GROSSCUP'S is the Place for Oysters and Confectionery.
THE WEEKLY
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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University Directory.
PHI GAMMA DELTA-Meets Saturday nights.
No. 75 Mass, St. 3d floor.
PHI KAPPA Psi-Meets Saturday nights, 3d floor Opera House Block.
PHI DELTA THEta-Meets Saturday nights, A. O. U. W. Hall.
SIGA DELTA Meets Saturday nights, 2d floor Opera House Block.
BETA THEta Pi-Meets Saturday nights, 4th floor Opera House Block.
SIGA Ni-Meets Saturday nights, I. O. O. F. Block.
KAPKA ALPHA THEta-Meets Saturday afternoons, No. 715 Mass. St. 3d floor.
I.C.Meets Saturday afternoons at Homes or members.
KAPKA KAPKA GAMMA-Meets Saturday afternoons at homes of members.
OREAD LITERARY SOCIETY-Meets Friday afternoon in its hall, University building, south wing, 3d floor, Pres., Denton Dunn; see'y Rilopes.
OROPHILIAN LITERARY SOCIETY-Meets Friday afternoon in its hall, University building, north wing 3d floor, Pres., A. L. Wilmoth; see'y Laura Arnett.
SCIENCE CLU-Meets Friday afternoons, in chemistry lecture room, Pres., R. L. Mealpine; see'y V. L. Kellogg.
KENT CLEM-Law Students-Meets Friday nights in Court House, Pres., J. W. Roberts; see'y A. Overton.
PHILOLOGY-Meets second Friday of the month in Greek lecture room, University building, Prof. Robinson; see'y Prof. Wilcox.
MOCK SENATE-Meets in Orphanian hall every Saturday afternoon, President, Sharrun.
ORATORICAL Association-, E. G. Blair;
sec'y A. L. Wilmoth; Board of Directors, Frank Crowell, Denton V. L. Kellogg.
COLLEGE Branch Y. M. C. A.-Pres., F.J. Gardner sec'y L. T. Smith; meets every Friday night in rooms of city association.
COLLEGE Branch Y. W. C. A.; meets Sunday afternoons, at homes of members.
COUCHIE Company-Pres., L. A. Gilbert; sec'y Miss Emma Hynes.
REVIEW Company-S pres., W. S. Shattuck.
Base Ball Association-Seey, E. F. Neal.
Announcement.
The local Oratorical Contest for representative at the State contest, to be held in Ottawa, February 12, 1887, will be held on Friday, January 28, 1887, at Bowersock's opera house. The contest is open to all collegiate students who hand in orations to the committee on January 4, 1887. The writers of the best six oraiions, as selected by judges, will compete for the position. For further information apply to
V. L. KELLOGG,
F. G. CROWELL,
DENTON DUNN,
Executive Committee.
Although our library is very deficient in books, the little room in the south end of the building is entirely too small for it, and we are voicing the statement of Prof. Miller, the librarian, when we say that a library building is needed worse than any other building.
National Inter-Collegiate Prohibition Convention.
We have received the following which explains itself. The movement commends itsels to everyone. We propose that the College Branch of the Y, M. C. A. take immediate action upon the matter. Let it be brought up at the meeting this evening. The University of a Prohibition state, should certainly be well-represented.
DEAR SIR:—At a covenition of delegates representing Wooster University and Oberlin College, held in Oberlin, Nov. 30, 1886, in view of the expressed demand and general desire for such an organization, it was decided to issue a general call to the Prohibition clubs of the various colleges in the land for a National Inter-Collegiate Prohibition Convention, comprising delegates from the following classes :
