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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02
Examinations.

Editor the MiSsOurian: Let well
enough alone is a good motto to fol-
low if there is to be any serious con-
sideratiOn of changing the eXamina-
tiOn system here. do not believe
| that there is any argument good
enough to hold against the results of
experience in the consideration of a
question whether to have eXamin-
atiOns or not to have them. for from
the standpoint of the student who
does his work all the time they are
not fair and that should be the basis
of Judgment of the question. But
when it comes to a decision between
a missing word contest" and a test
of what the student knows about
subject. say, let we'll enough alone
and | think that this is the opinion
of nearly every student who has had
anything to do with both systems.
Could the system be applied fairly.
could professors understand the sys-
TEN thoroughly enough to know how
to put it into application and could
the students be prevented from max
ing it a matter of memory work. it
might work all right. The same
trouble will arise with it as has
arisen with the present grading sys-
tem-nO two members of the faculty
follows exactly the same system.
The question then should be not
which of two systems of examinations
given at all or not.
STUDENT.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02
Viewpoints
Students Need Secretaries.

Editor the MisSOurian:-A story in
the MissOurian few days ago
showed that many of the students
turn their notes over to StenOgra-
piers to have them copied or fixed
up" 1t brought out the fact that
many stenOgraphers are kept busy at
this kind of work.
Does such indicate that the time
may soon come when each student
will have to have his private secre-
tary? Ii seems that the student
should be required to put his notes in
shape himself What good does it
do him to have someone else fix his
notes for him?
The stenOgraphers are quoted as
saying that some of the notes handed
to them are in such shape that they
often have to go to the text books to
get things correct. Why does not
each student hire a stenOgrapher to
attend lectures and take notes for
him? What would be wrong with
that? They could be gotten more
correctly. And the student could be
doing something else. He might go
fishing and not be playing 'hOOky"
F. F.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02

Canada in college athletics stand:
on the English side of the half-wa!
line between England and the Unit
ed States. The Canadian universities
play Rugby and Association football
of nearly the true English type. They
also play cricket. the great English
game. Although baseball is a pOpu.
lar game in Canada the universities
take little part in it.
Canadian college athletics are dis
tinguished from American in three
ways. The Canadians play a greater
variety of games Again, their work
is not confined to interdepartment. in
terclass and intercollegiate work.
They play city and town amateur
teams. Moreover. the Canadians lay
greater stress on team work.
The Canadians play all the games
of the American universities, and in
addition lacrosse, ice-hOckey and cur
ling. which in the United States are
played only in the East and North
curling being almost unknown.
Collegiate athletics are not as eX-
elusive as in the United States. This
fact is probably due to a greater de-
velOpment of all-rOund amateur ath-
letic work. One of the big games of
the year for the University of To-
rontO football team is with the City
of Hamilton team.
But il is team work that most dis
tInguishes Canadian university ath-
letlcs from American. A knowledge
of two distintly Canadian games will
best illustrate the fact. Canada has
given the world ice-hockey and la
crosse. The Canadians got lacrosse
from the Indians. Many an exciting
time the ChOctaws and Ojibways had,
striving one team against another to
place small rawhide ball between
two stakes with the help of spoon
shaped sticks. The old Indian game
was tame compared to the present
day Canadian product. The balls
are now of rubber and the sticks are
long. curved, netted affairs.
We are on Canadian lacrosse
field. Two teams of twelve men each !
take their places between the goals. /!
The goals are six feet wide and six
feet high. Each team has a goal
keeper. five defense men and six at
tack players. The referee places the |
ball between the sticks of the half |
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02
FIRE; FIRE: FIRE

