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The contract for grading Robinson avenue has been let to R. W. Sparr, who, we understand, will begin operations next week.
THE STEP taken by the Orophilian Literary this year in variety of programs from week to week is very commendable.
Too LONG lessons is an uncommonly common complaint among students this year. What is the reason? Are the different departments stretching over more ground?
The Law Department opens well this year. The Junior class is individually and collectively a strong one. By its present growth, this department in a very few years will yield a great influence in the affairs of K.S.U.
--public, or rather, the student mind at present. While there are many advantages which would result from the change, the objections seem to me to have been overlooked. Friday night is the only one of the week in which the students have time for social recreation. So if it be occupied by literary society meetings, many of the students will either break into their study hours during the week by a dance or card party, or skip the society meetings. As many of our best workers in the literary societies often attend, on Friday nights, some social gathering or other, which they would be loath to give up, the societies should weigh these considerations well before making any change.
Our happy namesake, The Courier, of Moumouth College, Illinois, one of our most gaudily-dressed monthly exchanges, tries to be very funny at our expense on "our shape." Dear brother, we reach our readers four times to your once. We care more for brains in our columns than in fancy covers.
THE COUCHER will extend a club rate per special agreement of $1.75 for one year's subscription and one copy of Prof. Spring's History of Kansas. Send in your orders.
IF PROF. MILLER, as Librarian, will provide a place for them, and assure us they will be cared for, THE COURRIER will file its College exchanges in the library for the benefit of the students generally during the year. If the Review would do likewise, by a little attention, students could secure a very good idea of college journalism.
THE COURIER wishes to extend its hearty congratulations to Miss Simpson on her success in waking up so much interest in the Art Department. The number of students taking drawing, painting and china decoration is rapidly increasing. A very interesting and instructive course of lectures is being delivered before the Art classes. Many interested in such matters were in attendance at Mrs. Diggs' lecture last Thursday, in which she ably treated the subject Michael Angelo. Mrs. Prof. Canfield will give "Observations of Art in New York City" next Thursday.
WE ARE aware the members of the faculty as a whole have as much work on their hands as should be asked of them, but THE COURIER would be pleased to see more of them take a little interest in the Literary Societies than they do. Occasional attendance Friday afternoons would be desirable recreation. By taking active part in the exercises, as one or two now do, they would only make themselves more popular with the students and give stimulus to the good work desired.
--public, or rather, the student mind at present. While there are many advantages which would result from the change, the objections seem to me to have been overlooked. Friday night is the only one of the week in which the students have time for social recreation. So if it be occupied by literary society meetings, many of the students will either break into their study hours during the week by a dance or card party, or skip the society meetings. As many of our best workers in the literary societies often attend, on Friday nights, some social gathering or other, which they would be loath to give up, the societies should weigh these considerations well before making any change.
THE Industrialist, of Manhattan, supported by the State, managed by its faculty, is perhaps the filisiest excuse for an exchange we receive from the college world. From month to month it appears filled only with the poorest class of clippings imaginable. No redeeming feature, such as a State would expect in original treaties on the institution's work, has appeared in the year past. Let the Board of Regents take some action in waking up its management or suppress the purile affair.
WE HEAR considerable grumbling on the "high prices on our books at the city book stores." Having given the matter investigation, THE COURIER is prepared to say the three stores of the city, Messrs. Crew, Field & Co. and Hand, furnish K. S. U. students books this year at very nominal profits, and instead of complaining we should all feel very kindly and generously toward them for the rates extended us. Pooling on us would be a very easy matter with them. Thus it is generosity rather than any semblance of competition that gives us our rates. Let "growling" stop.
ATTENDANCE upon chapel exercises has been, for the last few years, ridiculously small, to say the least. Every student should attend chapel each morning, as he will hear there nothing to his injury and much that may do him good; but each is supposed to think for himself, in the matter and any attendance of, this kind to be of benefit must be voluntary. It seems that the faculty intend to be more strict in regard to presence at roll call this year than formerly. Certainly no one will complain at this. With so slight disciplinary requirements as are demanded here it is more than right that those which are established should be faithfully enforced. For our own part we should much rather see daily attendance enforced than none.
