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BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1905 SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AMERICA AT OXFORD Literature THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CALL OF THE WILD. Jack Lomdloinis TOie Gaumne A TRANSCRIPT FROM REAL LIFE The Game is that which takes place in the squared ring, and the story is an intensely graphic portrayal of what there is in the prizefight that appeals to those who fight and those who look on. In its impression of reality, its comprehension of the subtle ways in which the game touches life, and in its vivid interest, the book is notable. BY THE SAME AUTHOR Cloth 12mo, $1.50 Illustrated by Henry Hutt Jack Londons The Sea-Wolf The Call of the Wild was a splendid book, but The Sea-Wolf excels it. New York Times.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Published by hunts up the gang." to engage In the game of baseball, or what" not. that boy nature demands. The English boy. the prospective Oxonian, has hls play, and then naturally relapses Into an easy chair In the library and picks up some novel probably not a popular" one), without having consumed a couple of hours of hls day In currying a horse, pulling weeds, or raking the lawn. Undoubtedly' wr get something out of our manual labor that the Englishmans mind or body or general nature lacks, hut It Isnt knowledge of books.

The third and chief reason for the Oxonians greater breadth of -general reading is connected with hls superiority to our collegiate classicists In the classics, and Its causes. We Irritably ask ourselves how It Is that these Oxonians can allude with such exasperating frequency to books and authors of whom we have hitherto remained In blissful Ignorance. Part of the answer Is found when American refers to a chemical formula, physical law. 'or mathematical principle. The same dull stare of abysmal Ignorance rarely the same attempt to veil that Ignorance In a knowing smile that we had worn when the books and au thors were under discussion Instantly clothes ths Englishmens countenances; From their early days at Harrow, Eton, and Rugby till now, thosa Englishmen have been expected by their tutors to Join their almost exclusive reading of classical literature In school with Its natural complement, modern literature, out of school.

From our early days In the public or private schools at horns; we have been taught" nearly everything under the face of the sun, from Ring around a roalo" to botany. A smattering of nearly every form of knowledge has been thumped Into us, and. like most smatterings, has oosed out through our cranial pores or such exits as my own smattering of psychology does not allow me technically to name. Of course it Is rather consoling, when overborne by references to Aristotle's theory of Peripeteia I. Fardous latest play, Pindars Fburth Pythian, or Bhakspeares Sixteenth Sonnet, to be able to ask the paralysed Briton to pass the XaCl, to work in an allusion to Boyles law, or craftily to mystify him by a casual quotation of some formula in analytic geometry.

The trouble Is that are American classicists," forced to get these Inklings of many subjects which we never enjoyed and never mastered, but upon which we have spent an unconscionable amount of time, are haunted by the disturbing rvfl-ctlon that weve forgotten nearly every chemical formula save this one, reserved for state occasions, that we could nt to save our lives clearly define Boyle's law, and that analytic geometry means nothing to us but a hasy array of once-memorised pages; while the Englishman, having passed untrammelled years In mastering Just ths subjects that appeal especially to us. but which we have not had so much time to absorb), could probably discourse for hours on Peripeteia I. could compare Sardou with Pinero and Sudermann In detail, could quota much of the Pindaric ode in question and point out Its excellences and defects In comparison with odes of Milton. Gray and Cowley, and could edify us with an extemporaneous harangue on the sonnet. Perhaps this statement of the case Is a trifle exaggerated.

We dont tell the Oxonian that our knowledge of mathematics and the sciences la pitifully limited to such learned terms as those quoted, and It Is Just possible that there are still a few things which he does not know about the matters In which hls profundity seems unfathomable. In general, however, this version Is not the delusion of a despairing admirer: the Englishmen are far ahead of us classicists" in our own particular field, owing to their long, consistent training in Just this department, while our early study at home has been scattered over a wide range of subjects which, we must reluctantly admit, hare made no lasting impression upon our minds. The situation of the one or two scientists In our number, and of our prospective lawyers, is not so disheartening as that of our classical and literary students, yet even they are somewhat out of touch with the Oxonians by reason, of their lack of the more thorough ancient and modern literaiy-historical-phllosophical education of the Englishmen. The scientist Is the better off of the two. He doesn't profess or need much knowledge of ths classics neither does the Oxonian scientist.

But It must be remembered that a considerable study of classical literature; philosophy and history precedes and is necessary to even the scientists admission to the university. Our SOME 0BSEBVATI02IS Or A RHODES SCHOLAR Tha Quiatuia of Oxford Customs Hem Loses Ita Charm forthe American Also Ho Haver Fails to Bo Astonished at Certain Sides of the Britons Superiority Over Him in Scholarship The Yoons Britisher Far Better Read Generally and a Better Citisea Paul Nison, a Rhodes scholar from Connect lent. thus seta down his observations on Oxford University In the Review, of Reviews If one were to' form hls conclusions eon-' eernlna Ilfs from the observation of Osonlans during a slnxle and that the first, of residence. those conclusions would Inevitably be that winlnir. dlnlns and athletics were the English undergraduate's vocation, and hls use of books and dons an heroically resisted To 'a 'certain decree this Inference Is correct.

