Students travel in the best of Rigs, and they get them of TOOTHAKER.
LOCAL.
The matinee in Orophilian hall, which was given immediately after the society adjourned their last meeting, was pronounced a complete success by all present. The faculty were not there.
Quite a number of students went over to Bismark Grove to witness the duel between an old student, Dan Crew, and a gentleman from 11-worth with snipe-hunting proclivities.
Chapel rhetoricals for the week ending April 3: Monday, W. T. Reed, Jos. Ralston; Tuesday, Edwin Stimpson, T. R. Shultz; Wednesday, A. J. Smith, F. J. Savage; Thursday, C. L. Wiler, Clara Thrasher; Friday, A. L. Adams, Eliza Jack.
Last Friday evening the members of the Phi Gamma Delta entertained their lady friends with a pleasant hop at their hall. The evening was delightfully passed in dancing to the inspirations strains of the Italian orchestra, and the only cessation was a temporary one to enjoy the pleasures of the festal board at Pershall's.
Our motto, "'Fraternity Rule Must Be Broken,'" has at last been subjected to a cruel joke. Every member of the editorial staff has received a copy of the Alarm, a communist dynamite paper published in Chicago. It seems that the editor of that sheet has taken our motto in the socialistic sense, as it were.
Oread.
What the Courier Would Like to See.
The society was called to order by President Bowersock with a good audience in attendance. The program before recess was rather short, and as follows: Declamation, Miss Emery; essay, Miss Dunn; oration, W. Y. Morgan. After recess the question, Resolved, That the freedom of the press should be restrained, was debated, on the affirmative by Gilmore and Dunn, and on the negative by Martin and Morgan. There was an interesting irregular debate. The society is in splendid condition financially and otherwise.
Another Oread election.
A dasier paper than the Courier.
What has become of Blair's mustache.
How many of the Science Club will get back to-morrow night.
The frats pin their sub rosa members.
The professors attend the meetings of the literary societies.
The man who has confidence enough in the weather to soak his overcoat.
Crew and Poehler get some Oread politician to make things lively.
Everybody pay up their subscription to the great religious weekly.
How many Juniors who have not paid their assessment.
Why the Seniors don't brace up and have a class party.
The boys who stayed up all night to get seats for Keene.
How many profs got off the "Keen goak" this morning.
The first man who says, "are you Keen to-day," shot on the spot.
The effect of the arrival of the K. S. U. Science Club on the natives of Kansas City.
A Chicago firm is now extensively advertising in college papers that they will supply orations, etc., very reasonably. It is perhaps not generally known that we have just such a firm in Lawrence. Any one having need of anything in this line can receive it very reasonably by applying to the COURIER, enclosing fifty cents as a guarantee of good faith.
A meeting of all of the members of the Athletic Association is requested to be held in Prof. Miller's room, Monday at the close of the fourth hour. Everybody is invited, members and officers of the A. A. are particularly requested, and the faculty will be welcomed. On our table is a letter from the president of the A. A. which is good reading matter.
A petition has been circulated among the students and signed with remarkable unanimity, asking that a spring vacation of one week be granted by the faculty. Nearly every college in the country has such a vacation, and none but good results spring therefrom. If there is no vacation students will, one by one, take one to visit their homes, and by the continual absence of some, class work is seriously interfered with. Would it not be better to give the week desired, and then all would return refreshed and ready for the hard work of spring. The students are practically unanimous in favor of the proposition, and only a few chronic kickers dissent.
Kappa Kappa Gamma.
One of the most pleasant entertainments of the season was given by the members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity last Thursday evening in honor of the initiation of Miss Kate Powell into the sisterhood. The "great act" was performed in the afternoon by the society, and in the evening the gentlemen friends of the members arrived promptly at the hour of eight, and soon after all was at the height of gayety. First came the entrance waltz, followed in quick succession by the quadrille, polka and schottische, and then came the supper. Huge pyramids of ice cream, mountains of cake and sandwich, not counting the numerous other good things, disappeared wonderfully before the attacking host of hungry boys (and girls).
