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UNIVERSITY
No.2
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
VOL. VI.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 3, 1888.
Local.
COURIRR election to-day.
On to Baldwin. Our man must win.
Remember just a week from tonight is the state contest.
The guides have been kept very busy during the past week.
The Italian skies are still with us. January, indeed, went out as a lamb.
Rawk-Chalk-Jay-Hawk-K-U, is Kansas State University's slogoy.
The ice has broken and the preps. will have to find some other way of amusing themselves on Saturdays than by skating.
Prof. Marvin was seen carrying the large University grade book up stairs the other day. We wonder what will be the outcome.
The "Kentucky toughs" boarding club has clanged its base of supplies and is now located on Vermont street opposite the Lawrence House.
A few of our students learned last Friday night that this month contains twenty-nine days, or in other words, that it is leap year.
Every one should attend the oratorical contest at Baldwin, one week from to-night- A good delegation from the University will encourage our orator.
Some of the Freshmen are experiencing considerable difficulty in arranging their studies so as to make up back work this term.
The class in constitutional and political history has run about out of general histories. Hereafter they will have to generalize for themselves from the special topics presented in recitation.
Professor Canfield has announced to the class in constitutional history that they can now obtain pictures of themselves of Mr. French.
The students in the west side of the inner library are highly and pleasantly entertained of afternoons, by the eloquent appeals and harangues which the laws are making in the adjoining room.
The new Santa Fe bridge over the Missouri at Sibley, upon which some of K. S. U's. old students have been working, has been built in a shorter time than any other bridge over the same river.
Judge Foster, of the United States District Court of Topeka, Hon. J. R. Burton, of Abilene, and Col. Mann, of Kansas City Journal, have consented to act as judges at the Annual Contest at Baldwin City, February 10.
Baker University, College of Emporia, State Normal School, University of Kansas, Washburn College and Ottawa University compose the institutions in the organization of the Kansas State Inter-Collegiate Association.
Dr. J. H. Long, formerly a student of the Chemical Department of K. S. U., now Chemist to the Illinois State Board of Health, at Chicago, publishes in the current number of the American Chemical Journal a thoroughly scientific and exhaustive paper on the "Oxidation of Sewage."
It takes quite a while for the students to get hold of all the details of the new regime. They are just beginning to find out that it will be necessary for them to have their studies registered in their grade books when they enter new classes.
Prof. Marsh's new optional in advanced English composition is going to be a stunner. The students who enter it will have to work. They will be expected to get out a nice little thesis of one thousand or fifteen hundred words every fortnight.
All students wishing to obtain reserved seates at Baldwin for the contest must apply to J. A. Mushrush by Monday noon. Seats will be in demand at Baldwin next Friday, and unless those who go have them reserved, they will very likely have difficulty in obtaining them there.
Opera Gypsy Baron to-night. This company played a full week at the Gillis, Kansas City. Our people who heard the opera pronounce it first-class. The troupe is one of the largest and best traveling and is the same company that plays Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati.
The COURIER ever wishing to forward the interests of our beloved institution, would call the attention of our next legislature to the fact that we badly need an extra appropriation of ten or fifteen cents to buy a board or two to place over the mud hole between the main building and Snow Hall and the Chemistry building.
Prof. Blake is having a set of electrical gauges put in in connection with the water tanks in the roofs of the several buildings. Connections will be made with the tanks in the main building, the chemistry building, and Snow Hall. The arrangement will, by ringing a set of bells, in the private room, and also a set at the engine house, enable the superintendent to know at the moment, when the water in any one of the tanks reaches a certain high level or falls to a certain low level.
One of the best programs rendered by Athenaeum Society was that given last Friday afternoon. The oration by Mr. Brown excited favorable comment. The current event, essay, by Mr. Sarhum, was well prepared and was thoroughly discussed. Although the debate was upon the time-worn subject of woman suffrage, it was handled in a very able and interesting manner by Miss Hunnicutt and Miss Gregg upon on the affirmative, and by Messrs
Athenaeum.
Riggs and Wixon upon the negative. Of course it was decided in favor of the women.
During the afternoon Prof. MacDonald favored the society with music. We also noticed that Prof. Carruth was present, acting as one of the judges of the debate.
The society accepted the offer of a night during Commencement week, made by the Faculty, and chose June 2 as the most desirable.
Athenaeum is steadily growing, and anyone desiring society work can do no better than to join. But all members are expected to work; no drones allowed.
A magnificent collation was served at a resonable hour. A number of guests were present from abroad and upon every hand was heard the warmest expression of gratitude toward the Theta girls and a fervent wish for their continued prosperity.
Fraternity Reception.
The Kappa Alpha Theta reception given at the elegant residence of Miss May Webster last Friday evening was one of the social events of the season and coming as it did at the close of examination week, it served as a disperser of dull care of the unfortunate ones, while they were wavering between hope and fear regarding their examinations. By 9 o'clock the spacious parlors were filled by their invited guests and enjoyment of the evening commenced its course, consisting of dancing and card playing while Miss Joe Hutchings joined the entertainment of the evening with a few choice selections much to the pleasure and delight of the guests.
