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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
The Pi Phi Banquet.
A more enjoyable social gathering never assembled in Lawrence than the one that attended the banquet of Pi Beta Phi at the Eldridge house last Thursday evening.
The dining room was handsomely decorated in the fraternity colors and with choice cut flowers. The tables were arranged in the form of a cross and presented a very pretty appearance when surrounded by the guests.
It was 11 o'clock when the guests began to gather around the tables and for three hours a most merry time was had by all assembled. Miss Jennie Sutliff acted as toast mistress and toasts were responded to as follows: "Fraternity—a Magic Word," Miss Turner, of Washington, president of the Pi Phi national fraternity; "Fraternity—a Social Factor," Chancellor F. H. Snow, of the Kansas University; "Our Mutual Friend," Mr. H. E. Copper; "The Rush Line," Mr. Mont Hallowell; "The Corridors," Mr. W. H. Riddle; "The Spirit of Good Fellowship," Mr. W. H. Johnson; "That Mysterious Woman," Mr. Will A. White; "The Wine and Blue," Mr. C. H. Johnson. All the responses were bright and many of them eloquent and it was with a feeling of reluctance that the assembly adjourned.
The felicitous words of Miss Turner, the fraternity's president, will not soon be forgotten by her audience.
The whole affair was one of especial enjoyment and reflects extreme credit upon the capabilities and discriminating taste of the fair hostess and the ladies of the University chapter of Pi Beta Phi.
Poor Seniors!
The seniors may boast of their originality and shrewdness, but they must not try to cope with the juniors in either or else their reputation will soon wane in both. At the entertainment given by the Lotus Glee Club they "conceived an idea" and presumed to humiliate the juniors who were in attendance "en masse" in the boxes. Several attempts were made to steal the colors by means of long wires, but they failed. Other tricks were sorted to and in these the juniors being too shrewd for them, they also failed. Finally as a last resort they lowered their likeness, a picture of that emblematic animal which in scripture is said to have been owned by Balaam, in full view of the vast crowd assembled and much to the amusement of the juniors who could not have wished for better fun.
Robert Nourse, tonight at the Opera House.
THE WEEKS SIFTINGS.
Rich and Racy and Rendered Readable by the Gourier Reporter.
The Beta club has played quits. The Beta's gave a hop during vacation.
The athletic board held a meeting the first of the week.
Society seems a little languid after its aerial flight of last week.
Chancellor Snow was the guest of the Industrial school while at Beloit.
Prof. Dunlap gave a very pleasant talk on Browning before the Unity club Tuesday night.
Malecol MaeKinnion is postmaster of the town in which he is located at Oklahoma.
Bob Cook, the famous man of the Yale boating crew will not captain that team this season.
The St. Louis Browns played a game of ball last Saturday with Washington university nine, resulting in 36 to 5 in favor of the former.
J. S. Poston is going to emulate our Challiss by delivering his oration at an entertainment to be given at Emporia by the Washburn students.
The piazza and roof of the Haskell Institute hospital were blown away last Friday during the wind storm and the builing had to be anchored to save the remains.
The Kansas City Blue opened up the base ball season last Sunday afternoon, playing against a picked nine of professionals. Manager Manning says he has a stronger team this year than any time here-tofore.
Irving Morse will go to his home in Emporia tomorrow where he intends to continue his work in chemistry in the laboratory of the Emporia normal. He is also going to work as an assistant during the summer months.
John Sullivan's sister and two children were instantly killed last Friday during the terrible gale which blew at the rate of 84 miles an hour. Mr. Sullivan was a former student of the University, editor and founder of the Courier and is now one of the most staunch friends of K. S. U.
The Courier hopes that the Athletic association will soon furnish it with a list of field day exercises to publish in its columns. Already the program and date for a field day has been decided upon by most other progressive institutions. K. U. should not lag, but keep up with the procession.
The Review came out Tuesday.
Prof. Bailey has begun work on the erection of a residence on the corner of Ohio and Quincy street.
If you wish something pretty in new spring Hats go to the new millinery store, 845 Massachusetts street.
The Seminary Notes were distributed Tuesday. They are of special interest and contain Woodward's article on "The Distribution of Brains."
Some of the Baker students are having trouble with the faculty of that college. As a result one of the literary societies was dissolved by the faculty.
One of our verdant freshmen was talking in an effervissant manner to a charming lady delegate last week when she dumbounded him by the remark, "When I graduated from — in '82." How true it is that "things are not what they seem."
The passenger department of the Santa Fe presented the University school of engineering with some very fine photographs of bridges and other subjects of interest to engineers. The pictures will be framed and placed where they can be seen by visitors.
