LORS. Place. HER Street. KS, ER. BREWING NNES SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR un. University Courier. g matter ublishe4 YORK ON. ket eapest ur- Meats PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING VOL. XI. LOCALS. Contest! Contest! Contest, contest! Contest, contest, contest! Somking Tobacco at Smith's Examinations will soon be at hand. Phillips is a pledged Phi Gam. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 20, 1893. Lease will speak second on the program. Skating is as popular as ever with the students. Buy a nice new pipe at Smith's news stand. The Phi Psis will entertain on Monday, February 6. Babbit is on the sick list. He is suffering from grip. Students send your laundry with A. E. Huddleston. There will be no more meetings of the full faculty. Skating is one of the great amusements now a-days. Phillips is the latest one to put on the Phi Gam colors. The Sigma Nus will give a hop in their hall to-night. Whitzel is the latest addition to the Sigma Nu fraternity. Many visitors were seen on the hill Wednesday morning. A. E. Huddleston guarantees satisfaction in all laundry work The judges for the oratorical contest were chosen last Monday. University society promises to be very active after examinations. Prof. Blake returned home from his eastern trip last Sunday. R. D. Brown will have an article in the next issue of the Review. E. C. Hickey says he is getting along nicely and likes his position. Gymnasium privileges are not sought after as eagerly as they might be. The Kappas will entertain their friends on the evening of February 10. A reply to the fraternity article, written by Cook, will soon be published. Society will soon be stirring about again. A few parties are contemplated soon. There will be a class started in Gothic at the beginning of the second term. The faculty investigation has been the subject of conversation on the hill this week. There is a great deal of stir ring about and humdrum in the halls now-a-days. The University Glee Club will give a concert on the evening of the 27th of January. A large delegation of Baker students will attend the contest next Friday night. Why is Sunday the strongest day in the weekt Because all the rest are week days. The day is not far distant when examinations will be a thing of the past in K. U. There were about twenty students privately interviewed by the disciplinary committee. A. E. Huddleston is sole agent for Jackson's laundry. Work called for and delivered. The law students will have a good delegation present at the contest to do the 'yell act.' The Pharmaceutical society will hold a meeting for the election of officers this afternoon. Winfield will send one of the best orators in the state to the contest at Topeka next month. Everybody attend the contest next Friday evening, and by your presence encourage the orators. What's the matter with the Sophomores and Freshmen organizing a moot house of representatives It was rumored that the faculty intended to question all persons who eat mince pie containing cider. Miss Oliver delivered a series of lectures on Roman Drama before the Sophomore Latin classes last week. The Lawrence Journal says that there are several literary societies among the University girls. This is news to us. The party to be given by Misses Tisdale and Buckingham Monday evening, promises to be the society event of the season. The young ladies at University Place are rehersing the play Sappho, to be presented shortly after examinations. Cuffs are becoming more generally worn as the examinations approach. My! what a "horse" on a small scale, they do make. Oh! "why should the spirit of mortal be proud," will be the song of five orators after the judges hand in their decisions! It is possible that some one will be surprised next Friday night. The winning man has not been chosen yet, by long odds. Who did you say would win the contest? Why, Mr. ___. The Courier will fill out the blank in a few days. Some of the professors are substituting three thousand word themes in their department for final examinations. Rice, who will represent Baker in the oratorical contest at Topeka next month, is the most popular man in that institution. The Congregational church at Topeka was filled to overflowing Wednesday evening. A lecture by Prof. Blake was the attraction. A large crowd of students will accompany the wining orator to Topeka. One of the contestants has been promised a private car if he wins. Prof. Blake delivered the second lecture of the Y. M. C. A. lecture course at Topeka Wednesday night. His subject was illusions in Art. Since the Sophomores and Freshmen are barred from membership in the moot senate they should immediately organize a house of representatives. Through an unlooked for accident the Lecture Bureau will not be able to fill its contract and have an entertainment as published, to-morrow evening. After the examinations, instructors will not report results to the students, but the