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Bales, the sub rosa "spiker!"
When are the Sigma Nus coming out?
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 20, 1885.
Some of the Phi Psis are getting their hair cut.
The Kansas zephyrs still continue to fan.
The attendance at chapel this week has been fair.
We wonder if Mays will attend the State contest this year.
To Harry Valentine, greeting:
"Get on the good side of mama."
From present indications the University ball will be a grand success.
We wonder if the Lawrence editor has found Alvin Joslin's diamonds yet.
Powell says that he is convinced that Beaconsfield wrote his name with a pen.
It is rumored that Beta Kappa Chi will soon have a new worshipper at her shine.
Several students from Baker visited the educational center Saturday and took in the University.
Students should buy their fine toothed combs at the places advertised in the COURIER.
Prof. Snow has just received by exchange 120 rare specimens of fossil shells from Ohio. They are new to our cabinets.
To W. E. Higgins: No, if you have only got left several times, try again, and may success attend your efforts.
Judge West is busy at our cabinets. In fine weather he makes collecting tours to all parts of the State. He is rapidly filling the basement rooms.
Prof. Sterling marks an unexcused absence the same as a failure; thereby rendering the practice of promenading the halls during recitation hours less attractive.
We understand that Graham has appointed himself a committee of one to look after the affairs of the University in the absence of Dr. Lippincott. If "Henry Ward Beecher" was alive to assist him, they would make a big pair.
Prof. Canfield has secured a large number of new and valuable maps for his room. Among others is one of the Indian Territory, which will enable the student to pick out his claim in Oklahoma without wasting time in going there.
The first lecture of the course was given last Tuesday evening, by Rev. McChesney of Topeka, on the subject of Schuyler Colfax. The speaker handled the subject in a very able manner from his point of view, and drew several moral lessons which were to be learned from the life of Colfax. A poor audience listened to his effort.
Lives of seniors all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime!
And departing leave behind us
Debts which we will pay in time.
Never look on the dark side of anything, unless it is a buckwheat cake.
That the COURIER should have a large appropriation for publishing the catalogue.
Minnie Wakefield is thinking of returning to her home in Fort Scott tomorrow, to return next year. We hope she will change her mind and return soon.
A Louisville man has turned out some sort of an electrical invention by which a man can be in bed and fish. There is no need for such a contrivance for everybody knows that a man who can fish can lie anywhere.
The Seniors of Wabash College will make a trip to New Orleans about the first of March. The De Pauw Seniors will also attend the exposition in a body. We think the plan a good one, and wonder that it is not followed by more classes.
“Are you lost, my little fellow?” asked a gentleman of a little boy. “No,” he sobbed out, “b-but m-my mother is.”
Long legged Junior to barber in town: "You ought to shave me for half price because my beard is so light." "Oh," replied the barber, "we always charge extra when we have to look for the hairs."
One of Baldwin's best students, the son of a minister, too, was convicted and fined here last week for stealing an overcoat. The students of the "infidel school" don't pretend to make any great fuss about religion, but they have always been taught to steal nothing—except coal and kindling.
Chapel rhetoricals for week ending Feb. 27th: Monday, G. W. Harlington, Claude Highbargin; Tuesday, Clara Hunsicker, Lida Jack; Wednesday, W. T. Lutz, Edith Manley; Thursday, A. C. Markley; Friday. R. W. Chestnut, J. W. Curry.
Normal program for to-day: Essay, Ida Wade; declamations, M. T. Cummings, Sadie Hunt; elective exercises, L. H. Rose, Flora Eddy. Debate: Resolved, That the plow is more useful than the spelling book. Affirmative, Mary Sabin, Jennie Divelbess; negative, Fred Liddeke, Ida Wade.
Orophilian promises the following excellent program for to-day: Roll call, response by quotations and proverbs; declamation, J. O. Ward; essays, Miss Anderson, Miss Kirby and Miss Jennie Hulick; elective exercises, C. L. Roe, Harry Radcliff, Julia Powell; orations, Wm. Lane, E. L. Ackley; 'Contest Congressional Debate,' W. H. Johnson, J. A. Hutcheson, S. M. Cook, Webster Davis.
Oread had a very fine meeting last week. Besides the regular program being carried out, most of the members joined in voluntary exercises, making the meeting quite interesting to those who dance. The incorporation committee reported no progress.
The Oread bulletin board presents the following program: Declamations, Geo. Lewis, Agnes Wright; readings, E. M. Cox, Hallie Smith; essays, Edith Manley, Fred Bowersock; orations, Denton Dunn, W. S. Franklin. Debate, question: Resolved, That there are occasions when lynch law becomes justifiable. Affirmative, Cyrus Crane, F. C. Keys; negative, Victor Linley, W. H. Park.
Prof. McDonald gave the second of his course of lectures on music Wednesday at the third hour. The subject treated of rondos and dance music. Prof. McDonald is an interesting speaker, and all students who have the third hour vacant would find it entertaining as well as profitable to attend as many of these lectures as possible.
Wednesday evening a number of friends of Miss Alice Ropes assembled at her home to do honor to her passing another milestone in life. The evening was very pleasantly spent in the mirth and fun of "Progressive Euchre." After a sharp contest the souvenirs of skill were awarded to Miss May Webster and Victor Linley, they having held the royal table for six games. The evening will be long remembered by those present as one of the happy memories of college life. Those present were: Misses Griswold, Webster, Howe and Stimpson, and Messrs. Crane, Schall, Stimpson, Linley and Morgan.
