Kansas University Weekly.
179
Mr. Jno. McCleary is wearing the Beta colors.
Prof. L. E. Sayre lectured in Leavenworth yesterday.
The Kappas have issued the invitations for their party.
Mr. Waterman Stone died at Providence, R. I. last Tuesday.
The class in "Money and Banking" took its final quiz Wednesday.
Miss Whitaker left last week to teach a class which she has organized at her home in Buffalo, Kansas.
A number of University students are creditable members of the chorus which sings at the Wharton meetings.
Miss Anna Murphy, a teacher in the Topeka High School and a former student of the University, was in the city Friday.
The different fraternities are commencing to develop quite a decided interest in base-ball. Arrangements are being made for some interfraternity games.
Our aesthetic editor suggests that a little additional drapery hung before the windows of the boys' new dressing room in Snow Hall would be in good taste.
Prof. F. W. Blackmar intends, about May 1, to accompany his classes in sociology to the state penitentiary for the purpose of studying the methods employed in that institution.
Mrs. Topham gave the members of her French class quite an agreeable surprise last Wednesday. After the class had adjourned, the members were invited into a lower room of the main building and quite a dainty banquet was served them. It was a very pleasant "April Fool."
Miss Effie June Scott '91, who has been elected to the position of assistant instructor in French and German has held a position in the Leavenworth High School for the last three years. The past few months she has spent in study at Cornell and she is at present on her way to Berlin where she will remain until September.
One of the most pleasant afternoons given this year by the "Women's League" was held at the home of Mrs. B. W. Woodward, on Saturday last. In extending the invitation to the young ladies of the University, it was announced that a talk would be given by Mr. Woodward upon his pictures, and many eagerly accepted the opportunity to visit the gallery. Mr. Woodward's talk, in which frequent reference was made to an article by Prof. Marvin in a recent number of the Agora concerning several of the pictures was much appreciated by the listeners and drew from them many questions.
'What's in a name?' There ought to be a great deal of literary talent among our students, if names signify. We have: Homer, Fletcher, Walton, Cowley, Dryden, Addison, Steele, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Campbell, Kingsley, Spencer, Dowden, Hardy, Caine, Watson, and Schreiner. There should be statesmen also, for we have Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Everett, Grant. We have also a Booth, (Edward, not Edwin).
The University Republican Club, an organization several years old, is in a flourishing condition and several meetings have been held recently for the purpose of outlining a plan of warfare. There is a rumor afloat that a Democratic Club and a Morrison Club are to be organized soon.
A large number of University students are in attendance nightly at the evangelistic meetings, some of them rendering valuable aid in the chorus.
It has been prophesied that X rays will soon take the place of examinations. The method would no doubt be as satisfactory as the present one.
Mr. M. P. Helmick of Baker was transacting business on Monday for the Orange.
Clyde Miller and Harold Smith were in Kansas City Saturday.
The Junior Law Class was favored with a quiz Wednesday.