fffU gl a ©. ffieoorcl V O L. 5. L A N S I N G, M I C H I G A N, T U E S D A Y, N O V E M B ER 7, 1S99. N o. 9 President Angfell's Lecture. An l a r ge unusually audience heard P r e s. J a m es B. Angell lecture in the armory last Friday evening on " T he European Eastern Ques tion." It was the first time he had spoken at M. A. C. since he gave our commencement address 2S years ago. Pres. Angell began by stating that there are at least four eastern questions: T he question of the par tition of China, the Philippine ques tion, the the Boer question, and question involving the never-settltd complications arising in and around the Ottoman e m p i r e, which he called " T he European E a s t e rn Question " and of which he spoke at length. T h e re are many reasons, he said, why this question is always so acute and why it is so difficult to settle. In the first place, there are in the Ottoman empire at least 22 different races and six or eight religions — all so distinct from each other that the population seems to be made up of several strata that can never become homogeneous. the Sultan had If the wisdom of Solomon he could not give satisfaction to all. Secondly, the Balkan States, com prising some half dozen kingdoms and principalities, owe their exist ence as separate states to the great powers of Europe — to the action of the Congress of Berlin in 1S7S. There is constant war on the fron tier of these states, and all the ele ments necessary to a condition of unrest. A third source of trouble is found within the Ottoman empire. T he European powers have undertaken to say how the Sultan shall control. In 1S7S they prevented Russia from absorbing T u r k e y, and in return for the favor done the Sultan, demanded religious freedom and justice to the Armenians. T he Sultan promised both but has failed utterly to carry out his promises. industrial pursuits. the Armenian difficulties. T he speaker then gave a review of F or 600 years the Armenians have been in a condition of servitude. T h ey were not allowed to carry or even own fire arms, hence they could not become soldiers but instead engaged in T h ey be came the commercial people of the empire and acquired the T u r k s' property. T he trouble that arose, then, was not a religious but an economic one. T he T u r ks perse the cuted latter left the country and mingled with the nihilists of E u r o p e; later they returned, bringing their nihil istic ideas with them, and terrorized threats of using the T u r ks with dynamite. T h en began the series of massacres in which not less than 200,000 Armenians were brained with clubs much as seal hunters dis pose of their prey in Alaskan waters. Nearly all of the victims were en tirely innocent; they were slaught ered to terrorize the Armenians. the Armenians; some of T he condition of affairs in T u r k ey can hardly be conceived by an American. T he Sultan fearful for his own life; he leaves the con fines of his own palace but once in a year. In Constantinople, a city of over a million inhabitants, there is is local mail service; you cannot no send a letter from one part of the city to another except by messenger. T he customs regulations of the em pire seem to be made to destroy trade rather than promote it; spies watch feels everybody; nobody safe. Another great peril to the peace of southeastern Europe is the condi tion of Austria. T he Austrians are not a success at self government, and when the present emperor dies a great war is almost sure to result. And finally, the attitude and policy of Russia are disturbing elements. T he Russian foreign policy is not there is no doubt that known but Russia covets Constantinople, which she has only been deterred from tak ing through fear of the great pow ers. W h at Russia may do is only a conjecture. She may move an army into Constantinople the peace and then keep it. Whatever else may happen it is highly prob able that sooner or later the Turkish empire will be pushed over the Bos- phorus where T he T u rk sympathy with European civilization ; he is a nomad and ought to be roaming the plains of Asia. it belongs. is out of to keep Loss of Moisture by Evaporation. interesting T he class in Soils recently con experiment cluded an the effect of cultivation showing from losses of moisture upon the soi1, soils. Cylinders filled with and having the water table two feet below the surface were used. the W h e re the soil remained uncul losses by evaporation tivated, twenty-five days averaged S.3 for In every case tons per acre daily. the where the soil was cultivated, loss was less than where it remained uncultivated, the paving increasing with the depth of cultivation. Cul tivation to the depth of four inches reduced the losses to 4.53 tons per acre daily for the twenty-five days. the cylinders been