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PHI GAMMA DELTA-Meets Saturday nights,
No. 715 Mass, 3rd floor.
FHI KAPFA Ps1-Meets Saturday nights, at rooms of the members.
PHI DELTA THETA—Meets Saturday nights, A. O. U. W.Hall.
SIGMA CHI—Meets Saturday nights, 2d floor Opera House block.
BETA TRETA Pt—Meets Saturday nights, at H. S.TREPA's law office.
KAPPA ALPHA TREAT- Meets Saturday afternoon,
No. 75 Mass, St. 83, 3d floor.
I. C. - Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
SIGMA. Nu-Meets Saturday nights, I. O. O. F.
block.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA—Meets Saturday after noon at homes of members.
see v. J. E. Rohnig.
PHARMACETICAL SOCIETY—Meets Thursdays at 3 p.m in Prof. Sayre's lecture room. J, H. De Ford, president; Miss Howard, sec'y.
OGRIPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY - Meets Fri day afternoons in its hall, University build ing, north wing, 3d floor. Pres. J. M. Hal ligan; see'y, Jera McRury.M
SCIENCE CLUB—Meets Friday aftercoats, in Snow Hall, President. W, H. Brown
KENT CLER, of Law Students—Mecca Friday nights in Court House. Pres., J. W. Roberts see'y, A. Overton.
GERMAN SOCIETY—Meets Friday afternoon from 2 to 3, in Oread hall. Pres., Henri Nickel; Schreyer, Anna McKenna.
PHILOLOGY—Meets second Friday of the month in Greek lecture room, University building, Pres., Prof. Williams; sec'y, Prof. Carnruth.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION—Pres., E. G. Blair; see'y, A. L. Wilmoth; Board of Directors, Frank Crowell, Denton Dunn, V. G. Kellogg
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY.-Meets Friday afternoons in its hall in the University building, south wing, third floor. President, C. L. Summ; secy, C. O. Nutting.
GOLLEGE BRANCH Y. M. C. A—Pres., F. J.
Gardner; see'y, L. T. Smith; meets every
Friday night in rooms of city association.
COLLEGE BRANCH Y. W, C.A., meiss Sunday afternoons at homes of members.
DICKSON DEBATING CLUB-Meets Friday nights, at Court House, Smith Curry, pres. H. White, sec'y
LIME KILN DERATING CLUB - W. R.
Cone, pres.; H. Hurt, sec'y.
COURIERCompany—Pres., Denton Dunn; sec'y.
R. J. Curdy,
BRVIEW Company-Pres., S. W, Shattuck.
BASE Ball Association-Seecy, S. T, Gilmore.
Solon T. Williams, '79, is Republican candidate for Police Judge of Lawrence. Williams is a bright, industrious young man and a successful lawyer. We hope that he may be fortunate enough to secure the election, and henceforth be known as "Judge" Williams.
The Senior class at its last meeting resolved that on class day presents and gifts from friends to members of the class must not be brought into the chapel for presentation. They resolved further to petition the faculty to enforce a similar rule on Commencement day. We think that the rule is a good one and should be adopted. These offerings are very nice in themselves and are no doubt, very acceptable to the recipients. But the practice of bringing them in for display before the assembled multitude has in the past been carried to a ridiculous extreme. Immense floral tributes, great bundles of dry goods, whole libraries, gold watches, dressing cases, boxes, bales, bundles and casks have been carried in, tugged, dragged and rolled in and piled up in miraculous pyramids to attract the wonder and astonishment of the beholders. There has been a disposition among the graduates to vie with each other in their display of gifts, this has been followed with many humiliating results. For the prosperous, popular and wealthy it has been well enough, but to many poor and friendless who receive nothing but a rusty agricultural bouquet or a small, tin foil-rapped collection of domestic and door yard shrubs,the contrast is necessarily somewhat painful. While it is pleasant and proper for the tired and over worked Senior to receive the approving testimonials of admiring (?) friends, we think that this public parade smacks of vulgarity and ought to be discontinued.
A Noteworthy Book.
