THE UNIVERSITY TIMES.
Published every Friday morning by the TIMES COMPANY.
T. HUNT, JUS. D. BOWERSOCK, JR.
President.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
L. A. STEERBINS, Editor in Chief.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS.
Fdgar Martindale, Stanton Smith.
S. M. Simmons, F. E. M. Bear,
Paul Wittkerson, R. E. Suffi.
Maud Springer, Tella Chapman.
Florence Reasoner N. W. Merrifield.
E. K. Mumford, G. Holsinger.
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
C. E. STREET, J. PRANK CRAIG
TRIBUNE PRINT.
Entered at the postoffice of Lawrence, Kansas, as second-class matter.
UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY
BETA TITA P4. Meets on fourth floor of the OctaTe House block.
Opera House block.
KIP KAPPA PaI, Meets on third floor of Opera House b ock.
PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets in the Riding House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA 'THEA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA CHI, Meets on the fourth floor east of the Opera House block.
SIGMA CHI, Meets in the Elridge House block third floor.
B IPTA PHI Mee's every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members
BASE BALL Association, Manager, Prof. A. W Wilcox, Captain of the Nine, Charles Voorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 30, every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS Association, President, F. E Reed, Secretary, F. H. Kolling; Tresururer, W. A. Snow.
SCIENCE CLUB, Every other Friday at 8 p.m.
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, Every other week at 8 p.m.
AUTHENTIC LITERARY SOCIETY, Every other week at 8 p.m.
ATHENEUM LITERARY SOCIETY, Every other Friday at 8 p.m.
We would like to impress upon the supporters of the TIMES, the duty they owe to our advertisers. We do not know whether you are patronizing them or not, but if you are not, you should do that much to show your appreciation of their patronage of you. We have advertisements from the leading merchants in the town, and everything that you wish can be bought as cheap from them as any place and you should discriminate in their favor.
SOME DIFFERENCE.
Saturday evening in a down town real estate office two University students and two former University students were chattering away about one thing and another when the conversation drifted into the late oratorical muddle. The two younger members of the party were telling about what a thrilling time it was and how "if it hadn't been for Marsh and Canfield there'd been a scrap sure as you're a foot high." The older boys—for they were boys for the time—remained silent through it all and then one of them said "Pretty tame up here now, aln't it, Frank?" One remark led to another and finally it set in to rain reminiscences and made an evening of it. They told yarns of long ago until it seemed like a series of veritable college "Arabian Nights." The first story was about "The Duel." It seems that long ago just how long this affiant sayeth not there was a company of University Cadets. They had an election and one of the boys became dissatisfied with the reult and, like Achilles, sulked in his ten and refused to go to drill. The captain sent a guard after him but that had no effect. Then the captain—possibly it was some other officer, memories are not all ways perfect—the captain went for him. The captain met the deserter in the chapel, ordered him to drill. Achilles refused, Agememnon drew his sword—hwas in full uniform—and went for him The other fellow had a big stout Ceutenial club and warded off the blows of the sword with that and after a long and exiting fight, in the chapel, mind you, finally disarmed the swordsman. But the company weren't going to give up the man that easy. An evening or so after the offender was to appear as Orator fc Orophillan in some sort of a doings The cadets got together that night, took thre
rounds of cartridges and put their bayonets on their guns and marched up to the University to take their man as he stepped off the platform. They stationed patrols at all the stairways and were just about ready to make the attack when, to use the expression of the narrator,"Scott Hopkins nerve failed" and they sneaked out. Scott Hopkins was the leader of the cadets. Will Stevens, now a prominent lawyer in the State and a thoroughly respected man, was the "Achilles." His friends were armed to the teeth and it is a good thing that "Scott Hopkins nerve failed," or there would have been blood.
