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clearness and beauty. Their power is as nearly equalized as it is possible for four voices to be, and blend almost perfectly. The college songs and medley were received with a storm of applause and the quartette was called back again and again. The tenor solos by Messrs. McDowell and Davis were popular features, as was the base solo by Mr. P. W. Goldsbury. 'The Holy City,' by Mr. McDowell was especially fine. Mr. R. S. Goldsbury's impersonations were well rendered and favorably received. The closing number, 'Remember Now Thy Creator,' by the quartette was one of the best of the evening."
The Moody Quartette will sing in Lawrence next Wednesday evening, December 5th, at the opera house. Seats may be obtained by holders of course tickets Monday, and will be on sale to the general public Tuesday. Price 50 cents each. A few course tickets still remain at $2 each.
Theta Open Meeting.
Saturday afternoon the young ladies of Kappa Alpha Theta with a number of guests met at the home of Miss Edith Clarke. Mrs.W.H. Carruth read a paper recently given in Kansas City before the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, "An hour with Hans Sachs." Before beginning her paper, Mrs. Carruth spoke very tenderly of one whom she missed from the circle—Marcella Howland. Mrs. Carruth took her hears back four centuries to the old town of Nuremburg, the home of Hans Sachs. Some extracts from the drama "The Unlike Children of Eve," and other writings were given to illustrate the style of the cobbler-poet.
Refreshments were served and all went away deeply indebted to Mrs. Carruth for an afternoon delightfully spent.
Language Conference.
Last Friday afternoon Prof. D. H. Robinson gave a paper on "Woman's Rights in Ancient Rome." By woman's rights suffrage is not meant, probably the Roman matron did not seek the right to vote. By the term rights is meant the claims a woman might have before the state. In early times Italy was a place of pure homes where woman reigned supreme. Her children and husband addressed her as
domina or lady; she was not restricted to one part of the house as Greek women were. She might entertain her husband's guests, attend games and theatrical representations. She might appear in court but not as a lawyer to plead a case. If she were of noble birth, she might have funeral rights and an oration the same as a consul. Good government today is due to the clear-headed men from these pure homes presided over by these women.
If, in the Roman ceremony of marriage, the wife were not under the authority of her husband, she was still a member of her father's family and might inherit from her father, otherwise she was not regarded as a relative and might not inherit. In early times the ceremony of marriage was a purchase and the wife was practically a slave. Later a form of solemn religious ceremony was adopted something like a high church wedding and a barbacue. But the Roman woman found she was in about the same condition as under the form of purchase. Then the ceremony became a simple agreement to live together as long as both lived. The wife remained in her father's power, although the husband might gain possession of her by an injunction. However this seldom happened. In a free marriage the wife's property remained her own. Husband and wife could not make gifts to each other, nor could they steal from each other. Divorce was granted on the application of either party or both. Divorce became fashionable under the Christian Emperor. Justinian made the dower inalienable, the wife's claim being a first lien on everything.
An unmarried woman must have had a good time. If she were not under a man's control she could do as she pleased. If she made a bad bargain she might plead ignorance of the law and regain her property. Under the Emperor Hadrian only married women had the right to make wills. The laws seemed to favor second marriages of divorced persons, but to discountenance that of widows and widowers. If a widow married within a year she lost the property of the first marriage and became legally an infant. On the whole the Roman