During term, the Oxonians are remarkably gregarious animals. I should say that la college the average student does not work three-fourths as hard as the average American collegian. The Interminable breakfast and luncheon parties; the athletle games, la some one of which nearly every Englishman participates for two or three hours In the afternoon: the ensuing often protracted till the seven-o'clock bell summons host and guests to dinner In Halt; the hilarious evening wines. all these. In addition to the ordinary Informal calls on friends, consume a prodigious amount of time.

While not every English undergraduate engages every day In every one of these social functions, the total number of hours so spent Justifies my statement. All this, if one were to summarise hast! fy. would Induce one to believe that the American collegian must Imbibe more learning than the Oxonian of the same mal standing or that the Oxonian must possess some quicker Insight Into the mysteries of knowledge. Luckily, the horns of tin apparent dilemma may be avoided. If It were not sol the situation would be rather objectionable to one party or the other.

We Americana are finding trouble enough nl ready In keeping our heads above the scholastic stream here without the Influx of any such new tributary; and the Englishman well. the Englishman likes Utile as we do to admit his Inferiority In any respect to any creature on earth. There Is. however, a consideration that Impairs the value of such a delightfully simple logical deduction. Roughly, the Americans work-time, the college term.

Is the Englishman's slightly Interrupted playtime; but the American's play-time, the vacation. Is the Englishman's slightly In tempted work-time. During hls eight months or more of term, the average collegian in the United States may get In something like six. seven, or eight hours' study a day. Including lectures and recitations which he must attend: during the vacations; he earns money, kills time." does everything but read." In the Oxford sense of the word.

The average Oxonian, not usually obliged to attend many lectures. having practically no recitations and only three real examinations during hls three, four, or five years course, spends hls six months of term In cultivating the amenities of life, with only a two or three hours dally dab at the dusty tomes on hls shelf. But during the long vacations, covering mors than half the year, that Oxonian. free from financial care and surfeited with Slacking." sows hls seed for the harvest or knowledge which he is expected by hls tutor to stow away In the barns of CMIeckorsf certain informal bub detested examinations awaiting him on hls return to college. Eventually, then, throughout the year.

English and American collegians study approximately the same number of hours. Although this Is so, and 'although ttia radical differences between the educational pursuits of the two countries afford us soma solace In pusxling the Englishmen to ascertain cur Intellectual avoirdupois, the conviction Is being pungently forced upon us Rhodians that In many respects the amount of Information we've assimilated Is not to be compared with that of the brighter of cur cousins. It Is a fact that college career, and by virtue' of their college career, as almost certain to play a large part in ruling their country. With the evils of such a condition we also loss tbs benefit the having number of intelligent, well-educated men who have been from youth afforded a special Incentive to making themselves acquainted with their countrys government, its Internal and external relations; and Its needs. The second class, also; of collegians particularly Interested In current affairs ws lack.

My own experience leads ms to believe that moot of our students catch only a glimpse of the headlines ef dally paper if that, with tha exception of the sporting news, which collegians everywhere read avid iouely and have correspondingly hasy notion of tha significance of passing events: THE FOUNDER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS S. P. C. A. TO the Editor ef the Trwnocrfpt: The letter, of which the enclosed Is copy, was written to me In 1882L About ten years ago I asked Mrs; Apple-ton If she would bo willing to have it published, but she then said that aha preferred it should not be dona during her lifetime, but she authorised me to give It publicity after her death.

Now that ths venerable lady has left us, I am sura It will he a satisfaction to her many admirers and friends to read it. while It le also of Interest to ths community generally. Nathan Amirov New York. June S. Tanglewood.

Falmouth, ThurodAy, June 27, 1682. Dear Nathan: I have Just reached here after a fatiguing Journey, but feel that I ought to make come reply to your note which awaited my arrival. It will be Impossible for mo to write anything for publication. but will Just give you some facts which you can use as you think proper. In 1867.

while on a visit to New York. I called on Mr. Bergh to know how I oould form a society P. C. In Boston.

He replied that he would assist me with hls counsel if I was willing to do the work. Subsequently he wrote a circular (I should say petition to tha Legislature) to which was to procure subscribers (names). found great difficulty In getting tha first name, but finally my brother-in-law, Mr. Charles Lyman, headed the list. My cousin, David Sears, followed; then Jonathan Mason, William Appleton, added their mss.

