su 5n. a ©. £R eccr A V O L. L A N S I N G, M I C H I G A N, T U E S D A Y, M A R CH 7, 1899. N o. 25 Changes in the Mechanical Course. the course. to enter T he State Board at its last meet ing approved plans for a revision of work in the mechanical course, by which candidates for admission to the College w ho are not far enough advanced four-year course now offered can pursue a four-year five-year course will also be offered but the requirements for admission to it will be higher than the requirements for four-year admission to the present first- course. While graduates of class high schools will be able to enter the revised four-year course, it is probable that the great majority of applicants for admission will be required to take the longer course. A T he relation of the t wo courses to each other will be such that the last two years of one will be almost identical with the last two years of the other. T he only difference will be in the shop work. T h us it will be seen that the first three years of the five-year course will advance the student as far as the first two years of the four-year course. few other two courses with physics, 6 hours It now remains to compare briefly the course these now offered, to see what has been added. We find that the student in the five-year course will get about 6 hours of English, 30 hours of shop work, 16 hours of drawing, 6 hours of of chemistry, 15 hours of German, 10 hours of algebra, 5 hours of calculus, and a the stuoent of today* does not get. This the means in "several instances that work is simply spread out over a greater length of time, but in most instances the result will be a dis tinct advance on the present standard two new the of excellence. As courses are supposed to come out even at the end, it will be seen that the new four-years course will be more advanced than the one now offered. items that We hope for at least two good results from this revision. It is ex pected, in the first place, that such students as now fall behind and be two come discouraged in the years of their course will be able to take five-year course without serious difficulty; and in the second place, that we shall be able to grad uate students better prepared to take up work along mechanical lines. first the Reunion of the Chicago M. A. C. Association. In spite of the inclemency of the weather, twenty of Chicago's M. A. C. boys gathered at the Victoria Hotel on the evening of Saturday, February 25th, with Dr. Edwards as their guest, to celebrate the fourth annual reunion of the Chicago M. A. C. Association. in After assembling the hotel parlors, a short time was spent in renewing old ties of friendship, after which President Gulley and Dr. E d w a r ds led the way to the banquet hall, where all were feasted in royal style a la Victoria, nearly two hours being consumed in doing justice to the menu. to T he inner man being satisfied his fullest capacity, the chairs were pushed back, and while the disciples of the weed recalled old fancies from sang their clouds of greeting to the strain of " Fair Har vard." smoke, all then T he president introduced Dr. E d w a r d s, w ho was greeted with characteristic M. A. C. en- telling somewhat th usiasm. After of the progress of the College, Dr. Edwards spoke upon " V a n i ty Fair," the substance of which talk will be found elsewhere in this issue. N e xt came the old familiar Col lege song—sung in the same spirit that used to make it echo thro' Col toasts and lege halls. T h en after the roasts and stories gathering resolved itself into a busi ness meeting and elected the follow ing officers for the coming year: in general, President, M r. C. E. Smith, '84; Vice President, Dr. J o hn A. Wise- ner with ' 8 8; Secretary and Treas urer, Mr. I. L. Simmons, '97. It was also decided that hereafter, anyone, man or woman, having been connected with the College, in whatever capacity, should be con sidered a member of the association and entitled to attend the banquets. T he meeting ended with the Col lege yell. One and all voted a royal time, and as one put it, we had a only mighty regret the boys could not have attended. About one-third of those in the city came out; can we not do better next time? One never regrets a meeting of this k i n d. is that more of time. Our w. p. H. good Union Sockty Mestbi^ Last Saturday evening was held another union meeting of College literary societies. Each society was represented on the program as fol lows: Essay, Miss Cannel, Fero- nian; A T r ue Story, F. W. Owen, Hesperian; Recitation, H. L. Kim ball, P hi Delta T h e t a; Reverie, W. H. F l y n n, Eclectic; Essay, A. G. Bodourian, Columbian; Reading, Miss Pepple, Themian; Society Pa per, H. G. Cowling, Olympic. This with four selections by the mando lin and guitar club, made one of the most enjoyable programs ever ren dered at the College. Games, dan cing and a general revival of good feeling made 11 130 come only too quickly, when the patronesses, Mes- dames Thompson and Havens, ap peared and ordered the youngsters home. T he three society rooms in Williams Hall were opened together and proved none too large for the