On The Campus

A senior law, H. C. Johnson, while souffling in the law library last Thureday, fell and broke his leg. Dr. Martin, for the rest of the semester, will fill the position made vacant by the death of Dr. Dunster. D. P. Schuyler, of the chemical department, has acoepted a fine position in a St. Loais iron works. Prof. Spalding Ieave9 next week for the western part of the state were he will visit and examine the principal schools. The class of '88 now have their class hats - with a large yellow tassel - and this morning went through with their timehonored custom of " swinging out" to chapel. Next to the Booth-Birrett attraction at the opera house last Monday, the coming mock Republican convention to be held tomorrow evening calis out the greatest public interest. The wife of E. O. Hall, a senior law living on Fifth-st, died sijddenly Monday morning of septicemia, leaving a child about a week old. The case is one of peculiar sadness in which MrHall has a host of eympathizers. The freshmen and sophomores will play a match game of base ball on the campus Saturday. The game that was to take place last Saturday between the senior mechanical and civil engineers was declared won by the C E's, the M. E's not materializing. A Urge earthenware tank of peculiar make, for holding distilled water, has been received at the chemical laboratory from Germany, and two others are yet on the way here. For many years it has been a serious difficulty at the laboratory that they could find no recepracle that would keep the distilled water chemically pure. The new tanks fill the biH. At the regular meeting of the Engineering society, Friday evening, the following papers were read : " Cable Roads," by J. R. Miner ; " Electric Roads," C. E. Roehl. At the business meeting the following officers were elected : President, G. S. Williams; vice president, W. W. Seymour; corresponding secretary, H. S. Orocker; recording secretary, J. B. Nclson ; treasurer, A. R. Benson ; librarían, M. C. Tft; program committee, W. J. Baldwin, F. M. Crocker, A. H. Smith, and G. C. Tuthill.