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THE CORRIDORS.
THE CORRIDORS.
—Happy
New Year!
Did you call?
Back for work.
Here we are again.
-I. N. Merrifield has entered the Baptist College at Ottawa.
The Gradatim will hold its next meeting Friday evening, the 18th..
—Quite a number of old students came in to attend the contest.
—Mrs. Hattie Dart is expected soon for a visit with her old school-mates.
The Oreads and Orophilians have each won two contests. The next one must be the tug of war.
The Sophomores are now inflicting the chapel attendants with their marvelous rhetoric.
The University was well represented at the State Teachers' Convention by students and alumni.
-Who went to Topeka to study and had to pawn his books to get back? Let echo answer, L-ttl-.
-B. S. Hutchins was in the city during vacation, and his first question was, "How are the Orophilians?"
J. B. Lippincott, of our scientific staff, spent a part of the holidays with friends in Kansas City.
Some fiend who delights in getting up a scare spread the report that the Freshmen would speak in chapel, three every morning. The rumor was promptly contradicted, much to the relief of the other classes.
The Betas received a New Year's gift of a box of oranges, sent all the way from Old Mexico by Hugh Tudor.
LATER-The report was originated by an emissary from Baldwin.
-P. C. Young was in Lawrence long enough during holidays to let his friends know that he is still the same old Philip Connor.
The large number of boys who were financially embarrassed at the close of school makes it appear strange how they managed to get home, walking being so bad.
A Freshman girl said that for Christmas she got a "new dress, lots of books, dressing case, toilet set, oil painting, and other articles too numerous to mention." Wonder if she got them in her stocking.
Miss Gussie Brown, a student of '81-2. was married December 30th, to Mr. Hugh Griffis, of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The Courier extends congratulations and wishes the happy couple a life brimfull of happiness.
—It comes to our editorial ear that a certain company of young gentlemen saliied forth upon New Year's calls intent. At the first place they tarried five hours. Query: Is this the regulation length of the New Year's calls.
The roller skating rink is a good place to study the contortions to which it is possible to subject the human anatomy. The evolutions and pirouettes which are performed there by the enterprising beginner would have made a Fanny Ellsler turn green with envy. Our advice to some of these aspirants after glide-iorial fame is to carefully locate your chair before you decide to sit-u-ate,