Dancing every Fri and gen-nen's class y. Stable CE. ttention e House. THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER. ERY in your booking you so dents res each. $3.50 10.00 20.00 rated SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. Co. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. VOL. VII Local. Athemæum and Oriphilian to-night. The Phi Gams give a party to-night. The Courier is a wonderful lively corpse. The Review will probably be out to-day. The political economy club meets to-night. A good many students are taking dancing lessons. Everybody is suffering with a cold (use frostilla.) Next week's Courier will be out Wednesday noon. The Phi Psis have recently been fixing up their hall. The Kappa Alpha Theta Journal came out this week. The class in Qualitative Analysis had its first quiz this week. Prof. Dyche's class in physiology numbers about twenty-five. There will be a "joke" here next week, *Times* please copy.* The students' masked drill, ratification night, took the crowd. The Kappa Alpha Theta's will give a party early in December. The Sophomore Latines enjoyyc their regular quiz, last week. There is some talk of presenting a "Kirmess" here during the winter. The Junior laws will meet to effect a permanent organization, this noon. The Times company does not send a paper outside the city of Lawrence. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. Prof. Sayre entertained the other half of the Senior class last Tuesday eve. Prof. Dunlap took charge of Prof. March's classes while he was in Wichita. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 23, 1888. Hereafter the Athenaeum literary society will meet every Friday evening. Who says that students can't ratify even if they're not old enough to vote? Stag card parties are at present the popular thing, for Saturday afternoons. The Junior class in German have finished reading Goethe's "Iphigenie." It is said that Kansas farmers have already begun to set hens in Cleveland hats. There is some talk of a banquet in the near future, among the Junior law students. The Senior and Junior moot courts were held Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. The Seniors were very pleasantly entertained, Tuesday evening, by Miss McKinnon. The "Mikado" will be given tonight at the opera house, by an amateur company. A. R. Stover left Monday for Texas to accept a position in a drug store in Texarcana. Slosson, of the chemical department, is testing his boarding house water for impurities. A new edition of the complete work of Lord Tennyson has been recently published. The new clock, placed in the Merchant's Bank building, can be seen a great distance at night. Lawrence was roused last Friday night as thoroughly as at the time of our last Oratorical victory. Prof. Canfield's recent address before the Department of Art was published in last Sunday's Journal. The Freshman French class has read about half of Merimee's "Colomba," and finds the work very interesting. Some of the boys attempted a game of tennis, Saturday, but were compelled by the cold and wet to give it up. Prof. J. H. Canfield reports that the Republican ratification in Chicago was the biggest thing of the kind he ever saw. The Freshmen will meet this noon to discuss the advisability of holding a Freshman party. Let all Freshmen be present. The new portiere curtains in the library greatly enhance the beauty of that classic room; they were presented by a friend. The members of the football club were practicing last Tuesday. Some of the boys are developing into phenominal kickers. The ladies of the sub-freshman English class are said to be sadly addicted to the use of slang expressions. "Do you tumble?" The Freshman German class is finishing the study of "Auf Wache" this week, and will soon commence the translation of "Wilhelm Tell. The game of football last Saturday, played between the Harvard and Princeton clubs, was won by Princeton by a score of 18 to 6. It is the earnest and hearty wish of the COURIER that each K. S. U. student may enjoy his Thanksgiving vacation to it fullest extent. It has been said by some of the young ladies that the young gentlemen are not over prompt paying up election bets. Boys, be prompt! The catalogue of the Sophomore class was posted last week. The class comprises eighteen students, four of whom are young ladies. From present indications, the boys will do well to save their quarters, for the coming winter promises to be one of cutters and bob-sleds. "Every action of the Times editors is made to freeze out the barbs The Courier is the better paper, after all." A BARB. On account of a change in time of meeting, the Philological club will meet to-night, and will carry out the program posted for last Friday evening. The members of the National Grange, which held its annual session in Topeka, last week, visited the State Agricultural College in a body, on Saturday. A charity ball and fair under the auspices of ten young ladies of West Lawrence will be held on the 17th of December, in the new Merchants' Bank building. As the first term nears its close, many applications will come in for drug clerks from the Senior class. Do not accept these and you will find that a Ph. G. will reward you for waiting. The manner in which some of our students flirt with the Business College girls is simply disgraceful, especially as all of the guilty students are members of the dignified Junior class. The time now approacheth when the wary farmer grasped the festive farmyard fowl by the leg, and stealthily secrethet him in the hencoop, that the student may not lay hands on