State Historical Society
THE WEEKLY
ES!
COURIER.
UNIVERSITY
SUBSCRIPTION FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR.
ts!
S.
2016
IT.
ST, feet,
NSAS. by the use of
ER'S
arlor
IN THE CITY.
c Clgars.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
L.
lor
ENCE, KAN
plete stock of be found in to students.
os'.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
ARLOR
UP!
Best grades
eet.
House!
INTER
RAM."
CK'S
Thursdays, Sat
Sectionery
in Season.
Day Board $3.50
sets, $4-00.
lawrence, Kan
SS,
's Bookstore.
NSAS.
ST
nd 1 to 5 P.M.
VOL. V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SEPT. 24, 1886.
LOCAL.
No fight.
New editcrs.
The Courier forever.
COURIER stock is at par.
Why did Oread not have a meeting
today?
Subscribe for the great peace Journal.
"Keep out of the corridors" is again the cry.
Webster debating society will begin work to-morrow.
We advise the Review to follow the Courier's example.
The Y. M. C. A. will give their annual reception to-night.
There are more new students in the musical department than ever before. The Sigma Chis have a new hall in the opera house block, on the second door.
The pharmacy department has a young lady enrolled in the Junior class.
Orophilian had a rousing meeting last Friday, and enrolled many new students.
The boys have to take a back seat in the way of rushing when the girls enter the field.
The Soph rhetoric class, under Prof. Williams, are discussing direct and indirect taxation.
The beautiful portico over the main entrance to the natural history building is nearing completion.
The Thetas initiated three young ladies Saturday night. Did any of the boys' frats do that well.
A Sophomore rhetoric class, meeting one hour in the week, was started last Friday. Prof. Williams conducts it.
F. C. Keys is the new personal editor, and C. E. Street, assisted by F. J. Gardner, will have charge of the local department.
Last year the class of 86 planted a wisteria vine near the walls of the natural history building, to commemorate their year of graduation.
A game of ball last Saturday afternoon between the University club and the railroad boys, resulted in a victory for the University, by a score of 7 to 3.
Kentucky street seems to be the favorite street for students' clubs. The Sigma Chis, Phi Delts and Phi Gams hold forth there within a block of each other.
A fifty dollar microtome was recently purchased for the department of natural history. It is used for making sections of plants, stems, etc. It is capable of cutting a slice $ \frac{1}{4 0 0 0} $ of an inch in thickness.
The chair of Belles Lettres has more work connected with it than almost any other chair in the K. S. U. Prof. Williams has kindly volunteered to relieve Prof. Marsh of part of his work, so he now hears the Soph class in history of English literature.
The Courier will be under eternal obligations to any person who will kindly hand any item of interest to the University to either the editor-in-chief or an associate editor.
During the summer five microscopes of the highest power, and containing all the latest improvements, were purchased for the use of the natural history department.
The University ball club will be allowed the use of the ball park two days in the week for the purpose of practice, by the payment of $5 for each match game played thereon.
A mass of roots several feet long and a foot or so in width was received Tuesday from Mr. Brewer, of Burlingame. The fibers are so thickly grown together as to be scarcely seen through. It is quite a curiosity.
During the fore part of the week a book—Elements of Intellectual Science, by Noah Porter—was lost by H. B. Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton will be under great obligations to the finder if he returns it to him.
The college branch of the Y. M. C. A. will tender a reception to the new students this evening at the rooms of the city association. Invitations have been issued to each new student. Refreshments will be served.
The following are the numbers initiated by the respective fraternities: Phi Gamma Delta, two; Phi Delta Theta, four; Sigma Chi, two; Sigma Nu, three; Phi Kappa Psi, none; Beta Theta Pi, none; Kappa Alpha Theta, five; I. C., six; Kappa Kappa Gamma, three; a total of twenty-five.
