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The University Courier.
Rohe, the Lawrence artist, is at work on some elaborate scenery for Twelfth Night.
Rehearsals for Twelfth Night were held on Saturday and Wednesday evenings, at the Opera House.
The district convention of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity will be held here Wednesday and Thursday, April 5th and 6th.
President Boyd, of Oklahoma University, who visited here last Monday and Tuesday, is a member of Beta Theta Pi.
The music for Twelfth Night will be furnished by the University Banjo Club. Prof. Saunders is working up some new pieces for the occasion.
The statement made last week that the credit of securing the Mozart Symphony Club was due to Prof. Penny, was a mistake. The lecture bureau secured the attraction long before Prof. Penny's musical course was arranged, and the item crept into these columns without the knowledge of the local editor.
Hall and O'Donald, of Topeka, are doing the press work on the University Annual, and the Moss Engraving Company of New York city is furnishing the half-tones. Bloomgren & Co.of Chicago furnish the copper and zinc plates. The artistic work has been executed by Prof. Geo.E. Hopkins of the Art department and by Geo.E.Little. The cost of the Annual will approximate two thousand dollars and it will be the finest book of its kind ever published in the West.
The new members on the board of regents appointed by Gov. Lewelling last Saturday are: Ex-Gov. Charles Robinson of this city, Prof. A. S. Olin, superintendent of city schools Kansas City, Kansas, and Mr. J. P. Sams, a wealthy farmer of Seneca. They succeed Hon Joel Moody, of Mound City, Hon. C. S. Gleed of Topeka, and Hon. W. C. Spangler of this city. The other three members of the board whose terms expire in 1895, are: Hon. D. A. Valentine, Clay Center; Hon. C. B. Mitchell, Gueda Springs, and Hon. C. F. Scott, Iola.
The concert by the Mozart Symphony Club in the lecture course Friday night was an unqualified success. The opera house was crowded from parquet to gallery and everybody was delighted with the excellence of the performance. The music, while of a classical nature, was such as to please a popular audience. One of the especially pleasing features of the concert was the exquisite harp playing by Miss Toulmin. The program was received enthusiastically and the encores were frequent. If the lecture course contained more such attractions, combining real merit with the art of pleasing and delighting the audience, there would be a cessation of the kicks registered against the present management.
Pi Phi Musicale.
The ladies of the Pi Phi fraternity gave a Musicale to the wives of the professors and their lady friends about town, at the beautiful residence of Mrs. Smithmeyer last Saturday, from three to six. The party was given by gaslight and the rooms were handsomely decorated with musical instruments and carnations, the fraternity flower; the mantels were banked with hyacinths and trailing vines. The rooms were very attractive and when made still more so by the presence of a large number of charming Pi Phi girls, the guests could not help but enjoy themselves. The greater part of the musical talent was from abroad and the affair was probably the most successful one of its kind ever given in Lawrence. The following is the program rendered:
Tarantelle...Nicode Miss Louise Smith.
Sweet Repose...Howe Miss Gertrude Nofsinger.
Cavatina ... Raff Miss Abbie Clarke.
La Fileuse, Op.157 ...Raff Miss Fleeta Fay Foster.
Ritournelle ... Chaminode Mrs. Anna March Dunlap.
7th Concerto { $a,$ Andante } { $b,$ Moderato } DeBeriot Miss Abbie Clark.
Impromptu No. 3, Op. 142...Schubert Miss Fay Foster.
Selected ... Miss Gertrude Nofsinger.