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Owing to our limited amount of space last week an account of a party given by Misses May and Inez Henshaw was omitted. The principle feature of the evening was a game of progressive whist, in which Miss Inez Henshaw and A. A. Stover proved to be the most successful players. The evening was very pleased and spent by those whose good fortune it was to be present. The young ladies are delightful entertainers and the evening was one long to be remembered with pleasure.
The Society gave an exceptionally interesting program last Friday evening, and was rendered as follows:
Declaration ... F. Lautze
Music piano solo ... Miss Johnson
Banding ... A. Füllerten
Oration ... H. Hudley
Essay (current country) ... G. Holsinger
Recess of
Music (piano duet)
Miss Nellie Franklin and Misti Jenner Wieler
J. O., Worlson
Affirmative, Negative,
Ross, Mushrush,
Berriger, Brown.
The hall was well filled, and twelve new names were added to the list of members. This society meets every Friday evening at 8 o'clock, giving a free entertainment to all who wish to attend. This evening new officers will be elected.
SIGMA NU.
A novel and entirely original fraternity entertainment was given by the young gentlemen of the Sigma Nu, at their rooms in the Eldridge House block, last Saturday evening. A drop curtain had been fixed in the arch separating the parlor from the main hall, which remained down until the invited guests, numbering about fifty, were seated. When this was raised a beautiful room was displayed with a large table of unique shape spread ready for a feast.
A bright little waiting maid was putting the finishing touches to the table who soon announced the supper, and the host entered with his guests from an adjoining room, and after a brief welcome were seated at the table. The feast that followed was of an intellectual nature, the different courses being filled with quotations and extracts from Long Fellow's poems.
The first course, soup, consisted of well chosen quotations from the gifted author. Fish, being the second course, Mr.Dan Mallison rendered Hiawatha's Fishing—For Game, Mr.Ezra Palmer gave "The Birds of Killingworth," and the episode of "The Slaying of Red Deer" was recited by Mr. Will Rutter, Salad, followed, which was nicely arranged from the titles of Longfellow's poems. For desert, Mr. Howard Copper gave in splendid style "The Emperor's Bird-Nest" and Mr. John Palmer offered "Snowflakes." The wine served was the celebrated "Catawha Wine" which was given by Mr.Wyne Harrington. Between the courses Evangeline, Priscilla and Munchaha dressed in costume came in and were given seats at the table. These parts were taken by Miss Clara Greenamyr, Miss Alice Longpole, a bright Osage girl from Haskell and Miss Manie Manley. This was one of the most interesting features of the evening. The part of waiting-maid by Miss Jessie Peneshard was most excellently taken. Another pleasant peculiarity followed in the toasts. The first, "Longfellow, the Man," was drank standing and in silence, "Longfellow's Best Poem" was then proposed and Mr. Eugene Shields responded with "The Legend Beautiful." "Longfellow's Best Song" was next given. Mr. Clarence Scars sang, "The Tay is Doose."
The toasts were followed by two tableaux, "Hiawatha's Wooing" and the "Death of Minchchaa." These characters were all given by four pupils from Haskell Institute, under the management of Mr. Will Sears, and as they all appeared in the real Indian costume, the effect was quite realistic. The setting of the background was excellent, and added greatly to the effect. Refreshments were then served, and the rest of the evening spent in dancing and conversation.
Oratorical Association.
Last Friday the Oratorical Association met and selected Prof. L. I. Blake as delegate to Topeka to attend a meeting of the delegates from the other colleges in the State Oratorical Association to select judges for the State contest. The delegates met last Saturday afternoon in the parliaments of the Windsor hotel and Prof. Blake was chosen chairman of the meeting. The following judges were selected:
The Recamier's at Raymond & Dick's.
