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VOL 1.
Locals & Personals.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY
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Finnacle is back.
Hare has recovered.
John Dosbough goes home.
Sigma Nu gives party Friday.
Bear is the man, Feb. 14.
Nye and Riley Feb. 14th.
Didn't we all yell for Bear though.
The local business is dull this week.
Exams are over. How do you feel,
F A Stocke $ '4 was in town
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will do be fitted that ear that parties buty the the reg-
Chapel exercises are not held this week.
The students are unanimous for Candfield.
Miss Mary Woodward visited the hill to-day.
The Sigma Nus give a party to-
night.
Political excitement in college circles to-day.
Paul Wilkinson has returned to the University.
E. L. Ackley is spending the week at Manhattan.
The Law students will take International Law.
The Seminary of Political Science meets to-night.
Miss Rosa Demont was visiting with Miss Steinberg.
Miss Stout has gone to her home in Chauncey, Ill.
Semi-annual examinations are in progress this week.
John Sullivan is basking in the orange groves of Florida.
Prof. J. H. Canfield returned from Holton Monday.
The faculty have pink cards on which to ille the failures.
It is said that Brown bad the oration well committed.
Mr. J. F. Billings, of the Board of Regents, has resigned.
Prof. Winkler will teach The History of Philosophy next term.
Prof. J. H. Canfield gave out grades to his classes yesterday.
We hope to see a chair of elocution established here next year.
Election of officers in the Local Oratorical Association to-day.
W. F. Reed, '87, has gone to Kansas City, Kas., to practice law.
Wm. Hill went to Cedar Junction Friday, where he gave a lecture.
It won't be "three cheers and a tiger," but "three cheers and a Bear."
We hope to see a professor of elocution regularly installed next year.
The Science club will give their annual entertainment Friday night.
K. 8. Springer, of White Cloud, Kas,
is visiting with his son this week.
A new student from Syracuse, Kas has entered the Pharmacy school.
The University is proud of Bear, and we'll all give him a big send off Feb. 14th.
A meeting will be held to-day of the organizers of the new literary society.
A number of students from Washburn and Baker attended the social oratorical contest.
The University catalogue came out Friday. We notice many improvements in it.
The class in Local Administration and Law had a "queer" examination Thursday.
It will be in order to dub the new museum specimen, of the Mososour as "Moses."
Stuart O. Henry, one of the most popular and able of the old students of Kansas State University, has an interesting article in the February issue of the Popular Science Monthly.
The Business College entertained a number of its students and friends Friday evening.
Mr. Woife and daughter, who have been visiting Mr. Mushrush, have gone to Kidder, Mo.
Harvey Bear is the most polished orator who has mounted the platform at K. S. U. for many a year.
The University library received Friday a box of Pharmaceutical pamphlets—a donation to the library.
Prof. Snow has received for the museum a specimen of sigillaria, a fossil tree of the carboniferous era.
S. W. Naylor, the orator from Washburn attended the K. S. U. social Oratorical contest Friday evening.
H. S. Hadley will fill out the unexpired term of Business Manager Riddle, of the KANSAN, resigned.
Miss Lockwood has been unwell this week and has been unable to attend examinations on that account.
Let every one who signed the paper for the new literary society be present at the organization meeting to-night.
Del Valentine, of Clay Center, has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Billings.
The recitations of the coming class in International Law and Diplomacy will be held in the room of the Law School.
A number of University people figure in one of Howells' fares, which is to be presented at the Opera House, Monday evening.
Cedar Junction is receiving a surfeit of University talk. Quite a number of speakers have gone there to talk to the natives.
There is a good deal of difference between the student who gets three separate I's and the student who gets three I's in a bunch.
Prof Bailey has posted a notice on the general bulletin board for those who intend to take Domestic and Sanitary Chemistry next term.
Mr. Will Markham has been elected second delegate to the State Convention from the local oratorical association of Baker University.
Davis' International Law, and Schuyler's American Diplomacy will be the text books for the study of International law and Diplomacy text term.
What with the approaching examinations, Nelly Bly, and the oratorial contest, there was quite enough to keep the students excited last week.
Well, Washburn and Baker and the rest of you, bring along your crape when you come on February 14th. We've got the man who can do you up.
The decision of the judges in the oratorical contest gave universal satisfaction. H. F. M. Bear is undoubtedly the orator of the University.
