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a committee of the faculty with the president as chairman will award the prizes on the basis of oratorical ability and delivery suitable rehearsals will be held at times to be fixed later according to convenience of instructor and student ; and if the number of con tests exceeds to be decided later these rehearsals will be competi tive only the best speakers being admitted to the final contest new gymnasium team captain college lecturer the next college lecture will be delivered by prof lindley m kneasby of bryn mawr college on the political aspect of inter oceanic transit wrestling class e s harrar 01 was on satur day elected captain of the gymna sium team for next season c e department re-examinations in senior sub jects will be held at 8.30 a m on saturday march 24th freshman chemistry the re-examination will be held at 2 p.m on saturday march 24th calculus cremation committee a class in wrestling will be or ganized on monday march 19 all men interested are invited to be present at the gymnasium at five o'clock on that date no fee will be charged and it is hoped a large number of men will turn out among the colleges the schedule of the university of virginia baseball team has been announced and includes among others the following games le high princeton yale pennsyl vania harvard cornell washing ton and lee franklin and marshall episcopal high school and la fayette the sophomore class held an election for the calculus cremation committee on thursday march 15th at 12.30 p m in the physi cal laboratory thirty-six men were qualified to vote having paid their class dues to date the elec tion was very qlose and out of the seventeen nominees the following were chosen : lindley parsons golian shonk bachman sellers hewett e m hill smith rob erts the chairman of the committee has not yet been elected but will be chosen by the members of the committee the register . for the year 1 899 1 900 which will be ready for distribution this week shows an attendance of 415 students from 34 states and 1 1 foreign coun tries more than half of the students come from pennsyl vania that state leading the list with 228 students new york follows with 44 new jersey with 32 maryland with 17 and the district of columbia with 13 the students are divided by classes as follows : graduate students 1 7 seniors 67 juniors 76 sophomores 72 freshmen 170 special students 8 this shows a general increase of 28 per cent over the registration of last year and an increase of 119 per cent in the entering class the students are divided by courses as follows : classical 22 ; latin-scientific 5 ; science and letters 3 ; civil engineer ing 114 mechanical engineer ing 120 mining engineering 49 ; metallurgy 2 ; electrical engineering 73 ; architecture 2 analytical chemistry 25 the greatest proportional in crease is in the classical and latin-scientific courses in which there are 18 members in the freshmen class during the past year these two courses have been strengthened and a liberal elective system has been intro duced whereby a student may anticipate a part of his profes sional training by making the proper elections a student in either the classical or the latin scientific course may complete before graduation a half or more of any one of the technical courses such a student might therefore complete in six years the general training of the liter ary course and the special train ing of a professional course and would in the end be much better equipped for professional work than one who had taken the technical course alone a gradu ate of either the classical or the latin-scientific course receives the degree of a.b nine courses of instruction are offered at the university the classical course the latin scientific course the courses in civil engineering mechanical engineering metallurgy mining engineering electrical engi neering analytical chemistry and geology continued on second page the department of mechani cal engineering has strength ened its course by optional studies in marine engineering h l bowers 1900 has com pleted his course in chemistry and has secured an excellent position with the baltimore copper and smelting co at baltimore md a new course of lectures was commenced on friday in the physical laboratory by mr clin ton r woodruff who spoke on the complexity of american government methods he spoke somewhat as follows : the people who formed the united states government had no thought of enlargement and so or ganized a government which they considered would work to the best advantage for themselves and their descendents not only has the size of our territory increased but the number of classes of people in cluded under it are also greater so the conditions are far different from those which confronted our ances tors they wished to safe guard their privileges by a system of balances and checks so a constitu tion was adopted which placed the complete control in the hands of several branches instead of a single head the results of this system have been much different than was anti cipated it does indeed prevent any sudden usurpation of power but it leads to irresponsibility of officials and prevents purely local matters from being absolutely con trolled by the community interested so complex is the constitutional provision regulating its own amend ment that it would take from four to six years to amend the constitu tion of pennsylvania instead of protecting the public welfare this system has fostered the political party and boss by making such a long list of candidates that a voter is unable to discriminate between them and so bursts the judgment of the party leaders instead of his own by the present method we have men in control of our various parties and so on who are respon sible to no one for their deeds in stead of officials having complete we have an unofficial boss who controls the officials oontinued on fourth page we have lived under the pres ent system so long that we have come to regard it as sacred by the complexity of our methods we have endangered what we sought to protect the english people have full as great liberty as we and do not have as complex a govern lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday march 19 1900 the new register vol vn freshman awards university lecture now ready for distri bution prize contest in de clamation first of the series on american political problems the brown and white calendar no 40 monday march 18 at 4p m mustard and cheese rehearsal tuesday march 20 — at 7 15 p.m guitar and mandolin club in christmas hall wednesday march 21 — at 2 p.m rehearsal of glee club in n christmas hall at 3 p.m lecture to seniors by professor stewart sunday march 25 — at 9.30 a.m meeting of bible class christ mas hall at 4 p.m christian asso ciation christmas hall notices mustard and cheese cast will be prepared to rehearse the third act this afternoon seniors professor stewart's lecture on wednesday will be on " statute of frauds the president authorizes the an nouncement that two prizes of 20 and 10 are offered this year for declamation open to all students taking a regular course in the freshman class the contest will be held on fri day june ist at 11.30 a m in the examination hall of the phys ical laboratory before the entire college the selections spoken are to be taken from standard american or ators and competitors will file their names and selections with the pro fessor of english on or before may ist for approval
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 7 no. 40 |
