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The Weekly University Courier
The Largest College Journal Circulation in the United States.
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block
PHIKAPPA PSI, Meets on third floor of Opera House block
SIGMA NC, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
SIGMA CHI, Meets on the fourth floor East of the Opera House block.
BETA THETA PI, Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the home of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
I. C. SOROSIS, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
OMATRICAL ASSOCIATION: Chas. Johnson, President; W. A. Saow, Secretary. Executive Committee: J. M. Shellabarger, J. C. Fox, H. M. F. Bear
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A. M. Willox, Captain of the nine, Charles Voorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall.
PHIOLOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION; President, F. E. Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
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THE CHAUCER CONCORDANCE.
Prof. Dunlap's Work on it.
With the appearance of the Chaucer Concordance and the new critical edition of the Texts of Chaucer, both now in process of preparation, the work of the Chancer Society will be finished. TheChaucer Concordance, edited by Wilson Greshem,will,when completed, surpass in fullness all English Concordances. It is to contain not merely references to the texts, like Mrs. Cowden Clark's Shakespeare Concordance but also a complete Chaucerian Glossary—and we might almost say—grammar. To illustrate,under "bigot" will be given not merely references to the pages and lines where the word occurs but also the meaning of the word and its grammatical construction in each of those places.
This truly stupendous labor has been divided among English scholars possessing the devoted industry and accurate knowledge necessary for so arduous an undertaking. Mr. Dunlap, the assistant in English, has
undertaken for his share, 18 pages. Chaucer's translation of Brice's "Consolations of Philosophy." The text was furnished him by the Society and is part of the forthcoming text of Chaucer already referred to. All the references and notes are to be entered upon slips of paper of a prescribed size. "Consolations of Philosophy," Mr. Dunlap's portion, is short and there is only one text of it extant (In the case of the Canterbury tales there are six texts to be collated), yet Mr. Dunlap's portion of the work will probably amount to a thousand slips.
Not long ago Mr. Howells lamented the lack of interest shown by Americans in the works of poets that as truly belong to us as to the English in the "Old Home." It might console him to learn that the patient labors of American scholars is helping toward its completion the great Chaucer Concordance.
CRONACA
Glen Miller a Roma.
Il giornalista americano che fa i gira del mondo a pieti.
From la Rifforma, March 2nd. (One of the Roman dailies.) Glen Miller, a very intelligent and prepossessing young mar, with a red mustache, was born at Millville, Ohio, March 3rd, 1863. In 1869 he removed to White Cloud in the State of Kansas.
He followed a regular course of studies in the public schools and in 1880 was admitted as alumnus into the State University of Kansas. He was given the degree of Doctor of Letters in 1884. During his life as a student he founded a journal, the University Courier, of which he continued proprieter for about two years.
From 1884 to 1888 he was employed as locomotive engineer on a railroad, traveling continually through the States of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin, without ceasing' however, to collaborate on the most important papers and on the reviews o. Kansas City, Chicago and New York.
On the seventh of November of last year he determined to realize a very difficult project, long cherished by him with special inclination, that of makin the tour of the world on foot. He remained in the United States until that date in order that, like a good American, he might before starting know the result of the presidential election.
He embarked at New York and landed at Southampton. He traveled on foot through the Isle of Wight, through Il the southern part of En-
gland; then from Havre to Paris; from Paris to Lyons, Marseilles, Toulon, Nice, Genoa, Pisa and Rome.
He will continue northward, going through Italy, Switzerland and Germany, going directly to Berlin. From Berlin he will go to Dresden, Vienna, Constantinople, Odessa, Moscow, St.Petersburg; thence to Sweden and Norway, Scotland, Ireland and England, back to London. From London he will set sail for Egypt, will cross Arabia, Persia, India, and China. From China his route will be to Japan, then to Australia, and from there as the last step, to San Francisco; from the shores of the Pacific he will return to his home, Kansas City, and to Chicago, the agricultural emporium of chief importance of the far west.
He has calculated that to put this project in execution will not take more than three years.
His whole baggage consists of a knapsack made especially for this purpose) the knapsack will hold just one change of linen. Glen Miller carries with him also a waterproof, a rubber drinking cup, a pocket compass and a map of the country through which he is passing. Neither rain nor wind nor snow nor tempest nor thunder—he says—have hindered or will hinder him from continuing his journey. According to his calculations he can make about 42 kilometers per day.
