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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
New Years day has been celebrated from time immemorial with great festivities in Philadelphia. The "mummer's" parade is the principle attraction. The various New Year's clubs of the city parade the streets until seven in the evening. The best costumed organizations are presented with prizes and some of the clubs spend small fortunes in trying to get one. By half past eleven on New Year's eve the streets around Independence Hall were crowded for blocks with people blowing tin horns and "Making Rome howl" generally. They were waiting to hear the old Liberty Bell strike out at twelve o'clock the number of years of independence of the United States of America. We saw the celebration with a New Years party according to Philadelphian style.
If New Yorkers are to be believed Philadelphia is a dreadfully slow place and there is some truth in their statements too. The devastating "trolley" car has proved an endless cause of trouble to city management and the whole system was roundly denounced some time ago from the pulpit of one of the fashionable uptown churches as too dangerous for practical use. It is a little too fast for the staid old Quaker City.
The City Hall like the Kansas State House, at Topeka is "not quite completed," but Wm Penn-thirty feet tall in bronze and weighing sixty tons-keeps watch over the city from the main tower at the dizzy height of five-hundred and forty-seven feet. It is rumored that he actually turned around on the day of the Harvard game and looked towards west Philadelphia with a marked smile of approval. I. V. M.
Students Journal Election.
The election held, as announced, on Tuesday brought out an unusually full attendance and gave a most tangible proof of the prosperous condition of the company, for every one of the stockholders stands for a dollar paid into the treasury, and for the support and influence of one man behind the paper. With such a backing no paper can fail to achieve the fullest success.
opposition. Stanton Olinger and H. J. Maxwell were made business managers. W. N. Logan, the only other man nominated for a business manager made a good race, falling only four votes behind Mr. Maxwell. J. P. Cracraft and C. C. Brown were nominated for treasurer and the former was elected. Miss Effie Loader the present secretary, was re-elected for another term.
The names of W. C. Dick and E. T. Hackney were placed in nomination for the office of editor-in-chief. The vote gave the position to Mr. Hackney, by a decided majority, though Mr. Dick received a very creditable number of votes. For the office of local editor R. L. Stewart was chosen without
The officers chosen are well fitted for their positions and will make the STUDENTS JOURNAL what it always has been, a thoroughly progressive paper. They will assume control with the issue of Feb. 1st.
The Kansas'Nebraska Joint Debate.
The first preliminary contest for representation in the Kansas-Nebraska joint debate will be held on Friday March 1. at 7:30 p.m. The candidates from each of the competing societies are as follows:
KENT CLUB. ADELPHIC.
KENT CLUB. ADELPHIC.
J. H. Brady. J. H. Engle.
F. F. Lamb. A. McMurray.
Eli Cann. Olson.
C. A. Prentiss. J. C. Fair.
C. L. Wilson. B. B. McCall.
Galen Nichols. E. B. Wood.
J. J. Scott. J. B. Cheadle.
T. J. Madden. W. C. McCroskey.
C. V. Hickman J. A. Simpson
Each society will hold a separate debate in its own rooms at the time appointed. The question for the Kent Club debate will be
RESOLVED . That the Bar does more toward the advancement of civilization than does the Pulpit.
Judges of the Kent Club debate.
J. W. Green. F. W. Blackmar.
S. A. Riggs. F. H. Hodder. Alternate.
Question for the Adelphic debate.
RESOLVED -That proportional representation should be adopted in choosing National representatives.
Judges of the Adelphic debate.
O. Templin. E.D.Adams.
W.William. E.Hampton.
S. W. Williston.E. Haworth. Alternate As but two societies have entered the competition, the rules will be suspended, and each society will be allowed three representatives in the final trial debate. In each debate the sides and order of speakers will be determined by lot, and announced twenty-four hours before the debate takes place.
By order of the committee.
A. M. WILCOX, Chairman.
E. M. HOPKINS. Secretary.