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Kansas University Weekly.
Pi Beta Phi Party.
The annual spring party of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity took place last Friday evening at the Knights of Pythian Hall. A large number of guests were present and all were unanimous in declaring the party one of the most pleasant and successful of the season.
Particular attention had been given to the decoration. The hall was artistically adorned with palms and banks of lilies. The gallery was uniquely decorated with the different pins and colors of the several young men fraternities, while in the center of the room was hung the arrow, the symbol of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity. Coffee and ices were served throughout the evening. Zimmerschied's orchestra of Kansas City furnished the music.
Among the out of town guests were: Misses Hodkinson, Salem, Mass.; Grace Bliss, Constance Ingalls and Grace Griffin, Atchison; Misses Moon and Florence Moon, Topeka; Hughes and McEwen, Kansas City; Messrs. Hessen, Salina; Buchan, Learnard and Smith, Kansas City; Nichols, Topeka; Mr. and Mrs. Dobson, Ottawa.
The young ladies are indebted to Mrs. Paul R. Brooks for the beautiful display of flowers and palms.
Miss Gertrude Boughton entertained a number of her friends at her home last Saturday evening.
Miss Edith Davis will spend Friday and Saturday at her home in Topeka.
Rev. W. G. Banker's Bible class, which was discontinued while the meetings at the rink were in progress, will meet as usual next Saturday night. All members are requested to be present.
Up to the time of writing, circumstances seem to indicate that the Freshmen will depart from the time honored custom of the University this year, and make no attempt on Mayday to erect a May-pole for the Sophomores to tear down. They decided in a class meeting to dispense with the "May-day Scrap."
Among the new books are the following:
Library.
The Diary and Letters of Governeur Morris, edited by Anne Cary Morris, his granddaughter. Two volumes.
Patrick Henry, Life, Correspondence and Speeches, by William Wert Henry. Three volumes. This is a valuable and authoritative work, coming as it does from the pen of a grandson of the patriot.
An Inglorious Columbus; or evidence that Hwai Shan and a party of Buddhist monks from Afghanistan discovered America in the fifth century, A. D. The author of this curious and interesting work is Edward P. Vining.
The Story of the Civil War, by John Codman Ropes. We quote from the preface: "The task attempted in the following work is in certain respects a novel one. It is to write of the subjects treated from the standpoint of the contending parties." Two more volumes are to follow this one.
Two books to add to the Lincoln bibliography: 1. Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, by distinguished men of his time, collected and edited by Allen Thorndike Rice. 2. Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890, including some not hitherto published of Lincoln and the War, by L.E. Chittenden.
A Record of the Commemoration, November Fifth to Eighth, 1886, on the Two Hundred and Fifteenth Anniversary of the Founding of Harvard College, edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of the University. This is an exceedingly interesting volume, including, among speeches and addresses by many other distinguished men, a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a sermon by Phillips Brooks, an orator by James Russell Lowell, and speeches by George William Curtis, Senator Hoar, and President Cleveland. It is a valuable addition to our increasing collection of books about the great colleges.
The Phi Psi's with their lady friends were entertained at the Arcade bowling alleys Saturday by Mr. Ted Poehler.