KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
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The Critic...PAGE 1
Despair (Poem)...2
A Morning on a Mower. ...A BOOK-AGENT 2
Has America a Literature...4
Progress in the 19th Century...6
The Junior Stood. (Rondeau.)...7
Views...8
Editorials...9
Normal...10
Scientific...11
Exchange...12
Personal...13
Local...18
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The University Courier.
Vol. II. — SEPTEMBER 6, 1883. — No. 1.
THE CRITIC.
This department will be devoted to criticism. Not ridicule, but rather, plain, honest criticism. Criticism of what? Of anything that needs criticising; but more often of the actor or singer that shall appear upon our stage; of the lecturer, whether he speak from city or college rostrum; and last, but by no means least, of the student's efforts in regular chapel work, contests and literary entertainments.
As students, desirous of knowing the right, and what must be righted in the line of work referred to, we have long needed a channel through which the kind criticisms and suggestions of competent persons could reach our ears. "The Critic" supplies that need.
This department will be placed in charge of a broad, fair-minded person; one who, though capable of criticising, will by no means do it all. It will be his special duty to see that this department never says "A did best, B failed, or C can never succeed," for such is a spirit of fault-finding, not criticism, and no one will be benefitted by such work. The editor of this department will be one in the true sense of the word, seeing that justice is done to all parties. Some of our professors, and a few of the best ilt-
erary men of our city, will aid in making this new department one of great good to us all.
It is to encourage a desire for proficiency in chapel rhetoricals and society work that the Courier Company has taken this step, and it is with the same object in view that this department will, from time to time, call your attention to the lecturers and actors that visit our city. If you read what "The Critic" says of others, knowing that before the year is through he may say something of your work, you are induced to prepare yourself more carefully, and to avoid the mistakes of others.
After contests are over, we will endeavor to have the grades of each participant printed in such a way that each may see his or her special failing, while general remarks from the judges will show the errors common to all. Thus you see we can go from the rostrum feeling that whatever be our standing we have a friend in "The Critic" who will tell us our faults in such a way that we will be encouraged rather than disheartened.
Students; you now know the scope and aim of this department; we ask your aid your suggestions.
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DESPAIR—A MORNING ON A MOWER.
LITERARY.
DESPAIR.
I stood alone on a desolate plain, A wind-swept plain, where the moon shone cold : I was spent with toil and my weary brain Swift whirled under burdens manifold.
I gazed, nor saw one living form:
I listened, nor heard the faintest sound,
Save the rush of the piercing, pitiless storm,
As it swept the snow o'er the frozen ground.
I strove to stir, but reeled and fell,
And strengthless lay, with shortening breath;
Some demon, then, methinks, did quell
My soul. I laughed, as I thought, "'Tis Death.'"
A MORNING ON A MOWER.
I suppose I might as well say in the first place that I am a book-agent. I'm not ashamed of it, either, but I don't make an unnecessary parade of my business.
I had the misfortune to receive a favor from the editor of the Courier, and now he wants me to write out some of my experiences for his paper. I suppose he wants some of my adventures as an agent, how I got run out of this yard with a broom-stick, and ran a race with a bull-dog down that one, but I don't propose to give myself away to that extent. However, I don't mind telling about my one solitary attempt at farm work.
ing season I breakfasted at the house of a farmer who had hay to cut, and millet to stack, and was short of hands. Of course I found out all about it in five minutes-I always do. Now for reasons best known to myself I was little short of cash, so I thought that here was a good chance to make a slight raise, and also see some of the true inwardness of farm life. Then, perhaps, being with him all the time, I could sell my employer a whole case of books to give to the widows and orphans of the neighborhood.
It was last summer, in Howard county, near the village of Quito, that this sad affair took place. One day in the late hay-
After selling him a book, and vainly endeavoring to get him to have it bound in hand-painted satin with gold clasps, I proposed to hire out to my son of the soil. Surveying my stalwart frame for a few mo-
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ments, he agreed to try me. I proudly told him to lead on, to death or victory. Putting the harness on a team, he lead them, and me, to a half-mown meadow. There stood something which I at first took to be some kind of a patent go-cart, but the farmer said it was a mower, and further examination convinced me of the fact. He asked me if I had ever driven a mower. "Not for several years," I said. In fact, I had never driven one in my life, and had never seen one except in a wareroom.
First the farmer drove a round or two and I stumbled after, watching the process. Then I mounted the machine, boldly start-ed the horses and drove ahead. I speedily found a difficulty in steering straight along the edge of the grass. I either cut but half width, or left a fringe standing behind me. But at last I managed to go fairly straight, and kept on the line at least half the distance round. At the end of every round I had to stop and oil, and that made my hands dirty. But worst of all was the infernal jar and shake of the gearing. Such a rattling and jerking I never felt, and I have ridden over corduroy roads and new-built Kansas railways. I thought it would shake out my vertebrae, and mix my stomach, lungs and liver all up together. Then it never jerked twice in the same direction, but always found a new way. I had thirty-seven different aches in my back, but just as the thirty-eighth sent in its card I heard a most welcome sound, the dinner horn. I went to the house. My farmer asked me how I felt. "A little shaken up," I said. Really I expected to drop to pieces every moment, and caught myself looking back to see whether I had not lost some of my anatomy. But as yet I was all there.
After dinner my employer proposed to go and haul in millet from the field to the stack. I assented joyfully, glad to get away from that bone-shaking invention of
the devil, the mower. We drove off to the field. Here I was to load while the farmer pitched on. We went to work and I contrived to pile on the millet in what I thought very good shape. But when we started in I was speedily informed that one side was heavier than the other, and threatened to fall off before we reached the stack. Before we reached the yard I fell off, and part of the load with me. I was underneath. I crawled from under the pile, clawed the dust out of my eyes and the straw out of my mouth, and thought of resigning.
I had to admit that I didn't know how to stack. So I was placed on the load to pitch off. It was the beginning of the end. How that millet did catch and hang. I believe I could have made a serviceable rope by simply laying bunches of it slightly lapping; its natural adhesiveness would have held it together. When I tried to lift a forkful it seemed as if I had the entire load. Every straw seemed to act as a magnet and draw a hundred others after it. With many puffs and groans I contrived to tumble the load off, a little on the stack and much on the ground.
Then I made for the well, drank two or three gallons of water, lay down in the shade, called my employer to me, and respectfully, but firmly, handed in my resignation. I told him I was positively enchanted with farm life; that I would rather ride on a mowing machine than in a palace car; that pitching millet was a beautiful exercise, but considering what my past life had been I did not think myself worthy such exalted occupations. I hoped that after due repentance for my past errors, when I should live a better life, I would be fit to engage in such a delightful and ennobling pursuit; but at present I was all too unworthy.
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HAS AMERICA A LITERATURE.
After two or three hours rest I took my prospectus and set off down the road, a very weary, a sadder, but a wiser book-
agent, swearing by all that is good, bad or indifferent, never again to drive a mower or pitch millet. BOOK-AGENT.
HAS AMERICA A LITERATURE?
Before a nation can become a possessor of a literature, it is necessary for many conditions of a very broad und far-reaching character to be complied with. To be distinguished by geographical lines of boundary is not enough, nor is the having of a political existence co-equal with the powers of earth enough. The nation that would desire to look with pride to its literature must have an individuality, the result of centuries of customs and manners. Literature is the artistic expression of a people's thought and feeling. Has America those natural characteristics which mark individuality? If it has, have they ever found expression?
It is quite common for people to call things by the name of the country in which the thing is produced. This reckless habit of naming things, particularly those of such a character as the one now under consideration, from location instead of some inherent quality, gives rise to much abuse of terms and a great confusion of ideas. Can the Irish boy trained by Irish parents to love Irish manners, to form Irish habits, to live Irish life, trained to be patriotic to Ireland first and the Constitution of the United States second, can he be truly called American? Can the Chinese, although perchance he may have been born on American soil, he is early, very early, trained to know that his race in America is on a foraging expedition, pillaging the harvests of American liberality, energy and labor, and that soon he is 40 return to his home beyond the ocean,
there to live in opulence; can he be called American in any meaning of that term? The world at large takes entirely too little account of hereditary influences. It takes much time and potent agents to stamp out old habits and graft new ones into a people If it required no more than mere nativity, a mere name, then all that has been written on our soil would be American literature, and by some writers this is made the basis of distinction between American and English literature. The basis is a convenient but illogical one.
