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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
PHI GAMMA DELTA faternity, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block.
PHIKAPPA Pai, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA Nu, 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 homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
I C. SOROSH, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
O ATORICAL ASSOCIATION; Claus, Johnson; President; W.A.Sow, Secretary Execiv Committee ee: J.M.Shull barger,J.C.Fox,II M.F.Bear
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A.M.Wilcox, Captain of the nine, Charles Voor his.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in snow Hall.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 3 every other Fri lay at 8 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION; President,F.E.Reed; Secretary,F.H.Kellogg; Treasurer,W.A.Snow.
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The fighting editor has been in great demand the past week.
Watch our dear contemp try to explain "how it was done."
WHAT's the matter with the new Oratorical Association being made a truly representative organization as it claims to be.
Our senators seem to forget the obligations a State is under to aid the cause of higher education. They should remember that the advancement of Kansas depends upon the intelligence of its people.
The Chanute Daily Press of Feb 25th contained the following complimentary notice in its newsy columns: The University Courier of Lawrence, has found its way to our sanctum. It is full of local news and is a bright, clean little sheet. Send her along boys.
PROFESSOR CANFIELD is in Nashville arranging for a convention of the National Education Association, of which organization he is secretary. He was invited Friday night to a reception to the governor and legislators of Tennessee, one of the most brilliant affairs of the kind that the State has known. He made a speech which is safe to say was as good as any other one heard that night. Kansas takes no back seat when Canfield is at large, notwithstanding the paper bullets with which he is frequently assailed at home. Emporia Republican.
The program announces that the reception above mentioned was given "to the Governor, Legislature and Secretary of the National Educational Association, Hon. Jas. H. Canfield. The Professor was "on deck," however, in time for his classes Monday,
The conference committee reported on the appropriation bill. The report was adopted, and the bill was passed last Wednesday night. The appropriations are now as follows, and there will be no other change. Chancellor, $3,-000, professor of natural history, $2,500; dean of department of law, $2,500; thirteen professors, $24,000; dean of music department, $600; eleven assistants, 9,-200; librarian and assistants, $800; clerk, bookkeeper and treasurer, $1,200; superintendent, engineer and janitors, $2,900; fuel lights, etc., $2,080; labor in laboratories, $500; chemi als, $500; cabinets in the natural history department, $500; advertising, printing, etc., $500; janitor's supplies, $500; library, $5,000; apparatus in chemical department, $250; apparatus for the department of electrical engineering, $1,000; microscopes, $300; cabinet cases, $1,000; repairing foundation, $4,000; night watchman, $500; for care of grounds, $400; for chemicals, $700; maps, charts, etc., $500; care of meteorological apparatus, $250; for care of museums, etc., $500; for geological museum collection, $500; labor in taxidermy, $600; for water supply, $500; office expenses, $500; for steam heating repairs, $300; blackboards, $100; apparatus in department of pharmacy, $150; water tank in Snow Hall, $175; fire hose, reel, etc., $1,-000; for supplies in taxidermy, $300; drain pipe, $60; carpet for rostrum, $90; matting, $230; coal house, $500;
When the University appropriation bill came up in the Senate Monday, items aggregating $25,-000 were stricken out. The appropriation for professor's salaries was reduced to $20,500, instructor in music, $600, stricken out. Eleven assistants reduced to $9,200; librarian and assistant reduced to $600; additions to cabinet in natural history, reduced to $1,500; superintendent, engineer and janitor, to $2,100; fuel and lights to $1,500; labor in laboratory to $450; janitor, supplies and material to $500; office expenses to $500; taxidermy to $500; chemicals to $300, library to 2,500; apparatus in chemistry to $250; apparatus in physics and electrical engineering to $1,000; microscopes, etc., to $300; cabinets cases to $1,000. The house will probably refuse to concur, and a conference committee will be appointed. The friends of the University, both in and out of the legislature, should see to it that the bill as thus mutilated does not pass the house—Tribune.
The bill as passed provides for two new chairs, those of Philosophy and Geology.
The above is a good example of the proverbially narrow minded policy of legislators. Kansas can not hope to keep up her mighty strides along the path of advancement if she thus slights her greatest educational institution.
Some Sons of K. S. U.
