Kansas University Weekly
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LAWRENCE, KAN., MAY 19. 1900
The placing of a tablet in the chapel in memory of Mieutenant Alfred C. Alford is a very fitting mark of respect and reverence on the part of his alma mater, for one who died in a far off land for his country's sake. He was the first son of Kansas university to die on the battle field, and the opportunity extended to us students to add a mite to such a worthy cause is indeed a privilege which we appreciate.
THE TRACK TEAM LEAVES.
Starts For Sioux City, Iowa. Friday Compete With the South Dakota Team Today.
The K. U, track team left F,iday morning over the Santa Fe for Sioux City, Iowa, where they will contest with the track队 of South Dakota university to day. This is the first time the Jayhawkers have met the South Dakota university in any kind of a contest and the result will be watched with unusual interest, The K, U, boys are in good form and we hope they will do themselves credit. We know they are capable of winning the events and the only question remaining is, will they? This promises to be an unusually fair test of the two opposing teams as the meet will take place on central grounds. There are nine men on the trip including Manager Gray, Moulton, Smith and Hood are the short distance runners, Moulton being the 100 yard man, Hood the 220 yard and Smith the 440. Wilder will take part in the half mile and mile races. DeLano is a newman on the team, but he has been doing remarkable work in pole vaulting, and much is expected of him in that line Captain Cates will be in the burdle races and the broad jump, and he will uphold his past record in those events. Toby will go into the high jump and the bicycle races, while Beaman, the big engineer will do the weight throwing.
Announcement is made that Miss Zilla Smith, 'oo, and Mon Lon Wilcox, of Muscotah, will be married on June 20, at the bride's home in this city. The wedding will be a quiet one, owing to the recent death of the groom's father. They will reside at the Wilcox home near Muscotah.
Prof. Blake was recently elected a member of the American Chemistry society in New York This is the largest society of its kind in this country.
The Christian Association have incurred Dr. S. G. Smith, of St. Paul, Minn., for the annual sermon on the zoth, the chapel.
Johnny Outland, our old-time popular half-back, will probably coach our team next year. It is understood that he does not think much of the Pennsylvania system, and would not try to re-introduce it here.
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The State Normal debating team won the inter-state contest at Penn,Neb., Saturday.
THE ALFORD MEMORIAL TABLET.
It Will Be Placed on the South Wall of the Chancel About June 1
The tablet in memory of Lieutenant Alfred C. Alford, who was killed in the battle of Calcanoe, in the Philippines, February 7, 1899, is to be placed in position on the south wall of the University chapel, about June 1.
A rough picture of the tablet was received this week. It is to be made of bronze and will be 3 feet, 4 inches by 4 feet, 6 inches in size. On it is inscribed: "Alfred Cecil Alford, first lieutenant commanding Company B, Twentieth Kansas Killed at Calcutah Feb. 7, 1899. The first son of the University to die on the field of battle. Dulce et decorum est pro patri mori."
The tablet will cost about $400 and all but about $50 of this amount has been contributed by frien Is and faculty of Kansas University, together with the class of 1899 in which Alford graduated. It is now proposed to give the students of the University an opportunity to raise the remaining $20, and in order that as many be allowed to contribute as possible these contributions have been limited to 25 cents each. No money will be solicited but the different classes will take action on the matter. The committee in charge of this fund consists of J W Gleed of Topeka, Prof. Templin and Miss Carrie Watson.
ANNUAL SPRING OONTEST
Wine First Place Over His Two Op-
nents.
Last Thursday night the annual spring oratorical contest for a $20 gold medal offered by Hon J. D Bowersock was held. About fifteen wrote orations intended to enter but owing to sickness and various other causes only three took part. The contest was very good and the audience large considering the weather.
Mr Wm Wagner, a Senior Law, won first place. His subject was, "The Province of Law."
The other participants and their subjects were: F. E. Anderson, "Our Nation's Progress;" John Martin, "Che, Leege, Rege."
The judges were J. D. Faxon, J. L. Brady and D. B. Simpson, all well known business men of Lawrence. Mr. Brady in presenting the medal to Mr. Wagner, said that the delivery in the contest was plain, straight-forward and natural
The orations were all of a high character, although limited to 1,400 words.
The senior Play
There is one thing that every body on the hill and almost every body down town wants to attend every year, and that one thing is the senior play. The one that is to be given on May 29 is the best that has ever been given. The senior class is spending no end of time and work to make the play the best show of the year.
The class of oo is particularly fortunate in having an unusual number of talented people, both in a dramatic and a musical way, and they are to be employed in the presentation of the play this year
Besides talented people, the class is running over with pretty girls, who will be on the stage in profusion, in rich costumes.
