Social Department.
ROBERTS.—Another of the most pleasant parties of the season was given last Thursday evening by Mr. and Mrs. Capt. Roberts, at their beautiful home on South Massachusetts street. Euchre, with its many facinations, furnished the
amusement of the evening o'clock, when a very elegant was spread, and it is needle that the merry company wadequate to this part of tion. When the last hour day were passing away the departed, well assured the Mr. and Mrs. Roberts spent an evening long to be bered.
Among those present and Mrs. Bassett, John B wife, A. B. Warren and w Harding and wife, D. L. and wife, John Alder and Perkins and wife, Mr. W wife, and Chas. Perkins are
MANSFIELD.—Miss Matfield entertained a pleasanypany of friends at her honLawrence Saturday eventgreeseacher was theamusement, and elegantments were introduced tothe pleasure of averyevening. The followingent: L. N. Lewis and MistGillett, Ben Akers and M Love, Wm. Spencer andM Tisdale, Lawrence NobleAngie Logee, and R. C. R.Miss May Webster.
WHITMAN. — On Friday about sixty friends of M Whitman assembled in t of the Unitarian church t many happy returns of day.
The preparations for occasion had been kep from Mrs. Whitman, and generalship had been smuggling the oysters, fretc., into the kitchen so a notice of the guest of ing.
The affair was so admi- aged that Mrs. Whitman pleatly surprised. All p in their happiest mood, per was delicious, and desi cal cook ever served finer style than did M Gardner. Mrs. A. Whitsented Mrs. Whitman wit en of exquisite flowers. evening Miss Mary Glis some choice recitations, greatly enjoyed. Miss C and Marcella Hos some fine selections.
G. W. DUBACK—On l ing Mr. G. W. Duback number of his friends ve at his rooms, on the Winthrop and Ohio stre known as a "bean bag caused a great deal of Mrs. F. L. Webster an Ambler received the fire skill, while Mr. and I Mackey received the "be The following ladies an were present: W. T. I wife, W. L. Bullene and Mackey and wife, Fran and wife, B. A. Ambl and Mrs. S. B. Hyunz is an excellent host an were present passed evening.
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BOWSEROCK. —The dancing club held its ly evening of revelry the residence of ex-sock. As usual unde sock's chapernage, tl one of unalloyed joy The "young people" The old people were
Green and wife, John Hutchings and wife, A. Lewis and wife, H. Schaum and wife, J. E. Parke and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Updyke of Topeka, I. N. Van Hoesen and wife and Frank Mellush.
TURNER.—One of the most enjoy-
able affairs of the season was a very
delightful party, given last Satur.
Dr. Coffin, superintendent of the Indian school at Salem, Oregon, is in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Place went to Kansas City last Friday for a few day's visit.
Mrs. B. A. Rich, *nee* Tillie Teeters,
has gone to Fort Worth, Texas, her
future home.
Go to Baldwin & Wilson's for fresh meat.
Buy your second term books at J. S. Crew's.
NOTES.
Go to J. S. Crew's for your second term books.
Baldwin & Wilson's O. K. meat
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--ed a committee to see to getting out the first issue, Mr. Dunn representing the company of which Mr. Sullivan was president, Mr. Blair the company of which Korr was president, and Mr. Gilbert having been a shareholder in both companies.
With this issue we present the consolidated COURIER. For some time past two COURIERS have been running, much to the detriment of the University, the business men and the parties interested. Believing that it was best for all parties concerned, to have one strong paper, supported by all the students, both COURIER companies last Tuesday voted to consolidate. The vote was practically unanimous in both companies. In the meeting of the new company held Thursday, the present staff was elected. It represents all factions of the students, and makes the COURIER a paper of the students, for the students and by the students. Our new business managers, Messrs. Denton Dunn and E. G. Blair, are already well known to the business men. We now ask the business men to give their support to the consolidated COURIER. We will not attempt to bulldoze or boycott them, but simply ask them to give their patronage to the representative students' paper. If any of them will take the trouble to enquire of the students they will find the facts as we have stated. If they wish only one weekly paper, now is the time to get it. By shutting down on all illegitimate and indecile offshoots of the COURIER, they will confer a favor on themselves and the community.
Of the students, for the students and by the students.
All parties are represented on the great religious consolidated weekly.
The lion roareth and the whang-
doodle mourneth, but the COCHER
goeth on forever.
This is a religious paper; there will be no bulldozing, no duplicated accounts, no swindling of the business men. Our business managers will be gentlemen.
It lies with the business men to say whether or not there shall be two Couriers. If they are willing to shut down on one, they have the power. Now is the accepted time.
The students, the business men, the faculty, the board of regents, everybody is in favor of the consolidated paper.
All animosities and bad feeling having been laid asdie, we will now run a Coomier that will be a credit to us and the University.
We, the undersigned, the business managers of the CONSOLIDATED COURER, do hereby warn all persons not to pay John Sullivan or any other person unauthorized by us, any bills due either of the old COURER companies. All persons having accounts against the companies should present them at once for settlement, as the new company assumes all debts and contracts of the old companies, and offers to reimburse all persons who have expended moneyin the publication of either of the old COURERS, upon presentation of accounts for auditing.