I then called on Governor John A. Andrew, who cheerfully put hla name down and expressed much Interest in the Bishop Eastburn and about one hundred names of prominent dtisene, among them lawyers, physicians, clergymen, superintendents of railroads, were soon obtained. Dr. William W. Morland gave me much aid In this labor.

I then called on Hon. Harvey Jewell, Speaker of the House, and asked him to assist ma In arranging a bill tor a charter. He said If I would draw up a MU. he would endeavor to get a charter. I then wrote to Mr.

Bergh, who waa enthusiastic with my success thus far, but he could only refer me to the New York charter. I copied that partially and it eras referred to the Committee on Agriculture In the Legislature. About this time I saw la the Advertiser a communication signed George T. Angell. to the effect that tha horse Eagle had been driven to death between Boston and Worcester, and ha desired to form a society P.

C. If anyone would aid him. at ones went to hla office, where found Mr. Noyes and Mr. William O.

Weld. I told my story. He Immediately went to the State House, got my bill, amended and Improved It. and got it passed in a few weeks. He then formed a society, and my friends and signers gave money freely.

have all the details In a book written by Mr. Appleton, but I cannot get it while hers. I expect to go to Nahant on Saturday. I send you the bare facts, written in haste. Just as (hay occur to me.

but If you use hem. do not let me appear as the author. Too being a ready writer and accustomed to the use of the quill, can weave better narrative from the facts than can. Of oourse there were Innumerable details to bs arranged that It would taka too much time to mention. Please put me down as a fifty dollar subscriber to the Newport Society.

When I get settled at Nahant and can get at my checkbook. I will send you a chock. Excuse haste and fatigue. Your sincere cousin, Emily W. Appleton.

WALL STREET EXAGGERATION (From the Wadi Street News. Jane 8) Wall Street Is indulging In a great deal of exaggeration over tha Equitable affair. To hear some of the talk going on It might be thought that Equitable troubles ars what the sporting fraternity would term the whole shooting match." Now, however deplorable the conditions revealed In this particular company there is no warrant for moat of the wild talk Indulged In. Undoubtedly It la a shock to confidence to find trust money has been used for the profit of Individual trustees, but It is utterly unfair to assume that the caae la typical as many Wall Street critics do or to hint that other companies pursue similar methods. Cynicism may sneer as It will, but the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of the men at the head of our great financial Institutions ars men of probity and honor.

The limelight Is turned upon the backslider. but nothing Is heard of thosa who faithfully discharge their trust Just as In dally Ilfs It Is the citizen who gets into trouble who gets into print law-abiding citizen a furnish no copy for newspapers. THE TREATMENT OF NATIVE RACE! BOSTON UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES Sommary of Proceed lags at Last Meet-iasr Chaages la the Board aad la tho Teachlag Corps President Huntington of Boston University made public yesterday tha report of the action of members of the board of trustees. Ex-Governor William Claflin, who waa president of the Boston University trustees for a number of years, was succeeded by Bishop XX A. Good sell of Brookline.

Dr. W. M. Warren, who was acting dean last year, eras appointed dean of the collegiate department. These officials were elected In their respective departments to serve for the next three years: Deans, M.

M. Bigelow, law school; A. P. Sutherland, medical school; ex-prasident Warren, department of theology. Dr.

C. W. Rishell was elected assistant dean of the theological school. A one year's leave of absence was granted Professor B. P.

Bowne, head of ths philosophical department, for rest and research. In his absence President Huntington will set as dean of tha school of arts and sciences. These professors were appointed at ths college of liberal arts: Professor James Geddas, for professor of romance languages; D. Lb Sharps, assistant professor of English A. H.

Rica, assistant professor of Latin; L. C. Newell, assistant professor of chemistry; A. W. Weysae, assistant professor of biology; W.

G. Aurelia, assistant professor of Greek; M. M. Ben-net, Snow professor of oratory. These Instructors were appointed: Georg Van Wieren, German; H.

K. Rowe, history; Misa Helen Blackwell, gymnastics and physical culture; J. P. Marshall, music. Tha additions to tho faculty are: Pro fessor G.

B. Wendell, who will taka charge of the newly-established department of physics, and O. H. Alien, who was formerly Jacob Sleeper fellow from Boston University, will bs Instructor In pedagogy. R.

E. Bruce was advanced from the position of Instructor to that of assistant professor of mathematics. Professor T. J. Emery resigned from hls position at the law school on account of ths pressure of personal business, but will continue to serve as Instructor In several courses.

These lecturers have been reappointed: N. T. Abbott, Brooks Adams, Homer Albers, Charles Aimy, Justice of the third district Court of eastern Massachusetts; Jo-alah Benton, Poultney Bigelow, J. F. Colby, U.

