THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
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The Junior Promenade is the event now looked forward to. It is an innovation in western college life that the Juniors should give a promenade. The class of '96 is indeed far from being slow. Preparations have been going on for some time for this one event of their life. We think the Promenade would have been given early had not the Council suggested that it be postponed until after the first days of April.
The Botany laboratory has been increased in its efficiency by six storage batteries. For the past year the power used in experiments in the laboratory was that water power, or was that of electricity taken direct from the dynamo. Each of these methods of securing power has proven to be unsatisfactory, as the motion imparted is irregular and cannot be depended upon. The new plan will furnish a regular motion, and will be much more satisfactory in every respect than was the old method.
The faculty of Harvard by a two third vote have declared that inter-collegiate foot ball ought to be abolished. This recommendation is advisory only and committee on Athletics is not under obligation to adopt it except on its own conviction that the interest of the University would thus be promoted. The consensus of opinion among the best educated elements in the country has long been against foot ball as it has been played of late years. It has ceased to be a sport, it has become mere thuggery. Chicago Herald.
The Pharmacy department has just placed in the north laboratory a new case for microscopes. It is quite an elaborate piece of furniture, consisting of thirty compartments, each compartment having subdivisions for microscopes and material box. The doors are of glass and on the whole it presents a finished appearance.
It was noon at the Topham club, and gathered there were Hill, Wheeler, Maxwell and Blake, and the fair-haired girl and the crosseyed, brown-orbed girl and the short armed, fluffy-haired girl, all were there. The hash had been eaten, the bread disposed of, the last Irish potato had gone to find its final resting place. And over all there hung an air of suppressed excitement as they anxiously awaited the arrival of the pie. The door swung slowly open and stately waiter and
luscious pie made their simultaneous appearance. Hill's lips twitched convulsively. The fair-haired girl looked at Hill. The cross-eyed girl looked at Maxwell and at the pie. With due solemnity pie adjuster Hill commenced to segregate the pie into the requisite number of sections. Each passed up his plate with silence and with hope. But, alas, through some cruel mistake but one piece of pie remains and Hill and the cross-eyed girl still unsupplied. Hill hesitates between love and inclination. The cross-eyed girl looked tenderly at the pie. Hill thought she was looking at him and love conquered. Hill ate Maxwell's crust.
The party given in Fraternal Aid hall last Friday evening by the I. Y. L. was a little different from the usual Lawrence receptions. The balcony was arranged as a Japanese reception with card and krockinole tables. The same decorative effect was carried out about the room Professor and Mrs. Dunlap and Dr and Mrs. Ashby chaperoned the party. The guests, over a hundred in number, were received by Miss Fannie Kelly and Miss Effie Loader, to whom the success of the entertainment is greatly due.
A late "Iowa City Republican" states the I. S. U. base-ball team besides engaging in many local games will play Chicago Medical College, Northwestern University and the Universities of Wisconsin, Michigan and Nebraska. They will also make a outhern tour of some length. What is the K. U. base-ball team going to do? We certainly must not be pushed into the back ground by Iowa.
The final local contest for choosing our representatives in the coming Kansas-Nebraska joint debate will ake place on April 5th, in University chapel. The question is: "Resolved, That less weight should be given to precedent in judicial dicisions. The debaters will be announced April 4th. The judges in this contest are, Col. Moore, Judge Norton and B W. Woodward. The alternates are Dr. Cordley, A. C. Mitchell and J D. Bowersock. The debate will be open to the public.
Horace Pitkin, representing the International Student Volunteer Movement, will address a union meeting of one University and city Y. M. C. A's at Musc hall Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. On Sunday night he will address at the Baptist church, a union meeting of all the city churches. Mr. Pitkin represents the Foreign Missionary Department of the Y. M.C.A. work. All students should hear him.