V
The Students Journal
Of Kansas State University.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1893.
LOCAL NOTES
safeties at Howell's.
Tooth brushes at Smith's.
Dolly Graber's for boats.
"King of Scorchers" at Howell's.
Zeller is the student's laundry agent.
Everybody should send laundry with
VOL. I. No. 29,
Everybody should send laundry with Zeller.
See Howell's bicycle ad on third page. French harps at Smith's news depot. Hollingbery makes student's dress suits.
Get a walking stick at Smith's news stand.
Bottman ghoy! Dolly Graceber wishes to see you.
Best clothing at Hollingbery's, the practical tailor.
Best groceries and best rates at Mc Curdy & Roberts.
Get a bath engee from the Leis Drug Co., only 15 cents.
Howell's wheels have Morgan and Wright pneumatic tires.
Choice fruits at McCurdy & Roberts,
639 and 641 Massachusetts street.
Our stock of toilet soap is large and our price is right. LEIS DRUG Co.
Violin, guitar, mandolin and banjo strings at Smith's news depot in Eidridge block.
Students-Buy your clothing of the Golden Eagle, Eleventh and Main streets, Kansas City.
When you are thirsty drink at the Leis Drug Co's. fountain, only pure fruit juices used.
Laundry gathered Monday and delivered Friday by Zeller. Good work guaranteed.
Dolly Graeber's boats are in excellent condition this year. They must be used however, to be appreciated.
A Spring Suggestion—A clothing cata
logue. A postal card gets one from the
Golden Eagle, Kansas City, Mo.
About $20 suits—You will get the noblest, no woman's work, at Nic. Kuhn's, 802 Massachusetts street.
Order your clothing and furnishings from the Golden Eagle, Kansas City, Mo. Their catalogue tells you how. Send for one.
What's the use of having friends if you don't use them. The Santa Fe route is the best friend Lawrence and the University has on earth.
Why does the Santa Fe carry most of the passenger business in and out of Lawrence? Because it has eighteen daily passenger trains and gives the best satisfaction to the traveling public.
K. S.U. students have only a few weeks left to avail themselves of their magnificent opportunities to buy things at Woodward's. Toilet goods in infinite variety, cigars that cannot be equalled.
Go to Hotel Victoria when at Kansas City, Rooms ensuite or single, Baths and closets attached to each room. Rates $2.50 and $3.00 per day. Take Ninth St. cable from Union depot. Buckwalter & Co. Proprio te.
What are you doing for field day? The University should have four men in each event. There are yet needed one 1 mile, one 1 mile and one 1 mile runner; also some bicyclers. Upon the payment of fifty cents entrance fee, the contestant can enter one or all events and have free admittance into the grounds.
Notice to Subscribers.
All subscribers in the city who do not receive their papers on the day of publication will please notify the business managers at once.
Attend the M. E. choir concert tomorrow night. Admission 25c.
J. L. Cramer has withdrawn from the University.
Zeller was busy distributing deficiency cards the first of the week.
Mrs. Josie Hutchings. Crane at the M.
E. church tomorrow evening.
C. A. Peabody and Galen Nichols visited the Historic City last week.
It is said that Ots Halbert Holmes is engaged. Ye Gods and little fishes!
Games of bass ball are scheduled for every Saturday until commencement.
Prof. Wilcox lectures in Hisper to-morrow evening on "A Trip to Greece."
T. J. Fulton's father died at Marys-
villain h, week of cerebral hamorrhage.
In the May-pole contest, Christopher wanted to pair off with George Thompson.
Olinger and Blackman are at work decorating the Kansas portion of Agricultural Hall.
Ralph Elmorz left school last week to accept a position with a large dry-goods firm in Chicago.
The long expected, much discussed seniors, annual put in its appearance last Thursday morning.
At the pharmaceutical society last Friday afternoon, Prof. Franklin gaye an illustrated lecture on glass blowing.
J. H. Sawtell '92 has closed a successful term of school at Hartford and is now taking graduate work in the University.
Dr. Williston went to Chicago Thursday, to superintend the arrangements of the Kansas geological exhibit at the World's Fair.
The professors are wondering at the great decrease in attendance in the Freshman classes since the merry go-round has come to town.
Music by Buch's string quartette, also a cornet solo by Olin Bell will be features of the entertainment Friday evening at the M. E. church.
An engineering student was very certain a few days ago that he could prove experimentally that the shortest distance between two points is a curve.