At another time the Senior Class hada tree to plant and had dug a great hole in the south part of the campus to receive it. Some of the boys stole the tree and all the shovels, hid them over the furnace which was then in the main building. The class filed out with uncovered heads at the appointed hour and lot their tree was not. They sent and got other shovels and dispatched two of their number over the hill for a new tree. Pretty soon the boys came in sight carrying the new tree and the Seniors gathered to watch their triumphant approach and let the Preps and Freshmen steal their shovels which were in the Chancellor's office. They filed out again uncovered but found too late that the proceedings had to be stopped for there was nothing with which to throw in the dirt. The next day they brought their shovels and locked them up but a few minute before the exercises were to begin, the janitor who had been detained from going his rounds by the boys, discovered that the hole had been filled up. The faculty brought a lot of the boys up on suspicion and made them pay for digging the hole. Then after a delay of three days the planting went on.
One Hallowe'en the boys got in the building and had a big time. Each professor then had a seat on the rostrum and the boys brought specimens from the Natural History department and put them in the places of the professors. A mannikin dressed in woman's clothes and the skeleton with its arms extended over the back of her chair occupied the seats of a lady member of the faculty and a gentleman who sat next to her, a Pelican adorned another chair, one of the monkeys was pouring over the Bible—looking up family history maybe—and so on. The faculty however cleared the room before chapel time and thought all would be well. However when the Doctor began to conduct the exercises from the Bible he was suddenly seized with symptoms of a bad cold and sneezed so he had to stop. One of the Professors offered to assist him and he too had to stop on account of his sneezing. One after another of the faculty tried to go through with the exercises but failed till one more practical than the rest discovered that the boys had put snuff in the Bible. He closed with a simple but probably not very merciful prayer, and did not touch the Bible.
To turn over the side walks on wet rainy evenings when there was a crowd on the hill, and then for a lot of boys to stand still in the rain with a soaking crowd behind them and cry "Gon on in front. Why don't you go on in front," was no uncommon occurrence; nor was soaping the side walks on lecture night very uncommon.
But now it is different. And we think when the boys get out and yell "Rock Chalk" or paint the side walks or hang a shirt or fight the police that the University is going to the bad. When any one tells you that the class of '84 had grades on an average above 90, or that there was more studying done in "the good old days" than now, don't you believe him. The fact is that K. S. U. is to-day doing more, better, and steadier work than ever before in our history.
No other weekly paper published by K. S. U. students dare make adavults with the business managers of the TIMES regarding circulation in the University. The Times has a larger circulation in K. S. U. than any other weekly paper.
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A REVIVAL.
There is a rising interest in literary work. That loyal feeling which impelled the few who would not let the societies die, is now felt by all, in a general way while fresher impulses with bigger literary aims predominate.
The result of this is a fast growing enthusiasm. We are reminded of a brighter past, long, long ago; and prophetic minds infer that those "good old days" are about to re-appear.
The good will of the professors; the activity of the juniors, seniors, and sophomores; the ambition of the freshmen, 'elementaries,' and 'laws'; all lend new hope for the future of the literary societies.
The evening air, radiant, and beautiful under the electric light, in the University campus; the lighted windows; the open library; the silent halls; are in themselves letters of invitation directed to every University student, inviting him to a free, and pleasant resort.
To this invitation we as students most heartily respond. To neglect it would imply that we are improvident, unambitious, and careless of our highest privileges.
Last Friday evening, in spite of the rattification, two lectures, two festivals, and an opera in the city. Athenaeum Hall was well filled.
We give below the report of the Athen
eum Literary Society.
Professor Blake in his talk gave descriptions of the Scandinavian people, their dress, homes, universities, cities, railroads and canals. He also explained many of their traditions, customs, modes of travel, etc. His reminiscences, delivered in a conversational way, revealed many incidents that ordinary books of travel do not give. The professor gives his remarks a characteristic turn which makes them at once humorous and instructive. In concluding, he related his encounters in a violent storm on the Baltic.