placed the sunshine and freely no out of doors in where the winds could move the over doubt have been much larger. losses would them, H ad Weddings of the Week. T he marriage of Ernest V. J o h n s ton '94 and Miss Bessie F. Brownell, occurred on Tuesday evening, Oct. 24, at the home of the bride's mother in Detroit. After spending a few days in Detroit and elsewhere, M r. and Mrs. Johnston will go to their home at Springfield, O., where the former the Springfield Gas E n g i ne Co. the employ of is in Morris W. Montgomery with '97 and Miss R u th J. Shank with '9S, both of Lansing, were married Tues day noon, Oct. 31, at the Church of Our F a t h er in Lansing. At home at 509 Michigan avenue west, Lans ing. Kirk W. T o w n er with '01 and Miss R u by E. Calkins with '00 were united in marriage Tuesday, Oct. 31, at the home of the bride near the College. Belliss '99 were married. A large number of College people attended the wedding. M r. and Mrs. J o h n son have assumed charge of Cottage N o. 2 at the Industrial-School. On the same evening at Fowler, Scott J. Redfern '97 of Maple R a p to Miss Corda C. ids was married Sage of F o w l e r. Mr. and Mrs. Redfern will live on the old Red- fern farm near Maple Rapids. Fred M. M u r p hv with '02 and Miss A da V. Becker were married Wednesday evening, Nov. 1, at Ber rien Center. Football Notes. T h e re has been talk of canceling the Thanksgiving game with De P a u w, but this will hardly be done. T he first eleven were sorely dis appointed at not having a game Saturday. At the last moment the Hillsdale manager wrote that his team was all broken up and he could not keep his engagement. Our next game will be with the Normals at Ypsilanti next Saturday. Alma tied Kalamazoo Saturday. Score: 5 to 5. to the the the opening of the senior 5-yard A sharply contested football game was played Saturday morning be tween junior senior and In the first half the juniors teams. kept the ball in senior territory most of the time but neither side was able to score. At the Second half Beebe, for the juniors, line, kicked where the ball was fumbled and al lowed to roll across the goal line. A senior picked it up and started but was downed a yard from the goal the seniors trials by line. T h r ee netted but four yards. T he juniors were no more successful, losing on downs a yard from the goal line. Again the seniors lost the ball after gaining T he next play, however, put Leavitt, a junior, over for a touchdown. No goal. juniors After the next kick-off the pounded the the line and skirted ends for long gains until another touchdown was secured, but again failed T he game ended with the juniors in possession of the ball on the senior 32-yard line. Score: Juniors, 10; seniors, o. to kick goal. three yards. At the College. Miss Edith Wilson of Mason is visiting Miss Kate Butterfield '02. J o hn Pratt, of bus fame, shook hands with friends at M. A. C. last week. Miss Blunt has been ill during the the past week and is now hospital. in Prof. Bemies entertained the foot ball players at six o'clock dinner Friday evening. W. J. M c C u ne of Petoskey, called on his son, N. A. M c C u ne '01 last Tuesdays. Miss Jennie Shaddick of Grand Rapids has been visiting at the Col lege since Friday. On Wednesday evening, Nov. 1, at the Industrial School in Lansing, Charles Johnson '99 and Miss Marie to take Prof. Weil the mechanical juniors to Chicago Thanksgiving day to spend the next is planning t wo days Illinois in visiting Steel W o r ks and other manufac turing concerns in the city. the W. T. Barnum '96 visited the Col lege Tuesday. He is still farming near Howell. Miss Alice Kinyon of Grand is visiting her sister Miss L e d ge Bessie Kinyon '03. Sign your name T HE R E C O K D, Wre for print anonymous contributions. to contributions not do H o n. C. W. Garfield '70 was at the'College Friday on business for the State Forestry Commission. Miss Erean Rich '02 spent Satur day and Sunday at her home in Ionia. Miss Ella P h e l p s ' 01 accom panied her. H o n. H. T. Marsh, chairman of the building committee of the state board, spent Wednesday at the Col lege on business. Curtis Simpkins '02 has returned to College after an absence of four weeks caused by the illness of his mother and sisters. R ay R. T o w er of Otisco, a brother of G. E. T o w er 'ot has entered College. T he number of his classification card is 544. T he ground was covered with snow Friday and Saturday. T h is snow-fall was six days earlier than the first heavy fall last year. Do not forget the burlesque to be the armory next Friday It will cost you but 10c to given in night. "see yourself as others see you." Pres. and Mrs. Snyder entertained Dr. J a m es B. Angell, Prof, and Mrs. Vedder, Prof, and Mrs. Smith six and Secy, and Mrs. Bird at o'clock dinner