The Department of Pharmacy has just received some valuable chemicals for the use of the seniors in prepailing their graduation theses. Colchicin, one of the chemicals received, costs about twenty dollars an ounce.
Tucker is preparing twenty five photographs of objects showing the effect of various poisons. These are for Prof Bailey's class in Toxicology and at the close of the term each member of the class will be given a set of these pictures to pres-reve for reference.
While in Chicago Dr. Williston met H. C. Riggs who is stationed as guard in the woman's building. This speaks well for Riggs, as the management placed in this building only those who would be popular with the ladies.
The copy for the pharmacy catalogue has nearly all been sent to the publisher, and the catalogue will be out as soon as it can be printed. In addition to the usual information, the catalogue will contain the address and occupation of every graduate of the Department.
Dr. Graham Taylor, Professor of Sociology in the Chicago Theological Seminary will deliver an address before the Christian associations of the University next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Congregational church. Dr. Taylor is a young man, a graduate of Yale, a pleasant speaker and one much interested in college students.
The University Band will play at the ball game Saturday.
Chancellor Snow lectures in Gaylord tomorrow evening.
Prof. Blise will begin his experiments on the Kaw river next week.
Chancellor Snow will give a reception in Snow Hall to all of the Seniors in the University May 19th.
Chancellor Snow often receives letters addressed to Chancellor Snow, The Chinch Bug Man.
Practice for Field Day.
The senior collegiate were delightfully entertained last Thursday evening by Prof. and Mrs. Wilcox.
The University student who interfeared in the High School May-pole contest, showed very poor judgment.
Baker has had three men for each event in the Field Day contests practicing daily for the past six weeks.
The class in Scientific German has just read a monograph on Bacteria. It will take up one on the electric machine next Monday.
Ex. Governor Chas. Robinson will address the Historical Seminary tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock on Early Times in California.
Adacy and Williamson distinguished themselves on May day. They are perhaps the best "all around scrappers" in the University.
J. M. Aldrich is preparing for publication a paper on the Dolcipidae, a family of flies Twenty-nine illustrations will accompany the paper.
Last Tuesday Chancellor Snow lectured to the one hundred and fifteen Seniors of the Kansas City High School on the University of Kansas.
Chancellor Snow lectured in Lincoln, Kansas, last Friday evening. While on his way home an Irishman told him that he was more popular than De. Tanner,
There are lilacs in abundance on Mt. Oread, although down in the city there are none This clearly shows the effect of frost on plant life in valleys and on hills.
Chancellor Snow and Dr. Williston have been appointed by the city on a board of arbitration to settle the difficulty between the city and the Water Company.
Frank Menet will leave for Chicago in about a week. He will probably remain until the close of the Fair, assisting his uncle in displaying the latter's remarkable fishing apparatus.
The University people can scarcely turn around without being imitated by the students of the Lawrence High School. We had a May-pole contest on Monday morning; they had one in the afternoon.
Wm. Hill, '89, has accepted a position in the Chicago University as instructor in political science. He was intending to spend the next two or three years in Europe, having been awarded a traveling fellowship by Harvard; but the offer of Chicago University was too attractive to refuse.
The exhibit of salt and stone sent from the University to the world's fair, surpasses anything in its line on the grounds so far, and stands a good show of receiving one of the prizes offered.
The Junior electrical engineering students made tests on the engine and dynamo last week in order to determine the amount of steam it takes to run the University electric lights. They found that it took one horse power to run ten incan descent lights and six-tenths of a horse power for an arc light.
THE MAX-POLE CONTEST.
The Seniors and Sophomores Generally Victorious.
Last Sunday night the University campus was covered with skulking forms—Juniors and Freshmen bent on raising a May-pole. They skulked about all night, but for various reasons the campus was not graced by Junior and Frishman flags. In order, however, not to consider their night's prowling in vain, they placed a gummy sack on a telegraph pole. This was soon taken down by Senior Laws. Between six and seven o'clock Monday morning, the Juniors and Freshmen began to think that activity without result was in vain, so they raised their colors on the flag staff of the main building. The flag remained aloft only a few moments, when they were taken down by University authorities.
The Juniors and Freshmen now decided to raise a genuine May-pole. A hole had been dug behind Snow Hall, and an iron pole prepared during the night, so they proceeded thither burdened with the renown they had already won. When they arrived there they found that their iron pole had been broken by the seniors and sophomores; but, not discouraged, they raised the broken pole, failing however to decorate it with their flags. The pole was soon abandoned and then lastly pulled down by the Seniors and Sophomores.
