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The University Courier.
"The House last evening passed the Senate bill which releases from the state treasury about $16,000 of interest on the University endowment fund which has accumulated in the past two years.
"The House in committee of the whole last evening recommended for passage the state university appropriation bill. It sets apart $5,000 for conducting a geological survey of she state, $1,000 for conducting work in university extension, $5,000 for apparatus for the department of physics and electrical engineering, $10,000 for books for the library, $2,500 for addition to the natural history museum, and $1,000 for supplies for the chemistry department. The committee also recommend the passage of the bill appropriating $50,000 for the erection and equipment of a physics and engineering building, $20,000 for an addition to the chemistry and pharmacy building, $15,-000 for electrical engineering shops, and $5,000 for economic experiments on injurious insects."
From the above it will be seen that our institution has the prospect of an unprecedented liberality in financial matters. To the untiring efforts of our friends in the legislature is due the success of there necessary appropriations.
Miss Watson looks happy over the prospective $10,000 for new books for the library.
The senior laws will take up the subject of Real Property Monday, under Prof. J.W.Gleed.
There is talk of getting up an old time minstrel show, to be given during Commencement week.
The Kent Club meeting at North Cottage will be of unusual interest. The program begins at 9:30 A.M.
A very handsome gavel was turned by George Rush in the machine shops Saturday, and sent to Speaker Douglass.
The rehearsals for Twelfth Night are progressing nicely and a splendid presentation of this delightful play is fully expected.
A NUMBER of musically inclined students are singing in Prof. Penny's World's Fair chorus.
The University campus will present a very changed appearance with the erection of the three new buildings provided for in the appropriations, and Mount Oread will be the most attractive part of the city.
Mr. Frank Reed was up from Kansas City, Kansas, last week on legal business. He swapped stories with several of the old boys while in town.
The Republican club held a called meeting yesterday and elected J. A. Rush, E. E. Hopkins and J. M. Steele delegates to attend the meeting of the State Republican League at Topeka to-morrow. The resignation of Reno as treasurer was accepted and W. L. Gardner was elected to fill that office.
The popularity of "The man in the moon" is indeed surprising. Several parodies of this song have recently appeared, but perhaps none so blends its meter with the average student's sentiment as the following, which we picked up in the halls:
Everybody has his pony Underneath the rose. This peculiar sort of crony Is secret they suppose.
My pony's the best in the U,
So steadfast, so tried and so true..
My lessons it taught
My battles it fought
And many a grade at the quizzes it brought,
I never declined to construe,
For my pony, though never in view,
Assisted my thought
And in every onslaught
It was many marks at the U.
Every one who rides a pony Ought to be discreet, Chance may find the way so stony That he may lose his seat.
My pony I took to the U,
Intending a quiz to subdue.
With peril 'twas fraught .
But peril I sought,
For iron without danger or work ne'er was wrought.
My folly I always shall rue,
My pony, I bid thee adieu,
It all came to naught,
For alas I was caught,
And instantly fired from the U.