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To the Students of K. S. U.: We, the undersigned, do earnestly recommend the
BOOK STORE
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S. T. FIELD & CO.,
As the cheapest and best place in Lawrence to purchase your Books and Supplies.
August, 1885.
Signed,
COURIER.
LOCAL.
A Spanish course is needed here.
Lawrence will soon have electric lights.
Most of the students will return for Bismarck fair.
We hope the city will soon grade Oread Avenue.
The Bridges twins sing in the opera house August 24.
Students's boarding clubs will be popular this year.
The library has received about two hundred new books.
The Courier will soon publish a list of boarding places.
The street cars bring hundreds of visitors to the University.
The Courier calls for an observatory from the next legislature.
The Merchant's base ball club will play against the County Officials tomorrow.
Parrish's faithful work on the campus adds much to the beauty of the grounds.
The University water works will have a good supply of cistern water this year.
The Courier editors are scattered, but still enough fall together to get out a paper.
Read the editorial on "The Fraternity Girl." It was furnished by a fraternity girl.
Lindley M. Spray, '83, will be principal of the Lawrence High school this year.
The city militia drill faithfully. The students must have a company here next year.
The Y. M. C. A. reading rooms have seven dailies. Many students are found there.
Some student could make money renting and selling second hand books at the University.
Strange as it may seem, even in the warmest of weather we have Snow on our University.
The State teacher's examination will be held in the University from next Monday to Friday.
Bismarck fair will be the first week of the term. Usual jokes of fair, fair, fare, etc., in order.
The Phi Gamms and their city girls had one of their old-fashioned socials last Monday evening.
Catalogues and pamphlets of the University have been sent to all the county institutes for distribution.
Several young ladies of west Lawrence have formed a Diaphonous club, for the purpose of study and pleasure. No gentlemen are admitted.
The city library, under the management of the new librarian, Miss Simpson, is a most popular resort for students. Tickets are very reasonable.
The foundation of the natural history building is laid. The walls will be of the beautiful white Cottonwood Falls limestone. The structure has twenty corners.
Lawrence Herald-Tribune:—Hon. Geo. R. Peck, of Topeka, accompanied by his wife, his daughters, Mary, Isabel and Ethel, his son Charlie and his nephew, Geo. Kimball, were in the city to-day. Mr. Peck was on his way south and brought his family to Lawrence and showed them the sights of our city this morning.
Midsummer Meditations.
The hardest thing in the world is to admit that you're dead broke. Every year I hear of students quitting school on account of "bad health," sickness of parents," "work in the store," etc., when I now it's because they are out of funds. But that is all right. Such talk don't hurt any one, and it bridges over unpleasant places.
I had a hope that politics would keep a still mouth during vacation. It was vain. The other evening I heard a couple of Oreads discussing "orator" for year after next!
“If the book had a lot of sensational pictures,” said Gilmore speaking of Prof. Springs history, for which he had canvassing, “it would sell like wild fire. A colored plate of Quantrell burning Lawrence or something like that is what would make it take with the people. But as it is, it's up-hill business.” A fine commentary indeed on the intelligence of the first educational State in the union! But from what I hear, it's true.
I suppose that Prof. Spring's new history of Kansas is for accuracy of detail and brilliance of diction, unequalled by anything ever written on the subject. Its price, too—$1.25—is ridiculously low. What is better, it isn't filled with portraits and paid biographies of ward politicians and horse doctors.
Just how to get the finest accommodations, perplexes the incoming student, for it is notorious that the best places in Lawrence are not ad-vertised. A friend, whose name I wouldn't mention for anything, not for the world, told me some years ago the pretty dodge he worked. “I go to the handsomest block and knock at the first door. To the lady who answers, I say: I was recommended here to get board. She protests that she don't take boarders. I say I must have made a mistake, and it is probably the next house. She looks at me and thinks a minute, and then says she hadn't thought about it before, but believes she can spare one room. So I get a nice berth, don't you see?” But everyone isn’t as handsome as Ed. Little, you know.
As a class the students are good patrons of the theater, and I am glad of it. The legitimate drama offers a wide field for instruction as well as amusement. For those who can afford it there is no better investment than an occasional evening listening to a good play.
Frank March recently showed me his bookings for the coming season at the opera house. I must say I think it far ahead of anything we have before had in Lawrence. Bartley Campbell’s new opera “Paquita,” Mile. Rhea and Maggie Mitchell, are a sample of new sweets. What is still better, Frank has closed the house to all variety and second class shows. It must be of the first order or none at all.
I confess my enthusiasm over the “military scheme” don't equal that of some others, still there is one advantage I hope to see derived therefrom. If we have a military com-
pany it may help to detract from the billiard halls, which have done more to demoralize and bankrupt students than saloons, society and all other influences combined.
Like whiskey, the billiard halls have their warmest advocates in those they hurt most. It has long been a shame that the public sentiment has allowed these places to become the rendezvouz, day and night, for student dissipation.
SMITH.
One of our students justifies himself to his home paper in this way: “If a young man looks pale and weary, it is not hard labor but the brain work which he has to expend in taking care of the institute girls and at the same time standing in with his town girl.”
STUDENTS
On arriving in LAWRENCE
Should ask to be driven at once to the Lawrence House!
Where they will be given of accommodations until they secured permanent homes for the year.
Street cars will carry you within one block.
A. R. MILLS, Prentice.
Students, go to H. B. Asher's for tony turn-outs. Vermont Street.