THE WEEKLY UNIVERSITY COURIER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. SUBSCRIPTION FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR. Vol. III. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AUGUST 21 The best advertising medium for students and ladies dress' goods trade for Lawrence business men, in the city. MAIN UNIVERSITY BUILDING. Erected in 1871. Cost $200,000. 246 feet long; 98 feet wide; 100 feet high. (Chemistry Hall, 75x80 feet; Natural History Hall, 100x110 feet, and North College, 50 feet square, do not appear in cut.) PERSONAL. W. W. Russ will teach this fall. F. T. Oakley is at home in Topeka. H. A. Peairs is visiting in Vinland. B. P. Blair is visiting at WaKeeney. Mamie Tisdale is on an eastern trip. Angelo C. Scott, '77, thrives at Iola. Elmer Brown is on his Lawrence farm. L. M. Powell is rusticating at St. Marys. W. S. Kinnear was in town this week. J. W. Ohrum is now a Lawrence citizen. Will Kemmerer is a cowboy near Larned. C. E. Fearl will teach near Burlington. Chas. Metcalfe will teach school next year. A. L. Adams visited Harry Riggs this week. Ella Ropes, '87, is now visiting at Winfield. Nell Dow will attend the fair at Bismarck this fall. W. H. Brown still has late evening calls (?). W. J. Marshall has a bad attack of "mish" at Garnett. Will Walters is studying music in Germany. Lillie McMillan will visit in Lawrence this full. J. A. Hutchison will teach at Ottawa, Kansas. Evelyn Smith is the guest of Miss Mary Miller. Glen Miller, '84, went to St. Louis Wednesday. Jennie Walker gave a pleasant tea party last week. E. L. Taylor is cashier in the Lebo bank, at Lebo, Kas. Rob Osmond, '88, is still chief bookkeeper at Innes'. Crane and Highbargin assisted the guide Thursday. F. H. Clark is visiting his father in Santa Anna, California. Jum Chalfaint is in the office of the Herald-Tribune. Prof. Snow is mounting microscopic specimens. Mrs. Lippincott visited the University yesterday. Nannie Pugh is visiting her sister in Dallas, Texas. Carrie Breese is attending the Chase county institute. Laura Lyons and Clara Poehler will be members of '86. Clara Wilson saw a sunset from the dome Saturday evening. Flora Newlin, of '88, is visiting in western Kansas. J. D. Field can be found at the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. Crane is taking a post graduate course in house cleaning. J. A. Holmes, of '80-81, is a big stock man in Chase county. Fannie Pratt will visit her Junction City friends soon. McBride is showing Lawrence girls the University this summer. J. E. Pears, of the Emporia Normal, visited us the other day. Chancellor Lippincott went to Atchison Monday on business. Sue Miles and Carl Cockins visited 11worth the first of the week. Hon. S, S. Benedict, a former reagent, is farming near Fredonia. Dot Mead will probably attend Bethany this coming school year. P. C. Young is looking up a newspaper location in southern Kansas. A sister of F. W. Busch, of Burlington, Iowa, will enroll with '89. The Metalefa brothers keep Lawrence from stagnating this summer. Professor Carruth and wife have been visiting in Iola and Humboldt. Walter Davis, of Junction City, will be a new student in September. 1885. Dick Mason, of Ottawa, contemplates entering K. S. U. next month. E, G. Blair, '88, of Atchison, is among his many friends in Lawrence. E. M. Marshall, a last year's student, is married and gone to farming; Douglas Hamilton is quietly pursuing his studies in the historic city. Harry Kelley was married August 12, to Kate Henderson, of Burlington. Geo. W. Goss, "our pretty cousin" in 1880, is a popular doctor in Parsons. E. M. Wright, formerly of the Emporia Cabinet, is now on the Emporia News. Claude Highbargin is enjoying a visit from his brother George, of Ft. Scott. F. H. Rhodes, of Garnett, brought his Sunday school class up to see the Bar's. Rose Dyche, of Auburn, sister of Prof. Dyche, will enter the musical department. Alice Penfield returned Tuesday from a visit to Miss Foster at 11worth. Corydon Lindley, of North Lawrence, will enter the pharmaceutical department. Ed Cruise has returned from "Missoury," and can now be found at Wyandotte. C. $ ^{*} $ E. Fearl gained the highest grade certificate in Coffey county— $ 97\frac{1}{4} $ per cent. Cyrus Crane has gone to work. His traveling expenses have been great this summer. Arthur L. Brandon is chief bookkeeper in the People's National bank at Burlington. Prof. Snow's father and mother have come from Massachusetts to