Freund, Russell Gray, H. 8. Haines; C. V. Holman, T.

P. Ion, C. F. Jen-ney, J. T.

Keen, J. E. Macy, A. E. PlUs-bury, H.

N. Shepard, F. L. Simpson, Oscar Btorer and Mayor Weed of Newton. University of Vermont President Buckham to In receipt of a letter from W.

J. Bryan, trustee of tho estate of ths lata Philo 8. Bennett of New Haven, in which a check for 800 was enclosed. According to the terms of Mr. Bennett's will, this sum is to bs Invested by ths officials of ths University to which It is given the annual proceeds are to bs used as a prise for tbs best essay discussing ths principles of free government.

George L. Orton, ex-UXM and class of 1007 of ths medical department, has resigned his position as general secretary for the college T. M. C. A.

and J. J. Ross, 1904, class of 1008, medical department, has bean selected to succeed Mr. Orton, who has been secretary for the past two years. Ths three sororirtlss represented In the University tendered a reception to the members of tha senior class Thusday evening, at Grassmount, the ladles' dormitory.

Miss Della Dunsmoor, 1000, Delta Delta Delta; Miss Grace Strong, 1908, PI Beta Phi, and Miss Ruth Bond, Kappa Alpha Theta, received. A large number of atudento wars present and enjoyed a very pleasant social evening. The annual inspection of the military organisation of the University was held Wednesday noon. Captain Leroy El tinge of the Fifteenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, was the Inspecting officer, and seemed much pleased with the appearance and manoeuvres of the student soldiers. The annual banquet of Delta Chapter, Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity, waa held Tuesday night at ths Van Ness House with a large attendance.

Ths sophomores had the second of their German suppers Thursday evening. Over fifty freshmen went to Piattsburg Friday evening, June 2, on the steamer Vermont, and held a banquet in the New Cumberland Hotel. At the recent commencement of tha Albany Law School, H. J. Adams of Fair Haven, a graduate of Vermont In the class of 1003, received the degree of LL.

B. He also received the award or the Edward Thompson Company prise, which is awarded each year to the member of the graduating class who submits the best thesis of five thousand words on some legal subject assigned by the dean. The subject assigned this year wa a Procedure Under the New York Code. The prise consists of a set of The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law." The members of tbe Phi Chi Fraternity (medical) held their annual banquet at Hotel Burlington Wednesday evening of last week. Fifty-five members of the fraternity were present.

Dr. A. O. J. Kelley of Philadelphia was toastmaster.

This fraternity is tha largest medical fraternity In ths United States, having chapters In all of the leading medical colleges. Waltham School Notes Preparations ars being mads for ths graduation exercises of the Waltham schools to be held the latter part of tho month. The graduation exercises will bs held in Asbury Temple, ths High School on Wednesday evening, June 28, and thosa of tha grammar schools on Thursday afternoon, June 20. The graduating classes of both ths North and South Grammar schools will units' In holding their exercises, as they have dons the past few years. Ths remainder of the grammar schools and those of the primary grades will close Friday morning, 'June 30.

Ths annual exhibition of the work of students In ths public schools In special studies, drawing, manual training, cooking and sawing, will bs beld on ths afternoon of Wednesday, and ths afternoon and evening of June 21 and 22. According to custom, these exhibitions are held alternately In tha North and South Grammar buildings. This year the exhibition will be beld in the North Grammar. It baa been decided to establish kindergarten schools as a part of the public school system, when the new term opens next September. There are to be taro kindergarten schools, one for the South Side and one for the North Side.

The South Side kindergarten will be located In tbe Lowell School on High street, and the North Side kindergarten will be established In the Kewhall school on Prospect street. These kindergarten schools are to be conducted at an annual expense of flOMO. The age limit of children who will be received is 414 years. Harvard University Notes In accordance with the provision of the bequest, a publle rendering will be given next Thursday afternoon In Appleton Chapel at flvs oclock, of tha prise composition in the competition provided for by the late Francis Booth. Tha composition Is the Agnus Del.

written by 8. C. Colburn. Under tbe direction of Warren A. Locke, a chorus and solo voices will give tha following programme: Choral Bsch A vs sewn.

Chorus from Oratorio of St. Fstar Pain. Agnus )ei .8. C. Colburn A committee composed of seniors and graduates are engaged in preparing a list of all men la the graduating class who ars to live In Boston, with view to enlisting their services In future political work.

Tho annual student conference at Xorth-flsld, to be held from June 80 to July 19, will be well attended by Harvard man. a Mr. JACK LONDON appointment to lecture on European history at Harvard during the first semester of next year, and will spend the second semester abroad in research work. An interesting feature connected with the commencement at Georgetown. College waa the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Professor J.