If this principle were carried out England would loose many of her master-pieces of literature, for many of her poets gave birth to the children of their imagination upon alien soil. Byron, moody and disconsolate, and hourly sinking deeper into the quagmire of dispair, sang his songs on cliff and in vale, on stream and lake of Greece and Italy. Shelley, in his retreat among the picturesque waters and mountains of Switzerland, or in his boat on the dreamy shores of the Mediterranean, breathed for us his master-pieces. Coleridge in Germany, Goldsmith in his wanderings, and in fact nearly every literary character of England, has given us pictures of foreign life and scenery painted on foreign soil; but those are none the less parts of England's literature. These workmen were products of centuries of English customs, manners and all that goes to make up English life. In every sentence we see the English thought, the English emotion,
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The thought and feeling of an individual is given form by his belief, his habits and his system of action. It is with nations as it is with individuals. Before a nation can produce a literature essentially its own, it must have a kind of feeling and a system of thought peculiarly its own. These must permeate its social, political, domestic and religious institutions. It can not be when these organizations be borrowed from a parent state. If borrowed, they must be melted and recast.
With but a very moderate knowledge of national idiosyncrasies one is able to recognize the Frenchman, the German, the Scot, the Spaniard, or the citizen of any of the old world's countries, but who knows the American? In the old world some ideas have long, long ago taken unto themselves definite form; they have become hereditary; the environment aids their maintenance. Time has done its work, and the countries, if they possess the artists, will have the literature.
In America probably the form of government is the most original of any of its organizations, and even that bears the features of its parent in such a marked degree that we can trace its pedigree with the greatest ease. Our lawyers begin their studies with Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England; they familiarize themselves with English constitutional and political history, because from that fountain flows all American law both oratorical and practical. Our Senate and House of Representatives is a House of Lords and a House of Commons in all but name. Our religion, both theoretical and practical, its truths and its ceremonies, are the borrowed material of European countries. England gave us our social and domestic life. In this condition is America to-day. It could not be expected to be otherwise. A hundred years is not time enough for the development of those things which are the precursors of literary production. He who would expect a harvest of literature at this age of the United States would gather fruit out of season.
This age, the world over, is the age of material science. In no nation has the investigation of material science been so fostered by the whole people, as it has been by the Americans. The methods used in the investigation of material things are comparatively new. They had their rise in the philosophy of Bacon; they have been perfected till the revolution is all but complete. The almost universal study of the physical sciences, in this country, is giving form to the thinking powers of its citizens. These new methods of investigation are now being applied to the solution of moral, religious, intellectual, political, social and domestic problems. We hear the muttering thunder of the oncoming tempest in the political discussions that are now on hand; in the free discussions of religious topics in such periodicals as the North American Review, in the prohibition measure, and in a thousand ways we learn that we are in the morning of an age of reforms and revolutions in our organizations. Time will work them out; nothing of purity, nothing of right, nothing of truth itself can be lost. When these reforms and revolutions are over, and the citizens of our nation have settled for themselves a life peculiarly their own, then may the artist erect to the glory of America his monument of literature. We may then look far down the avenue of the future, and there see pictured out the age which American literature may call its own. It will be an age when this struggle for enormous wealth, for political notoriety, and material advancement, will be over; an age when in the fuller light of purified truth men will see and live more for the real object of
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PROGRESS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
earthly life; an age when we will find our nation's greatest minds following that pursuit which is most worthy of great exertion. But it can never be until this tide of foreign emigration shall have reached its flood; until that great ocean of foreign customs has ceased to wash our shores; until the foreign element, mingled with the native, composes one uniform mass, and crystalizing, gives our nation an individuality.
It was so with England. For hundreds of years the streams of Norman-French and Anglo-Saxon life flowed on side by side. The magic power of Chaucer's pen brought
them together, and since that time they have been one—they have been English; and so must it be with us. We have had some American literary characters. They have painted American life in its present form; they have done well, but American life to-day is essentiallyEnglish life. Literary characters will, no doubt, appear all along the lines of the future, and by their works future ages will mark the transformation. In the fullness of time America will have her literature, but not to-day, tomorrow.
PROGRESS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
We live in an era of progress. In the triumphal march of the ages, the nineteenth century leads the van. The advance of society is so still that they only who make note of it are aware how swift and sure it is. Immense changes have taken place in one hundred years, yet scarcely a convulsion has been felt. The rapid advance made in all things, both material and intellectual, since eighteen hundred, is truly marvelous. Discoveries and inventions have multiplied; religious thought has become more liberal; scientific theories have been substantiated by facts; educational advancement has been great.
When we look back over such rapid progress we find it impossible to particularize or to decide where improvement has been most rapid. From such an abundance of facts let us choose two illustrations. The ease and rapidity of communication between individuals, and between nations, has greatly increased within one hundred years To the inventive genius of the nineteenth century we owe the electric telegraph and telephone. Through combined genius and
perseverance we have five thousand miles of ocean telegraph. To the inventive genius of the nineteenth century may be ascribed the great improvement which has taken place in the printing press. If a middle-aged man visits the press room of a first-class daily and observes the huge machine which does in a minute what the best machine of his youth would require a man and active boy two hours to accomplish, he may have some idea of the power of this whizzing monster and of the progress made in paper printing. Joseph Cook says: "Caesar could not drive his chariot around the Roman Empire in less than one hundred days. We can now send a letter around the world in ninety-six days. The circuit of the outmost roads of the Roman world could not be made in less than one hundred days, but in less than that time the steamship and the locomotive, however unpoetic they may seem in contrast with the wheels on which Caesar rode, can now be driven around the globe."
To the enlightened public opinion of the nineteenth century we owe the present, com-
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paratively speaking, liberal ideas in regard to the education of women. Some narrowminded and perverse prejudice still remains, but is rapidly passing away. Surely, and by no means slowly, young women through the civilized world are beginning to realize the great benefits to be derived from a superior education, and are striving to make the best of all opportunities within their reach. There is much hope for the future. No one who has come into the light of knowledge wishes to return to the darkness of ignorance. May the time come when all doubt and deep-rooted conservatism on the subject shall give place to a generous desire to give to girls the very best educational advantages that this age of the world affords.
In some respects the present century is inferior to preceding ages. It is possible, yes probable, that men will never again paint as the old masters painted. The beautiful sculpture of the Greeks will never be equalled. The world has yet to see a philosopher equal to Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle. But in steady advancement in all things, mental, moral and material, among all nations, the nineteenth century is far in advance of any preceding age. Change
does not always imply progress, but progress always implies change. A writer in the North American Review says: "Time and experience test the works of man, and the highway of progress is covered with the fragments of countless inventions. The creeds, the dogmas, the social regulations of one age become the by-words or the antique curiosities of the next. Men do what they can, and coming generations pardon their errors but judge their works as they ought."
The largest room in the world is said to be the room for improvement, and so the world may go on advancing for ages and yet fall far short of perfection. There is still a chance for civil service reform, universal suffrage, compulsory education laws, the abolition of capital punishment, peace between capital and labor, prohibition in all countries.
What is good, lives; what is bad, dies this is the general rule. If the changes just mentioned are really needed, in time they will surely take place. It has been said that we have passed through the lead and the iron age, and that we may now consider ourselves to be living in the silver age, looking forward to an age of gold.
THE JUNIOR STOOD.
The Junior stood beside the stair,
Stood waiting for his maiden fair;
He softly swore, and did berate
The Prof. who keeps his classes late;
The class rushed by, but patient there
The Junior stood.
He looks aloft with restless air; She comes, the maid with golden hair. At last. He needs no longer wait.
She meets another up the stair;
She meets another up the stair, She gives her books into his care; She never turns, but passes straight. Then grinding hard his teeth with hate, And gazing through the vacant air, The Junior st
The Junior stood!
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VIEWS.
VIEWS.
I met recently a young lawyer from the western part of the state who was congratulating himself on several victories he had won over a powerful corporation in the lower courts, and on his prospect of continuing the conflict successfully before the supreme court.