visit their boy. Spangler visited his old haunts on the hill last Thursday. The office was Little changed. Frank P. Maclennan, '75, brings out the Emporia News bright and fresh every evening. Miss Dora White, of Penn college, Iowa, brings good tidings from Prof. Erasmus Haworth,'81. Mrs. C. C. Dart was visiting friends here this week, on her way to her home in Dallas, Texas. Misses Jennie and Addie Sutliff entertained their friends at their residence last Friday evening. New York Herald reporter, A. J. Wilson, studied up the Indian question in our library this week. W. S. Franklin writes from Severance, Kan.: “I’m homesick and want to get back to K. S. U.” Arthur W. Ayer, of Somerville, Mass., an original settler of Lawrence was at the University last week. Oscar Pochler has gone from Henderson to Glencoe, Minnesota. He will probably not attend K. S. U. again. L. H. Leach declined the principalship of the Lawrence High School and accepted that of the Stockton schools. Dr. Chas. Simmons, '82, has a lucrative practice in the city. His flowing sandy beard nearly equals Prof. Miller's. Miss Dot Mead took part in an elocutionary entertainment at Council Grove, and her performance was very highly praised. Prof. Bailey was the chemist on the Frankie Morris poisoning case. That's why he locked his office one week last winter. Denton Dunn fell from a moving machine several days ago, cutting his foot so that he may be confined to the house for some time. Prof. Andrews, the friend of the bashful student, is getting lonesome in Lawrence, and anxiously awaits the opening of the University. No.44. Dick Horton sent a quarter for "How to Get Rich." He confides his answer to the Courier: "Work like a serf and save your earnings." We are credibly informed that D. W. C, Bower will shortly be married Nettie Brown left for Polk City, Iowa, Monday morning. The Courier's best wishes go with their sister editor. May success crown all your work. to a very pretty young lady of Lawrence, Kan.—Delphos Courier. Who is she? Prof, Jewett, of Abilene, one of the foremost educators in the State, visited the University last week and was shown through by Secretary Little. Why should Harry Smith give up his contempiated business trip to Lawrence just because somebody had a previous engagement for Sunday evening? Austin Cinkle is so busy in the drug and livery business, at Madison, that he has spent but six evenings at home this summer. He will return in the fall well rested. We are pleased to learn that Will Otis is doing well. Will now owns a half interest in a large wholesale fruit and commission house at Atchison, and sticks right to business. Laura Lyons returned from Leavenworth Sunday, accompanied by Frane Hunt and Clara Coffin. After a pleasant visit of two days, the latter two returned to their homes. Miss Agnes Clarke returned last week from Old Mexico, where she has devoted the past year to her special studies in the Spanish language. She returns with good testimonial. B. K. Bruce, '85, has just been elected principal of the colored schools of Leavenworth at $100 per month. Another Courier editor in the good cause. Success to you, Bruce. The many friends of Dr. James Marvin celebrated his birthday last Saturday with a grand picnic at Bismarck grove. The Courier wishes you many happy returns of the day, Doctor. Perlee Bennett, after due consideration, has decided to leave K. S. U. for a more congenial clime. He will enter the Michigan University. We wish him unbounded success and notoriety. Doctor Lippincott returned from his eastern trip last week. He witnessed the funeral ceremonies of General Grant last Saturday. He has had a short vacation, he says, and feels strong for the coming year's work. Woe to bad boys. J, H. Long, of "77, has made his way to the top in his favorite science, chemistry. His highest achievement was in Chicago, where he has taken high rank as a chemist. The Tribune of that city gives a column analysis by our alumnus, and prints the head line: "Professor Long sets the public mind at rest on the water question." Hurrah for Long. We will have the following representation at the December meeting of the Kansas State Teachers' Association: President, J. H. Canfield. Papers by Jessie Austin, '70, George E. Rose, E. L. Cowdrick, J. K. Elwell, C. D. Hawkins, A. J. Carruthers, Prof. J. H. Canfield, Dr. P. J. Williams, Chancellor J. A. Lippincott, Prof. F. H. Snow, Dr. James Marvin, Prof. F. O. Marvin, Dr. L. W. Spring and Prof. E. L. Nichols.