Friday. A freshman who had just received his half-term standings edged up to Dr. Beal in the postoffice and in quired: " S a y, Mr. Beal, how do you m a r k; on a scale of ten or five ? " Supt. Lohman requests all parents to keep their children away from the site of the new women|s build ing. Children will be in danger of injury there whether or not work men are present. fowls We had the usual Hallowe'en stacks to take down last Wednesday fifteen or morning; also twenty pure-bred in College Hall class rooms to return to the poultry the chick house. While carrying ens back in a bag the poultry man smothered four, and now he is look ing for someone to pay him $1.50 each for dead chickens. Kazip is Dead. to T he following characteristic state from " D i c k" Harrison ex ment "I am sorry to have plains itself: to announce both the College population and the people at large the celebrated Scotch Collie that dog, Kazip, is dead. In my daily- work, with him by my side, I felt from harm. W i th perfectly the least motion of the hand or by the word of mouth he was ever ready to be directed. I feel 1 have lost a valuable companion." free 2 T HE M. A. C. R E C O R D. N O V E M B ER 7, 1899. THE M. A. C. RECORD. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 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Severance, Secre tary. M . A. C. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION—W. T. Parks, President. H . P. Wevdcrneyer, Secretary. The Abuse of Dialect. PAPEE READ BY PROF. H. EDWARDS BEFORE THE MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF ELOCU TIONISTS, AT ADRIAN, OCTOBER 2/, 1899. T he word dialect, is used in two quite distinct senses. In one sense a dialect is one of a number of cognate forms which a great language takes. Inside of its own territory it is not confined to high or low, rich or It poor, educated or uneducated. has a known pedigree and history; it frequently has a literature all its o w n, and in fact is differentiated in rank from the predominant form of the language only by some accident of political prestige or transcendent genius. In this sense French, Ital ian, Spanish, etc., might at one time have been called dialects of Latin. In this sense Provencal is a dialect %. them the children of French, and in fact came near to being literary dialect. the great W i th this distinction in mind, the dialect poetry of Burns is no more to be classified with that of Bret Harte than the door-step foundling with to the manor born. It is not this class of dialects that I shall animadvert upon today; with I have no quarrel; what they gain in intensity they lose in the smallness of the number to which they appeal. T he inherent limitations of these dialects must in evitably form a sufficient corrective, there is associated with them and nothing essentially narrow or ignor ant, much less positively vile. I have sometimes felt that the Windows in T h r u m s, the Little Ministers, the Stickit Ministers, and a few dozen others of like form and vesture were over numerous and were giv ing us a surfeit of the cannie Scot, but there is in all this nothing more than the tribute of imitation which is always offered to success, and which, when it does not pander to something low in human nature, soon regulates itself. the negro, frontiersman, Very different, on the other hand, is the mass of verbiage designated as dialect under its second meaning. It includes the language more or less exactly reproduced, of some class; as the the Creole, or the mountaineer. It is- generally compounded of bad gram mar, bad pronunciation, and slang, mixed varying largely according to*the whim of the writer. It has no parentage but ignorance, no law of structure but the needs of the moment, no litera ture but the work of some literary adventurer w ho shamelessly parades its naked deformity in the pitliess glare of pages of print. proportions in in time These dialect reproductions have no criterion for testing their correct ness. M r. Cable writes an ancient Creole dialect (or rather several of them). N ew Y o rk and Boston critics pronounce it perfectly delicious and so exact as a reproduction. T he native Louisiaman says he never heard it (orthem). H ow is one to determine? 