Money wasted in the United State
by fire every year is enough to built
a long railway. to endow large uni
versity about the size of Harvard. o.
to give $3.50 to each citizen in tn,
Union. In 1910, the total loss il
1926, 100000. Last year. in New
York City alone. the money lost il
confiagratiOns amounted to $5.936,
333. Besides. a large number OF
human lives are uselessly lost each
year. Although Americans are noted
for liberty. they do not liberate them.
selves from unnecessary sacrifice OF
life and property. Indeed, it is la.
mentable to see magnificent buildings
consumed in flames, and paIace-like
houses wasted i'm smoke.
The sooner the device for the pre-
vention of ire is made the better. At
present poor methods of construc-
tiCn. poor wiring. rubbish cellars
and infiammable building materials
prevail throughout the United States
This condition needs to be reformed
i'm order to prevent the loss both in
life and property. Every house should
be freproof The cost of construct
ing a fireproof building over that of
putting up "a wooden fire trap" is
not so large as we think. Chief Ed
ward F. Croker of the New York fire
department, says. 1.-The man who
plans an ordinary nOn-fireprOOf
structure to cost $4,000 could build
it safely fireprOof for 10 to IL per
cent additional" Certainly, in the
end it would be cheaper to build a
fireprOOf building and spend more
money for materials of good quail
ity.
While We need money for the bet
terment of economic conditions. we
seem to pay too heavy a tribute to
fire. Let us get rid of it if pOssi-
Bile.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02

Glee Club success and work with
that in view, and those of you who
can lend your support in making the
concert at the first of the second Sc
mester a success will do so, then
will We have Glee Club somewhere
near the class. if not in it. with those
of Harvard, Yale, and Cornell If
however you wont do this. at least
keep still. If you can't say anything
good about the organization or the
administration. you can at least keep
still. Quit knocking and go to boost
ing. l.. +. Thatcher
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02
Cdnada'S College Sports

kneeling centers. silence falls OF
the spectators. A whistle blows. The
game is on. One of the center mel
by quick movement gets the bal
in the net of his stick. The players
start down the field. No player, how.
ever. can get far with the ball with.
for member of his own team and
! pass the ball. The player passing is
covered by an opponent, and the
player to whom he passes is also COW
cred. 1t takes skill and quick wit
to throw the ball successfully. but
no team playing an individual game
ever won. There is no OffSide in la
crosse. 1t is played from beginning
to end. The rapidity of the game
makes it exciting to the spectators.
A cOuntry's sports are as much a
product of its environment as are
its industries. The Canadian winters
are long. Hence winter games play
a large part in the athletic work of
the universities. There are skating
contests and snow shOeing contests.
The other distinctly Canadian game
in addition TO lacrosse is a winter
game.
lce-hockey is played usually on in
door rinks l50 to 200 feet long by
30 to 15 wide. At each end of the
rink is goal six feet across. Instead
of a ball a circular disk of vulcanized
rubber is used The disk is one inch
thick and three inches in diameter.
A team consists of seven players
four forwards, goalkeeper, point and
cOverpOint. The last two assist the
gOalkeeper. The game is about to
begin. Two players take the center
of the ice. The referee places the |
puck or rubber disk between the |
hockey sticks of these two players
At the sound of whistle they en-
deavOr each to get the puck toward |
the others goal.
Like lacrosse hockey can be sue
ceSsfully played only by team work
A brilliant shot may sometimes make
a goal. But it is in working the puck /
forward by passing from player to
player that games are won. The quick
work on skates and the passing make
hockey a particularly interesting
game from the point of view of the
spectator. H. j. Mex. |
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02
To Teach Physical Education.

The Y. NJ. c. A Institute and
Training School has adopted the cor
respOndence system in teaching men
to be directors of physical education.
There are only two of these Institutes
in the United States. one at Chicago
and one at Springfield, Mass. Prac-
tical lessons on respiration, ventila-
tiOn, personal hygiene. foods. di-
SeaSe. immunity and exercise, the
faculty of the school believes, can
be taught by correspondence.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02

