THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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COLLEGE NOTES.
Cornell has ninety-seven less Freshman this year than last and thirty less graduates.
Iowa. California, Syracuse and Dartsmouth were admitted to membership in the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association of America at the recent annual meeting.
"Emporia is the Athens of Kansas." We refuse to enclose this expression in quotation marks."—College Life.
Raimond J. Baerd, author of "American College Fraternities" places the present membership of Greek letter societies at 110,000
Beloit College, at Beloit Wisconsin, is to open its doors to women next fall. The student's feelings in the matter are shown in the following verselet from the Round iTable:
"Oh, for a joy supreme,
Our nature's sunning;
in only six months more
Co—eds are coming "—Ex.
But oh! what a difference in the morning! The young ladies at the University of Illinois have an organization known as the Girls' University Glee Club.
"As providence willed
By her bicycle killed;
"Twas thus that her epitaph ran:
In bloomers and cap;
Though sad the mishap.
She went to her death like a man." —Union School Quarterly.
At a recent election of editors for the "Gopher," the Minnesota Annual, the frats and barbs buried the hatchet and magnanimously elected each other.
"The faculty at Lake Forest have abandoned the'A'B'C'D' system of marking, and the reports now read only 'Passed,' 'Not Passed,' or 'Conditional.' Dr Jordon very heartily approves of this, and says, College marks, college honors, college degrees all belong to the babyhood of culture,the times when scholarship was not manhood,and the life of students had no relation to the outside world."—The Echo.
A BURLE. QUE PARALLEL.
"It looks as if another orator in the recent contest will have to explain. The state
contest in Ohio this year had a participant to deliver an oration on Savonarola, and quotations taken from this production betray a "deadly parallel" with sentences and clauses in an oration on Savonarola in the Kansas contest. Both addresses are narrative in style and dramatic in effect. This is the way the quotations line up:"
OHIO ORATOR.
Such was the condition of all Italy.
Underneath he could see the evil influence of false culture and false gaiety.
Did Savonarola hesitate?
The foremost re formers of his time.
Having the spirit of a true reformer.
Lustre to his name.
He had determined "to war them to the death."
Political rights.
There appears a man of that proud Roman race.
Statesman or reformer.
Fifteenth century.
His reward was the stake.
KANSA ORATOR.
Such was the condition of society in Italy.
Society, with all its culture and polish and elegance is a whited sepulchre.
Did he falter?
Latimer, Huss and Paul are no nobler examples.
Catching the spirit of the great reformer.
The lustre of his fame.
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He cannot restrain his pent-up emotions.
Political freedom.
there appeared upon the stage of human action the figure.
Statesman and the philosopher.
Fifteenth century. Die at the stake. It.—College Life.
It.—College Life.
The Senior Play.
After a careful study of a number of available plays the Seniors have at last decided to stage Paullerons French comedy, "Le Monde ou lon S'ennule." The play has never been given in America but was a great success in Paris. All the work of translation and adoption will be done by the class. It will be comparatively free from local hits and will depend for its success on the original lines and their interpretation by the cast. The following Seniors will take part: Misses Shaum, Scott, Humphrey, Menet, and Fellows and Messrs. Ingalls, Harrington, Alden, Edwards, GardBurney, Withington, Cone, Kelsey, Lahimer and Shaeffer. Clyde W. Miller will act as manager.
Dave James was visiting among his old University friends Monday.