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The University Courier.
Phi Kappa Psi Council.
The fourth bi-ennial council of the fourth district of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity began its sessions yesterday in Fraternal Aid hall, with a good attendance of delegates from the chapters composing this district. The fourth district includes chapters located at Northwestern University, Michigan University, Wisconsin University, Beloit College, Wis.; Iowa University, Minnesota University, Kansas University, Leland Standford and the Alumni associations at Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Portland, Oregon.
Yesterday forenoon the delegates visited our University and expressed themselves as being very agreeably surprised at the high position occupied by Kansas in the field of higher education. The council in the afternoon after the organization and reports of committees and reports from chapters, listened to a paper by J.A.Rush of this chapter on the Shield,the fraternity publication. After a lively discussion of the paper,a model initiation ceremony was given by the members of this chapter with Mr.Fred Miller as the victim.
Last evening a reception was tendered the delegates by Kansas Alpha at Fraternal Aid hall which was very prettily decorated with the pink and lavendor of the fraternity. Music, dancing and refreshments passed the time all too quickly.
This morning the council re-convened and Mr. Harl Myers, of Iowa University read a paper on "The Duties of the Chapter Historian," followed by discussion, after which Mr.Joseph P.Morsman,of Michigan University, presented a paper on "The iniatory step to securing a Chapter House." The morning session closed with a paper by Mr.W.M. Ewing, of Northwestern University, on "The Phi Kappa Psi Ritual. Its object should it be carried out? Should it be elaborated?"
At the afternoon session Mr. G. Fred Rush, of Chicago, read a paper on "The College Fraternity as a Social Institution." After the reports of the various committees Mr. Richardson was elected as one of the members of the
executive council of the fraternity and Chicago was chosen as the place for holding the next council in 1895. The council then adjourned to Kansas City where the members of the Kansas City Aliumni Association give the delegates a banquet at the Midland to-night.
Will White Will Read.
Will White of the K. C. Star will read, or do something we do not just know what, and it is safe to say that it will be full of interest for all those who can hear it. Throughout his reading he will introduce a few of his friends viz:
Colonel Hucks, Mr. Bill, Mr. Chenny Foley, Elder Twiggs, Mr. Bills Brother and The Old Man Bemis, also Mr. C. Algernon Briggs.
A telegram from Tucson, Arz., received yesterday announced the sad news of the death of Miss Edith Grubb. Death was due to consumption. Miss Grubb was a former student at the University and was an exceptionally bright scholar. A wide circle of friends, including the members of her Sorosis, the Pi Beta Phi, sympathize with the relatives in their bereavement.
The editor sat in his sanctum, Letting his lessons rip, Racking his brain for an item, And stealing all he could clip.
The editor sat in the class room,
As if getting over a drunk ;
His phiz was clouded with awful gloom,
For he had made a total flunk.
The editor returned to the sanctum, And hit himself in the eye. He swore he had enough of the business, He would quit the paper or die.
What Next?
O, gentle Kansas, prythee tell,
To ease our troubled spirits, vexed
With doubts which every moment swell,
Just what you will do next.
-U of Mo. Argus.
The COURIER will sell you an elegant bicycle cheap.