The program as rendered was as follows: Reading, M. McKinnon; Declaration, E. S. Meade; Essay, C. S. Hall; Lecture, Professor Blake; Reading, C. P. Chamman; Declaration, H. Barnes.
The following also were proposed for membership: Messrs. Roberts, Knowlton, Calahan, Spencer, Hall, Blackman, Ellison, Simpson and McKinnon.
The society will meet hereafter every Friday evening. The following named persons were voted into the society: Miss Corbin, Miss Howard, J. E. Renniger, C. F. Humphrey, A. Fullerton, Frank Lutz and Mr. Ross.
THE Hesperian of Nebraska State University is a paper which stands among the first of Western college papers. This standing has been obtained to a considerable extent by the forcible but fair-minded character of its exchange columns. Perhaps no one of its contemporaries has given so important a place to its exchange work. The Courier in its last issue refers to an article in the Hesperian exchange column, and without quoting the note in question proceeds to "make remarks." The Times had thought not to publish the Hesperian's note, but in the light of the Courier's reference to it we feel constrained to print it.
As the Hesperian hoped the Courier, of Kansas University, has declared its position in college politics and certainly in unmistakable terms. But the Courier certainly grows worse and worse. A whole page of a late number was devoted to the reviling of a new paper which has lately made its entrance upon the stage at Lawrence. We desire to say hat in no college paper which we have seen in the past three years—and we have carefully examined a good many—have we met with anything of a character so contemptible and so disgraceful to its editors and the student public which it claims to represent, as the rot printed on that editorial page. The Hesperian cares not whether the Courier or the TIMES represents barbarian or fraternity elements, the fact remains that the Courier's treatment of a contemporary and a next door neighbor is beneath the attention of a man who lays any claim to self respect or a desire to better himself by a college culture. No matter what may be the merits or merits of
the TIMES, the Courier—insignificant as is the place it occupies by its own right—has no grounds for opening its little head in such a manner. The Courier may point with pride to the record of several editors who have been in times past connected with it, but right here its present editor forever bars himself from any just right to be named as an equal of his more or less famous predecessors. The Hesperian does not desire to take the word of the Courier for the character of the TIMES. It further must insist upon repeating its conviction that if the new paper is not fully as good or better than its reiller then indeed must culture in the University of Kansas be at a lamentably low ebb. We desire to see the TIMES live and prosper, and will gladly exchange with it at any time. That the "babies" of the element in the University of Kansas which has no further use for the Courier cannot maintain a college paper we are not ready to admit; that two fraternities monopolize all the journalistic ability in that institution is, really, too absurd for belief by any one who has ever examined the Courier. But no matter what the politics of the Courier, let it show by its printed work that it is worthy the respect of its readers, and the Hesperian will be as ready as ever to accord it an honorable place among its exchanges. In the name of all that the Courier venerates let it end its miserable contention with others who are at feast as good as itself.
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We are modest, but when we receive such encouraging compliments as we have received in the past week we cannot help noticing them and feel proud of them. Friday, Nov. 9, many Lawrence people were surprised and the TIME's staff were rejoiced to see the Tribune give space to TIMES editorials, and Saturday Nov. 17, we were again rejoiced to see in the local columns of the Journal a local credited to the TIMES. While it is no unusual occurrence for University papers to copy from the city papers, we have never before heard of the city papers copying an editorial from a University paper. If we are to believe one of the reporters of one of the city papers, one of the University papers gets most of its locals and personals from the University notes of that paper. By the way this is another compliment, for those same University notes are written by a TIMES editor.
THE best equipped gymnasium on earth cannot make a healthy body of students when the recitation rooms are so ill ventilated as they are at present. In the main building there are just two professors who keep their rooms in any kind of a decent condition. Especially in the lower classes is the air vile. The preps will sit thirty or forty in a room for an hour at a time and never think of allowing a window to be opened and when one is opened they will begin to cough, shudder, and look around as if they imagined fresh air was poisonous. The writer knows of an instance last week where two large classes between twenty-five and fifty in each class sat for two hours in a room without a sign of fresh air. There is nothing that stupedes and tires a student so much as vile, chewed over, poisonous gas. Open the windows or close up the shop.
