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The Weekly University Courier.
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
Published Every Friday Morning by the COURIER COMPANY.
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WALTER JAY SEARS,
Editor-in-Chief.
LOCAL EDITOR...J. M. CHALLIAS
PERSONAL EDITOR...J. C. FOX
SPORTING EDITOR...B. M. SIMMONS
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Entered at the post-office at Lawrence Kas, as second-class matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
PHI GAMMA DELTA faternity, Moots in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA TRENA, meets second floor of Opera House block.
FRI KAPTE Pat, Meets on third floor of Opera
House block.
SIGMA CHI, Meets on fourth floor east of the Opera II, q/o block.
SIGMA NU, Meets in the Eldridge House block; third if or.
DEBTA TRENA Pl. Masts on P'e fourth door of the Opera House block.
KAPA KAPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of the members
KAPPA ALPHA THETA. Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of the member .
Pi BETA Flit. Metea every Satu-day after noon at the homes of the meme s.
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION of the University of
Kansas, W. H., arruh, President; F. H. Kel
logg, Secretary, and C. B. Vorhlis, Treas.
ORATORIAL ASSOCIATION J. D. Wowerock,
President; W. D. Koss, Secretary. Executive
Committee (M. E. Hickey, W. E. Carry, C. H.
Sears.
PHILOLOGICAL CLER, President, Mas Anna McKinney; See clairy, Dr. A. M. Wioc, Meet-evs ry other Friday night.
SCIENCE CLUB, President, F. E. Sasson
Secretary, M. A. Barber. Music in Snow
Hall every other Friday.
ADREPHIC LITERARY SOCIETY, Meets every Friday evening, President, E. C. Hickey.
KNASAS UNIVERSITY LITERARY CLUB, President, Howard Pebala; Secretary, J. E. Baker.
Y. M. G. A. Meets every Friday evening at 7 p.m. room 11. President E. L. Ackley, Secretary, C. J. Chumman.
Y. W. G. C.; Meetsevery Friday evening at 7 p. m.; third floor of University President, Emma Dunn; Secretary; Laura Lockwood.
COUNTER COMPANY; President; W. A. Foster, Secretary; L. C. Pochier.
KANSA N COMPANY, Pc.ident M. McKinnoe;
Secretary, W.A. Snow.
REVIEW COMPANY President and Editor-in-Chief, Clofet, M. F. Bear.
SEMINARY OF HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL
SCIENCE, Director, Prof. J. H. Canfield. Meets
every other Friday from 4 to 6.
KENT CLUB, President, C. W. Walli, Secretary, W. A. Foster, Meats every Friday night.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY, President; V.J.
Boaz; secretary; Miles Laura girbe. Meet
every Friday night.
CAMERA CLUB, President, Prof. Bailey; secretary, E. E. Sisson. Meets every month.
TRELGRAPH CLUB, President, Prof. Blake; secretary, W. S. Franklin.
MR NAYLOR, amid the thousands, accept the hearty congratulations of the COURIER. With victory as our portion, we are more than glad of the hope and confidence we placed in you. Your triumphant return will be hailed with delight. Kansas men will welcome you.
Washburn, you are fortunate. We envy you nothing. You had our best wishes last February; you have our congratulations now. Doubly glad are we that you won for there were those who were despicable enough to insult the pre-eminent worth and ability of your man.
Students of Kansas, you are the victors. The world should know it.. Your applause will be the best and welcomest because it knows no local limit; it bears the pride from the heart of every Kansas student.
THERE are some people who are always sure that the world is going to ruin:—people who are never happy, never contented never satisfied.
Turn to your neighbor and you find this one grumbling about the weather; if it rains he is sure there will be a flood; if the sun shines he swears there will be a drought. Here is another who is complaining about the mishaps of life; he never coughs but he is going to die with the consumption; he never hears of deaths and disasters but that the world is fast coming to an end. Here is a poor man who is wishing that he was rich, and there a rich man that he was dead. So it is the world over.
What is the matter with this sort of people? Do they not know that life is what we make it; that if it is worth living at all, it is worth living well. ? Can they not see that their whining will make no one happy, but that every grumbler adds to the gloom and sadness of the world?
We have a wholesome cure for these snarlers: let them forget themselves, then a smile will come to their countenances, and a hope to their hearts. There is nothing truer or better than this: "The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now and the
If these whiners would but open their cynical eyes and hard hearts to the world and look for her smiles and sunshine they would soon forget how to grumble. There is too much real sorrow to tolerate such noise. Here, if any where, among our fellow men, is the place for every thing that is good and true and kind and sensible.
way to be happy is to make others happy." The following, though a bit of nursery lore, voices exactly what we mean: Though it takes like
little man,
And the clouds are forbidding and thick:
You can make the sunshine in your soul,
little man.—
Though it rains like the rain of the flood, little man.
Do something for som-body, quick!
A little old and dry and doctrinal and ministerial, did you say? If you think so, why greet the next friend you meet with a grunt and a growl!
There are lots of growlers and grumblers among the students of K, S. U.
Our Exchange Table.
