UNIVERSITY TIMES.
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For and by the Students of the Kansas State University.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 10, 1889.
VOL. I.
LOCALS.
Palladium has adjourned sine die.
Everybody anticipates a grand time on Field day.
Earl Smith did not return from Kansas
City till Monday eve.
Prof. Sterling failed to meet his Greek classes Tuesday.
The Astronomy class were taking observations Tuesday night.
The Telegraph Club met Tuesday for transaction of business.
Junius Underwood, an old student, visited the University Monday.
The beginning Greek class begun re view the first of the week.
The Kent Club held its last meeting for this year last Friday night.
Sophomore Zoology class attended chap eI. Tuesday morning, in dress parade.
Prof. Canfeld's Freshman class finished reviewing *Athletic* this week.
The beginning German class thought last Friday's quiz somewhat sudden.
A party of University maidens will picnic in the park to-morrow afternoon.
Orophilium will entertain her seniors the time set is two weeks from to-night.
Louis Pochier was initiated into the Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity Saturday night.
The Virgil class are now reading the sixth book, the fifth having been omitted.
Our Ball Club did not play the town nine as was expected last Friday afternoon.
The songsters last Friday night attempt to serenade the L. C. party but made a dismal failure.
Mr. C. M. Sherer is still Orophilians orator, notwithstanding all efforts to the contrary.
Hervey White has quite a start on his collection of insects and will soon have a creditable collection.
A "White Cap" letter posted on the bulletin board the first of the week attracted a good deal of attention.
The Zoology class attended chapel in a body Tuesday morning. The birds in the laboratory were dead.
Austin and Gleason were out to Blue Mound, Saturday, in search of specimens for their Botany collections.
The lectures in the Art department have been discontinued for the rest of this year on account of the warm weather.
Several students spent the first part of the week in Topeka, attending the State convention of the Y. P. S. C. E.
Miller has sent off for some running shoes, and those who know, say that he will win the 100 yard foot race.
The Botany class have now begun to mount thier specimens, and many of the class have their collections complete.
A number of students were out trying to sing last Friday night. They visited the Chancellors and several other places.
The members of Kappa Kappa Gamma spent last Saturday afternoon very pleasantly at the home of Miss Ila Williams.
The Unity Club parliars were filled last Monday night by an audience who listened to Prof. Wilcox on Bible Interpretation.
The committee for Field day has appointed its solicitor, who has been busily engaged in getting subscriptions from the students.
The Science Club interrupted the meeting of the literary society at the University last Friday night by singing in the halls
The Caesar class finished their advance work this week. The class this year has gone further in the text book than any preceding class.
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The work done at Grinnell by the delegates from Kansas is sufficient commendation of the delegation.
The Southwestern Cornell Alumni association gave a banquet at the Midland hotel in K. C. Wednesday evening.
"Resolved that increased wealth has a favorable effect on morals," is the question for debate by Orophilian commencement debaters.
The following was posted on the bulletin board last Friday: "The Courier will be out on time." Nothing delays it and still it was not there.
At the meeting last Friday night of Orophilian, R. R. Whitman was elected president and the society adjourned to meet again next September.
A gentleman on the street the other day said that if the K, S, U. nine played with the Indian school nine our boys would be most everlastingly whipped.
The Tennis Association deserves the hearty thanks of all those who witnessed the game Saturday, for chairs were furnished so that all could sit down.
Next week the High school examinations take place and then the pupils will be free. The commencement exercises take place one week from to-night at the opera house.
Certain students are illustrating the old adage by cutting their names on the stone at the front door of the University. This is against the law and anyone caught in the act will be made to suffer.
One of the things which the publishers of our contemporary, the Courier, are wondering about is whether they are going to be obliged to go down deep in their pockets and fish out $32 every month in order to get out that handsome little sheet.
C. M. Enns intends to stay in Lawrence this summer and conduct classes in German or French. Any one desiring to do some work in those studies should see Mr. Enns before May 25th, so that arrangements can be made: Terms will be reasonable.
Palladium had a good attendance last Saturday evening. After the program had been rendered the society adopted some amendments to its constitution and then adjourned to meet again next September. During this college term Palladium has carried out fourteen regular programs, a record not equaled by the older societies Its energies have never yet been absorbed by college politics.
