follows: The Scientific Association consisting of members' of the
faculty and honor students of the Senior class, meeting the first
and third Tuesday night of each month; the Electrical Engineer
ing Society consisting of the instructors and the Senior and Junior
students of the E. E. department, meeting every Wednesday
night; the Mechanical Engineering Society consisting of the in
structors and the Senior and Junior students of the M. E. Depart
ment, meeting the first and third Tuesday nights of each month;
the Civil Engineering Society consisting of the instructors and the
Senior and Junior students of the C. E. Department, meeting the
second and fourth Tusday nights of each month; the Natural
History Club consisting of Biological, Agricultural and other stu
dents, meeting every Wednesday night; the Mathematical Club,
formed of the instructors of that department and also of the de
partment of Physics and some of the Engineers, meeting the second
and fourth Tuesdays of each month.
—The third of the course of Y. M. C. A. entertainments was
held in the new Schwab auditorium Saturday night, December
sth. The Lulu Tyler Gates Company were the entertainers. The
company consists of Lulu Tyler Gates, reader; Helen Carter Mc-
Connell, contralto; Marie Ludwig, harpist and accompanist, and
H. Benne Henton, clarinet and saxophone. Every one of the four
is an excellent performer, and the entertainment, as a whole, was
a marked success.
—The college work of the year was begun on Wednesday,
January 6th, at 11 o’clock, by devotional exercises in the Schwab
auditoiium, Vice-President Buckhout presiding in the absence of
Di. Athei ton. At the same time the yearly eight week creamery
course and a short course in agriculture will open. A short
coui se in agiicultuie to cover a period of twelve weeks is not
a new idea, although this is the first time it has ben offered
for a number of years. Thirty-three students have enrolled in
the creamery course and twenty-two in the short course in