There has recently been issued a book entitled: "Romanism, the Danger Ahead,"* which has attracted considerable attention. The author states the "reason why a Roman Catholic cannot be a good citizen of this republic," and if his statements be true, they are worthy of the most serious attention of all good citizens. The writer lays special stress on the fact that Rome demands the first allegiance in all things to her power, while no true American can acknowledge any higher temporal power than the government of the United States. He says the Roman Catholic church, as at present conducted, is in direct opposition to free government, free education, free thought, and quotes from the papal edicts and Romanist authors to prove his assertions. He tells of the abuses which the confessional necessarily originates and nourishes, and what unlawful powers it gives to the Romish priests. The increasing political power of the Romish church is a menace to our country, not to be disregarded and the assertions in this book, though wide and sweeping, are nevertheless, supported in such a manner as to be difficult of reputation. The book is certainly worthy of careful perusal, and should be read by every patriotic American, be he Romanist or Protestant.
"*Romanism, the Danger Ahead.*" The reason why a good Roman Catholic cannot be a good citizen of the republic, by A. J. Grover. Price 75 and 40 cents. Chicago; Craig & Barlow, 180-182 Monroe street.
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Many students are very anxious for a short vacation of about two days, Arbor day and one day besides. We hope that the faculty may see fit to give such vacation, believing that it would be beneficial. Everyone is quite tired and would like to recuperate a little before the "spring fever" season comes in full force. The half-term examinations have been unusually severe and have called for much hard work and many late hours. A little time for rest and recuperation would accordingly be quite acceptable.
LETTER FROM R. E. HEN-
RY.
A Spicy Description of a Trip to Nebraska.
The City of Lincoln-The University of Nebraska Contrasted with K. S.U.
LINCOLN.
EDITOR COURIER:—Pursuant to promise, I will give you a few notes of possible interest to your readers. My trip from the historic city of the garden State to this dusty metropolis was uneventful in the extreme. A very pleasant night in Atchison broke the monotony of an otherwise dull trip, and onWednes lay morning I embarked in a B. & M. train for Lincoln.
Of all the dusty, dirty, slow, disagreeable rides which I ever took, that six hours' journey was the worst. Two passenger coaches were made to do the duty of five and it was my enviable lot to share the seat of a mountain of flesh who felt that I was an intruder and who tried his best to make me feel it too—I felt!! !! I made a fortunate change however and have succeeded in expanding to my original size. A few miles south of White Cloud the road runs through the front yard of a citizen who has adopted a unique method of getting even with the company. Across the front of his house he has painted a sign, "This family has been wronged by the railroad, don't ride on it." I was sorry for him and I should certainly have taken another road bad my passes not been by the B. & M.—or had walking been good. The road has now put a water tank just in front of his house and stops all trains there, so probably both parties are satisfied.
Nebraska is a level sandy State, without timber except along the streams, so before Lincoln was reached I grew very tired of the monotony of travel. Lincoln is built on a perfectly level plain. There are very few shade trees in the city and no parks or beauty spots. The streets are unpaved and are as rough as can well be imagined. The houses scattered, most of them very unpretentious and ugly. There are a few handsome residences and business blocks and all the public buildings except the University are a credit to the State. The capitol is built of white cut stone, somewhat on the same plan as the State house at Topeka, but smaller and less handsome. I am told that Lincoln is a place wherein mud may be found in muddy weather, just at present I should think that a dust convention was in progress and that all the dust in Nebraska had been invited and was in attendance.
Of the University I shall speak
later on, I do not think my first impression as favorable as it should be. I am unfortunate in getting here during spring vacation, hence I have seen no students. The buildings are far behind ours in size, convenience and beauty of architecture. I have spent most of my time at the sessions of the State legislature and in the library of the Y. M. C. A. The latter is a great resort for the young men of the city. The rooms which are nicely fitted up, consist of a library, gymnasium, bath-room, reading room and chapel, as they are under the charge of a most gentlemanly and pleasant secretary, I have spent much time there and I notice that many go there. Over thirty came in during one hour this morning. Lincoln seems to be a very moral city, having many beautiful church edifices and very few saloons, I have noticed but one or two and I have been pretty well over the city.