1 have personally often been amused at discussions about the fidelity of some writer to the (so-called ) negro dialect. N ow I have known the negro from my earliest years, and in place from Virginia to Arkansas; yet I should not know on what basis to carry on such a con In no two parts of the troversy. South does the negro speak alike, except as he approaches the recog nized norm of English speech. At no two interviews is he under any compulsion from within to use the same forms, and in fact the same negro will in the same hour's talk locutions more or less use different nearly the correct. Nor is his vocabulary at all fixed. I never heard a negro say, "Massa"; but I should not care to affirm that the word was never used. T he one uniformily characteristic peculiarity of the negro dialect lies, not in locu tions more or less accidental, but in his elusive pronunciation, his ten dency to broaden and lengthen vowel sounds and to soften or elide sharp consonant sounds in the middle or end of words. But even this can be reduced to no law. W h at useful literary purpose can be served, then, by constructing laborious dialect con versations according to some little code of one's own? approaching There against employed' slang against fact, dialect of this sort would lose half is no argument cannot be these dialects. that In its body, if the slang composing it were taken away. O ur schools and our homes are constantly on guard against vulgar and inelegant lan guage, and much of our teachers' time is taken up in correcting the dialect of the children and trying to form their language on recognized models; yet how many school-rooms are there in our country that have not echoed to lines like these,— I'll hold her nozzle agin the bank, T'll the last galoot's ashore ! W hy should we thus admit the in sidious enemy we have all along been fighting? I would not be understood as de siring always or absolutely to ex clude dialect of this kind from liter It frequently is necessary, ature. for the vivid and realistic presenta tion of a character, to give his thoughts and opinions in his own words. Sometimes peculiarity of mental attitude can be reproduced only by peculiarity of expression, language is very and in all cases closely thought. intertwined with Yet in all such cases a noble .reti cence should be observed, a sharpened and carefully exercised sense of pro priety, a skill to pervade the story with the personality of the speaker, without parading his rude barba risms over whole pages. T h at this is possible is proved by the example of our greatest modern writers. Observe, for instance, how ten derly George Eliot handles the lin guistic shortcomings of Nancy Lam- meter; contrast this treatment with that of Marcella by Miss Mutfree, and tell me which is the more ar tistic. Does it not seem that in the latter the dialect is steadily brought forward for its own sake and not to illuminate character-work ? Sometimes, indeed, the accentuation of dialect is distinctly hostile to the character-impression the author de sires to make. I cannot, for in stance, retain the picture of the re fined intelligent lady whom F r o w e n- feld desires to make his wife, while I have persistently thrust in my face thestupid, silly, babyishdialect which Cable says A u r o ra Nancanou uses. t he T he rule about dialect, it seems to me, may be formulated as follows: Dialect is to be avoided unless for some ulterior artistic end it seems a necessary means. Even then it is to be used sparingly and with good judgment. I should say that those writers abuse dialect w h o, having ransacked heaven and earth to find, novelty of some kind, and having fallen upon some especially ignorant and corrupted form of speech, proceed to invest old plots with the new phrasing, and to clothe smart ideas with totally in congruous the expression, public finally rebels antl the " vein " is worked out. until to trust A m o ng these dialect-writers are some who possesses real facility of expression and brilliancy of thought. These, unwilling their wares on their own merits, proceed to trick them out with ungramma- tical and slangy verbiage in order apparently to create, by the contrast between the brilliant thought and its rude setting, a heightened effect. This trick seems to me lacking in dignity and unworthy of the highest— powers. Certain that such work has never put a man among the immortals. T he work that sur vives is not of the dialect kind. it is On the other hand, dialect is some times used to hide utter inanity of thought. T a ke as an example the from an author w h o, following along with some good work has filled whole books with such as this: " 'Er take a tromp some Sund'y, say, 'way up to Johnson's hole, And find where he has had a fire and hid his fishin' pole; Have yer ' dog-leg ' with ye, and yer pipe and'cut-and-dry'— Pocketful o' cornbred, and a slug er two o'rye, Soak yer hide in sunshine and waller in the shade, Like the Good Book tells us—' where there 'er none to make afraid ! ' Well ! I never seen the ocean, ner I never seen the sea— On the banks o' Deer Crick's grand enough fer me! " Does it not become apparent, if one does not let his attention be drawn off by the strange expres sions, that a dangerously vague and silly idea or else no idea at all has here been presented? quotation Worst of all, however, is the fact that the