The great ball of time rolls on; great men come, and great men go. Scarcely has one been laid in his grave another rises to take his place. And in looking over the history of these great men, we find that many of them in their school boy days had one and the same characteristic—playing tricks on their fellow students. The chain even extends to the halls of K. S. U. And if we should take a stroll through the corridors during the fourth hour we would find a little crowd here and a little crowd there, thinking up some scheme by which they may fool their class mates; or perhaps we would see a little band hard at work piling up rubbbers in the middle of the floor, and should we ask them what they are doing, they would answer: "Why we will be great men some day." The rubber trick is all right, boys, but is getting rather stale. Please give us something new.
The First Step.
Wednesday the Ways and Means committee at Topeka recommended the appropriation of current expenses and $50,000 for the natural history building, as asked. The general feeling seems to be very favorable toward the University. The bill will not probably be reached before the middle of next week.
PERSONAL.
Appointments.
W. J. Marshall has a girl.
The commencement day appointments were made by the faculty yesterday. By the rule requiring entire regularity, and to have all back studies made up, only five Seniors were eligible, and they were appointed.
The fortunate ones were Victor Linley, B. K. Bruce, Hattie Williams, H. F. Smith and S. M. Cook.
Mary Rodgers was seen in the halls Wednesday.
May Webster is still unable to attend her classes.
Prof. Nichols returned from the east last Sunday.
B. P. Blair will sing to-night at the Unitarian church.
Kate Merrill returned Sunday from a short visit to Topeka.
Alice Penfield spent last week with friends in Leavenworth.
Fannie Pratt, we are sorry to learn, was not as well yesterday.
'85, Jas. A. Hutcheson, made a short visit home last week.
'82, P. L. Soper, was with his Lawrence friends Tuesday.
'87, Alice Ropes has been kept from climbing the hill by illness.
B. T. Chace, formerly of '85, will attend Ann Arbor next year.
Mrs. Al Lewis, nee Bertie Neisley a former student, is quite ill.
Kate Wilder, formerly of '86, was seen in Oread hall last Friday.
Birdie Starr went to Kansas City Tuesday to hear "Il Trovatore."
Prof. Stephens was not present at her classes yesterday nor to-day.
No. 24.
Rev. C. S. Marvin, of Alma, Kas., was seen in the halls Wednesday.
Clara Coffin returned from a short visit to Leavenworth last Tuesday.
Nettie Hubbard is teaching a class in beginning German the fourth hour.
Albert Yohe and E. F. Neil have gone to Leavenworth on a short visit.
Miss Franc Hunt will be over from Leavenworth to attend the University ball.
Lettie Collins came down last Friday from Olathe to attend the Beta party.
Sallie White, a former student, is recovering from an attack of pneumonia.
'84, Glen Miller, took in the legislature and the grand opera at Topeka Wednesday.
Elmer and H. F. Albert have returned home, and will not return until next year.
F. D. Cornell, of Wyandotte, visited his old chum, Ed Cruise, Saturday and Sunday.
Misses Lizzie and Annie Machir, of Linwood, will attend the University hop this evening.
Jennie Starr climbed the hill last Wendnesday to hear Prof. McDonald lecture on music.
Mrs. Lippincott and Mrs McChesney, of Topeka, visited the University last Wednesday.
Belle Smith has decided to take a Normal course, in which she will graduate next year.
'85, Clara Greenamyer, has been kept at home several days by the illness of her mother.
Minnie Collins, one of last year's
very popular students, is expected to-day for a short visit.
Robt, M. Rogers, Jr., of St. Joseph, will be here to attend the University hop to-night.
J. S. Machir, of Linwood, arrived to-day to attend the hop, and will be the guest of H. E. Riggs.
'84, C. D. Deane, is doing good work on the local department of the Herald-Tribune this week.
Miss Madge Kelsey, who has been visiting Belle Smith, returned to her home in Ottawa last Saturday.
'87, Fannie Pratt, was detained from her classes the last of last week and the first of this by a severe cold.
Mrs. Martha Ramsey, and Carrie H. Baldwin, of Monmouth, Ill., visited the University day before yesterday.
We are sorry to learn that Warren Perry is now in the penitentiary; but he has not adopted the striped style of garments.
'87, Ella Ropes, goes to Linwood to-morrow for a short visit to Mrs. O. W. Shepherd, nee Nellie Reed, formerly of '85.
Kate Ridenour, of Kansas City, and Mamie Hudson, of Topeka, arrived from Kansas City last evening to visit their Theta sisters.
Rev. McChesney, of Topeka, who lectured here Tuesday evening, occupied a seat on the chapel rostrum Wednesday morning.
As Dent Dunn was riding to school last Monday his horse fell with him, but fortunately both horse and rider escaped without injury.
Dot Mead, formerly of '87, writes from New Orleans that she is having a very pleasant time, and expects to start home in about a week.
P. J. Fritz is the latest to succumb to the Pompadour. If it improves the appearance of all the boys as it does his, let the good work go on.
Although Chancellor Lippincott was much worse Saturday and Sunday, he is now steadily improving, and hopes to resume his duties next week.
'89, Fred Barnes, had the misfortune to freeze his right car severely last Monday, and in consequence was kept from his classes the middle of the week.
Albert Curdy. W. C. Spanglor and F. D. Hutchings, left Monday for Columbus, Ohio, to attend the Phi Psi convention, which was held there last Wednesday.
R. W. E. Twitchell, one of the most brilliant young men who ever climbed Mt. Oread, and now a leading attorney in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was in Lawrence Tuesday.
In a private letter G. E. Winders writes from Wichita: "Cattle, hogs and horses are the subject of my mind's thought most of the time now, except the girls." We would like to know whether it is the Wichita or K. S. U. girls of whom he thinks.