THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
Of Kansas State University.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1893.
LOCAL NOTES-
B'p'd'g.
Safeties at Howen's.
Tooth brushes at Smith's.
Dolly Gracher's for boats.
"King of Scorchers" at Howell's.
See Howell's bicycle ad on third page.
French harps at Smith's news depot.
Hollingberry makes student's dress suits.
Boatmen ahoy! Dolly Graeber wishes to see you.
Get a walking stick at Smith's news stand.
Best clothing at. Hollingberry's, the practical tailor.
Howell's wheels have Morgan and Wright pneumatic tires.
Violin, guitar, mandolin and banjo strings at Smith's news depot in Eidridge block.
La Mode has a complete line of all the new patterns in spring and mid-summer millinery.
Our 5 cent cup sponges are just right for a shaving mug. See the big lot at Raymond's.
Students-Buy your clothing of the Golden Eagle,Eleventh and Main streets, Kansas City.
Raymond's chamois skins are fine. soft and cheap. That is just what the cyclist is after.
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.
Do you shave? Not notes, but beards?
The finest shaving soap is Palmers, at Raymond's.
Did you see our blacking brush stock at Raymond's. We can give you a first-class outfit for 50 cents.
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.
La Mode invites the young ladies of the University to call and inspect their new patterns in spring and mid-summer millinery.
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.
Not that boarding house steak is hard to digest, but the flannel cakes are so "tuff." Instead of maple syrup use one of Raymond's Dyspepsia and Liver
We stopped in at Mrs. Gardner's this week to get some locals and found her too busy to write any. She has some of the prettiest hats in the city, but they are going very fast.
Granules after each meal and you can stand the "clothing."
Gb to Hotel Victoriana 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. Proprietro.
A. P. Zeller has taken Huddleston's place as agent for Jackson's laundry. Satisfaction is guaranteed to old customers and all new ones who may favor him with their patronage. He will call for laundry on Mondays and deliver on Fridays.
New neckwear at Levy's.
Straw hats at Abe Levy's.
Wear one of Levy's $8.00 hats
Will Pugh was on the hill the first of the week.
Abe Lloy's straw hat season for 1893 opens Satursday, 29th.
Prof. E. C. Franklin received a visit from his mother last week.
K. U. had eleven substitutes for last Saturday's base ball game.
A. S. Fouls has gone to Utica to take charge of a hardware store
The class in Zoology are in the labora tory making a study of the crayfish.
The city council passed a resolution to curb and macadamize Adams street.
W. E. Higgins will conduct a teachers' institute at Oathe, b. beginning June 5th
Chinch bugs are coming in rapidly now. The work of extermination has begun.
The Science Club Annual will be of interest to every scientific student in the University.
Each member of the zoology class has been provided with an outfit for capturing insects.
Chancellor Snow was in Kansas City last week in the interests of the new library building.
Prof. Sterling has made application for the position of principal of the Lawrence High School.
There's a student in the University called the Prince, who is making himself very obnoxious to his friends.
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The law students are objecting because the new porch on the north side of North College is made of oak. It is too hard to whittle.
C. P. Chapman, city Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., who recently resigned his position, has consented to remain another year.
The Kansas State Board of Agriculture will soon publish a book on Kanesas for distribution at the World's Fair. Prof. Bailey's article on Kansas salt, somewhat condensed, will appear in it.
The choir of the M. E. church will give a concert Friday evening May 5, at the church. The best musical talent in Lawrence has been secured for the occasion. Mrs. Crane, alone, will well be worth the price of admission, 25 cents.
Part of the Washburn base ball team has been selected: Catcher, F. J. Close; pitcher, H. H. Brewster; first base, S. B. Brewster; second base, W. M. Mason; third bass, D. C. McVicar; left field, W. F. Miller. The right and center fielders are not yet selected.
We call your particular attention to our new and fine line of blouse waists, silk umbrellas, parasols, kid gloves, hosiery in all shades, ribbons, silks and dress goods. We carry the stock of the town in all departments. Please call and examine our styles and prices. You will like our goods, styles and our way of doing business. GEO. INNES.