gathering. T he meeting was pre sided over by Miss Thompson as president, and Miss Lovely as secre tary, and every one of the 160 pres ent seemed to enjoy it thoroughly. c. H. p. Remember March Seventeen. in instructor Miss Ronan, the members of in calis thenics, and the athletic association have arranged to give an athletic benefit the A r m o ry on the evening of March 17. T he part of the program to be furnished by the young women will include a Swedish lesson, a dumb bell lesson, marching, and a game of basket-ball. T he boys will play take basket-ball. T he sports will place in the middle of the Armory and the audience will be arranged around the sides of the room so that all w ho attend can see. A similar entertainment given last year proved very successful and this should be better than that. Vanity Fair. •VDDRESS BY DR. HOWARD EDWARDS, GIVEN AT T HE REUNION OF T HE CHICAGO M. A. C ASSOCIATION. in the than sombre beauty of O ur thoughts tonight turn back ward rather forward. T h ey cluster around the old campus up there on the Red Cedar; around the its somewhat favorite shady nooks long ago; around the severe plainness of its class-rooms where both teacher and student forgot all but the ther mal units, or the protean chemical metamorphoses then under discus sion; around forms that will gather no more in its halls. I sit by and listen, and am glad that so much is accomplished; that true, loyal hearts look back on the work done for them and in them, and are glad, and say, 9 It is good that we sat under the men of that day and associated with the boys of our time." And so it should be. the faces and Your I may ;t* my somewhat earnest, if the present and the than to the past. thoughts carry you back now to the years of your youth, to the work, the hopes, the pranks, school-boy days. the disasters of But with me M. A. C. means to day, means new, the anxious, earnest work of manhood; the output of life-time. You will pa-don me, a trefer€, 9&sm here b it points to future rather illustrate: Did you ever see a street car pull ed by a mule ? T he car is filled with passengers anxious to get to the jour ney's end. T he mule, an earnest conscientious mule, long eared, lean and sad-eyed, plods away, while the passengers growl or scoff pace. Finally the end of the tram way is reached; the passengers get out by twos and threes, and singly, too, and hurry away. T he street car and the mule become a past, a mem and ory, become even beautified by distance and time; but to the sad-eyed mule it is still a is still there, he present, the work the hitches on to the other end of car and goes back for another load of passengers. He thinks only of the grade just before him, and looks forward only to the rest and the feed when his day's work is ended. T he street car is M. A. C; T he passen gers are you—that sad-eyed mule am I—and others like me. idealized at < his But only another we in one sense. In "Work at the sounding loom of time, And weave for the Godhead a living garb." We are makers of destiny. We shape and fashion souls; yours and yours, and yours are our handiwork. But 'Tis an awkward thing to work with souls ; And matter enough to save one's own. and the question often comes to men like me, W h at are we doing for the men and women we send out ? T h ey go out into the great Fair of life with goods that we have fur nished. W h at do the fair to be and how do their goods sell ? H e re and now is not the time they find to ask of you, or expect an answer from you to questions such as these. But in the short time I speak with you I will just point out the advanc ing character of the great fair for which we furnished goods, and the think nature of the goods that we sell best there. As I would have you conceive the world tonight, then, it is not a wild, desolate, cheerless landscape over and away from which one has tens as swiftly as possible; nor is it a vanity fair where debauchery, pollution and crime reign supreme, and where honesty, sobriety and holiness must conduct themselves as pilgrims and strangers. It is a great mart of trade, where every man is both a buyer and a seller. T h e re is much hustle, much confusion, some wild laughter, some mad orgies of crime, but the vast majority of the people are intensely in earnest, and the purposes of if they are fulfilling if their nature, they are buying lives, nobler charac mere earnest ters, a wider reach of vision, if they are doing for themselves and each other the best they are capable of, this may be a fair, but it is not a fair where the staple article is vanity. T he vast majority of men are not selling and buying vanity. N ot only so, but the great vices of cruel ty, intolerance, class-exclusiveness, less respect and tyranny command and obtain less through fear than ever before and the demand for the great unselfish virtues, for strong, for sturdy, i^ m a n l i n e ss stronger and the price paid for them is more neatly commensurate with their true value than ever before in the history of the world. independent character, and womauJiness We hear much talk about pro gress of a certain kind—much self- glorification because we can