Arizona republican., 1915-11-25
UNIVERSITY NOTES
STUDENT ACTIVITIES: Last Sal
By c. E. erassick

STUDENT ACTIVITIES: Last Sat urday work on the A, which is to crown Sentinel peak, two miles west of Tucson, was officially started. Immediately after dinner a number of the boys met in the gymnasium and there awaited the autos which were to take them to the mountain. Lines were strung from the stakes and the picks and shovels came into evidence. Two retaining trenches were dug for each leg of the A" These trenches are two feet wide and about two or two and one-half feet deep. The length of the A" is 15O feet, and when the cement is poured and the whole painted white, it will be visible for miles around. Quite a bit of work was accomplished in a short time by the fellows. Nearly all | the digging is finished, ready for the cement. It is hoped that the "A" will be completed by Thanksgiving day. standing out clearly as an em- blem of the energy and enthusiasm of | the students.
 | Karl Ruppert of Phoenix, who was one of the representatives chosen by | the University r. NJ. C.. A. to attend | the annual convention at Fl Paso, has returned and reports most suc- | cessful and enthusiastic meeting. President von KleinSmid, Benjamin Mcclure and others made up the party from the university. The con- vention was attended by many city, college and industrial Y. NJ. C. A workers from Arizona, New Mexico 1 and western Texas
 SOCIETY,": The Gamma Delta so- ciety gave a delightful reception Sat urday evening at. the home of Mis- Helen Campbell. The affair was given to introduce new members tC the many friends of the sorority. The house was beautifully decorated witf greenery and lovely yellow chrysan- themums. An orchestra played dur ing the evening and added much tC the pleasure of the many guests Phoenix was represented by Mis-. Gladys Twedell.
 Messsrs Stanford Brooks and liar old Goldberg, both of Phoenix, were last week confined for a few week. with colds. However, with prompt at tention from the university physician they soon recovered,
 CLUES: The Aggie club met Tues ! day nlgNL Tn Ine W omen iedSu' room. Carl Clark presided. Actni Dean Freeman and Mir Pascal de livered addresses on farming sub I jects. A debate was then held, Re solved, that forty acres of alfalfa il the Salt River valley will be nor profitable if hogs are put on it. in stead of cows" Donaldson Ryder O Phoenix. with the help of Ed Oxley argued for the swine, and Carl Clarl and D. w. Rogers for the cattle. Tn
 pigs won Plans for the Aggie clul program for the coming months wer discussed.
 Last week the civil engineers me to hear a lecture by MT. V. r. Odonl who is chief engineer for the Tucsol Farms company. MT. Odoni told tn society of some of the problems whicl had to be solved in order to install the irrigation system and talked es pecially about the flood in the Santi Cruz river last winter and the dam age it did.
 DEBATING SOCIETY: The uni versity debating team will debate tn
 University of Southern Californi; some time in March, probably in Lo Angeles. Last week the universit. received a letter from the U. S. C.
 which finally settled the matter O the debate. The subject for debat is to be selected by the Arizona team and must be submitted to the T.. s c. by the first of the year. All tn embryo debaters on the campus ar practicing up for place on the team The team will be selected before tn Christmas holidays. and will b. drilled by Professor Fegtly who i conducting the classes in publi speaking. Already twenty have sig nified their intention of entering tn preliminaries, and the places on tn
 team will be fought for by the diff ferent members of the student body The University of Arizona shoul' turn out . team which will do