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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
more in the breach than the observance is more bad than good. Anarchy will not take place at college if a man occasionally attends some other place of worship than Quaker meeting, or if one cricket team should play off our own grounds in term time." To the students of Kansas University who enjoy a personal liberty, which should be the common characteristic of all the higher institutions of learning, such words seem strange. Here where discipline is thorough, though not rigid, the liberty of no student is compromised, and we feel confident that no institution of nearly six hundred students can show better deportment. A sense of freedom asserts itself in every human breast and we believe with the Haverfordian that nothing will be gained by a system of discipline that treats young men and women as irrational and irresponsible beings.
The College Courier in the following lines shows up the antediluvian and moreover highly absurd custom of showering boquets on the heads of college speakers: "Whoever made the initiation in the practice of bestowing boquets on the performers in the different college exercises, probably had good motives for so doing. At least it is only charity to surmise as much as the individual may now be no longer in the land of the living. But surely it must vex his righteous soul, embodied or disembodied, to see to what the practice is tending. When some performers get flowers and others do not it is apt to raise a feeling of dissatisfaction in the hearts of those not favored. But when it comes to pass that the ushers must solemnly stalk in with their arms piled high with a miscellaneous assortment of big boxes, little boxes, bandboxes and bundles, stack them by the side of the performers like protecting bulwarks, and then as soon as the performers have left the stage come back and carry them off, it is nearly time to call a halt. As far as the students are concerned, of course we are all friends and are glad to see what our friends get, and we understand it all, you know. But usually there may be some of the vulgar there, who don't understand it, and think it is merely done for display. It is a pity that such is the case, but such it is. So draw the line somewhere."
PERSONAL.
A writer in the Michigan Argonaut charges the Palladium, the annual which has just made its appearance, with grossly misrepresenting several of the secret societies having chapters at Michigan University.
Ollie Thompson is now rooming with Helen Bay.
May Webster is now able to take daily drives.
W. L. P. Burney, of the law department, has returned from his home.
J. P. Jack is down again. He has the sincere sympathy of all.
E. A. Brown will be present at the senior examinations on the 27th.
Warren Berry has gone home for an extended visit to his "pa."
J. G. Smith will return home after the senior examinations.
J. D. McLaren came in from his school one day last week.
Mrs. Prof. Patrick spent a few days at the University last Wednesday.
H. A. Smith went up to Atchison last week to spend a few days at his home there.
Mr. Thomas Blood, an ex-student, is in town at work on the Annual.
L. H. Leach has charge of the Lawrence items in the Kansas City Journal for a time.
Miss Ethel B. Allen,'82, is expected up from Kansas City soon to visit among her many friends here.
Hattie Dunn returned last week from a trip to Emporia where she had been visiting her friend, Mrs. C. L. Cross.
Prof. Trueblood, of the Kansas City School of Oratory spent one day last week visiting our institution.
Mamie Swaim spent several days recently visiting friends at her old home in Fort Leavenworth.
Al Connor, one of the "boys" of by-gone days, came up from Armstrong to attend the "Imperial", Friday evening.
L. W. Luscher, 182, was recently appointed to the Chair of Chemistry in the Medical College of Kansas City.
Miss Antoinette Williams,M. D., a former graduate of K. S. U., after studying for some time in Philadelphia, has returned and opened an office here.
Miss Edith Webber, formerly one of the "coeds", received a number of her girl friends at her home here last Saturday. A "lovely" time is reported.
Alice Bartell, who has been sick ever since she left school some months ago. is slowly recovering, though she is still not able to write her own letters.
Last Friday K. S. U. was specially favored by a visit from two of the "loved and lost." Mattie Brown of Maysville, Mo., and Allie Curdy of Humboldt. They looked very natural going about the halls, and renewed the regrets of '84 that they had to count them out.
W. J. Morse has a new room mate. The firm is now Morse and Brace. Mr.Brace is a new student from Leavenworth, and will take a special course in Chemistry.
Fannie Pratt was made happy last week by a visit from her "papa." It was her—birthday, and since she had been such a "good little girl," he brought her an elegant new watch. May it never count any but happy hours for you, Fannie.
Have you a vaccinate? No but my sister Kate has a vaccinate. It is quite a take.
LOCAL.
Bugs.
Buggies.
Straw hats.
Keene Monday.
Jenks and Russ.
Peanut boy and revolver.
Regents meeting, May 8th.
The Review got a quorum.
"Nihilism" was discussed by the Oreads, Friday.
Boys "now is the accepted time" to show your gallentry,—take the little girls to Wiedemann's.
Keene is by far the most renowned and able actor that has ever come to this state,
Caldwell indignantly repudiates the name "Kikkabe" as applied to his magazine by the relatives of the corpse buried here last fall.