1. Present members of colleges or professional schools, legal, medical, theological, and normal, including professors.
2. Graduate members of such institutions who have graduated within a period of five years.
The utility and power of such an organization are at once obvious. The demand for political reform, the immense pre-eminence of the liquor question, and the efficacy of separate party action, all call for united effort in this direction. The Inter-Collegiate convention willfurnish the opportunity for such union, and as a permanent institution will without doubt effect great results in our national political life
The undersigned committee has perfected arrangements for such a convention in the city of Cleveland on Jan. 4, 1887. The time for action is brief, but the advantages of this date are many. The vacation season, the diminished cost of attendance, and the central location of the point of meeting all support it. Please notify the chairman of our Executive Committee, W. C. Mickey, box 1254, Wooster, Ohio, at once of your co-operation, naming a competent and live man for the complete committee on organization. Lose no opportunity to spread this notice, and secure immediate action on the part of your club. At any rate let us at once know of your sympathy and interest. You must be represented.
W. C. MICKEY,
Chairman Ex. Com.
Observations of a Sinner.
During my recent visit to the city of classics, water-works and boarding mistresses, several of my friends including the rash and indiscreet Editor-in-Chief, asked me to work up my impression of things thereabout for the Courier. Well, perhaps a chap who has been away awhile, may note a few things which would escape the observations of the hangers on. Anyway here goes.
In spite of the elegancies and conveniences of our railroads (vide posters, folders, maps, &c.), riding on the cars isn't just all the spanking fun one could desire. The rattle and bang of the cars deafening your cars, draughts of smoke and dust tattooing you out of recognition by your own mother, the flying telegraph poles setting your brain in a buzz—well, to say the least, these aint the jolliest things on earth. Then too, when you alight at your journey's end, on a dark drizzly night, and get pitched from a runaway cab into a mud puddle—but what the deuce has this got to do with the University, anyway!
The University. Yes, that's
what I started to talk about, or intended to. I climbed old Oread's side, thinking by one of those involuntary mind processes, which no one can explain, that the University would be turned topsy turvy, the old crowd gone, and new faces gaping at me as if to demand the reason of my intrusion. Nonsense. There was no change. The same hilarious bevy of boys and girls, the same jolly Profs., everything just as it had been through generations of students. True the faces were not just those I knew, and some of the names did sound a little odd, but bless you, they can squeeze your hand just as hard, and laugh just as heartily, and skip classes just as frequently as those of years long gone. The Profs. have not altered a whit either. How pleasant did it seem for Prof. Canfield to greet one with a characteristic joke, for Prof. Miller's eyes to twinkle down from above his wealth of great long beard, for Prof. Marvin to come out of his class-room, and bid me stop my racket in the corridors. There too, was Prof. Carruth, not a feature different from his sheep-skin day of '80. Prof. Brownell was pummeling oratory into Higgins. Prof. Snow was communing with his brother scientist, Cope, where hands couldn't reach him; and the chancellor had too many folk of importance awaiting his leisure, to be bothered by one of the Plebeian Smiths. The rest of the faculty representatives were, I presume, enscroned in their class rooms, rasping on the "future of Kansas."
Hold! There is something new out there after all. Snow Hall, b'gosh! A diamond set in punk. I used to think that all that man and nature could do toward making an ornery campus had its fruition in the barren rock lots in front of the University. I was mistaken. It is a Garden of Eden compared to the surroundings of Snow Hall. Suffice it to say the friends of our institution will do well to take visitors up in a closed hack, and lead them into Snow Hall blindfolded, I am, of course, referring to its surroundings. The Natural History building, itself, is a beauty, and shows what fine things architectural art can do at the present day. Its interior arrangements are superb, and if Prof. Snow isn't tickled to death at the glorious settings afforded his scientific trophies, why, he isn't the man I take him to be.
Nearly everyone I met twitted me more or less about my visit up the hill, intimating that my Courier scribblings had set me at hostile points with the faculty. Inasmuch as I am about the one editor of the Courier who hasn't at some time or other, been taken to personal task by regents, Chancellor, faculty, janitor, or roustabouts—considering this, I think the joke a good one.
What a solid institution is the University, and how strictly she
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