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Show 1 1 University Notes Plans fr Hie new sprinkling sv stent to be installed on the gridiron on I'umniincs Held have bf-cn drawn by Dr R. R. Lyman, Ly-man, and the system will be Installed, according to present arrangement!, next Saturday. The pipes will arrive Fridav. and It is hoped to have tho trench dug and the pipes laid this week, in order that the grading can be done before winter's bad weather. Thc new svstem Is to be arranged to work automatically, so that tho Held can be sprinkled at once. 13y next fall, if the plans arc successful, the football boys will have a lawn to play on Instead of a dusty or muddy Held. George M. Racon. or the Cornell class or .0.';, now one or thc leading engineei-s or the state, will deliver a lecture before the university engineering students 1 hursdny afternoon. Mr. Uncoil has been engaged In practical uiisiiiccrlng for fifteen fif-teen years and lias chosen n.s his subject. "The Relative. Advantages of College Training in Engineering Work." Next week Louis S. Cates, mining manager of the Roston Consolidated Mining companv. will be the speaker. s A 'new motor-generator set is being installed In the electrical laboralorv. under the direction of Dr. Merrill. Tin- machine has a capacity of twenty-five, kilowatts, or about forty-horsonower. and will he the largest In the electrical department. President Joseph T. Kingsburv delivered deliv-ered a lecture before tho medical students stu-dents Tuesday morning, speaking of the necessity of a broad foundation, and urging urg-ing that the students not be too anxious to exclude all subjects from their courses excepting merely those required (n the curriculum. Me also spoke of the new Ideals In the demonstration of college spirit. Although it. was once a common occurrence, for students and classes to Inscribe their names and numerals on public property about schools, it is now more appropriate to discontinue such and become known rather by individual v.o th and excellence. K Prof. Mosmh Hall is visiting Snnn-le county in aseyftaln the standing of llv schools there and determine which of the high schools shall be placed on the university uni-versity lisu or recognized high schools. Prof. Hall will also conduct a count v teacbers' institute at Mantl before re', turning. The Order or the Gleam, at Its regular regu-lar weekly ineeliim Tuesday, discussed Hie lives and. works of I lie American humorists. Miss Myrtle Decker presented a paper, on Mail; Twain. .Miss Tin inn Chileoli talked on John Kendrkk 1 tangs, .mil Miss Dale Ilavenor discussed the works or ".Mr. Donley," i The uoxt social event at the univemlU will be tho freshmen "get acquaint -d" parly, next Friday tsvnnlng. As those parties have become so popular. It Is probable that they will be continued throughout the wlnler. The freshmen promise, to make their number of the series equally as good as any thai have been given by I he upper classes. |