W. C. Fogle has been appointed secretary of the state college prohibition organization. J.W. Wetzell, of Winfield, is president. There are prohibition clubs organized in all the principal colleges of the state. A convention will be held at Topeka in the near future to elect permanent officers.
One of the most interesting features of the Lawrence Record nowadays is the items from the STUDENTS JOURNAL which silently find their way into its local columns. The Record is improving. A month or so ago, it thought that the faculty should "abolis all such organizations as the Oratorical Association and the STUDENTS JOURNAL."
Tite Sigma Nus danced last Friday night.
Eli Cann has returned to the University for the rest of the term.
The Faculty-Senior base ball game will be played in about two weeks.
The "Barbs" had an informal bail at the Merchant's Bank hall Saturday evening.
Prof. E. L. Nichols, formerly professor of physics here, has established a Physics Review at Cornell.
Prof. Williston was at Cottonwood Falls last week collecting building stones for the Columbian exhibit.
The Registrar is sending out cards to every student in the University who has work to make up.
Mr. Tucker has just completed a number of autumn slides for Professor Carruth. They are views of scenes in Switzerland.
The county commissioners have decided that McCook Field is non-taxable property. Hurrah for the county commissioners!
Prof. Murphy, Hamaker and Tuckel were appointed to arrange the program for the Science Club Annual, which is to be held in May.
Mrs. Topham gave a dance to a select crowd of University students last Friday evening. A very enjoyable time is reported by those who were there.
Prof. Blackmar has been chosen a member of the advisory committee of the University Extension Congress which meets in Chicago during the World's Fair.
At a special meeting of the Science Club, last Friday afternoon, it was decided to change the time of meeting from Friday evening to Thursday afternoon, from 4 till 5.
The physics and library buildings will be ready for occupancy one year from next September. The Chanceller's residence will probably be completed by next December,
The class in physiological botany is experimenting to determine the force of root pressure and the place in plants where water ascends to the leaves to be converted into sap.
Prof. Williston is going to increase the number of his lectures on Hygiene to the Freshman class. He will do this in order to make his lectures equivalent to a two- fifth study. Heretofore he has been giving only one lecture per week, but in the future he will give two or three.
McCurdy and Hutchinson, of the class in sugar analysis, are now analyzing commercial beer. Samples were not given to the entire class as it was feared that correct analyses would not be made.
If some energetic student would make a series of ponies for the freshmen and sophomores he would not only win everlasting renown, but would make a considerable money. One freshman has already paid out six dollars for literal translations.
The first year German class has just completed William Tell and will take up Foque's Undine next week. Tomorrow afternoon Prof. Carruth will lecture to the class on William Tell, in Snow Hall. The High School students taking Tell will also be present. The lecture is open to the public.
The collegiate, the engineering, and the pharmacy students are required to pass an examination in civil government for entrance into the University; the law students, those who above all need civil government, are required to pass no such examination. The logic of such a method of procedure is invisible.
Prof. Wilcox gives a reception to the seniors this evening.
E. C. Case is studying the microscopic structure of fossil bones.
Gear and Armour have broken their pledges with the Sigma Nus.
C. C. Crew has gone to Chicago to work for the Rolling Chair company.
Since the departure of Huddleston for Chicago, Zeller is first guide with A. L. Corbin as assistant.
Prof. Brownell lectures this afternoon to the class in Status of Woman, on the Property Rights of Woman. All students are invited.
P of. Sayre lectured in Stockton last Friday evening on the Theoretical and Practical Value of Science.
The K. S. U. Columbian exhibit is now at Chicago, with the exception of a carload of building stone from Iola and Strong City.
The Racculaureate sermon will be delivered by Dr. C. B. Mitchell, pastor of the Grand Avenue Methodist church, Kansas City.
Will Snow, who has been studying entomology for over a year under Prof. Forbes at the University of Illinois, has returned home.
A chinch bug repository has been established at Erie, Kansas, in order that farmers in that vicinity may obtain infected bugs without sending to the University.
Prof. Blake's lectures at Kansas City were concluded last Friday evening. At the end of his lectures the electricians of the class presented him with a beautiful basket of flowers.