him and steal him. The November meeting of the Douglas County Horticultural society was held last Saturday in the lecture room of Snow Hall. Delegates were elected to the State Horticultural convention to be held in Hutchinson, in December. A bountiful lunch was served by the ladies. Rev. Winfield Scott, chaplain in the United States army, stationed near San Francisco, was the guest of Prof. Robinson last Sunday. He is an old friend and classmate of the Professor's, and was on his way home from an extended visit in the east. Mr. Woodard will deliver a lecture on the recent Art Exhibition at Kansas City in the studio on the second floor this evening. In order that he may not interfere with any of the literary societies he will speak from half-past seven to eight. We advise all who can to attend this lecture, as Mr. Woodward never fails to make his discourse interesting. Among the handsomest and costliest presents ever given to the University library are ten volumes of Pope's works, donated by Col. W. H. Rossington, and Dryden's work in twenty-two volumes, donated by Hon. Geo. R. Peck. Both of these gentlemen reside in Topeka and take an active interest in the welfare of the University. The Old and New club, the leading literary and social club of the city, was entertained last Saturday evening by Col. O. E. Learnard. The paper of the evening was presented by Prof. Sayre; subject: Homeopathy vs. Allopathy. An interesting discussion followed the reading of the paper. Roberts sings heavy bass in the Mikado. Personal. Miss May Walker was on the hill Friday. Miss Pearl Young climbed the hill last Friday. Earl Smith is paying tribute to Terpsichore. Miss Bodkin returned to Omaha last Monday. Sears, of the Indian school, was on the hill Monday. the halls last Friday. halls last Friday. Miss Anna Barker was absent from her classes Friday. her classes Friday. Miss Reynolds was a recent visitor at the University. at the University. Pickering made a visit to his home in Olathe Friday (?). in Olathe Friday (1); Miss Bean, of Kansas City, was in the halls Monday. A. E. Curdy visited Lawrence friends last week. friends last week Miss Fannie Barker was at the University Monday. Glen Miller sailed from New York for Europe last week. E. L. Ackley enters the Junior law course this week. Fred Hamblin visited his parents in Ottawa last Saturday. Miss Edna Maxwell was a recent visitor at the University. Miss Florence Reasoner returned to her classes this week. Prof. Wilcox took in the ratification from the Leis corner. Miss Belle Roberts visited old friends in the halls Monday. exercises last Friday morning. Bob Rankin was "guided" through the buildings Friday afternoon. Rev. Dr. Cordley conducted chapel exercises last Friday morning. the buildings Friday afternoon. Hodges, a former K.S. U. student, is employed in a bank at Topeka. is employed in a bank of Popes Hadley, Deverell and McPherson are members of the dancing class. NO 11. Misses Minnie Innes and Nannie Towne were at the University Friday. W. E. Higgins took a prominent part in the "Union Scout" last week. C. S. and T. C. Garmer, of Lawrence, were among Monday's visitors. Denton Dunn, of Kansas City, spent Sunday with his Phi Psi brethren. Miss Lillie McMillan will spend the winter in Washington and New York. Mr. Andrews, of Ann Arbor, Mich., visited his Beta brothers recently. Howard Bundrem is attending the State Normal this year at his home in Emporia. Butler makes a great drum-major. O. C. Le Seur was on the hill Wednesday. E. S. Mead is now boarding at Mushrush's. Miss Dodge, of Lawrence, was a recent visitor. Miss Grosback was one of this week's visitors. Prof. Green went to Emporia Tuesday on business. Prof Snow returned from McPherson last Saturday. Miss Laura O'Brien was at the University Tuesday. Ernest Himoe visited the Pharma department this week. Miss Georgi Brown is visiting friends in Leavenworth. ey departmen. Miss Blanche Webber will visit Miss Belle Roberts next week. Thanksgiving ... Miss Lou Barker was unable to attend her classes Wednesday. Miss Helen Webber will spend Thanksgiving in Arkansas City. Miss Alice Penfield will visit friends in Lawrence next week. Ed.Shaw, of last year's high school graduating class, will enter the University next fall. D. Kirk, of Garnett, a last year's student, was in the city last Saturday and Sunday. Kirk is attending Washburn College this year. Miss Emma White returned Tuesday from a visit to Miss Alice Penfield, at Fairmount, Kan. Ernest Totman, of Topeka, made a short visit with Herbert Armstrong the latter part of last week. Miss Jo Cook, who has been making a brief visit with Miss Petty, at Osage City, returned to Lawrence last week. It is rumored that Nate McCague will soon make Topeka his future home, and that a young lady in that city will change the "b" in her name to "g." Miss Josie Hutchings gave two vocal selections at the benefit concert in Topeka, October 21st, given in honor of J. B. Marshall, the leader of the famous Marshall's Military club. Col. Wm. H. Rossington, who so kindly presented the works of Pope to the library last week, was in the city Friday last. Rev. Geo. Batchelor, of Boston, who visited the University last week, preached at the Unitarian church in Topeka last Sunday morning; and Dr. Howland, of this city, preached in the evening. Among the most enthusiastic ratifiers at Topeka last week was our revered Chancellor. The gusto with which the doctor blew his tin horn left no doubt in the minds of any as to the party with which he sympathized. Abe Levy has an elegant line of fine Silk and Cashmere Mufflers