31, 1890.
Prof. Canfield has posted a notice on the bulletin board of the Law room for the benefit of those who intend to take International Law and Diplomacy next term.
The Philological club will meet Friday night in room 20. The evening will be given to a discussion of the life and works of Browning. All are invited to attend.
If we were asked to give what we thought the leading characteristic of the orations in our contest last week, we should say "clearness and earnestness."
E. E. Helms, state secretary of the College Y. M. C. A., will conduct the meeting at the University Friday night
Where has Funston's mustache gone? It is in order for the reader to get in something about McGintv here. We calmly but firmly decline to do it ourselves.
If any University boys are seen arranging their cuffs in a certain manner, or carefully placing bits of paper in their pockets, you may know what the matter is—examinations.
Mr. Del Valentine, of Clay Centre, has been appointed, to be Regent of the University, vice Mr. Billings, resigned. The new regent is a son of Judge Valentine of the Supreme Court, and is prominent as a Republican newspaper man.
No.19.
In another column of the KANSAN will be found a tabulated statement of the decision of the judges in the late oratorical contest. There is much food for reflection in those furies the statistician. Surely no one but an expert could explain some of the verdicts.
A meeting was held Friday of those interested in getting up the ball for the State Oratorical Contest. Glasgow was chairman. A committee on reception was appointed with H. S. Hadley for chairman. We are going to do the thing up in shape.
Everything and everybody are practicing the Baker yell and are preparing to make old Baker be heard at Lawrence next month. Nothing will be but that Baker must have that contest. We can't Bear to see Lawrence or Topcka Naylor Hill—*Bildwin Item.*
This committee of the Athletic Association is sending out invitations to leading colleges through the state to send delegates to Lawrence Feb. 14th, the time of the State Oratorical contest, to work up a plan for a State Athletic Association.
This reminds us students of K. S. U. had bitter be practicing your lungs, because you will have to use them the night of the 14th.
The impression has existed that Dr. Gobin's resignation of the presidency of Baker University, took place immediately, and that the new incumbent, Prof. Quayle was already occupying the chair. We understand however that is not the case, but that Dr. Gobin does not take his new position in De Pauw, till the end of the present college year.
Last Wednesday evening Miss Nellie Carroll entertained a number of her friends in honor of her father, Major Carroll. The evening was spent in card playing and dancing, until a late hour, when the guests bade their charming hostess a reluctant good night, regretting that the time went so fast.
Society in Baker University is now greatly agitated over the subject of gentlemen calling on young ladies. The faculty say no, and the boys and girls say yes. They don't let the students dance down there, and now they won't let the boys go calling. The faculty will soon be forbidding the students to play billiards or seven-up, and then Baker will approach an earthly paradise.
Just at present the four literary societies have it in for the board of trustees, who have made certain rigid rules concerning the societies' lofty to take in honorary members, and other matters of business, that to the mind of a sane person, it is none of the trustees' business and something they had better have left undone. We do not care to comment upon this action now, but will probably have something to say in the future, as it may bring about some results.-Baldwin Item in Journal.
Prof. Templein will conduct the class in Logic and Psychology. Logic will be taught during the first half of the term, and will not alternate with psychology as heretofore.
It is now in order for college papers through the country to "cuss" and discuss the decisions of judges in the varius oratorical contests. These decisions are among the mysteries, which are too deep to probe. But senseless railing at men who, out of kindness towards the students, consent to taking the trouble to look over the and criticize the efforts of young orators, is both unjust, unkind, and ungrateful. Judges are human and when they decide according to their best opinion, students should at least give them credit for sincerity.
It is probably pretty well known now that a new literary society 'for work and mutual improvement' is being or organized. The society is designed to take the place of the old societies of Orophilian and Athenian, which it has been found impossible to maintain on the present slipshod basis. The absurd part of it has been that neither society though both were in a comatose state for a long time, would consent to be merged in the other. So some of the members of each society, together with students outside of both, have combined in good earnest to make a solid working society. Both fraternity and non-fraternity men will be admitted, but the line will be drawn between the worker and the sticks, none of the latter being eligible. The object is to form a society which will be in every way a credit to the University, which will give its members thorough training in public speaking and in the performance of literary work of as high an order as the individual and collective intellects of the members will permit. The organization of the society we understand, will be simple, with few honors attached to it, and consequent absence of political squabbling. The ideal may be high, but the students who are working hard to make it a success, deserve much credit and the hearty support and sympathy of both professors and students.
