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Some girls of Abilene inquire kindly of Baker, Rush and Perry of the glee club.
During vacation Prof. Hopkins visited the Baptist College at Ottawa. The wing of the main building has just been finished at a cost of $17,000. It makes a fine appearance and when finished will be almost as large as our main building. They have two very nice buildings now, the other being a hall for young ladies. It contains rooms for twenty-four persons besides, parlors and reception rooms. The various rooms in the building have been furnished by different congregations or individuals. What is the matter with K. U. having halls upon the hill? It is especially needful to have one near the athletic grounds for the athletes.
A student whose home is in a part of the state where the temperance proclivities are dubious returned to Lawrence Tuesday. He was unable to determine his location. Everything looked strange. All around him appeared to beloug to the great unknown. These strange unfamilliar scenes added to that gouness which follows quickly after a booze was greater than he could endure. In the midst of his despair he exclaimed! Where O where am I at? A moments reflection and his course was decided. He addressed several cards to himself to places where he thought he might be. One was address to Lawrence. All were mailed and the young man fell into a sweet sleep. When he awoke a new day had dawned. Old familliar scenes about his room and the hours greeted him a dull stupidity, a heaviness and a conscious enlargement of the head were some of his sensations. This did not seem strange for after returning from the post office he had thrown himself upon the bed without undressing and had fallen asleep. Shortly the mail came and he receive the following card:
MR. ___, MY DEAR SELF:—I am lost and do not know where to find myself. I have sent this card out on the search. If it reaches me at Lawrence, Kansas I can pretty well determine my where abouts. Your true friend in need. ___
J. L. Hallington and D. F. Baker will sing in the Presbyterian choir in the future.
Meeting of Kansas Academy of Language and Literature.
The Kansas Academy of Language and Literature will meet in Lawrence, April 12 and 13. The meeting will be opened in Music hall Wednesday evening. The other meetings will be held at the University.
This organization is doing fine work in our state and is one in which every student ought to be interested and especially so since we have no less than six representatives on the program. The work Prof.Carruth has done on "Dialect Notes" is a guarantee that this will be a subject of especial interest.
The notables in Kansas literature will be present and among them will be business men, lawyers and professors. To hear and see the people who are now and will make Kansas literature is not a privilege to be enjoyed every day and as much time as can be spared should be given to the meetings.
By the kindness of Mr. T. E. Dewey, of Abilene, of the executive committee, we are able to give the readers of the Courier the program in the main part, though perhaps not exactly as it is rendered.
PROGRAM.
Dialect Notes. W. H. Carruth, Lawrence Literary Notes.A. G.Canfield, Lawrence Kansas Bibliography,C.M.Watson,Lawrence Symposium on great novelists:
Howells ...B. W. Woodward, Lawrence Sienkewicz...H. G. Larimer, Topeka Hawthorne...E. M. Hopkins, Lawrence Scott...John McDonald, Topeka Eliot ...Mary A. Humphrey, Junction City
Symposium on great poets.
Shelley...H. D. Gray, Topeka
Byron...H. S. Dechaut, Abilene
Lowell...A. W. Dana, Topeka
Browning...W. A. Quayle, Baldwin
Shakspere...W. H. Wynn, Atchison
Burns...Albert Fullerton, Beloit