He was not a handsome man, but he had wicked black eyes, and that projecting and compressed under lip that characterizes the bulldog and the determined barrister. It is a lip that terrifies juries, and even judges, and makes opponents feel in their hearts like brazen thieves. He had practical ideas of his business—had already learned the lesson of specializing—and had determined to let general practice alone while devoting himself to damage suits. Consequently he was already beginning to feel strong on his feet and to fear no ordinary foe in this line.
I was much interested as he described to me his methods of taking up and carrying on a suit, and made bold by his frankness I ventured to remark that his fees—one-half of the proceeds—were not at all modest. "Why,'" said he, "If I am what I intend to be, and what I think I am, it's a question of one-half or nothing with my client."
“Mr. ——，” said I, “if you continue successful in this line—if you continue to beat the Company—you will soon cease to do so, for they will rob you—they will not endure an opponent who always beats them—and you will be on the other side.”
My friend was not slow to confess that exactly such a consummation was what he much desired, as he considered a steady salary of $2,000 to $3,000 better than the uncertain and irregular fee he got from his damage clients.
"Just as sure," I said. "as you demonstrate yourself superior to the other attorneys in your county, so sure will you find yourself the employee of this Company."
"I know that, sir," he replied, "and you may be sure I shall not refuse a good offer."
I then suggested that in case, after a time, a smarter young man, with a more determined under lip, turned np in county, who should win damage suits against my friend as he himself was now doing, then again this young man in his turn would be "gathered in" by the company, and my friend would have to step aside.
"Yes," he admitted, as though the supposition was rather improbable, "I suppose that would be the way of it."
"Perhaps I have no business to ask this question," I continued; "but it is right, is it, that your present clients should get damages? Their claims are right?"
"Yes, of course."
"Now, Mr. ——," I said, what troubles me in this performance is this: when things have gone as you wish and you have won the position you desire, you will then be on the other side, and at the same time there will be no one who can cope with you; these people's claims are just; what is to become of their rights?"
"Oh! some other man will turn up, as you suggested, who will be able to lamm me."
"Yes, and as soon as he shows himself able to do so he will take your place."
"Well, I can't answer for that matter; my business is to fight for my clients."
That was the answer for the profession. But I would like to have some great lawyer answer that question next commencement, when he gives his advice to the graduating lawyers. * * *
EDITORIAL.
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AFTER a three months vacation the University Courier again appears, vigorous as ever and ready for another year's service. Our friends will hardly recognize him at first glance, as he has donned a bright, new livery on the occasion of his first birth-day anniversary. In spite of the woeful predictions of enemies, he has fulfilled every promise and is better equipped for work than ever before. He said he would labor for the entire body of students without regard to class, faction, clique or society. He has done so. He told his patrons that he would give them only the freshest and latest news. His success is only too well known. He promised to make two visits every month, nor has he failed once. He pledged himself not to pool interests with those who had refused to recognize the mass of students. Although many inducements have been held out, he has never wavered from his independent position. He said he would ride over all that tried to stop or oppose him. He preached a funeral sermon for the dead and is willing to perform the same service for the dying.
The Editors of this magazine have many thanks to offer and not one word of complaint to utter. They recognize that the
prosperity of the Courier has not been so much the result of their efforts as of the stockholders and subscribers who have worked hard from the first to prove the falsity of the statement that only a secret society could run a college paper. Fraternity and non-fraternity men have worked side by side to give the magazine its success. Owing to the exclusiveness of journalism in the University of Kansas before the arrival of the Courier, every member of our company entered into the undertaking an apprentice. But we find that a year's experience has taught us something, and that the students now have a paper of which they may feel proud. We want to see the Courier the servant of every new student, bringing them news and then carrying it to their homes. We also desire to have him visit every old student, delivering tidings from former classmates and bearing away "Views" in return. In short, we intend to publish in the future what we have in the past—the students' paper. And now the Courier is off for his second year's ride.
With this issue the present editorial board concludes its performance, makes its bow and submits the work to the consideration of its judges, the readers. Whatever may have been our achievements, the past year has been a most harmonious and pleasant one. Our audience has listened attentively to our productions, cheered the good portions and generously overlooked the imperfections. The few foul eggs prepared for our benefit have either broken in the hands of those who would throw them, or have fallen at the foot of the rostrum. Eight of our number, C. C. Dart. Edmond Butler, W. S. Whirlow, E. A. Brown, J. D. McLaren, Geo. E. Rose, Anna Murphy and Ella Keist, take their final departure from Mount Oread. The others tarry for a short time. In whatever position the present editors may be thrown, their mite is always at the service of the Courier. We leave our places with friendship for all, asking that the many favors shown us be also extended to our successors. Good-by.
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NORMAL.
NORMAL.
--spirit, the heart, is in it. We are not to do less work by thinking, but to get greater results, more home comforts. We are to help civilization by thinking away heartless drudgery. We cannot stop its grand progress to this end. Look at the past. At first we pulled our wheat, then cut it with a sickle, then with a cradle, next we made our horses do part of the work with a reaper, and to-day with our self-binding harvesters they do nearly all of it. We make steam do the threshing. And the end is not yet. The time is coming when the great natural forces of gravitation, electricity, chemism, or some unknown form of energy will be harnessed to ingenious machines—invented by educated minds—and thus require not more than half man's time to get wealth, leaving him the other half to educate himself, and to think out the laws which govern us, and to enjoy their beauty.
A THREEFOLD EDUCATION.
The universe is composed of two parts, matter and force. God and man direct force to change the form of matter. By harnessing force to ingenious machines, man makes it change the various forms of material to food and clothing and shelter, and these in their most beautiful forms. The most ingenious machines of all are animate. Vital force is harnessed to these animal muscles. Man has dominion over all animals, himself included, but he must of necessity use his own muscles to assist his direction of the other machines. The muscles of the body then must be skillful and strong. To give them the needed skill and strength requires physical education.
The kind of force that directs these animal and inanimate machines is mind. Mind, through an engine called the brain produces thought. Thought is the action of mental force in directing the other forces. Thought, expressed in language, directs even those potent machines called men.
To produce either mental or muscular action, man uses vital force or energy. If he use all in muscular action, he will have none left with which to think. A man who drudges all day cannot think to good advantage. A tired body makes a weary brain. You say, "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." Yes, you cannot keep your hands idle. If they are not doing good work, they will be doing bad. But remember you also say, "An idle brain is the devil's workshop." You mean that the brain is God's workshop, and if idle, empty, the man himself becomes a very devil; a breaker of all good laws; a destroyer of free-to-do-right government like ours.
We must think. Hard physical labor is not man's purpose in life.Men, for their own good, must always do some muscular labor. All work is ennobling, if the artist-
We must think that we may find out our duty. The minds of the ruling majority must be educated, to know their duty at the nominating convention and the polls. Mental education trains men to see things as they are.
But to know our duty and leave it undone is to lose all. We cannot do, unless we know, but the doing is the nobler. We are not only to know what is right and what is wrong, but we are to do the right by obeying the conscience, the soul, the force which directs the mind and controls the desires. Moral education trains the motive power which inspires all mental and physical effort. We need more of this training in our homes and in our schools.
From the first, body and mind and soul act together and must be trained together. Thus only can we have broad, cultured symmetrical men. The three parts must be developed equally to come up to God's measure of a man—a strong-bodied, great minded, whole-souled MAN. JOHN DICE.
ENGINEERING.
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ENGINEERING.
ENGINEERING NOTES.
DeLesseps, although over eighty years of age, still continues to stand at the head among modern engineers for daring and seemingly absurd enterprises. He has presented to the French Government a scheme, which he thinks is practicable for irrigating and rendering fertile the Great Sahara Desert.
The Academy of Science, Paris, invites scientific men of all countries to compete for the Volta prize, 30.000 francs, for the discovery of invention of means or method of making electricity economically applicable to either one of the following objects: heat, light, chemical action, mechanical force, the transmission of messages, or the treatment of the sick. This prize was founded by the decree of June 11, 1882, and will be awarded in Decemebr 1887. Nothing in competition will be received later than June 30, 1887.
The Stevens Institute of Technology will include in its course hereafter a separate department of electricity, under the direction of Dr. William E. Geyer. It is not the intention of the Institute to confer the degree of electrical engineer, but to send out mechanical engineers thoroughly skilled in all kinds of engineering work involving the intricacies of electricity.
