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The West American Scie7iiisi. 



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LOCALS AND PERSONALS. 



We are glad to welcome back 

 Theodore Barnes, a lormer student, j 



We have been entertained with 

 some every excellent debates in the 

 Literary Society, lately. 



A short while ago we students 

 made a visit to that place of histori- 

 cal interest, Old Town, sometime 

 afterward, to take advantage ot the ' 

 extreme low tide, we walked along 

 the beach to Point of Rocks. The 

 coloring of the sea and glittering 

 sands, the silvery, slender new moon 

 and the gleaming evening star burn- 

 ing in a sky that still glowed with 

 the glory of sunset could have been 

 done justice only by the pen of Black. 

 It is certainly true that the students 

 in our college have the benefit of 

 beauties of nature not to be met with 

 elsewhere. 



Miss Gover had an appreciative 

 audience in her room, the other day, 

 looking at some of her pictures — 

 water-colors, designs, copper-plate 

 etchings of Colorado scenery, paint- 

 ings in oil, etc. 



Last Friday in replacing officers in 

 the Excelsior Society Miss Ida Lowe 

 was chosen President; Henry Frey, 

 Vice-President; Miss Belle Jacoby, 

 re-elected Secretary; E. N. Groh, 

 Chaplain; Misses Niles and Pease, 

 Critics; the Executive Committee will 

 remain unchanged for the term. 



The College students under Prof 

 Davidson's care went on a picnic to 

 La Jolla Caves, during the recent low 

 tide to gather mosses, shells and in- 

 formation. 



A Fox always is a sly creature, 

 and Lewis was true to his name in 

 the management of his debate of last 

 week. By-the-by it was a very good \ 

 debate. 



The West is making great strides 

 in educational matters. All who 

 wish to understand the great subject 

 of education as it affects America I 



must keep en rapport with our west- 

 ern country. One of the western 

 schools has a travel class which vis- 

 ited Washington recently. Travel 

 classes, if managed properly, must 

 have distinct effect upon culture. 

 The Englishman who, in Chester- 

 field's time, scrupulously sent his 

 son on the "grand tour," and the 

 young German of Goethe's time who 

 ■'finished" with a "wander-year," 

 understood this. 



The teacher of Art, Miss M. E. 

 Gover, from London, has exhibited 

 in all the principal exhibitions in 

 England, among which are the 

 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Lon- 

 don; the Institute of Painters in 

 Water Colors, Picadilly, London, 

 and the Society of British Artists, 

 Certificated as Art Master at the 

 South Kensington School of Design. 

 She also holds certificates with hon- 

 ors, from the Trinity College, Lon- 

 don. Since she has been in America 

 her line of work has been etching, 

 chieflv from western scenerv. 



EDITORIAL. 



The mini, the old college paper 

 of the University of Illinois, this fall, 

 enters on its twentieth volume. The 

 lllini grows and improves with the 

 institution with which it has so long 

 been identified. In its issue of Sep- 

 •ember 27th, the y//7wz said: 



A fact ever to be borne in mind 

 about the College of Letters is the 

 salubriousness and healthfulness of 

 the climate and location. 



Not only do those who are in good 

 health, or entering college retain their 

 health, but invalids of other climes 

 and localities attend school at Pacific 

 Beach, able to live comfortably, pur- 

 sue their studies, and constantly gain 

 in health. 



'Tis always morning, somewhere and 

 above 



The awakening continents, from shore 

 to shore. 



Somewhere the birds are singing ever- 

 more. 



— Loiigfellow. 



