THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
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@ COLLEGE WORLD.
The State University of California has 1.100 students
Rutgers College has the champion football team of the middle states.
Athletics is taking a boom at Washburn. The faculty are going to tolerate foot-ball.
At Amherst, half of the material for the annual has already been sent to the printer.
Orange and navy blue have recently been selected as the colors of the University of Illinois.
Princeton has 77 instructors, Cornell 152 University of Chicago 152. Yale 200. Harvard 322.- Williams Weekly.
E. P. Shire, who represented Emporia College in the Stute Oratorical Contest last year, is associate Editor of College Life.
Mr. Frank Russell, of Iowa University has lately returned from the arctic regions, bringing back a fine collection of skins and skulls.
Salem Goodale. Baker's famous foot-ball player, has been elected professor of physical culture in a New York College.—Mid-Continent.
Mrs. Stanford proposes to enlarge Leland Stanford University to three times its present size by the addition of new buildings, apparatus and professors.—Ex.
The University of Chicago, has discarded the name professor. The members of the Faculty are in the future to be addressed as Mr.Ex. What if the professor happens to be a Miss or Mrs.
A delegation of eleven students represented the University at the state convention of the Y.M.C.A. which was held at Ottawa last week. A full report of the convention will be given soon.
Four pages of the Occident. for Nov. 1st are filled with "ads" of this kind: "Say boys! don't forget to vote for ___, for County Clerk," generally accompanied by a picture of the candidate.
The glee club of Illinois University will take only eight men on its annual tour, and the tour will be made during the Christmas vacation. They believe that this will insure greater financial success, and will not interfere so much with the school work of the members of the club.
ENGINEERING NOTES.
Duffee was on the hill visiting last Wednesday afternoon.
Carter left for Chicago last Monday to begin work for the Chicago Bridge company.
It is reported that the bad weather has interfered greatly with Prof. Blake's experiments with his electrical signals.
Armor has not been to school this week on account of a sprained ankle received in last Saturday's game.
Adelphic.
The Adelphic held its regular session last Friday evening. On account of the absence of the participants in the literary part of the program, some time was devoted to extemporaneous speaking. The question as to whether science or literature has the greater influence in disciplining the mind was well discussed: the affirmative by Scott and McCrosky, the negative by Engle and Cann.
The literary part of the program for the next meeting is to be entirely devoted to Holmes. His biography is to be given by Miss Henrichs, a discussion of his poetry by Miss Morgan, and of his prose by Prof. Hopkins.
All members are to respond to roll call with quotations from his writings.
The question, "Should an educational qualification for voting be adopted in this country?" is to be affirmed by Miss Whitman and Mr. Clair, and denied by Miss Williams and Mr. E.G. Simpson.
Language Conference.
At the last session of the Language Conference the following persons were elected to membership; Misses Rohe, Towne, Haskeil and Parry. and Messrs Price and Messenger.
Mr. Bates read a very interesting and well written paper upon "The Pheloctetes of Sophocles."
Prof. Carruth spoke upon "English Parallels to German Constructions. He showed by numerous examples that in the order of the parts of the sentence and of the phrase, and in the use of prefixes and compound words that the English Language is even more arbitrary than the German. Though of little practical value, this knowledge may be of some comfort to a student of the German Language.
Miss Anderson and Messrs. Price and Messenger were appointed as an auxiliary to the program committee for the purpose of arranging for a pronunciation match which is soon to be one of the attractive features of the conference program.