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COURIER.
THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY
Tis said, Orophilian reminds one of olden times at present.
Last Tuesday the Chemistry class studied the process of making ice in a red hot crucible.
We said oh! that annual last week. we meant it as a prophecy. The annual is a thing of the past at least by the fraternities this year.
It promises to be very entertaining, and all should attend. Meetings have been changed from evening to afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The Philological club will meet this afternoon at four o'clock in the Greek room. Papers will be read by Profs. Carruth, Robinson and Rudolph.
A meeting of the base ball captains of last years fraternity league, was held Monday, at the end of the fourth hour, in room No. 11. It was advised that each fraternity should give two dollars towards making the pennant awarded to the Phi Psi fraternity.
The meetings of the college Y.M.C.A. which have been held on Sunday afternoon, will be held to-night, and hereafter, on Friday evening, in the rooms of the city association. All those interested in this work are earnestly requested to be present this evening. Meetings begin at 7:30.
Last Saturday evening the I.C.'s gave a "cooky-shine" in honor of their Alumnae, at the home of Miss Hattie McFarland, on New Hampshire St. After one of those dainty spreads, for which the I.C.'s are noted, Miss Mamie Manley proposed a number of toasts, which were responded to as follows:
Welcome to the Alumnae, Miss Anna Cockins; Response, Miss Mina Marvin; History of Founding, Miss Sarah Richardson; Impromptu, Miss Jo March and Miss Hannah Oliver; Founding Song, by Sorosis.
Those present were: Mrs. Naude Gibbs, Mrs. Clara Schmidtmeyer, Misses Jo March, Sarah Richardson, Hannah Oliver, Mary Griffith, Lyda Griffith, Bella Love, Marcia Wood, Mina Marvin, Namie Woodward, Hattie McFarland, Jennie Sutliff, Addie Sutliff, Cora Parker, Anna Cockins, Margie Brown, Namie Tisdale, Effie Scott, Namie Love, Anna Barker, Flora Newlin, Gertrude Crotty, Helen Sutliff, Namie Manley, Nellie Griffith, Mattie Snow, Lallie Buckingham, Eva Harrison, Lena Beard, Alice Horton, Ida King, Rose Horner, Milia Crotty, Edith Manley, Edna Jones.
Prof. Wilcox lectures to-night at the Congregational church in Atchison. The lecture is to be, nominally, before the Atchison Latin school.
Athenaeum.
The program of last Friday was very interesting. The six months of steady work has had a telling effect on the members. The ease and ability with which the members of Athenaeum prepare and deliver now, could have been justly envied by them six months ago. This is very noticeable in the extemporaneous speaking on the essays of current events. The society can congratulate itself on the success in this line more than any other. The regular election was held and the following officers was elected: Pres., Stout; Vice Pres. Hollsinger; Secretary, Miss Laura Gregg; Sergeant-at-arms, H. Barnes; Critic, Merryfield. A good program will be rendered this afternoon and every student who wishes to be entertained and instructed should attend. Reporter.
Orophilian.
On Friday afternoon, at the usual hour, Orophilian society was called to order by the President. After the election of Anna Beardsley to fill the position of Secretary left vacant by the resignation of Inez Taggart, the program of the day, consisting of Reading by W.E.Higgs; Essay, Ella Funk; Declama-tions, W.A.Kinzie and E.E.Squires; Extemporaneous, Geo.L.Dick and W.T.Caywood.
Immediately following the interval allowed for recess, after a motion to defer the debate till the last order, the society was thrown into one of the most interesting parliamentary discussions ever witnessed in Orophilian hall.
Finally after much discussion it was decided to leave the point in question to a committee composed of the Secretary and Treasurer.
A night during commencement week having been granted the society by the faculty, it was decided to hold the election, to select the representatives of the society for that evening, in two weeks.
The "parliamentary battle" was prolonged till it was too late to have the regular debate, but there is no question but that the individual members gained as much if not more benefit from the discussion which took its place. Let every one interested in such work turn out and lend encouragement, by presence, at least.
R.
Pharmacy.
W.L. Peabody entered the department last week.
J.W. Root was home on business for a few days last week.
Mr. Brown has discovered a new process for the preparation of mucine.
The Seniors have not as yet, discovered anything very funny in their organic Chemistry.
While there is to be no election in the near future, in the Pharmacy, yet the attendance and interest shown has never been better.
Mr. Kaiser has presented the Pharmacy society with the Brooklyn Medical Journal for the ensuing year. This, together with the number subscribed for by the society, and those donated by Prof. Sayre, makes in all some fifteen journals coming to our library.
Law.
More work and less play boys.
An addition of thirteen volumes was made to the law library this week.
Prof. Green is still at Topeka as attorney for the defendants in the Hilmon case.
Pense, of the Juniors, is beginning to win fame and fortune in the justices court.
The students in the law have been disturbed during the last few weeks by the noise in the main library.
The constitutionality of kissing the Blarney stone by proxy was sprung on Dr. Summerfield by Stebkins, the other day.
The land case which has been postponed so often, was last week decided in moot court by Judge Green, in favor of the plaintiff. King and Jackson attorneys.
