AS ANNUAL HOUSE-PARTIES BEGIN WITH ROUND OF FESTIVITY TODAYA. A„ Now Taking Applications For Cornell Observation TrainThose who wish tickets for the Observation Train in the Carnegie Cup Race at Ithaca, N. Y. may obtain them by applying at the Office of the Athletic Association. This contest, in which Cornell. Princeton and Yale are participating, takes place on Saturday, May 17th. The price of the tickets is S3 and all applications must be in before May 10th.OVER 700 GIRLS EXPECTEDVisitors Wiii Be Entertained by Athletic Clashes and Intime's Production of “Old Timer’' Beside Gaiety Offered at Clubs.FAMED ORCHESTRAS TO PLAY14 Popular Leaders Will Bring Men To Provide Music—Guest List Continued by “Prince”.RUSSELL OUTLINES LATER COMPOSERSCompletes Annual Series of Lectures With Review of Leaders in 19th Century.In the twelfth of his lectures on the “History and Appreciation of Music” given in the Peking Room of Murray-Dodge yesterday afternoon, Dr. Alexander Russell sketched for his audience the national schools of music which grew up toward the middle and latter part of the 19th century.Dr. .trussed, taking the schools of Germany, France, Russia, Scandinavia, Finland, Bohemia, Italy, England, and America, picked out the outstanding figures in these schools and discussed their characteristics and talents for music. From the Germanic School, he selected Strauss, whom he designated as the greatest figure in German music, if not all music, sinceI The delightful feminine touch will be added to Princeton’s Campus today, when over 700 fair visitors arriveIto join the upperclassmen in making | Spring House-Parties a gala event of ; the college year.| The automobile ban having been ; suspended, only the forecast of rain | mars the prospect of the week-end.; Fourteen well-known dance orchestras | will entertain on Prospect Street. The ; following having been contracted: Arbor Inn, L. Roger Waring and his Blue Band; Campus and Cannon, Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club Orchestra; Charter, Oliver Naylor; Cap and Gown, Hal Kemp and his orchestra; Cloister Inn, Miff Mole and his Molers, including Jimmy Dorsey andj Leo McConville; Colonial, Ivy and!Tiger Inn, McKinney’s Cotton picker s.I; At Cottage, Burt Downes’ Band; ; Court, Charley Johnson’s “Small’s | Paradise” Orchestra; Dial Lodge, ! Mike Market’s String Orchestra and “Happy”; Elm, Fletcher Henderson: Gateway, Lucky Roberts; Key and Seal, Nat Shilkret; Quadrangle, Mike ! Market’s Society Orchestra; Terrace,I[Meyer Davis; Tower, Howard Lanin.