where they will spend the greater part of the winter in playing
in the larger cities of Great Britain and the Continent.
The company contains some of the best known of the artists in
the musical world. Mr. Wilczek, an Austrian by birth, showed
such marked musical abilities at the age of fourteen, that the
Austrian government sent him to Berlin, where, at their expense,
he received instruction for three years under the greatest masters
then living. He played at the first social function given
at the White House by President and Mrs. McKinley, from
whom he received profuse congratulations. Mrs. Renck-Wilczek
is no less a true artist than is her husband. She received her
musical education at Cologne and Berlin. Miss Cowen, soprano,
Miss Hawkes, contralto, and Miss Burley, pianist, are among
the best in their respective lines now in the field of concert per
formers, all of whom have established reputations both for them
selves and for the company with which they are connected.
THE bulletin board at the Business Office is the most prominent
feature of the main hall. It is also quite interesting, in its way,
and to read it is a mild form of amusement popular with some
people; but to the students it is a newspaper•—the Daily Intelli
gencer, coming out in several, editions,—and they take it with their
breakfast, dinner, and supper, and glance at it between classes
and after.
'To a busy student, however, there is one very apparent differ
ence between it and a newspaper. It lacks order of arrangement.
One never knows where to look for the " ads " or rather where
not to look for them. The notices on the bulletin board are not
read out of curiosity, but rather out of habit—habit born of neces
sity. We are held responsible for any notices posted and to fail
to read them does not exempt one from the consequences. To
wade through half a dozen to twenty advertisements for various
shoe shops, clothing houses, stick pins, fountain pens and this
and that, not to mention dealers in second hand articles, and,
ig A .as