The United States Lighthouse Board intend to build a tower, 250 feet high, at Hallet's Point, on which will be placed six electric lamps of 4000 candle power each, to illuminate the adjacent waters. This is expected to render the passage of Hell Gate as safe by night as by day. The estimated cost is $20,000.
Preparations are being made for increasing the facilities for dredging and derrick work on the Panama Canal. The Pound manufacturing company of Lockport, N. Y., are constructing for the Franco-American Trading Campany, limited, a full set of four dredges and derricks to be used at the Panama end of the canal. The machinery is all first class.
There is only one serious defect which is common to all technical and special schools of this country, and that is the lack of opportunity for the development of that quality of mind which is fostered by the study of the philosophy of history, political economy and of kindred branches of belles lettres. The great pressure of work of the special technical studies, crowded as they are in a four year's course, leaves little time for listening to lectures and cultivating broad philosophic studies, the acquisition of which makes the man of culture. The need of a broad general culture is important in social and professional standing. American Engineer.
The American system of railroad building is to be adopted in Japan, according to press comments. The National Railroad Company of Japan, under the auspices of the Japanese government, has been incorporated with a capital of $20.000,000, and is now constructing the main line extending from Tokio to Anderson, a distance of about four hundred and fifty miles. A length of fifty miles of this main portion is about finished and ready for opening. It is expected that the entire line will be finished in about three years, if the work progresses as steadily as it has thus far.
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EXCHANGE.
EXCHANGE.
The Colby Echo devotes too much space to base ball.
The Hamilton College Monthly is distinguished by the large amount of poor poetry in its last issue.
"A Commencement Boomerang" in the Lehigh Burr, is good, but the would-be funny "Hand-book of Lehigh" is not at all amusing.
Certainly the worst college paper we have seen is the Archangel. It is a miserable mixture of "science and religion," ill printed and worse written.
The Bethany Collegian is only in its fourth number, so we wait with interest its possible development this year. Meanwhile we recommend brevity and condensation.
The same may be said of the "Stories for the Young" in the Harvard Advocate. We get a very dim impression that the author wishes us to laugh, but we can't to save ourselves from hanging.
From far off New Zealand comes an unpretentious but very attractive little quarterly, the Nelsonian It contains several well written articles, and we hope to have the pleasure of reading every number.
With this first number of its second volume the Courier appears in new form and new dress. We think it an improvement over last year, and shall endeavor to progress yet farther as we grow older.
The Calliopean Clarion is remarkable for its alliterative title, its occasionally good leading articles, and its sickly sentimental serial. The latter has at last died a natural
death—we meant, was concluded in the June issue.
OTHER COLLEGES.
Lehigh is agitated on the question of athletics.
The Haverfordian editors want a sanctum.
Cornell has 407 students about 50 of them young women.
Nelson College, New Zealand, has a girls' college attached.
The Williams papers are kicking against enforced attendance at chapel twice a day.
The Dartmouth is to be published weekly the ensuing year and its size reduced probably one-third.
Professor Goodwin, of Harvard, has left the University of Athens, and will return to the United States.
The Department of Political Economy at Harvard recently received a gift of $1,000 from an unknown friend.
President McCosh, of Princeton College, asks for $200,000 for the better endowment of philosophy, and expects to get it.
The University of Berlin advertises for persons to translate scientific works into modern Greek, Roumanian and Servian.
At Wesley, the students take no part in Commencement exercises, which consist mainly of an oration by some gentleman of ability.
Amherst and Dartmouth are to have daily papers. Harvard, Yale, and Cornell are the only institutions at which dailies have succeeded so far.
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PERSONAL.
Will Southerland is a grocer at Solomon City.
W. T. Findley recreated at McPherson, his home.
Miss Hattie Reddick teaches in the Abilene schools.
DeWitt Bower, of Delphos, is one of the new recruits.
C. R. Mahan, of Abilene, is one of the new Freshmen.
Hattie Dunn spent vacation in visiting eastern friends.
Richard Haworth is now a prosperous farmer and stock raiser.
Elmer E. Tucker,'76, is pastor of the Baptist Church at Indianapolis.
Frank B. Payne is Attorney and Justice of the Peace at Emporia.
Merton J. Keys was "typo" for the Minneapolis Sentinel this summer.
Ida Bay spent the greater part of the summer in Lawrence among her fraternity friends.
Charlie Scott,'80, is building up a high reputation for his paper, the Iola Register.
E. D. Eames, like all the other boys, brings back his sister to taste the sweets of University life.
Miss Gertrude Lerber enters the University this fall as a representative of Perry, Kan.
Miss Aggie Wright, a graduate of Junction City high school, will swell the roll of'87.
Geo. McLaren follows in his brother's foot-steps at the University, and Mac's foot-steps are about like hens-feet apart, judging from the way he took the walking prize on field day.
- Will Southerland is a grocer at Solomon City.
—W. T. Findley recreated at McPherson his home.
-Miss Hattie Reddick teaches in the Abilene schools.
—DeWitt Bower, of Delphos, is one of the new recruits.
—C. R. Mahan, of Abilene, is one of the new Freshmen.
—Hattie Dunn spent vacation in visiting eastern friends.
Richard Haworth is now a prosperous farmer and stock raiser.
—Elmer E. Tucker, '76, is pastor of the Baptist Church at Indianapolis.
Frank B. Payne is Attorney and Justice of the Peace at Emporia.
Merton J. Keys was "typo" for the Minneapolis Sentinel this summer.
—Ida Bay spent the greater part of the summer in Lawrence among her fraternity friends.
—Charlie Scott, '80, is building up a high reputation for his paper, the Iola Register.
—E. D. Eames, like all the other boys, brings back his sister to taste the sweets of University life.
Miss May Sabin is teaching school in the vicinity of Council Grove.
The McDonald boys, Will and Charlie, are in business at Fort Scott.
Chas. Miller is the latest from the great city of the southwest—Wichita.
Miss Florence E. Finch,'81, is a contributor to the Boston Globe.
Miss Jennie Dunn, of Minneapolis, Kan., will rejoin her classmates this fall.
J. W. Ohrum of Topeka, enrolls himself as a student this year.
W. C. Yeager, of Cottonwood Falls, is a new recruit to the class of'88.
Miss Jennie Sutliff enjoyed the cool breezes of Minnesota during August.
Geo. H. McMillan has left Council Grove and is now located at Topeka.
Miss Ada Pugh, a sister of Miss Hattie, enters the University this fall.
Miss Carrie Breese, a student of '80-'81, is teaching near Cottonwood Falls.
John E. McCurdy is doing topographical work for the Mexican Central Railroad.
John Seaton is book-keeper and clerk in the office of Seaton & Lee, foundrymen at Atchison.
Miss Ida Romig spent the past summer at home in Abilene, Kan. She returns to go out with'84.
Franc Johnson returns to K. S. U. this year. We have not heard, but suppose Morse does also.
G. Scott Hopkins, B. A. of '82, will obtain the degree of B. L. from Columbia College, New York City, next year.
Miss Belle Parker, though possessed of a Kansas State certificate, is teaching in Irwin, Col., and seems much pleased with her situation.
—Miss Gertrude Lerber enters the University this fall as a representative of Perry, Kan.
Miss Aggie Wright, a graduate of Junction City high school, will swell the roll of '87.
—Geo. McLaren follows in his brother's foot-steps at the University, and Mac's footsteps are about like hens-feet apart, judging from the way he took the walking prize on field day.
Miss May Sabin is teaching school in the vicinity of Council Grove.
The McDonald boys, Will and Charlie are in business at Fort Scott.
—Chas. Miller is the latest from the great city of the southwest-Wichita.
Miss Florence E. Finch,'81, is a contributor to the Boston Globe.
—Miss Jennie Dunn, of Minneapolis Kan., will rejoin her classmates this fall.
J. W. Ohrum of Topeka, enrolls himself as a student this year.
—W. C. Yeager, of Cottonwood Falls, is a new recruit to the class of 88.
Miss Jennie Sutliff enjoyed the cool breezes of Minnesota during August.
- Geo. H. McMillan has left Council Grove and is now located at Topeka.
Miss Ada Pugh, a sister of Miss Hattie, enters the University this fall.
—Miss Carrie Breese, a student of '80- 81, is teaching near Cottonwood Falls.
John E. McCurdy is doing topographical work for the Mexican Central Railroad.