J. Rucker's connection with the college aa teacher of mathematics. C. O. Smith of Louisville, of the class of '55, made the last address and presented Professor Rucker with a handsome gold medal from hls lriends and former pupila and a purse containing more than erne hundred dollars in gold from young women who were formerly hfs pupils st the female seminary.

Mr. Smith asked all those in the audience to stand up who attended Georgetown College fifty years ago and only four responded. The graduating exercises of R. Hoe A Cols apprentice school were held tost night at DeWltt Memorial Church, New York. The membership of the school consists wholly of young men apprenticed to R.

Hoe A to learn the various trades pursued In their shops, where the Hoe printing presses are manufactured. Lurt night graduating class consisted of thirty-four boys. Professor Cfeorge W. Plympton. head of the department of civil engineering in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, will retire at the end of the academic year.

He has been with the Polytechnic since 1S90. Professor Plympton is head of the municipal electrical experts commission. Rev. Dr. Neander M.

Woods, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church. Louisville. has accepted an offer of the position of chancellor of Southwestern Presbyterian University at on condition-that the' Louisville Presbytery consents to hls leaving the city. Principal Melvin Johnson White of tha Upton high school has sent In hls resignation to take effect at the close of the school year. June 22, when he will have completed a year bf service.

He has several better offers elsewhere. The graduation exercises of the class of 05 of Arlington High School occur Thursday evening. June 22. In town halt WHERE SILENCE IS GOLDEN From the Kansas City Star This story to Illustrative of the absolute silence and loneliness of the typical Australian bush camp: Two men were camping together, but rarely exchanged a word. One morning one of the men remarked at breakfast: Heard a cow bellow In the swamp Just now." Nothing further was said and they went about their business for the rest of (he day.

Twenty-four hours later, once more at breakfast, the second man said: How d'you know It waa n't a bull? Again no Again a pause bf twenty-four hours. Next morning the. first man began to pack up hls billy and swag. You going? Inquired the other. Yes.

Why? Because." said his friend, theres too much argument in this camp! LAMPS FOR YACHTS From tho New York Sun Many steam yachts are now equipped with electric lights, but for use on such yachts In case of emergency, and on yachts not so equipped, there are provided bracket candlesticks, and Inracket oil lamps, to be put up In convenient and suitable places. A bracket lamp of bronze, designed for yacht use, has a short, stout arm, hy which It to secured to the side of the cabin. What appears to be the body of the lamp, at the outer end of the bracket arm. Is in reality a stout deep shell, having Inside of it a number of brass springs which hold securely the fount, the lamp proper, when that Is slipped into place in this holder. The lamp chimney is held on with clamps, and the burner screws down on a rim of cork.

With the lamp so made and secured it cant get away, nor can the oil get out, however much the vessel may pitch and roll. AN AUTHORS DIARY From The Bookman April 1. Wrote book. April 2. Book fell still-born from the press.

April 3. Had picture taken In cowboy hat. April 4. Picture printed in all the literary journals. April 5l Received a dozen Ill-spelled letters from love-sck women.

April 6. Letters published. April 7. Book among the six best sellers. SIX CENTURIES ON ONE FAHM From the London Mail The sale of the stock on the farm of Midnock.

Westerkirk. the other day, ended one of the most ancient occupancies in the United Kingdom. Mr. Robert Moffatt, J. Is the outgoing tenant, and hls ancestors occupied the farm for over six centuries.

The Moffats obtained a grant of the land of Midnock from King Robert the Bruce, and some of them fought with him at Bannockburn. TEA PLANTS FREE A few very choice and hardy Japanese tea plants will Ita given sway. while they last, or more pounds with every purchase of of tea or coSeo. PHOENIX COFFEE HILLS 6264 CORMULL ()2t JeS Among those representing the university will be R. S.

Wallace, A. Thayer, J. M. Graves, R. D.

Shipman, W. Kelly. T. B. Dorman, C.

H. Sutherland, W. H. Keeling, N. B.

Groton, H. 8. Blair, G. Ball and J. C.

Carrol. St, Pawls School Anniversary Tit exercises commemorative of the forty-ninth anniversary of 8L Pauls School, Conoord, N. were held yesterday. A large number of old boys and friends of ths school returned for ths anniversary. Among those present were General Francis H.

Appleton of Boston, Major Hamilton Rowan, 8. Professor Hary A. Garfield of Princeton University, Professor C. P. Parker of Harvard.

Dr. F. C. Bhattuck of Boston, Hon. Frank W.

Rollins of Concord, Hon. Frank S. Streeter of Concord, Henry Mar-quand of New York. Reginald of New York, and Hon. Percival W.