abuse of dialect seems to foster or to hide loose morality. T he act of casting off the whole some restraints of legitimate E n g lish seems to induce an equally lax attitute toward the higher, sterner virtues. T a ke the example above; is its tone not gross to a degree? Does not the word "waller" in spite of the er at the end seem too strange to pass without some help from the " s l ug o ' r y e ?" A nd is not the biblical especially offensive when used to justify unre strained indulgence in drinking on a Sunday Does fishing excursion? not the whole passage at its very best confound communion with na ture with gross bodily contentment and well-being ? T a ke the redoubt able J im Bludso himself; could any thing but dialect blind either author or reader to the patent irreconcila- bleness of bigamy and truthfulness? Or does any man care to say in that plain unequivocal there is a sequence of cause and effect between a riotous life and an heroic death? T he apotheosis of "cussedness" is possible only through imaginary the third person, the man of the dialect, but through its glamour, the aver age unthinking young reader, capti vated by the easy ideal of allowing full swing to one's brutish instincts today on the promise of great and heroic action tomorrow, adopts as his creed the words intervention of an language I ain't no saint—but at jedgment, I'd run my chance wilh Jim, 'Longside o' some pious gentlemen that wouldn't shook hands with him. Candidly, I think we have had an oversupply of dialect work. T he really great authors, w ho have satu rated their dialect with brains, and have succeeded because of truthful ness of thought and vividness of con ception, are almost buried under the great mass of those who, with no ideas to express, have harried crea tion in order to find some outlandish lingo with which to challenge atten tion, until much of contemporary reading matter has lost all the ele vating and stimulating associations of literature. Simple, pure, refined expression, like simple, pure, ele thinking, is still today, as it vated thing, and as ever was, a beautiful rare as it is beautiful. It exercises a reflex influence on thought, and tends to purify and refine and elevate that which it clothes.' L et us never forget that there is no excuse for literature in our schools or in our homes other than its cleansing and uplifting power upon thought and expression. N O V E M B ER 7, 1899. T HE M. A. C. R E C O RD 7 T wo Vacation Experiences. BY H. C. . WEATHERWAX, ' o i, HESPERIAN SOCIETY. T he time of the adventures which I am about to relate is last summer; and the place is my father's ranch on the banks of t he noble Grand River. Being on the farm, my oppor tunity for study and original investi gation was much better along agri cultural than mechanical I had excellent chances to investigate t he various natures and tempera ments of the gentle, poultry, the spirited cows, and other animals that infest a well-regulated lines. farm. My experience with a certain boisterous "tom-calf" will serve as a typical example. F a t h er sent me out one morning to feed the calves. I deposited the skimmed milk and sawdust in the trough with due pre cision and made a few gestures of welcome to the little creatures. T he heifers evidently understood me and accepted my cordial invitation, but the "bullet" hesitated. Maybe I had the wrong kind of an expression upon my countenance, or perhaps he mistook me for a menagerie, he is quite near-sighted. the fence I went on the I got a little piece of a tree and into the to persuade him to take climbed over pasture some nourishment. other side of him and drove him toward the trough, and from what he did just then, I am sure he was near sighted. He did not stop for the trough, but jumped over it, and disregarding all physical and medi cal laws, went through a barbed-v^ire I think that, in his excite fence. ment, he forgot about the fence or he would not have done so rash a thing. Just then father inserted his im portant presence upon the scene of action. I apologized profusely for the condition of the fence and t he conduct of the calf, and offered to run him down so that we might bring him bacrc on a stone-boat, but all the answer I got w a s: " Yes, you'd like to run about forty pounds of lard off o' that calf, wouldn't y o u ?" One real nice afternoon, when the •weather was too hot for one to w o r k, but scarcely too hot for one to enjoy himself, I betook me to my row- boat for a stroll down stream to the large dredge was place where a working. Someone had told me that the government was dredging out the river, but I afterwaids learned that it was only an ordinary gang of hired men like myself. B ut I am wandering from my subject. T he dredge is quite a dirty boat, all covered with mud, and river bed, so