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physical build. He is said to have followed the plow for several years. Graduated at Lawrence High School with class of '90. He He expects to become famous for his acting in the Senior Drama, in which he takes the part of Clerk. Will study medicine in Pennsylvania State University.
Burrit Howell Hill, born at Neodesha, July 10, '73, graduated from High School at this place with class of '90. Was elected to the honorary fraternity Sigma Xi. He expects to become a banker.
Arthur Linton Corbin was born in Linn Co., October 17, '74. He lived on a farm during the early part of his life; graduated from the Lawrence High School. Was honored by being made treasurer of Senior class of '94. Member of Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
Irvis R. Rothrock was born in Lawrence in the year 1871,was a graduate of Lawrence High School. Was one of the leading players of University foot-ball players of 93. For further information regarding this marvelous young man you will find him personally loafing over among the pharmics. Expects to teach chemistry.
Stella May Miller was born in the city of Lawrence, May 27,'72. Attended Denver High School and at the High School of Rockford, Ills. She is laying her plans to teach.
Robert Lee Hoff was born in Clarksburg, W. Va., March 3, 1866. Attended State Normal School in West Virginia. Came west in '85 and taught six years in a Nebraska High School. Has been elected to Sigma Xi. He will follow the profession of instructor.
Luther Elias Thrasher was born at Iola, Kansas, February 27, '73. Graduated at Iola High School iu'89. Active member in Sigma Chi fraternity. Expects to attend Harvard and study law.
Eli Cann was born at Cranlington, Northumberland, England, August 26, '69. His earlier years were spent in a coal mine, from there he went faithfully to work behind the plow handles. He taught one year at Carbondale, Kansas, High School. Entered preparatory course at University and has become known as a great orator in behalf of the poorer classes.
Richard William Carter was born at Lawrence, Kansas, November 23,'71. Graduated at Lawrence High School in '89. Will continue his civil engineering course.
William Cornelius Fogle was born at Williamsburg, Kansas, April, 73. Attended Knox College, Ills. President of College Y. M. C. A., and last term was editor-in-chief of Student's Journal. Main weakness is society but after marriage it is thought that he will settle down to harder work. He anticipates going to an eastern school next year.
Rowland Eliot Blackman, that tall peaked fellow who is always engineering into everybody's business after news, was born in Douglas county, February 9, 1870. He entered preparatory department of K. S. U. years and years ago it seems. He farmed two years, at which he seemed to be more successful than at any other one thing and has had two years experience as a teacher. He expects to fill some chair in a German University.
Frank Horace Moore, the noble editor-in-chief of Student's Journal and elected to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, was born September 1, 72, at Mantuer, Ohio, came to Kansas at an early date, then lived in Trinidad, Col. Graduated at Lawrence High School and for four years has been trying to graduate at University, finally getting the consent of the Faculty this year. May perhaps attend school in the east.
Rose Ruth Morgan was born at Leavenworth, Kansas, January 11. '73. Graduated from the High School in '90. Was among those who were honored by invitation from Phi Beta Kappa. Expects to follow teaching as a profession.
Laura Radford, born sometime in the beginning of the nineteenth century, was educated in a country school. Graduated from Lawrence High School. She completed her college course in three years. The chances are now that she will spend her days in Old Maid's Hall which is soon to be established in Lawrence. (That is what she says).
ATHLETICS.
WE LOST TWO OUT OF THREE.
K. U. falls down before Minneapolis and takes revenge on Salina.
The team started out for Minneapolis without a catcher, second or third baseman, was attacked by a Republican delegation, forced to set up until 3:30 o'clock, when Solomon City was reached. The hotel at that place did not have a spare room within its walls, but the kind hearted proprietor allowed the members of the team to lie upon the floor of the office with their grips for pillows until breakfast time. When they arrived at Minneapolis and had eaten dinner, the team was in a condition to play base-ball seldom attained by any team.
Wagner, who had never played second base before, was placed in that position, and Parker, who has played third all his life before—nit, was placed on that bag. After the second inning Mitchell was forced to retire on account of an injury to his leg, and Manger Harding was placed on first. The very funny part of the whole affair is that the Minneapolis team, after having imported a crack battery from Kansas City, a third baseman from Salina, a left fielder from Abilene, and a second baseman from Bennington, won the game. The second day every man on the K. U. team was sore, sick and tired of life. And even then Minneapolis took the second game.
The team went to Salina, laid in a stock of quinine, and went to bed to break up the cold that they had been presented with at Solomon, limbered up, and when Monday came around they felt as though they could play ball in a pinch. They batted like fiends and won the game in a walk.
It is a good thing to play ball in Lawrence, idt. Some people, instead of finding out where the trouble was, insist that poor ball playing in Minneapolis by our regular team was the reason for losing, and that the opponents were nothing but kids. The fact that just thirty of our loyal University people attend the games that are played at McCook field gives all the rest of the seven hundred sore-heads a chance to kick. A person who has gone to games at McCook field and has seen the good games put up by the 'Varsity can easily see that some hard luck was the cause of the defeat at Minneapolis. It is true that we should not have attempted to play ball in the deplorable condition in which we were, but the contract was made and it had to be kept. It is getting to be pretty bad when a lot of chumps who never go to a ball game, or anything else given by the athletes, can criticize the playing of the fellows when they play under the circumstances into which they were forced at Minneapolis. The fact that a "two-for-a-nickel" correspondent who was mad because one of the team knew his girl and took her to the game wrote a dirty, stinking article for one of our dailies does put a bad light on our playing and upon our excuses to the outside, but when the men in the University, who know that our men are laid up, and who should understand the case, stand up and curse the team—the team that they never have given a cent to support since they have been here; curse the team when they who go to K. U. do not even know that there are such men as are on the team in school—the men who do this are "sore-heads" chumps, and everything deplorable in a University student under the sun. They should be placed under the pump and doused.
CONCERNING THE ARTICLE written by the correspondent of the Topeka Capital in Minneapolis we have this to say: It is false from beginning to end. The Minneapolis team had a battery from K. C. They had two of the best players on the Salina team. They had the best player they could possibly get in Abilene. They got a pitcher and second baseman from Bennington, and the pitcher is the best one in Kansas. The rest of the players were picked up in Minneapolis, and were very good players. The correspondent is a chump. Selah!