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One of the additions to the original was the book agent with the "Kwir Book" for sale; a very skillful way of introducing the class annual and offering it to the public.
CLASS OF CHARACTERS.
Mrs. Rogers, Charles' Aunt ... Francis Moon
Margery, Charles' cousin ... Alice Rohe
Mrs. Wood, a Mother of Freddie Joseph ... Annie Edwards
Aunt Mari, servant girl ... Agnes Thompson
Mr. Rogero, uncle of Charles ... Art McMurray
Charles, the hero, a student in trouble .. F. W. Brewster
Dr. Martin Van B, Stevens, village doctor .. W. I. Hill
P. D. Q. Humbert, a money-lender of Baldwin.
F. Raymond
Freddie Jos. Wood, a theological student .. Jas. Squires
Pete, a man of all work .. R. C. Gowell
Dave, a hack driver .. F. N. Raymond
THE SENIOR ANNUAL.
The Kwir Book, published by the class of ninety-six, bears but a slight resemblance to the Annuals in which the Seniors of days gone by stored their accumulated wisdom. Like Goethe's Faust, its position in literature is unique. It contains no history of the
founding of the University, no elusive courses of study pursued by the eager student, no half tones of the Faculty, no statistics with regard to the size of Senior feet, interesting and instructive as such statistics may be. It is not an illustrated catalogue, but a class book, de-
JAMES H. PATTEN. voted primarily to the interest of the Senior class, but making kindly mention of the idiosyncracies of the Faculty and lower classmen. It contains a dedication in
verse—a composite of Swinburne, Browning and William Blake, which runs trippingly as a centipede; an introduction, appropriately illustrated, a preface, containing a brief but graphic history of the class, a book of fables, and an appendix besides half tone cuts and horoscopes of each member
of the class. The covers of the book are printed
on heavy enamel paper in red, yellow, and black. The drawings were made by Mr. Sydney Prentice, our clever University artist, and Mr. Patten discharged the duties of business manager.
Last Saturday at Manhattan field was held the twenty-first annual field meet of the Intercollegiate association. The score was Yale 43; University of Pennsylvania $ 2 2 \frac {1}{2} $ ; Harvard 14; Columbia 8; Georgetown, 10; Columbian, 12. Williams, 4; Boston, 5. Cornell, 3, Washington, Princeton, 1; B. J. Wefers of Georgetown reduced the inter-collegiate record of 10 seconds for the 100 yard dash held by Carey, Ramsdell and Oram, to his own world's ameteur record of 9 4-5 sec. Burke of Boston won the 440 yard dash 50 2-5 seconds. Jarvis of Pennsylvania won the mile in 4.281-5. Winsor of Michigan won the running high jump at 6 ft. 1in., beating Fearing's intercollegiate record of 6 ft. $ \frac{1}{2} $ in. Sheldon of Yale won the running broad jump at 22 ft. $ 3 \frac{1}{4} $ in. Hollister of Harvard won the half mile in 1.564-5. But the finest event was that in which Wefers broke the world's record in the 220 yard dash, covering the distance in 21 4-5 seconds. Harvard beat Pennsylvania last week with ease, but her score here was cut into by the single cracks from small colleges.
Leland Stanford Jr. University of California, has a volunteer fire company composed of students. Its purpose is to train the men in case of any emergency, as no regular company is near the University. The monotony of proceedings around the college is often broken by false signals given at unexpected times in order to drill the men.
Last Thursday there was a student's meeting at Chicago University, at which resolutions were passed demanding student control of athletic finances and coaching. Stagg has had control of both and may possibly resign.
A recent exchange page of the University Courier of Perry University has a very extended and very laudatory notice of the Western Inter-state Oratorical Association.