I did not put on my store clothes low-necked shoes preparatory and think to visiting it. Little did I that I would meet any of the nicer sex on my way. W h at was my surprise when I had got about half three way, to see a sail boat with occupants in it, one boy and t wo girls. that will make my stale blood thrill with its old time youthful ardor and en thusiasm it is a handsome sail boat. is anything there If But I remembered that I had on my old clothes, and hastily changed my course to N. 3 70 W ., so as to pass them as far to starboard as I that sail could. H ow gracefully boat the gentle before zephyrs! H ow I wished I owned one like her! Pretty soon they be gan to tack, and then the exercises opened u p. T he jib boom struck glided into the water which tipped the boat to starboard. T h en the gentler part of the crew sprang to the other side, causing her to list badly to port. Perhaps they wanted to make her list clear into port so they could land. T he crew consisted, as I have said, of the captain, a boy and a first and second mate. Although the crew was small it would have been better if it had been comprised of the captain alone, as it was the first mate w ho caused most of the distur bance. As soon as she (the boat) began to career and ship water, the second mate (a minister's d a u g h t e r) gave some high toned danger signals that would have done credit to a steam boat or a phonograph. towards T he sight of so fair a crew in such dire peril is enough to demand the immediate and active assistance of the most prosaic nature. T h e r e fore I bent to the oars with prodi energy, heading my skiff gious straight the—-unfortunate craft. T he captain had lost all con trol of the second mate, who was two-stepping around on the gun wale and displaying very annoying the sail insubordination. Slowly boat kept sinking and nearer and approached nearer t he rescuing party. T h i n gs began to look as if the crew would get into the foamy It was an exciting scene waves. and I was sorry my position in row ing compelled me to face in the op posite direction. However, I ar rived just in time to rescue the fair crew from a watery—bath. As soon as they were in my boat, I cast anchor, got out, and helped the captain to empty the water out of his boat and collect his scattered wits. This was not so difficult as may be imagined, as the water was only three feet deep. As soon as this was done, the.captain went his way and I accompanied the rest of the crew to their homes, a half mile distant. LOTS FOR SALE IN " O A K W O O D" On Easy Terms—Low Prices. Buy a lot a nd we will lend y ou the m o n ey with which to build a h o u s e. CITY ADVANTAGES, i n c l u d i ng electric lights, s e w e r a ge a nd reg ular s t r e et c ar service with COUNTRY TAXES. B u y > ow while prices a re low. R e nt of r o o ms alone will p ay T EN P ER C E N T. N ET on t he i n v e s t m e n t. E n q u i r e ' of either D R. J. VV. H A G A D O R N, E D W A RD C A H I L L, C. D. W O O D B U R Y, or A. C. B I R D. IF IT IS HARDWARE you can get it at... NORTON'S m W a s h i n g t on A v e. S. COLLEGE BUS HEADQUARTERS. We have made unusual prepar ations for Fall and W i n t er Under wear business and are in position to show almost everything desirable ill Silk, Wool or Cotton garments. Simonj Dr\? Q o o ds C°- Combination Underwear.... is constantly g r o w i ng in popu larity ; never sell a customer a two piece suit after wearing Avoids double combination. thickness about waist, clothing fits better and life is brighter. All qualities in men's, women's and children's suits. Don't get so excited ovjer the merits of combination nnder- wear that you forget we THE UP-TO-DATE HAT STOCK CLOAK DEPARTMENT SECOND FLOOR. We offer a fine line of Ladies' and Misses' Jackets. •••— • ——BfumiL. 3 Specials at $7.00 $8.50 $ I O . OO each. ,arge line of Dress Skirts, House Jackets, Mackintoshes, Shirt Waists, etc. OPENING DISPLAY OF... OF L A N S I N G. Would like you to come in and see for yourself. Fur Jackets, Collarettes, Neckwear department chock full of N ew Bright Ties. Students' Patronage Solicited. ELGIN MIFFLIN. Scarfs, Etc. ( 1 s t — D ry G o o d s. THREE \ 2 d — C l o a ks a nd R e a dy M a de FLOORS'! , ( GTe n t s in (, 3 d — C a r p e ts a nd D r a p e r i e s. ELEVATOR. Furniture Headquarters. - Cots at - Wire Springs at Mattresses from - Tables, Rockers, Bureaus, Iron Beds. $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 $1.50 and $2.00 $2.00 up - - - - All goods delivered free to College. ' fl. J. & B. fl. Buck. R. B. S h a nk & Co., Leading Grocers and Confectioners. WHAT ^ ROYAL SHOES FORJMEII ARE GOOD FOR Good to court in, Good to sport in. Good to bowl or roll or plot in, Country Good to fence in And immence in lanes Good to run in. Good to sun in. Good to cut and harvest hay In, to drive the cows in. Good to hunt In, Good to punt In, Good to work and good to play In. THE ROYAL $3.50 SHOES Will equal many of the $5.00 lines. F or sale only by C. D. W O O D B U R Y, HOLLISTER BLOCK. 