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It is with pleasure that we publish in this issue the latest news concerning Prof.Dyche, Prof.Marsh and William Harvey Brown. We should like to be able to publish something more definite about Brown and have made arrangements whereby the first news received will be given to our readers.
VACATION is over and we are back again for the duties of school life. While we are, as a rule, glad when vacation begins we are also very glad when it ends. College life is a mixture of the bitter and the sweet, but when it is looked back upon the sweet largely predominates, and if we but knew it we are spending the most pleasant as well as the most profitable days of our lives here in college.
WASHBURN Reporter, Nov. 26. "If anybody left the foot ball grounds last Friday afternoon without the firm belief that if Baker comes up day after to-morrow, she comes to certain defeat, we failed $ _{t_{0}} $ see him. * * * * With Sullivan, Guild and Foster in the middle of the rush line, with such strong players behind the rush line and with such efficient coaching as we have had what can the team not accomplish? * * * * We are in the race for a pennant and it will be strange if we do not win." The day after to-morrow Washburn met with a sweeping defeat. There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Brother Lawson, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
THE local oratorical contest at Baker will take place the evening of December 12th. Seven or eight orators will contest and much enthusiasm is reported. Sam McRoberts is regarded as the coming man. The Ottawa contest takes place Monday evening of next week. Slight enthusiasm is reported. The Washburn contest will take place soon. There will be only four contestants and one of them Myers is said to stand head and shoulders above the others. It is reported that Salina will send a strong man this year. Here in K. S. U. we will have the full limit of orators allowed in the local contest viz. six, and interest in the outcome runs high. K. S. U. can be relied upon as usual to send a strong man
to the state contest. Surely the cratorical pot begins to boil and the great day will be with us before we know it.
NEXT Monday Baker will play the return match of foot ball. This will be without doubt the most exciting game that has yet been played in Kansas. Baker will send a large delegation of enthusiastic backers and confidently expects to win. Notwithstanding our team has sustained two defeats, there is among our students a very general confidence in the teams ability to beat Baker Monday. The team in the last two games has gained confidence in itself which will go far toward winning. We confidently believe that the victorious career of the Baker eleven will end on next Monday. There will be an immense crowd in attendance and we hope that the Athletic association will take means to keep the crowd back off the field. As it has been at Baker and Washburn the crowd at times seriously interfered with the play.
A PRIVATE letter from Prof. A. R. Marsh gives an account of his wandering which will be of interest to his many friends here and throughout the country. He says: "Since I wrote you I have traversed last a good part of the continent of Europe. First, five months in Spain, then a voyage on the Mediterranean to Italy, from Italy up through Switzerland to Badon Baden in Germany, the summer there, then south once more through Switzerland, and now settled here in Florence for a few weeks. In December I go back to Spain for two months, leaving my family here in Florence. In February I rejoin them and we go to Rome and Naples for a month; then turn northward to Venice, theme to Dresden, thence to Berlin, and so on to Hamburg, whence we sail for home in May. In June I hope to make a trip to Kansas for business purposes and to see my old friends once more. So I shall think when in March we turn northward from Naples, that we are beginning a backward journey that will end in Kansas."—Journal.
PROF. DYCHE HEARD FROM.
ROF. DYCHE HEADS FROM
Chancellor Snow has received a letter from Prof. Dyche who left here last July on a hunting expedition in British Columbia. Prof. Dyche reports a very successful trip and the University museum will receive many fine additions. Prof. Dyche has made arrangements to go about one hundred and twenty-five miles northeast of where he is now on a trip for Caribou. After that he will return home. Prof. Dyche says in his letter:
"I have got moose. Moose, yes, twelve fine ones, and a grand old bull for leader in the group. The central figure of the moose group is a giant in every sense of the word. He has a thick, black, glossy coat of hair; his dimensions are almost too wonderful to be mentioned. This animal must have been preserved by
Iestiny for a specimen and fortune has given him to us. He was 7 feet 1 inch high at the shoulders, and 9 feet and 1 inch in length from end of nose to root of tail with magnificent proportions of body and limb. The horns! such horns! massive, widely palmated with numerous prongs and grand in their extent. They measure 52 inches from point to point. I had no idea that the moose was such an animal. This one at any rate is next in size to the Irish elk, and was one of the largest representatives of the largest species of deer animals now living. What a figure he will be in the museum—standing at least a foot higher than the old buffalo bull with whom he will undoubtedly vie for first place as a center of attraction, It took four bullets to down this knightly beast. On the same occasion I downed a cow and a calf. The three were all together and I got them all—a complete family. I tell you that was a great day. I was excited, I jumped upon the old bull even before he was through kicking and gave a great yell for the University. I do not think that our collection of moose skins can ever be excelled or even equalled by that of any other institution. I am sure I can get caribou. There are many localities where they are found. As yet I have never been in caribou country."
