Y. anteed. AT hiking get good ER END ED brok- ER. ER n lots TORE . Giov. Kanor. Agme, etc. St. n's FEBRUARY nery, tters. I am lustration and the sea is mine! I wash the sands and headlands with my tide: My brow is crowned with branches of the pine; Before my harvest wheels the fishes glide. By me all things unclean are purifiied, By me the souls of men washed white again; Without, a dirge, I cleanse from every stain. —Longfellow. E'en the unlovely tombs of those who died THE X. Y. Z. DEBATING CLUB The regular meeting, the X. Y. Z, debating club was held Friday evening January 22. The meeting was opened by a parliamentary drill led by Tritt; this was followed by an extempore by Cooke. The debate of the evening was on the question; Resolved: that the American system of government is responsible for the abu en mi nipal-administration. Elder and Coleman upheld the affirmative, and were opposed by Bartlett and Grant. The decision of the judges was in favor of the affirmative. After an eight-minute talk by Cowdrick, the meeting adjourned. B. A. Earhart a member of the club, who was out of school the first term, has returned and will be with the club the remainder of the year. Mr. Earhart is one of the most efficient members of the club and an excellent debater He was one of the team that won in the inter-state debate with Colorado last year. Mr. Lydick, '06, who has been a faithful member of the X. Y. Z. club during the three terms that he has been in school, has decided not to return to the University for the second term this year. Failing health is the cause of Mr. Lydick's withdrawal. ANNUAL Y. M. C.A. CONCERT. The Annual V. M. C. A. Concert will be given Friday evening, Feb. 5th, in the Presbyterian Church. The program has been arranged by Mr. Frank V. Steele, director of the Schubert Club of Kansas City. Mr. Steele will bring a quartet, a piano soloist and a baritone soloist from Kansas City. Misses Greissinger, Boright, Bowersock and Mrs. Straffon will assist in the program. The quartet will sing the quartet from the opera, Rigoletto. Among other numbers will be a baritone solo by Mr. Steele, "The Toreador's Song from Carmen; a contralto solo, by Miss Downing, "Liete Signor" from the Huguenots; a duet for soprano and bass, and a beautiful trio for soprano, tenor and bass, from Atilla. Mr. Martin Van Bergen, a talented baritone, who has been before the public as a professional singer and who is now spending his vacation in Kansas City, will appear on the program. You cannot afford to miss this concert. Tickets at check stand and at Raymond's Drug Store. Ruby Barnett of Kansas City is the guest of Alwine Wilhelmi for the Phi Delta Theta annual Monday night. SMILE!! "God Smiled When He Put Humor into the Human Soul and Said—That is Good." Professor (to young lady student) Your mark is very low and you have just passed. Young lady-Oh, I'm so glad. Professor (surprised) - Why? Young Lady I do so love a tight squeezz.—Ex. "O peerless one," he cooled at her, "Without you, give me death! --head. Mother saw the circumstance And smacked Alphonse upon the You are the very breath of life." You are the very breath of life. And then—he held his breath—Ex The way for a girl to have a nice rosy complexion is for her to try to climb a fence and get caught with half of her on one side and half on the other.—Ex There was once a young lady of Niger. Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They came back from the ride. They came back from the ride With the lady inside, And struck him squarely on the head And the smile on the face of the fighter—bx Alphonse threw a rock at Fred And struck him squarely on pants.—Harvard Lampoon. Ray Clifford has finished his work at the University and will hold a position with the Kansas City Journal. Dudley Doolittle has gone to Guthrie and Oklahoma City for a few days. Geo. Pickering is at his home at Olathe, sick with the grip. "Tommy" Thompson, ½ was up from Kansas City for the Theta party. Mitt Blanchard, Eng,'01, has returned to his home after spending a week at the Sigma Chi house. John M. Sills of Springfield, Mc, and S.R. Nelson of Kansas City were in town last night for the Theta party. Jay Mack Love, sr., of Arkansas City was the guest of his son last Sunday and Monday. H. Holdeman, Leibhich V2, was visiting friends Sunday and Monday. Miss