The legislature—yes I have been there and it is like most legislatures, idling away its time. They did elect a Senator some weeks ago and they are having sessions every day but they are not working. Old chaps from the rural districts, young chaps from the city, all highly tickled over their honors, such are the Solons of Nebraska. Quite an amusing scene occurred in the Senate this morning when that august body tried to squelch a windy member and he wouldn't squelch, but like Bennett of old Oread, "bobbed up serenely" and spotted over an hour. Last night I was just finishing supper when Arthur Adams walked in and saluted me. We had about as nice an evening as two friends can well spend and I enjoyed it hugely. Adams is on the B. & M. at Wahoo, twenty-five miles north of here. Franklin Rifille, '81, is also at Wahoo.
Frank Oakley is engineering at Sterling, Colorado, and I believe he is headed for Wyoming.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.
The campus of Nebraska State University is a block of land in the northern part of the city of Lincoln. It is surrounded by a ragged edge of stunted cedars which looks as if it were apologizing for being there as a protection to the grass. It certainly is neither useful nor ornamental. The main building which stands in the middle of this campus looks much better on the outside than on the inside. It is a three-story brick building, with central building and two wings, somewhat on the same plan as K.S.U. The central part is surmounted by a tower. The interior is a great disappointment. Low, dirty ceilings, cracked walls, disreputable looking pine wainscoating and the commonest kind of a rough board floor, give the building more of the looks of a badly used common school than of a University. There can be no comparison made with the elegant and commodious rooms and halls of K.S.U. The laboratory is rather the better building of the two, it is certainly the prettiest. It stands southeast of the main building, has two stories and a basement. It, like the main building, is of brick, trimmed with stone. An appropriation of $50, 000 has been made for a science hall which will be erected this summer.
So much for the buildings. The library I did not see; the chapel I had best say nothing about, as the least said about a painful subject, the better; the collections are very scanty and incomplete and would not attract the notice of a Kansas student who has seen the far superior ones of Prof. Snow. Literary societies flourish here, there are two strong barb societies which have very nicely furnished halls and which are doing very good work. I was kindly shown around the University by a member of the Senior class who is a very strong "barb." He told me of the old troubles between "barb" and "frat" men here and gave me much valuable news in regard to the students' customs. I also met Mr. Gerwig, who was in attendance at the Inter-State contest last May and who is an enthusiastic Phi. The fraternities represented here are Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi and Kappa Kappa Gamma; Kappa Alpha Theta will establish a chapter here in a few weeks. The Phis are strong and have many of the best men in college. The Kappas too, have a chapter of which the order may feel proud, as for the Sigs, I can only say that I have met none of them and only know what was told me, which was not flattering. The barb element is the great power here, they expelled frat men from the literary societies and are strongly organized against all fraternities. Nebraska University is co-educational, but they have a different system from ours. There are very few "mashes" made here and it is a rare occurrence that a young man goes twice in succession with the same lady. The names of the girls are put down on a slate just before any college entertainment and the first man takes his pick and rubs the name of his choice off the slate. This has a tendency to stop any mashes or any love-making. Lucky fellows, these Nebraska students, not having solid girls, they don't go to the opera house with girls, hence a great saving of money and time. I am afraid that this excellent system will not be introduced into K. S. U. very soon. The girls won't fare well if it is and I don't imagine they would like it.
Nebraska University has about 250 students, a majority in the Scientific Department. The Senior class numbers 17. Like the students of K. S. U., they are country boys, many of them earning their way through college. I regret that college is not in session as I should have liked to meet a number of the students, but the Nebraska faculty give an Easter vacation of two weeks, so the students have scattered to their homes.
This makes the fourth State University I have visited this year and I only feel prouder of my alma mater. Kansas has a good University, established on a permanent basis, and well supported by the State. You kick about the Kansas legislature not giving enough—come to Lincoln and see what the Nebraska solons do for the University of Nebraska then go home and forever hold your peace. We could take more money and use it well, but let us be thankful for what we have. R.E.HENRY.
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