move a little faster over the surface of the earth than did our ancestors; because we can annihilate time and space by means of telegraph and telephone;- because we can light our dwellings and our streets with the brightness of the^soa^and read at nightfall what ^alHrhe four corners of the earth have the day. A nd been doing during truly potentialities for progress. T h ey furnish swifter means by which one may the they give world of great deeds; quicker feet with which one may run to do acts of kindness and mercy; they banish crime with darkness and render man less the plaything of chance. E v e ry forward step of ma terial progress means men released from some form of slavery, means a lever 'placed down among the mud sills of society and the whole struct ure slowly raised. these are great tell But, in and of itself, this progress means wofully little. We may be pitifully small men yet rush like the wind across the continent on a pal ace car. We may have only sordid, mean, silly things to say to each other, yet hasten to say them over a thousand miles of wire. T h e re is more to progress than this. controlled all In the olden days of the fair, birth and favoritism the business of the place. F or the vast masses of humanity there remained only abject feudal slavery. 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Recommendations of President Marston* B O A RD M E E T I NG OF J A N. 2 5, 1 8 9 9. the necessity. the work still pending, and I trust I shall not be thought pre sumptuous if I assume it my privi to some lege to call your attention of to regarding work make suggestions to for which the past has seemed show I shall also speak of a few things which I, as a board member, desire to bring be fore you and which I should have presented in the shape of resolutions as these plans matured. It is with no inclination or intention of criticis ing, that in some ways I may seem to do so, but rather by specific ex to show more clearly my ample meaning and to some slight extent justify these remarks. few suggestions are not worked to a definite conclusion you will readily this crude- see but that even from ""ftess some good will result" is my T h at the wish. is in interest they being University together take eight years for, began a work of inquiry and found that changes were apparently necessary the Mechanical En gineering Course. T he matter was then brought to the Board and a special committee appointed. N o w, w hy was this not really the com mittee's work ? Or should it have been allowed to wait until brought before the board by the president ? I may say for the new committee that part of finished this work and it would seem wise that they should solve the problem and bring the matter to a successful issue. T h e re is a second necessity for conference, by no means a small one, to that of visiting departments in the depart show your ments you are supposed to represent before the board. This is not only a benefit to the chief in charge but also a distinct benefit to the commit thus much better tee, to work understanding!}' qualified on matters first members of this board, the present secretary and myself, in our youth if you wish, at ful enthusiasm, tempted to visit departments with the above idea in view. You would told by hardly believe we were some innovation. it was an We listened to some lectures which gave us information other than what the professor said by word of mouth. concentration. W hy not have each committee map out a certain line of work and then pur sue that line and have some definite aim? W h at is the policy or plan of the F a rm Committee in regard to the farm? T he Experiment Sta the subject of tion Committee on Tuberculosis? experi ments shall they pursue? Are we drifting or are we working alon^ definite If along definite lines.; is if^£p the frffit *if ftp r afojlijjkg , I t link Wisconsin can be sighted as working certain full definite lines. referred. W h en force along We need Or what lines? that take I would suggest that a committee be appointed on By-laws of the Board. This committee could look over the rules and regulations as they have been laid down from time to time, regarding the board, could take into account the unwritten code sanctioned by past and precedent and should into consideration the requirements of the present and the future. This would formulate methods of procedure for our guid In this line I might mention ance. the question of advisable relation between the standing committees of the board with their respective de partments. We have the rule, and wisely too, that all reports and re the department must quests from come the president of the College, yet on the other hand, there exists a deep necessity for a personal conference and relation, between the commit tees and the departments. This re Perhaps lation should be defined. the work could be separated into executive and legislative. the board through to As an illustration, some time ago asked the Mechanical Committee this question: " H ow do our gradu ate students in the Mechanical En gineering Course rank with those of other colleges and the University?" and were