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VOL. VIII
Local.
"She?"—well—I wasn't there.
Who locked Mushrush in the dome?
"She?"--well—I wasn't there.
Steinberg will take in his signs this Halloween.
They do say that Hodges can not box with Liddek.
There is some talk of a Glee Club on the hill this winter.
Prof. Robinson astonished the class in Horace by a quiz Monday.
Mushrush thinks that there is no place like the dome of the University to study French.
Prof. Carruth will give a talk before the Unity Club at their next meeting on Classic Life at Harvard.
A close search has failed to reveal a solitary student who will admit that he saw "She."
An instrument for testing the flash point of illuminating oils has been added to the laboratory apparatus.
The Sophomore class are trembling over the quiz on Goethe's life which Prof. Max so cheerfully holds over their heads.
Dan Mallison has a volume of original poems in press. They will probably be out in time for the holiday trade.
The matting that covered the registers in the library has been taken away out of respect for the cold wave we are having.
M. S. McMullen, of Ottawa, will address the young men at the Y. M. C. A. on Sunday at 4 p.m. All students are welcome.
One hundred college students of Kansas have volunteered to go as missionaries to the Soudan. Kansas boys are noted for their pluck.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 25, 1880
The K. C. Times says that Marga ret Mather had a good house in Lawrence as there are so many university students who are enacting the old old story of Romeo and Juliet.
At the Philological Club Friday night Prof. Carruth spoke of the meter of Chaucer as illustrated by Wife of Bath's Tale; Prof. Canfield discussed the literary partnership of two celebrated French writers; Mr. Sterling spoke of a false etymology of Christ; Prof. Wilcox made some interesting remarks, and Prof. Canfield read selections from Morris' new book "Tale of the Wolfings."
The number of University students who wear glasses seems to be on the increase. Why is this thus?
Cooper brought back a card from Topeka that is warranted to cure the blues at first sight. Take a look at it.
The Phi Psis chased the glowing hours with flying feet or words to that effect, at their rooms last Saturday night.
The members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma were hospitably entertained at the home of Mrs. Grovenor last Saturday.
K. S. U. students should take the city papers, the "roasts" that the boys give each other and various students are very spicy reading.
Many of our professors and prominent students will read papers before the Kansas State Academy of Science, held at Wichita next week.
She was a queer girl and the New York papers were right, most preeminently so, when they said they said they never saw anything like She.
A ballot illustrating the Australian system of voting hangs on the reading room wall. Everyone interested in a free ballot and a fair count should take a look at it.
The Senior class in the High School adopted a class hat. Verily, they show more class spirit than our noble Seniors. Buy or borrow a plug and be proud, oh ye Senior.
The Y. W. C. A. will entertain the young women of the University Saturday evening at Miss Flora Newlin's. Miss Adams, the State Secretary, will be present.
Prof. J. H. Canfield spoke to the Law class Wednesday morning on The American Banking System. After a short account of financial operations before the war, he proceeded to explain the method by which banks are established and operated, dwelling more particularly on National Banks. His explanation was remarkably clear and was listened to with close attention.
Place -- Snow Hall, Structural Botany class; time—last Wednesday. Prof. Stevens to Hickey—"Hickey, can you give us the divisions of the vegetable kingdom?" Hickey—"The Phenerogams and the Phi Gams—and——" Prof. Stevens—"Enough, Hickey, you've named them all."
Two hundred and sixty-eight students represented the colleges of Kansas at the Topeka convention. K.S.U. sent up thirty bright boys, who were a host in themselves.
The Gaskell Literary Club is indignant over the report that they are a fraud and threatens to prosecute the papers that have published it. The Courier calmly awaits further developments.
A crowd of Baker and Ottawa students on their way home from Topeka stopped off and took in the University Monday. How the other students of those institutions will envy them when they hear of it.
Prof. Wilcox gave a talk to the students of the High School one day last week on "Temples of Ancient Greece." His remarks were rendered doubly interesting by a number of views and illustrations that he exhibited.
The Sophomores are rejoicing because the much longed for canes have arrived. We may now expect some grand freak on Halloween as a result of the super abundance of animal spirits [?] that now possesses them.
When the bell that has temporarily taken the place of the electric bells rang out for the first time Tuesday several students, who were asleep in the Law room, ran out in the hall under the supposition that dinner was ready.
