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UNIVERSITY TIMES.
Mid-Summer Edition.
Vol. 1.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS JULY 26, 1889.
LOCAL.
July Jingle.
When gayly the thermometer At ninety holds its place.
No.36.
And with your hat of straw you fan
Your mad, perspiring face;
How soothing "his to have a friend Inform you—"It is warm." S. T. OLEN.
When every stitch of clothes you wear
is stitching to your form,
Es gibt keine flugel auf dem TIMES
McPherson will add three new students to her K. S. U. delegation this year.
The campus is carefully attended to during the summer. The grass has been cut and watered.
"W. A. W." had a short poem in the Kansas City Sunday Times of a recent date. Rise up William Allen and explain?
During the hot weather the churches of Lawrence are holding union meetings in the park Sunday evening. They are very largely attended.
Several of our orators spread the eagle's wings, toore out his tail feathers, and in many other ways tortured the great American bird on the Fourth.
The Endora News says Lawrence has "pieniced" that little berg almost to death. Just what this implies the News fails to state—Lawrence Journal.
The old law room is being fitted up to form a part of the library. This will make the library twice its former size and will turnish much needed space.
Baker and Ottawa students are traveling through eastern Kansas canvassing for steriopticon views. Verily our neighbors have an eye for the beautiful.)
Prot. J. H. Canfield is often seen on the streets of Lawrence riding behind his shetland pony. The shetland is so large and the professor so small that their appearance is decidedly unique.
It is said that several of K. S, U.'s noble sons have their eyes upon the Westpoint cadetship of the second district, lately made vacant by the graduation of Chas, Crawford of Miami county.
From the reports of our special correspondents scattered throughout the State, there is no question but what K. S. U. will open in September with a greatly increased attendance. A prosperous year is assured.
A large Rocky Mountain lion from Colorado is one of the latest additions to the University museum. The specimen is a fine one and measures nine feet from its nose to the tip of its tail. - Lawrence Journal.
Rumor says that the manly, stalwart figuure of the president of our late Athletic Association could be seen at the Sullivan-Kilrain contest. No doubt a new impetus will be given to athletics this year on this account.
"If a man die, shall he live again?" is a question which has perplexed the ages. But not one hall so perplexing as it to the supposed Senior, as that other question,— "If a man studyyeth not in hot weather shall he graduate."
"What is so rare as a day in June," exclaims the poet. What is so hot as a day in July, exclaimed ye editor as we were putting the finishing touches on the TIMES, and our devil without the least hesitation answered sheek. But we doubt it.
Kansas has been highly complimented in the election of Prof. James H. Canfield, of the State University, as president of the National Teachers' Association at Nashville. Prof. Canfield is an educator whose work in Kansas has attracted national attention, and the honor which has been conferred upon him is a significant recognition of his splendid ability.—K. C. Star.
Faculty Notes.
Chancellor J. A. Lippncoott is in Topeka.
Prof. Dunlap is at Johns Hopkins taking special work.
Prof. Dyche is in British America lassoing bear and antelope for the K, S, U, museum.
Prof. Miller is at Tacom, Washington, visiting his son W. L. Miller.
Miss Adelaide Rudolph is spending the vacation at Mentor, Ohio.
Prof. Sayre is at Atlantic City, N. J. enjoying himself.
Prof. E. H. S. Bailey is bearing up his front name as best he can, at Middlefield, Conn.
Prof. J. H. Canfield and family are attending the National Teachers Association at Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Mary Miller is at Oakland, California, catching the breezes of Frisco buy.
Prof. Blake is making experiments on the Atlantic coast. He is assisted by E E Caldwell of Concordia, Kan.
Professors Robinson, Sterling, Snow, Marvin, Murphy and MacDonald are weathering the weather as best they can in Lawrence.
Prof. Carruth, now Phillipstown, Massachusetts, and Prof. Templin, who is studying at Oxford, England, will return to Lawrence the latter part of August.
E. C. Franklin is filling his lungs with mountain air at Eats Park, Col.
Will Franklin is visiting in Connecticut. Miss Mamie Simpson will spend July and August in N. Y. City.
Miss Cora Parker is sketching in the Athens of Kansas.
Prof. Summerfield is whiling away the summer days in Los Angeles, Cal.
Prof. Green is dreaming of Blackstone in the Historic City.
Prot. Weida is resting in the shadows on the University.
Miss Carrie Watson is rusticating in Colorado.
Prof. A. G. Canfield, in wooded the Museum in the Green Mountain State .
Grecian heroes are enjoying a rest in the absence of Prof. Wilcox at Baltimore.
WHITE FRONT.