—John Seaton is book-keeper and clerk in the office of Seaton & Lee, foundrymen at Atchison.
—Miss Ida Romig spent the past summer at home in Abilene, Kan. She returns to go out with '84.
Franc Johnson returns to K. S. U. this year. We have not heard, but suppose Morse does also.
—G. Scott Hopkins, B. A. of '82, will obtain the degree of B. L. from Columbia College, New York City, next year.
Miss Belle Parker, though possessed of a Kansas State certificate, is teaching in Irwin, Col., and seems much pleased with her situation.
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PERSONAL.
—C. H. Carter, who attended the K. S. U. from '76 to '78, is publisher of the "Western Friend," at Quakervale, Kan.
The senior member of the firm of West & Humphrey of Fort Scott, brought home a pretty girl wife from the blue grass regions of Kentucky, last spring.
—Mrs. Kate (Smeed) Cross, wife of Chas. S. Cross, takes a prominent part in the social and musical circles of Emporia. She has a very fine musical education and is a constant student in that direction.
—L. D. L. Tosh, one of the University's Master of Arts, is engaged in a most prosperous real estate business in Lawrence. He shows little trace of the sick spell which carried him to the verge of the grave last year.
—Miss Luella Wilkinson, since leaving the University in June,'82, has been teaching with great success at her home in Ohio. Unable to withstand the temptations of a fine Kansas climate, she came out to spend the summer months with friends in Perry.
—All remember E. E. Lewis, that is, all who ever met him. Well, Elmer left Abilene and started out in the "Gem City Drug Store" at Solomon, doing a very successful business. He went east in July to cool off and enjoy a little recreation.
—Walter Challiss, an old member of Beta Theta Pi at this place, is traveling for Samuel Cupples & Co., of St. Louis. He still retains his old love of natural history; and, by the way, Dame Nature has repaid his admiration by adorning him with a magnificent new moustache.
Will E. Bolton, with a smile and a body alike thrice as big as an ordinary marshal, graduated at the State Normal School at Emporia last year. As Will was a member of the first year normal the year before he graduated at Emporia, the four years' course there can scarcely be longer than our three. We wish him success.
Herbert J. Humphrey, '81, who acted as principal of the West Angelos, Cal., schools last winter, is now studying law with his father in Junction City.
Geo. F. Gaumer, '76, is meeting with great success as Professor of the Natural Sciences in the University of New Mexico. He is a veritable disciple of Prof. Snow.
Miss Clara Bailey has numbered among Chase county's best teachers during the past year. She will however drop the pedagogic profession and devote her time to music.
Miss Decima Miles, a former member of '84, is acting as assistant post-master at Lane, also having charge of a set of books. She is still pursuing the course of study begun in the University.
Frank P. McLennan, '75, has been on the Empora Daily News for over five years, and one of three partners since 1880. He is a vigorous writer and is pronounced a number one business man.
The Misses Alice Van Buren, Winnie Halderman, Rose Wagner and Helen Baldwin, and W. E. Willis, all graduates of the Lawrence high school, join the freshman class of K. S. U. this year. All are bright students, well known already to many of our Mount Oread friends.
Geo. S. Scott filled a three months appointment at Clinton, near Boston, Mass., during the present summer. He goes to Xenia, Ohio, this month, to finish his theological studies, after which he will preach at Hamilton, Ohio, a city about the size of Atchison, Kan.
John T. Harlow used to rule the Orophilian society by his eloquence, and it seems that juries are influenced in the same manner. During the last term of court he lost but one case, and convicted every dealer in whiskey he prosecuted, one hour being the longest time the jury was out in any case.
—Herbert J. Humphrey, '81, who acted as principal of the West Angelos, Cal., schools last winter, is now studying law with his father in Junction City.
—Geo. F. Gaumer, '76, is meeting with great success as Professor of the Natural Sciences in the University of New Mexico He is a veritable disciple of Prof. Snow.
Miss Clara Bailey has numbered among Chase county's best teachers during the past year. She will however drop the pedagogic profession and devote her time to music.
—Miss Decima Miles, a former member of'84, is acting as assistant post-master at Lane, also having charge of a set of books. She is still pursuing the course of study begun in the University.
Frank P. McLennan,'75, has been on the Empora Daily News for over five years, and one of three partners since 1880. He is a vigorous writer and is pronounced a number one business man.
The Misses Alice Van Buren, Winnie Halderman, Rose Wagner and Helen Baldwin, and W. E. Willis, all graduates of the Lawrence high school, join the freshman class of K. S. U. this year. All are bright students, well known already to many of our Mount Oread friends.
—Geo. S. Scott filled a three months appointment at Clinton, near Boston, Mass., during the present summer. He goes to Xenia, Ohio, this month, to finish his theological studies, after which he will preach at Hamilton, Ohio, a city about the size of Atchison, Kan.
—John T. Harlow used to rule the Orophilian society by his eloquence, and it seems that juries are influenced in the same manner. During the last term of court he lost but one case, and convicted every dealer in whiskey he prosecuted, one hour being the longest time the jury was out in any case,
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Edward G. Smith, '81, is still in Topeka pursuing his old line of studies.
Chas. S. Cross is cashier of the First National Bank, Emporia, and is doing well.
Dana Lawrence is in the mountains of Colorado trying to regain his health.
J. P. Jacke and B. P. Blair represented the Phi Delta Thetas in Solomon City.
Miss Carrie Bauman will receive a hundred dollars per month as Superintendent of the Beloit schools this year.
Miss Ethel B. Allen, one of the University's clever writers, was at home in Kansas City the greater part of the year.
Frank Exline, who carried the degree of Bachelor of Laws, has settled down on a farm in the vicinity of Lawrence.
Fred A. McCullom "tended store" for his father, a prominent hardware merchant of Council Grove, during the warm months.
Rolla Krebs summered at Arlington Springs, a health and pleasure resort near Atchison.
Messrs. Wm. Thatcher and Frank Webster continue as publishers of the Lawrence Daily Journal.
W. L. Little, who has spent his two years absence from the University in attending the Abilene high school, re-enters the University this fall.
Those who thought that Miss Eudora Wade, Normal '78, went only to the Garrett, will find her in a most pleasant ome at Williamsburg, Kan.
H. S. Harvey don't read the boys the daily papers while they eat at the club now; no sir. He is principal of the Spring River Academy, a Friend's school at Quakervale, Kan.
The class of '85 will learn with some surprise that its first secretary, the beautiful and accomplished Miss Addie Cherry, was married in May to Wm. Morrow, a prosperous young man of Buffalo, Mo. The Courier congratulates.
—Edward G. Smith, '81, is still in Topeka pursuing his old line of studies.
—Chas. S. Cross is cashier of the First National Bank, Emporia, and is doing well.
—Dana Lawrence is in the mountains of Colorado trying to regain his health.
—J. P. Jacke and B. P. Blair represented the Phi Delta Thetas in Solomon City.
Miss Carrie Bauman will receive a hundred dollars per month as Superintendent of the Beloit schools this year.
—Miss Ethel B. Allen, one of the University's clever writers, was at home in Kansas City the greater part of the year.
Frank Exline, who carried the degree of Bachelor of Laws, has settled down on a farm in the vicinity of Lawrence.
—Fred A. McCullom "tended store" for his father, a prominent hardware merchant of Council Grove, during the warm months.
—Rolla Krebs summered at Arlington Springs, a health and pleasure resort near Atchison.
Messrs. Wm. Thatcher and Frank Webster continue as publishers of the Lawrence Daily Journal.
—W. L. Little, who has spent his two years absence from the University in attending the Abilene high school, re-enters the University this fall.
—Those who thought that Miss Eudora Wade, Normal '78, went only to the Garrett, will find her in a most pleasanth ome at Williamsburg, Kan.
—H. S. Harvey don't read the boys the daily papers while they eat at the club now; no sir. He is principal of the Spring River Academy, a Friend's school at Quakervale, Kan.
The class of '85 will learn with some surprise that its first secretary, the beautiful and accomplished Miss Addie Cherry, was married in May to Wm. Morrow, a prosperous young man of Buffalo, Mo. The Courier congratulates.
Miss Edith Webber spent a portion of the summer in Trumbull county, Ohio.
—L. L. Dyche, Will Stevens and Will Brown, were the right hand men of Prof. Snow on his vacation collecting tour.