The Courier may not have as large a circulation as some college papers but it makes up for this in one way at least. It is read not only in the classic halls of Germany and the Art studios of France but also by admirers on the cold bleak plains of Alaska.
Misses May and Edith Haskell will entertain their friends this evening in honor of Mr. Irving Morse. Of course a most enjoyable time will be had as the Misses Haskells have an enviable reputation as entertainers and their beautiful and spacious home in east Lawrence is just the place to entertain.
Cooley, a former player in the Washburn ball nine, says he is not going to play this year with "a canary nine." Sullivan, Mohler and McVicar also manifest great indifference. Brace up, Washburn.
A great many of the professors and students took advantage of vacation and went hunting. Geese, ducks and snipe suffered unmercifully. Dyche was the crack shot of them all.
The Theta invitations, over seventy-five in number will be sent out the last of next week or the first of the following. At this party the ladies of the respective fraternity expect to introduce a few innuitions and make the affairs quite a la mode. Visiting sisters from other chapters are expected, besides, many others out side of the city.
Buy your Baseball of Smith.
MOOT SENATE.
Passage of the African Emigration Bill—Pat Egan's Doings Given an Airing.
A Lively Meeting.
In absence of the regular clerk, Senator Springer assumed his duties. The first bill to be discussed was one to appropriate a million dollars to assist African emigration from this country to Liberia. Some claimed it to be unconstitutional and impracticable; others brought forward the merits of the bill and by a majority of one it was carried. Then the resolution for the removal of Pat Egan was given attention and at once the discussion assumed a partisan flavor. Egan's character and his actions during the recent Chilien trouble were given such an airby the democrats as would make him blush were he to hear it. The republicans responded as best they could. The eloquence and evidence made use of by the democratic senators was convincing, but the filibustering of Reed's "followers" won the day and the resolution was tabled. The meeting was of special interest and more partisan speeches were made than at any time heretofore.
PERSONALS.
People Who are Famous and Talked About at K. S. U.
Funston has gone to Alaska.
James spent vacation in Topeka.
Miss Wilder returned Wednesday.
Ringer vacated at home in Paola.
Rice denies having joined a secret society.
Miss Cora Parker, former instructor in the Art department, is expected home soon.
Earnest Hickey has been confined to his bed for nearly two weeks but is now convalescent.
Miss Nellie Morris returned Wednesday from Topeka where she had been spending her vacation.
Burney visited his Phil Delt brethren last week. He is cashier in one of the largest banking institutions in his town but he expects to give this up soon and begin the study of law.
The Convention.
The Pi Phi convention has met and its members disbanded to their respective homes. All had a most enjoyable time and a favorable impression was made, not only by the hospitable treatment of the local chapter but by the generosity manifested by all in making their sojourn pleasant. Come again ladies.
The Glee Club.
The Glee and Banjo clubs are meeting with greater success than any one had anticipated. A crowded house greets them at every entertainment given. According to the press report they are enclosed enthusiastically. A private dispatch from E. C. Fiddle of Abilene, which was published in the journal, says the opera house at that place was so crowded that even standing room couldn't be had. A crowded house also met them at Topeka. The boys will come home Sunday and expect to give an entertainment here on the fifteenth. Let us all go and give a reception which they are well deserving of and show our appreciation of their energetic efforts. Hurrah for our Glee and Banjo club.
Weather Report.
The weather report for March prepared by Chancellor Snow is remarkable for several meterological excesses, chief among which was the largest March rain record in twenty five years. The temperature was below the average. The week of March 14-20 was colder than any corresponding period with the exception of the year 1876. The percentage of humidity has never been exceeded and both wind velocity and percentage of cloudiness were above the average.
Yale's Base Ball Team.
According to reports in the college journals it would seem that of the three leading colleges, Harvard, Princeton and Yale, the latter has the weakest base ball team. Each day as the season approaches the weakness of its nine becomes apparent. The calling away of Al Ferson, of the Wesleyan league, who has been coaching the nine, leaves them without a regular coach. Sixteen men now comprise the team, the final make up of which will not be determined until after the first few games. The season was opened Tuesday by them with the Boston leagues; three games are going to be played between the two teams, the last one at Boston.
Our Ball Nine.
The following students were measured for their base ball uniforms: Alden, Crawford, Dobson, Hogg, Helsey, Kinsey, Pitt, Sherman, Smith, Simmons, Winsor and Leurance. The color of their suits will be crimson, K. U. will surely have a winning team this season judging from the above names.
Go to Mrs. Cheverton and Miss Howell for stylish Easter Hats and Bonnets. Everything new and fresh. New goods almost daily, 845 Massachusetts street.