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Vol. III.
LOCAL.
Base
Ball.
Frats.
Athletics.
Last lecture.
Phi Gamm versus Phi Delt.
Circus here next Monday.
And the Preps are happy.
So are the collegiates.
Reviews begin next week.
Higgins has sworn off joking.
Did any one say consolidation?
Three more issues of the Courier
The last Monday in May is near
Chapel speeches are over for the year.
Short takes analytics for recreation.
Hereafter the politician will pay his tuition fee.
Riggs now puts in thirty-six hours a day in the laboratory.
The site for the natural history building has been selected.
The whangdoode combination now mourneth over the prospect.
Read our editorial on providing a residence for the Chancellor.
The Phi Gamms luxuriated in ice cream and cake Saturday night.
Martin's stock has changed hands; he had better have had his five dollars.
Archie Watson is put down as the coming catcher in the University nine.
Baldwin says she is ready to play us base ball. Let our boys send her a challenge.
Prof. Brownell is very busy drilling those who speak commencement week.
All subscriptions to the COURSE which have not been paid should be paid at once.
And "he compassed her round about;" so he said, but we always thought he lied.
The boys say that the new night watch is a "good one," so don't monkey with him.
The Senior laws are again holding their classes in the University. They have two recitations a day.
There will be an interesting program in Oread to-day, and all members should be there.
Song of the ___: Scratch, brothers, scratch with care, scratch in the presence of the professaire.
Superintendent Parish has had the grass on the campus cut, and thereby much improved its appearance.
Senator Ingalls will deliver the address before the literary societies at Baldwin on the night of June 8th.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 22, 1885.
The blackboards in Prof. William's room have been painted green—for the benefit of Freshmen, we suppose.
Shattuck and Horton attended the meeting of the Y. M, C. A. last Friday. They are now trying to make converts for the cause.
Two games of base ball to-morrow should attract a good crowd to the grounds.
Two weeks more—one of recitation, one of examination—then graduation, then separation.
All students having books out of the library will please return them on or before the 30th of May.
The students are inquiring what has become of R. E. Henry. No one seems to be able to answer.
T. H. Rockwell will not return to college this year, on account of the serious illness of his mother.
Professors Robinson, Brownnell and Arthur Canfield will conduct a private school here during the summer.
The Senior class has sent out its commencement invitations. They are the prettiest ever sent from the University.
Frank Clymer met a rival in West Lawrence the other night, as may be seen by a black eye. Go to Burney for details.
The short cut across the hill has been fenced in by a barb wire fence, and the students are now compelled to go around.
The Junior class has but twenty-five names to its credit in the catalogue, but polled thirty-eight votes at its election.
Remarks made by a member of the
whangdoodle combination (alleged)
on last Thursday: ___ ___ ___
___ !! ___ ___ !!!
Prof. Dyche has not yet decided where he will put in the summer. But wherever he does go, we warn all living creatures to keep out of his way.
Several students made two dollars Sunday by the rain. If it had not rained they would have gone buggy riding, and as it was they only called.
The custom of having a "Junior Night," although not as successful this year as it ought to have been, is one that should be continued by other classes.
The lecture course this year has been unusually successful. It was not started until late in the season, and met with many difficulties, but notwithstanding these it was the best we have ever had. Too much credit cannot be given to Prof. Carruth and his associates.
A prep, hearing the Juniors shortening the names of their studies from Political Economy and Rhetoric to P'lit and Rhet, said: "How can you verti brate your words so?"
According to the revised classification, the totals by classes are as follows: Senior, 19; Junior, 25; Sophomore, 38; Freshman, 61. Grand total, 143.
Those who desire to take "special economy" should notify Prof. Canfield immediately. The following topics have been chosen: Socialism, Graham; Convict Labor, Templin; American Tariff System, Smith.
Who will get up a University picnic this month?
The student is now seen with his pockets full of photographs.
The Science Club excursion to Blue Mound last Saturday was postponed on account of the weather.
Quite a number of students will attend the Seventh Day Adventist's Camp Meeting at Bismark this week
Brown and the night-watchman are having quite a dispute as to who the young ladies, who paid the University a visit Tuesday night, came to see.
The telephone is freely used by those boys who have girls down town. The only objection is that the profs are liable to drop in just as you are uttering your sweetest words.
All Juniors who desire to take special economics next year are requested to choose their topic and hand their names as early as possible to Prof. Canfield.
Now does the botany student wander over the heights of Blue Mound and the marshes of the lake in search of flowers, when the professor assures him that there are it least one hundred species growing on the campus.
The session of Oread last Friday was not one of the best. Warm weather and spring fever made the attendance of performers and audience light, and sowed a crop of fines which will be reaped next election.
Daily and Hatch came near meeting with a severe accident Sunday. They were out in the sail boat and lost control of it, and would have drifted over the dam if they had not been rescued by the boatman. Moral: "Remember the Sabbath day," etc.