-Colin Timmons,'77, is said to be making considerable money in the mountains of the golden state.
Ralph Stout represented the great city of Wyandotte in the Kansas City Times during the past summer.
Dr. Reddick—'old lean Doc" is in the stock business four miles west of Solomon. We think he possesses a bonanza in his herds.
—T. H. Rockwell has been cavorting around the country during the summer just as if he was not almost in his grave eight months ago.
—Minnie Williams is at her home in Osawatomie continuing her studies according to the course prescribed by the Chitauqua Literary and Scientific circle.
Frank Dinsmore, formerly County Superintendent of Douglas County, is having great success as agent for Hall's Safe Co. The safe in the Chancellor's office is one of his safes.
—Hawkins, yes Dana Hawkins, is marriedbut to his profession only. He instructed in Bourbon Co. Institute, went to Eureka Springs, Kan., and is now principal of the Fort Scott High School.
—Misses Hattie and Nannie Pugh will not return to the University we are sorry to say. The latter is assistant principal in Iola high school. Miss Hattie—we will wait till we hear from Dart.
—Messrs. Horton, Hayslet & Poehler made a trip west in a buggy during August. They say it was very hot in Chase Co., especially when a farmer, his hired man and a dog, discovered them in a water-mellon patch, so hot, in fact, that it burnt off the rear portion of their garments.
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PERSONAL.
Miss Cora Pierson remained at home the past summer, much to the pleasure of the friends who enjoyed her hospitality.
Frank Hutchins of '83 has been acting with considerable success as "local" on the Daily Journal during the past summer.
—Walter Finkler, one of Hiawatha's delegation in 1880, is doing well in a lumber yard of that place.
-Victor Linley spent his mid-summer holidays with an uncle at Minneapolis, Minn. Present weight 297 lbs. $ 9 \frac{1}{4} $ ozs.
Miss Ella Kempthorne, Normal of '82 spent June and July in Iowa. She holds her last year's certificate in the Beloit schools.
—S. M. Smith, '79, who has been connected with the Emporia Merchantile Co., has sold out his shares with a view of engaging in Mexican mining stock.
—L. M. Luscher is winning a high reputation in Kansas City as surgeon. He is a partner of Dr. Halley, one of the foremost surgeons of the United States.
—Miss Kittie Smith is at Chautauqua, N.Y., pursuing the course of study laid down by the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific circle.
-G. N. Goss, who used to scare his boarding mistress nearly to death by a skeleton hid under his bed, is following his natural predilections in the Kansas City medical college.
The Topeka Capital informs us W. S. Kinnear (who don't know Kinnear?) stopped a week with relatives in Topeka, on his way west to join a corps of A., T. & S.F. surveyors.
—Fannie Pratt was "at home" to her friends this summer, and many friends has she.
Albert Perry, known only to old University students as the jolliest, wildest and most enthusiastic of their number, has sobered down as a solemn "professor." He will act as principal of the Lyon public schools this year, at a salary of eighty dollars per month.
The irrepressible Nelson Beardsley has left Hiawatha, Kansas, and now lives in Michigan with his mother.
Will Lawrence, who made his debut in University society in 1880, now pitches goods across his father's store in Hiawatha.
—Jas. L. Meade brings with him to the University this fall, his sister Lizzie, who will follow in the studious path of her brother.
—Rumor says that C. C. Dart was seen in the vicinity of Cottonwood Falls this summer, but we are willing to swear that it was another man.
—Hugh Richards and his wife, formerly Miss Lizzie Miller, have their home at Hermosillo, Mexico, where they form most popular members of the social circle.
—Miss Lina E. Gano, Normal of '83, will teach this year in the Topeka schools. Her many friends here will be pleased to hear that she starts out thus auspiciously.
—J. S. West and J. M. Humphrey, formerly of the class of '82, are associated as "West & Humphrey, Attorneys at Law, Fort Scott," at least, so says the sign board.
—C, C. Surber has been engaged in the drug business at Perry, Kan., since last May. He re-enters the Kansas City Medical College this fall to hatch out into a mysterious M.D. next spring.
—One by one the "daisies" fade. Miss Ida Osmond, well known in University circles, was married on the 15th inst. to Mr. N.B.Holbrook.N.B.-Hol-brook full of happiness do we wish her.
Robt. L. Ball, who used to wear one of those flap-jack mortar-boards and cast side long glances at the '84 girls, is studying law in Galveston, Texas, with T. M. Spencer, one of the most prominent attorneys of that state.
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—John F. Tucker, '83, whose name is inseparably connected with Orophilian society, left on the 15th ult. for the great Theological University of the Congregational Church at Andover, Mass., where he will take a three year's course.
—S. W. Brewster has been studying law in Thayer, Kan., during the past summer. After continuing his reading a year he will settle down at Chanute as a disciple of Blackstone, with "reduced prices to students."
Frank Todd, a former University favorite, is a partner in the firm of L. L. Todd & Co., proprietors of the Atchison Transit Co. It is rumored in Atchison society circles that Frank is to enter into a life partnership with one of the fairest and wealthiest belles of that city.
—C. C. Ramsey, whom the Oreads elected debater a year ago, was lost to student view for a long while. He is, however, on the top of the heap, with a degree M.A. from an eastern institution, and "Prof. of Mathematics" put opposite his name in the catalogue of Healdsburg College, Colorado.
—Clarence Smith is neither a Bachelor of Didactics or a Bachelor of Arts, yet is as successful as any of those who have left K. S.U. with their beribboned parchment. He draws his thousand dollars per year as superintendent of public instruction in Wyandott county, and is so well liked that he will be honored with another term.
Munsell-McKean. Another acquaintance formed in the University, consummated this summer in marriage.E.A.Munsell, of Council Grove, was united in wedlock to Miss Virginia McKean, at the home of the bride's parents at Erie, Pa., on the 5th of July. Miss McKean is a member of the K.A.T.society,has a sweet disposition, graceful deportment and winning manners. She was most popular in the University and possesses a host of friends.Her father,
Thos. McKean, is editor of the Erie Sunday Gazette, and Mrs. Prof. Marvin of this place is a sister. She has the kindest wishes of all who know her. On Mr. Munsell different people place different estimates.
It is always an especial pleasure to us to be able to notice any high advancement of those who worked their way through the University by "the sweat of their brow.' We therefore gladly record that Erasmus Haworth has been called to the chair of Natural Science in Penn College, Iowa. The fine collection of minerals which has filled the cabinet in the west chemical laboratory was Mr. Haworth's. He has spent the last summer in south-eastern Kansas and the adjoining portion of Missouri, making a study of the lead, zinc and other geological resources of that region. These researches he will embrace in a pamphlet of some seventy-five or one hundred pages, and present it to the faculty as his thesis for the Master's degree, next June.
—Sterling-Fellows. During July two of our best known students, M. W. Sterling and Miss Cara Fellows, were married in Lawrence. To those who were acquainted with the contracting parties, the announcement of the event was received, if not with startling surprise, at least with great pleasure. Mr. Sterling is one of the boys whom the University can call her own, and show claims him as an instructor. Accepting a place as janitor in his freshman year, he has worked his way up to his present position by the most determined efforts of both brain and muscle. Only success attends such exertions. The bride, Miss Fellows, has been thorough in her work as a student, and has won the cordial liking of those around her. Both stand high in University society. The I. C. Sorosis, of which the bride is a member, presented a fine china tea set. The Phi Psi Fraternity, which proudly claims Mr. Sterling, gave half a dozen silver teaspoons. W. C. Spangler and Miss Hattie Fellows acted as attendants.
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LOCAL.
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--No. 1,
--Vol. II.
Here we
—Are again.
—The Student's paper
—Bobs up serenely.
—Many smiling new faces.
—Greeting to students, new and old.
The new professors seem to be popular.
The laboratory building loometh up immensely.
Finest New York Counts at Klock & Falley's.
Oysters in all styles at Klock & Falley's.
—Best meal in the city at Klock & Falley's.
-Students, go to Klock & Falley's new restaurant.
-King Bee, best 5c cigar in the city at Straffon's.
All styles pocket cutlery at Straffon's.
Monarch "Bound Bosom" shirts at Bromelsick's.
—Try Long Jack at Straffon's. It's immense.
Mammoth stock of pocket-books at Straffon's.
