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Company C is taking its extra drill work
this week. By the end of the present school
year, the battalion will make by far the best
showing it has ever made.
The third joint debate between the TJ. B.
D. C. and the Maxwell Club took place
last Staurday evening. There was a large
and enthusiastic attendance.
The long talked of targets for rifle
practice have at last been put in place in the
basement of the Armory, so that we may
now expect to hoar daily the crack of the
cadet rifle.
Six delegates went from the University to
the Missionary Convention at Detroit. Two
were sent by the State Foreign Missionary
Society and four by the Christian Associa
tions in the University.
The presence of people from the city in
the University Library is noted with pleas
ure. The library has been getting much
nearer the people of the town as well as to
the students in the last few years.
The University students will accept with
out question and with all their wonted
enthusiasm the comparison given by Presi
dent Gates, of Iowa -college, at the Alumni
banquet, "good, better, Bessey".
The calamity howlers and embryo college
journalists who have been lamenting the
lack of college spirit among the university
students have all departed since Charter
Day, and probably will never appear again.
Nothing received more attention during the
Charter day celebration than the "Morrcl
Geological Collection" from the bad lands.
It was necessary to keep a guide on duty
here to answer the numerous questions as to
the origin of the devil's corkscrew.
Professor and Mrs. Hodgman entertained
the teachers and officers of the First Presby
terian Sunday School, of which the profes
sor is superintendent, Monday evening. The
officers gave interesting reports of the prog
ress of the school. Refreshments were
served to the guests.
The university is occasionally annoyed by
great nuisances. This time it is a certain
clique that play in the chapel every after
noon to the great discomforture of students
who wish to study. We hope these people
will have some consideration for their
fellow students.
On the second of April the Glee Club
will start on its first state tour. Among
other towns the boys will stay at Ashland,
Crete, Kearney, Columbus, Beatrice and
Hastings. The tours will be made under
the competent and experienced manage
ment of Mr. H. A. Reese.
The "Farmers' Short Course in Agricul
tural" was addressed a few weeks ago
by Professor F. W. Taylor. lie
spoke on "Prices and crisis." The pro
fessor's speech was interesting and lucid
but probably contained a little too much
"economy" for the average hearer.
Professor's Caldwell's American History
Seminar has been changed into a regular
class in History. The work will cover the
period from '50 to the present time. The
change was made in consequence of the
difficulty with which regular students can do
work on the seminary plan. The class will
continue to meet at the regular hour on
Thursday from seven to nine, until further
plans are made.
Professor Sherman's Shakespeare lectures
in the chapel are glowing and glorious ex
amples of what the Profs, might be to the
people if they only had energy enough.
The profes&or has class work enough to take
up an ordinary man's time, and he has been
and is doing work oi his own that in zolvcs
endless labor and energy, and yet he has
found time to do more university extension
work than any other man in the institution.
Professor Fling has stimulated his already
hard working class in European history by
oifering some of the best recognition,
through their exhibited work, in a work on
the Seminar Method of Teaching History
that is soon to be published. The pro
fessor is a believer in this method and in