IN THE HEART OF AFRICA.
William Harvey Brown now in Central Africa—No News Received From Him Since July 26th—at that Time Expecting to be Attacked by Natives.
As is well known W. H. Brown, class of '88, accompanied the U. S. Eclipse Expedition to Arica as naturalist for the government. The expedition left New York Oct. 16, 1889. At Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa, the American Consul took a great interest in Brown's work and told him of the English South African Exploring Expedition that was making preparations to take a trip to the Zambesi river in the interior of Africa. So by the efforts of the two, Brown managed to get on the expedition.
He is paid $50 a month by the British Government and is allowed to make a collection and have free transportation for it back to the Cape. The National museum is also paying Brown $200 a month while in the field, so if nothing happens he stands a very good show for making a satisfactory collection.
No news has been received from Brown since July 26th, when the last letter was received by Arthur H. Brown at Washington. At that time they were sixteen hundred miles from Cape Town and within two hundred and fifty miles of their destination, and travelling at the rate of fifteen miles a day. They were in the heart of the Matabile land and were expecting an attack from the natives at any moment.
The expedition consists of five hundred whites and three hundred blacks, sixty-two ox wagons with sixteen oxen on each wagon. The
members of the expedition are all well armed with rifles and have a small battery of gatling-guns, etc. The whites ride horse-back. When the expedition reached the Zambesi river, the intention was to settle down and thoroughly explore the surrounding country, during which time Brown expected to make his collections.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
A. Fulerton spent the vacation in Atchison.
C. M. Enns, law '89, was in town last Sunday.
E. E. Keys was in Kansas City last Monday.
H. S. Hadley was in Olathe on Thanksgiving.
Peabody and Babbitt spent Thanksgiving in Kansas City.
The Misses Kidwell spent Thanksgiving at their home in Kansas City.
H. A, Penis and R. R, Whitman saw the Baker-Wasuburn foot ball match in Topeka last Friday.
Clarence Hall has resumed his position as correspondent of the Record.
Hon, Thos. F. Doran,'88, of Topeka, spent Thanksgiving visiting University friends in this city.
Stuart O. Henry, a former student, now of Denver, Col., was at the University Wednesday.
R. D. Brown slid and hurt his face badly while attempting to play foot ball Thanksgiving Day.
Atherton, Muesse, Wren and Goodale, of the Baker foot ball eleven, made a short visit at the University last Saturday.
In Saturday's Journal Prof. Penny publishes an appeal to the people of Lawrence to help in procuring the pipe organ for University Hall.
Lafayette, Cornell and Picadilla smoking Tobaccos, these are new brands added to my stock of fine Tobaccos for the pipe. If you smoke call at Smith's News Depot.
Prof. and Mrs. Carruth, Prof. Wilcox, Prof. A. G. Canfield, Miss Watson and others attended the meeting of the Kansas Academy of Language, held in Topeka, Friday and Saturday of last week.
Some of the members of the Baker foot ball team stopped off at the University for a short time last Saturday morning. They expressed themselves as well, pleased with the University and especially with Snow Hall.
Prof. Snow issued his weather report for November last Tuesday. November has been one of the four warmest Novembers during the last twenty-one years. Dandelion blossoms were picked in Lawrence on Thanksgiving Day.
Prof. F. W. Blackmar lectured before the Southwest Teacher's Association at Ottawa, last Friday afternoon. His subject was; "The Public School as an Institution of the People." It was listened to with much attention.
United States Indian Commissioner Morgan made a short speech in Chapel Wednesday morning. His talk was in reference to the education of the Indian and was listened to with much interest. The occasion savored of old times when it was the custom to have all prominent visitors in Lawrence give a short talk in chapel. If such was the custom now chapel attendance would be larger than it is at present.
The Chancellor will entertain the students and Faculty of the University to-night in Snow Hall, from 8 to 10 o'clock.
German.
Classes in German will be formed at the Lawrence Business College Monday next. Any one can join these classes without entering for a regular course. Terms, one dollar per month.
MRS. ALICE PEARBODY SEARS.
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