One of the shelves in the reading room contains pamphlets for distribution containing a report of the Civil Service Reform Association, which met in New York last June. G.W.Curtis takes occasion therein to haul Harrison over the coals. How that must bother the President!
Two Baldwin students, who were returning from the Y. M. C. A. at Topeka, became lost in the intricacies of the K. S. U. building, last Monday, and had almost kicked down the door of the Chapel before they were discovered.
Arrangements are now perfected for the anniversary meering of the Y. M. C. A. which will be held at the Congregational church Sunday evening, Oct. 27. It is fully expected that Rev. J. M. Cramer, of Kansas City, will deliver the address of the evening. In addition to this an attractive musical program is expected. All students and their friends are invited to the service.
Personal.
Ermine C. Case is a pledged Phi Delt.
Chas. F. Scott is visiting friends in the city.
L. L. Stanley visited in Topeka last Sunday.
Bert Smith is doing the pictorial work for the Journal.
E. E. Helms, of Ottawa, visited the K. S. U. Monday.
Harry E. Riggs left Tuesday afternoon for Claiborne, Tex.
The Y. M. C. A. men report a fine time at Topeka last week.
Sam Kelly visited home folks at Gardner last Saturday.
Prof. Blake gives the E.E.students plenty pf practical work.
Cap Franklin went down to K. C. Saturday to get his tooth filled.
L. Stanley spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Topeka.
Twenty-six visitors Monday kept the guide comparatively busy.
A. L. Burney has returned from the Phi Delta Theta convention.
Ackley was elected assistant press reporter at the Topeka convention.
Miss Nellie White escorted a party through the building Monday.
J. W. Waters, of Topeka, was shown through the building Monday.
Mrs. A. B. Coote, of Dalles visited the University one day this week.
Rev. Wm. Jones, of England, inspected the workings of the University Monday.
Mrs. Cone, of St. Louis, visited K. S. U. in company with Francis Steinberg Monday.
Mr. Joseph Waters, an embryo lawyer, of Topeka, visited the University Monday.
Ed Royster entertained Messrs. W. E. Johnston and J. R. Edwards, of Chanute, this week.
Otis Orendorff writes that he will be back to Kansas some time this year and will visit K. S. U.
Chas. Johnson has so far recovered that he was able to come down town to-day.- Atchison Globe.
Miss Alberta Corbin filled her mother's position as teacher in the Bismarck school last Friday.
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McPherson slipped on the steps of the University building Monday and sprained his ankle quite seriously.
Miss Clara Hunsicker, of Osage City, a former K. S. U. student, visited friends in the city this week.
H. E. Copper will return from Virginia about the first of November and resume his work in the University.
Hobbs, one of last year's law graduates, was a delegate to the Topeka Y. M. C. A. convention from Wyandotte.
Mrs. Prof. McDonald will represent the K. S. U. chapter of K. A. T. at the convention in 'Bloomington 111,' the 30th of this month.
Ross Wempel, a student in the University some years ago, has a position as private secretary to an owner of a large ranch in Mexico.
B. T. Riley, of Paola, Kan., who attended the University in 1856, is making a race for Register of Deeds in Miami county.
Whiteshield, a former student of Haskell and K. S. U., was at the Topeka convention. He has been engaged as a missionary among the Arapahoes in the Indian Territory for the last eight months.
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At the Atheneum Friday night President Spencer gave an opening address. Miss Corbin followed with select reading. An essay was then read by the president, after which followed the debate: Resolved, That the negroes should all be transported to Africa. Affirmative, Sears; negative, Barnes.
The Science Club met in Snow Hall last Friday evening. Prof. Templin read a paper on "Oxford Impressions;" Prof. Murphy discussed the curve assumed by the cable under various loads; Science Notes were presented by W. S. Smith, and Prof. Bailey exhibited some new apparatus that has lately been received at the University.
Prof. E. L. Nichols, formerly of the University of Kansas, now of Cornell, and Prof. W. S. Franklin, of the University, have recently published three scientific monographs entitled respectively, "A Spectro-Photometric Comparison of Sources of Artificial Illumination," "The Electro-Motive Force of Magnetization," and "An Experiment Bearing upon the Question of the Direction and Velocity of the Electric Current." Two of these highly technical but very interesting and useful papers have been printed in the American Journal of Science.
Abe Levy is showing the best line of Gloves in the CITY