"INTELLECTUAL HOBOES."
Dean Deed of Michigan Scores College Secret Orders.
Dean Deed of the literary department of the University of Michigan made an attack on college fraternities before the State Teachers' Association Saturday. His speech was entitled "Intellectual Hoboes."
"Musical organizations and athletic clubs are foci for dissolute and disorderly hangerson," said the Dean. "While the fraternity organizations might be one of the most powerful instruments for good influence and scholarly work, yet, as they exist at present, their influence is all thrown in the direction of interests which are not academic.
"I have sufficient proof of this. Last February twentythree men from the literary department of engineering were dismissed from the university for incompetency. Of these seven were still in Ann Arbor, most of them living in fraternity houses as late as the month of May. Prominent members of some of the fraternities came and implored me to help rid them of this class of fellows.
"Not only this, but two or three fraternities had men boarding in their houses who made no pretence of attending classes, and who had not even registered in the university. These conditions I have found existing in every university I have visited. The only way to get rid of these intellectual hoboes is summary dismissal. My statements can all be substantiated." - University Missourian.
Graduate Club Reorganized.
A meeting of graduate students was held Friday, Nov. 20, at which a large number were present and the graduate club was reorganized. The following officers were elected: President, R. W. Baldwin, A. M. '08; vice-president, R. J. Ray, A. B. '08; secretary, Florence Hedger, A. B. '04; treasurer, C. H. Heuser, A. B. '08. The object of the organization is to bring the graduate students, each of whom is largely working independently, into closer touch socially and intellectually. There were 102 graduate students enrolled in the University last year and the enrollment will probably be as great this year.
Fine Arts Recital.
Miss Mary Angell will give a piano recital this evening in Fraser Hall. It is the third of the fall Fine Arts course and will be open to the holders of students' tickets.
Prof. Weller to Lecture.
Prof. Weller, of the University of Iowa, will deliver a lecture on "The Excavations of the American School at Athens," in University Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4:30. The lecture will be illustrated by the stereopticon. All are invited.
Douglas Gardner, of Missouri University, visited at the Phi Psi house yesterday.
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The Alumni of Michigan have subscribed $300,000 to build a six-story structure at Ann Arbor.
Senator Guggenheim has given $75,000 to the University of Colorado for a new law building. It will contain a special library of 15,000 volumes.
The Y. M. C. A. of Missouri University has erected a $50,000 building.
The Y.W.C.A.will hold a county fair at Northwestern December 11.
According to a ruling of the faculty student affairs committee at the University of Washington the freshmen are not allowed to attend the senior informal or any other general dance.
Phi Alpha Delta a new legal fraternity has been organized at Iowa.
The Utah girls are practicing cross country running.
Yale has just published a complete directory of her living graduates. Of 24,040 graduates 14,098 are now living. About 150 die each year at an average
age of sixty-one, and nearly 800 are added by graduation.
Rice Hall at Washburn, which was partially destroyed by fire last spring, has been thoroughly remodeled and modernized, and will be devoted mainly to chemistry, although other departments are to be located there.
Several women students at California are in danger of expulsion because of leap year evening calls. They blacked their faces and disguised themselves in various ways and called in a body upon the different fraternity houses.
Iowa University is to have a new paper, The Iowa Athletic Journal. Its object is to give all the athletic news of the state.
Ovster stew at Vic's.
Santa Claus is surely headed this way for McCulloch's Drug store now has on sale about the nicest line of Chistmas post cards you will see.
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Post card albums, kodac albums, kodac calenders, pretty and artistic, but reasonable in price, at Raymond's Drug store.
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Dickinson Students Organize.
Fried oysters at Vic's.
A meeting of the Dickinson county club was held Tuesday noon in Fraser Hall. The following officers were elected: Fred Thompson, president; Roy Wick, vice-president; Will Moore, treasurer and Lucy Williams, secretary. A football game will be played with the Dickinson county high school at Chapman during the holidays.
On Care of the Sick.
Dr. George H. Hoxie, dean of the clinical department of the School of Medicine at Rosedale delivered a lecture on "The Care of the Sick" in Kansas City, Kansas, Friday evening in the University extension course of lectures in charge of Prof. F. W. Blackmar and the charity conferences of the two Kansas Citys.
"Fixin's" for fudge at Vic's
The Acacias are wearing colors for A. H. Sluss, assistant professor of mechanics, and F. B. McCullom, instructor in physics.
"Jodie" Dyer, Lewis Buxton and Paul Rauch of Kansas City attended the Phi Psi party Friday evening.
Hot lunch at all hours at Vic's.
Prof. A. S. Olin delivered a lecture on "The Professional Teacher," at the annual session of the North-Central Kansas Teachers' Association at Concordia Friday, November 27.
The Junior class will give its third party of the year at Fraternal Aid hall Friday night. Shanty will play.
Prof. W.H.Carruth spent the Thanksgiving vacation visiting with his daughter, Mrs. Constance McCollum,'05,and her husband, Prof. Elmer V. McCollum,'03, in Madison, Wis.