answered, " T h ey are on an equal this point the committee knowing that we are the supposed to take students from students eighth grade while from the twelfth grade or four years farther along, and two graduates equal we must do in four the high schools and years what the University are footing." From to make from that the the in our Some changes seem standing advisable. We committees need a committee on the Women's Department. Then while we have a committee on Veterinary and on Horticulture, yet we have none on the Chemical Department. in on arises, an emergency There is a need for promptness. W h en the president must have the power and authority to act at once. Some de lays are unavoidable but in many cases foresight would fully prepare us for the emergency. Reports are not inventories time. T he last year were not handed in until If we are to issue long past time. a calendar let it come out the first of January or before, not the 15th. T he experiment station bulletins are not issued according to the desires of the least. the board at printers are to blame but is there no way to remedy this? Were the sec retary at each meeting to make a business report similar to the presi dent's executive report many delays which should not occur and unful filled resolutions of the board would be brought to our notice. Then let all resolutions be either fulfilled or rescinded. Perhaps and extensive Some plan is needed in regard to new work repairs which would do away with all mis understanding and chance for error in after representations. W e re all requirements when needed, yes, even when the necessity was anticipated, sent to a head of department under whose work it might properly fall, formulate for plans and specifications, we should that department to \ have the advandage of their expert knowledge. Let all requirements, estimates plans, specifications and be made on paper, these papers signed bv each one who may have them in charge and when the work is finished let the result be compared with the papers and errors charged or commendation credited to whom some they belong. With soever such plan there could be no mis understandings as there were on the farm barn, the steam pipe for the agricultural laboratory, the electric light and others. Even now we have gone legislature and the asked $2,500 for rehauling the heat ing plant of Williams and Wells halls. Upon what have we based It would not be a our estimate? bad idea if all communications be tween departments and from depart ments to the president should be in writing. to if not There are three resolutions of the board (perhaps one was more a con sensus of opinion) to which I should like to call attention: T he first the bulletins for school children, espe cially in the rural districts. This has not developed into much yet. Could not something valuable to the Col lege be derived from such bulletins? Made up in attractive and proper shape, it does not seem, as though they could be made of much value. This might properly come under the College extension work. T he sec ond, a more free publication in the than press of experiments, rather saving all for the bulletins. One of our laws permits requires some such publication though more by the College than by the experi ment station. T he third, the giving of all employment possible to the students. I trust this may be more earnestly insisted upon. Of course it is more difficult for the one w ho is accountable for such work but it is worth the secretary has seemed to make it successful. Prof. Mumford also at this time is having all the work under him done by students with the exception of the herdsmen. Surely if in his depart ment it can be done, it is not impos sible in others. Both the secretary and Prof. Mumford are deserving the way in of commendation which they have tried to make this feature a success. it, and for I should like to see a sharper dis tinction between farm proper and for the experiment station. This one thing would settle the matter of more published experiments outside of the bulletins as all experiments of the farm proper could be for such If the farm were run publication. from a practical point of view, all monies received by that department would be credited to that depart ment, of course with the idea of its being used under the same restric tions as now. I hope the policy of this board will be to pay professors and in structors liberally but to insist upon value received and not hesitate to better the College when possible by making changes. To this end, if all instructors except heads of de partments were engaged for a cer tain period of time, there would be less friction in making such changes. A m o ng a few of the things which may be looked into, I might suggest: T he more economical manage ment of the boarding clubs. Necessity for a good bath house. Better gymnasium facilities. Water closets in all professor's houses. Superintendent of buildings and College property who would super intend all repair work and building and at other times might do some teaching. Arrangements for rifle practice in the Military De connection with partment. Enlargement of the