in the arnory
who have been mortally wounded are:
Dutch Schroeder, with a busted Bills
ter; Melvin ostby, with several torn
lgaments and Robert L. Sackett with
two broken bones in his right hand.
From last reports all are doing nicely
except Dutch who has contracted a
crouch along with the limp.
Thursday afternoon from 1 to q
o'clock the North Dakota county com
missioners visited the A. c., making
the trip in a car that had been provid-
ed by Manager Brown of the street car
lines. and they were loud in their ex-
pressions Of pleasures at what they
had seen here. They were shown ev-
cry department of the college by Mr..
Nugent, one of the trustees, assisted
by members of the faculty and stu
dents and every department was IN
working order. It was a trip that all
the commissioners were glad to make.
Prof. H. L. Bolley will give the con-
vocation address next Monday.
Feb. % is the date set for the an
nual local oratorical contest this year
and from the large number who are
entering a very spirited contest is ex-
pected. The following have entered:
Bertha Camp, Herman Halland, Ella
Heidner, Margaret Magill, Dean Men
denhall, Arthur Ggaard and Clarence
Walters.
A great deal of interest is being
shown at the A. G.. this year among
the members OF the freshman class
that, are taking English under Profes-
sor Minard. English takes up argu-
mentation and debating and the stu
dents have entered into the work and
several warm debates are taking place
as a result. The subjects chosen for
the first series deal largely with those
questions which interest the students
of the college, but the second series
will be on subjects that cover a wider
range and dealing with heavier AND
more important questions OF the day.
The subjects of the first series are
as follows: An Agricultural Graduate
will Be In More Demand in North Da-
gotta Than an Engineer; Judges in
North Dakota Should Be Elected Sub
1ACt TO the hGGdly III EAdNC ~ 60
Undesirable in Colleges; Final Exam
nations Should Be Abolished; College
Sororities Should Be Encouraged;
Equal Suffrage Should Be Adopted IN
North Dakota; Entrance Examina-
tons should Be Required Of Gradu-
ates OF First Glass High Schools for
Admission to College,
Professor Van Els of the veterinary
science department gave a very inter-
esting lecture wednesday afternoon al
s.30. His subject was Diseases, Their
CryA and Prevention. 1t was delivered
before the pharmacy students, and il
proved to be very instructive. This is
the second lecture OF a series for the
benefit Of the pharmacy department.
The Phflomathian Literary society
held their annual meeting last evening
and gave a very interesting programme
which included music by Carl Painei
reading by Mr.. Botsford; extempo-
raneous speeches BY George Stewart
and Charles Green. The msAn feature
Of the evening vas an Interesting
talk BY Professor Trinble
Secretary Wolf Of the city X. M, g
A. was the speaker at the Sunday AFT
ernoon meeting OF the boys dormitory
He spoke on the Y. M. C. A. work as 8
life profession. His talk proved to b
very interesting and he cited several
new ideas along this line that were
well received.