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THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1 PERYEAR,
VOL. IX.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
Lotus!
Seminary.
Vacation near.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL, 3 1891.
Attend the Seminary at 4.
Secure your seats for tomorrow night.
Mont Hallowell visited Kansas City Saturday last.
Prof. James H. Canfield conducts Chapel this week.
Miss Sutliff is entertaining Miss Eva Brooks, of Denver.
When the fool killer makes his rounds we can give him some pointers.
Paul Hudson is traveling for the capital down in the wilds of Oklahoma.
Rehearsal of "Trial by Jury" tomorrow night. More singers wanted.
T. D. Bennett is suffering from inflamed eyes. We hope to see him around soon.
The Wichita Daily Eagle has been added to the files in the reading room.
Mrs. Carruth made a very interesting talk to the Pi Phis Saturday afternoon.
Prof. Blake delivered his lecture on Alaska Monday evening at Kansas City, Kansas.
Prrf. James H. Canfield lectures at Neodesha tonight and Prof. Marvin at Seneca.
Eli Perkins lectured to a good audience Friday evening and gave general satisfaction.
Miss Florence Baer, of Ottawa, and Miss Adda Long, of Paola, visited on the hill Tuesday.
Several box parties are being formed to attend the Lotus Glee club concert tomorrow night.
Mr. G. F. Nichols attended a district conference of the Phi Delts at Mt. Pleasanton, Iowa this week.
Ed. Schall and E. Bert Smith were among the visitors at the University the first of the week.
Mr. P. L. Soper, assistant United States attorney, will deliver the Master's address on Commencement day.
Every encouragement should be given the Athletic Association this year. They must put a good team in the Triangular League, and to do this they must have money.
The Freshman chemistry class took their final examinations during the week and there seems to be general rejoicing over the fact. Profs. Snow and Dunlap were present at a meeting of the Teacher's Association at Kansas City Friday. Prof Snow delivered an address.
The Northwestern World prints a list of college yells. "Rock chalk! jayhawk K. U." has a conspicuous place.
Miss Carrie Watson plays the type-writer very nicely. Schubert's Serenade is executed with neatness and dispatch.
The school of Engineering has been separated from the rest of the schools and now has a personality peculiarly its own.
The Y. M. C. A. has decided to establish a loan library at the University. A number of books were brought up this week.
Prof.Blackmar delivered a lecture on the "Freedom of the Press," Wednesday. This is in the regular course of Journalism.
The Lotus Glee Club, of Boston, gives a concert tomorrow evening at the opera house. They are highly complimented by the press.
A meeting of the stockholders of the Oratorical Association is called by the president for today at 1 o'clock. The proposed amendment to the constitution will be considered.
The Passion Play was presented to a large audience Tuesday evening. A description was given by Judge Thacher and stereoscopic views by Prof. Blake.
Messrs. C. A. Peabody and Brice Crawford, local editor of the Courier, left for Minneapolis Saturday to attend a district meeting of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. They are the delegates of the Kansas Alpha.
The commencement concert will be given June 5th at 8 p. m. in University Hall. The students will be assisted by Miss Josephine Hutchings, soprano, and Mr. Walter Howe, tenor.
The Science Club has a very interesting program for tonight. Notes on Seleginella, by M. A. Barber. Hypnotism from a medical standpoint by Dr. Williston, and other notes by the members. All invited.
McIntosh coats .at Levy's.
Professor Canfield's son James left Wednesday morning for New York. He sails from there Saturday noon by steamer Spaarndam, Nethealands line, for Boulogne; thence to Paris, where he joins his mother and sister for a month's visit in Italy. The family expect to return to Vermont about the 1st of August, and to Lawrence a month later.
The Seminary meets at 4 this afternoon. Mr.H.C.Fellow has a paper on the "Alaskans;"Mr. Hayden one on the "Recent Phases of Profit-sharing." Prof.Blackmar will give a short talk on the "Silver Circulation." A general discussion will follow.
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Miss Russell entertained a number ef friends Monday evening with a musicale that was very enjoyable.
The songs of the Lotus Club are not all operatic. They have a way of rendering the old familiar songs that is unequaled.
The board of regents of the University met yesterday. They were entertained in the evening by Chancellor Snow and wife.
Miss Dow of Olathe left for home Tuesday. She was accompanied as far as Kansas City by Misses Hadley and Tisdale, and Messrs. Will Spencer, John Spencer and Dick Horton.
We are exceedingly sorry to state that an article from Prof. L. L. Blake is crowded out this week owing to unfavorable circumstances. It is a very able article on the much discussed question of the situation of our prospective athletic grounds.
At a meeting of the faculty Monday evening it was decided to form the civil and electrical engineering department into a school by itself. It will then have the same relation to the University as the law school. The entire matter however rests with Prof Blake. If he desires it separated, then it will "permeate."
New ties at Abe Levy's.
Chancellor Snow's Plans.