The Arrow, the journal of the I. C. Sorosis, made its bow to the public yesterday. Its matter is well selected, well written and neatly edited. The young ladies have made a great success of the first number, and the Arrow is an honor to the society and to the Kappa Chapter here which has undertaken its publication. Kappa is one of the wide awake Chapters of the Sorosis, and has shown its zeal by the establishment of two new Chapters this year, one at the University of Cincinnati by Miss Annette Jones, and one at Denver by Miss Addie Sutliff.
Yesterday a challenge was received from the Washburn base ball club asking our boys to play in Topeka Saturday. Though there was no time for practice, the club promptly accepted the challenge. Frank Foster will captain the nine, which will probably be placed as follows:
K. S. U. vs. Washburn.
McBride, Catcher.
Yohe, Pitcher.
Foster, 1st Base.
Davis, 3rd Base.
Smith, 2nd Base.
Cruise, Short Stop.
Kerr, Left Field.
Sherrard, Center Field.
Crowell and Ketner, substitutes.
Neal, Right Field.
PERSONAL.
H. B. Martin is the big political fish.
Who did Higgins kiss at Bismarck?
W. S. Bales is at Wilburn, Ford county.
C. S. Gleed was in town the first of the week.
Lizzie Reynolds climbed Mt. Oread last Friday.
Valentine was at home in Topeka over Sunday.
Sullivan is taking dancing lessons of Prof. Pratt.
Dewitt Bower is now a notary public at Delphos.
Miss Margery Brown has entered the music class.
Governor Martin will attend the alumni banquet.
No. 37.
Miss Roxana Davis was seen in the halls last Monday.
Minnie Raught comes up to see her friends frequently.
Frank Foster, of '85, is captain of the base ball club.
Warren Perry gets the Courier at Troy, Kansas, again.
Blair has at last summoned up his courage and made a call.
R. J. Curdy will be here for commencement in full force.
Hattie Williams was missed by her friends the first of the week.
H. B. Martin seems to have been merely an alleged stockholder.
Harry Higgs goes to Tepeka today to visit with L. Adams.
W. T. Little returned Saturday after a week vacation at home.
Hattie Dum visited friends in Topeka last Saturday and Sunday.
Prof Spring left Saturday for the east, not to return till next fall.
Prof. Canfield is thinking of giving his classes a vacation circus day.
F. L. Barnes leaves to-day for Topeka, to visit until commencement.
Miss Etta Hadley left yesterday for a few days visit at home in Olathe.
Miss Lillian McMillan is expected in Lawrence about commencement.
Miss Kate Cummings was kept from climbing the hill Monday, by illness.
Miss Lillian Sherman will spend commencement with Miss Jean Oliver.
Miss Laura Killan, of Newton, was at the University with friends Tuesday.
Hon, W. W Cockins and son paid the University a visit last week Friday.
Miss Addie Sutliff has returned home after a winter spent in Colorado.
Miss Mary Stanley returned last week from an extended trip in Europe.
81, Mary Woodward, is taking a course in short hand at the Business College.
Victor Linley returned Saturday, and will remain in Lawrence till commencement.
Profs. Canfield and Nichols "went out" between acts at the concert Friday evening.
Chancellor Lippincott spent Sunday and Monday in Leavenworth and Kansas City.
Mrs. Barnes and Mrs. Gosling, of the city, were at the University with friends yesterday.
Prof. Robinson and wife entertained the members of the faculty Saturday evening.
Miss Nannie Anderson expects her sister Lizzie to-morrow. Miss Lizzie attended the K. S. U.
Miss Nettie Hubbard returned yesterday, and will remain until after the Review election.
Kate Merrill leaves to-day for her home in Topeka, where she will spend Saturday and Sunday.
Wm. C. Lightfoot, formerly of '87, and now civil engineer on the Santa Fe road was in town last week.
H. A. McLean having left school, Miss Fannie Pratt has been appointed to take his place on the Field prize.
John Weightman, of Topeka, a former student, was in town Wednesday. He goes to California next week.
Prof. Elliott, of John Hopkins University, has consented to act as judge upon the essays for the French orize.
Ella O'Dea, a last year student, who has been teaching near her home in Reno, was in Lawrence the first of the week.
Misses Mamie and Edith Manley left Tuesday for Fort Maginnis, Montana, where their father, Lieutenant Manley, is stationed.
H. E. Webb, a popular student of last year, now manager of the Emporia telephone exchange, was in town Wednesday.
Scott Hopkins, J. W. Gleed, C. F. Scott and G. C. Smith, the famous Arions, were at the University Friday before returning home.
Miss Clara Coffin returned to her Leavenworth home Sunday, much to the regret of the many friends she has made during her attendance at K S. U.
The Misses Reeves pass through Lawrence to-day with the trans-continental excursion to California. They expect to make Los Angeles their future home.
The lecture by President Taylor last Tuesday evening was not well attended, on account of the weather. His subject was "The Story of Life," and he told it in a graphic, entertaining manner.
General John Sullivan was compelled to retreat from his Oklahoma raid last week, but retired in good order. Wednesday he made another general advance towards that country, by way of Kansas City, but will keep close to his base of supplies.