Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-06
Busy at u. of NJ.
With Studies
| And Sports

OrOnO, Jan. 5,-With final exam
nations but little more than two
weeks in the future, University of
Maine students are applying all of
their energy to studies in a last
feverish attempt to raise their aca-
demic standing before the mid-win-
ter ranks are announced.
Neither fraternity dances nor pub
lie dances in the gymnasium will be
on the program until after the first
of February, and study hours are
being strictly observed in all fratern-
ity houses and dormitories. The hon.
orary scholastic societies will not
initiate candidates until after the ex-
animation and the names OF the sem
iors elected to Phi Beta Kappa will
not be made public until after the
ranks are posted.
To raise the scholarship Of their
chapters, several of the fraternities
have made special scholarship rules
for their members to observe. BY
these rules. the men are bound to
remain in their rooms for a specified
number of hours each night and to
eliminate all unnecessary noise at
other times. The Women's Students
Government Association, by which
the women students are governed, has
similar rules which are being care
fully enforced.
Undismayed by the fresh blanket
Of snow that covered the hockey
rink this morning after Thursdays
storm, Coach "Cuddy" Murphy this
afternoon conscripted fifty fresh
men and set them to work on the
task of preparing the surface for
flooding.
More than 80 candidates. many Of
them freshmen. reported for the
first practice session of the year on
the river Wednesday afternoon and
the coach felt certain that he could
develop a winning team out Of the
material presented.
In response to q recent plea made
by President Clarence c. Little for
support of the University of Maine
library, the General Alumni Associa
ton has raised SS05 and the New
York Association has contributed
$345, it was announced today by r.
l.. Walkley, librarian.
The money will be used to buy
new books, renew subscriptions to
periodicals.. and to bind much used
volumes, Mr. Walkley says.
Representing the debating society
of the University of Maine. Theodore
w. Monroe of Milo and Edward NJ.
Curran of Bangor will meet delega-
ton of two from the University of
North Dakota in Bangor City Hall on
Jan. 10 to uphold the negative argu-
ment on the question: "Resolved:
that the Towner Sterling Education
Bill Should be Passed and Adopted"
Mr.. Monroe and Mr.. Curran are
capable representatives of the Uni
versity, both of them having demon
strated their speaking ability several
times in informal debates on the
campus. Mr.. Monroe is a junior. an
IN" man, member of the Junior
Masks, an honorary society, and
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Mr.. Curran is sophomore, and
spoke last year on the Maine team
which wrested a victory from New
Hampshire State College. In Bangor
High School he achieved an enviable
reputation as a debater, and was
captain Of the team during his last
year in that school.
The debating society has arranged
for future debates with several
strong teams.
Roy Merle Peterson, Phi. D., who
has been head of the Department of
Spanish and Italian at the Univer-
sty of Maine for the past five years,
was recently cited in a booklet pub
lished by his alma mater, Coe Col
lege, as one of the two most success
full graduates of the institution en-
gagged in teaching.
Prof. Peterson is a native of Iowa
| and was graduated from Coe Col
lege in 1906 with the degree of B. A.,