THE CORRIDORS.
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The first part of the Cicala has been printed.
—Our base ball nine is a daisy and don't you forget it.
—E. F. Caldwell has the contract for the Bismarck fair premium list.
---'The lion roareth, the whangdoodle mourneth'' but the Courier goes on forever,
A number of delegates to the State Republican convention went over the University Wednesday.
—Spangler, Stocks, H. T. Smith, Watson and Dean attended our representative to Iowa City. If he doesn't win they will walk back.
-Curry is champion according to Marquis of Queensbury rules. Challenges any one in the University who is sufficiently smaller than himself.
The students of the University who thoroughly believe in a practical education should go to the Lawrence Business College, which works especially in that field.
The I. C.s will soon produce the latest opera, King Alfred. The great and only original, special attractions, new costumes, handsome scenery, full band and orchestra.
—The Phi Gamm boys enjoyed a "feed" and reunion last Monday evening in honor of the visit of S. T. Seaton, of Olathe, a charter member of the chapter.
--The Emporia papers of the day after the Lawrence contest were full of enthusiasm over oratory and state contests. At last accounts they hadn't heard from Baldwin.
The remark that a "barb." was "frozen out" of the Gradatim is eminently without foundation. No person has ever been excluded from that organization, and fully one-third its members are non-fraternity students.
If the celebrated orator of Baker University, Mr. W. A. Quayle, had bought his furnishing goods of Bromelsick, he would have had more chance of getting away with the president of the Courier in the late contest.
The new and commodious quarters of the Lawrence Business College give it exceptional advantages in the way of instruction in plain and ornamental penmanship, flourishing and shading, telegraphy, shorthand, bank and merchantile book-keeping.
---Consolidation means death to a live local students' paper in order to make a second class magazine which few will read, and fewer still will like. We can buy many times better literary papers at the news stand. What the students want and will have is a paper devoted to them and their interests.
Theater goers will have a treat in hearing Thos. W. Keene, who will appear as Macbeth at the opera house, Monday, May 5th. Seats on sale Thursday, May 1st. The Pittsburg Leader says: The house which greeted Keene last night was the most flattering reception which has been given him since he first appeared at the Pittsburg opera house. His acting was fine and at times reached such a high point of artistic skill that the audience was held spell bound.
While Lady Macbeth is instituting the plot of assassination and arranging its details, Keene's portrayal of a man with noble impulses, yielding to his wife, and the promptings of ambition, finally smothering his better self, is all that could be asked. Miss Constance Hamblin, as Lady Macbeth, made an admirable support. Her enunciation was very clear. The general support was good, and Eugene Moores' Malcolm was excellent. Whatever may be said of the other plays in Keene's reportoire, his Macbeth will be rated a strong one by Pittsburg people. Prices, $1.00, 75c and 50c.