Clement of Rutland, Vt. The anniversary services proper were held In the chapel at half-past eleven, in tha presence of the school and the guests of the day. The service was conducted by Rev. Prescott Everts, rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, an old boy of St. Pauls School.

The gospel waa read by Rev. Loria Webster, rector of Holdemess School, and the epistle by Rev. Samuel fin riling of Massachusetts. both old St. Paul's boys.

The bidding prayer," composed and authorised for use at this service, was read by Rev. Mr. Everts. The musical, portion of the service eras traditionally rich and attractive. The solo la tbe famous school anthem was sung by James Carter Knox, tbe author of the composition.

The preacher of the day was Rev. William R. Huntington, D. rector of Grace Church, New York whose text was taken from Ezekiel 21: The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the ways, at the head of the two ways he used divination. Obcrllw College Notea Obertin's first fellowship Is about provided for.

It is to be named after Mrs. Adelia A. Field Johnston, A. professor of med aeval history. Mrs.

Johnston is a graduate of Oberlln In the class of 1S78, and has been a teacher in tha college since 1870, having graduated from Hillsdale College in 1873. The fellowship will be opened for competition in April, 1006. The final figures for the attendance for the present year have been compiled by Secretary Jones as follows: The college, 670: the seminary, 61; the Conservatory of Music, 604; the academy, 862; drawing and painting, 25; tha summer school, 58; total, Professor E. I. Bosworth, dean of thy Theological Seminary, will deliver the Commencement address at Central College, Huntington, Ind.

Final arrangements have been made by which Oberlln becomes a member of a new oratorical league. The other colleges in tbe league are Columbia. Cornell, Pennsylvania, Chicago and Ohio Wesleyan. The first contest will be held some time next year. Paul P.

Boyd, a graduate of Oberlln In '98, Is a graduate student in mathematics at Cornell. He has Just secured a 8500 fellowship in hls department. The Oberlln Student Volunteer Band for Foreign Missions now numbers forty-seven members, which is the lergest enrolment in Its history. Wellesley College Notes Ths senior dramatics. The Lady of Lyons.

will be given In dress rehearsal on Wednesday avenlng, June 14, with an aiter-nata date. June 16. in case of rain, necessary since the play will be staged out-of-doors. The regular performance will take place on June 28, or. if unpleasant, on June 24.

Miss Ellen F. Pendleton, dean of the college. has been elected honorary member of the class of 1906. The Wellesley Eta Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa has elected the following-named students to membership: Miss Helen Cook, Miss Carolyn P. Nelson, Miss Edna A.

Or-vis. Miss Abbie O. Stoddard and Miss Florence Wolfson, all of 1905; Miss Mary L. Caldwell, Miss Florence Copp, Miss Gertruds Frances. Miss Olive Greene.

Miss Alma Shinier and Miss Mary E. Watkins of 1908. These, with the five members elected after the organisation of the Wellesley chapter, in January, makes a total of ten seniors and six Juniors elected for the year. In the future there will be but one election yearly, occurring In May. There will ha an exhibition of manuscripts and illuminations from the Plimpton collection In Billings Hell during the remaining days of this term.

Honorary Degrees at Dleklaaoa College Governor Edward C. Stokes of New Jersey received ths degree or LL. D. at the commencement exercises of Dickinson College. Carlisle.

Pa. Others who were honored similarly ars President James U. Green of the State Normal School. Trenton. N.

Rev. James Marcus King, secretary of tha Church Extension Society of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia; David K. Watson, member of the commission to revise and codify the laws of the United States, and Congressman M. E. Olmstesd.

Harrisburg. Professor Vergil Prattyman of the Teachers College, New York, was made doctor of pedagogy; lass Tanlmura. editor CASTOR I A For Intuits and Children. Tha Kind Yon Have Always Bought Bears the Senators of of Industrial Japan and chief of the International Bureau of Information at Toklo, a doctor of civil law, and Harry Rowe Shelley of New York city a doctor of music. Honorary Degrees at New York University At ths seventy-third Commencement of New York University, held yesterday, 332 students received degrees.

Honorary degrees were conferred upon the following persons: Master of Letters Joseph C. P. of New York city, professor of principles and practice of accounts. New York University. Doctor of Divinity Rev.

James Stuart Dickson of New York city, secretary of tho College Board of the Presbyterian Church; Rev. Hugh B. iMacCauley, New Tork University, 77, of Trenton, N. pastor of ths Fourth Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Leighton Williams of New York city, pastor of ths Amity Baptist Church.

Doctor of Laws Ernest Hall. New York University, Law, '68. of New York city, former Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and Rev. Henry 8pellmeyer, D. New York University, '66, of Cincinnati, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mlddlebnry College Commencement Middlebury (Vt.) College will celebrate Its one hundred and fifth anniversary as follows: Sunday. June 25 10.43 A. baccalaureate sermon by the president. Ears Bralnerd, D. LL D.