- Latest agonies in hosiery at Bromel-sick's.
Bromelsick has all the newest designs in soft and stiff hats.
Bromelsick sells the best dollar shirt in the state.
Harry Smith is with the Ideal Opera Company.
—Second-hand university and miscellaneous books bought and sold at C. S. Duncan's News Depot.
—Crew gives away vest memorandums. Get one.
-Call on Menger for E. C. Burt's Ladies' shoes.
See Menger's prices on Burt and Packard gent's shoes.
—Latest fall styles in lace and button walking shoes at Menger's.
Old and new students welcomed at Bromelsick's Shirt Depot.
The best $2.50 shoe in the city. Mason's Family Shoe Store.
-D. A. Blackburn's system of voice culture is second to none.
- Keep your tie off ears with the Aurora collar. Sold at Newmark's.
The Aurora collar holds your necktie level. Sold at Newmark's.
--F. H. Clark informs us that he is making great progress with his Reeder.
The bottom on prices has dropped out and can't be found at Duncan's.
The best hand-sewed, button and lace shoe in the city. Mason's Family Shoe store.
Now is the accepted time to get University books at bottom prices of C. S. Duncan.
-It will be in order for the Oreads to "agitate"' the subject of a carpet. And when the Oreads do agitate, something drops.
For the information of his numerous admirers we will say that John Sullivan is not the man who Slade his opponent in four rounds.
A word to the wise is sufficient. Student's come early if you want to save fifty per cent.in buying your text books.Duncan's News Depot is the place.
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—Barrels of shoes cheap for cash at Menger's.
Mr. W. A. Block has arrived from Springfield, Ill., and will take charge of gents'furnishing department at Steinberg's.
The University furnished Dana Hawkins, J. D. McLaren, H. S. Harvey, F. H. Clark, E. C. Little and Miss Carrie Bauman as instructors in institutes during the past summer.
Barrels of shoes cheap for cash at Menger's.
Mr. W. A. Block has arrived from Springfield, Ill., and will take charge of gents'furnishing department at Steinberg's.
The University furnished Dana Hawkins, J. D. McLaren, H. S. Harvey, F. H. Clark, E.C.Little and Miss Carrie Bauman as instructors in institutes during the past summer.
As there will be a curiosity among students to know something regarding the new professors, the Courier will anticipate the impressions derived from personal contact in the class room by giving a short sketch of their past work. Both Prof. Smith and Prof. Patrick, who have just left us, enjoyed the warmest friendship of the students, who look upon their departure with deep regret. Both, we believe, are on the road to scientific fame, and would have built up for their departments a worthy reputation. But, coupled with sorrow at their loss, our students will feel delighted at knowing their successors are men whose past experiences give every proof that they will add to the luster of this institution.
PROF. E. A. S. BAILEY, Ph. D.-At their last meeting during commencement the regents selected Professor Bailey to take the chair of Professor of Chemistry, calling him from a similar position in Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he is considered as a proficient scientist, and able instructor. He was educated at the Sheffield Scientific School, of Yale College. While there, and for one year after graduation, he was an assistant in the chemical laboratory. In 1874 he was elected instructor in chemistry at Lehigh, where he gained an excellent reputation as a finished scholar. His attention has been largely occupied in investigations on commercial ores, such as those of iron, zinc, etc, For several years he has furnished
articles for leading chemical journals and is regarded as a very able writer. In 1881 he spent considerable time in travel and study in Europe, attending lectures and working in the labratories of Prof. Tittig and Kundt, at the Kaiser Wilhelm University, Strasburg, Germany. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him upon examination by the Illinois Wesleyan University.
PROF. EDWARD L, NICHOLS, PH. D. We are sorry that Prof. Nichols' talents are not to be supplied with facilities equal to those offered Prof. Bailey. But after all it is the teacher and not the apparatus that mostly incites the students to higher excellence. Moreover, one may bring the other, and our legislature may yet absorb the idea that one of Prof. Nichols' eminence is worthy better instruments than a smoke-house for an observatory, and a stove-pipe for a telescope. The Professor came from Central College, Kentucky, to accept the chair of astronomy and physics in our University. His education has been long and thorough. Graduating high at Cornell, he crossed the Atlantic, for several years made researches under the direction of Germany's distinguished physicist, Helmholtz, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Berlin University. Returning to this country he placed himself under the instruction of America's prodigy, Edison. John Hopkin's University honored him with a scholarship. Some of the most prominent scientific journals of this country and Germany secured him as a regular contributor. Altogether our institution may feel proud at having obtained his services.
—W. W. Fluke & Son still continue at the old stand, 127 Massachusetts street They are headquarteas for pianos, organs and musical merchandise, sheet music books, etc.
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—Dr. Marvin will remain to superintend the erection of the chemical building.
—Try D. A Blackburn's system of voice culture. "No likee, no takee."
My voice culture students will meet once a week to apply the principle to music, and study quality of tone. Gratis D.A.BLACKBURN.
—A number of Harvard and Yale students are acting as "waiters."-Ex. Pshaw, that's nothing. We know of a dozen students of the K. S. U. that spend half their time, the year round, waiting-upon the girls.
--We acknowledge the receipt of a "commencment week" invitation from D. L. Clark, of the Nebraska State University. Had it not arrived until five weeks after the exercises were over we might have been there.
Remember that the Courier is published twice every month; that its columns are open to all; that any active student may hold stock; that every portion of the University is represented; that it comes at only one dollar per year.
—"The following warrants upon the Treasury were issued yesterday by the State Auditor: For conveying Frank Foster to the penitentiary, $36.00; for buildings and material at the State University, $1,595.20."Capital.Let the good work go on.
A case came up before one of our Normal "marms" last spring, not provided for in the discussions of the K. S. U.; but the pretty disciple of Dr. Williams was equal to the emergency. One of her older boy
pupils enamored by her charms "proposed." She took him up and spanked him.
Sir Stuart Hogg, an English nobleman of immense wealth, has put his boy in the Manhattan Agricultural College and bought him a large farm near by. We know of no better place to experiment on Hogg's than the Agricultural College.
WHAT A NEW STUDENT CAN DO.—Every student will feel it his duty to take his college paper as the father does the home county paper. Now, any new student can buy a share of Courier stock for $2.50. He will get his Courier free, which will in three years pay him for his stock and leave him fifty cents profit. Besides this he can draw the regular dividends on the stock, and when he comes to leave the University can sell it at a premium, or in any consideration turn it into the company at what he paid for it. At the same time he has the satisfaction of getting the student's paper—the best in the University.
—Miss Lizzie D. DeVose, a belle and universal favorite among the students in the college year '79-'80, has been making a special study of music during the past year and a half, at her home in Wichita, Kan. She will spend the coming winter in Denver, pursuing the course she has so auspiciously begun.
—Clarence Walbridge, who numbered among the active members of Phi Kappa Psi a few years since, is traveling for Donald Bros., wholeslae dry goods merchants of Atchison. He fell in love with the whole business, even to one of the pretty saleswomen in the retail department, whom he slyly abstracted from his employers to make Mrs. Walbridge, last fall.
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THE UNIVERSITY COURER
NOBIS SOLUM. NON.
1883.
SEPTEMBER. 24.
CONTENTS
The Fortnight ... PAGE 1
The Charme.—WILLIAM BROWNE ... 3
Colorado Heights ... 3
Two Familiar Faces.—J. B. CHAMBERLAIN ... 4
Mild September ... 6
Leadville Degenerate.—* * * ... 7
Editorial ... 8
Scientific ... 11
Views ... 12
Normal ... 13
Exchange ... 14
Personal ... 15
Local ... 16
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KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The University Courier.
Vol. II. SEPTEMBER 24,1883. No. 2.
THE FORTNIGHT.
The purpose of this department has been set forth, more or less fully, in our first issue. There is a certain pavement said to be composed of good intentions, and perhaps these are only destined to enlarge it, but the editor will earnestly endeavor that his own work and that of assistants shall be moved "by malice toward none, and charity for all." We shall say fearlessly what we honestly think, trying to do even-handed justice. We realize that the task is a hard one, but we will do our best and leave the result to the readers' judgment.
