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The Pi Club and the Work in Astronomy.
There is in the Department of Mathematics a seminary, known as the "Pi Club," devoted to the consideration of questions in pure and applied mathematics, and to the presentation and discussion of papers showing what is being done by instructors and students along original lines.
The Department of Astronomy is in charge of Prof E. Miller. No credit is allowed for work done elsewhere in general or descriptive astronomy, when that work embraces no more of the subject than is to be found in the usual high school astronomies.
The classes in general or descriptive astronomy are optional classes and are with few exceptions made up of students who are Juniors or Seniors. The text book used is Young's General Astronomy, supplemented with night work given to the study of the heavens. A thousand-dollar telescope renders valuable assistance in this kind of astronomy.
Mathematical and practical astronomy can be pursued with advantage by those only who have the necessary mathematical training and knowledge. All civil engineering students are required to take this subject, and those who are prepared in mathematics who choose to do so are permitted to avail themselves of the advantages of a course in practical astronomy.
One of the things in which Treasurer Moody takes a pardonable pride is the elegant display of pennants which decorates his office and constantly recalls the victories which the University athletic teams have achieved in recent years.
New Books.
A MOUNTAIN WOMAN, and other Stories, by Elia W. Peattie, Chicago, Way & Williams.
These stories, some of which had appeared in standard journals, are not commonplace. The most striking feature of the collection is its variety. There is not one certain pitch and key, as in Barrie or Kipling, maintained throughout. The mountain woman is a sort of Rocky Montain Undine—grace, dreaminess and primitive strength combined; Jim Lancy's Waterloo is a picture of Hamlin Garland's Nebraskans, but done with more refined art than that gentleman permits himself to use; The Three Johns are more like Bret Harte's people, and so on. Not that these sketches would be regarded as imitated from those authors, but this is the simplest way to characterize them. A Lady of Yesterday is over fanciful and symbolic; A Resuscitation depicts a very improbable situation: a young man of blameless reputation gets drunk as a result of a disappointment, kills a man in a brawl and is sent up for twenty years; the lady he supposed he had lost is waiting for him when he leaves the penitenitary his sentence not reduced by the best behavior. Up the Gulch is the only one of the stories that presents false characters—a German, mature when he comes to America, who swears, and talks in American slang and shows no sign of his native language, and a refined, delicate, loving mother of two children, who goes from her husband and children to a health resort and permits the said German to suppose her unmarried and waste his poor