school and have been at different
times on the club.
| Last year several old men came to
the tryouts and were given places
on the club for two reasons. first.
they had better voice. and second.
they would make better men because
of past experience and better stage
appearance. Most of these men
came to rehearsal till they found out
that there was not going to be a trip
because of financial conditions. and
! then quit on such pretexts as lack
of time" A number of other men
did not come out because they suS-
pected the fact that there was not
going to be trip. The same thing
occurred this year and also two years
ago. A number of the men say that
they do not like the way the club is
run" The trouble is that the men
are sore because they can't run it
themselves as they did when Profess
sOr krull was here. | know nothing
personally of the way the club was
run at that time. neither do ! know
anything of Mr.. Krull, but do know
that Professor POmmer is capable of
training the club and will cooperate
in every way with the members if
they desire such cooperation. He
has certainly raised the moral and
musical standard of the club since
he has been connected with it. He
believes in taking the best voices,
but as long as you who have good
voices and ones which are better
than the average i'm the club at the
present time. stay on the outside
and knock, | should like OF ask you,
how can you expect the best results
from the Glee Club? There are any
number of old men who are under a
moral obligation to help pay off the
clubs debt and put it where it can
do efficient work. instead of standing
back and knocking. There We're men
on the club last year who worked
hard but did not make the club this
year because some one else was bet
ter. These men and those in the
present club deserve the support and
backing of every student in this Uni
verSity whether he be an old Glee
Club man or not. if for no other rea-
son than that they are trying to the
best of their ability 10 maintain a
respectable Glee Club and keep up
its name as an honorable institution
in the University of Missouri. by
paying off the debts that Clubs in the
past have incurred by long trips and
two weeks of pleasure.
Just so long as you who have been
Glee Club men; you who have a |
grudge against the Glee Club: and |
you who knock" because the others |
do. just so long will the Glee Club be !
on an unsOund basis and just so !
long will the poorest results be OBJ |
tanned. You are the ones who are
to blame and not the ones in author !
ity. If those of you who can make ,
it will come out in the first semester |
with the determination to make the
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02
To Elect New Road Commissioners.

The officers of the road commits
siOners whose term has expired in
the Columbia. Sturgeon and the Cen
tralia road districts will be filled by
a special election i'm Columbia. Feb
ruary -. S. F. Conley. for the Co.
lumbia district. H. S. Williamson for
the Centralia district and L. E. APP
pleman of the Sturgeon district are
the retiring commissioners. The
election requires the presence of the
mayor and council of each of the
cities. together with the three judges
of the county court.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-02

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-28
DEATHS REPORTED.

The following deaths have been report
ed to the health Office in the past TWEEN
ty-four hours:
northwest.
Guy F. Hurdle. Is years. Albermarie
street northwest.
Margaret B. Scott. So years. 1909 WAL
lack place northwest.
Sarah j. Thomas. 65 years. 1903 9th
street northwest
Josephine A. Lightfoot. IS years. 1919
II street northeast.
May f. Hazel. 35 years. Casualty Hos
pita,.
Thomas f. Davis. AZ years. Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane.
Margatha Niehaus. rs years. 3o5 18th
street southwest.
Eliza A. Gruver. SO years. zoos It'll
Alice NJ. White. 81 years. Providence
Hospital.
Maggie Moss. 30 years Providence Hos
pitaI.
Kate Price. 40 years. 900 27th street
northwest.
William Brown 81 years, Government
Hospital for the Insane.
Walter Lucas. 10 years. 112o Goth street
Albert c. Robinson. % years. 4o7 A
street northeast.
Sarah ]. Tolibert. Al years. lI1e 1st
street northwest.
Georgeanina johnson. 50 years. 60 NJ
street northwest.
Josephine Proctor. 1 year. 242o street
northwest.
Ella Belt 20 years. 1881 Cedar street
northwest.
salena Butler. 80 years. Government
Hospital for the Insane.
Maggie Berry. year. 45S Missouri ave-
nue..
Albert Sewen. 70 years, Washington
Asylum Hospital.
Infant OF Beatrice and John w. Nc
Kay. hours. 76S Harvard street north
west.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-28

Among the interested spectators from
Washington at both afternoon and even
ing sessions Of the democratic convention
were Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Barnes and
Miss Loretta Barnes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-28
News Briefs.

