ROBERT L. TAYLOR Elected to succeed Senator Carmack as United States Senator from Tennessee

Ever since Mr. Roosevelt announced that he would not be a candidate for renomination Republican leaders have been speculatNominations ing and scheming. Vice

Presidential

President Fairbanks is believed to be among the aspirants for the office, and of late Speaker Cannon has been vigorously "boomed." Neither of these two men in our opinion is likely to be nominated in 1908. Neither stands for what the nation really will be demanding in 1908. Speaker Cannon is a shrewd politician, but he would be seventy-three years of age on entering his office. It is well for his supporters to remember that he stands committed to none of the great reforms the people are set upon achieving and maintaining, and is commonly regarded as representing the great machine of his party. His attitude toward tariff revision, pure food legislation, not to mention other matters, would handicap him and his party. Especially would this be the case if the Democrats were to renominate Bryan. His name has already been formally presented to or approved by conventions in Arkansas, Missouri, South

Dakota and Indiana. It is an interesting comment on the new tendencies in American life that Mr. Bryan's name was presented to the Missouri Democratic convention by Ex-Governor Francis, who was a member of President Cleveland's cabinet. It almost looks as if Mr. Bryan might carry on a canvas in the role of a conservative!

The Peace of the World

Two events during the last week of May emphasized the growing tendency toward the preservation of peace between the nations and the value of arbitration as a means of securing it. At a dinner given in New York to the American members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union a platform was adopted favoring treaties of arbitration and the establishment of stated periods for the sessions of the Hague Tribunal. Professor John Bassett Moore, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, and now of Columbia University, gave an address in which he advocated the idea that the Hague Tribunal must become a permanent world court with legislative, judicial and executive control, for the prevention of war by the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations. At the Lake Mohonk conference where some three hundred and fifty men and women gathered, there was emphatic approval of

such a permanent court for arbitration. This endorsement obtains decided value from the fact that it was given by a company which included a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and eight judges of the higher State Courts, several distinguished diplomats, four members of Congress and a large number of educators with the representatives of fifty boards of trade. The growing sentiment in our day is indicated by the giving of prizes by the public schools in

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various cities for essays on international arbitration and the means for its promotion. Governor Utter, of Rhode Island, has also offered prizes of $100 each to the students of Brown and Amherst colleges for similar essays. for similar essays. As a further indication of the increasing sympathy with the idea of international arbitration it is interesting to note that forty-seven governments have agreed to send representatives to the next conference of the Hague Tribunal. In 1899 there were twenty-six.

Cornell has had one of the great years of her athletic history. Not only have her crew and baseball team defeated Harvard's, but her athletic team won the championship at Mott Haven. The records at the latter meet were good, but by no means as sensational as those of the Conference Meet at Evanston. No world's records were broken or even tied. At the same time the work of the eastern teams was more consistent than that of the western, although, thanks to the work of Garrels and Samse, the western surpassed

been outclassed. But still more remarkable than the total score was the work of Garrels, of Michigan, and Samse, of Indiana. The latter beat the world's record in the pole vault of 12 feet and 1 inch, clearing 12 feet 4 inches, and Garrels tied the world's record of 15 1-5 seconds in the 120-yard high hurdles. In fact, Garrels proved a team in himself, winning eighteen of Michigan's points. The meet was also interesting in that one of the smaller institutions, Iowa State Normal, captured first place in the 100 and 220 yard dashes.

The Past Dramatic

Season

"build" shut out from football. In fact, one of the best results of the present effort to reduce that sport to its proper position in the educational world is the demoeratizing of athletics through the new interest in tennis, baseball and track events. Little by little we may also hope to see the new spirit of healthy rather than feverish competition grow more dominant. Instead of training contestants in the spirit of gladiators, we shall see them cultivating that generous rivalry that ought to exist among gentlemen. It is not too much even to hope that before games of importance the contesting teams may meet at dinner, each man opposite "his man." They will play none the less strenuously the next day, and they will meet more as friends and less as enemies. Intercollegiate games should lead to friendship.

The theatrical season closed uneventfully with the quiet demise of a gentle comedy, "The Girl Patsy," by J. Mauldin Feigl, not a poor play in itself, for it contained effective situations, but most unhappily cast with unskilled interpreters. The season has been a peculiar one. There have been six triumphant successes, of indubitable merit as entertainments, and yet there is not one among them that may be reckoned a great play. Those six successes have come to a full stop in the very height of long vigorous runs covering many months, and after a few weeks of rest for the players, will shortly resume their progress. The best and most brilliant was Shaw's "Man and Superman. "The Squawman," by Edwin Milton Royle, should be awarded second place for its deep human significance. The third in importance is "The Music Master," by Charles Klein, a dramatic lyric. "The Girl of the Golden West," by David Belasco, follows with theatric effectiveness. Barrie's "Peter Pan" is a light but skilful fantasy. Klein's "Lion and the Mouse" ends the list as a powerful mental appeal, telling a good story, yet devoid of dramatic strength. On the other hand against these successes, an endless number of mediocre and hopeless plays have had their turbulent and unhappy day. While

the theatrical manager must invariably risk the sinews of commercial war on an artistic uncertainty, yet it would seem as if he had in many instances during the past season played an unnecessarily reckless and bold game.