On account of the Prohibition debate at the court house, Monday evening, the Juniors were obliged to postpone moot court till Tuesday night.
Senior Palmer, in his zeal for his client, the other day made some insinuations as to the veracity of the plaintiff, the plaintiff excepted, and but for the persuasiveness of Pease her council, Parmer would probably have come out of the contest with a bald head.
The Kent club will hold a senatorial session on Thursday evening, for the purpose of drill in extemporaneous debate.
Beaty, of the Juniors, has deserted Blackstone and is now enjoying hymnical felicity in Colorado.
This is the second case for the law department this year, and it is rumored that another one is soon to follow suit.
Pense can tell you all about it.
The tennis club has its full membership now, so no further application can be considered. The club will be composed of teams who have regular times of playing on the grounds. The following teams are organized: Prof. Carruth and Paul Goddard, Prof. A.G. Canfield and V.L.Kellogg, Russell Whitman and T.H.Kellogg; W.H.Brown and Chas.Johnson, O.H.Campbell and W.A.Snow, W.E.Higgins and I.V.Morse, W.T.Sudard and F.E.Sudard.
The "Peak Sisters" were simply immense.
We would like to call the students' attention to the advertisement of Geo.W. Woodburn & Co., of Kansas City, which appears on our fourth page. If you are in Kansas City, call in and see them. They will treat you well. If you aren't going down, but want anything in their line, write them and you will find them just as fair as if you were there in person.
"The Peak Sisters" at the Congregational church, last Tuesday, was something very witty and very entertaining. It was something far in advance of anything that has appeared in Lawrence in its line. Miss Nellie Thacher Peak gave a very interesting history of the family. We desire to give special notice to Miss Josie Hutchings Peak, Miss Georgie Brown Peak, Miss Belle Dix Peak, and Miss B.A. Ambler Peak. The costumes were neat and "Peaky." The whole affair was a success in every respect.
"While in college, one should not exclude from his thought the causes which agitate society and the questions which perplex economists and statesmen. It is the student's duty to thoughtfully consider the sectional and national problems which will eventually interest him, whatever may be his path in life. So much he owes to himself, so much to the republic. Fully as important to him is a knowledge of the conflicting vices and the diverse interests which result in the clash and classes of the present, as of the principles which once compelled despotic Charles to mount the scaffold, or which, later caused the American Revolution. As he studies the formation of the country's constitution, let him not overlook all current legislation. These years of phenomenal growth and progress are fraught with peculiar danger and demand the citizen's soundest judgment. He must intelligently weigh the men and measures which concern the nation's policy. He must abandon himself to neither political ignorance nor indifference. The ancient and the modern work, history and the magazine should lie upon the same table and be read with equal care. Such should be the preparation of the college for the world: classical but practical, technical but comprehensive.—College Rambler.
The Douglas County National Bank, which is so desirable of securing local stockholders, that it may be a Douglas County institution, has entered upon its career by ordering all its books from a Kansas City house. Consistency thou art a jewel.
Hoadley & Smith at the Eldridge House Pharmacy, have the finest line of Toilet Soaps, Perfumery, Cigarettes, etc., in Lawrence.
The Science Club will render the following program this afternoon: "Experience on a district telegraph," by F.B. Miller; "The Argo Smelter in Denver," by Harry Buckingham; "Note on the Constitution of Matter," by Prof. Bailey: "Review of the Club Members of the Scientific Journals," by V.L. Kellogg.
In the March Harper's the editor of the easy chair summons before him his whole class of college students and gives them a lecture on the evils of hazing. He is very severe in his characterization of hazing and hazers, but not too much so. The University is almost unacquainted with that hazing which has seemed to form such an important feature of eastern college life.
Hazing is undoubtedly one of the most contemptible and cowardly practices which disgraces student life, but it is rapidly dying out. Where now we hear of but few cases of hazing, formerly the papers were full of brutal, sometimes criminal outrages, often resulting in the death of the victim.
"We quote from the Easy Chair: "The meanest and most cowardly fellows in college may shine most in Hawaii. The generous and manly despise it." **** To overwhelm with terror a comrade of sensitive temperament until his mind reels—imps of Satan might delight in such a revel, but young gentlemen, never!
Elocution.
To the Editor of The Courier:
Who can say we have no provision made for the "Young America," who will in the future "scatter pearls before swine" in his eloquent address to crowded court-rooms or Senate chambers? If this person, who is eternally harping upon the subject "lack of elocutionary drill," had been present at the late assemblage of orators in the Freshman elocation class, he could easily have imagined he was in that portion of Dante's (?) Hades where, according to the maxim "Let the punishment fit the crime;" the elocutionists who have so long persecuted the people on this earth, were in their turn persecuted, being required to listen to their personality by a crowd of the impus. Our learned professor, presiding over this assembly, seemed truly to take friendish glee in inventing sounds never before heard (except, possibly, coming from the mouth of the "heathen" in Rider Hagggard's "She,") and requiring each trembling victim to strain his mouth to its fullest extent, sufficient to cause a loss of voice forever; but this relief may never come, as the punishment is eternal. Let the "growler" once enter thishalled preictand he will never open his mouth again, for he will then comprehend what an infernal din he is making.