When he set Gut he knew besides English only a little German; but knowing Greek and Latin well, studying, remembering, taking notes, observing, he was able to invent a language composed of different words of very different idioms—a kind of valapuk, very peculiar and curious, but with which he succeeded in making himself understood marvelously. He is correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and of several other journals.
Once he was arrested in France as a German spy. He has often been obliged to sleep out of doors, exposed to the inclementy of the weather; he has often aroused suspicion and distrust, and on asking for snelter has had the door shut in his face.
Here are his impressions:
"I have found the English more reserved and dignified than Americans. The Isle of Wight is a very beautiful country.
"Southern France impressed me more than any other country by the politeness and the cleanliness of the inhabitants; all the people there were very pleasant to me, but I had many annoyances from that miserable prejudice that makes French eyes see in every stranger a German py.
"The police could not be content
in spite of my passport and my references; the police could not understand how an American could travel on foot.
"Without any intention of paying flattery to the country in which I am. I will say plainly that I have been treated by the Italians in a more hospitable and courteous manner than by any other people of Europe; I have not had to suffer annoyances or spiteful persecutions from the police, nor from the authorities, nor from the soldiers.
"I think that the Riviera is the most beautiful country in the world, and the vision of this terrestrial paradise is always before my eyes. If I had to choose a place of residence and were it not for duties to be fulfilled and plans to be realized and business affairs in my fatherland, I would settle in Rome, the city that suits me best of any in the Old World or in the New."
Glen Miller has taken a small apartment in Victoria street, at No. 32; he is taking his meals at Hotel Campidoglio; he leaves on Monday.[Prof. A. G. Canfield has very kindly furnished us the above translation—entirely literal—of the sketch of Glen Miller, which was printed in the Italian paper la Riforma of March 3rd.]
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The Review in its last issue decides to take a hand in the Annual fight and allows "Buffoon" White to fill four pages of its valuable space with wholesale abuse of those who would not obey his Lordship's orders and help support the factional affair known as the Annual. We suppose the article in the Review forshadows what may be expected in the Annual, namely: Wholesale denunciation, as organizations, of the fraternities which refused to give it their support, and personal abuse of their members. Such is the known character of the man at the head of the affair. From his first week in the University, when he wrote his home paper a letter filled with vituperation and abuse of the five rivals of his own, then would be beloved Phi Delta Theta, he has known but one answer to an argument and that is to sling mud. At this he is an adept and his position on the Annual will give him an opportunity to give full vent to his favorite occupation, and our word for it "Buffoon Billy" will avail himself of the opportunity.
Field & Hargis are headquarters for BASE BALL SLIPPERS, LAWN TENNIS and all Sporting Goods. PIGS IN CLOVER in a few days.
Pattern bonnets, latest Paris styles at Mrs. Savage's.
Exchanges.
The University Voice has an excellent article on "Education in the German Universities," by Prof. W. Z. Bennett, in which the Professor says that the teachers are original thinkers but poor instructors and lecturers. They do not become acquainted with the students, and take no personal interest in them. He says: "I doubt if such a hot-bed of iniquity is to be found elsewhere in any enlightened community as the average German university. Drunkenness, gambling, lewdness, dueling, lying and even thieving are but the common indulgencies of the typical German student. Not only does the faculty entirely disregard the vicious practices which are carried on openly, but the average university professor in Germany is probably a little more unscrupulous liar, as I have reason to know, and a little bolder libertine, if the common voice can be trusted, than the average student." The conclusion is that America is the best place after all to secure an education.
A final examination is the concentrated essence of treacherous trickery and malicious meanness, the bane of the honest worker, the hope of the habitual flunker.—College Courier.
Washburn's faculty has forbidden the students to write on "Robert Elsmere's Religion." The Washburn Argo says: "It has at last been revealed that Robert Elsmere was declared contraband because it does not show up the old blue line of orthodoxy in its most attractive light. * * * * We know that there are people in Kansas whose faith is so strong that they do not believe that orthodoxy can be hurt even if both sides of the question are investigated; and that there are others who do not believe that there should be any distinction made or partiality shown in religious matters in a college which has as its object "broad culture." But these side remarks do not effect the question, at any rate it is more than probable that the time is not far distant when these outside people will throw off their liberal views and join the ranks that are marching to glory in an undeviating line." The faculty of Washburn college should remember that we are living in the X1Xth century.
Base Ball.
FIELD & HARGIS are running the AXEL TREE BAT. Can't be broken.
Fashionable spring hats for ladies and children at the most reasonable prices at Mrs. Eva Savage's.
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