7 A. G. MENGER & CO. IS THE STUDENTS' SHOE STORE HOLIDAY GOODS & NICK NACKS! - FancyGoods,Albums,PocketBooks,Work Boxes, DESKS, PICTURES, and so many things we can't tell all, but can say they will all be at hard time prices. McKinley bill, etc. Students, come and see us and bring your friends. J. S. CREW & CO. N. B.—We shall have some special Bargain Counters of goods slightly damaged by our recent fire. HIGH SCHOOLS. A Gradually Growing List of Kansas High Schools Which Prepare the Students for the University. Anticipating the effect of the action of the legislature in the excision of the Sub-Freshman work, the Regents and Faculty have sought to bring the University education within the reach of every high school of the state. This has been accomplished, not by essentially lowering the standard of admission to the Freshman class, but by adding a new high-school preparatory course, in which only one foreign language is required. This course substitutes a more thorough study of the English tongue for the second foreign language previously required, and meets the objection sometimes made, that the high-school courses leading to the University are not practical courses, adapted to meet the needs of a great majority whose advanced education will not extend beyond the high-school curriculum. The new Latin English preparatory coursem is a good course for those who do not go, as well as those who do go to the higher schools of learning, and will undoubtedly be the means of bringing into connection with the University many whose education would otherwise have ended with the high-school. In the University catalogue of 1889-90 nineteen high-scholars were credited with fully preparing students for the Freshman class, in one or more of the regular courses, and thirty-six schools were credited with preparing students for the Freshman class, not fully, but falling short not more than three terms' work. In the catalogue for 1890-91, recently issued, the first list, or list of schools which completely prepare students comprises forty-one high-schools or more than twice as many as listed the year previous; the second list contains thirty schools. In the first list are the highschools of Abilene, Atchison, Belleville, Beloit, Cawker City, Chanute, Cherryvale, Concordia, Chapman, Emporia, Eureka, Fort Scott, Girard. Hays City, Hiawatha. Horton, Hutchinson, Iola, Jewell City, Kansas City, La Cygne, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Marion, Minneapolis, Neodesha, Newton, Paola, Pleasanton, Sabetha, Salina, Sedgwick, Seneca, Solomon City, Sterling, Topeka, Wamego and Wichita. The remarkable increase in the year is due to the adoption, by the University, of the new Latin English and General Language courses agreed upon at a joint meeting of city superintendents and University faculty members, and to the earnest effort on the part of the University authorities to induce the superintendents of schools almost preparing students for the University, so to add to their high-school courses that their graduates shall be fully prepared for admission to the freshman class. The effort on the part of the University to establish a close and mutual beneficial relation with the high-schools of the state, has met with a warm and ready response from the superintendents and principals. The adoption of the new courses led up to by a special high school preparatory course has been received as a just and wholly commendable action on the part of the University, and the spirit shown by the high schools of the state is extremely gratifying. The Harvard Victory. It does not speak badly for the stuff of which Harvard athletes are made, that through fourteen years of steady defeat they have persevered in the game. Discouragements and disappointments have been many during these fourteen years, but they are all forgotten in the victory finally achieved. The game was a very satisfactory one for more reasons than that it was a Harvard victory, however; it was not marked by a single disagreeable feature. The teams met as college brothers enjoyed in a friendly contest, and played the game on its own merits. Such an exhibition must necessarily take away what little force there is left in the argument of finical persons who still claim that foot-ball is necessarily a brutal game. As played at Springfield by Yale and Harvard it is the most manly of all sports.—Harvard Advocate. The special feature of the next commencement will be the quartercentennial celebration. Twenty-five years of life and growth finds the University in condition to congratulate itself most heartily. This congratulating will take the form of an anniversary celebration. The presidents of The Next Commencement. Kansas colleges, of western colleges and universities and several prominent educators and men of affairs from the East will be present. The commencement exercises will occupy but three days instead of four as has been customary. This is an excellent change. The following is the general program for the three days. JUNE 8, MONDAY. DURCHDAY, 10 A. M.- Class-day Exercises in University Hall. 4 P. M.- Class-day Exercises on Campus. 8 P. M.- JUNE 9, TUESDAY, 10 A. M.- Quarter-Continental Celebration. 4 P. M.- Annual Meeting of Alumni Association. 8 P. M.- Public Address. JUNE 10, WEDNESDAY, 10 A. M.- Commencement Exercises. 12 M.- Alumni Reunion. OUR FACULTY. Some Interesting Statistics About the Faculty of the University. The University is dependent more on its Faculty than on its buildings or its equipment. If the men and women who conduct the various departments of instruction are models of intellectual and moral strength, good work will surely be done—not otherwise. The University of Kansas has men in its faculty who could easily earn the hishest professional salaries or incomes, but who wholly ignore the question of money in their choice of a life's work. The following list of our fall proprofessors and their assistants, with facts as to their training. &c., will be found of interest: Hollingbery says you will need a dress suit for the Christmas parties. He can supply you from Philadelphia at prices to suit your pocketbook. Music Cabinet. The finest line of Music Cabinets in the city at Fluke's music store. Hollingbery. Nobby Neckwear ELEGANT Sik Mufflers, Hosiery, Gloves, Suspenders, Full Dress Shirts for the Holidays. AT BROMELSICK'S. Christmas Presents! WE show a magnificent stock useful as well as ornamental articles for holiday presents. An inspection solicited. L. O. McINTIRE. WM. WIEDEMANN HAS OPENED HIS Oyster ::- Parlor For the Season, and makes a Specialty of Manufacturing ICE CREAM -AND- FINE CONFECTIONERY. Parties Supplied on Short Notice Christmas is Coming uc, 10c and 25c Counters, Filled with Hundreds of Nice Presents. The Finest Show of Parlor and Library Lamps in the City. Pictures for Less Money than the Frame iHworth. Our Store was never so full as at Present. We are proud to have made these images. J. H. SHIMMONS. J. JOHNSON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Fresh and Salt Meats. Third Door North of Post Office. GOODS Holiday Presents! NOTHING BETTER THAN Fine Slippers or Shoes. FAMILY SHOE STORE. MASON'S. A. WEBER & SON, PRACTICAL : TAILORS, Prices According to Material. Student Trade a Specialty. CALL ON THEM. JOHN SULLIVAN, Attorney at Law Rooms 108 and 109 New York Life Building, cor, Ninth and Delaware streets, Kansas City, Mo. Telephone 2345 For Coal and Wood, the Cleanest, Cheapest and Best, go to A. J. Griffin's.