THE Board of Regents of Kansas State University, at a meeting held in this city on Monday, unanimously resolved to name the new building in process of erection, "Snow Hall of Natural History." This is a deserved compliment to Prof. F. H. Snow, whose connection with the institution has been one of the mansprings of its success. His ability and consequent success as a specialist, and his unostentatious devotion to his work have attracted the attention of those interested in higher education in other parts of the country, which resulted in tenders to him of more lucrative positions in older and more famous colleges, but he chose to remain here to complete the work long ago begun by him, and in which he had spent many years of fruitful labor.—Lawrence Journal.
THROUGH K. S. U. the railroads of the State, leading to Lawrence, are given a great deal of traveling patronage, not only from the four or five hundred students who pass back and forward to school and home through the year, but the general patronage to commencement exercises, etc. They can afford to give students a cut rate for at least Thanksgiving and holiday vacations and the trip home in June. Let the Chancellor take the matter in hand at once and secure rates for the coming Thanksgiving vacation. It will be but a very few years until the young men and women of K. S. U. will be out over our fair young State "a power in the land." Railroad corporations will be wanting favorable legislation to their interests Now is the time to make favorable impressions. Our minds are young and plastic, our praises weak, the outside world seems cold and selfish, one penetrating ray of warm generosity from "grinding railroad corporation" in this "chaos of darkness and despair" will be ever remembered in the years to come, and will have an ameliorating effect upon partisan bias or prejudice, be it of what form it may.
WHAT THE COUCHER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW,
Why the different classes don't come to the front with class parties?
When there has been a more brilliant Senior class?
A more handsome Junior class?
A more cheeky Sopomore class?
Or a better dressed lot of Freshies than this year?
If the Review isn't being run with a pretty high hand?
And where the Board of Directors got their precedent for their late action?
Who does more talking in the library than Miss Watson?
What two Profs anchored their boat near the brewery for?
If Taylor found what he was looking for Saturday?
What class Gilmore has the third hour?
Who are better judges of elder than the Betas?
Why Fritz didn't eat supper Sunday night?
When a meeting of the stockholders will meet to fill the vacancies on the Review staff. The directors only having authority to fill vacancies until such time as a meeting of stockholders and subscribers shall be held.
VIEWS.
Among the things that this University needs is a Department of Elocution. As it is now, the assistant English professor is the professor in that branch of study. The work is too much for one man. The professor has not only his classes to bear, but the collegiate students to drill for chapel speeches; frequently it not only takes part of his time in the morning but also his time in the afternoons. Let us have another man in the English department, thus giving the professor in Elocution more time and less work. The study of delivery is too important to be neglected. SPEAKER.
Cosley's rink, with the finest music Friday nights, is a most enjoyable place in the city for an evening's pleasure.
AN ATTRACTIVE DISPLAY.
Mrs. Orme's millinery parlors were crowded nearly all day yesterday by ladies who were anxious to examine the large stock of stylish hats and bonnets, knowing full well that they were sure to find the latest styles and finest goods in the market. A COUCHER representative called during the afternoon, and although many of the most stylish bonnets had already been sold the display was very fine. Miss Engle kindly showed the reporter through the rooms and explained the master piece of the milliner's art—a woman's bonnet.
In some respects the styles worn this year are very similar to those worn last year. In hats the crowns are higher, while the trimmings are brighter, instead of the sombre colors worn last season. Birds and wings are worn a great deal, instead of feathers.
One hat which seemed to attract a great deal of attention from the ladies was a black velvet hat, trimmed with plume and orange yellow feathers, and steepe jet beads, set off with jet and gold trimmings. Another handsome hat, and which is popular alike for street and church wear, is a hat with Jersey crown, trimmed with brown and silver tinsel and iridescent beads, set off with brown plumes.
Opera bonnets are about the same as last year, with higher crowns. One of these, a perfect gem, was shown the reporter. It was trimmed with cream and Astrachan plush, ornamented with lace and gold beads. This was one of the handsomest bonnets on exhibition and the fair one who is so fortunate as to possess it cannot fail to be envied by her less fortunate sisters.
A handsome dress bonnet in silver gray, Normandy shape and trimmed with gray trimming with velvet cravat bow attracts a great deal of attention.