The great success we have met with since opening business in Lawrence October 1st, 1888, has surprised us. Thanks to the people of the University and of Lawrence and vicinity for it.
In ten months we have grown into a flourishing business, equal to any house in this city, that has been established for 20 years. We have made our business what it is by treating the people well, and selling goods cheaper than our competitors.
We are preparing for an immense business this coming season. Early in the season you will find our Store crowded with all the latest novelties of the season. We will wake the people up on nice goods and low prices, and you can look for it.
WHITE FRONT.
SPARR & ALEXANDER.
PERSONAL.
"Babe" Noble, is visiting friends in Illinois.
William Hill is taking German under Enns.
Ackley is studying law in Lawrence.
Virtue is working on a farm.
Ernest Robinson visited in Olathe last month.
Will Snow is setting type in the Journal Office.
Gerald Holsinger expects to return to school this fall.
Miss Helen Simpson is visiting her brother in Manhattan.
Miss Margie Brown is summering in the White Mountains.
E. E. Slosson is endeavoring to boom real estate in Texas.
Fred McKinnon is mingling with th
regressors at Guthrie.
Miss Mary Woodward is spending the summer in New York.
J. C. Manning is giving instructions on the piano in Lawrence.
J. G. Wine will teach school in Dickinson, County this winter.
Miss Kate Merrill has organized a Shakespeare class in Abilene.
Cyrus Crane goes to Kansas City this fall to enter a law office.
Liddeke and Esterly are doing good service at K. S. U. library.
V. E. Higgins is instructing in the sum mer school at Lawrence.
Harry Buckingham has a position in the Merchants National Bank.
Armstrong and Shellabarger are occasional visitors from Topula.
Vice-Chancellor Spangler is aly looking after the interests of K. S. U.
W. D. Ross will become a permanent resident of Lawrence this fall.
C. M. Watson is hoeing corn on the parral estate near Kansas City.
C. M. Emns is busily engaged instructing pupils in German and French.
Glen Miller, 84, returned July 10th from his tour through Europe a pied.
C. S. Hall, one of the worthy TIMES staff, is summering in Lawrence.
James Noble is making up second and third term German under Enns.
H. B. Hall is making up a year's Greek under Prof. Sterling's instruction.
Miss Alberta Corbin is agent for the National Publishing House of Chicago.
Jay Withington, a student of 88, will probably teach school this winter.
Fred Pickering is with an engineering corps at Green Mountain Falls, Col.
"Hogy" is holding forth with the drug firm of Swift & Holliday, Topeka.
Marcella Howland is spending some time with friends in Beatrice, Neb.
rishop and Mitchell, of '89, are balancing the scales of justice in Lawrence.
Clarence Sears has a brother in Missouri who will enter the University this fall.
Miss Amy Hayes has a position for the coming year in the Paola High School.
S. T. Glimrose is with the law firm of Lathrop, Smith & Morrow in Kansas City.
Workman, of the law class of '89, is practicing law near his home at Scandia. C.M.Shearer is studying on Tennessee street. He is hard at work over his books.
Mrs. Babcock and daughters, Martique and Fannie, are visiting in La Crosse, Ia.
Miss Edith Clark has been spending a part of the summer on a farm near Olathe.
Fox of Atchison, Smelser of Emporia and Edson of Topeka, spent the fourth at Lawrence.
F. E. Reed is secretary of Williams & White Land and Loan Company at Newton.
C. P. Chapman, our classical friend, is imitating Cincinnatus on a farm this summer.
Henri Nichol, 88, has been disabled for some months by a severe attack of rheumatism.
Miss Nellie Palmer, of Lawrence, will teach in Dickinson county the coming year.
Fred Morris has a position with the Western Farm Mortgage Company of this city.
Geo. Cook has accepted a position in the Ft. Scott & Gulf R. R. offices at Kansas City.
The Misses Barker expect to enter a ladies' seminary near Philadelphia in the fall.
Prof. Jenks, of K. S. U. fame, has been in able instructor in Dickinson county institute.
Homer Ellison is weighing coal and buying grain at his summer residence in Abilene.
Paul Merrill is becoming proficient in the art of type-writing and stenography at Kansas City.
Fred Grubb is now quartered in the house formerly occupied by Chancellor Lippincott.
N. D. Bowker, of McPherson, an old student, will return to the University in September.
Miss Minnie Innes will attend Elmira Ladies' Seminary at Elmira, N. Y., the coming year.
Hickey, the base ballist. is on the farm toughening his hands for next year's work behind the bat.
H·E. Copper spent a month in Lawrence. He has returned to his home in Dickinson County.
