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'7 1- KLUTIZ'S VOL. II. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. G, FEBRUARY 23, 1891. THE T Dr. BATTLE LECTURES BE FORE THE MITCH EEL. Tuesday night a very flattering audience listened to Dr. Battle, s interesting lecture. Besides the regular members of the society several gentlemen more interest ed in literature than science were attracted to Person Hall by, the promised treat. Many law stu dents forgot Hearing exams., and crawled out with a few deep eyed needs to hear Dr. Battle. As Director of the State Exper iment Station, this prominent alumnus of the University has be come known and honored over the entire State. State Geologist, Prof. Holmes, ' introduced the speaker of the ev ening in his happy manner, refer ring to the fact that the father of the speaker was the starter and main advocate of experimental work in agriculture in the State when he was president of the University. Dr. Battle gave first a history of the founding of the -Station, saying it was but a "child of the University." Many local agri cultural clubs and societies iu a general convention, determined to memorialize the legislature to give .them protection from the frauds practiced on them by ferti 1 i z e r manufacturers. So o n March 1 2th , 1877, the legislature created the Experiment Station just one year after the founding of the Connecticut Station, the first in America. The famous Hatch act provides for a station in each state now, The N, C. station receives not one cent from the State for support, but all from the national government. Money is required for such sci entific work, but it has been seen tfjtat this' money thus invested re turns maui fold dividends to the agricultural classes. , kThe various divisions w e r e spolken of briefly and much of the gofod from each told. fTl le lecture was very interest- iwig and enlightened many ot us oii the subiect. One morning during the past eek there were many and mul- idunious sounds which disturbed he quiet and peaceful sleep of ambler. ; He arose 111 a terrible t ' t il ' 1 ' nertit anarusnincf to me wmuow s amazed to see two inconsid erate freshmen violently knock ing a tennis ball back and forth one from one to . the other and sometimes against the windows of the ' nearest building, Ram bler returned to bed, but also there was 110 rest to be found there. The noise of merriment on the outside continued and Rambler had to get up finally with his-brain all in a muddle and math, suffered badly that day. Rambler had not been to a sym posium on the . night . before but only had his sleep .disturbed by thoughtless men. , He does not think' this is a very;, common or general, complaint. It is very unusual to find two men and es pecially freshmen that woufd pre fer tenuis ' playing to sleeping before breakfast. But Rambler begs them in the future to con fine their pleasure to the tennis grounds and not in front of. the buildings. A few nights ago as Rambler was slow perambulating back from the postoffice there fell upon his ear. the distant strains of music. Many voices were sing ing a tune unknown to him. He saw in his imagination a sweet face that he had seen during the Christmas and he could hear a gentle voice which said, "Oh I do love to hear ' male voices and I know you must enjoy singing together at Chapel Hill," Rambler was deeply meditat ing and wishing he was there to hear as he was all the time draw ing nearer. It was not long be fore he "Was able to hear the words of the song more distinctly. As the dulcet strains of "We'll tick, tick, tick," and "If I could you bet I would" fell upon his ear, he was extremely thankful that she was far away especially as there suddenly came from a win dow on one side of the campus a blankzty blank expression which found an echo on the other side. courts and that there are ladies in these houses and if these two or three men are not thoughtful of these, it is nothing but right that the other 397 should force them to put an end to it all. At least this is Rambler's opinion. ; While on his walk Rambler happened to enter the chapel on the afternoon of Freshmen elec tions. A strange sight greeted him there but he only wants to call attention to the fact that men of all classes were upon the chairs with their feet. As a re sult several are broken and ruin ed. Rambler thinks that men should be more thoughtful and try to improve and not destroy the property of the University. . - Ramblicr. The Magazine wishes to call attention to the prizes announced in its January issue.- Possibly some of our readers failed to see the announcement, as it was in serted among the advertisements. We would urge every student in the University earnestly to con sider these prizes and to submit something to the Magazine. We desire to publish more stu dent articles ; one of our aims is "to preserve the best undergrad uate work of our University. " And to induce more men to take an interest in the Magazine. We have offered prizes for several kinds of work. We have made the contest as fair as possible ; only articles by undergraduates will be allowed in this competi tion and the editors of the Maga zine are excluded from the con test. - We hope that a large number of articles will be submitted. We know that our students can do work worthy of publication. It A $15 Violin for the best bit ot verse.- . . ' v.- A year's subscription to Scien tific American for best contribu tion to Progress of Science. A Webster's International Dic tionary for the best Critical Ar-' tide. Ten Dollars in cash for the best Short Story. A year's subscription to Life for best Cartoons (not less than three.) For further particulars see the Maga2ine or call upon the edi tors. ' is A course of clay , moulding given at Stanford University. Yale has dropped, arithmetic from its list of requirements for admission. Brown University will celebrate her one hundredth anniversary in June. , Lafayette has bought land for an athletic field on which a grand stand and club house will be erected at a cost of $10,000. The Harvard faculty has an nounced the names of 70 mem bers of the senior class for com mencement parts. Twenty per cent, are members of athletic times. " The first Professorship of His story was established at Oxford in 1248. A Fellowship in painting, of the value of $500, has been estab lished at Syracuse University. The late Professor Tyndall is said to have given the entire pro ceeds of his lecture ; tour in this country several years ago, amounting to about $23,000 to provide college scholarships for poor students. is the duty of every one to give Experiments are in progress at others the benefit of his thoughts ; Yale to determine the relation of he owes it to himself, to his fel lows and to the University to Out on the tennis courts Rambler I make known whatever worthy also heard expressions that would ! thing he has clone. Look over not grace a parlor. He thinks j the list given below and enter the that it is hardly fair for some two j contest. You may win a prize ; or three to monopolize the air jit will dp you good to try. Do and, leaving out the moral side, j not put off this matter long ; see on the campus to compel those, to it at once. Here is the offer : who object to such things to list- "The University Magazine of- en to what is repulsive to them. And on the tennis court it should be remembered that there are pro- fers the following prizes, lor ar ticles by 2indergradnaies) to be submitted to the editors on or be- fessor's houses very near the fore April 1st, 1894 : muscular action to the nerves. Tests will be njade on some of the most celebrated swordsmen of the country to determine the exact. time it -takes the mind to realize that a certain action has taken place and how long a time is required to make a simple mus cular action. This is being done to establish the theory that what is known as muscular strength does not depend upon the size of the mucle but upon the strength o the nerve center and the qual ity of the muscle. r
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