boiler house, higher chimney, steam stokers, etc. This plant is already up to its capac ity and perhaps some improvements in changing would be more econom ical. that Lastly, and now there is a change in the secretaryship, it would be better if other quarters were found for the superintendent of in stitutes. V a n i ty Fair. [ C O N T I N U ED F R OM P A GE I .] rather pompous, heavy-browed, fat- shouldered old lady in the fair how the market is on blood, she will tell you that the article is quite cheap; only a light local trade, with a large visible supply, and no foreign de mand. You can buy a German prince almost anywhere as low as $10,000—and 'a girl. So much at any rate has been done. it today the fair. T he staple On the other hand, much remains to be done in ennobling the traffic of is wealth. Does it not purchase most here in our own America? N ow wealth, unlike blood, should have It assures real purchasing power. us freedom from physical w a n t; it brings us the means of culture, it is often a blessing to the community even when in unworthy hands. But like all useful things its power for evil is just as great as its power for good, and while confers power, the relation of that power to the rights of the community are not at^dLcle^x either ..to the possessor of the power or the community. to T he power of the petty kings of the past was as nothing compared with that of our mighty multi-millionaires of today. Yet the prerogatives of that sovereign as against the rights of the subject were carefully defined by law and custom; while the power of the rich man is, in certain direc own limited only by his tions, caprices or notions of selfish interest. H e re much remains to be done in settling a fair and equitable price on the goods. N ew social conditions and relations, utterly unknown and undreamed of the past, have in arisen; new complications of privil eges and rights such as dwarf the issues of the past confront us, and law seems utterly impotent to cope with the problem, or brutally relegates us to the property rights of a crude and undeveloped system, based on the same principles that not long ago gave man the right to property in his fellow-man. In fact the most infamous iniquities ever perpetrated by man upon man have found their justification and in codes of law. L aw never precedes or forestalls reforms; it only recog nizes them after they are an accom plished the weal or woe of thousands of men hangs upon the stroke of the mil lionaire's pen, yet we are told that these thousands have no rights as against his powers and privileges. It is the same old story under a new right of is the divine name. property now. It intrenches itself in science and anathematizes in the name of political economy, just as the other intrenched itself in religion and anathematized in the name of theology. T h at is not a true system fact. Here and now support their It M A R CH 7, 1899. T HE M. A. C. R E C O RD 3 that "which permits wealth to buy limit less power without an iota of respon sibility. T he system allows t he whimsies of one man to crush the life of thousands and dis out organize the industries of sixty mil is absurd—just as lions of people absurd as the feudal system and just as sure to be reformed. Louis XI V's " L'etat c'est moi " is no more unsound, no more dangerous, no more pregnant with evil, woe, and anarchy, than is Vanderbilt's "the public be damned." Yes, wealth has great purchasing power. It goes with the courts of law and dra'ws around the bloody criminal, or brazen debaucher of in nocent girlhood a host of zealous and indignant friends—at so much per degree Fahrenheit of zeal and indig It lends cunning, eloquence, nation. pathos, to the lawyer's tongue—at so much per horse-power of per It warps the judg suasive influence. ment of the ermine and the panel— size of consideration proportioned to angle of deflection. In our republic to have on names of But even here we are making today progress. wealth can't buy public respect, it can't buy public love and ad immortality miration; it can't buy that on earth. T he great names its loves this nation lips are not its the rich m e n; not even of those who after a long life of hardness, injus the end tice and greed, have at and a sop t h r o wn decency in the shape of a school, a library, or a hospital. T he public refuses to be bribed or hoodwinked it after are has chosen names for brains, un that selfishness, character, heroism. T h ey are singularly free from the mean ness of a Marlboro, the ambition of a • ftlapoteop, t>f -Ike bypogrioy or fanaticism of a Cromwell. this fashion. T he names to morality immortality for stand it love. T h e re is not It may is another love. Oh, no ! thing that has a great purchasing power in vanity- fair; whether for good or for evil, you shallsay. I just stated that wealth cannot buy indeed, and I have no doubt often does, pur chase a whole original package of the wife; but is-marriage-a-failure some years ago very debate of clearly succeeded in demonstrating that love and marriage are bv no means Siamese twins. N o w, I can tell you something that has in vanity- fair the virtue