People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence.

BLOOMINQTON.

BY G. M.

Two of the university trustees «r received political honors in the recent elections. Clias L. Hen* ry was ellected to congress and James H. Jordan, judge of the supreme bench. Dr. Fellow’s class in anthropology, spent Friday and Saturday of last week in Chicago.The chief object of the excursion was to examine the anthropology collection in the Field museum; P.tof. Starr, of the Chicago ttuiversity conducted the class over the museuin, which is in every way the anthropology paradise. The collections in this museum . are arranged uy experts, so as to s >w by i heir position and order the steps of human progress. The talks of Prof; Starr as he dstoo in this great labratOry, ■urrounded by actualities of the ■ast at'd present, were alone orth the trip. Among othei •iaces, the ciass visited the Chicago University, where tve\

.ad the pleasure of witnessing lie work of that young bui -neat institution. The work oi ie recitations was encouraging > the 1. U. M.udeLis since it is •arried ou in much the same uy as at Indiana University. Prof. Commons has sent oui fculars to the uiffereut high hools of ihe state inquiring out the teaching of politic; . onomy, sociology ana relatec objects. Dr. llenson, of the First H r st church, Chicago, deliverer ie first lecture on the regula: nurse, last Friday evening, r. Henson was to have been ere the Friday evening previous t i by mistake went to Bloom- ■ . Left, - His subject “Fools’ 1 • >s changed to, “Fools, such m>ey have in Illinois.” Dr.Hent !s..ne of the most populai ud vv i lectrers in the. west, ud his lee ure last evening was /ery amusing. The board of trustees of Ind »na University, met Friday. • ov. 6. Among other things, i vas decided by the board, tha Indiana University has no tuitioi ees in the sense of the law, anc that the scholarships issued by the counties do not give an,> special privileges to studentsh ilding them. All fees are contingent fees. They alsodecideo to have the dedication of th< new building, Kirkwook Hall, an. 25, ‘ho. The members of

ie legislature, and other staU 'bcials will be inviLed to attend the exercises. Prof Blatchlev, who assumed ‘• e duties of State oreologi.-t 1 ist Monday, is a graduate of L. U. President Swain, Prolessors >ryan, Woodburn and Commons, re giving lectures on the Jniversity, extension course, at afferent points over the states. These lectures are becoming /ery popular, and many of our nterprising towns are availing hemseives of the instruction they offer. On election day, just as n e irst hour classes were assembling a crowd of college girls gathered on the steps of Library lal). and drew up the following resolutions: Whereas, it has been set forth that the best men should be at the polls, and Whereas, our fellow students, in the exercise of their privilege are necessarily absent from their recitations, and Whereas, women are denied the right of voting; Therefore, in order that-the faculty may give their undivided attention to ihe polls, and In order that our fellow stadents may not be overburdened with work on their return, and in order that the girls of Indiana University may spend the day in uninterrupted maditation upon the rights of sufferage;

Be it resolved, that our work be suspended tor the day. Girls of Indiana University. After some discussion the fair co-eds adopt* ed these resolutions and posted them on the bulletin board. This meant a “bolting” of all recitations and the proceeded to go the rounds of the buildings- the boys being heartily in sympathy, they marched to the class rooms and forcibly stopped all recitations, except Prof. Bryan'sj he was too much for them. As the procession increased they marched double file around the campus and then started toward the city. At the entrance of the campus they met Pres. Swain. Tile president held up his hand. The procession stopped, and without breaking ranks, grew compact, as when a stretched accord eon slides shut. “Against wLdi,” the president asked, is this a protest. “Our sights,” piped a a feminine voice from the line. Who could answer such an argument? President Swain did not attempt to apply the rules bf logic* he simply steppe, aside and the procession march ed on. The man in the tower wrote in the annals of the U< versify. November the sixth— A never-to-be-forgotten day, whereon did the maidens of 1 U. in meeting assembled, pro lest against their rights.