P. anniversary of the Collette Christian Aseociatlons; address by Her. J. W. Bizler.

D. New London, Omn. June 26 10.30 A. exercises of tho class of 1005 on tho collsso campus. Tuesday, Juno 27 10 A.

11.. preliminary meeting of tha Associated Alumni. 11 A public meeting of tho Associated Alumni; address by Rev. Charles Everett Hesselgrsve, class of 1892, Chatham. N.

J. poem by James Andrew Lob ban. A. M. (Harvard), class of 18SK.

Webster. Mass. 8 P. speaking by tha freshman and sophomore classes far the Parker and Merrill prises. Wednesday.

June 2 Mu A. annual meeting of tho Associated Alumni. 10.30 A. exercises of the graduating class; conferring of degrees. 2 P.

corporation dinner. 8 P. commencement concert. 8 to 11 P. president's reception.

Smith College Commencement The programme for senior week la as follows: Senior dramatics, Saturday, June 17, at 7 P. M. baccalaureate sermon, Sunday, at 4 P. M. ivy exercises, Monday, at 10 A.

M. from 4-6 P. art exhibition; at 7 P. Glee Club promenade; from 8-10 P. M-.

president's reception; commencement exercises, Tuesday, at 10 A. M. Besides these exercises there will be of course a concert or taro, class sing and class supper, and cue and another of such class celebrations which are not of great Interest to outsiders, but are the dearest and saddest part of Class week for the girls, whose comrade-life is behind them. Sigma Chin Semi-Centennial The Sigml Chi Fraternity will hold Its biennial convention In Cincinnati, June 27-80, which will mark the semi-centennial of the fraternity. The four living founders of the fraternity Thomas Cowan Bell, of Portland, James Parks Caldwell of Gulfport, Daniel William Cooper of Klrksvllle, and Benjamin Platt Run-kie of Washington, D.

C. will be the guests of the occasion and will presented with appropriate medals. On Wednesday, June 28. the convention will make a pilgrimage to Oxford, where at Miami College, the birthplace of the fraternity, a memorial will be unveiled. New Church Theological School The graduation exercises of the New Church Theological School in Cambridge were held yesterday afternoon and a diploma awarded to Paul Sperry of Washington, D.

who has accepted a call to a pastorate at Bath, Me. A meeting of the Alumni Association followed the exerdsea These officers were elected: President, Rev. John R. Hunter of Indianapolis; vice president. Rev.

C. W. Broomell of Box bury; secretary, Paul Sperry. Newtea School Dedicated The new 660,000 Emerson School house waa formally dedicated last night. The exercises took place In the large assembly hal and were attended by nearly 500 school children.

their parents, members of the school board and city officials. The programme was opened by Rev. A. SL Gilbert, and included singing by the school children, an address of welcome by Mias Cora Cobb of the school board, and speaking by Mayor Weed, Robert Gorham, chairman of the school committee: Superintendent F. E.

Spaulding of the public schools; Headmaster C. F. Gaffney. Alderman Thomas W. White.

G. H. Martin of the 8tate Board of Education, and prayer by Rev. O. W.

Scott. Professor Ladd to Go to Japau Professor George T. Ladd of Yale University, at the close of the present Russlan-Japaneee war, by special arrangement, will go to Japan for one or two years and under the auspices of the Imperial Education Society of Japan aid in the development of the system of education of that country. The men recently chosen by the University of Wisconsin to fill the chairs of philosophy and of European history were both born abroad, and are graduates of Princeton. Dr.

vender Bradley McGil-vary, who was elected to the professorship of philosophy. Is a native of Bangkok. Siam, where his father was engaged in missionary work. Returning to Slam after completing bis college work, he became translator for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, a position which he held until 1864. In the course of this work in Siam he translated the gospels into the i.

dialect of Siamese. Professor Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis, who was chosen to fill the newly crested chair of European history. to native of Beirut, Syria- Professor Dennis -will not begin hls work at Wisconsin until 1906-7. aa ha has accepted an fn general reading the more studious Oxonian has us at hls mercy; In every form I cal work to enable them to pass ths Oxford of classical scholarship except that of I entrance examinations, but this amount Is painstaking Investigation of minute ob- I usually much less than that done by the ecurltleo. a favorite pastime In Germany and America, we are down and out." The ordinary American cAUexIait.

maybe, has heard such names as Murillo and Titian. He an exception If even the names come to hls mind spontaneously. If he should asked whether they were sculptors or painters, he probably think It a catch" question, and answer, musicians." I don't think Im slandering the American Rhodes Scholars" when I say that not one In live of us could tell the difference between a Raphael and a Guido Renl. and Im sure that previous to this vacation not one In ten could have spoken Intelligently of a dozen, or even half-a-dozen, great pabitem The Englishman can; nor does he stop with a dozen. In knowledge of artists, ancient and modern, and In appreciation of their productions, we American collegians, as a class, are immeasurably Inferior to the Oxonians.