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FullText | a committee of the faculty with the president as chairman will award the prizes on the basis of oratorical ability and delivery suitable rehearsals will be held at times to be fixed later according to convenience of instructor and student ; and if the number of con tests exceeds to be decided later these rehearsals will be competi tive only the best speakers being admitted to the final contest new gymnasium team captain college lecturer the next college lecture will be delivered by prof lindley m kneasby of bryn mawr college on the political aspect of inter oceanic transit wrestling class e s harrar 01 was on satur day elected captain of the gymna sium team for next season c e department re-examinations in senior sub jects will be held at 8.30 a m on saturday march 24th freshman chemistry the re-examination will be held at 2 p.m on saturday march 24th calculus cremation committee a class in wrestling will be or ganized on monday march 19 all men interested are invited to be present at the gymnasium at five o'clock on that date no fee will be charged and it is hoped a large number of men will turn out among the colleges the schedule of the university of virginia baseball team has been announced and includes among others the following games le high princeton yale pennsyl vania harvard cornell washing ton and lee franklin and marshall episcopal high school and la fayette the sophomore class held an election for the calculus cremation committee on thursday march 15th at 12.30 p m in the physi cal laboratory thirty-six men were qualified to vote having paid their class dues to date the elec tion was very qlose and out of the seventeen nominees the following were chosen : lindley parsons golian shonk bachman sellers hewett e m hill smith rob erts the chairman of the committee has not yet been elected but will be chosen by the members of the committee the register . for the year 1 899 1 900 which will be ready for distribution this week shows an attendance of 415 students from 34 states and 1 1 foreign coun tries more than half of the students come from pennsyl vania that state leading the list with 228 students new york follows with 44 new jersey with 32 maryland with 17 and the district of columbia with 13 the students are divided by classes as follows : graduate students 1 7 seniors 67 juniors 76 sophomores 72 freshmen 170 special students 8 this shows a general increase of 28 per cent over the registration of last year and an increase of 119 per cent in the entering class the students are divided by courses as follows : classical 22 ; latin-scientific 5 ; science and letters 3 ; civil engineer ing 114 mechanical engineer ing 120 mining engineering 49 ; metallurgy 2 ; electrical engineering 73 ; architecture 2 analytical chemistry 25 the greatest proportional in crease is in the classical and latin-scientific courses in which there are 18 members in the freshmen class during the past year these two courses have been strengthened and a liberal elective system has been intro duced whereby a student may anticipate a part of his profes sional training by making the proper elections a student in either the classical or the latin scientific course may complete before graduation a half or more of any one of the technical courses such a student might therefore complete in six years the general training of the liter ary course and the special train ing of a professional course and would in the end be much better equipped for professional work than one who had taken the technical course alone a gradu ate of either the classical or the latin-scientific course receives the degree of a.b nine courses of instruction are offered at the university the classical course the latin scientific course the courses in civil engineering mechanical engineering metallurgy mining engineering electrical engi neering analytical chemistry and geology continued on second page the department of mechani cal engineering has strength ened its course by optional studies in marine engineering h l bowers 1900 has com pleted his course in chemistry and has secured an excellent position with the baltimore copper and smelting co at baltimore md a new course of lectures was commenced on friday in the physical laboratory by mr clin ton r woodruff who spoke on the complexity of american government methods he spoke somewhat as follows : the people who formed the united states government had no thought of enlargement and so or ganized a government which they considered would work to the best advantage for themselves and their descendents not only has the size of our territory increased but the number of classes of people in cluded under it are also greater so the conditions are far different from those which confronted our ances tors they wished to safe guard their privileges by a system of balances and checks so a constitu tion was adopted which placed the complete control in the hands of several branches instead of a single head the results of this system have been much different than was anti cipated it does indeed prevent any sudden usurpation of power but it leads to irresponsibility of officials and prevents purely local matters from being absolutely con trolled by the community interested so complex is the constitutional provision regulating its own amend ment that it would take from four to six years to amend the constitu tion of pennsylvania instead of protecting the public welfare this system has fostered the political party and boss by making such a long list of candidates that a voter is unable to discriminate between them and so bursts the judgment of the party leaders instead of his own by the present method we have men in control of our various parties and so on who are respon sible to no one for their deeds in stead of officials having complete we have an unofficial boss who controls the officials oontinued on fourth page we have lived under the pres ent system so long that we have come to regard it as sacred by the complexity of our methods we have endangered what we sought to protect the english people have full as great liberty as we and do not have as complex a govern lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday march 19 1900 the new register vol vn freshman awards university lecture now ready for distri bution prize contest in de clamation first of the series on american political problems the brown and white calendar no 40 monday march 18 at 4p m mustard and cheese rehearsal tuesday march 20 — at 7 15 p.m guitar and mandolin club in christmas hall wednesday march 21 — at 2 p.m rehearsal of glee club in n christmas hall at 3 p.m lecture to seniors by professor stewart sunday march 25 — at 9.30 a.m meeting of bible class christ mas hall at 4 p.m christian asso ciation christmas hall notices mustard and cheese cast will be prepared to rehearse the third act this afternoon seniors professor stewart's lecture on wednesday will be on " statute of frauds the president authorizes the an nouncement that two prizes of 20 and 10 are offered this year for declamation open to all students taking a regular course in the freshman class the contest will be held on fri day june ist at 11.30 a m in the examination hall of the phys ical laboratory before the entire college the selections spoken are to be taken from standard american or ators and competitors will file their names and selections with the pro fessor of english on or before may ist for approval |
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