largest stock of Fine SHOES in the City.
y un-
h the
d his
sces.
n of
n the
iiastic speciacedeophilas so, Rescontent of affiliationHunan andade it Thetor the negative.avoredmusic.ren-
laury.
ickey.
strom.
leary.
therer.
r Cab
u Cond Mr.
and L.
Friday in, un-Wayde, ion, as us in
espony their and to times." undered read a me.
live in
lightful
twelve
ever and
those
y man-
d to be
number of
and pers.
An
After
unhanded
jargon
student
arristers
me read-
and tell-
Science Club.
e his 60 laziest what
and Law-
sessed the
dreams
in pow-
should
feed the
s should
vote.
vote
The Science Club was out in full force last night to hear Ed Franklin give his report on sugar making in Louisiana. Mr. Franklin was chemist in the sugar works on Palo Alto Plantations, about sixty miles up the Mississippi from New Orleans, during the fall, and also made himself familiar with the processes used in other parts of the state, thus gaining a practical knowledge of the manufacture which will be of great value to the University, now that Kansas is a sugar producing state. He procured a fine collection of samples of sugar, syrup, mascuites, molasses, etc., illustrating the whole process of manufacture from the cane to the sugar, to be placed in the chemical museum. These specimens were exhibited and tested by most of the Club. Mr. Franklin considered first the sugars in their chemical relations and stated that although little was known of them certainly, yet it is most probable that glucose is an aldehyde and corresponds to the alcohol mannite and to saccharic acid.
According to the process most in use, the juice from the cane is boiled down to a syrup in copper tanks with the addition of lime to rid it of impurities. This syrup is then put into the vacuum pans, which are closed air-tight vats from which the greater part of the air has been exhausted. By this means the syrup may be boiled at a low temperature, about 150 degrees, and more sugar can be crystallized out than by the old "open pan" process. The mixture of molasses and, sugar called mascuite, is next removed from the vacuum pans and put into the centrifugal machines by which the sugar is completely separated from the molasses. From the molasses lower grades of sugar can be obtained.
The sugar season lasts from the 1st of October to December 15th. The laborers in the sugar house can earn from $1.50 a day down, by eighteen hours work. After the conclusion of his paper Mr. Franklin stood a rapid fire of questions from the students and professors.
The election of officers resulted in the selection of Ed Esterly for president; Ned Slosson, secretary; W. S. Franklin, treasurer. A list of papers which are promised to the club soon, show that the meetings for the rest of the term are to be full of interest.
Henry Clews in an article in the North American Review, entitled, "Legislative injustice to Railways," makes the following suggestions which will be interesting to college people. He says, "I would also suggest that Chairs be instituted in several of our colleges, to be filled by professors who have passed through all the principal departments of a railroad experience. And in addition they should be possessed of a good literary and scientific education. These general experts in railroad matters should have in charge the education of young men, and award diplomas to them as Expert Railroad Directors. Then I would make it incumbent upon every railroad company to have one or more of these graduates in every directory, at a salary, say, equal to that of a Senator or Member of Congress. Every such director should
know thoroughly all there is to know about railroad book-keeping, railroad building and railway management generally. His position should be raised to the dignity of a profession, and his diploma awarded only on the most searching examination of his qualifications for the office. The position should be made as desirable and attractive as that of any of the learned professions; capability and character being the principal tests of fitness for the selection to any vacancies."
"Students passing through such a collegiate course as this might also be required, as a means of greater practical efficiency, to go through a practical course of a year or two in a railroad office, with frequent opportunities of going over and examining the road, as well as making trips of inspection over all the trunk lines, for special information and instruction."
The Pan Hellenic.
Last Friday evening the gentlemen of Beta Theta Pi, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi fraternities, met at Frazer Hall to celebrate with a "jamboree." The company began to assemble about nine o'clock, and by ten o'clock fully 75 persons were present. The Mandolin Club stationed upon the stage discoursed music that will ever be associated with the pleasures of the occasion. The fine toilets of the ladies (?) made a perfect picture against the background of the more sombre attire of the gentlemen. At the proper hour doughnuts and ham sandwiches were served, and two kegs of cider put on tap. After the repast dancing was resumed and continued until a late hour. We regret that we are unable to give a list of those present, but the toilette of the ladies (?) deserve especial attention.
