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a call to any one who entertains him. The Professor assured the students that there was not a member of the faculty who would not at any time be glad to receive a call from any of them. It is not necessary for the growth of the University to hinder the intimacy of faculty and students. This association is one of the great advantages of college life.
Then there should be more regard for the property of others. Many students have lost property in the building through either the carelessness or malice of others. To guard against this it would pay the students to form a Students' Protective Association, the object of which would be the mutual protection of property. A committee of students might be appointed whose special business it was to look after things in the halls, or each student might be charged a small sum and a man hired to take care of things. The Professor also has several other plans which could be discussed if a meeting were called for that purpose.
Lotus Glee Club.
This popular musical organization has been secured in the lecture course to fill the place of Dr. Gunsaulus, who was unable to fill his engagement. The Lotus people are too well and favorably known to Lawrence audiences to need more than a notice of their coming.
Si Plunkard.
Did you see Si in his famous parade this afternoon? His show at the opera house tonight is too funny to miss hearing.
Prof. J. H. Burton
Will be at the opera house Friday night and Saturday afternoon matinee with his wonderful acting ponies and dogs.
May Davenport
Is coming next Thursday night in a splendid burlesque company. ___
Honest, well made tooth brushes at Raymond's. The bristles not divorced from the handle.
Pencils, pens, fine stationery, inks, ink stands below cost to students. Take advantage of it.
The Lawrence druggists seem to be pushing patent medicines, judging by their windows. All the popular remedies at Raymond's.
LITERARY.
Reminiscences.
A long time ago, in the high-school days of the University, when seniors were deep in embryo and freshmen scarcely sprouted, and no "prep." as yet parted his hair in the middle, there came one day to the city a whole train load of congressmen. Of course they visited the University, as our citizens were proud to display the best educational facilities of the state. Our commodious quarters (old north college), and the beautiful views from the "dome" were eagerly shown to the visiting statesmen, and each received due meed of praise.
The "nucleus" of our valuable library, our cabinet case of minerals and fossils, bought perhaps in Germany; the equipments of our chemical and physical laboratories, stored in one corner of the recitation room; our natural history collection, consisting of two stuffed ducks, a bull-snake, and two or three cases of tired looking insects, having all been duly inspected and variously commented upon by our distinguished visitors, several of them proceeded to enlighten us on the proper way to plan and build a great university.
The professors were then about as young and boyish looking as their pupils. A large, pompous statesman, addressing the senior professor, informed him in a very authoritative tone, admitting of no contradiction, that the people of this country wanted no more Greek nor Latin, nor anything else from those old worn-out civilizations—"It is time to lay such rubbish in the dust bin of antiquity. We must turn our eyes, not to the past, but towards the future. We must now recognize the claims of science, literature, history,—not the history of the mouldy past, but our own glorious, living history."
Unfortunately the rest of the scheme was left undeveloped; for just then, noticing the rest of the faculty present standing near, he said: "Ah, I beg your pardon; perhaps I ought not to talk this way before one of your pupils." "O,