Kansas University Weekly.
151
I returned to my work, and a half hour later as I was putting the finishing touches to my exercise, an odor very like burning hair assailed my nostrils. I went to the window again; and, faintly across the moonlit space came the tones of a banjo in accompaniment to the words:
Some folks say that a nigger wont steal, 'Way down yonder in de co'n fiel';
But dey never heard dere chickens squeal.
'Way down yonder in de coen fiel'.
Yo' tink chicks ain't fo' de cullud ras?
'Way down yonder in de co'n fiel';
Yo don't 'no nuffin' bout a nigger's tas,
'Way down yonder in de co'n fiel'.
Locals.
W. E. Higgins was in Lawrence last Sunday. The temperature last Friday was rather mean.
Someone relieved Mr. Belder of his head-gear last Monday.
The Juniors have again decided not to have a promenade.
Mr. J. H. Engle made a short visit on the hill Thursday.
Mr. Upham's mother paid him a pleasant visit this week.
R. L. Stewart spent most of this week in Kansas City on business.
The copy for the new catalogue was sent to the state printer this week.
H. W. Menke enjoyed a short visit from his father the latter part of this week.
A. E. Wardner, Jr., was visited by his brother from Kansas City one day last week.
The students in History of Philosophy are studying Plato's Republic this week.
James Walker has returned to Lawrence and will probably re-enter the University.
Chancellor Snow lectures in St. John, Stafford county, on the Wonders of Yosemite.
Herbert Fuller of Seneca, Pharmacy,'96, is visiting friends in Lawrence this week.
Chancellor Snow addressed the Young Men's Christian Association Thursday evening.
J. R. Tierstein, superintendent of Public Instruction at Eudora, visited the hill Saturday.
Miss Alpla Bigley enjoyed an extended visit from her aunt, Miss Hart, of Missouri, last week.
The Junior Electricals are on the war-path; the cause is suppressed in these columns by request.
The 9 o'clock division of the class in Wallenstein is thirty pages ahead of the ii o'clock division.
Jim Kelsey is now in Lancaster, Pa., superintending the construction of a three hundred arc-light plant.
Miss Kate Boyles, Music '97, took the place last Sunday of Miss Eva Brown, in the choir at the First Baptist Church.
Mr. T. H. Gallagher of the state senate called on Mr.J.F.Hall,Friday,on his way home from legislative duties.
Dr. Holmes has received an offer of $2,000 per year to take charge of the classics at Phillips Exeter academy, located at Exeter, N. H.
Prof. Hodder led the Historical Seminary last Friday. He read an able paper on the "Monroe Doctrine and the Venezuelan Question."
Mr. M. P. Hulmick, Baker '98, was soliciting advertisements in Lawrence last Saturday for the annual which his class expects to publish this year.
A petition addressed to the Kansas contingent in Congress was circulated on the hill Thursday. The petition asks that books, foreign periodicals, paintings, etchings, music, in the new tariff schedule be placed on the free list. The petition was signed by nearly all members of the faculty.