Miss Shellaberger wore a princess gown of cream faille Francais, entraine, with trimmings of duchess lace.
Miss Edson, gobelin blue plush,
princess red sash.
Miss Bowersock, sage gray henrietta with plush.
Miss Hogeboom, blue henrietta with brocade, square cut corsage, filled with tulle, natural flowers.
Miss Funston, pink surah empire gown, with smocked sleeves and bodice.
Miss Otis, ceril scuv with pink point d'esprit in fiouances, Gretchen bodice.
Miss Smith, pink satin with white lace draperies, white sash.
Miss Henshaw, ice green satin, with pink front and panels, front handsomely painted.
Miss Jacobs, moss gray henrietta,
pink girdle and neck garniture.
Miss Cook, black satin, close, sash of heliotrope moire.
Miss Swope, gray and blue costume, close corsage, natural flowers.
The Roman Catholics have 3,000 parochial schools in the United States with 511,000 pupils enrolled.
Miss Peabody, black lace costume with red sash and ribbons.
Miss Pickering, buttercup yellow satin, covered with white net.
Exchange Notes.
Miss Wright, pearl white satin entraine, embroidered in gold and silver, festooned with rose paint, pale tan gloves and slippers.
It is said that many Harvard men spend ten thousand dollars a year.
Miss Deverell, ecru satin merveilleux; duchess lace trimmings. tan gloves.
The University of Mexico is the oldest college in America. It was founded fifty years before Harvard.
There are thirty-seven Japanese students at the University of Michigan.
The University of Wisconsin is agitating the question of abolishing commencement orations.
An astronomical observatory is being erected at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. It costs $40,000.
The Vanderbilts have purchased one thousand acres of land in North Carolina, and will spend 1,000,000 in establishing there an industrial and mechanical school.
The University of the Pacific has abolished examinations. Essays and recitation grades supersede them
Nearly 300 students in Harvard are studying Loisette's system for teaching the memory.
Of the 1,494 convicts in the Joliet penitentiary 220 are college graduates
Wells College has elected Mrs. Grover Cleveland president of its eastern Alumni Association.
General Clinton B. Fisk has been offered the presidency of Dlckinson College.
The telescope which the southern California university proposes to erect on Wilson Peak will have a glass of 42 inches—eight inches larger than the famous Lick telescope, and will cost, it is estimated, about 100,000 dollars. It is claimed that it will make the surface of the moon as distinctly visible to the naked eye as if it were only sixty miles. It will require five years to make the glass.
A Sunday school teacher asked a little girl of her class if she had been baptised. "Yes," said the little girl, "two times" Two times! Why, how could that be? "It didn't take the first time!" said the little girl.
In striking contrast with the custom of to-day stands the following extract from the laws of Yale College, published in 1774. Every freshman is obliged to do any proper errand or message required of him by any one in an upper class, which if he refuse to do, he shall be punished." As singular are some of the regulations of Harvard college enforced a century ago: "No freshman shall wear his hat in the college yard, except in rains, hails or snows, he be on horse-back, or both hands full.
"No freshman shall be saucy to his Senior, or speak to him with his hat on. "No freshman shall intrude into his Senior's company. "No freshmen are to find the rest of the scholars with bats, balls and footballs. - University Herald.
A political war is raging in the University of Nebraska between the "barb" and "frat" elements. The real cause of the trouble seems to be a refusal of the party in power to allow the "——" a representation on their college journal, the *Hesperian*. To have a successful college paper, it must be made to represent the
wants and interests of all. It must voice the needs of every faction We would advise the Hesperian to give all a representation, and profit by the example of our contemporary.
The Miami Student is among the best exchanges that comes to our table. The subject matter is neatly arranged, and shows careful study and original thought. It contains none of that trite classical matter with which so many of our college journals are filled. It treats of subjects which are of general interest to every student, and is in every way a model of college journalism.
We are glad to note the arrival of the Delphic on our exchange table. It is a neatly arranged monthly, and contains several well written and pithy articles which are a credit to its literary columns. The Delphic is published by the students of Drake University, and is certainly a credit to that institution.