The Excelsior Debating Club will hold its final meeting for this year to-morrow night at C. P. Chapman's. The program will consist mostly of original poetry. This club has done a vast amount of work during the past year, and although the meetings have been secret, the members have obtained much good from it. The membership is limited to ten, who are at present, W. D. Ross, C. P. Chapman, H. White, W. W. Brown, J. H. Sawtell, J. G Wine, Alva Sweezy, E. E. Slosson, M. A Barber and G. O. Virtue.
The natural History department museum received valuable additions this week from the family of the late Judge Usher. The most important being a collection of Indian weapons and garments. This collection embraces a large assortment of bows, arrows, quivers, medicine bags, etc, made of beaver and other skins and trimmed in gay colored beads. Nearly all these belonged to the celebrated Cheyenne chief, Wild Hog, who was confined in jail in Lawrence during the Sioux outbreak about ten years ago.
There are also old African relics, and a specimen of Chinese painting or a curious piece of art. Taken all in all the collection is one that would grace any exhibition and we are glad to have such friends.
PERSONALS.
John Steel visited the University Friday morning.
Dr. E.A. Floyd, of Paola, was a visitor Friday.
Harry Riggs is back from Texas.
Fred McKinnon handles the racket very gracefully.
E. L. Ackley has returned from his trip to Oklahoma.
Hudson, of Topcape, came down Friday to see Peabody.
Miss Clara Manley spent Sunday with friends in Ottawa.
Rob Rankin, of Topeka, is spending a few days in town.
Mr. Eii Hamburger, of Abilene, paid Ellison a visit Wednesday.
Prof. J. H. Canfield is conducting the chapel exercises this week.
F. C. Shreeder has again been called home by the sickness of his mother.
Mrs. Grovenor is at home again, after visiting friends in Topkape and Newton.
N. D. Bowker, a student of last year, will be here for the commencement exercises.
Krehbeil, Soderstrom, Wehe and Closson went up to Cameron's bluff, botanizing last Saturday afternoon.
Short and Henshaw are preparing a lecture on the efficiency of the police laws of Lawrence.
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William Floyd Garrison of Boston Mass. an acquaintance of Prof. Curruth's called on Mrs. Currth Wednesday.
W. M. Hughes a last year's student has been appointed mail agent on the Santa Fe running east from Pueblo.
A. W. Brewster stopped over in Law-
rence a few hours, Saturday, on his way
home from the oratorical contest.
Misses Clark, Mushrush and Haskell were initiated into the mysteries of Kappa Alpha Theta, Saturday afternoon.
Miss Nettie Steed, of Belleville, has been stopping a few days on her way to St. Charles, Mo., with Miss Mia Hair.
Parker, Finbrook, Russell and Chapman went to Topeka, Monday, to attend the State convention of the Y. P. S. C. E.
Dr. Wilder, of Chicago, will lead the Y. M. C. A. meeting to night and will speak in the interest of foreign missions.
Ackley of the Laws returned from Oklahoma Wednesday. He was among the first to hang out his shingle in the new territory.
K. S. U. has added another laurel to her crown in the election of G. M. Culver as president of the Inter State Oritoral Association.
Kellogg and White returned Saturday from Lincoln, Neb., where they have been to attend a convention of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
The following are the fortunate Seniors who have received commencement appointments. Anna McKinnon, Kate Merrill, Mamie Manley, Harry Buckingham and E. E.Squires.
W. A. White, the obnoxious Phil Delti, has received notice from the White Caps that his only hope of perpetuating his existence lies in abandoning the editorial business. We should be very sorry to see so energetic a young man as Mr. White cut off in the bloom and vigor of his youth.
The members of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity entertained their friends last Friday evening at the K. of P. hall. As is always the case when this society entertains; it was a very pleasant occasion.
Pi Beta Phi.
The city authorities forbade playing on the tennis court in the park for a day or two this week, but have since withdrawn their objections.
Unity Club.
Prof. Wilcox's lecture on Bible Interpretation was listened to by quite a large audience.
