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---The waltzers wait with anxious longing for the Orophilian piano.
---Frank Hutchings is now city editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal.
---Miss Mamie Swaim left Wednesday for a short visit with friends in Leavenworth.
Miss Ella Cheatwood, a student of last winter, has been married to Dr. Jones, of Fairmount.
---The Freshman botany class has ninety and nine members. Swiekard is the sheep who has strayed away from the fold.
---Miss Cora Pierson's oration national day is said to have been the finest ever delivered from the chapel rostrum.
---The pleasant weather has brought out the base ball boys. This will last till they go out on a foul---that is foul weather.
---Phi Kappa Psi failed to establish a chapter at Baldwin. The concentrated energies of Kansas Alpha are now directed upon Ossawatomie.
---The faculty are seriously considering the subject of changing the weekly holiday from Saturday to Monday. Letters have been written to colleges under this scheme to find out their experience.
Married—Miss Nellie Cone, once a popular lady student, to F. M. Smith, of White Cloud. The happy couple left for White Cloud, where Mr. Smith is a telegraph operator, and agent for the B. & M. R. R.
The reason that the Freshman speaks his little piece in such clear stentorian tones, resembling so much a Leach, a Stocks or a Webster, is that he uses none but the best trouches, and gets them at Bigelow's drug store.
---Every young man and woman should have a thorough business training before considering their education complete. There is no place in the west offering better facilities for obtaining this training than the Lawrence Business College.
---The Lawrence Journal says that there is talk of the consolidation of the college papers. The brilliant brain of the champion of the patent medicine cause is wandering. We do not see how he could find time to originate such a dazzling scheme while engaged on those leading editorials which have been given forth in the late campaign. It probably took the whole reportorial force from the devil to the dude to concoct the scheme of combination, and this is probably the reason of the unusual dearth of news in the Journal of late.
A full house welcomed the National Day exercises last Friday. After the invocation by Chancellor Lippincott, Miss Minnie Jay declaimed a part of Lowell's Commemoration Ode. Miss Jay's voice is not strong enough to fill the chapel well. Miss Nettie Hubbard followed with an essay on "Puritan Influence." This lady is well known as a writer in the University, and on this occasion she more than sustained her previous reputation. Next came Cyrua S. Crane with a very well delivered selection from Webster. This gentleman is one of the best speakers of his class, and to all appearances one of the coming orators of the University. Fred A. Stocks then gave a well written oration on "The Collossus of the Federalists"—Alexander Hamilton. By reason of indisposition, Mr. Stocks did not reach his usual excellence of delivery, but made a very good impression. S. M. Cook showed, in a very scholarly essay, the rise and growth of "American Democracy." Miss Cora Pierson then gave an oration on "Colonial and National America." Miss Pierson's style, both of writing and speaking, is too well known and too generally admired to need any comment. Music by Buch's orchestra was interspersed through the program, and the exercises closed with the singing of "America" by the entire house. X.Y.S.