THE HESPERIAN
Colloge Settlement. R, A. Tyan i8 slowly recovering from an attack of the gripp'
ast baturday was the regular monthly meeting of the Col- There will be an examination in the Botanical Seminary,
lego Settlement Board. Reports wore given by Miss Dins- January 13th.
more, Mr. Foquet and Mr. Wescott. Mr. Weacott, chairman B R Gordon is vory a;ck) aud ha8 beon Bufforing very
of the committee on library supplies, met with the board and much for several days.
made a report and said books were coming in fast seventy- tt n t i .. -n j
, , , , nnn . , , , , A. H. Maxwell has been wrestling with the gripp and
nvo bound volumes and 200 magazines have been added to obHged t0 mis8 clasaea this week
the library this year. These books are catalogued by Mr.
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presidency of the Senior class, for next semester.
The Lincoln Business College faculty send two representa
tives to the Nebraska law school, in Profs. Wilson and Bishop.
John D. Deuison, Law '98, at present, a prosperous
attorney at Clarion, Iowa, is visiting friends in the University.
Remember the Y. M. C. A. entertainment to be given on
the evening of January 31st. Tickets will bo twenty-five cents.
Mr. Bartis came iu conflict with J. D. Dassenbrock last
week placing basket-ball. As a result Bartis is mourning a
cracked jaw.
Professor Bessey will give a lecture on the "Physiology
of the Apple Tree" beforo the Horticultural Society next
Fouquet, shelves having been loaned by Prof. Caldwell.
There are now in the library 178 well bound volumes.
Mr. Foquet's report shows the reading room is open at the
Graham-Taylor house from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m., and books are
loaned out during this period. Homo rooms are open con
stantly. Classes are woll organized. Mrs. Reed has a class of four
teen. Mrs. Carver has a large class in Gorman. Mr,
Thornbury gives instruction in reading, wiitiug and arithmetic.
The board desires the chairman of each committee to meet
with them in their regular monthly meeting.
There will bo a special meeting of the board January 14th,
noxt Saturday, at 8:30 a. m., in library building, room 109.
A party was given to the older students; there were about Wednesday.
thirty-five present, among them were: Prof. Caldwell and Professor Card has sent a paper treating of uThe Apple
Mr. and Mrs. Reed. in Its Relation to Climate" to be read before the meeting of
A literary society was organized to be purely local and tn0 Horticultural Society,
nominally in the hands of the students. It meets every mon- The class in Educational Classics, under Prof. Luckey, has
day night at G.-T. house, and promises to be a success. just finished Herbert's "Education" and is now taking up
Froobol'B "Education of Man."
A new piano was purchased during vacation by the Collego
Settlement Board aud put into the Graham-Taylor House.
Most of the funds were raised through the energy of the ladies'
faculty club.
Miss Edna Polk has resigned the position as secretary of the
College Settlement box in Uni. Hall, where it will reach the College Settlement Board on account of her mother's illness.
one win remain a memoer or me Doara. jar. xvooerc Lansing
was elected to fill her place.
The game room has beon fitted up and is quite well finished.
The decorating committee is progressing nicely and meets
every weo'k.
Mr. Hills made a financial report as treasurer. Some socie
ties and fraternities have not yet reported. More funds will
be appreciated. Any contributions may be dropped in the
board safely.
Professor Saunders of the South Dakota Agricultural
Kansas has submitted five up to date , questions Jor our con- College stopped at the University on his way home from the
sideration. south, where he had been collecting plants. He had made a
A new box and College Settlement bulletin has been put up verv larSe and satisfctory collection of fresh water algae in the
in Uni. Hall. - Gulf 8tates-
Professor of Botany Dixon, in Dublin, recently published
a scientific paper regarding some phases of plant physiology.
John L. Sheldon, a student of the University and teacher of
Regular rehearsals on "Roy Bias" every Saturday afternoon botany in the preparatory school, became interested and began
Miss Jones and Miss Aitken have been inflicted with the
prevailing gripp, this week.
to investigate matter. He has made a largo number of experi
ments aud has discovered tha't the Dublin professor is radically
wrong in his conclusions-; Tho point involved is in regard to
the transpiration of plants.
The botanical department has lately received several col-
in College of Oratory rooms. Miss Ella M. Crawford, prin
cipal', recues tonight beforo the Woodmen of the World. The
next pupils' recital occurs January 30, 1898.
The Y. M. C. A. is planning to give an entertainment, in
which the best talent of the University and city will take part,
on the evening of January 31st, in the chapel. The proceeds lections of plants, among these a box of assorted plants
ajj? this entertainment will be used in fitting up the new room collected by A. A. Heller in Mexico, and a number of sea
in the basement of the building that has- just come into the weeds from Massachusetts, a large collection of seeds, 500
possession of the association. An effort will be made to make different kinds assorted and labeled from the department of
this entertainment one of the great University affairs this year, Agriculture at Washington, D. O. Dr. Bessey has been col-
and it is hoped that all of the literary societies and fraternities, lecting seeds for the Inst ten years so with this last addition
will be largely represented when it is given. the University collection is quite largo.
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