Showalter of Iola was the guest of Miss McKee at the Chi Omega part last week. Mrs. Reliban and Miss Altborn of Smith Center are the guests of friends on the hill. Lloyd Lakin, Marshal Cloyes, Alfred M. Seddon, Gene Ware, Dix Fletcher, Clarence White and Will Reed are in town for the Phi Delta Theta annual Monday night. W. H. Chappell leaves this evening for his home at Chanute. He will probably not be in school next term. Mrs. F, L. Flint of Minneapolis is visiting her son. Bret Davis has decided that he does not want to continue the engineering course, and will leave for his home at Independence Monday. He contemplates studying medicine and may return to K. U. next fall. Ralph Ellis was confined to his bed with a case of la grippe Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Amy Langworthy of Leavenworth has returned to re-enter school. Nell Taylor of Kansas City is visiting friends on the hill. J. C. Royer of Gove will enter the law school next week. Mr. Royer is a first-class base ball player and will try for the team. Mr. Harvey of Minneapolis is here to enter the law school. The Freshmen girls entertain at a leap year party in I. O. O. F. hall tonight. Mrs. Brewster of Thayer is here visiting her son and daughter. There was once an old Man of Lyme Who married three wives at a tame. He replied, "One s abrupt, And bigamy, sir, is a crume."—Ex When asked, "Why the titl He replied, "One's absid, Bird." Who married three wives at a type. When asked, "Why the third?" "Have you started ot that job of work?" "No sab!" answered Mr. Erastus Pinkley. "I speaks I might as well put it off 'till nex' week." 'Why this is only Monday.' "I know it; but me mavinn's half gone, an' den it's only a few days till Friday, an, dot's bad luck, an' I dasn' work on Sunday, so reckons I better wait till Ikin git a clean stait." A very grandiloquent goat Sat down at a gay table d'hote, He ate up the corks, The knives and the forks. The knives and the forks, Remarking, "On these things I dote."-Ex. The longer we live the older we grow. The more we study the less we know. If you have any dontts along this score, Just think you are younger and study more.—Ex. Eric Schoenan went up to Tongonoxie to spend the Subbath. Burke literary society meets tonight. The special feature will be a flooring match between McDonald and Landrum on the Missouri question. Gowans will give an extempore, Lanning reviews the attitude of the United States toward Panama, and Ryan will play Czar Reed for fifteen minutes. Chas, Broadbent, who earned a "K" holding down the right garden last spring has been called home to take charge of his father's farm at Corning, Kansas. Luther W. Cureton will leave next Tuesday for San Francisco en route to the Philippine Islands where he has accepted a government position to teach. Sigma Alpha Epsilon entertains at its house tonight. George Bower and Chester Smith went to Kansas City Friday evening to spend Sunday with friends- Miss Nell Potts of Paola arrived in Lawrence Thursday afternoon to re-enter school. Clay Anderson is visiting the Phi Psis and other friends over Sunday. Miss Margaret Stevenson left for her home in Iola Saturday. She does not intend to be in school again until next fall. Prof. Higgins was in Topeka Thursday attending a meeting of the State Bar Association. Roscoe Chambers went to Kansai City Thursday evening on business. Charley Sanders left today for his home in Burlington, and will not return to school until next fall. A good many students have en, joyed the skating on the river this week in spite of the quizzes. The post-exam jubilee in Snowball last night was well attended. J. B. Rieman will not be in school next term. Miss Carrie Watson went to Topeka Thursday to spend several days. Invitations for the Alpha Tau annual, which will occur Feb. 5th, came out last Monday. The freshmen girls entertained the boys of their class with a leap year party Saturday evening. W. W. Sayre of Indiana arrived in Lawrence Wednesday to visit his brother, Prof. L. E. Sayre. Misses Anna Harrison, Maude Brown and Anna Warfield came down from Topeka Wednesday to visit friends and to attend the Theta party Friday evening. --in the city, are here and at NO FANCY PRICES either. They are elegantly made and fit to perfection. 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