MR. Vernon Kellogg, one of the bright editors of the Lawrence Journal-Tribune, and, by the way, a graduate of the U., handles a deliciously racy pen in his talks "About Men and Things." Whatever he says is said most spicily and most pleasantly. Everything is touched with such rare good sense and philosophy: we like his broad and liberal view of men and things. Nor does he want for sentiment;—he has a good portion of the truest and most delicate of this human stuff. Last Monday he said;
There is a may poem in this column. To-day makes it seems very appropriate. After such a disagreeable week as was last, today's bright sun and summer breeze make May verses first in one's mind.
We shall have a nice week. Go driving, riding, boating, walking. Get out of the house.
The orchards are such beautiful sights that the farmers should charge admission prices.
The woods along the Kaw and The Wakarusa are delightful. No bugs yet nor high weeds, but tree flowers, and phlox, and violets, and a dozen and one different blossoms.
This week will never come again Get what you can out of it.
Among his "Sketches" in a recent number of the Kansas City Star there appeared the following happy descriptions of the educational institutions of the State:
NOBLE Prentis, whose kind and brilliant pen is loved and admired by every Kansan, never tires of telling about the sunny, muddy, bloody land of the Sunflower. He tells of its history and people—their fortunes and failures, cares and labors and all so keenly and pleasantly, that we, too, never tire of listening.
After the capitol and the "pen" and the insane asylums, the State University has probably been the most costly of the state houses It was located when it was deemed necessary that every public building should stand on a 'heaven kissing-hill,' and remote from other houses. This choice has imposed a life of constant exertion on many hundred pairs of legs since. The first university was built on the rocky southern point of Mount Oread, an historic eminence, of course, for Lawrence has more history than any other town in Kansas. The structure was a square, high-roofed house, of a dirty brown hue; standing with the lone perpendicularity of a sore thumb. The building is unoccupied and should be given to somebody who will move it away. The present main university building stands farther up the high ridge. It is a massive structure with such impressiveness as mere height and weight may give a building. The erection of Snow Hall, a modern edifice, has done much to improve the appearance of the main building by shutting it off from view on one side. With the growth of trees about and the covering it over with beautiful ivy the university proper will look much better. One of the lessons the students may learn on Mount Oread is the superiority of nature over art They have but to compare man's works in wood and stone with the symmetry of Blue mound.
The State Agricultural college has a lovely situation, its site being on a prairie ridge sufficiently elevated to "show off" the buildings, and yet not imposing a wearisome climb on approaching man and beast. This is the only one of the state educational institutions that has any 'grounds' to speak of. Beautiful evergreens dot the grassy slopes, and flowers and shrubs abound. The college looks down, or, rather, across at the town of Manhattan, which has been before mentioned in these communications.
The State Normal school at Emporia has been recently described It is simply a big, solid brick house, looking down a city street "Utility" seems to have been the watchword of the architect, as it is of the school itself.
IN a recent issue of the Kansas City Star,Mr. Franklin L. Webster,the talented editor of the Lawrence Gazette,makes the following striking description of Chancellor Snow:
A short, compactly built man—whose head is set close to his square shoulders, whose iron gray hair and side-whitekers are both closely trimmed; on whose pleasing face time has traced a few lines and thought left its autograph, and in whose keen gray eyes is a kindly twinkle—is stretching his legs with a long stride and at a ten minute gait over a side road leading up Mount Oread. One arm swings in unison with his
short legs and over the other arm is thrown a gray coat. The little pedestrian is in his shirt sleeves, for the April Kansas sun is making up lost time and is filtered through no clouds, and the little man cares more for comfort than for appearances. He is moving at a pace that makes strong limbs, sound lungs and long life—the same pace that has carried him over the mountains of Colorado, the plains of New Mexico and Arizona and the prairies of Kansas, while following the trail of a bear or a butterfly, or while headed for the haunts of some rare bird or curious beetle, the home of an interesting flower, the resting place of some tertiary mammal, or the deposit of a paleozoic shell, fish or plant. All nature seems to smile upon this gray figure—and why should she not? For he is one of her favorite interpreters.
There is nothing very striking in the appearance of this pedestrian, and he would doubtless pass unnoticed in a crowd. His personality is strong enough, but it is all on the inside. He may be a well-to-do farmer, a tradesman, or perhaps a country preacher making pastoral calls on foot.
But he is none of these. The white-sleeved, commonplace looking little man is the new chancellor et the University of Kansas—Prof. Frank H. Snow, a gentleman and a scholar, a scientist of international reputation.
We are glad to see the Athletic Association come out so strongly and earnestly for a Field Day. This is keeping right along in the line that leads to positive good and certain success. This event will wonderfully increase the interest and enthusiasm of our athletic enterprises. The committee that has been appointed is a good one, and under the intelligent direction of Mr. C. S. Hall we believe it will give us a field Day to be proud of. The committee has the COURIER's warmest support and encouragement.
New Banjos at Fluke's.
A REGULAR WAR ON Prices during the remainder of this week. Cut prices in Dress Goods, Silks, White Goods Table Linens, Napkins, Carpets Curtains etc. It will pay customers to visit this grand sale Friday and Saturday. Sale commences promptly at a quarter before eight a.m.
L. O. McINTIRE.
Special cuts will be made on our spring and summer clothing, underwear and straw hats. We have an immense stock and the unseasonable weather compels us to make great reductions. Come and see us and see how cheap we can sell you at
STEINBERG'S Clothing House
For First ClassShoes in all styles go to Hume's 829 Mass. St.