THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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LOGALS.
The Theta party to-night.
Only four more weeks of school, but the quiz will end it all.
See the new lines of Walking Canes at Smith's News Depot.
The Betas will entertain their friends at their chapter house on May 10th.
One of the language professors will be married to a professor's daughter in June.
Develop your murcles by using the Whitley Exerciser, for sale at Smith's News Depot.
Sal Walker's phenomenal slide in the ball game Saturday was more dramatic than graceful.
Thirty colored people were baptized in the river last Sunday. They were from North Lawrence.
The faculty-senior baseball game on May 9, will be a drawing card. The odds are offered 2 to 1 for the seniors.
Charlie Williams has purchased a new 18 pound bicycle, and now the sojourners at the Hotel Viscount exercise daily.
You can't buy Cigarrettes at Smith's News Depot, but he has the finest line of Cigars and Smoking Tobacco in the city.
Prof. Adams lectured before the Historical Seminary on Friday afternoon. He told those present some interesting French history.
The new University catalogues will soon be ready for distribution. They have been printed and will be sent to Lawrence within a few days.
The Senior almanac will contain among other things, a list of the professors telling what they think of themselves, and what the students think of them.
Dr. Martin Van Buren Stevens has received a letter from a rich widow in Hutchinson, in which she announces that she would like to correspond with him.
The rooms of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity on the fourth floor of the Opera house building were pretty badly smoked by Saturday night's fire, but little other damage was done to them.
Joe Welsh has been in Kansas City the past two weeks.
Charlie Pettyjohn, of Olathe, and sister Miss Grace, are in the city visiting friends. Charlie attended the University last year but this year he has been attending the Mexico Military academy, in Missouri.
Prof. Blake has contrived a plan to remove the tarnish on the stone front of the new physics building. Application of acids in the preparation of the stone previous to the erection of the building brought out an ugly tarnish, which will be removed by the use of vinegar, the ascetic acid contained in it leaving the stone the original color.
The annual spring oratorical contest last Wednesday night was fairly well attended. Mr. Will MacMurray won first place and Mr. Galen Nichols second. The following program was rendered: Toccata, Dupont, Miss Annie M. Bundy. The Philosophy of Heresy, Charles H. Lease. License, Liberty and Law, Galen Nichols. The Negro in America, E.B.Wood. Song of Hybrias, the Cretan, Elliott:Mr. E.C. Marshall. The Influence of Thought, R.L.Netherton. Charlemagne, Will Murray.
Van Hosen-Challiss Wedding.
On Tuesday last at seven p. m. at the suburban home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Van Hoesen, Rev. Richard Cordley repeated the ceremony which united Miss Rilla B. Van Hoesen and Mr. James Challis, of Atchison The wedding was attended only by the most intimate friends of the bride and groom. The party included the following: Rev. and Mrs. Cordley, Mr. and Mrs. F.C Dobson, of Ottawa, Misses Gibson, of Topeka. Riggs. Mary Monroe, Mame Specer, Fannie Barker and Lucy Van Hoesen maid of honor; Messrs. Ernest Blaker, of Kansas City, Kansas: Lewis, and Frank Crowell, of Atchison, who was best man. The wedding was followed immediately by a reception, for which one hundred and fifty cards were issued. The decorations were particularly striking, the parlor being trimmed wholly with pink rosebuds. The library where the bridal couple received their friends was in white with profusion of snowflids and