DENTON DUNS,
F.C.B. BANK
Statement.
E. G. BLAIR
Business Managers
In order that there may be a clear understanding in regard to the action of the Customer companies in the matter of consolidation, we will make 'the following statement;
On Tuesday of this week a proposition for consolidation was presented by the McLaren wing of the COURIER to the Sullivan COURIER company. The latter company desired to entertain the proposition. The president, John Sullivan, decided that the proposition was out of order, and refuser to put the motion.
An appeal was made from the decision of the chair, which was seconded. The chair also refused to put the appeal, and declared the meeting adjourned. He alone left the room, all the other members of the company, representing over four-fifths of all the shares of stock issued, remaining. Mr. S. T. Gilmore was called to the chair, and the proposition for consolidation was presented in due form, and unanimously accepted.
Mr. Postlethwait was appointed auditor, to receive and audit all accounts of the company.
The company then adjourned, to meet in joint session with the other COUNTER COMPANY.
In the joint session S. T. Gilmore was called to the chair, and L. A. Gilbert was appointed secretary.
Among other actions of the meeting, a committee was appointed to get out the present issue of the consolidated COURSE, and also to sell stock. The committee appointed was Mr. E. G. Blair, Denton Dunn and L. A. Gilbert. These gentlemen now have in their hands the stock of the consolidated COURSE company, which they are ready to sell to any student of the University.
There having been some doubt expressed in the Journal this morning on the subject of the consolidation of the two COURSES, the *Herald-Tribune* reporter made the matter the subject of investigation. The facts in the case are briefly as follows: Yesterday both the companies met at 1 o'clock. The company in which McLaren and Kerr have been leading spirits, made an offer of consolidation to the other, in which Sullivan and Fritz have been regarded as leaders. During the debate on the question, Sullivan, seeing that the company was unanimously in favor of stopping the absurd fight and consolidating, left the meeting, but was not followed by a single person. The two companies then met together. After a discussion of some time, during which both sides expressed themselves as willing to concede something for the sake of getting out a paper which would do honor to the University, the students and to Lawrence, it was unanimously decided to consolidate. A committee was at once appointed to sell stock in the now appointed to faction, all students, without regard to faction, are invited to take shares. Denton Dunn, E. G. Blair and L. A. Gilbert were appointed a committee to see to getting out the first issue, Mr. Dunn representing the company of which Mr. Sullivan was president, Mr. Blair the company of which Korr was president, and Mr. Gilbert having been a shareholder in both companies.
Courier Consolidation.
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There is no doubt but every legal title which belonged to the old companies is now vested in the consolidated company. The students are solidly in favor of consolidation, as the fight between the two papers was productive of nothing but if feeling and hurt to the University. The business men will readily sustain one good weekly paper. To do this they will be obliged to refuse to encourage any more "COUNSELL" or weekly papers of any kind.
The above facts were carefully collected, and may be relied on as the absolute truth.—Herald-Tribune.
By glancing at our columns, it will be seen that most of the business men are in favor of the consolidated weekly Cooker.
The bill to provide for the payment of the salary of the profession of pharmacy has been favorably reported by the committee to the senator.
SAINTS AND SINNERS.
--know it. Business men haven't time to study the merits of the hundreds and thousands of people who form the theatrical world. Had the old line, tried and real regimens come forward, Keene, Lotta, Mimie Palmer, and their like, there would have been big houses. The companies we have had were new and novel to this place. Grace Hawthorne, Coulock, McIntyre, and Heath, and The Banker's Daughter, have drawn and are drawing immense audiences elsewhere. Here they were not known, and played to wretched business.
Consolidation consolidates consolidately.
My opinion that contests are the bane of student life is heightened by stories I hear of how the performers are neglecting studies, societies and prayers, for the sake of practice in oratory.
I would suggest a game of poker as the most satisfactory way of deciding the contest. None of the contestants know how to play except my friend Jonks.
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This is a joke.
The music department of the University is coming to the front. A prominent New York musical journal in a leading editorial on "Music in Kansas," lands the work being done in K. S. U., and closes by saying: "Let us do in New York as Kansas is now doing."
What an executable nuisance the encore system must be to performers. At the Schubert concert at the Congregational church Monday evening, the audience demanded some ten encores. As well might a purchaser claim an extra pound of sugar for each one he bought, as for an audience to require an extra performance for each one on the program.
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I have wondered considerably this winter whether the Lawrence public stayed away from the theater from motives of economy or because they did not know what line actors were coming here. If for the former reason, I have nothing to say. People who earn their own money—and precious few Western people do not—have a right to do as they please with it. They can spend it on amusements or ram it down in their old soaks and hide it behind bricks in the cellar; in either case it is nobody's business but their own. Another reason why a newspaper man is slow to grumble at the poor patronage extended the theater, is that he is pretty sure to be answered: "Yes, it's very well for you to talk that way when you get your fun for nothing.