Miss Mollie Hall has been visiting friends and relatives in Paola and Pleasanton for the past few weeks.
Miss Florence Reasoner is engaged in conducting teachers institutes in the western part of the State.
Miss Virginia Spencer has been spending her vacation with her classics. She has already translated Cicero.
Frank Ringer, of Paola, Kan., for the past two years a student of Baker, will enter K. S. U. this fall.
Bob Pollock, a pharmacy student of last year, is holding forth at Straffon & Zimmerman's drug store in this city.
Miss Lizzie Wilder has accepted the position of assistant principal in the Abilene high School for the coming year.
Hall Riddle divides his time between Swinton's Outlines of History and the intricacies of the grocery business.
F. C. Schraeder, one of the rustlers on the TIMES' staff last year, spent the month of June and July in the Historic City.
H. C. Riggs is conjuring up mathematical impossibilities ready to disgorge them on the unsuspecting professor next year.
F. H. Kellogg is studying law at Emporia. He will return in September and complete his collegiate course with the class of '91.
H. F. Graham, an old K. S. U. boy, has accepted a position as superintendent of the schools at Horton; a deserved position.
Quite a large party of K. S. U. students are spending the summer in the mountains of Colorado. Among them are V. L. Kelogg, H. S. Hadley, H. E. Riggs, Emmett Allen, W. A. White, E. C. Franklin, S. C. Brewster.
Chas. Voorlis and Ben Butter are canvassing Wisconsin in the interest of the Haskell Publishing Company of Chicago.
Miss Mamie Tisdale is visiting friends in Aitchison.
W. E. Curry, our former genidi University clerk, is in business in Topeka.
Miss Mamie Lyons is home, after an extended visit with her friend, Miss Penfield.
Misses Annie McKinnon and Laura Lockwood are growing proficient in the use of the raquet.
Joe Jacob's spent his "Fourth" with the "greers" of Monterey, Mexico. He says their "polytechnic" display was somewhat limited.
Miss Cora Heenshaw is spending her summer vacation in Lawrence after another successful year as teacher in the Newton schools.
J. A. Mushrush represented the Public Opinion, a weekly paper of Washington, D.C.at the Ottawa and Topeka Chautauqua Assemblies.
W. T. Reed was a prominent member of the convention which met at Gatwirie on the 18th of July for the organization of Oklahoma Ter.
Guide Harvy White is engaged in a well nigh hopeless attempt to smatch a moment for study between the arrival of visitors at University,Hall.
Miss Kate Merrill, of the class of '89, will go east in the fall to attend the University of Bryn Mawr, near Philadelphia. She will perfect herself in the study of English.
Russ Whitman is nistulating at his rural residence in the western suburbs of the city. Russ is studying the merits of "Vantage in" and "Love all" with the fair mads of Athens.
Junius Oscius Worden, otherwise known as Hobo, attended an institute in Leavenworth county. He will teach this winter if he does not obtain a position as guide in the University.
Parsons, of Grinach, Iowa, a graduate in pharmacy, is spending the summer at the lakes around Minneapolis, Minn. He is recuperating after his arduous labors in the Chemistry building.
Billy Caywood, as has long been his desire, will set sail for Germany the latter part of August. Mr. Caywood expects to complete the requirements for the degree of P. S. before his return.
L. T. Smith, of the class of '89, has accepted the position as teacher of sciences at Emporia High School. This is the place made vacant by W. C. Stevens, who now forms part of the faculty of K. S. U.
J. B. Lipincoff is spending the summer in New Mexico, in the employ of Uncle Sam on the Geological survey which is being made all over the West. This is a much coveted position among civil engineers and Barlow is to be congratulated on having attained it.
H. F. M. Bear appeared before the unsuspecting natives of a hamlet in Missouri and displayed some of his oratorical fire on the "Glorious Fourth." Ye orator of K. S. U., beware! for it is noised about in that "districkt" that "The little man has a mighty voice."
Bruno Hobbs, a student in the foremost ranks of the Law Class of 89 has decided to cast his lot in Newton. Success could not crown the efforts of any one more deserving. Mr. Hobbs selected one of the favorable localities of Central Kansas, We shall hear of him later.
Misses Inez and Nina Taggart bad anticipated a refreshing rest at their home in the City of Walton this summer, but the temptation to mingle in the busy whirl of society in that berg has been too great. One of the most notable events was the reception tendered by Hon. John Hackney.
G. M. Culver, with his usual good fortune, has been elected principal and superintendent of the Belville schools for the coming year. This will prevent his return to K. S. U. next fall, but the TIMES congratulates Mr. Culver on having secured one of the best positions in the Northwest.