The play this year is one of merit. It will make you laugh; it will recall things that have been passing during the year, and make you feel good for a month or six weeks. You will come home feeling happy, and not swearing because you were humbugged. If you take a girl she won't be fussy, but will come home with a merry heart; she will be glad that you were on earth that evening.
Washburn College struck the "real thing in the K. U, ball game Saturday.
The Senior class picnicked at Buermans' lake Wednesday evening.
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Always To the Front
ROMANCE OF ROSIE.
Gertrude Hill.
Mrs. Gibbs never had wanted to go West anyway, at least that is, what she asserted after the western experiment failed. But those who knew Mrs. Gibbs best were very sure that if she had not wanted to go west, she would not nave gone. It is a weary sort of life, that on a rented farm in Posey county, Indiana, and even the slow, plodding Gibbs tired of the dull routine and of the daily grind.
So they went west to Grant county Kansas, white-haired Mrs. Gibbs and her twin children John and Anne, who at the age of 40 yielded as mute, unquestioning obedience to their mother's iron will as they had at four John Gibbs was a good soul, but forty years of yielding had taken away every vestige of force from his character. He was tall and gaunt and sandy. His thin hair, his skin, his sparse moustache, and his rough clothes were all of that dull indeterminate sandy color. He had only one eye, and this gave a strange, mournful expression to his otherwise impassive face, Annie, too, was a drab-colored little woman, into whose empty life had never come a single spark of romance, except the blind love she bore toward her twin brother.
The three went on a claim in Grant county, where land was cheap and penniful, and tried to live there according to Posey county, Indiana, tradition3, But Mrs Gibbs grew more irascible, and the lines deepened on John's homely face and Annie became bent and brown. They were used to hard work, they didn't mind that, but it was the constant failure to reap anything from their labor that discouraged and disheartened them.
They missed their good Indiana neighbors too. To be sure they had neighbors in Grant county, but the nearest was four miles away, except the Sevises, who wouldn't have counted in Posey county. Their claim was only a mile from the Gibbses' neat frame house, and Annie often trudged across the gray prairie to the wretched dugout, taking with her some bit of comfort to the squalid family, who, much to Mrs. Gibbs's disgust, persisted in being riotously happy, in spite of their surroundings. Old Sevis—no one would think of calling him Mr. Sevis—did not know what care was. His wife died, the cow was taken for the mortgage, the hot winds killed his ill planted crop, the prairie fires swept over his range—but he was utterly impassive. Only when his credit at the crossroads store failed was his cheerfulness affected. Then he har nessed his old mothaten white mules to the shamrockade wagon, and taking the three children went back to Kingman county, where he worked till he earned enough money to restore his credit, when he returned to the dugout—and cheerfulness. The Gibbses detested Old Sevis and the two towheaded little boys, who were growing up to be just like him, but they pitied Rosie, the daughter, who at fifteen had a certain coarse, buxom prettiness and might have amounted to something if she had had opportunities—that is, the opportunities that Posey county, Indiana, afforded.
The Gibbses made a gallant fight of it, but the raw, new country overcame them and they decided to move "back East," that vague, indefinite East that may mean anywhere. But not back to Posey county. Mrs. Gibbs was firm. She would not acknowledge her defeat to her old neighbors. So they settled in Reno county, because they raised good corn there, back they went in two white, covered wagons, as scrupulously neat as everything connected with Mrs. Gibbs was bound to be. They went back to the role of "renters," and were more comfortable than they had been since they left it. Indeed they were surprisingly happy, and even Posey county lost some of its glamor.
The Gibbses had never been interested in any of their Grant county neighbors except Rosie Sevis, and now that they were so pleasantly situated they consulted together as to whether they could not offer her some of those Reno county advantages and opportunities which were second only to those of Posey county. They all sincerely pitied the girl, but it was a long time before Annie and John could persuade their mother to let one of the name of Sevis come into her house. Mrs. Gibbs finally yielded, and the invitation for a monthly visit was written in Annie's prim, but somewhat shaky hand. It never occurred to the Gibbses to wonder how Rosie would reach them—for the people in western Kansas are not given to squandering their money for railroad fare.
Three weeks passed and nothing was heard from Rosie, but the rules of etiquette are lax in the West, and the Gibbses did not wonder at her silence. They finally beard from her in a way that surprised them. They were all sitting on the little back porch, resting in the cool dusk of the evening, when the clanking of a wagon coming in at the gate around the corner of the house. "It's movers," she reported;
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