Judges on Thought and Composition, Hon. Noble Prentiss, of Newton; Hon. J. Mussell, of Council Grove, and Gen. Taylor, of Hutchinson. First alternates, Judge John Martin of Tapetoa, Hon. Phillip Krone of Atchison, and George Winens of Junction City. Second alternates, Hon. Marsh Murdock of Wichita, Gov. Geo. T. Anthony of Ottawa, and Rev. H. H. Russell of Kansas City. Alternates at Large, Gov. C. V. Eskridge of Emporia. Judges of Delivery, Sen. J. L. Burton of Abilone, Prof. J. C. Banta of Hiwattha, and E. C. Coffin of Wichita. First alternates, Prof. Sandess of St. Scott, Gov. John A. Martin of Atchison and Prof. Buchanan of Kansas City. Second alternates, Dr. J. H. Simmons of St. Scott, Judge Tom Fenlon of Leavenworth, and Gen. Green of Manhattan. Alternate at large, Gov. T. A. Oburne of Topeka. The State contest will be held at Emporia in the second week of next February. K. S. U. has won three out of five of the State contests and there is no reason why she should not carry off the honors this time. We have the material out of which orators are made. There has not been as many aspirants in the local contests as we should haye. Once upon a time, fourteen orations were handed into the committee of the Faculty, of which he six best were chosen. It is needless to say that K. S. U. won and that the familiar yell of Rock, chalk-jay-hawk, K. U. resounded through the streets of Topeka. Last year only four students participated in the home contest, the year before, five. At this rate, in a few years it will not be worth while to hold a local contest. What we want is a number of men to take part in the home contest from which number we can select a man to go to Emporia, not only to represent us, but a man to win. Orators, come to the front.
Philological Club.
The club decided to purchase and put in the library the Contemporary Review, the Nineteenth Century, the Fortnightly, and the Neue Jahrbuecher fuer Philologie and Paedogigik; and to accept the offer of Prof. Marsh to add to these the Edinburg Review, the London Quarterly, and the Westminster. It also left with a committee the purchase of a modern language periodical for the library.
the arts, because of its expressive power; novels and poetry, the highest forms, because they convey more of the writer to reader than any other form.
Miss Mary Manley spoke of the Vercelli Codex, a manuscript of Cynewulf, discovered early in this century at Vercelli, a small town in Northern Italy. Prof. Cook of the University of California has lately issued a pamphlet to prove that this manuscript was carried thither by Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, the Pope's legate to England from 1217 to 1218. The Cardinal was a scholar, a friend of learning, the founder of the church of St. Andreas [probably in memory of his English benefice of St. Andrew,] and later of a monastery and school to which he bequeathed his large library. Among his books was certainly one in English. The Cardinal employed a French scholar with English interests, and English architects. Why may he not have been interested in English literature? His life and fortunes were in various ways connected with St. Andreas, an account of whom is one of the principal poems of Cynewulf. Therefore he would have had an especial interest in the Vercelli book.
Miss Rudolph spoke of a new book on the Roman army in Cassar's time, by Mr. Judson. It is the highest account of the subject in English, and a valuable addition to Roman school literature.
Miss Merrill gave a resume of the late Prof. Sill's essay on the Principles of Criticism. Critical principles must be broad enough to include all art; otherwise they are not fundamental. The effect of beauty on the mind is increased activity. The secret of all art is that it is the giver of what man desires most carnely, abounding life. Art should be judged, then, according to its lifegiving qualities; literature, the highest of
Prof. Wilcox spoke of and read some extracts from an edition of fragments of the Greek Comic poet, with metrical translations, by Prof. Paley; and a skeleton outline of Greek History by Evelyn Abbott. He also gave reports of excavations in Greece, at Athens, Mycenaea, Tanagra, and in Crete. At Athens the most important find is an inscription showing that the Erchethionian had gables on both the east and west fronts. At Mycense a large number of pre-Homeric graves are being found, with many articles in quite an oriental style.
Science Club.
"Standing room only" was the rule of the Science Club last Friday night. Mr. Kellogg's microscope exhibition was a success. A hundred choice slides were on the table; the microscopes were well illuminated and everybody was "explaining" to everybody else. It is proposed to have some popular exhibition every night in the future.