THE University Review has postponed coming out until some time next week in order to have a "Thanksgiving Number." The contents will be novel and interesting. Articles have been solicited from undergraduates in the various Kansas colleges, describing the social intellectual and moral life at these institutions of learning. The State Normal, the State Agricultural College, the College of Emporia, Washburn College, Garfield, Baker and Ottawa Universities will be heard from and the result will be interesting to the Review's many readers. The TIMES will be glad to notice these articles at some length next week.
MR. JAMES NASIUM will soon be enrolled in K. S. U. He has given it out that he will not belong to any frat or clique, but that he will be for K. S. U., first, last and all the time. Hurrah for Jim Nasium.
AN EVENING OF ENGLISH SONG.
Those who were able to resist the attractions last Friday night of church suppers, ratifications, parties, literary societies and clubs, and form one of the select company that gathered at the Congregational Church, enjoyed a treat which they will not soon forget. Prof MacDonald lectured on the history and characteristics of English Song, and Miss Hutchings illustrated the lecture by singing a variety of songs. One could scarcely devise a more agreeable way of getting valuable information about music and musicians. It is a great deal better than homeopathy. For with all the sugar, there are no dilutions and potentialities, but actualities and strong matter. Prof MacDonald cast a rapid glance at earlier songs, and then gave more extended accounts of songs and their writers from Purcell in the 17th century down to the present time. He did not waste any time on the biographies of the writers, but gave us just what was necessary to enable us to see the place of the composer and his songs in the history of the development of song-writing in England. Miss Hutchings sang eight songs, ranging from the simplest to highly florid, beginning with Purcell, and ending with Cowen and Sullivan. All of them Prof. MacDonald considered the best, of their composers'. Every one of them was thoroughly enjoyable. Prof. MacDonald is a clear and painstaking writer and speaker, and Miss Hutchings was very nearly in her best voice Friday night, and sang admirably. The writer attended that night a church supper, the ratification, and a party, and he is sure that he would have missed any of them rather than the "Evening of English Song."
Mr. E. L. Ackley, city editor of the Tribune, will soon enter the Law Department of the University. For two years Mr. Ackley has been connected with the city papers and has labored faithfully and suffered fewer "scoops" than any man connected with Lawrence papers for many years. His treatment of University matters has been unusually satisfactory. He has been careful in dealing with University affairs to be impartial as far as possible and has never represented any student for the sake of an item.
Dancing at K' of P. Hall.
Prof. Ryan's Academy of Dancing open for ladies and gentlemen every Monday and Friday evenings. Ladies private class every Monday afternoon Ladies and children's class every Saturday afternoon. Mr. Ryan teaches all the most fashionable dances, making a special of the Waltz and Reverse. Pupils can enter at any time, their term commencing with the first lesson. Classes are always open for beginners. References required. For further information concerning tuition, etc., address
J. RYAN, Lawrence House,
or call at K. of P. Hall.
A pocket mirror is one of the most handy toilet articles yet invented. All sizes and prices at Raymond & Dick's.
Oxford hash is the only cigarette tobacco cigarette smokers should use when they make their own cigarettes. Smith keeps it.
Boys examine Crains & Urbansky's new stock of overcoats. They will treat you right.
Young ladies wishing holiday presents for their friends will find something to please them at the Western Art Department. A specially made of presents for gentlemen. Stamping and braiding dresses by hand and machine work. Miss M. YARNOLD,
917 Mass. St.
New arrivals at the "Blue Mortar" drug store, Swinton's English Primrose Extract, complexion soap and toilet powder.
Hard and soft coal, best quality. delivered in good order.
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