Every few days I hear some rare bit of gossip, or some piece of encouraging good news about a "formerly of K. S. U." boy. As the years go by and the "boys" raise beards and families, and I hope, wealth from some source, the world hears more of them. I have noted with a good deal of regret that the Lawrence Journal does most of the whooping for K. S. U.'s old boys. Let's see. What's that old time case, the irrepressible, fun-loving, bright Twitchell up to. Running for some big office out in New Mexico I believe, yet I've not seen it in a K. S. U. paper. I well remember the "good old days" when "Twitch" was master of pischief at K. S. U. He had all "Cap" Franklin's spirit of deviltry without the "Cap's" love of study, hence when any one had to suffer for the sins of many, "Twitch" was selected. It was he that led the band at the serenade of the Chancellor on his return from Rev. F. T. Ingalls' funeral (which hasn't) occurred yet.) It was he who was editor-in-chief of the Courier when the Faculty decided that it musn't come out any more. He was in all the fun and all the mischief that went on, and at last closed a brilliant college career in about the Junior year. K. S. U. will be glad to claim him some day soon. 'He's all right' and is coming to the front rapidly.
Henry. We old-timers wont forget Stuart Henry and are glad to hear that he is still making himself heard. There are a couple of other fellows of that old time who are in the front ranks, Will Raymond and Frank Riffle. Hard to find two nicer fellows anywhere, and we all are glad they are among the lucky ones.
I notice in a recent copy of "Railroad Gazette" an article reprinted from the Nation, by S.O.
K. S. U. had two distinctly marked eras of mischief and fun within my recollection. The boys of the first set are clear out of the University circles now, but none the less to be called University men. The second period was later, as late as '85 and '86.
First and foremost were a pair of Sigs who were blessed with lungs like locomotive whistles, and who would have made a calliope blush, McAlpine, good, hardworking witty Bob, who is going to be an honor to his frat and his Alma Mater in spite of his fiendish yells, and Preston, who won't be much of an honor to anybody at present accounts. How those two did enjoy making the bright spring evenings fairly hideous. Alas! No more will they be heard, no more will the clarion notes call gangs of revellers to-gether. They are hushed and the residents on Tennessee sleep the sleep of the just. There was another youth of the period who is too well known to need mention any further than to remark that if any mischief was on foot and Will Brown did not know it, no one did.
In the fall of '85 a chap, who was handsome by reason of rare ugliness, came to K. S.U. Adams hadn't been there long until he was well-known and better liked. A truer, steadier, more honorable fellow never attended K. S.U. A good student, a grand fellow, he left with hosts of friends, but, good people, did you ever think that he was a ring leader in nearly all the devilry? I have in mind one mad prank which caused a great amount of cussing on the part of some students, and a lively investigation on the part of the faculty. I value life too much to say more on this point. Adams is now holding a lucrative position in Washington Territory. He is a rising engineer, and sooner than most of you think, he will be among the prime favorits of Dame Fortune.
"Smith," not H. A. or H. D., or any of the countless crowd of Smiths, but "Smith" alias Glen Miller certainly deserves mention. I do not keep him until the last because I consider him among the least, for I doubt if any man with higher intellect ever left K. S. U., and I am sure none have profited better by their college training, and experience in the world, than Haslater. I don't need to culegise him as a writer, he has too
many friends who know what hits he can give, and some are still bearing ill will. He is the one K. K. U. man who can speak to the point. His praise is not scant, his sarcasm is bitter but apt, his logic and his language good. All in all where do you find a brighter writer than 'Smith?'
"Smith"'s now taking a "tramp abroad." He got down in France and spent a while in jail as a German spy, he has "done'” Paris, he has been over London, he has idled over the Isle of Wight and he's now headed for Italy. He isn't tramping in a railroad car, he's on foot, seeing all that can be seen and learning all that can be learned. He will profit by his trip and such incidents as being "jugged" for a spy will make his year more spicy. Gentlemen, when "Smith"' gets back to work once more, just watch him and see 'he man of' 84, get ahead.
Enough said. The old days are gone, the old boys have scattered, the old girls have all gotten married and things are not what they were. Too many of the old friends have gone to that myst rious land whence none return. Dean Dart, Munsell, Smith and others will be sadly missed from our reunions. Each year K. S. U. turns out men who are going to have their share in this world's work, bright, brainy men whose influence will do Alma Mater a world of good could their interest be maintained. Is there not some way in which to keep the old boys posted. You fraternity men come up and give occasional accounts of your alumni. You are not ashamed of them I trust. There was a time when to "be a Beta was better than a king." Why don't you tell us of the Riffle's of Watson, Powell, Hopkins, a few of your Smiths and others? The Phi Psis too could fill a column a week with notes about the old timers, and I trust will do so. Stand up, you two, you have just cause to be proud of your alumni. Do you let the Phi Gams outdo you on "toooting their horn." The other frats have plenty of material. Don't bemoan your lot at being an editor and then tell us that "Sue Smith climbed the hill yesterday." Gentlemen if you will send the papers to alumni please go back to the year one and give some of the old lights their due, they are not dimmed since leaving college. R. E. HENRY.
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