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Kansas University Weekly.
Since it has not seemed to fall within the province of our athletic editor to tell of the feats of the college men at Athens, we submit the following:
Amerikos en Athenais. A POEAN OF THE 776TH OLYMPIAD,
Hail to ye, conquerors mighty, from games Olympian re turning.
Crowned with olive and palm from the trees by Hercules planted;
Ye, who the purple seas wide furrowed from far Atlantis. Well-greaved Greeks to strive with, in contests Panathenaic,
Where is the glory of Gouskos? the pride of Paraskevopoulos? Fleet of foot and strong, and famed for throwing the discus?
Vanquished and trailed in defeat by men from the tribes of Manhattos,
Out of the isles of sunset fallen. Tenella, tenella!
Full four years to come they will tell it in Peleponesus, How the barbarian victors painted red the Acropolis.
Waving their banners bright-dyed. blowing blasts on the conch shell,
Wasting Athenian wealth through fabulous winning of wagers.
So, from your prowess and pluck. O returning Olympian athletes,
They will have learned we can do some things as well as some others,
Here in the land of dollars, dudes, reformers, and bicycles Home of slugging and football, and six-day-go-as-you-pleases.
Henry Tyrrell.
THE STUDENTS ALL.
are invited to inspect our special sale of Novelties in Gents' Furnishings at
THE HUB
SHOE & CLOTHING CO.,
Henry and Mass. Streets.
A Medical School.
KANSAS HAS great reason to be proud of her educational system. She has a Normal School which would be a creditable institution to any state. Her Agricultural College is well worthy the support of this commonwealth, and her University ranks high among the leading educational institutions in America. But our University, although it does rank high, is still lacking one of the most important departments which belong to a University.
It is estimated that from one hundred and fifty to two hundred students annually go from our state to attend a medical institution, thus taking from the state every year about seventy-five-thousand dollars. There are many young men and women, who would choose medicine as a profession, but on account of their limited means are not able to attend a standard medical college, and never rise above very ordinary positions. Might it not be well for the state to provide some means by which these idle and often wasted talents could be developed?
The University is very much in need of more room for the Chemistry Department. Let the State appropriate one hundred thousand dollars for a building which shall be used for Chemistry and Medicine. J.G.H.
We keep constantly on hand a full line of all the leading toilet preperations for ladies' use. Barber Bros., Druggists.
Everett & Hults have opened a fresh stock of staple and fancy groceries at the corner of Mass. and Adams Streets. They invite students and others to note their prices and quality of goods. They sell as cheap as the same class of goods can be found in any other store in the city.
Students buy their canes at Smith's News Depot.
For base-ball and athletic goods go to Smith's News Depot.
SCHMELZER ARMS CO.
PECK & SNYDER ICE SKATES.
CATALOGUE FREE.
GENERAL ATHLECTIC AND SPORTING GOODS.
541 AND 543 MAIN ST., KANSAS CITY, MO.