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VOL. VIII.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
MME. RUMOR.
What She Modestly Murmurs on Old Oread's Merry Mountain.
The Seniors give a party to-night. A pleasant time is expected and hoped.
There were no white Kid gloves at the Sigma Chi box party.
The Sophomore English class are hearing a series of lectures on poetry by Prof. Hopkins.
The Blackstone club starts out like it meant business. Successful lawyers generally do.
Many of the students are ably assisting in the great Bliss and Towner chorus. The University never wastes its talent.
Three cheers for the bust of John Brown. Gloria Halalujah! his soul goes marching on.
Who says that the Literary Societies are passing into the sear and yellow leaf of life? 'Tis false. They move, they live, they triumph.
It is said that many of the Laws are admirers of John L. of Boston John L. couldn't receive a higher compliment.
At the last examination of the Meterology class every member received a grade of one. Just a little complimentary, we think.
Unfortunately the Hon. Edward Russell could not attend the meeting of the Kent club last Friday evening. But he will speak at some time in the near future.
It is said that Eames has a real live pet skunk. It must be an exquisitely delightful thing.
Messrs. Bliss and Lawrence will address the young men of the Y. M. C.A.at their parlors on Massachusetts street to-morrow evening. All are invited to attend.
Bicycle race this afternoon on the new race course south of the University. The merchants of the town have donated about thirty prizes and the race promises to be of especial interest.
The union meeting of the Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. of the University, was a delightful success in every way. Harry Hall read a paper on China, comparing that heathen land with the Christian countries of the world. Miss Nettie Goodell discussed the missionary work in India. It was an interesting meeting and more are to follow.
A men's mass meeting will be held at the Congregational church on Sunday at 4 p. m. E. W. Bliss will speak. Prof. D. B. Towner will sing. All K. S. U. students are specially invited. Mr. Bliss will take for his subject "Hidden Depth." His best address.
The girls in K. S.U,are all engaged, that is for the ball.
Coup D'Etat.
The "Billet Doux" have been conveyed to the waiting maiden by the omnipresent youthful colored person. The answers have been received by the same with obsequious humility and borne with swiftness—(um)—to the expectant youth. Now the time draws near when we shall have attained the acme of our happiness.
Sleepy the next day, did you say? No, sir. We will be wide awake with the ecstatic memory of the fun we had.
And by the way most of the tickets are already sold. We respectfully rise to interpolate and remark that if you want to join in the coming Coup D'Etat, you must take upon yourself at once a Kansas "rustle," buy a ticket, pull down your vest, secure a lady and prepare for an elysium of fun and pleasure.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOV. 22, 1889.
The committee can accommodate you with a ticket, if you can do that much for your pocket-book. You must pull down your own vest and trust in fate for a lady. The rest will come with time.
But don't forget that you will be missed if you are not there.
A Delightful Event.
The Pi Beta Phis have always been famous for the consummate elegance and distinguishing success of their entertainments. If such a thing is possible their last one has added a brighter laurel to their sparkling wreath of feminine wit and beauty.
Last Friday evening they were again the pretty and pleasant enter tainers of over forty couples. A most elegant banquet was served. It was marked by the charming delicaey of the fair ones.
No company ever "tripped the light fantastic toe" with greater joy or heartiness.
This event shall ever remain a radiant one in the social history of K. S. U.
With a complimentary idea as to what is the clever thing, the Phi Psis were the kind entertainers, last Saturday evening, of Prof. F. W. Blackmar at the festal board. It was a pleasant reception to a most popular Professor. Though Prof. Blackmar has hardly begun his work in K. S. U., he is to-day one the best liked members of the Faculty.
Prof. Blackmar Banqueted.
The Prof. responded to a toast full of praise and hope for the University. Others were given by Profs. Sterling, Dunlap, Wood, of Baldwin, Dr. Esterly, vice-chancellor, Spangler and editor Frank Webster.
The Review has made its monthly crow. The world cas ceased to move.
The Southern Prince of Letters in a brilliant Effort, Charms, and Edifies.
GEORGE W. CABLF.
The opera house was filled last Wednesday evening with the flower of Kansas culture, the best in the world because the last. It was there to greet and welcome the distinguished novelist of the Sunny South Geo. W. Cable. It did, and showed him a Western hospitality that rivaled his own.
Mr. Cable took for his entertainment a series of selections from his famous novel, Dr Severe. In them he very charmingly presented the manner and dialect of the Creole, a character in whose delineation Mr. Cable stands without a peer. He gives it a curious charm and oddity that is strikingly fascinating. His quiet wit and humor, dialect and traits were portrayed in such a way that they were irresistably pleasing. Other characters were presented, showing Mr. Cable's wonderful power in the painting of human life and things. Indeed he gave to them so much natural feeling and dramatic spirit that each one was indelibly impressed upon the minds of all. Mr. Cable's brilliant efforts were heartily received with generous applause. All were highly entertained and more than pleased.