A letter was received recently by Prof. Snow from Prof. Lucas, of the Smithsonian Institute, which spoke in high commendation of Will Brown and his work while in Washington. He asks that Mr. Brown be released from his work in the University next summer, that he may be able to accept a position in the Institute. Brown went to Washington last summer with the expectation of paying his own expenses, but he was found to be such a valuable helper in the work at Smithsonian that he was placed in a good position with good salary, shortly after his arrival.
COURIER ELECTION. — A well attended meeting of the stockholders of the COURIER was held last Friday for the purpose of electing the officers and the board of editors for the ensuing year. President Billings occupied the chair. The following were chosen by the company: President, L. A. Gilbert; secretary, Emma Hynes; editor-in-chief, Harry E. Valentine; associate editors, Cyrus Crane, Alice Penfield, F. C. Keys, C. E. Street, Agnes Wright, Jean Anderson, E. A. Wheeler, F. J. Gardner, Ella Ropes; business managers, Denton Dunn and L. A. Sharrard. By a vote of the company it was decided to surrender the charter. It was moved and carried that the board of directors hereafter consist of the president and business managers.
'87, C. L. Smith, came in Tuesday.
Geo. M. Walker, Jr., is in the city.
PERSONAL.
'88, T. F. Doran, came in Saturday.
H. J, Humphrey is visiting friends in the city.
Howard Campbell took in Kansas City Saturday.
'90, E. F. Neal, took in Kansas City Saturday.
Will O'Bryon was seen in the halls the other day.
W. L. Brayton, of Little River, enters Freshman.
R. E. Kroh and W. K. Green are the new Sigma Chi.
Miss Maud Mansfield is at Sadies- ville, Kentucky.
Chancellor Lippincott preached in Topeka Sunday.
Mr. F. B. Anirobus, of Beloit, is a new Sigma Nu.
Robert Brown, of Wyandotte, is the new Sigma Chi.
Profs. Sayre and Wilcox drove up to Topeka Saturday.
E. E. Keys and E. F. Engel are the latest Sigma Nus.
the latest signal Num.
Harrington writes University items for the daily Journal.
for the daily Ackley now "rustles" locals for our E. C., the Review.
W. H. Brown, of Leavenworth, is new Phi Kappa Psi.
the new Pin Kappa Psi.
Miss Alice Cummings is one of the
new Kappa Alpha Thetas.
new Kappa Alpha Thetas.
Harry Riggs left yesterday to join the soldiers at Ft. Rilev.
the soldiers at St. Kiney.
Andy Smith will visit his home folks Friday and Saturday.
Fred Funston and H. E. Finney have joined the Phi Delts.
have joined the I.M.
Miss Clara Coffin is teaching school at her home near Leavenworth.
Albert Wulfekuhler will visit his parents in Leavenworth Sunday.
W. H. Brown leaves Friday for a few days visit with his home folks.
F. H. Olney, an old student, has returned and entered the class of '88.
'89, M. E. Gamble, will not rejoin his classes until about the first of October.
Mr W. C. Moll, of Rice county, enters Freshman from the State Normal.
Laura Lyons and Lillie McMillan climbed the hill Wednesday to see their friends.
Miss Maggie Delo, of Troy, N. Y., has arrived, and will enter the University.
Miss Lena Beard accompanied her father on the Knights Templar trip to St. Louis.
C. L. Wyler, a last year's pharmacy graduate, will assist Prof. Sayre this year.
Pearl Young has just returned from an extended trip through Colorado with Prof. Fulton and wife, of Fulton & Trueblood's school of oratory at Kansas City.
Mr. A. T. Ayers, of Richmond, Ky., enters the Sophomore class from DePau University.
Cone and Rollston have gained many new recruits for their great secret anti-secret society.
J. A. Kirkpatric and Emmett Burgher, of Osage Mission, visited Fred Hutchings Saturday.
No. 3.
Fred Campbell will attend school this year, and will be quite an addition to the base ball club.