At the Science Club this afternoon V. L. Kellogg will talk about Scientific Works in the Far West. Dana Templin will give notes on Engineering, and A. O. Garrett on Botany.
One of the finest cuts in the Annual is the pharmacy design. It was originated by members of the pharmacy department and drawn by R. T. McMaster of the junior pharmacy class.
The Seniors in the Department of Pharmacy are at work writing their graduation theses. These theses must be the result of original investigation. The best of them will be published.
The University band is now practicing three nights a week. The music played at Saturday's ga.ne, together with the diligent practice which is kept up, gives brilliant promise of an excellent K.S U. band.
A complete set of Wiedemann's Annalen, from 1878 to date, has just been placed in the library, by the Department of Physics. The complete work is possessed by but few Universities in America.
The State Board of Health recently stated to Prof. Sayre that they would gladly do all in their power to increase the efficiency of our preparatory medical course. They officially recognize it as one of a three year's medical course.
A. G. Mayer, formerly assistant in the physical department, has just published in the American Journal of Science, an article on the Radiation and Absorption of Heat by Leaves. The article is the result of original investigation, part of which was made in the physical laboratories of the University of Kansas.
Gross & Barker have received satisfactory settlement for their loss in the fire and will open up in a few days, probably across the street from their old stand, when they will be glad to see their old customers and any new ones who may favor them with their patronage.
Miss Nannie Pugh is studying French in Paris.
Armor is a Phi Delt
The special concert which was to be given at Music hall last Tuesday evening was postponed indefinitely.
Castings for a new lathe were received at the Electrical Engineering shops last week.
In the absence of Prof. Williston, Tuesday. Prof. Wilcox lectured to the class in Hygiene on "How to Study."
C. P. Chapman went to White Cloud Tuesday to deliver the commencement address before the graduating class in in the high school.
Stanton Olinger and R. E. Blackman left last Saturday for Chicago, where they will work for the Rolling Chair Company.
Prof. Robinson is now giving two or three lectures a week in his classroom, on various Roman subjects. All students taking Latin are invited to attend.
Gee, Foster will deliver an address on Local Union Work at the Kansas Christian Endeavor convention, which meets at Hutchinson, May 26, 27, 28.
The colleges in Kansas are not responding very favorably to the invitation of the Triangular League asking them to participate in the Field Day exercises.
Two hundred and fifty copies of the constitution and by-laws of the Local Oratorical Association have been printed. Copies may be obtained of E. P. Lunfer, C. S. Grillin, or Miss Kate Riggs.
S. T. Smith, who has been in Cuba for some time as a sugar chemist, visited his old friends at the University the first of the week. He came by wav of New Orleans and visited I. H. Morse and Chas. McFarland, who are sugar chemists in Louisiana. He will return to Cuba next fall.
Neil C. Brooks class '90, has just returned from Europe where he has been studying modern languages. He spent two years in Berlin, studying German; and six months in Paris studying French. While in Europe he also tramped in the Swiss Alps, visited Italy and England.
The class in physiological botany is studying Dr. Vine's lectures on the Physiology of Plants. They are also experimenting to determine whether or not the rootlets of corn will etch lines on a piece of polished marble. This is a very interesting experiment, originated by Prof. Sachs, of Germany. If tracings are found on the marble, it will show conclusively that delicate rootlets can dissolve and absorb marble.
The spring Oratorical contest takes place in University hall tomorrow night. The admission is free; the program is short, and there will doubtless be a full attendance. The following is the program: Piano solo, Miss Mabel Fisher; Oration, "Robert Burns," Albert Fullerton; Vocal solo, Mr. Mowry; Oration, "The Power of the Past," S. T. Gillespie; Vocal duet, Miss Harrington and Drake; Oration, "The Growth of the Brotherhood of Man," James A. Orr; Piano solo, Miss Smith. Decision of judges.
Students!
If you want the latest spring suits for the least cost, call on O. P. Leonard, Merchant Tailor, 733 Massachusetts street. Be sure to get prices before buying elsewhere.
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