The University Courier.
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The glee club starts on the spring tour the 27th of this month.
Frank Lutz returned last Tuesday to finish up his work at the University.
Prof. Dunlap will lecture on the Bible, Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. in room 14.
The beginning vocal musical class will give an anthem on Friday morning at chapel exercises.
The civil engineers will hold a meeting to-day for the purpose of organizing a civil engineering club.
The University orchestra, consisting of some eight pieces, will play in the Thursday morning chapel exercises.
Gen. H. S. Hall will address the seminary on Friday afternoon at 4 p. m. Subject: "Organizing Volunteers in 1861, and the First Battle of Bull Run."
A valuable addition has been made to the French department in the library. The whole set of "Bibliotheque Elzevirienne" consisting of 164 volumes has just been received.
The Seniors had hardly placed their challenge on the bulletin board last week until the Sophomores had accepted. But if the Sophomores can not play ball better than they spell "Sophomore" they will not be in it.
A company of fourteen university students made sixteen calls last Sunday afternoon in less than two hours. The most remarkable thing of all was that there was only one place where they were refused admittance.
When some of the students saw there was a new guide on duty at the University Monday morning they asked him to show them through the building. The boys let the guide take them a good ways before they told him their joke.
Russell Whitman of the class of '92, who edited and managed Smelzer's Sporting Journal, at Kansas City, last summer, and who is still holding the same position, is also doing excellent work as sporting editor on the Kansas City World.
Prof. Stevens gave a ten minutes lecture to the Freshman class in Botany before taking up the class work. It was not hardly on the subject of botany but was good sound advice to the young gentlemen and ladies with respect to their social life while in the University.
The series of brackets on top of the library building have caused many questions to be asked concerning their intended usefulness. One young man who seemed to know said they were placed there for the purpose of holding the busts of the University faculty and regents.
At the meeting of the University council, last Thursday afternoon, the resignations of Archie Hogg and Mr. L. A. Lowther concerning their places on the program for the commencement day exercises, were accepted. Mr. Frank Moore and Mr. Ed. O'Bryon were chosen to fill the vacancies.
Miss Mary Stone gave a farewell tea to her Theta sisters Tuesday afternoon before her departure for California. Miss Stone leaves Wednesday morning and expects to be gone several weeks. While there she will make a visit with the Theta Chapter at Leland Stanford University.
"A Kansas University professor is going about the State preaching that William Tell was a myth. This sort of thing should stop. How will the passing generation of Kansas feel in some distant time to hear learned professors lecturing on Jim Lane and John James Ingalls as myths."—Ft. Scott Monitor.
A Certain young lady of this University became so intensely interested in her studies while in the Greek room that she never heard the Janitor come and lock the door. It was some two hours before any assistance came. The unfortunate part was that it was from 11 to 1 and therefore had to go without dinner.
Some of the students of the University are very considerate and compassionate. One young man, when criticising Judge Cooley's use of language, being informed that Judge Cooley was probably the highest judicial authority in the United States, pathetically remarked: "Professor, I can't help it I feel sorry for him."
The Northeast and the Southeast Kansas Teachers' associations, which meet in Lawrence, April 5, have secured Prof. A. W. Small, of Chicago University, for the second lecture. It will be given on Friday night of the meeting. Prof. Small is lecturer on Sociology and Mr. William Hill, a former K. U. student, who is now instructor at Chicago University, recommended him very highly.
The table, which will appear in the new catalogue, shows a total enrollment this year of 1231; last year there were 1038, but both these include the extension students. The resident enrollment this year is 719. Every department shows some gained, and even with leaving out the names of 60 preparatory musical students that were listed in the catalogue last year, the resident enrollment is only a few less than last year. The number of girls attending the school is on the increase. The Freshman class this year shows 47 girls to 53 boys, the Sophomore 20 to 34, Junior 21 to 28, Senior 11 to 31. Since Chancellor Snow has been at the head of she school the college of arts has shown an increase from 118 in the last year of Lippincott's administration as follows: 199, 264, 283, 312, 323.
GOOD MUSIC.
The athletic board decided Monday afternoon to accept the offer of the "Adelphian Quartette" to give a concert in Lawrence the 20th of this month. Fifty per cent. of the gross receipts to go to the Athletic Association. Let every K. U. student do all they can to get a full house.
The Quartette Co. is from Doane College, Nebraska, and has been highly spoken of wherever it has given an entertainment. It has a date with Ottawa on the 19th and Baker on the 21st.
NEWS AT THE SHOPS
A 150 horse power engine has been placed in the electric light shops, and there will be 750 incandescent lamps added to the present number, making 1250 as a total number of incandescent lights in the University buildings. There will be 170 incandescent lights placed in the new library building, making the best light room in this part of the country. For this extra lighting two large boilers have been added in the shops.
CHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SEMINARY.
In accordance with the plan that was outlined at the last meeting of the Science Club in reference to the establishment of seminaries in the different departments, the Chemical and Mineralogical departments will unite in organizing such an association, and will hold its first meeting next week Thursday. It is proposed to make the reports of current mineralogical and chemical literature an important feature of the meetings. ___
The University Chronicle of the University of Utah is a welcome addition to our exchanges.
The S. U. I. Quill and the Vidette Reporter chronicle the advent of Sigma Nu in the University of Iowa. The chapter begins with 20 members.
Hon. Geo.W. Peck, of whom every Kansan is proud, delivered the principal address at Knox College, February 15, the occasion being the fifty-seventh anniversary of founding the college. The address, "The Kingdom of Light," a masterly production, is printed in full in the current number of the Coup D'etat.
" Your figure petite is ever so sweet,
And there's certainly no getting 'round it." Her adorer was scared, and hence unprepared, For her question meant more than he hardly dared. But she coyly found voice to propound it; "So my figure petite is ever so sweet— Are you quite sure there's no getting round it?" of Pennsylvania Courier