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VOL. VI.
No.4.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER, 30, 1887.
Personal.
Roy Hair will re-enter school today.
Miss Jones is pledged to the I. C. fraternity.
Nate McCague visited the University Monday.
Hattie Dunn returned to Kansas City Saturday.
Victor Linley of '85, is practicing law in Omaha.
Mr. Virtue has returned from a visit to his home.
Prof. Sterling left for Johns Hopkins Wednesday.
Prof. Bailey returned from Fort Scott last Saturday.
Prof. Carruth has ordered a stove for his lecture room.
W. A. White has taken Kellogg's place on the Review.
Denton Dunn came up from Kansas City last Sunday.
Miss Lillie McMillan has entered
cold water.
W. E. Borah has been admitted to the valley of Lyonna, Kansas.
R. L. McAlpine, of the class of '87 was in the city Tuesday.
W. E. Curry, our efficient clerk,
Sunday in Topeka.
John U. Higinbotham is studying how in Lincoln, Nebraska.
John Mastin, of Kansas City, was
born the first of the week.
Eugene Allen has left the University not to return this year.
A. L. Bennett is the last one to appear with a Phi Psi pin.
Miss Anna Hays, of Paola, wears the colors of Kappa Gamma.
J. H. Deford, pharmacy of '87 came up from Ottawa to-day.
Joe Shellabarger went home Fridas to celebrate his birthday.
Senator Allen, of Michigan, visited the University Wednesday.
Fred Kellogg is much better and will probably come back this week. Chancellor Lippincott is detained from classes on account of sickness.
A. H. Plumb spent the latter part of last week with his Phi Delt brothers.
Rob Hayslett, of Jetmore, Kansas, is visiting in Lawrence for a few days.
Ed. Blair has entered Columbia College to pursue a course in Medicine.
Miss Joe Cook made a short visit to friends and relatives here this week.
Mr. U. Morse, another man from Emporia looms up in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Frank Miller, of Paola and Mr. Rutter, of Spring Hill, are the new Sigma Nus.
Linville was called to his home in Ness City last Saturday, he will return in a week or two.
The name of C. W. Webster,a student of last year,now appears upon our subscription list.
Mr. Neff, of Winfield and A. Aveton of Topeka, are the new members of the Law class.
Whit Miles has re-entered the University after a five months experience with a surveying party.
Prof. Canfield's class in constitutional and political history is very much larger than usual this year.
Prof. Wilcox has made arrangements for the present to meet the Junior Greek class at his residence.
Henri Nickel has gone to his home at Newton to visit his mother, who has recently returned from Germany.
Miss Gertie Miller, of Baxten Spring, has entered the University to take a course in Art and English.
Miss Sidney Dailey accompanied by her mother left last Tuesday for a short trip through southern Kansas.
Palmer Ketner has passed the summer on the plains of western Kansas with a U. P. engineering corps.
John Mastin came up from Kansas City Friday evening to attend the Phi Psi party. He goes to Harvard this year.
this year.
G. W. Harrington came in yesterday. He will remain a few days but will enter the University in about three weeks.
Miss Sabin came down from Topeka last Friday to visit the University and attend the Y. M. C. A. reception.
Miss Hattie McCague stopped over a train to visit University friends Miss McCague expects to attend school in the east this winter.
Mr. Weightman, a prominent business man of Kansas City, who is visiting F. M. Benedict, visited the University yesterday.
Joseph Shinn, an old student of last year met with an accident which will probably cripple him for life. The Courier sympathizes with him in his affliction.
"Prof. E. L., Nichols, who has taken the chair of physics which Prof. Anthony resigned, at Cornell, is himself a Cornell man, having graduated in 1875. He then went to the University of Berlin, studying under Helmholtz and Kirchhoff to obtain the degree of Ph. D. For a year he held a fellowship at John Hopkins University, and for a time he experimented in Mr. Edison's laboratory at Menlo Park. He now goes to Cornell from the University of Kansas, where his work in the department of physics was notably brilliant and successful."—The Electrical World.
Henry G. Cornelson, a student of several years ago, died suddenly at his home near Hiawatha last Monday. He was a bright, energetic student and the Courier can but sympathize with his bereaved parents.
Local.
The Kent Club holds its weekly meeting tonight.
The Pharmacy boys are organizing a base ball nine.
The present Sophomore class is the largest of any for years.
The COURIER "bobs up serenely," whether school keeps or not.
The Sigma Chis give their first party of the season to-night.
The sub-Freshman German class had an examination last Friday.
The cold weather the first of the week made the students begin to long for stoves again.
The class in American politics were assigned topics for discussion last Monday.
The class in structural botany is one of the largest in the University and is doing good work.
The past week has been a "breaker" for the boys who had their best girl engaged for the theater.
The K. S. U. bicyclists were prevented from taking their contemplated trip last Sunday by the rain.