There have been but three or four companies here this winter on which the opera house has not lost money. This I know to be a fact. It is also true that as fine a list of attractions has never heretofore been presented in this place. But the people don't
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It was peculiarly gratifying, considering the wet blanket feature of the theatrical season up to that time, that Adeliae Moore brought out the full quota to the opera house once more. I hope it will keep up, for unless these good attractions score a fair success the first pop, they wont be likely to light down among us soon again. By far the rich portion of the feast, too, is to be dished up yet, and we ought to show our appreciation. Nearly all these sweet-meats are new, but for that reason will be relished the more. There is the magnetic Roland Reed, whimsie Maggie Mitchell, the irresistible Florences, the charming Mille. Ruea, the popular Geo. S. Knight, the jolly Baker & Farron, and a number of rolicking comedians, all booked here for the first time, and holding leading positions in the histrionic field. If I remember rightly, there are two or three opera companies of the first order scattered through to season the pudding. As long as the opera house management serve up such fare, we wont suffer from indigestion; and it is to be hoped no more stars will have to feed here on such poor crusts of patronage as they have had.
While I am talking of matters histrionic, I might add a word or two about the relation of students and theater. It is common among townpeople to slur the student body by referring to the gallery as the "students' parquette." The students are too sensible to be sensitive to such silly suggestions. They like the presentations of the stage, and are not such slaves to appearance that they cannot enjoy a piece as heartily from balcony or gallery as from the balheaded row of the parquette. They believe in consulting brain by going to the theater, pocket by going to the balcony. Anyhow, the best seats of the house are in the front balcony rows.
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I am not now, never have been and never will be a believer in the doctrine that if a fellow thumps you on one check it is your moral duty to turn your face and let him get a wahck at the other side. The way some students of the University have taken the abuse and knocks of a few cowardly bruisers, has always been beyond my comprehension. If a man attacks you, give it back to him; knock a tooth for a tooth, and gonge an eye for an eye, going him even one better. If he is of your size, take him free-fasted; if bigger, pick up a rock, a club or whatever may come handy. There is only one way to teach a bully a lesson, and that is not by the Sunday school doctrine of non-resistance.
--pass. This will be of importance benefit to the University, and ought to double our number of college students within three years. But outside any benefit according to the University, the establishment of the schools will greatly elevate the standard of education in this state. The sums of students over Kansas will take the academical course who was never able to attend the University."
Chancellor Lippincott: "No, we are not asking the legislature for much this year. They were very generous with us last session, and we have no desire to ride a free horse to death. The pharmacy bill is more a bill of the state board of pharmacy than it is one of ours. The High School bill, which provides for one academical High School in every county desiring it, will doubtless
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The first thing a college educates, is that it is impossible to publish a paper that will be acceptable to both students and faculty. The longer he persists in trying to satisfy both, the nearer he will come to the idiotic asylum. You don't have to delve very deep into philosophy, either, to uncover the reason. A college newspaper, such as the Comma inspires to be, is a reflex of student social life. As professors take no de-light in playing at football, whirling the intricate measures of the voluptuous waltz, flying around with the fair co-eds in cutters, or electioneering in the society halls, it is scarcely to be expected that they are much interested in the accounts of such events. It is not surprising that they should be disgusted with jokes and squibs which they do not understand and cannot therefore appreciate.
Time and again, during the past four years—almost as many times as this bright little sheet has appeared from the press—reports have come to me that this article and that article was not liked by the faculty. On several occasions, it was brushed, these articles were brought before their august body for discussion. I have not paid the slightest attention to these rumors, for I write without the slightest reference to what the faculty may think. The COURHER being supported almost exclusively by the students, it endeavors to please the students, and cares not a pauper's piecacy for anyone else. And wiay, pray, should the COURHER seek especially to favor the faculty? It costs about eight hundred dollars per year to publish the paper, of which sum the faculty付 their subscription money—some six or eight dollars at the outside figures. When any losses were to be borne, it was the students and not the faculty who went down into their long-legged trousers. I say the COURHER is under precious little obligation to the faculty—if I may except the gracious privilege of using a desk in the hall from which to distribute papers at the end of the fourth watch, each Friday.
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All faculties dislike criticism; all students like to criticise. So we presume, as the organ of the students, we have frequently troden on professional corn. A paper like the Review, which has always been of a heavy literary type, is enjoyed by the professors andwearisome to students. A paper like the Courier, which aims to be light, bright and causal, is relied by students, but not favored by the faculty. As easy would it be for the Christian Union and the Whiskey Journal to consolidate in a paper that would please both their constitencies, as for a college paper to attempt to cater to both instructor and student.
While holding itself independent to speak as it pleases, the Cornerier has said more good words for the faculty and University than any paper published in Lawrence. It was worth $25,000 to the University last year alone. This is not an extravagance, but sober truth. But for this paper the natural history bill would never have passed the legislature. If any one questions this assertion, we shall be glad to give a little pertinent testimony.
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