a former pastor of Mrs. Ballou's spoke feelingly of her helpful life and womanly character. The remains were taken to Shelburne for interment. In this hour of deep affliction, Mr. Ballou has the heartfelt sympathy of the College and of many friends. '97.-George D. Leavens visited the College re cently. By invitation of Prof. Waugh he spoke be- Spring Clothes. fore the senior division in Horticulture on strawberry culture. Mr. Leavens has been working on strawberries for the past three or four years and has arrived at some very interesting and satisfactory results. '97.-Clayton F. Palmer is taking advanced work in Zoology in Leland Stanford, Jr., university. '98. Samuel W. Wiley fs employed as chemist for the American Agricultural Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md. '99.-Herbert W. Dana is serving on the Editorial Staff of the New Haven Register, New Haven, Ct. '99.-Frederic H. Turner has just moved into a new hardware store in Great Barrington. Just the sorts that young men will appreciate. HATS. FURNISHINGS. SHOES. Haynes & Co., SPRINGFIELD, MASS. For further information, time tables, etc., call on ticket agents or address, A. S. HANSON, G. P. A., Boston, Mass. NINETEEN HUNDRED. E. K. Atkins, Civil Engineer with E. C. & E. E. Davis, address, No. Amherst. H. Baker, Veterinarian, address, 70 West St.. F. H. Brown, Fruit Raiser, address, Marlboro. Y. H. Canto, student, College Physicians and Surgeons, 452 West 23d St., New York, N. Y. H. L. Crane, Small Fruit Grower, Ellis. J. E. Halligan, Assistant Chemist Hatch Experiment Station, Amherst. A. A. Harmon, Veterinaran, 588 Broadway, Lowell. E. T. Hull, Student, Columbia Medical, New York City. J. W. Kellogg, Assistant Chemist, Experiment Station, Kingston, R. I. M. B. Landers, Saginaw Medical Institute, Saginaw, Mich. J. F. Lewis, Machine Shop, Carew Cotton Gin Co., East Bridgewater. A. C. Monahan, Instructor, Amherst High School, Amherst. A. W. Morrill, graduate student M. A. C., Amherst. M. H. Munson, with W. M. Wilson, Stier Freder & Rencher, Tarkio, Mo. G. F. Parmenter, Student. Brown University Chem istry Department, Providence, R. I. STEPHEN LANE FOLGER, 200 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Club and College Pins and Rings. Gold and Silver Medals. F. G. Stanley, Student, Harvard University, 10 Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry. Longewood Terris, Back Bay, Boston. A. M. West, Assist. Biochemic Division, Depart-. ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. R. D. Gilbert, Kent Chemical Laboratory of Yale Univ.. address, Corner High and Library St., New Haven, Conn. E. K. Atkins, Secretary class 1900. '01.-Thaddeus Graves, Jr., was married on Saturday afternoon, the 8th of November, to Miss Cora La Von King at the home of the bride. At home, Thursdays in February, at 16 Elm St., Hatfield, Mass. "UP TO THE MINUTE" MEN'S FINE SHOES. The Northampton Shoe Co., '01.-N. J. Hunting began last Monday morning to make the annual inspection of Babcock machines 88 Main St., through the state. NORTHAMPTON, MASS. Ex.-'01.-Mr. Clarence Alfred Boutelle was married last Wednesday to Miss Ethel Irene Barr at Spencer, Mass. Mrs. Boutelle is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Barr. At home after February first, Home Farm, Lenox, Mass. There were quite a number of alumni in town Nov. 8th to witness the M. A. C.-Amherst football game. Among them were C. S. Crocker, '89, A. S. Kinney, '96, W. S. Fisher, '98, W. R. Pierson, '01, C. L. Rice, '01, A. C. Wilson, '01, and H. A. Paul, '02, W. A. Damson, '01, J. H. Belden, '02, J. C. Hall, '02. INTERCOLLEGIATE. Yale vs. Harvard next Saturday! Princeton's new mascot, a young tiger, is very appropriate but we hope it is not a hoodoo. HENRY ADAMS, PHARMACIST. Only fifty-six out of 141 Freshmen at the North- NO. 1 COOK'S BLOCK, western university were able to pass an examination in spelling. The intercollegiate gun shoot held on Princeton's grounds, Nov. 14, was won by Yale with a score of 206. P. Archer of Princeton won the individual championship by killing 47 birds out of a possible 50. NOTICE.-M. A. C. men wishing to attend Mr. and Mrs. Petit's informal hop in the town hall next Tuesday evening can obtain tickets of L. E. Peck, '03. No tickets will be on sale at the hall. AMHERST, MASS Pure Drugs and Medicines, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, IMPORTED AND MEERSCHAUM AND BRIAR PIPES, FISHING TACKLE Metallic Cartridges for Pistols, Sporting and Springfield rifles. Sunday and night calls responded to at residence, first door west of Chase's Block. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention is probably patentable. Communica tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir- MUNN&Co.361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D. C. THE COLLEGE SIGNAL VOL. XIII. AMHERST, MASS., DECEMBER 3, 1902. NO. 5 Published Fortnightly by Students of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Students and Alumni are requested to contribute. Communications should be addressed. COLLEGE SIGNAL, AMHERST, MASS. THE SIGNAL will be sent to all subscribers until its discontinuance is ordered and arrears are paid. Subscribers who do not receive their paper regularly are requested to notify the Business Manager. A KANSAS paper notes the fact that Carrie Nation has visited Harvard and departed without having a degree conferred upon her. A narrow escape, to say the least! OWING to a delay in closing some of the home games we have as yet been unable to publish the basketball schedule. It will doubtless be inserted in our next issue. Prof. R. E. Smith, Sec. J. G. Cook, Manager. A. L. Peck, Manager. Chadwick has been instructed copyright the piece and to publish five hundred copies for the college. THE senior class is making an effort to cause their class day exercises at Commencement to be as elaborate and interesting as time and labor will make