Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1909 — Interesting Items From St. Joseph’s College. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Items From St. Joseph’s College.

There will be another great call game on the college diamond next Saturday afternoon. The Wabash College Juniors, of Crawfordsvilie, will cross bats with the Varsity. It should be an exciting game, as the Juniors come well recommended. The game will be called at 3:40, as the visiting team will arrive only on the 3:17 train. Next Sunday the Varsity will play a return game with the Wrens on the Rensselaer diamond. On Thursday there were no classes. This being a holiday, the commemoration of the Ascension of our Savior, it is celebrated in the same way as Sunday. The long delayed large windowframes have at last arrived and are now placed into position. Since then the greatest activity has again been manifested about the new church. The walls are now rising quickly. The two large transept frames are not here yet, but they also are on the way so that there is now reasonable assurance that there will not be another considerable delay. The A. L. S., the Junior literary society, delighted the students with a literary entertainment on Thursday evening. The sophomore Greek class is at present reading St. Basil’s discourse on how to read and study heathen literature with benefit and advantage. It is interesting and contains many points that are well applicable to present day methods of reading and studying literature. It tends to show them that even the ancients were far advanced in some branches of knowledge. ’ . The warm sunshine and the budding flowers and blades have tempted the botany class into the green groves and pleasant fields to study nature in her own secret haunts. They are taking regular class rambles.