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UNIVERSITY COURIER.
The Asbury Monthly for January contains a very lengthy article upon Mr. W. C. DePauw, to-day one of most popular men in the college world owing to his munificent bequests to Asbury. A very fine engraving of Mr. DePauw accompanies the article. The bequests, however, are on the conditions that certain additional grounds for the campuses of the University be furnished; likewise that $150,000 be raised by the friends of the institution, to supply a deficit in the present endowment, of the college. Concerning this the Asbury Monthly says : "If these conditions are met Mr. DePauw will at once proceed to develop the University on the largest and most liberal scale. If they are not met, he will turn his attention to some other locality, and Asbury will have missed the one great opportunity of her career." The number also contains a very good article on "College Discipline" by the president of the college at the college association.
The Buchtel Record is agitated over an endowment of $100,000 from the founder of the college, John R. Buchtel. It was our fortune to know this big-hearted man, and as long as John R. Buchtel has the ducats, the college which bears his name will receive a goodly portion. A very large part of the number is taken up with the biography of the founder, but this is excusable, considering the circumstances. The poem, "Founder's Day" is nicely written and very appropriate :
"No higher dream I have for thee,
Than this, that thou mays't ever be,
One useful part of this great shrine
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Which links the human and divide. "
On the whole, we rank the Record among the best of our exchanges. It certainly leaves the restaway behind in external appearance. Great credit is due to the one solitary student who edits and publishes the magazine.
Cold.
More snow.
The sub-faculty.
An unexpected holiday,
Where is our water works?
Prof. Smith has recovered the use of his hands.
The engineering society has several honorary members among the ladies.
Will Stephens acted as Professor of Geology last Thursday.
There was much weeping and wailing over the compulsory vacation of last Friday.
Mettner is always ahead in Photography.
John T. Harlow came up from Wyandotte on the 24th ult., to attend the Delta party.
Owing to the breaking of one of the boilers last Friday, it was necessary to omit the recitations of the day.
An ad. for "Great Events of the Greatest Century" appears in this issue of the Courier. It merits attention. For four or five years this firm have given employment to a considerable number of students from this University, and have established a good reputation for being reliable and business-like.
An essay by Franklin Rifle of '80, on the "Excavation of Rock " was read before the Engineering Society by Prof. H. S. S. Smith on the 26th ult.
Students, if you want to leave your pictures with your friends, dont fail to call on Mettner, for he can do the best work.
The Astronomy class numbers eighteen members. They are now taking the theoretical part of the study, but will make observations as soon as the weather moderates.
William Horace Lingard, of Captain Jenks fame, will tickle the audience at the Opera House to-night. This is a comedy that it will well repay our student friends to see. He is one of the very best comedians traveling.
Satisfaction given-Bates & Field.
Wm. Stephens is acting as Prof. Snow's weather clerk a position formerly held by Mr. Barteaux.
The Phi Kappa Psi's gave a supper at Porter's, January 27th, in honor of their departing brother, W. W. Douglas.
More failures are reported at the last examination than any previous one held in the University. It is said that the tests in the classes were very thorough.
Geo. E. Rose will act as instructor in the Wyandotte County Institute, and F. H. Clark will occupy the same position in Douglas County.
The continued cold weather has kept Bromelsick's prices way down, the less the price the greater the demand. People will be kept warm, so he endeavors to increase the demand by low prices.
At their last meeting the Oreads amended their constitution by providing that members failing twice in succession to perform duties assigned should be dropped from the roll.
The Junior French and German class has been changed from the third to the first hour.
Ever ready to please—Mettner.
Miss Nettie Brown's chapel rhetorical last Wednesday was one of the best of this session.
Riffle is no longer a widower. His better half has returned.
Every recitation room in the building is being used by classes. The next move will be to put a class in the carpenter shop.
Riggs is the only male member of the Sophomore French class.
Prices to suit you-Bates & Field.
S. W. Brewster, thinking that "it is not good for man to live alone," has taken W. S. Whirlow for a roommate.
The greatest difficulty has been undergone this winter in getting water for the University. The cisterns went dry before the holidays, since which it has been necessary to haul ice from the river and melt it. In case a fire should get under slight headway there would be no method whatever of quenching it. The fire engine from the city could hardly be brought up Mount Oread onehalf of the time, and even if it could be, it would be of no more effect than a "toy" squirt-gun.