In the line of misses' hats, the reporter was shown a nobly sailor hat, Tam O'Shanter style, which is very popular for street wear. Another in brown, on the mortar board plan, is also a popular street hat. Some children's handsome bonnets were also shown, known as "poke bonnets." A Scotch cap is also very pretty. It is blue velvet and trimmed in Scotch plaid. Jersey caps are very stylish for children, both boys and girls. The most novel feature, however, is a pointed hat in garnet velvet with pointed crown trimmed with steel cord and buttons.
This design is entirely new and as it is very pretty, attracts a great deal of attention. It is impossible, however, to describe all the handsome goods shown, and we will say to the ladies that they should go and see themselves, and they will not be disappointed, whether they wish to purchase an opera bonnet, a street hat or trimmings of any kind.
Autumn Musings.
--public, or rather, the student mind at present. While there are many advantages which would result from the change, the objections seem to me to have been overlooked. Friday night is the only one of the week in which the students have time for social recreation. So if it be occupied by literary society meetings, many of the students will either break into their study hours during the week by a dance or card party, or skip the society meetings. As many of our best workers in the literary societies often attend, on Friday nights, some social gathering or other, which they would be loath to give up, the societies should weigh these considerations well before making any change.
Again we muser has heard of something at which to rejoice — that the boys of one fraternity entertained those of another a few days ago. I am very glad to see this, and hope to hear of more such parties. One of the greatest drawbacks to college life is the eternal and inevitable slandering and backbiting between the fraternities. Now there is no need of this whatever, for it grows out of misunderstanding and lack of acquaintance more than anything else; so if there were more gatherings of this kind there would be much good feeling created between the societies. Other colleges have inter-fraternity banquets which are great successes. I think we ought to have something of the kind here, and doubtless we could if some of the fraternity men would work up the scheme.
At the ball game the other day I noticed quite a number of lady students among the spectators. That's right! The girls should come out and cheer the boys on in their athletic sports as they do in other schools.
The change of time of the literary society meetings from afternoon to night is considerably agitating the
Now that Prof. Spring's History of Kansas is being circulated, I am reminded of a rather amusing question asked by a farmer of a student who was cavassing for the book. This history belongs to a series of State histories edited by Horace E. Scudder, a well known eastern literary man. The farmer looked over the prospectus and noticed Mr. Scudder's name on it, upon which he incessantly wanted to know if that was "old man Scudder that lives down on the Wakarusa." The student passed on to the next house.
On Friday evening a couple of our students, who are temperate to a fault, fearing that the elder to which the faculty were being treated, was too rich for their digestion, made an effort to reduce the strength and quantity of the same to proper limits. Their wholly disinterested kindness seems not to have been appreciated by the faculty. They were just stepping into the back-kitchen where the demijohn of cider was sitting, just thinking how much good they might accomplish by removing this timentation from the younger and more innocent members of the faculty, when an apparition, as it were, appeared before them. With characteristic promptness they determined upon a retreat. They were in no hurry; were not at all scared; even had the presence of mind to keep of the blue grass by retreating to the back instead of the front side of the yard. The boys, in the rapidity of their movements, accidentally ran over an unoffending "prep" who happened to be loitering in the back alley, who picked himself up just in time to fall into the hands of an investigating committee of the faculty. He was soundly shaken for his timelarity, but was finally released on a promise to go and sin no more. By this time the boys had notified the temperance branch of the Y. M. C. A. that the "game was up," and all returned each to his respective room, more fully convinced that—
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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The Dayton (O.) Journal of a recent date says: "Robert McWade was greeted by a large audience last evening, when he appeared in his well known characterization of Rip Van Winkle, and was received by repeated applause. Mr. McWade Rip Van Winkle was written by him self, and is decidedly the most natural interpretation of the pretty vagary which Irving dedicated to the Catskills. There is a more marked vein of pathos in it than in Boucault's version as played by Joseph Jefferson, and a more agreeable picture of the character of Rip and his frau. There is a moral sentiment to it in which Mr. Boucault's dramatization is imperfect. In Mr. Boucault's version, for example the last act closes with the old, and fortunate set, gray-haired and infirm drinking to the dregs the same cup that destroyed all his happiness Mr. McWade perceives this moral defect, and in his version the interposing hand of his daughter stays the cup, and the invocation, "May you all live long and happy," come from jips unpolluted by drink. This idea of moral propriety is carried throughout the play. Mr. McWade acting and dialect is unsurpassed His Rip, after the twenty years sleep, is a noble idea of the character and perfectly carried out.
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