SAM SMALL
To the Editor of The Courier:
SAM SMALL.
Rev. Sam. W. Small delivered his lecture entitled "From the Bar-room to the Pulpit," to a large audience in Plymouth Church one week ago last night.
In personal appearance, Sam Small is tall, slim, dark complected, dark moustache, dark hair and eyes, and wears glasses. His manner and accent are Southern. He has a sort of impulsive, earnest delivery, and enlives and illustrates his remarks with numerous jokes and stories.
In his lecture he related how he had been reared in a Christian family, under Christian influences, how he had been sent to college and then thrown among associates whose life of gayety and frivolity had created a desire for like pleasures; how he had learned to drink in order to appear at the head in social life; and how, despite the entreaties of friends, the earnest persuasion of his wife and his own determination, he was held down by this curse for seventeen years.
He stood high in social and political circles. He was appointed on a foreign mission. He held a high position among the United States Senators. But strong drink drove him from all these offices and incapacitated him for the common every-day duties of his profession.
He finally visited a revival which Sam Jones was holding, and was converted. He sought and received forgiveness at his own home, and that very night preached in the public square. He who had been drunk for three days before, was generally disbelieved; but he had persevered and intended to persevere. People called him a crank, but he gloried in the name, believing that cranks are necessary to the movement of the temperance machinery.
He severely arraigned both political parties for dodging the issue, said that he believed prohibition would be the main question in five years' time, and paid St. John a high tribute of praise.
Mr. Small does not believe in treating the whiskey seller, the destroyer of homes and happiness, with any mercy. He believes in stamping out the evil, root and branch, and thinks the violator of the law should pay a heavy penalty. He does not believe in local option or high license.
Mr. Small held the closest attention of his audience, and was frequently interrupted with applause. At one moment his hearers would be in tears as he related the sorrows of a drunkard's home; at the next moment they would be laughing at some ludicrous remark, or some story. Altogether Sam Small was a success, and my opinion, formed upon newspaper accounts, was very favorably changed. M.
Hobbs and Hall, Junior Laws, have entered Prof. Canfield's class of Constitution and Political History.
The boarders at Mrs. Mushrush's mourn the departure of two of their number at the opening of the term.
E. S. Smith, who has been attending the Business College in this city, has entered the University.
It is said that Scott Hopkin's paper before the Kansas Bar association was one of the very best rendered at the last meeting.
Miss Gus Green pleasantly entertained a number of friends Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Lola Green, of London, Canada.
The Handel and Haydn society at its concert next Tuesday evening will sing Parker's Redemption Hymn, Gounod's Gallis, and other fine choruses. There will also be solos, by Miss Georgia Brown, Miss Neil, of Topeka, and by Mr. Hennemann, the first violinist of the Gade quartette, of Kansas City. The last is a member of the Royal Danish orchestra, of Copenhagen, now on leave of absence, and is universally acknowledged to be very fine musician.
Personal.
Dick Bundrem has gone home.
Nellie Palmer has been seriously ill.
Will O'Byron spent Saturday in Lawrence.
Charlie Chanute has left the University.
Miss Kate Wilder was seen in the hall yesterday.
Miss Alice Bartell is visiting her sisters this week.
D. H. Platt, of Washburn, spent last Sunday in Lawrence.
Dickerson, Law,'87, is visiting his Phi Delt brothers.
Helen Sutliff will go to Topeka to visit friends on Friday.
O. M. Jackson was in Lawrence last Saturday.
Fannie Pickering is enjoying a visit from her sister.
Mr. Challis has been very sick for several days.
Jack Schall has accepted a position in Michigan.
Mushrush came back from a home visit Monday.
Y. M. White, an old student, has been very sick.
Caldwell is greatly interested in the new telegraph line.
Mr. Curry, our efficient clerk went o'Toneka last Saturday.
Mrs. Schall entertained the Phj Delts last Friday.
Nettie Brown has been heard from and wishes she was back in K. S. U.
Laura O'Bryon has been spending the past week in Lawrence.
Miss Lyle Hynes left Thursday for Texas, to be gone a week.
Miss Lillie Mellin, of Garnett, enters the University this term.
Misses Anna Chalfant and Callie Melvin have entered school.
Mrs. Nettie Hubbard Boles,'85, is enjoying life in an abode in Mexico.
Edith Manley, a University student of several years ago, has returned.
Shellabarger went home last week after he had finished his examinations.
President Gobin, of Baker University, lectured in the city Tuesday night.
Miss Clara Mansfield has returned to her home in Abilene on account of her parent's sickness.
Miss Anna Barker has returned from Independence, where she has been attending school.
Daisy Howard will not complete her course in Pharmacy on account of the illness of her mother.
Robt. Rutledge, a member of the class of '90, has left the University and does not expect to return for one year. Mr. Rutledge was a thorough student, and the Sophomore class loses one of its best men.
Buy a Plug Hat of ABE LEVY for the CONTEST Next Friday Evening.