It was the pleasant fortune of the Courier to meet Mr. Cable. We "found" him at the opera house quietly waiting for the moment when Commander-in-chief John Mushrush would start the prelude and ring the bell for the curtain.
He seemed glad to receive the Courier man as a representative of K. S. U. and its journalism. After Mr. Cable had made several very felicitious remarks about the University and its publications, the Courier man gently introduced the business of his visitation.
"What has been your field of work and where are you going?" began the Courier.
"I come directly from the Middle states and am on my way to the coast," very pleasantly answered the novelist.
"This is about your fourth lecture tour, is it not?" ventured the Courier.
"You missed it by one. This is my fifth."
"And it is the pleasantest one?"
"Yes, I believe it it is," and the black eyes of the author seemed to glow with greater interest. "Yes each tour has increased in the pleasure of the preceeding one. My friends seem to grow in number each year. No, I don't feel like a stranger in a strange land. There is a cordiality and welcome in the North and west that charms me. I like it.
"You have other engagements in this state" we asked with as much politeness as rich impertinence would permit.
"No Sir, this is my only one." I go directly to Denver from here.
"But you have been in Kansas long enough to pass an opinion upon her? What do you think of her."
"That she is a most wonderful state," quickly responded the affable lecturer. "Yes, a wonderful state. Her resources must be immense. When I compare her with the south, the contrast is startling. Such tremendous tracts of unoccupied or at least of untillable land is simply wonderful to me. I am startled at the future of your state as I am with all the west."
Just then Manager Mushrush came rushing in with information that everything was waiting and ready for the introduction of the speaker. That meant no more "interview" for the Courier man. He consequently suddenly disappeared, hearing the pleasant good-bye of the famous Southern.
During all of this short, but exceedingly pleasant conversation, Mr. Cable was faultlessly courteous and kind. We found him freely approachable and attentive to every consideration. This was nothing less than an over flowing of that Southern hospitality and good-will which marks the man who lives across the Dixie line. Besides this Mr. Cable showed the polish of fine intellect and gentleonly culture. The Courier, for one, will not forget George W. Cable.
The Coming Contest.
The State Oratorical Association convention met last Friday at Emporia. The majority of colleges sent representatives, and everything was made complete and satisfactory.
Arrangements were made for the next contest to be held in Lawrence next month. The following judges were selected: On Delivery, Ware of Fort Scott; Bowers, of Peabody, and Fenlon, of Leavenworth. On Thought and Composition, Ray, of Topeka; Benson, of Ottawa, and Johnson, of Garnett.
Jus. Bowersock, the delegate from K. S. U., in conversation with a COURIEER man, said: "Washburn is very confident of winning, and the other colleges of the state were almost ready to accord her the victory. Baldwin is not at all sanguine over her prospects, and seems content to take a back seat in the oratorical rivalry."
"I think," continued Mr. Bowersock, "that Washburn is the only opponent that K. S. U. needs to fear, and that it will only be by the greatest exertions on the part of the orators that we can win."
But win we must, and will if the right students seize this Gordian knot with an immortal determination to win.
No.11.
"Names, Mere Names."
But Pleasant and Precious Personal Property Published per Permission.
Crawford wears a Phi Psi pin.
J. G. Lettish visited in Kansas City last Sunday.
Prof. Wood, of Baker, was seen m town Saturday.
Miss Etta Hadley visited the U. last Tuesday.
Springer and Morse are the last victims of the Betas.
Charley Moore spent Sunday at his home in Belvoir.
Prof. Reinholtz will act asprompter at the University bail.
Geo. W. Austin is visiting at his home in Cottonwood Falls.
Owen has solemnly promised to ride the goat of the Phi Psis.
C. E. Street is now in Central City. Col., engaged in mining for gold.
Ed Allen visited his father, ex-secretary of state, in Topeka last Sunday.
Miss Mary Spencer took dinner with friends in the Capitol City last Sunday.
V. W. Boaz has returned from his home in Kentucky where he was called by the death of his father.
Did you every notice Harrington's bangs? Why they are positively the most bewitching things you ever saw.
J. B. Lippincott, a graduate of the C. E. department, three years ago is now on the national geological survey.
Prof W. E. Higgins, principal of Grant school, visited in Lawrence yesterday and participated in an entertainment given last evening. Monday's Capital.
Smith, Sherman and Roberts are great lovers of nature. They commune with her upon frequent occasions. They worshiped at Blue Mound last Saturday.
Profs. Blake and Bailey are busily testing the different wells on Massachusetts street. Their work will certainly be of great benefit to the citizens of Lawrence.
Merriam wears the purple, Phi Delts dine him, Sigma Chis pray with him, Phi Psis caution him and Phi Gam's pledge him. The Courrier congratulates Merriam and the Phi Gams, and in the meantime the goat is being tainted so that he may do justice to the occasion.
Messrs. Hoover and Miller met with quite a loss last Sunday. While they were at church the house in which they were rooming, caught fire and all their clothing and books were burned or entirely spoiled by the water from the hose of the fire company.