Miss Buckingham entertained her friends Eriday evening. Progressive whist reigned and a splendid time was had by all. Those present were Misses Dow, Hadley, Lyons, Roberts, Mamé Lyons, Tisdale, Harrison, MacMillan, Mattie and Mamie Snow, Barker. And a male escort of Messrs Allen, Snow, Lewis, Johnson, Challis, Robinson, Brown, John Spencer, Will Spencer, Nelly, March and Bennett.
Whist Party.
Perhaps it will be of interest to our readers to learn what is to be done with the $3,500 chinch bug appropriation which Prof. Snow received from the legislature. A part of Snow Hall is now being fitted up with closets, tables etc., complete in detail. A full set of the latest improved insulaters, sterilizing ovens, culture plates and accessories have been purchased in the east. As soon as things are in shape Prof. Snow will commence to manufacture the bacteria which causes the death of Mr. Chinch Bug. When finished this will be the most complete lacteriological laboratory in the west, second only to Ann Arbor.
Cigars and Cigarettes at Smith's News Depot.
Buy a Knox hat at Abe Levy's.
"FEARLESS FRED."
Fred Funston, Explorer and Hunter, Heard From.
The Courier is permitted to look over a recent letter from Fred Funston to a chum, and is glad to carry some news of the adventurous University man to his many friends.
It will be remembered that Funston joined a government exploring and scientific expedition last fall and that the avowed object of the expedition was the exploration and scientific survey of the famous Death Valley in Southwestern California. Some 300 venturesome imbeciles have died in this eden from thirst and general dejection. Funston is still alive though very thirsty and more or less dejected. His letter is characteristic, vigorous and readable. We make the following extracts, slightly edited:
SOMEWHERE IN THE DESERT.
March 12, '91.
I am here. I am a bird. We are in sore trouble. One of the packers got his full of this litte the holiday jaunt and threw up his job. He had been throwing up his meals regularly for some time, Bailey (ornitholigist), Coville (botanist), and Nelson have gone on a two weeks' trip to the Vegas river a hundred miles southeast. The teamster who had gone to Daggett for supplies came in on horseback a few days ago and reported that he had abandoned the supply wagon stuck to the hubs in a soda fiat 130 miles south. Oh,Moses! Palmer [director of expedition] and he at once started for the wreck. Stevens is somewhere up north. Fisher [mammalogist] Dikeman, Bennett, Sai, cook, a packer and I are hung up in the desert here living on navy beans and jack rabbit. Old man, this beats Vesuvius. Worse than Greeley in the Arctic regions, or a Phi Delt at — a party. Sa-ay, did I tell you about living on black birds for four days? Shades of the Phi Delt club.
(Here are inserted sketches of the writer before and after living on blackbirds.)
I tell you, old man, you can't realize the awful desolation and loneliness of this land. If a circle with a diameter of 120 miles was drawn about our camp it would include three white men, besides our own party. One, a hermit, and the other two squaw men. They have mighty good reasons for staying here. No deputy sheriff could be hired to come here for a man. * *
It is only two weeks since Coville and I returned from that fool eight days' ride for the mail, but I am
going to try it again tomorrow alone. Am going to try another route in order to avoid the range and the consequent snow. By this way it is at least 125 miles. When you are inclined to cuss because Dave McClure is ten minutes late with the mail, think of riding 250 miles, as far as from Lawrence to Larned, over an uninhabited desert and you have an idea what this little stroll for the mail means. If nothing happens will make the trip in six days. The Indians in this country are harmless, thank goodness; Pintes and renegade Shoshones.
I am thinking of quitting of the exploring trade. I begin to have doubts about this Balboa-Cabeza de Vaca-Christofo Columbo business. Those blackbirds near did me, and I haven't discovered much beside an Albino Pinte and a consumptive horned toad. I intended to send him (the toad) in to you, but he shook me. By the way, speaking of toads, these Pinte Indians are queer dressers. They remind me of those quiet folks up in the classical museum.
Will write after I get to the post-office. If I get there. Oh, jolly!
They say that she was lovely on North Ohio Sunday evening. Some "Snow," however.
C. A. Peabody and Bryce Crawford have new (?) overcoats. E. P. Allen is out. How strange.
HODGE PODGE.
This is the time of the year when young men's thoughts turn tightly to base ball and tennis.
Lent has come and gone. Our landlady must now find some other excuse for not having meat once a week.
The Freshman class will take up Botany next week. A twenty mile tramp, —one flower, —oh my!
One of our last year's graduates recently had some cards printed. They read,
If our elocutionists can't lower their shrill voices a note or two we will all be forced to migrate to another hill.
John A. Rush,
Reporter,
Kansas City Journal.
Amateur Minstrels, Midsummer Night's Dream, Trial by Jury, Holy City etc. What have we done? Where, oh where, is the end?
Messrs Allen, Barnes and McKinon have arranged another excursion. To Italy this time. You can spend your vacation digging antiquities in Rome.
A certain student gave as his reason for taking studies in Prof Blackmar's department that they were easy. That same student is "easy" on the road to the insane asylum.
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