-171 in m !HW P il.'. THE NEBRASKAN-HESPERIAN. 0 i i mr IK. i BM Hfl iifl 1 4' s h! Ult 1, PERSONAL. D. F. Rlddell and wife tiro still very 111 nt St. Mary's hospital. 0. R. Bowman, '91, principal of tho Waverly school, was In town Saturday. Hcrborta Jnynos, '02, of Omaha visit ed at tho Delta Gamma house over Sun day. Robert Manloy, '07, enmo down from Fremont for tho Pershing hop Inst Fri day. Adolph Ballenbneh, '99, of Davison, Neb., Is visiting fr!onds at tho univer sity this week. J. 13. Lester, a student here Inst year and now at Lake Forest university, Is visiting friends In Lincoln. Virgil Harbor of tho department of animal pathology has resigned to ac cept a position In Chicago. Dr. R. 11. Wolcoti. and W. D. Hiintor will go to Omaha Wednesday In tho In MMPsis of the Nebraska bird club. J. II. MeGuIro has been chosen dep uty by William McLaughlin',' tho now incumbent of tho county treasurer's of fice. Dr. H. 13. Ward lectured before tho Agassis club of tho high school last Wednesday afternoon on "Fresh Water Biology." S. W. Miller, II. 0. Shedd and C. P. Atwood wont to Omaha last Monday to hear F. llopklnson Smith, who lec tin od at t he Boyd theatre. P. II. Thompson, '99, came down from Mimlcu to attend the annual ban quet, of Delta Epsllon and to spend Sunday with his fraternity brothers. Thomas Mapes, '9S, and wife of Miles City, Mont., spent last week In Lincoln on their way to Washington, where he goes to accept a position In tho census office. II. R. Tucker, '99, who has been pur suing post-graduate work In American and European history and had tho posi tion of reader, has left the university to accept the prlnclpalshlp at Firth. Miss Grace Cook, 1900, has taken Mr. Tucker's place as reader. LOCALS. Tho Sombrero. Dr. Wonte, dont'.st. Grc'gory tho Coal Man. Tho Sombrero, 50 cents. Try Westerfleld's egg shampoo, for dandruff. The Sombrero, an acceptable Christ mas present. Drawing papers, inks and pens at the University Book Store. The Sombrero tells the old folks all about your university. A Y. W. U A. quartette is to be or ganized in tho near future. Test tubes brushes, towels, labels at tho Univorslty Book Store. For up-to-dato university hair cut go to Westcrileld, tho barber, 117 N. 13th. Latest maps of tho Trunsvaal coun try are to be found nt University Book Store. Webster's International Dictionary, ?7.r.O; regular price, $9.50. University Book Store. Latest maps of tho Transvaal coun try are to be had at the University Book Store. On nccount of vacation there will bo no Y. W. C. A. meetings for tho next iwo Sundays, All tho neW books and second-hand liooks and all student supplies. Unl orsUy book store. Largo supply of university writing tablets with envelopes to match at Uni versity Book Store. Pocket dictionaries of German, French and English on hand at Uni versity Book Store. Tho sophomore class mooting, sched uled for Inst Friday, was postponed until after tho holidays. A neat volume of 300 pages; tolls all about tho university. Tho Sombroro, at tho Univorslty Book Store. A special mooting of the junior law class was held Saturday morning, at wh'ch a class constitution was adopted. Tho senior class was to have hold a meeting last Friday, but none was called because of tho lack of a quorum. Guitars from ?1.75 to ?P5.00 at sale of Mueller Piano Co.'s stock, music and picturo department, Ilcrpolshalmoi & Co. The faculty woman's club met Wcdnosdny afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. Webster, Fourteenth and N streets. Professor Bruucr Is at work on n supplement to his orig'nal report on tho destructive locusts of Argentlno Republic. A number of tho foot ball men are continuing their training by working In the athletic class at 5 o'clock In the afternoon. Nothing is more acceptable for a Chr'stmns present than a volume of poems. Get "Corn Tassels" at tho Uni versity Book Store. Prospects for base ball are very bright. Several players of note around tho state are In school and nearly all the old men are back. A p'cturo of Professor Burnett re cently appeared in the Breeders' Ga gotte of Chicago. It was accompanied with a biographical notice. New shelving i.as been placed In tho state historical society rooms and the books and pamphlets have been re arranged during the Inst week. Professor Caldwell will givo a lec ture before the methods class next Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock on "Methods of Teaching History." The botanical seminar held Its third mooting of the year on Saturday after noon. Papers wore read by Dr. Clem ents, Professor Emerson and Mr. Bell. Tho only thoroughly good place in tho city wlioi'o a student can get any kind of board that ho wants is at Cam eron's cafe, 11-1-118 South 11th street. Only a few members were present at tho meeting of tho oratorical asso ciation lost Wednesday and for that reason tho election of a president Was postponed. Advice to the freshmen: Post your selves on every phase of