of infallibly purchas ing the careful, middle part of the hair that the young man about town has de veloped, nor his eye-glass screwed into one eye, nor the heavy-weight cane that he uses to cut his wisdom teeth on, nor the limp, tired air of helpless and hopeless idiocy that he religiously wears under his shiny silk hat. N o, these are the " uses of this world " that Hamlet, calling to mind again, no doubt, an egg that he had had that morning at the hotel Elsiriore, dubbed as stale, flat, and un profitable. N o w, I have spent much time observing, reflecting, and pon dering on the intricacies of female human nature; and the following is t he concentrated wisdom bought by study. Wealth long and painful won't buy love, rank won't buy love, a buckram shirt-front and a big chrysanthemum won't buy love; but try her with a pug-dog with a triple-extract curl to his tail and she will fall on your neck, shed plente ous tears of unfeigned rapture, and call you (or the d o g) a dear. Mys terious is the power of the p ug dog I do not over the female heart ! I only pretend to account for it. It observe and record. is one of those deep secrets of nature's great arcana; it is like hypnotism, or the the gyroscope, or original sin, or the upward law governing occult and bifurcated movement of the ancient bustle in modern fashionable female attire. T he pug dog is an established fact in the social life of vanity fair, and we have to take him where we find h i m; for if he were where we would have him be, he would assuredly find himself most peculiarly, uncomfortably warm. you W h at there on But I must stop, and according to the regulations your toastmaster an nounced, should have stopped some while ago. W h at does it all come to? buying? are W h at are you selling? T h a nk God t he old mother up the Cedar has cause to be proud of her sons and daughters. She gave you the goods—strong character, sturdy, to moral brawn, earnest devotion truth, trained brain and eye and hand, and with it you are buying the love of wife and child; the cosy nest that you call h o m e; the riches of the world; honor and dignity in the gratitude your chosen w o r k; of the erring and the the weak, fallen. Arret the old mother as she looks on you, busy for honor and for right in this same Vanity Fair, a worthy theatre for the most and the best that we can do, smiles proud ly down on your successes and your dignities, points you out the brood still flocking around her, and softlv murmurs to herself, "I taught them how, I taught them h o w ." to I bring you from old M. A. C. hearty greetings At t he College. Dr. Alfred C. Lane, assistant state the College called at geologist, f hufsclay.~ A number of the visiting delega tion of Ohio legislators called at the College Thursday. Several members of the teaching force were in Pontiac last week, at tending the Round-up Institute. Mrs. L. R. Taft entertained sev ladies of Faculty R ow very afternoon. eral delightfully Wednesday Last Tuesday Mrs. VV. S. Holds- worth entertained a few friends at in honor of her husband's supper birthday. Union meeting of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. next Sunday evening will be led by Mr. Stevens. Subject, "Missionary W o r k ." T he Columbian Literarv Society entertained lady friends last Friday the usual evening. After literary refreshments and games program made the time pass pleasantly until 11130 o'clock. T he Natural History Society will meet Wednesday evening of this week at 6:30 in the Zoological lec ture room. T he program will in clude a talk on "Additions to the Michigan Flora since 1892," by Prof. Wheeler, and " T he Larvas Stage of Bees," by J. M. Rankin. T he annual business meeting of the Y. M. C. A. was held in the par lors of the association last Thursday evening, and the following officers for the ensuing year were elected: President, C. H. P a r k e r; vice-presi dent, George Severance; corres ponding secretary, W. D. W r i g h t; recording secretary, W. W. W e l l s; treasurer, W. R. W r i g h t. The M, A. C Special Hat Is now on sale; much nicer hat than last season; better material and workmanship— the price remains the same, Fifty Cents. Simons Dry Goods 60. SEMl-ANNVAL January Remnant Sale. Every Department in our store in offers E X T RA VALUES REMNANTS, ODD LOTS, BROKEN LINES. If you want up-to-date neck Remnants of... wear I would have great pleas ure in showing you the most complete line of natty ties in Lansing. DRESS GOODS, SILKS, LACES, EMBROIDERIES, WHITE GOODS, COTTONS, GINGHAMS, CARPETS. Sweaters, Golf Hose, Caps, Matting at Half Price. Hats and Shirts are lines in which I lead. Students' patronage respect fully solicited. Elgin in Mifflin, The Outfitter. "AEL M E A T S . . .. May look alike to you, but there is a very great difference in the quality we han dle and that sold by some other markets. We handle none but the very best. Like the pudding, the proof of good meats is in the eating. A trial will convince you that you ought to trade with us. BOTH P H O N E S. Careful attention given to phone orders. GOTTLIEB REUTTER. 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