An interesting page is the one hundred and tenth in the new catalogue of the State University. In tabulated form the growth of the University during the years from 1866 to 1890 is shown, and an inspection of the figures is gratifying to friends of the institution. In total attendance a steady increase is shown from 1866-7 when the University began with 55 preparatory students up to 1873-4. That year a sudden falling off of 99 reduced an attendance of 272 in 1872-3 to one of 173 students. In 1882-3 the attendance was 582, an increase of 139 over the preceding year, and the highest recorded enrollment. In 1883-4 the discontinuance of preparatory studies was begun, and the attendance was reduced to 521. Next year no new students were received in the normal department, as an act of the legislature provided for its abolishment the year after, and a further decrease in attendance is apparent, and with the final doing away with the normal department in 1885-6 the enrollment was reduced to 419. Since then, although preparatory classes have been steadily discontinued, the attendance has grown larger until the present year's enrollment, 527, which is exceeded by but one year's record, the 582 of 1882-3. The collegiate classes show a gratifying increase in size, though the requirements for admission to them have been constantly made more. There is no doubt of the all-around advance of the institution, and its successful future seems assured.
— Lawrence Journal.
The Senior class in the Law School is the largest this year, of any time in its history.
The Washburnites will yell yip! yip! WASHBUST! and the Bakery people can woo her up with Ba-ke, 130-ker, Ta-ker Her, Ta-ke Hær, etc., but the earth will shake when the State University comes out with the Rock-chalk, Jay-Hawk, K^. U-u-u-u-Bear !!!
By arrangement of the Ministerial association, a union service was held at the M. E. church at 7:30 p. m. of Thursday which is the appointed annual day of special prayer for schools and colleges and for the students gathered therein. Short addresses were made by several of the resident professors. The attendance of students connected with the University, Business College, High School and more advanced departments of Haskell Institute was particularly desired, and they were very cordially and urgently invited.
Seats for Unity Club entertainment next Tuesday night are on sale this morning at Crews. Twenty-five cents will be the price for parquette and balcony and fifteen cents for gallery. The play is inactive rehearsal and every effort is being made to put it on in good shape. The stage setting will be elaborate and will add much to the success of the piece. Seats should be secured early as past experience has shown that whenever the Unity Club comes before the public seats are all sold before the night of the entertainment.
A very enjoyable evening was spent last Saturday by the young ladies of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity and invited guests at the home of Miss Eva Miles. The occasion was in honor of the initiation of Misses Flora Kennedy, Stella Hutchings, Eleanor Humphrey and Nelle Hawkins. All present were delightfully entertained and departed expressing the highest appreciation of the hospitality of their entertainers. There were present: Misses Hattie McCague, Milla Cretty, Mame Tisdale, Effle Scott, Lallie Buckingham, Josephine Berry, Edna Jones, Lena Beard, Emma White, Mamie and Laura Lyons, Helen Suttif, Flora Kennedy, Stella Hutchings, Eleanor Humphrey, Nellie Hawkins, Julia Powell, Jennie Sutliff, Mame Berry and Margaree Brown; Messrs. Fonston, F. H Kellogg, E. C. Franklin, Paul Hudson, Allen, Hadley, Spencer, Fred Hutchings, Peabody, Snow, Curry, Flannely, Butterworth, Pochler, Deford, Lute Lewis, Taylor, Jus Bowersock and Houk.
We would like to know just out of curiosity whether the local staff on this paper were elected to work on the paper, or simply to read their names every week at the head of a column. For three-fourths—no four-fifths of the issues of the KANSAN, this term, the Local Editor has had to write, or scrape together in some way every word and letter of "local" for the first page of the KANSAN without a particle of assistance from those who are supposed to be assigned to local work. Now this has been getting monotonous for some time, and we concluded to say something. You must recognize that to get up five columns of brevier every week is no snap, particularly when the individual, who has to "get up" said copy, has also a slight connection with a certain institution known as the University, which it is found necessary to maintain. With an average of nearly 2,000 words a week to supply, somehow, with the responsibility for it all, we think that some slight assistance, might justly be expected from the rest of the local staff, who certainly have as much time as the Loca Editor.
LOCAL EDITOR
A Protest.