At eight o'clock the club was called to order and Mr. Franklin read a very interesting review of recent psychological literature. The wonderful phenomena of hypnotism are being examined by a host of investigators who are already divided into schools, the Paris and London scientists believing that a mesmerized subject can be directed by the operator without the use of words or signs, that magnets may be felt when held near the back of the neck, and that a medicine unknown to the subject will produce its full effect when sealed up in a tube and placed near him, while the Nancy school holds that all these results are caused by suggestion alone. Mr. Franklin favored the Nancy school and took ground in opposition to the series of papers which Prof. Blake contributed to the Science Club last year. The speaker told of "the fluidic influence which emanates from a magnet and makes people see double," but he did not state why magnets were not prohibited in Kansas.
Mr. Kellogg next spoke on microscopes and the microscopic exhibition at Leavenworth. He did not seem at all depressed by the results of the comparison of the ordinary American instruments owned by the University with the new $500 Leis of Manhattan. The value of a microscope depends on four things; defining power by which the outline of an object is shown distinctly and without colors, resolving power by which structure and marking are shown, working distance the space between the lens and object, and flatness of field, all parts of the field being shown with equal clearness. The marking on the test diatom on exhibition were seven-tenthousandths of a millimeter a part yet they could be easily distinguished. The last paper was by Mr. Murphy on the relation between rainfall and the depth of northern lakes, illustrated by diagrams which he had drawn from the government reports, showing the monthly and annual curve of rainfall and the curve of depth of the lakes. The parallelism in the case of Lakes Michigan and Huron was striking, while there was a little similarity in the curves of Lake Ontario. Prof. Snow noticed that the curves showed the seven year cycle of rain which he discovered in his record of Kansas rainfall. Mr. Murphy stated that the measured outflow of the lakes was very close to the amount calculated from the rainfall and area of the watershed.
"All Together ! Sing !"
Again we are confronted with a new enterprise—something new, real and live. This time the inventive genius of the Senior has been at work. To be sure it is nothling wonderous; especially deep or profud; but we owe it to the lively imagination of one of our Senior girls, that K. S. U. is about to take her seat in the choir of jolly collegians who are ever and anon reading the air with those melodious hymns, known as college songs. Yes, our Senior class is
back of the movement. Committees have been appointed to engage the services of one or two of our talented musicians as leaders and make all arrangements for the organization of an association for the practice and adoption of a collection of songs peculiar to K. S. U. Well, yes, why not? Is there any good reason why a western college cannot have a little life and spirit as well as those of the East? Who has ever met a student from Harvard, Yale or Cornell, without being favored with the favorite song of his alma mater? But who ever heard a K. U. lad break upon the midnight air with anything more inspiring than "Old Dog Tray" or "Here's to K. S. U. drink her down," or perchance, "The Bull Dog on the Bank?" But says one, how is this movement to be started? Just wait; hold your breath for the first attempt; keep your ears open and one of these Friday evenings, between 7 and 8 p.m., you may hear the welcome warble of K. S. U.'s quartette, or her choir—composed of half or more of her students—re echoing through our halls. Verily, the Seniors are around—they have made the beginning and with the assistance of all, will carry it through.
Happenings at the Chemistry Building
Great excitement prevailed at the Chemistry building last Wednesday. Two of the seniors had found $200 in green backs and contemplated going into "cahoots" as is the custon at this building. They sought the advice of Mr. Sloszen and were referred to Prof. Sayre. The Professor at once claimed the find and coolly put the money into his pocket saying, "Well! well! this is a surprise indeed." Thank you gentlemen" and they saw the money no more.
Prof. Baily has just received a new apparatus for testing the relative flash points of oils found in the market. The oil is put in a cup and this in turn is placed in a water bath, which is heated by a spirit lamp from below. An arm extends above the oil cup and from this is suspended a thermometer, which registers the temperature.
The name of Mr. A. E. Langworth, one of the last year's pharmacy boys, may be found among the names of those who were successful in the examination before the State Board.