College Echoes, a monthly journal published by Lane University, is a new arrival this week. It contains little worthy of commendation, and with the exception of the article on the death of Washington, contains nothing of interest to the general reader.
At the annurl dinner of the Alumni of the College of the City of New York, there were present over 200 graduates of that institution.
The University of Nebraska is pin ing for a college yell.
The State Oratorical Contest of Nebraska will be held at Crete on April 12th.
A great many of the leading universities and colleges have abolished the examination system. Yea, verily the students' millennium is at hand.
What's the matter with Mrs. Rice? The frats haven't had a good "write up" for quite a while, guess it is time for another jamboree. —TIMES.
When one is summoned in this seductive way to say something it is hard to resist. I was asked before to contribute something for the TIMES and did so, and was surprised to find this urgent appeal for "more" in the next paper.
But well I know that boys need help in many ways, and it has been my conviction for more than a quarter of a century that the boys in this "land of the free and home of the brave" are the most neglected and worst abused part of every community. A great awakening of the popular mind upon this subject is near at hand. We see indications of it in many ways. Even this great struggle for prohibition when reduced to its real meaning is nothing but an attempt to take care of the boys. But it alone is not enough. Additional means are being organized and other influences are at work. The old notion that every boy is entitled to a season for sowing wild oats, which was honestly entertained by many people till a late day, is now given up. Many other notions now tolerated and destructive of a boy's best interests will, as fast as attention is directed to them, go the same way. Even the Overseers of Harvard now, it is said, are considering whether students should have enough so-called liberty to ruin their prospects as students or only enough to help them in their work. In other words, the wise men who rule there begin to see that boys need wise supervision, restraint, and direction. These are among the first rights of every boy, and as fast as they are secured the great burden of wrong and wrong doing, of which our society is now so conscious, will be lifted. R.E. Rice.
The North American Review for March is a strong and striking number. It opens with a charming description by General Sherman of "Old Times in California," containing many reminiscences of life in that territory forty years ago. There is a valuable symposium on the question, "Can our Churches be Made More Useful?" to which the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale and Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden and the Rev. Minot J. Savage contribute. The murder of Major Clayton—one of the uppermost political topics of the hour—is ably considered, from the Republican and Democratic point of view, by the Hon. Logan H. Roots and Senator James K. Jones, both of Arkansas. A powerful plea for Delia Bacon is entered by Ignatius Donnelly, in a review of Theodore Bacon's life of his aunt. "Legislative Injustice to Railways" is discussed by Henry Clews; "Common-Sense and Copyrights," by the Hon. George S. Boutwell; and the question, "Does American Farming Pay?"—which is of especial interest at present, in view of the elevation of the Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet Department—is conclusively answered by a recognized authority, the Hon. George B. Loring, ex-Commissioner of Agriculture. "Humanity's Gain from Unbelief" is set forth by Charles Bradlaugh, M. P. General Lloyd S. Bryce, member of the Fiftieth Congress, points out some errors of statement and conclusion in Prof. James Bryce's widely-read "American Commonwealth." Dion Boucicault describes a recent incident at the Goethe Society's meeting, and comments on the disastrous effect of newspaper criticism on the drama. In a readable short article, Grant Allen treats of "The Adaptiveneas of Nature." In the department of "Notes and Comments," "The Claim of Realism" is considered by Albion W. Tourgee; there is also a timely contribution or "Naming the New States." Several pages are devoted to reviews of recent books.
Political Science Club.
The following is the program of the club to-night :
Finance and Industry, F. C. Schrader; Foreign Events and Diplomacy, J. O. Worden; Local Government in England, H. F. M. Bear; The Ballot in England, V. L. Kellogg; The Australian Ballot System, C. E. Street.
Buy your new hat of Abe Levy.
Abe sells the best fitting shirts in town.
For a good shave or hair cut, go to McCullough Bros.
For a good smooth shave or stylish hair cut go to Al Gregg.
Buy the "Knox" hat of Abe Levy. They can't be beat.
Remember the concert to be given by the First Regiment Band at the opera house Thursday evening, March 21st.
You can find anything you want in the Shoe line at Black's.