W. T. Caywood delivered a fine oration in Orophilian last Friday. He is their new president.
Pliny L. Soper, of '81, is in the city visiting friends. He goes to Columbia law school this year.
John B. Newhall, of Harvard law school, with several friends, looked over the University Tuesday.
Sam Lindsay, one of last year's pharmacy boys, is hospital steward of the 1st regiment at Fort Riley.
Sam Lindsey was in the city Monday en route for Fort Riley. He will return to the pharmacy course next month.
Dr. O. D. Walker and W. C. Spangler are members of the Douglas county Republican central committee.
E. D. Eames was suddenly called home Tuesday by a dispatch announcing the serious illness of his sister.
'81, Pliny Soper, is in Topeka making a short visit at his old home before starting for Columbia law school.
E. C. Little, of '83, is president and W. Y. Morgan, '85, is secretary of the young mens' Republican club of Lawrence.
'83, Will Nevison, returned Wednesday to Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, O., to complete his course.
A. E. Curdy of '85, is on a bicycle trip from Topeka to Manhattan and return, with the Topeka Bicycle club, of which he is a member.
Victor Linley, one of the leading members of 85, is in the city. He goes to Columbia college, New York city, next month to study law.
R. S. Horton, Y. M. White, John Prescott, W. M. Thacher and Fred Morris, represent K. S. U. at the encampment of the Kansas National Guards at Fort Riley.
Miss Minnie Raught, one of K. S. U.'s most popular girls of two years ago, is now enjoying the delightful climate of San Diego, Cal., where she will make her future home.
Mary Griffith and Mary Miller, former K. S. U. girls, and recently students of Wellesley, are frequently seen in the halls. Miss Miller contemplates a course in painting, under Prof. Simpson.
A letter was received yesterday from Mr. Eames, who was called home on account of the sickness of his sister, giving the news of her death, which occurred Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Eames has the sympathy of all the students.
Dick Short will be in next week.
Wheeler is steward of the epicureans.
Frank Prentiss is a Junior pharmacist.
Prof. Williams was seen in chapel last week.
W. S. Franklin is contemplating matrimony.
Sexton is still the dude of Pharmacy class.
Finney and Funston are the latest Phi Delts.
Miss Lillie Turner has returned from Ohio.
Miss Martique Babcock has returned from Michigan.
A. II. Plumb left for Emporia last Tuesday on a visit.
E. J. Crego is the principal of schools at Waverly.
Gillespie, a student of two years ago, enters pharmacy.
May Webster visited old scenes on Mount Oread, yesterday.
Laura O'Brien visited with her Kappa sisters last week.
Samuel A. Woodward, of Lawrence, climed the hill yesterday.
Arthur Anderson has gone to Chicago to attend a medical college.
Plumb and Ted Kellogg while away their time playing lawn tennis.
Mr. Alfred Fidler, of Winfield, Kansas, enters the Junior Law class.
Prof. A. G. Canfield is suffering from a severe cold and "mal an tete."
Misses Moore and Wilder are taking mineralogy and blowpipe analysis.
Fred Bowersock is suffering from a severe attack of "Personal" and "Local."
Mrs. M. E. Heylon of York, Nebraska, visited the University Wednesday.
Miss Franc Williams, of Lawrence, is taking the musical course at the University.
Mrs. Prof. Greene showed a party of friends through the building, yesterday.
Percy B. Russell, of '83, now a ranchman of western Kansas, is in Lawrence.
Miss Rudolph was detained from her classes last Friday on account of sickness.
Miss May Webster and Miss Ella Ropes have returned from a visit to Archison.
C. H. Nowlin, a student of last year, will teach in the public schools of Hesper.
Prof. Canfield and Wilcox now room at McQuiston's on Ohio and Lee streets.
M. M. Bowman is the democratic candidate for county superintendent of Coffey county.
Miss Mary E. Richardson, of Lawrence, climed Mount Oread yesterday with several friends.
Mr. James F. Stevens, one of the live merchants of Garden City, took in the sights Tuesday.