Some, and in fact nearly all of the candidates for examination before the State Board last week, found it nearly as difficult to read the questions, and especially the chemical equations, as it was to answer the questions. It was the fault of some one horse printer, who not having the sight material at hand, used such as he had. We would suggest that the Board have their questions printed by the TIMES Company in the future.
The Pharmaceutical Society held its regular meeting last week. After an interesting program followed by the regular business, the society adjourned until after the holidays.
A long felt want in the Chemistry building has been alleviated by connecting pipes of the building with the city water works, and now the water supply at this building will not be so limited as heretofore.
Jhon Hall, a graduate of the Law Department of the class of '86, has been in town for quite awhile past. Since his graduation he har been engaged in teaching school and chas conducted several Normal institutes. Of late however, Hall has given evidence of an unsound mind and has been a frequent visitor at the University and has stayed about town, always seeming very despondent. He has been staying at the Eldridge House, where his bills have been paid by Judge Norton, who came to Hall's assistance with his usual great heartedness. On last Wednesday Hall boarded the train expressing his intention of going to Kansas City.
The Delmonico is the place to get your Christmas box of candy to take home with you.
A Celluloid pocket Tooth and Powder case is another fine Xmas for gentlemen at Raymond & Dick'
Exchange Gleanings.
The southwest Kansas College has adopted the novel and no doubt interesting feature of sending a card, with the student's grades, to his parents.
Baker will not be outdone in a college cry by any college. The following is their musical and rhythmical yell:
B. U., B. U.
Rah. Rah. Rah!
B-a-k-e-r. Boom Baker!
Hoo-rah, Hor-rah, Krazo!!
The editor of College Echoes certainly has a classic brain. He speaks of a visit home in the following language: Ye weather beaten editor enjoyed a week's rest last month in Allen county 'neath his parental escuchement.
There is a report going the rounds now,
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Cambridge, England crew to an eight
mile race, next Summer. The Yale men
deny the report, but assert that they favor such a match.
By a recent decision of the court of appeals of New York, Cornell is deprived of $1,500,000. The decision is based on a provision of the charter limiting the possessions of the institution to $3,000,-000. The sooner such an obnoxious clause is repealed the better.
Hall of Columbia, will shortly write two articles on Lawn Tennis, for Harriers Young People.
The trustees of Columbia, are racking their brains in the endeavor to select a president to fill the place made vacant by resignation, last spring, of President Barnard.
Art Lecture.
Miss Simpson gave a very interesting lecture last Friday evening in the Art Studio, on "An Art Student's Life in Paris." A large audience greeted the speaker. Miss Simpson's description of the life of a student in Paris, made all the artists in the audience wish that they could spend a year in a Paris art school. Miss Simpson is a pleasing speaker and her deserving lecture was highly appreciated. Interest in the Art Department is increasing. Last Friday evening, many were unable to find seats and remained standing.
Prof. W. H. Carruth has been appointed to a Morgan Fellowship for the coming year at Haryard University. Mr. Carruth was graduated at the Kansas State University (Lawrence) in 1880 and immediately thereafter was made assistant in his Alma Mater for German and French; in 1882 he was promoted to the professorship of German and French, which position he still holds. The year 1885-86 was spent, on leave of absence, at the University of Berlin and Munich, where Prof. Carruth continued his studies in the Germanic department. He is now engaged in investigating the "Superlative in Modern German" and "Herder's Style."—Modern Language Notes.
Our librarian requests the following announcement: All students having books out of the library are requested to return the same on or before Tuesday, Dec. 18th. CARRIE M. WATSON.
Glance at Crains & Urbansky's south window and you will see a display of Mufflers of all styles and sizes. They sell them lower than any other firm in the city.
The meeting of the Orophilian society last Friday evening does not deserve a notice in the Times this week. Only a very few members were present and those who were to have performed on the program, except three, made it a point to be absent. The society might just as well adjourn "sine die," if there is to be no greater interest taken in literary work. It is a shame to "hoodwink" new students and rush them into a society that is a society in name and nothing more. The Times wants to see something done, that done immediately. If it cannot be revived, it would be better to kill it entirely.
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