registrar will issue grade cards which will contain all the desired information. Prof. Green will entertain the members of the foot ball team at his residence to-morrow evening. The boys will certainly have a good time since it is Prof. Green who will do the entertaining. Verily! many are envious of the boys. Friday evening, February 2, at Merchants Bank Hall, Miss Georgia Brown will begin a second term of lessons in dancing for beginners and others. Special rates to young ladies. Address 1217 Rhode Island St. No.17. E. C. Little writes from on board the ship to a friend of his in the University, that he is finally started on his long trip to Egypt. He says he is enjoying the trip hugely. All kinds of amusement help to pass the time away. While in New York he heard the Harvard Glee club, of which he says: "They do not excell the University Glee club but in two ways—they have better tenors and banjoes. Otherwise our Glee club is superior." All the orations have been handed to ths judges on thought and composition. Russell Whitman will go east next June to accept a position on the New York Sun. The chancellor gave an oyster supper to the faculty at his residence last Saturday evening. Luck, did you say? Yes, luck. What is luck? Winning an oratoric contest. Oh! yes. Cress says that old people go to the "seminaries" to lay flowers upon the graves of their dead. I'll be there, yes I will. I'll be there, yes I will. When the general roll is called, I'll be there, sings the University sport during faculty investigations. A brand of whiskey is adver- tised called Horn of Plenty. On this a temperance writer remarks that they have chosen the name wisely, for out of the thing designatec should come Plenty of poverty, plenty of pain, Plenty of sorrow, plenty of shame, Plenty of broken hearts Plenty of broken hearts, hopes doomed and sealed, and sealed, Plenty of graves in the potter's field. MOOT SENATE. Moot Senate met last Tuesday evening to perfect their organization for this year. Committees were appointed and general preliminary business gone through with. The Senate is flourishing. A larger number of students are in attendance this year than last. The meeting on Tuesday evening did not adjourn until eleven o'clock. THE FACULTY. After the regular meeting of the faculty Tuesday night, the professors of the different departments held a meeting for the purpose of electing officers. Mr. Boyce was elected secretary of the School of Pharmacy, aud Prof. Bailey second representative in the council of the general faculty. At the meeting of the School of Engineering Prof. Blake was elected secretary and Mr. Hayworth second representative in the council. Prof. Canfield was elected secretary of the School of Arts and Professors Carruth, Templin, Wilcox, Williston and Canfield members of the council. These officers are elected for the rest of this year only, as all officers are elected annually. The regular meeting of the general faculty was adjourned sine die. PERSONALS. Mrs. John Spencer is visiting friends in the city. Everett's father was a University visitor last Friday. Miss Daisy Clark spent last Saturday in Kansas City. Senator Berry visited his daughters Sunday. Professor Blake arrived home from Washington Sunday. Jim Kelsey visited the Santa Fe shops in Topeka Saturday. Dent Hogeboom was in town a few hours one day last week. Miss Bessie Goodrich, of Leavenworth, is visiting in the city. Miss Bessie Gibson, of Topeka, is the guest of Miss Rilla Van Hoesen. Miss Nellie Dow, of Olathe, will be the guest of Miss Roberts next week. Visitors from out of town always add dignity to a fraternity party, and we believe the presence of so many of these is the secret of the grand success of the hop given by the gentlemen of Phi Gamma Delta last Friday evening. Saunders' orchestra was the musical inspiration of the young people present. Fred Ellis enjoyed a visit from his father last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Titsworth's father was shown through the University Tuesday. Mr. Earhart, of Kansas City, an old Phi Gam, attended the hop last Friday night. Miss Daisy Sampson, of Topeka, visited over Saturday and Sunday with Miss Barkley. PH1 GAM HOP. Messrs. Kaiser, Dobson and McKibbon, of Ottawa, attended the Phi Gam hop last Friday night. There were present about thirty-five couples who enjoyed the dancing till a late hour. The merry party was chaperoned by Prof. and Mrs. J. W. Green, Rev. and Mrs. Ayres, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pierson, and Mr. and Mrs. Gibb. Those present from out of town were Messrs. Earhart and Bullene of Kansas City, Messrs. Dobson, Kaiser and McKibbon of Ottawa, Miss Daisy Sampson of Topeka. NEW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. The Harvard Cavotte (very pretty); Our Society Waltzes (just lovely); Majestic Polonaise, new dance. On sale. W. W. Fluke & Son. Weaver is agent in Lawrence for Priestley's Black Dress Goods. They are the best in the world.