Sculpture and sculptors, and. In a less degree, perhaps, music and musicians, are comparatively tens Incognitas to us. Even our college glee club members are occasionally unable to tell how Mozart differs from Wagner, while, so far as the majority of our collegians can say. Michael Angelo and Dampt might have been compatrlota contemporaries. and compeers.

The Englishman can usually tell a better story; and hls Information la not exhausted at precisely that advanced stage, either. Our first deficiency, then, a comparative scantiness of general reading how are we to account for It? At least three possible reasons occur to me. the last of which also partly explains our professed classicists Inferiority la the classics. In the first place; the vast majority of Oxonians are the sons of men well situated financially and socially (and In England the possession of these two desiderata often Implies a certain amount of scholarship! men whose houses contain large libraries. The son has from youth had.

at least, the omnipresent opportunity to browse. This is hy no means so frequently the case In the homes ef American collegians. Secondly, the Oxonian Is not the offspring of one of that numerous class of fathers In' the United States who believe that their youngsters should work with their hands as well as play, and accordingly set them tasks to perform about the house and grounds. The American boy does the work, and then American scientists, to be sure (those who are In Oxford have done enough of classl- Oxonian scientist. So.

among hls scientific Oxonian acquaintances he la apt to be silent partner in conversation where classical knowledge le called into requisition. la his general reading, too, he is ordinarily behind the English scientist. But in hls own field, science, he ie likely to find that he really knows more not merely pretends to know more, as does the American classicist. with hls forgotten smattering" of lenee than hls English co-workers, much more of whose time has been spent in obtaining a rather limited knowledge, but yet more than a smattering" of classics. A large number of the Rhodians from the United States are studying law.

The Oxford law School admits only men who have taken their degree In arts. This fact has afforded our incipient lawyers the same embarrassment that ere classicists feel. The Oxonian law student is a man who baa usually either read exclusively for the School" of Liters Humankores or for the History School." The former Is this combined study of ancient and modern history, economics, philosophy and classical literature; which the additional reading of modem literature so readily follows The latter, a constantly morn popular "School," though still less distinctively Oxonian than the first. Is, as the name signifies, historical political and economic. Our American law students have, as scholastic Information to pit against this formidable equipment, their pre-colfegiate and collegiate which are valuable to them In their profess Ion if they remember them which Is usually not tha case, I fesr.

Although I have tried to confine myself a nearly as possible to the scholastic side of tha Oxonians mentality. I wish to touch upon another. In the common rooms" of the different colleges; and at the Oxford Union, are all the leading English newspapers. and every day these, or personally bought papers, are carefully perused by seemingly all the undergraduates. The keenest sort of interest in English politics Is manifested, and each succeeding phase is closely watched.

Oxford, of course, has now. aa It has had In times past, within ita walls men who are to shape England's future; and these men, whether through birth or taste likely to enter public life; endeavor so far as reading goes to understand ths Internal condition of their country and Its relations (Such with other nations. a class of collegians. already more or less definitely marked an the politicians of tha next generation. exists here, a fact which seems odd to an American.) But the Interest In Stats affairs does not stop with this body of men.

A large number of students art fitting themselves for the civil service examinations and these men. too; narrowly observe the political, economic and social situation of their country from day to day. Even here the careful reading of the papers does not end. The great mass of students who are reading for the classical Schools" subjects which the American often derides seem to turn, quite as a matter of course, from Demosthenes to Chamberlains latest speech or. rather, from tha latter to Demosthenes for knowledge of current affairs Is evidently considered to be of paramount importance.

The history students. also, keep In touch with history in the making: One cannot but compare this practice with that of the American undergraduates. At home, are hare, of course, no such class of prospective politicians known during their From tha Australasian Ravfew of Reviews New Zealand has given a lesson to tho world In its treatment of tha Maori. Tho Government, after an honorable peace had been concluded, preserved the lands to him, looked after him. educated him, honored him.

accorded hla respect and cared for hls health. In tha New Zealand Parliament there are several Maori members. In tha New Zealand cabinet there is a half-caste, while the Maori king has a seat in It also. Indeed, ths educated Maori Is anywhere and everywhere regarded aa tho equal of the rakeha. INFANTICIDE IN CHINA From Messys Chinese Miscellany The people for the most part being exceedingly poor, destroy a number of boys as well as girls at tbs time of birth.

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