A large number of students attended Ruddygore at the opera house on Monday evening last.
The work on the foundation is progressing very slowly, it will take about six weeks to complete the work.
A great many students are talking of leaving for their home if this kind of weather seems inclined to hang on.
All students wishing to subscribe for the new art journal known as The Kritick, should give their names to Eugene W. Caldwell as soon as possible.
The excursion of the G. A. R. to St. Louis was attended by a number of University students. The badges of the excursionists were a sunflower and grasshopper.
There has been a great deal of misunderstanding as to what the University library hours are. The library is open from 8 o'clock in the morning to 7 o'clock at night except on Saturdays, when it is opened from 10 to 12 a.m. All students are welcome in using all magazines, books, etc.
What will the people of the East think when they have heard that sunny Kansas was obliged to close her University on account of the cold weather?
The past month has been a season of great rainfall. At the University on Sunday at 9 o'clock the instrument showed that 2.33 inches of rain had fallen.
Even now some of the rooms are so damp that a great number of students have taken severe colds from having to sit in them during recitation hours.
In case the weather remains in such condition that work in the University cannot be carried on, next Monday, Prof. Canfield will meet his classes at his residence at regular hours.
The Kent Club meetings are held at the court house on Thursday evening. S.P.King is president and the club is one of the best conducted and most efficient literary societies in the University.
The rain has completely stopped work on the foundations of the south wing. Owing to the water that has settled in the excavation it will be over a week before the work can be commenced again.
K. S. U.'s "preparatory medical course" is such that any student desiring to study medicine may take his first year here and be admitted into the second year of any medical school in the U. S.
The Seniors have received their arrearage cards and are experiencing considerable trouble in clearing them on account of the frequent changes in the curriculum during the last three years.
The most serious damage the rain has done for the University was to stop work on the boiler house. It is of the utmost importance that the building should be in a condition to be heated in at least thirty days.
The Senior class will appear inside of a month with the regulation plug hat adapted as a representation of 88. It is necessary for the Seniors to have a hat very high in the crown in order to incase their noble brows. It would be well for all the classes to adopt some style suitable to their standing in the college world.
The engineering students seem to be more hardy than the rest of the students, as they were allowed to work in their department while the literary students were not permitted the use of the library during the cold snap.
One of the best, most logical and finely written articles which has appeared in our daily papers, was published in the Journal of last Sunday morning. It relates to the Baconian ane Shakesperean controversy recently renewed by publications of Ignatius Donnelly. Mr. Donnelly's apparently undeniable and unapproachable articles are completely upset.
At last the boilers have been placed in position in the new boiler house and we may expect some time next month to be enabled to keep from freezing when entering the University from a drizzling rain. With the superabundance of gas floating through our halls and with dampness almost unbearable it will be a great wonder if some of our students are not nursing themselves in their rooms in a short time.
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The regular meeting of the Anthaneum literary society will be held in its hall at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The members of this society are all active workers and good programs have been presented heretofore. All students desiring literary training or interested in literary work are earnestly and cordially invited to attend.
The cold weather of the last week is a proof that the University authorities cannot be in too great haste in completing the engine house. The summer is undoubtedly past and we may look for a real cold wave at any time. If not completed soon and a cold wave should pass through this section it would cause a great deal of inconvenience and loss of time and study.
A sample of salt from Elsworth has been sent to the University for examination and inspection. The salt is clear and of a good quality and there is said to be vast beds in that portion of the State. With our inexhaustable supply of coal and with the silk and sugar industries growing every year Kansas is destined to be the best self-supporting State in the Union.
Law.
Mr. Nipp, of Winfield entered the Junior class this week.
W. S. Wooly, '88, went to Kansas City on a business trip Saturday.
G. W.Herrington is expected to enter the Junior class next week.
Moot courts have not yet opened and some of the restless Juniors are getting anxious to make their "maiden effort."
Sterling Price King is the first man to "bear the blushing honors" of president of the Kent Club.
W. H. Sears is the "newest" Senior Mr. Sears has been a student of law for two years and will undoubtedly make a strong member.
The catalogue of 1887 gives among the members of the law faculty Prof. J. H. Canfield as instructor in International Law, and yet the Laws are asked to pay $10 extra for pursuing that study.
Mr. Harbaugh, of the Senior class has already been admitted to the bar but on account of the fame of our law school, he comes here for a full year's work in order to better fit himself for his profession.
Mr. Pence, of the Junior class, comes from Los Angelos, California, Mr. Hall from eastern Indiana and Mr. Mitchell from Cincinnati, Ohio, who says that we are getting a reputation abroad for turning out successful L. L. B's.
Monday as one of the festive Seniors descended the hill he met three young ladies going up through the rain and accosting them said: "Good day for ducks." "Yes for green heads" was the ready response from one of the number.
Silk Umbrellas and Gum Coats at Abe Levy's.