Summer Musical

The musical play which one year ago entered upon a feverish summer career with some twenty new productions, both in New Comedy York and Chicago, is feebly protesting against extinction with "His Honor the Mayor," "The Social Whirl," and "The Gingerbread Man.' The first two named were comparative failures in the West, but by virtue of a difference in taste in light entertainment have become financial successes in the East. "The Student King," Reginald De Koven's latest opera, is a pretentious and superior effort, calculated to live at least throughout the whole of next season, and is holding the lion's share of attention at present in the musical field.

object of which should be "to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." Maine taking advantage of this offer founded the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Since that time the state has made repeated appropriations, and under the energetic administration of President Harris, now of Northwestern University, the institution developed into the University of Maine, organized into five colleges, in addition to the Agricultural Experiment Station to which Congress makes an annual appropriation of $25,000. At the present time the faculty numbers seventy-one and it has an attendance of over six hundred students. President Fellows now proposes that the $20,000 appropriated by the legislature of the state for the period of ten years now closing be continued or increased, and that there be added to the university a college of education.

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Colby and Bates. The friends of these colleges and normal schools naturally are opposing the further enlargement of the state university. They feel that there is no need for a fourth classical institution or for a fifth normal school. They realize that there is a splendid opportunity in Maine for a technical school. President White of Colby has proposed that there should be formed an intercollegiate commission to be composed of the president and one trustee of the four collegiate institutions, together with the state superintendent of education and the governor. This commission should attempt to adjust the relation of the institutions to each other, and particularly should pass upon all proposed appeals to the state for appropriations both to the university and to other institutions. Just what the outcome of the proposal will be it is too soon to prophesy. Maine has already set an example to various religious bodies by its interdenominational commission. If it can solve the problem of the relation of the denominational college to the state university, it will have done a real service to the country at large. In too many states the relation between the two is one of jealous rivalry.

The annual anniversaries of the Baptists were held at Dayton, Ohio, May 15-22. These anniversaries, unlike the meetings of the MethAnniversaries odists and Presbyterians, seldom are given over to free discussion in which there is any great difference of opinion, and their sessions are largely devoted to set addresses. The meetings of the present year were not marked by any ripple of excitement, but while noteworthy in their recognition of the possibility of something like union between Baptists and Free Baptists they were also of significance in that they were marked by a little more distinctly official recognition of modern tendencies in religious thought. The Baptists have no creed and no central ecclesiastical control. The denomination is possessed of decided flexibility and offers plenty of room for men of divergent views. The day has long since passed when Baptists can be regarded as standing only for the interpretation of a single word. They number among them

been drawn up by a committee at the head of which was Professor Henry Van Dyke, was warmly discussed. One of the enemies of a liturgy rather dramatically declared that it "smelt of priesteraft," whatever that may be. The discussion in the end reached a compromise according to which the Book was to be published by the denomination, but its use was to be optional with the churches.

Following suit upon the Presbyterian endeavor to secure a modern statement of their belief, for popular

Methodist Creed Revision

use, the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in session May 5-21, declared itself by a vote of 151 to 107 in favor of the appointment of a committee to act with other branches of the Ecumenical Methodist Conference in this country and in Europe and Australia, in preparing a new statement of faith, in accordance with the evangelical Arminian. doctrines, "as is called for in our day." This action on the part of the conference is in line with the thoroughly progressive spirit that marks the denomination it represents.

Church

Union

Among the various propositions for union which have been made recently, the appeal of the VicePresident of the United States, Mr. Fairbanks, for the consolidation of the northern and southern Methodist churches, is noteworthy. Mr. Fairbanks was a fraternal delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, which met at Birmingham, Alabama. He took occasion to say that he had faith to believe that the barriers which divide these two great bodies will ultimately yield, and a union will be established between them, "thereby creating one of the greatest instruments for good in the entire Christian world." "A united church freely transferring its ministers between the North and the South, as well as between the East and the West, will serve mightily to advance a wholesome national purpose." The conference entered heartily into the proposition for the establishment of a Federal Council of the denominations, and appointed its representatives in the Council.