them. The election of speakers and committees has been made early with the end in view of presenting matter of as high a type as possible. The fact that these exercises have been slighted has been painfully evident in years past and has beyond doubt been caused by the increased amount of work with which the graduating class has to contend as Commencement draws BEN" CHADWICK, the noted song composer of near. The fact, however that class day exercises are Westfield, who has been engaged to write the music so popular and invariably draw a large number of specfor the new college song, visited Amherst Monday tors is a plea for their every possible improvement. and presented his composition before the committee An added feature of Commencement will be the presin charge. The music is in the form of a stirring ence of caps and gowns which the class has voted to march which can be made wonderfully effective when adopt. Although it has not been the custom in the sung by a large chorus of male voices. It met with past for the senior class to wear caps and gowns the the hearty approval of the committee and no doubt scheme has met with wide favor and it is safe to predict will be extremely popular with the students. Mr. that a strong effort will be made to continue their use. WHAT is there in a "yell ?" Its real value to an dent and to the department in which he spends so athletic team during games is often a question in the many fruitless hours. Unless the student has an minds of many people. To the student's mind it is interest for the subject at hand the instructor is manas essential as is the referee or the time keeper. It ifestly placed at a disadvantage and his value as a acts as a stimulant to the contestants and as a safety teacher is materially lessened. In the case of small valve for the tense feelings of the onlookers. Not classes this may be and unquestionably is a source of only is it often an attractive side feature of the game harm which is felt throughout the institution. With but it often spurs on the team to victory when other- a liberal course of electives, Massachusetts as a scienwise defeat would have been its lot. When, however, tific college has every chance to become a leader. any feature of the yell causes it to diverge from its The advantages which she offers are surpassed by few original purpose and to become offensive to spectators colleges of her class and this fact is an appreciable not only does its value become diminished but it | one to prospective students. becomes a source of condemnation to its participants. that we would lay stress. In the recent interclass football game a yell was used liberal course of study which was a cause of embarrassment to the ladies present and a source of mortification to many students, especially those who chanced to have friends witnessing the game. Deplorable as was the circumstance major place in the importance of this college and even more deplorable was the fact that the yell was sanctioned and encouraged by certain upperclassmen who evidently cared little for the dignity and good name of their college. We sincerely hope that a respectable yell will be adopted by the class of 1905 and will be used by them at ensuing class contests. It is on the word liberal We do not believe that a would make it necessary for a man to take either Agriculture or Horticulture in order to take the degree of Bachelor of Science. Formerly these two departments may have held a around them may have grown up the various other departments that the strength and utility of those two might be made the greater, but while the efficiency of the departments of Agriculture and Horticulture may not have deteriorated their allies have become of equal importance and have held out inducements which have attracted their full quota of men. That policy which enables a man to give his undivided attention to those departments for which he has a thorough interest and in which he has an earnest desire to perfect himself seems to us to be a liberal one. OFFICIAL NOTICE. For the benefit of underclassmen we print the following rules relating to the election of new members to the board of editors of this paper: A THING which comes to us very appropriately at Thanksgiving time is the assurance on the part of the Faculty that junior electives are to be installed in the very near future. That the long cherished hope of so many students is at last to be realized is indeed a reason for thankfulness. We can realize that the task of rearranging a college curriculum is no small. one but if the end to be attained is to be of marked value to the institution, as we believe it will be to this college, it is well worth the cost. We have seen too many cases where men have turned from our doors Competition for positions on this board shall be to enter other colleges in which they could pursue, open to all students of this college and contributions unhampered by superfluous studies, the lines of work are solicited at all times. All such contributions for which they had a natural adaptation, and the pur-shall be considered in the election of new men. In suit of which would mean their success in the profes- addition to this competition, recommendations from sional world. In this way Massachusetts has beyond the English department shall, whenever the Board doubt lost many men who would have been valuable acquisitions to her student body and of honor to her alumni. The scheme which compels a man to take advanced work for which he has neither love nor talent seems to us to be not only a narrow minded one but one which will react to the detriment of the stu deem it advisable, be submitted not later than March 1st. The list of those thus recommended together with those who have previously contributed shall be published in the next issue of the COLLEGE SIGNAL The men whose names are thus published may then become eligible by submitting at least one additional |