Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1890 [PAGE 58]

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tertainment Lasi spring, will be arran d for this year. '1) last Field Day was without doubt the m ue -ful one since the inauguration of this holiday. The victorv won by our orator at the late inter-colleg oratorical com t is not the least of the honor- which hai been conferred upon the University during the past 3 r. In oratory, in athletics, in the yario well as in the daily routine of stud\ nd recitation, the n <v>\ of / \ NOT] 1 ER year lias passed siiicr the publication of the the sophomore class is submitted as mparing favor ly last Sophograph. In many respects it has been the with that of the other cla . and we feel that tl r t most prosperous the University has ever known. The beus has been a most profitable one. ginning of the current year saw enrolled more students than the University has had at the time for many years, and we augur from this an increasing popularity. N the thirteenth of March there w dd ex< The most perfect harmony has existed between the students and faculty, and all are beginning to see the benefits in commemoration of tie- twen h miversar which may accrue to all from the system of elocutionary I iliin is. A Irill r» ntlv inaugurated. A new feature of this work of opening to students of the Univen < 1 1 which has been introduced this year is the chapel orations. such a time it is not unfitting that w glance and note the prog] - that has I n made. given by I he senior das<. At its opening there were present e hundred an Lieut. Boppin, our new military instructor has shown twenty-eight student-. The faculty cons I of twelve his ability as a commander,and has won the respect not only members, prominent among whom was Dr. VAv. Eggleof the offi rs under him. but of tie- students in general. ston, the novelist. The curriculum was much in r to Mi- Maloney has been indefatigable in her efforts to present one, many of the studies now in the prepan increase the in teres! in music, and her work has not been in year being then pursued in the freshman year, while a vain. All her pupils -peak of her in terms of highest praise. The literary societies are doing active work, and have few of the common school branches Formed a pai an enrollment equal to that of any previous year. The paratory course. From time \i^ time as circums! - | rmi .h declamation conk this year were all that eould be desired. The Alethenai con t •. 3 an innovation for that society, but qualifications for admission were demands the 1 lt\ v. f w in no way ini r to flu- other I wo contests, and was a increased and the standard i>\' admission ra at present numbers twenty-eight and the i r 1credit to the yonng ladies. dents this year will reach nearly four hundred, hstandAthletics have received their full Bhare of attention, and r I in in tie- J der in tti- 'vmn um is d irving of praise for the ing the requirements for admission an int which he has aron I. We trust that a series of universities making higher pretens as. The growth of the Unn i\ has lx us tan I ill crami imilai to that which furnished so much enin mere numbers perhaps, but m that wh m« \-

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