4 News from Graduates and Former Students. F. E. Skeels '78 came to the Col lege Wednesday on business. A r t h ur J. Beese with '94W visited the College Tuesday, Oct. 3 1. E. L. Thompson with '99 is in Rochester, N. Y., taking lessons in engraving. Miss Marion M. Clute with 'oi is attending Washington University, St. Louis, M o. Yesterday F. B. Ainger, jr. with '99 became managing editor of the Niles Daily Sun. Miss Axie W a r r en with '02 vis friends at the College and in ited Lansing Friday and Saturday. W. A. Quick with '97 after en gaging in mercantile business a year, has returned to farming near Nashville. He is married and has two children, a boy and a girl. '99OT writes E. D. Gagnier that he enjoys his work at the University of Illinois. He says, however, that the arrival of the M. A. C. R E C O RD makes him wish for a look about the old campus. A. C. McKinnon with ' 9 5^ re cently presented the mechanical de interesting partment with a most relic,—a piece of metal the from boiler of the first steamer used upon the waters of Lake Superior. V. V. Newell 'g^.7/1 left Holyoke, Mass., the first of September, spent a short time in Schenectady, N. Y.,. and then accepted a position with Lane and Bodley in Cincinnati. Address, Hunt's Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. On the first of J a n u a ry H. C. Skeels '99 will go to Joliet, 111., to superintend the converting of 300 acres of woods into a private park, which all native contain American plants that will grow in that latitude. shall O. W. Lowell with '61 has lived since '68 on his farm in W a t e r t o wn township, Clinton county. He says: "I moved on my farm when it was nothing but a wilderness; woods on all sides of the clearing where I built my house, and the only way to see out was to look up. * * * My farm has been a favorite camping ground for the Indians, and at one time old Okemos lived here." This is the party that sat down to - dinner at 1 23 S. Park Ave., Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 29: Prof, and Mrs. P. B. Woodworth and son P a u l; Misses Fay Wheeler, Pearl Kedzie and Stella W a r d; Messrs. C. E. Hoyt, G N. Eastman, F. W. Robison, Max Beutner and D. J. Crosby. C. F. Coda and W. V. Robinson had been to dinner but remained within speaking distance of the dining room. T he Rogers Brothers. Alex R. Rogers with '90 is now located at Morenci, Mich. He writes center, that " our football McLouth, is an old acquaintance " and adds: " I have lots of confidence in ' A l l i e . '" He also says that his brother, J. R. Rogers with '90 " is each year going more extensively into shorthorns. T he head of his herd was purchased of B. A. Bow- ditch with '96, and was the prize bull calf of Lenawee and Hillsdale counties in 1S97. T h e re is no better animal in this part of the state today. All my brother's salable stock was contracted long ago." T HE M. A. C. R E C O RD N O V E M B ER 7, 1899. D&\?is r i o t h i ng Co. COME ON BOYS— We have all the latest up-to-date styles and patterns in 103 Washington Ave. S. CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS AND HATS. We also keep Sweaters, Supporters, Foot Ball Pants and Jackets. We are glad to see the old men back and will be pleased to have the new men call. Make our store your headquarters while down town, it is a handy place to leave your packages. WE A RE O NE P R I C E. WE S E LL FOR CASH ONLY. DAVIS CLOTHING CO. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ R a t io of Students to Teachers. T he following table shows the ratio of the teaching force to the number of students in ten of the largest universities of the country. T he third column shows the propor tion of students to teachers: J o h ns H o p k i ns Cornell California N o r t h w e s t e rn Columbia H a r v a rd Yale C h i c a g o. . P e n n s y l v a n ia Michigan .. . . . T o t al F a c. .. 123 . . 328 265 222 303 5.2 S t u d. R a t i o. 631 2038 2391 2391 2185 6.2 9.0 10.7 9.2 . .. . 4 11 3901 94 255 2500 9.7 . .. . 