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sitive heart-chords of his audience. Cordelia is subordinated to the deep, sad tragedy of Lear, as Desdemona to that of Othello. How our hearts burst when Lear comes in mad with Cordelia dead in his arms. Oh, ineffable anguish of the father! Oh, stern, relentless, unpitying fate!
"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones! Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone forever"'!
Shakspere "sees man walking in a vain shadow; groping in the mist; committing ex-extravagant mistakes; wandering from light into darkness; stumbling back again from darkness
into light; spending his strength in barren and and impotent rages; man in his weakness, his affliction, his anguish, his poverty and meaness, his everlasting greatness and majesty." Death is not meant as a punishment, a retribution. This would violate most sacred art. Some of the purest creations of Shakspere are beautified with transcendent beauty, are hallowed in their death.
"Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all,"
HILLIARD JOHNSON.
Locals.
The enrollment cards have been coming in slowly.
Miss Allen spent Sunday with her parents in Topeka.
Miss Bessie Ayres has again re-entered the University.
Mr. Lamont Taylor spent Sunday at his home in Kansas City.
Miss Mary Goode made a short visit home in Olathe last week.
J. Erwin Keith, '98, visited over Sunday at his home in Ottawa.
Prof. Hodder quizzed his class in Constitutional Law, on Monday.
Several pairs of overshoes disappeared from the halls this week.
Monday is the last day to reserve seats for the contest at Topeka.
Nate has been taking care of the University for lo! these eleven years.
Miss Ruth Hetherington will be a guest of University friends next week.
Mr. Farrell will give one of his delightful banjo solos at the State contest.
Mr. C. C. Crew has just secured a position with an Irrigation Co. in Colorado.
No school Monday—Washington's birthday.
Miss Margaret Bear, of Topeka, has been the guest of Miss Flintom for a week.
Baker will have a delegation of 150 to go to Topeka; lets make our number 300.
Sanford, Spellman, Wing and Boone were in Kansas City, Saturday and Sunday.
The students should make a grand demonstration at Topeka. Our orator is a winner.
Rev. Mr. J. L. King, of Smith Center, visited his son last Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Pharmics are figuring on getting out an Annual of their own. The Laws are doing likewise.
The Y. W. C. A. will give a party, on the 5th of March. The place will be announced later.
The Rivals to be given Wednesday night will be the best amateur play ever given in Lawrence.
A great number of students are planning to visit the Legislature the day of the oratorical contest.
Mr. J. H. Engle, formerly managing editor of this official organ was in Lawrence a few hours last Friday.