The Bible had to be interpreted as soor as the inspired writer had left the scene and new generations with new ideas and a developed language arose. We may as sign all the interpreters to seven schools. All the older interpreters, assuming the verbal inspiration of the Bible, disclaimed to apply the common rules of construction to God's word. They saw a deep hidden meaning in every peculiarity of expression, combination of letters, or any plain historical account of the Bible. Their so called interpretation really was the extorting of such a meaning from the letters of the Bible as in their view was worthy of the Eternal God. The narrow minded rabbis made God say many absurd and grossly wrong things. The early fathers of the church strained nearly every passage of the Old Testament to prophesy the coming of Christ. The Alexandrians and Origen read all the ideas of Greek philosophy into the Bible, and later Catholics and Protestants erected magnificent dogmatic structures on the same letter.
But at last men grew weary of deceiving themselves. The few Maimonides, the Christians, Jerome and Chrysostom, and later the reformers, recognized the human element in the Bible and began to treat it somewhat like other books according to the rules of grammar and in the light of history. Luther still insisted that the Bible should be approached in a prayerful spirit and in reliance on enlightenment from above. Schleiermacher used the light of his religious consciousness. Lessing first cited the Bible into the Court of Reason, and the critical schools following him have done much to give us a truer interpretation of the Bible, although some of them (c. g. Straus and Baur) seems to have been carried away by certain favorite theories.
While the verbal mechanical inspiration of the Bible must be rejected, still the impartial interpreter cannot but see the light of divine inspiration shining forth from every part of that historical record which we call the Bible.
The Seniors held a meeting Wednesday and elected the following program for class day.
President of the day Flora A. Newlin.
Salutation . . . . .
Exchange Notes.
We are glad to be able to acknowledge the receipt of The Dakota Collegian this week. The Collegian is published by the students of Dakota Agricultural College and has more the appearance of a literary journal than we would expect of a publication devoted to the interests of agriculture. The Collegian presents a very neat appearance, and is on the whole well edited.
The Dakota Collegiate Oratorical Association holds its second annual contest at Sioux Falls.
The Occident devotes several pages of editorial space to the discussion of the fraternity question, and by a pre-concerted method of reasoning comes the conclusion that they are a nuisance.
The Kansas Star comes to our table this week. The Star is published by the students of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Oathe, and is edited by the students learning the art of printing. We hope the Star will make us regular weekly visits in the future.
We acknowledge the receipt of the Vevay Reveille, published at Veyy, Switzerland county, Indiana.
The last issue of the Washburn Reporter is made up almost entirely of advertisements and clippings. This new method of journalism is a paying one and can be done almost entirely by the printer.
The April number of the Doane Owl contains the orations receiving first and second place at the State oratorical contest held at Crete.
Miami University will have a reunion of her alumni on June 19th.
At the Iowa State University the regular commencement execises in the collegiate department have been abolished.
At the Dakota State Oratorical Contest the first place was awarded to D. G. Eno, whose subject was "Alexander Hamilton."
The following is the field day records made at the University of California:
50 yd. dash 5 3-5 sec.; 100 yd. dash 10 3-8 sec.; 220 yd. dash 23 1-8 sec.; 440 yd. run 53 1-2 sec.
1 mile run 4 min., 51 1-5 sec.; 1 mile walk 8 min., 17 3-5 sec.; 120 yd. hurdle race 18 sec.; 2 mile relay race, 4 men, 8 min., 36 sec.; standing wide jump 10 ft., 1 1-5 ln.; running long jump 20 ft., 4 in.; standing high jump 4ft., 8 1-2 in.; running high jump 5 ft., 5 in.; putting shot (16 lbs.) 24 ft. 6 in.; throwing base ball 314 ft.; three legged race 100 yds. 12 1-2 sec.; high kick, 8 ft.
The University of the Pacific has fifteen seniors.
At Vanderbilt recently the faculty had a treat. They sat from 9 A.M. Millill 4 P.M. listening to thirty orators from whom eight were to be selected to compete for medals. We think the faculty deserve a medal apiece for their fortitude.
We notice that the Annuals of most of the eastern colleges are now appearing.
Among the exhibits at the coming Paris Exposition will be one of the various college papers published in America. College journalism is not one of the established things in Europe, the Review, at Oxford, being we believe one of the few student publications outre mer.
The De Pauw Adz contains an oration given at a Sophomore entertainment entitled, "The Preponderation of Columbia and Her Hereditainments Untaposited with other Nationalities." The oration is as original as the subject.
The prohibition of smoking at Columbia has only resulted in the secret, but universal, disregard of the new rules.
All the latest styles Straw Hats now on sale at Abe Levy's.
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