MSU Independent Newspaper 1902-04-02

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Volume IX. Columbia, Missouri, April 2, 1902 Number 25
UNIVERSITY NEWS,
Mr. Otto A. Daudt was appointed assistant
chemist at the Experiment Station.
No final action was taken in regard to the
matter of fellowships and scholarships.
The contract for the University printing for
the next year was let to E. VV. Stephens, of the
Herald.
At the recent meeting of the Executive Board
the following appointments and contracts were
disposed of:
Professor Marbut was instructed to give a
course in Field Geology as a part of the sum-mer
school.
A course in Geography was provided for
during the second term of the summer school
at Columbia.
Mr. G. M. Tucker, now in the government
service, was appointed instructor in Agronomy
and Soil Physics.
Mr. J. H. Ridgeway, of District of Columbia,
was appointed Taxidermist. He will begin
work about April i.
Use of the Auditorium was given to Columbia
Elks for some date early in April. They will
bring Gen. Fitzhugh Lee here to lecture at that
time.
Dr. G. L. Swiggett, now of the University of
Pennsylvania, was appointed substitute for Pro-fessor
Hoffman, who will spend next year in
Europe.
During the absence of Professor B. F. Hoff-man
next year, Professor H. B. Almstedt will
have charge of the department of Germanic
Languages.
Louis Ingold will take Professor Defoe's place
as assistant professor of Mathematics during the
session of 1902-190- 3. Professor Defoe will
spend the year in Europe.
The resignation of Miss Ada E. Payne, head
nurse at Parker Memorial Hospital, was ac-cepted.
Miss Payne goes to Milwaukee to take
charge of a large hospital.
Two documents of historic value have re-cently
been presented to the University by Mrs.
J. C. Risk, of Canton, Missouri. One is a di-ploma
given her husband by the University in
1855; the other is a diploma of the same date
given by the Union Literary Society to Mr.
Risk upon his graduation from the University.
At that time it was the custom for the Literary
Societies to grant diplomas to graduating mem-bers.
It is the aim of the University to collect
as many similar documents as possible. Thus
Mrs. Risk has, through her generosity, laid the
foundation of a collection which we hope will
rapidly increase. The Alumni Recorder has
had these diplomas framed and they can be
seen in his office in the Academic Hall.
Preparations are being made for rapid work
on the new buildings in the near future. The
old brick building on the Horticultural grounds
is being torn down to make room for the new
Horticultural building. The cottage is also
being removed from the grounds, and the old
Horticultural barn is being moved to the State
farm. Ground was broken last week for the
Engineering Laboratory, and work will be
pushed on that building as soon as the weather
is settled. Work will begin on the Medical
building in a few days, and following that Reed
Hall will be started. These three buildings
are all in charge of the same contractor, but
separate forces will be put on each one of them
and work will be pushed as rapidly as possible.
TO THE FACULTY.
An article in the St. Louis Globe-Democr- at
states that the pastors of the Columbia Protest-ant
churches have presented to the Faculty a
petition requesting that our present lecture sys-tem
be replaced by the five day system. The
argument used to back the petition is: that
under the six day system the students are worn
out during the week, and thus are unable to
appreciate the Sunday sermons. In connection
with this point I wish to say that, as a class, the
students who attend church do appreciate the
sermons, and those who do not would proba-bly
continue their present habits after the five
day system was adopted.
Again, we argue that the petition should not
be granted, because the present system is satis-factory
to the good, honest students who attend
the University to work; and so long as the
present system is satisfactory to these, for
whom the University was founded, it should
remain unchanged.
It also might be well to consider another
point. The five day system has been tried and
discarded as unsatisfactory in a large Univer-sity.
I therefore request the Faculty to leave
the six day system unchanged.
A Student.
Soph Medic: Dr. , What is the function of the
stomach?
Dr. : Well, this is a very important subject
and during the short time allowed (leafing ov-er
his notes) the vaso motor and vasor dilator
system I think (to himself) but how do I
know what I thin The bell is ringing, the
class may take the next 300 pages in Vol. I of
the American Text on Physiology and read
from page 15 to 493 in the Journal of Physiol-ogynow
in the library on the vasor motor and
dilator system
AT OTHER SCHOOLS.
Iowa University has a training table for its
track team.
The Knox Student was edited by the women
of the College last week.
The University of Minnesota has decided to
discard the honor system.
Seniors at Wisconsin are to erect a drinking
fountain as a class memorial.
The class of 1902 at Harvard expects to col-lect
$20,000 for a class memorial.
The band at the University of Michigan has
disbanded on account of lack of financial sup-port.
The Y. M. C. A. at K. U. gave an elaborate
banquet last week at which Gammun Stanley
was toastmaster.
Texas opens the baseball season with a
series of class games. The individual work in
these games seems to determine the make-u- p of
the 'Varsity.
The Sophomores at the University of Califor-nia
are preparing to have a circus. All "eques-trians"
and "charioteers" are asked to put in
their bids for positions.
In the triangular track meet of Notre Dame,
Purdue and Indiana March 22, Notre Dame won
nearly everything. The Notre Dame athletes
scored more points than both the other institu-tions.
K. U. had a class fight between Sophomores
and Freshmen in the corridors during chapel
service. The attempts of professors to quiet
the disturbance was ignored by the contestants,
and now the discipline committee is sitting on
some of them.
Debaters from Notre Dame Law school won
the annual debate with Illinois College of Law,
of Chicago. The question was: Resolved,
"That for the general welfare of the people
consolidation in production is better than com-petition."
Notre Dame had the negative.
Texas has recently arranged a debate with
the University of Colorado for which only two
men are to be chosen to represent each school,
and each of these men has two speeches of
seventeen minutes each and five minutes for
rebuttal. This is a little out of the ordinary for
college debates.
Central University, of Danville, Kentucky,
has recently added 75,000 to its endowment
fund. Thomas H. Swope, of Kansas City, gave
fosooo on condition that 25,000 more be
raised bv the University. In a few days $5o,ooc
was raised, which secured the Missonnans otter
and added $75,o to the general endowment.
Mr Swope is one of Kansas City s wealthy men.
In 1S95 he gave to Kansas City 1,400 acres o
land near that city, which is now known as
Swope' s Park.