John Sullivan. sixty-eight years old. q
member OF the Mountain Branch Sol
diers Home, was run down and killed by
a train at johnson City. Va. Wednesday.
He was a member Of the 18th Wisconsin
Infantry in the civil war.
John Heating. a middle-aged man OF
Berwyn, Pa, who was arrested a week
ago In Hagerstown. Md. for stealing the
horse and buggy OF David Fitzpatrick OF
Malvern. Pa. was sentenced by Judge
Butler Monday at Chester to from two
and a half to ten years In the peni-
Tertiary. He was also fined $500 and the
costs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-28
Boy Badly Burned by Hot Tar.

Robert Riley. eighteen years old. was
taken to the Casualty Hospital from 636
18th street northeast this morning and
treated for painful burns he received while
:arring q roof He was working with his
father, Luther Riley. 335 North Carolina
avenue southeast. when hot tar was
spilled on him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-28
MARRIED.

REED In Baltimore Nd, on
Wednesday, June 20, 1912, by Rev. David
Nicely, JANETTE MARGUERITE STANFORD
to HERBERT GIBBS REED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-28

THE Real Lobster Palace" by Capt.
James Churchill. tells what the fashion
able eating house Of New York is-and Is
not. See our next Sunday Magazine
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
Too Familiar With Quotations


The principa! Of Boston school
who requests that his name be with
held in order that be may maintain
discipline in his classroems tells this:
when was teaching in schoo!
In the western part of the state some
years ago had some trouble in main
tanning order among the girls Of my
classes They were continually play
ing tricks on me and each other in the
classroons, and decided to stop it.
The next day, following breach OF
discipline. ordered two Of the girls
to remain after school and gave them
two long problems that kept them for
long time. At the opening OF school
the following morning opened the
day as usual by asking each member
Of the class for q quotation. One OF
the girls rose and quoted, With all thy
faults love thee STILL and the other.
The hours spend with thee, dear
heart, are as q string Of pescls to me. y
Boston Herald.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
ORIGIN of the "Threa RS"

The famous toast to the three II $
reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic"-was
made By Sir William Curtis, lord may
OF of London. in the year 1895 and for
many years one Of the wardens OF the
tower. What made it more ludicrous
was that he proposed it ct dinner
given by the London board OF educa-
ton. It was received with great ap-
plause and drunk amid much merrl-
racnt. At the time it was recognized
as a jest. but was afterward taken up
in earnest by the mayors detractors,
who have handed his name down to
posterity as i blurdering iSnoramus.
4 writer has now come to his defense
and ssiTS that when he waS boy ~a1N
aged member Of the board of education
assured him that Sir William knew
better ard that he really used his IA
nous ALTERATION as Jest TO many
people. however, the story will always
sound better when it is based upon the
belief that Sir William was really Sc
riouS
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
Dancer Ahead!

a battIeship was cautiously feeling
her way through :, fog. Suddenly the
navigator on the bridge heard church
bells startlipgly near. AS be believed
the land to be some miles away he
turned to the engine telegraph and Or
dered the leadsman to sound. The
sounding showed plenty Of water
Again the church bells pealed clear
and near. The navigator paled lit
tie. and his jaw set. IN face of dan
ger he must keep his wits about him.
His glance met the face Of the helms
man.
what the dickens are you grinning
at:" the navigator demanded sharply
Choking back his emotion. the man
explained that one Of his mates had
got a new record Of a peal Of church
bells and he was trying it on his gram
ophone.-London Answers
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
a ce-:s;n Silver s:xeenco.

Beau ElUG2.Ie! had 3 ve.;S oC1 va!
Of accounting for the sad change which
took place il his affairs at this time.
He used" observes one Of his friends
at CaeH. wien ;;llllin. about his al
tered circumstances, to say that up to
a particular period Of his kft every
thing proSpc:cd with him and that be
attributed his good luck to the pos
session Of certain silver SiNDence
with { hole IL it. which somebody
had given him years before with an
injunction to take good care of it, as
everything would go we'll with him so
long rs he did and vice versa if he
happened to lose It The promised
prosperity attended him for many
years while be ke!d the siSpence fast:
but, having at length in an evil hour
unfortunately given it by mistake to
q hackney coachmaD, complete re-
verse Of his previous good 70 tune took
place and one disastrous occurrence
succeeded another till actual ruin over
took him at last and obliged him to ex-
patriate himself. captain Jesse
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
a New of Jefferson Davis.