2 12 2307 10.9 258 222 2832 3192 10 9 14.4 2599 24368 9.4 — U. of M. Daily. At M. A. C. the proportion of students to teachers is 12.4, a higher ratio of students than in any of the above universities except Michigan. J a c k — T h at shows how a girl can be distant without being cold. T o m — W h at does? J a c k — T h at picture of a Philippine belle—Cornell Widow. Lawrence & VanBuren PRINTING CO., BARBERS. GROCERS. RICYCLE a nd " ELECTRICAL S U P P L I E S. Also t he largest R e p a ir Shop in L a n s i ng fully e q u i p p ed with p o w er m a c h i n e r y. We p ay all t r a n s p o r t a t i on on wheels to a nd from College w h en r e p a i rs a m o u nt to o ne dollar or m o r e. Ottawa St. E. L a n s i n g, Mich. Gapitol Electric Engineering Go. 321 Washington Ave. S. Why Not ? DIRECTORY D o n 't y ou t h i nk it pays to b oy y o ur D r u gs at C ut R a t es ? Y ou save m o n ey and t he increased volume of business pays us. T RY I T. ALSDORF & SON, CUT RATE DRUGGISTS and PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES CHAS. A. PIELLA, D E A L ER IN DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, Clocks, Silverware, Art Goods. 121 Washington Ave. N., IANSING, MICH. Employes of - M. A. C to build should Desiring LANSING BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL M E N ^^ T he n a m es in this- Directory, as well as those of all o ur o t h er a d v e r t i s e r s, a re of reli able p a r t i e s. We hope t h at t he faculty a nd s t u d e n ts will t a ke p a i ns to patronize those who patronize u s. H. WOOD—Barber. 106 Michigan Avenue E. College work especially solicited. J BOOKS AND STATIONERY. T ANbrNG BOOK AMD P A P ER CO. Water- ij man and Sterling Fountain Pens, Stationery, Pictures. FrarreS, Wall Paper. 120 Wash. Ave, N. CITY BOOK STOKE. Fountain Pens, Drafting Tools, Stationery, Cards E-graved, Pictures and Picture Framing-. Tennis, Football and Base ball goods. Crotty Bros., 206 Wash. Ave. X. BOOTS AND SHOES. ("* D. WOODBURY.—Boots and Shoes. We j shoe the students. See ad. BICYCLES. GEO. H. RICHMOND. Pierce Cycles. Full line of sundries. Repairing- and renting at reasonable rates. 200 N. Washington Ave. CLOTHING. Hats and Caps. 112 Washing-ton Ave. North. LOUIS BECK.—Clothier. Gents' Furnishings, A E. DAVIS.—Clothing and Gentlemen's Fur nishings. See ad. CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. H. LARNED.—China, Glass and Lamps. 105 Washington Ave. S. H DENTISTS. fore consulting with not purchase their material be R W. MORSE, D. D. S. D R. DAWLEY, M. D , D. D. S. Office over Hiram Rikerd, D. E. PARMELEE—Dentist. 218 Washington Postal Telegraph Co., Michigan and Washing- Ave. south. Opposite Hudson House. Hollister Block, Room 517. Lansing, Mich. Lumber of ail kinds. Interior Finishing a specialty. PRICES RIGHT. Office and Factory, Mill St." Botb Phones. DEPARTMENT STORE. DONSEREAUX'S DEPARTMENT STORE is the place to trade. You can get a warm lunch in our cafe for 10c. DRUGGISTS. Ave. S. See ad. 102 Washington Ave. N. 335 Washington ALSDORF * SON—The Druggists. Two stores, C ). ROUSER—Capital Drug Store. 123 Wash ington Avenue South. AIJL MEATS.... May look alike to you, b ut t h e re is a v e ry g r e at difference in t he q u a l i ty we h a n d le a nd t h at sold by s o me o t h er m a r k e t s. We h a n d le n o ne b ut t he v e ry best. L i ke t he p u d d i n g, t he proof of good m e a ts is in the eating. A trial will convince y ou t h at you ought to t r a de with u s. ] We m a ke daily t r i ps to t he College. BOTH P H O N E S. Careful attention given to phone orders. GOTTLIEB REUTTER. Washington Ave. South. DRY GOODS. ' I M O SS DRV GOODS COMPANY. - 5 Goods and Carpets, t^ee ad. D ry FURNISHING GOODS. 'LGIN MIFFLIN'.— Ladies' and Gentlemen's j Furnishing Goods. See ad. FURNITURE DEALERS. M J. & B. M. BJJCK.—Furniture. Cor. Wash ington Avenue and Ionia Street. See ad. R B. SHANK & CO., 200 Washington Ave. S. The leading- grocers. Both phones. Daily delivery to the college. HACK AND BAGGAGE LINES. M A. C. STUDENTS—Don't forget W. H. PORTEK, the Hack and Liveryman. Rubber tires a specialty. 300 Capitol Ave. S. Both Phones. HARDWARE, STOVES AND TINWARE. N ORTON'S HARDWARE—General Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, Graniteware, Cutlery, etc. Ill Washington Ave. South. See ad. INSURANCE. THE DYER-JENISON-BARRY CO.. LTD., (Incorporated) 108 Mich. Ave. West. All kinds of the best insurance. Strongest agency in city. JEWELERS. B P. RICHMOND—Watchmaker, Jeweler and Engraver. 200-202 Washington Avenue N. LAUNDRIES. THE VANGORDER PALACE LAUNDRY. Col lege agents, C. H. Hilton, 97 Wells; Irving Gingrich, 47 Williams. S. P. Lantz, Prop. LIMBER DEALERS. W. RIKERD.—Lumber Dealer. Mill Street. See ad. E MERCHANT TAILORS. OODBURY & SAVAGE.—Tailors. Student trade solicited. Opposite Hotel Downey, North. W J OHN HERRMANN'S SONS. Fine Tailoring. 218 Washington Avenue N. OCVLISTS. J OSEPH FOSTER, M. D.—Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Hours 9 to 12 A. M. City National Bank Building, Lansing. PHYSICIANS. A D. HAGADORN, M. D.—Office hours, 11 to 12 A. M., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. M. Office at 212 Washington Avenue S.; home 419 Seymour St, RESTAVRANTS. GILBERT M. HASTY.—Proprietor Hasty's Gem Lunch. Best meals and lunches in the city. Quiet place for ladies. 113 Wash. Ave. S.