college life by buying a Sombrero. .'100 pages, price COc. University Book Store, main building. At tho last meeting of the nthletic board S. D. Clinton was elected track manager for tho coming season and T. J. Hewitt was made manager of the basket ball team. At tho meeting of tho athletic board these elections wero made: Foot ball manager, Harry Tukey; base ball man ngor, Guy Howard; asslsiant base ball manager, Fred Sanders. A collection of all tho books bearing on ornithology has been made and tho books aro now on oxhlbltlon In tho mo chnnlc arts hall. Thcso will be In spected by the association, which meets here this weok. "To dress well is a duty every man owes to himself, to his friends and to the world at large." ULSTERS A MAN who gets into one of these warm, Generous, comfortable ulsters can laugh at the cold WMtfirr. H They arc made of Irish frieze, thick Kersey, Beaver, Shetland or Montagnac with leather-cloth lining and deep storm collar. Like all HART, SCHAFFNER 6 MARX garments they are tailor -made, the materials are so good and so well put together the ulsters will last for yearn HART, SCHAFFNER 4 MARX TAILOR MADE CLOTHES. piTfTliMIv7 II. f K W, 1t l VN "ZtmZai ARMSTRONG CLOTHING CO., 1013-15-17-19 0 STREET. One of a series of receptions given by Dean Wilson to tho freshmen girls was hold last Saturday afternoon in tho girls' parlor in tho main building. Owing to tho extremely bad weather only a few wore present. Sigma XI held a mooting Wednesday ovoning at tho univorslty. Arrange ments wore mndo for tho exchango of lecturers with tho Kansas chapter and papers wore read by Professors Rich ards, Barbour and More. Librarian Wyor and his staff have been busy preparing reference lists for tho preliminary debaters upon the vari ous questions. Assistance will be gladly given to any who desire It in looking up their subjects. Tho monthly cabinet meeting of tho Y. W. C. A. was held last Saturday. Reports from tho different committees wero heard and moro definite arrange ments wore made for the coming of Mrs. King for n few weeks' work. The girls' class teams in basket ball have commenced a series of games. The team winning the most gnmes Ib to play a match game with fhe second team. Then tne winner of this game .s to contest with the first team for uni versity honors. Colonel E. S. Dudloy, formerly com mandant of cadets at the University of Nebraska, but now on General Brooke's staff In Havann, will bo tendered a similar position by General Woods when tho latter takes the position held by General Brooke. Tho Nebraska improvement live stock breeders' association meets nt tho university December 19-21. Among tho prominent speakers aro Professors L. E. Shattucic and M. H. Gentry of Missouri and Professor D. h. nia nr tho school of agriculture, Manhnttun Kan. Tho following threo works woro re cently published in pamphlot form "Tho Oath of tho Tennis Court," Pro fessor F. M. Fling; "Spanish Verbs with Vowel Gradat'on in the Present System," Professor A w "'Topical Digest of tho Rlg-Veda," Pro' uooui v. n, uugren. William Molford, tho captain of last year's foot ball team, hft3 returned and will rcg ster for work thlH rom Ho has been coaching tho foot ball rHnJltMWaBh,net0n COlleg0' K. during tho present season. His sue cess thcro was equal to that mndo hero as captain and player. Nothing is moro acceptable for a Christmas present than a volume of poems. Get "Corn Tnssels" at tho Uni .voTsIty Book Store. Tho students aro already looking forward to tho holiday vacation. Many of thorn ure planning to tako homo as a most accoptablo Christmas present a Watormnn's Ideal Fountain Pen. The University Book Store has a full and varied assortment on hand. Albert Hansen, '90, who played guard on tho 'varsity foot ball team for threo yenrs, has been visiting tho uni versity the past week. Mr. Hansen hns been coaching tho base ball team at the agricultural college at Manhat tan, Kan. He had fairly good success while there, his team winning two out of five games. Tho Spanish language Is being studied by more students in this coun try since tho United Stntcs obtained possession of Cubn, Porto Rico and tho Philippines than over before. Twenty seven students In tho university regis tered for beginning Spanish this year. This Is twice the number who took tho courso last year. Professor A. B. Hart, who Is profes sor of American history at Harvard university, recontly wroto Professor H. W. Caldwell as follows concerning I'1. S. Phllbrlck, '97, A. M. '99: "Your man Philbrick is winning golflon opin ions horo. I am free to say that I hardly evor had a graduate student who showed such a thorough training I" tho principles of historical Investi gation as ho. Ho knows how to do thorough and discriminating work and hns a quick sense of tho difference be tween the cogent and tho unimportant. Permit mo to say that tho Univorslty of Nebraska could not wish a moro satisfactory examplo of its training." Lfcd