Very straight and tall, thin, with a
clear cut, clean shaven, distinguished
face, with look half military man,
half student, with q demeanor to all OF
perfect il somewhat chilling courtesy;
by temperament a theorist, able with
the ability of the field marshal OF the
scholar in the study, not with that OF
the reader and master Of men, the
hardest Of workers, devoted, honor
able, single minded, a figure on which
q fierce light has beaten; a man not
perfect nor always just, bound in the
tolls of his own personality, but yet
an able man, who suffered and gave
all, believed in himself and in his
cause and to the height Of his power
labored for it day and night. Such a
man was Jefferson Davis.-Mary John
ston in The Long Roll
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
A Record Haiistorn.

One of the worst hailstorms ever
known in the United States occurred
Sept. 5, 1898, in Nodaway county, Mis-
souri,. The path Of the storm was
about three miles wide and eighteen
miles long, its greatest violence being
felt over q region oe four square miles
east Of Clarmont. At one point in this
region the fall of hail was so heavy
that a drift unprotected By artificial
means remained lying on the ground
for four weeks after the storm. AZ the
end Of that time people in the neigh
borhood were found gathering the hail
for the purpose of making ice cream
During the storm cylindrical pieces OF
ice were picked up four inches long
BY about two and half in diameter.
The growing ccrn was practically all
DESTROYED. IN a field Of eighty acres
only one stalk was left standing.-Cni-
cago News.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
Wo-l< For the Editor.

Most any one can he "n editor. Al!
an editor has 10 Go is to sit 4; his desk
six days in the week. four weeks OF
the month and twelve months in the
year and edit such stuff Is this:
Mrs. Jones Of Lost Creek let L can
opener slip last week and "'!5 hefSeif
in the pantry.
"a mischievous lad Of Matherton
threw stone and struck q companion
in the alley last Tuesday
John Doe climbed on the roof Of his
house last week looking for q leak and
fell. striking himself on the back
porch
While Harold Green was escortinS
Miss Violet Wise home from church
social last Saturday night savage dog
attacked them and bit Mr.. Green on
the public square,
Isaiah Trimmer was playing with q
cat Friday when it scratched him on
the veranda.''
'.N5r. White while harnessing bron-
cho last Saturday was kicked just
south of the cocncrib-'-Boston Globe.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
paep Grief.

Throughout his career as q reWspa-
per reporter the young mans assign
ments had taken bin into demonstra-
tive crowds whose periods Of noisy
demonstration it was his duty to time.
"Mr. 4. finally appearing, the audience
cheered for fifteen minutes" Senator
&. finished his second joke amid laugh
ter that lasted for ten minutes" or at
the close Of the speech the audience
applauded wildly for thirteen minutes"
These and similar records Of the pub
lie pulse plentifully adorned nearly ey-
cry story the young man wrote. One
day he was sent to attend the funeral
Of a rich and crusty tempered old gen
tlenan whose young wife had notori-
ously repented her choice. The man.
wound up his story Of the funeral thus:
'In the silence that ensued the wild
ow wept for sixteen seconds..-Wash.
ington Star.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-24
Different Points OF View.
Good morning. Jones'

Good morning. Jones'
Good morning. Brown Any news
today"
We'll. yes. You know my brother
who works at the bank? Well, he went
to business the other day and-feund
$1,000 or thszsnsHsar. And what do
ssessaSEss be did? Stole the money
and tr;pped OF to Canada. And when
the news reached my father it broke
the old mans heart"'
That's funny. You know, my broth
er works at bank. too, and when he
went to business the other morning he
found slOO0. And what do you think
he did?"
.sWhat-stole it?''
no; took it straight to the managers
Office. And when the news reached
my father, do you know it broke the
ola mans heart!"-London Tit-Bits-