Then euchre was indulged in until the ebony clock tolled out one of the wee sma' hours, reminding the merry company that they must say good night to their fair hostess and the hospitable girls of K. K. G.
Some time ago we announced that the Science Club would get up excursions to points of scientific interest and thus unite practical observation with their regular theoretical work. We are glad the scheme did not "die a borning," but that to-morrow the first of these excursions will be made. The object of this trip will be Kansas City, with the points of interest in that place and vicinity, and will start to-morrow on the eight o'clock train. A special car has been chartered and about fifty students will make the trip.
The editor of the Reviews department in the University Review takes this earliest opportunity to state that the date for his paragraph on Gen. Swaim, was taken from a hostile paper. Hence some misstatements were made. ED. REVIEWS.
ED. VIEWS.
VIEWS.
EDITOR VIEWS:—Will you kindly give me space to correct a few errors into which a writer in the last Review has fallen, through carelessness or ignorance of military technicalities?
Gen. Swaim has not been found guilty of fraudulently procuring money on army vouchers. He was found guilty only of two specifications of one charge, and this under such circumstances as to warrant the alteration of the wording from "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman," to "conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline"—a much less serious offense. Of the second charge and its specifications General Swaim was found "not guilty."
The writer had evidently confused the Swaim court-martial with the facts in the case of Col. Morrow, who was tried by the same court and who really was "found guilty of fraudulently procuring money on army vouchers"—a much more disgraceful proceeding than any laid to General Swain's charge. Naturally, then, judging from General Swain's sentence, dismissal was the least that could be meted out to Col. Morrow, especially as this was his third conviction for a like offense. But the "great mercy" shown by the court was all saved up for the latter officer, and it was decreed that he forfeit all right of advancement in his grade for the next two years. The nearest approach that can be made to saying that mercy was shown General Swaim is that he certainly did not receive justice.
It is only fair to the court-martia which tried General Swaim to record that the sentence originally inflicted was "to be suspended from rank, duty and pay, for the period of three years;" and this sentence was changed only under the severest pressure, after the proceedings had twice been returned to the court by President Arthur with his own strictures and those of the Attorney General—circumstances so remarkable as to call an indignant denunciation on the floor of the Senate by Mr. Ingalls, who declared "That if the public statements were correct, the proceedings subsequent to the trial were a disgrace to civilization. It was a shame that any tribunal of law should be subjected to the pressure and the violent interference that appeared to have been brought to bear, not in the interest of justice, but for the purpose of compelling a verdict more injurious to the accused man. * * * 'No man,' he said, 'could read the history of the proceedings without coming to the settled conviction that there was a deliberate purpose some where not to do justice, but to accomplish vengeance against the accused officer.'" M. A. M.
Arbor Day a Holiday.
EDITOR VIEWS:That we are all tired of studying, there is no use denying, and that the long "grind' from January to June ought to be broken up by a holiday, we all agree. In many of our schools and colleges a rest from school work is given to the students about the first of April, and where the custom has been adopted it has in every case proved satisfactory.
The governor in his Arbor Day proclamation particularly recommends that it be made a holiday by all schools; and as we overlooked Washington's birthday, the faculty could afford to grant us the time. The day occurs April 2nd, just after the half term exams are over, and the students all no doubt would enjoy it.
In as much as we have no such established custom, why would not the proper observance of Arbor Day be a good idea.
EDITOR VIEWS:-
There has been a petition circulating among the students for a weeks vacation in April. There are many arguments which can be brought up against this vacation. If we should have a spring vacation, either our term would be shortened or school would hold further into the summer. Now many of our students support themselves by their work done in the long vacation. Again, the poorer students could ill afford to go to their homes for a week in the spring, and the money spent for board is well nigh lost. Of course the time van be spent in study, but is it likely to be so spent? Add to these the necessary break in studies and general demoralization resulting from a vacation, and I think that all right thinking students would be willing to forego any pleasure to be derived from a "Spring vacation," and keep on "grinding." R. E HENRY.
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A GENTLE SPRING
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Is observable when the foot trends on the thawing arm
Coughs and Cold hang on yet, and you ought to buy all remedies of that kind, and all other wants, of
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