UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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Juniors taking German are about to try their hands at translating Lessing's works into English blank verse.
The Oreads are having the damage to the paper on their hall walls repaired.
Charley Simmons was one of the jurors on the trial which recently attracted so much attention.
The Oreads have a piano in their hall.
The old students are daily sending their subscriptions for the Courier. The good work is being appreciated.
Alumni of the University are requested to send us any items of an interesting nature, either concerning themselves or student friends.
Henry Boder spent a few days at home this week.
Eighty names were posted on the bulletin boards for absences or failures last week. This is appalling.
The departure of Prof. Stephens leaves but one lady professor in the University-Miss Campbell.
The latest evil with which the student has to contend is the new comet. So thinks B. After feasting upon the anticipation of the pleasure he would have with his fair one in pointing out the direct line from said fair one's eye to the comet, to be answered that its appearance was "altogether too early in the morning and too late at night." B. careth not for the comet, now.
The Preps. are as irrepressible as of old. Prof. Marvin's room at the fourth hour on Monday, when the fire bells sounded, was proof to this fact. Notwithstanding the remonstrances of said Professor, the Preps. succeeded in making a respectable shoe store of the windows.
S. W. Brewster will return to the University during the coming week. He will be here in time to furnish an additional chapel rhetorical for the Seniors.
Some one suggests that the Juniors have a class party so as to be even with the Seniors. Another saw-dust cake will be in order.
MISCELLANY.
SOCIETY NOTES.
The Orophilian Literary Society meets every Friday afternoon at half-past two o'clock, on the third floor, north wing.
The Oread Literary Society holds its meetings every Friday at 2:30 p. m., south wing, third floor.
The Normal Society meets in Prof. Williams' room, first floor, north wing, every Friday afternoon at three o'clock.
The distracting influences which were brought to bear upon our students at the opening of the present session have been removed, and the literary societies are now "buckling down" to the work. The election of officers has been accomplished without much ado, and everything indicates a prosperous season of literary improvement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB.-The older students of the University feeling the necessity of devoting time to the discussions of questions of political moment, have organized a Social Science Club. The two literary societies have become so large as to be unwieldly and the
exercises very diversified, sufficient time could not be taken for a thorough discussion of such questions as are of importance to young Americans. As the intention of the present members is to do thorough work, all the time that would otherwise be devoted to literary society work, will be required for the duties of this society. The professors who have been invited to join the society have signified their desires to take an active part. The society bids fair to become a permanent feature of the University, as it is to be made up of advanced students.
BORROWED.
Class officer to festive Prep.:—"Well, John, old excuse, sick again, are you? To which John replies in good English and better Latin: "Sic sum."
Coins with holes in them may be numerous, but holes without any coins around them are still more numerous. Ex.
A little girl in Sunday School, who the day before had succeeded in tearing her doll to pieces, when asked what Adam was made of, replied: "Of dust." "And what was Eve made of?" inquired the encouraged teacher. "Of sawdust," was the prompt response.
It is an Aesthetic Freshman who says of the present Prep. girl: There is language in her eye, her cheek, her lip. Nay, her foot speaks, her wanton spirit looks out at every joint and motive of her body.
I never saw a real prize fite, but I saw a foot-ball game. First a man kiks the ball; then the boys catch each other round the nex and roll in the mud; then one man yells hell and they get up in a line and the men on the end they danse; then the boys on the fens they laf. When a man runs with the ball they each him and sit on his neck; then he goze home and another takes his place; then one man kiks the ball and the other side yells fowl; then they swar. My brother Bill before the game, sed he was laying for one of those damfreshmen. When he came down to the feeld in his sute the boys on the fens they yelled, "it came up from New York on the breeze." When he came home with his leg broke I asked him if he fixed the freshman. And my sister's young man laffled and said, "not this eve," and Bill he kust. Clipped.
COLLEGE NOTES.
The Amherst Freshman Class number ninety, five of whom are women.
Wabash College, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, is again under way.
Williams College opened with an attendance of forty-eight Seniors, fifty-nine Juniors, seventy-seven Sophores, and seventy Freshmen.
Baker University opened on the 13th of this month with bright prospects for the future. The attendance is fully as large as expected.
Dartmouth has inaugurated a new departure; the government of the college has been turned over to a committee on discipline, consisting of four Seniors, three Juniors, two Sophomores, and one Freshman.
The income of the California University for the current year is estimated at $97,501,and its expenditure at $95,100.