Show HOME HAPPENINGS HA Miss White was one of our very welcome welcome welcome wel wel- come visitors last week Robinson last week added himself to the list of the fearless Let us concentrate our efforts to towards towards towards to- to wards a gymnasium for our college Go to the Hot Springs 52 West Third South for a good bath They say the girls should have high aims Chester is not very tall yet but buthe buthe buthe he is growing Students please patronize our ad adver adver- ver- ver If they fail to prosper the CHRONICLE fails to prosper In absence of a gymnasium and apparatus apparatus apparatus appa appa- ratus ratus the boys of the laboratory have converted an old bellows into a chest chestand chestand chestand and lung expander Many are the words of regret we have heard from students and others who failed to secure tickets for the University University University sity course of lectures The Glee Club has been resurrected and shows prom promise ise of a very active life Practices will be held at 4 30 p. p pm p.m. m. m on Tuesday and Wednesday of each week The R Rev v. v Stanley M. M Hunter and sister sister sister sis sis- ter spent a few hours on Thursday last visiting classes and inspecting the various departments of the University Miss Morris was hunting with a vengeance vengeance vengeance ven ven- for Shady the other day and would evidently have liked a piece of Smiths Smith's scalp for not doing the right thing about it The Lambert Paper Company located in the Board of Trade building is the only concern of its kind advertising in inthe inthe inthe the CHRONICLE They keep a fine line of all kinds of paper We ask you ou to visit them examine their stock and you will find you can obtain paper th there re for half the price it will cost elsewhere Some two or three University graduates graduates graduates gra gra- now attending school also some few students pursuing the third year of the Normal Course have been proffered positions in the city schools II Why do kind-hearted kind people dislike this winter weather II Sophy Dunno II Cause theres there's so much slaying sleighing going on See Many were the merry student parties who last week regaled themselves behind tinkling bells and under warm blankets of the cutter and bob sled sledge e. e But happily happily happily hap hap- the classes did not suffer for it Boys enJoy enoy yourselves Good humor is a sauce to work Lester Riggs an anold old University student well by our older students has carried on successfully his hislaw hislaw l law v course at Columbia and will graduate graduate graduate gra gra- at the close of this year We Weare Weare Weare are also pleased to say that Will Riter at Columbia and George at Stanford are successful and doing credit to their old alma mater V J. 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L Gibson is going around the school with his neck on on one side sirle Sympathy is solicited He met with an accident on Third Street the other day slipping on the ice and shooting headlong headlong headlong head head- long down a steep hill some sixty feet books books TJ coat coat boy and all We hope he may soon be able to straighten himself again and recover We ire are re impressed more forcibly than ever ever with the mistake that many students students students stu stu- dents make during college life in at attempting attempting attempting at- at tempting too much True the average student is desirous of doing a maximum amount of work in a minimum amount of time but too often is it the case that we overestimate the exertion and the endurance which our minds and bodies ate ale capable of enduring and the result as we see too often verified is that the body unable to longer resist the strain refuses to act and the student student student stu stu- dent is forced to resign his work for a time and seek rest that nature may have a chance to restore that energy and vigor which characterize the healthy organism The fact is recognized that hard mental mental mental men men- tal work is healthful rather than harmful harmful harmful harm harm- ful but we believe should be administered administered administered adminis adminis- in small doses and that a little under the normal amount would be better for the recipient than an excess and that if the greater am amount of work is not attempted the lesser quantity accomplished will only be retained the themore themore themore more firmy That the University lecture course is meeting with popular favor was evidenced evidenced evidenced evi evi- by oy the numbers who turned out outto outto outto to hear Prof Cumm Cummings ings on II Life Among the Ancient Romans Notwithstanding Notwithstanding Notwithstanding Not Not- withstanding the unfavorable weather the lecture hall was filled beyond its seating capacity and it is possible that thatto to satisfy all II would hearers in the future a repetition of each one will b be necessary The entire lecture reproduced ed in print would make excellent reading matter Our space however permits of only a brief review From th j foundation of the Roman Empire by Romulus to the time of Constantine Constantine Constantine Con- Con Rome rose flourished and fell No nation has more truly earned her liberty and independence than the Roman A Roman was the synonym of ambition nothing was too great for him to accomplish no antagonist did he hesitate hesitate to conquer They were not free however from dissension at home and as the long struggle between Patrician Patrician Patrician Patri Patri- cian and Plebeian for supremacy of power was noted by the listeners gratification gratification gratification must have come to every mind that in our own country and time castes and class are unknown In his religion the Roman was sin- sin cere at his his' home was the family altar the feasts which he gave in honor of the planets were many and the beautiful ful temples which he dedicated to his gods and were unnumbered For gray hairs and for the dead the theRoman theRoman theRoman Roman held great respect The government government govern govern- ment tent was decidedly theocratic and all laws laid down for by the the- masses of people came from the gods through their supposed servants Of athletics he was fond and in a gladiatorial gladiatorial gladiatorial gladia gladia- fight the Roman was supreme In early times great care was taken to develop and preserve a fine physique but in after years the Roman became a glutton The domestic life of this ancient ancient ancient an an- I people eople is commendable harmony and contentment making the home To commit a code code- of laws formulated to preserve the equality of the Roman p people ople was the first re requisite te of an ordinary education The drama may have had its origin with this people but it existed then in an immature form Though many objectionable features were possessed by the traits of his character might well be en engrafted grafted in our own American citizen The important t features of the lecture were intensified by a well well selected selected series of stereopticon views |