In The Practice Court

Prof. T. A. Bog-le, judge of the law departmeint practice court, has commenced work in Oo'urse 2, and is1 daily assigning the second cases to the various groups of senior laws.. These cases aro actual occurrenees of fact which are witnessed by the students. The only presaimpttoiis are the surroundiings and they cannot be contradicted, but every fact must be 'brought befoire the jury just as in a regular case at law. Prof Mechera lias charge of the woirk of d'irecting the witnessës lioiv to act and in Room 4 every day, passengers are ejectcd from .trains, book agents kicked out of hotels, crinies committed, etc, on which the injured porties through ■their attorneys are expected to bring snit. Besides serving as attorney eacli senior wlH have to be witness three times, amd serve on the jury twelve times. The cases in course 1 have now nearly all been completed, and Prof. Mecïuem says that so far the work fin the second year of the practice court lias ibeen more taan satisfactory, and that the seniora are evincing a-n unusual degree of interest and enth'Usiasm in the work. ORATORICAL ASPIRANTS. Friday was the last day when entries for the Uniyersity oratorical contest could be received. Mr. J. H. Quarles, president of the association, says that more names and subjects have beeu received this year thau there were last, somewhere in the neighborliood of forty contestants being in the race. Of these the junior laws furnish omore than their share, there being a full dozen of them. Next in order of numerousness are the senior lits. The class contests will begin in about two weeks, the first one, that of the sophmore lits, being scheduled for Feb. 18. The others will follow in close succession. ÜNIVERSITV NOTES. Mr. A. Gould White, '95 Ut., and Miss Margaret A. Meilde, lit. '96, were married Jamuary 2, at tlie home of the bride m Lancaster, OliiO'. Prof. Russell offers a course in "Iiocks." If tliis is the &oa"t of rocks tliat pay board bilis and room rent, Prof. Kussell will probably need to liold his class in TJnivei"sity hall. Governor Upliam, of Wisconsin, has a.ppoiaited Uie regents of the state university at Madison, but the coeds of tliat institution Keem to have lost their point in asking for a woman regent. Tlie reimaiining addresses for the Suaiday mornJlng serviees oí the S. C. A., the month of Fetxru&ry, will be by ithe following persons : Fcl. lOtlx, Prof. G. P. Coler ; Feb. lTth, Prof. M. L. D'Ooge ; Feb. 24th, Mr. E. H. Mensel. Lorado Taft, of Chicago, who is to mata thie busts of President Angelí and Judge T. M. Oooley, is in the city, a guest of the Cook House. He wöl take se-i-eral sittiogs witli each subject, ooid will itnish the work in Chioago. Mr. Taft will make a brief trip to Cle-íland befoire beginning his work. Tlie Socratic Unioe of the law departmemt is now a full fledged organizatioin. Officers were efected Friday as follows : J. C. Da--is, president ; Creo. O. Farrell, vice president; Mr. Green, secretary and treasure ; Mr. Titsiaw, marshal. There will be a special meeting of the Union next Monday afternoon at 3:30. A Colorado club court was organized Saturday a. in. in the law department. Norman Camarón was elected judge and Tilomas g. Hayden sheriff. Tlie first case will be tried next week wiith Arthur Bartels and J. W. Bartels, attoirneys for tlxe plaintiff and Harry Parsions and W .M. Downing attoirneys for the defendant. Tlie case arose from the defendant (ring a book agent out of liis hotel . A meeting of the iuter-university debate committeo, together with the eight society comtestants, was held last Saturday forenoon to make arrangements foir the final University debate. It was decided to liold the same oin Uie evieniing of March 8, and the questiom to be discussed is the same ome that will be debated with Northwestern, viz., "Resolved, Tliat the United States ehould own and cointrol the Nicaragua canal." The The eigtit contestants drew for sides and places with the following vesult: Togan, Block, Newton and Kimball, affirmative, in the oirder named : "Wilcox, Crosby, Oxtoby and Sadler, negative, in their respective oirder. Miss Mau'd Allen, amedic '94, who sniled to India, under the Foreign Missiomary Board of the Presbyterian cliurch, reachcd Rorntxiy, Nov 7th. Slie a-eports tliat at a of the Presbyt-ery at Lodlaiaa, out of eiglity missionaries pi-csent, eishteen were student yolunteerí. Miss Allon is appoinied to spend cigiht months in Loidiaiia studying and teaching in the School of Medicine for Christian "Wonnen)- S. C. A. Bulletin.