Now, the final struggle began. The Juniors and Freshmen had placed their colors on an electric light pole by the main entrance to the University campus, and defied all opposition. For sometime their flags floated proudly in the breeze. When all was seemingly quiet and the Juniors and Freshmen were least expecting an attack, the flag pole and flags suddenly came down. The Seniors and Sophomores had cut the electric wires running to the neighboring poles seized the wires, and pulled the pole down before organized opposition could be made.
A struggle was made for the flags, in which the Juniors and Freshmen were in the main victorious. They retained all of the Junior flag, with the exception of a small strip, and about three fourths of the Freshman flag.
There were some minor struggles later, but they were of little importance. The contest ended with no one hurt, with a great increase of class spirit, and a general good feeling on both sides.
Something Unique.
The class of '94 has sometimes been thought to be of mean talents and little originality. But such thought must now be dismissed forever. It is acknowledged on all hands that, while they were worsted in the May-pole contest, the Juniors proved their title to genius by their excellent work in decorating the grand stand on McCook Field. The enormous '94 which loomed up before astonished students and professors when they arrived on the hill was decidedly the most unique feature of the day.
Although the average temperature of April was about the same it has been for years, it does not follow, as the Lawrence Journal thinks, that April was not a colder month than usual. The first week of April was very warm. In fact the hottest April day in twenty-five years occurred at that time. But the balance of the month was much colder than usual and made the monthly average about the same as it had been for preceding Aprils.
The Oratorical Contest.
Notwithstanding the bad weather and the number of other attractions in the city, a fair sized audience greeted the aspirants for oratorical honors last Friday night. And certainly those who were there were not disappointed. The Spring Contest was not, indeed, what it should have been. It was not near so good as that of last year; but all of the orations were creditable to the speakers themselves and to the University.
Mr. Fullerton has never before been an aspirant for oratorial honors, yet his oration on Robert Burns, both in composition and delivery made a much nearer approach to the true ideal of an oration than has frequently been made by more experienced speakers. He was not altogether at home upon the platform, but he was thoroughly at home in his subject. He shewed, moreover, a depth of feeling; a power of so ordering and uttering his words that they would affect the hearer by their own power without reference to the thought behind them, which unfortunately seems to be "going out" of college aratory.
It was very much of a surprise to many when it was announced that Mr. Gillespie had entered the contest. It was a considerable indication of his pluck that he should venture, without experience as a speaker or as a writer, to enter the lists against one of the most experienced writers and one of the most experienced speakers of the University. His oration on the Power of the Past was very creditable to him, and, if he can overcome a slight impediment in his speech, he may some time make a good showing in the regular local contest.
The well known force and earnestness of Mr. Orr as a speaker caused a general expectation that he would be the winner of the contest, and he was greeted with enthusiasm as he came forward. These expectations were not disappointed. He delivered his oration on the Growth of the Brotherhood of Man with a force and earnestness which carried conviction to his hearers.
The markings of the judges were as follows:
THOUGHT AND COMPOSITION.
THOUGHT AND COMPOSITION.
Fullerton 85 75 69
Tennilin 85 75 69
Cawdield 85 75 69
Woodward 89 88 87
DELIVERY.
Blackmar 2 1 3
Howland 2 1 3
Milton 2 1 3
Blackmar 2 1 3
Base Ball.
Next Saturday the University base ball team will cross bats with the McCooks of Fort Leavenworth. The McCooks are regarded one of the strongest amateur base ball nines in the State of Kansas. Their pitcher and catcher were in the Southern League last year, but having joined the army and being stationed at Fort Leavenworth, they are now playing with the McCooks.
The following is the arrangement of the two teams:
K. U.
Mc COOKS
Kelsey . Catcher . Fieldcamp
Gear . Pitcher . Higenbotham
Bedell . First base . Bennett
Alden . Second base . Hunter
Williamson . Third base . Young
Crawford . Shortstop . Myers
Sherman . Left field . Dyer
Hicke / Center fie d . Lawrence
Chambroliair . Right field . Flanery
Phillips has withdrawn from the University.
In the Field Day contests, the winners of the first and second prizes will be awarded medals, and the winner of the third prize, a ribbon. A first prize will count five points, a second three, and a third, one.