We do not believe politics to lie within the field of college journalism. At least college papers should not express editorial opinions on political subjects. If its literary contributors wish to write political articles, that is a different matter. It has been said that the young American is a born politician. But perhaps in no country are found so many politicians and so few statesmen, so many demagogues and so few real leaders as in America. We do not believe the average student has any business to form any more than the most general political opinions, or to attach himself to any party whatever,
Last winter various students were eager free-traders or warm protectionists, when they knew no more of the practical workings of either system than the man in the moon or the writer of this sentence. Theoretically free-trade seems best to us, but we shall hold our opinion in abeyance until we have opportunity to know something.
Fellow students, let us wait a little; let us get more experience before we form specific opinions on political subjects. Life is short enough; let us not worry whether Randall will be next speaker, or the Democrats elect the next president, or Hoadly beat Foraker on the home-stretch.
So the political student will be disappointed if he expected to find in these pages learned disquisitions on the state of the nation or acute prognostics on the coming elections.
We hope there will be less wrangling in the literary societies this year. We think we do injustice to none in saying that the fraternities are almost entirely responsible for this warfare. We are glad to find some "Greeks" have seen the damage to the society which this fighting will certainly entail, and laying aside fraternity jealousies are striving for the common good.
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Now that the opera house has been refitted it is to be hoped that the managers will secure more good companies. Of musical entertainments we had last year perhaps enough, but of good plays a very large scarcity. We heartily believe in the theatre and think the student will lose nothing by seeing as many good dramas as he can.
Of course studies should not be neglected, but let us not try always to work under a full head of steam.
The Chicago Ideals played to only fair houses during their engagement. The company has no very remarkable voices, but presents an equality of talent that is more acceptable to the audience than the fine singing of one or two stars surrounded by the wretched shrieking of a company of sticks.
In Iolanthe the performance was embarassed by the enforced substitution of another for Mr. Clark in Strephon. The Sorcerer on the second night was the best rendered of all the performances. The music is all pretty and the patter song is certainly the funniest Gilbert and Sullivan have ever written. Mr. Cripps added much to the comicality of his part, the Sorcerer, John Wellington Wells, by making it up after Talmage. Pinafore was carelessly performed, the whole company seeming anxious to get through.
Messrs. Lovell have done the public a real service in issuing Stepniak's Underground Russia. The student of politics will find that this book throws considerable light on the intricate subject of Nihilism. The lover of sensation will find but very little to thrill him. There are no accounts of mysterious plots or secret meetings, only a general introduction on Nihilism, some "Revolutionary Profiles" as they are called-pensketches of various prominent Nihilists also a few sketches on the Moscow attempt on the Concealers, and on the Secret Press.
This is all; the style is plain, sometimes even bald, but the thoughtful man will find much food for reflection in this book. We recommend it to all students.
We wonder how much howling there will be in the next legislature over the infidelity in K. S. U. During the summer the writer heard with surprise, from a good old deacon in Wabaunsee county, that this school was a nest of infidelity, that the professors were atheists, and a good deal more nonsense to the same effect. From that same neighborhood one family sent a son back to a church school in Iowa rather than expose his faith to the attacks of this place. While we have a contempt for a belief which fears the slightest assault, yet this action would not have surprised us had there been any truth in the charges against this college.
Compared with Lane or Baker we are not surprisingly orthodox, and the writer is glad of it. But it does look as if a great deal of lying had been done by some one about the State University. Some of this proceeds from the religious press, but party strife is responsible for the most of it. It is a disgrace to the people of this Commonwealth that the University should feel the effects of political changes and local dissensions.
Last year this paper said somewhat on the advisability of teaching Spanish in K. S. U. We think the reasons then advanced are of equal or even greater force now. Mexico is rapidly opening up to American enterprise. The young man will find a knowledge of its language a material help to his advancement in that region. Some may say that it is only a makeshift, that the Mexican schools are already teaching English. Many of our business men find German a very convenient "make-shift," although we rarely find it spoken by the second generation. Mexico, however, is another country; never has been English speaking, and if it ever becomes so it will take not less than three generations to accomplish the change. We know the present regents can do little or nothing in this matter, but we mean to keep hammering away in hope that the next legislature will be a trifle more intelligent than the last.
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COLORADO HEIGHTS.
CCL
LITERARY.
THE CHARME.
Son of Erebus and night,
Hie away; and aim thy flight
Where consort none other fowl
Than the bat and sullen owl;
Where upon thy limber grass,
Poppy and mandragoras,
With like simples not a few
Hang forever drops of dew.
Where flows Lethe without coil
Softly like a stream of oil.
Hie thee hither, gently sleep:
With this Greek no longer keep.
Thrice I charge thee, by my wand,
Thrice with moly from my hand
Do I touch Ulysses' eyes,
And with the jaspis: then arise
Sagest Greek.
"Inner Temple Masque," 1623. WILLIAM BROWNE.
COLORADO HEIGHTS.
"Centuries old are the mountains; Their foreheads are wrinkled and rifted."
He who has seen with childhood's eyes only a rolling monotony of prairie, at first sight of mountains is filled with a peculiar delight and fascination.
There they stand in their majesty, immovable, silent, enduring for ages. Sometimes their tops are covered with snow or shrouded in mists, and sometimes outlined against a clear sky or glorified by the rising or setting sun. Yet the mountains remain the same. Secretive, they tell no tale of the treasures hidden in their rocky fastnesses, and reveal no part of their past history. Stern and solemn, they have neither sympathy nor pity for the fortunes of man. What an oppressive, almost terrible, silence there is in some of those deep gorges, and how the overhanging precipices seems to shut us out from civilization. It would seem probable that people ever living among mountains would be distinguished for all the sterner virtues, but perhaps would be deficient in the softer elements of character and in the enlightened views that should characterize a wide vision.
When the sunlight falls across the rugged side of some grand old peak, the Bugle Song suggests itself to the mind:
"The sunlight falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory."
A little imagination transposes some fantastic rock into a ruined castle, and through the clear mountain air are heard the "Horns of Elfland faintly blowing." When we were in the heart of the mountains one of our party remarked that we were "out of creation." It rather seemed that we were in chaos, the beginning of creation.
For some days we remained in full view of Long's Peak, and as we watched this
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TWO FAMILIAR FACES.
sentinel of nature it was impossible not to recall what Byron said of the king of the Alps:
"Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds. With a diadem of snow."
The throne of rocks is always there, but the robe of clouds and crown of snow sometimes disappear under summer's sun. What a wonderful view is to be had from the top of this peak. As far as the eye can reach stretch the mountains in bluish billows, while beyond lie the plains, at first glance supposed to be the horizon.
From a lower level Long's Peak does not seem much higher than other peaks, but from its summit all surrounding mountains seem low and of nearly equal height.
It has been said that Mount Blanc has a wonderfully biblical effect, and that mountainous texts float uppermost in the mind. Probably different individuals would be differently affected, but however that may be, it is really impossible to appreciate the strength and beauty of some of these expressions without a vivid remembrance of mountain scenery. After a glance at these enduring mountains, how much stronger seem the "everlasting hills." Some massive boulder turning disdainfully from the sun and offering a shelter from his pitiless rays brings to recollection: "The shadow of a great rock in a weary land," and the
mountain streams in their wonderful purity seem not unfitting symbols of the "River of Life."
For brilliancy of coloring and delicacy of form the mountain flowers are remarkable. The valleys are like one vast fairy-land under foot. There are all shades of color, from the bright vetch and the everchanging aster to the delicate, gently swaying bluebell. These pretty bluebells seem to grow everywhere. Higher up on the mountain grow the fringed gentians from secluded nooks, the wild columbines, very beautiful, look out, and higher still on the bare rocks, sometimes on the edges of snow, grow delicate mosses and lichens, bearing little starlike flowers of delicate tints. It is not known that these flowers, like the edelweiss of the Alps, have connected with them any romantic legend, but their beauty would certainly excuse any fancies that might eling to them.
The glories of sunset in all climes have been painted by brush and pen. It would be useless to attempt to describe that beautiful sight, a mountain sunset; the sky with its delicately tinted clouds in the west of a rosy hue; and now these clouds of crimson and gold are "transmuted by sunset alchemy into a solid mass of burnished gold," finally changing to a dull, cold gray. And Phœbus Apollo has gone behind the dark mountains.
TWO FAMILIAR FACES.
BATES & FIELD'S PRIZE ORATION -BY J. B. CHAMBERLAIN.
"Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by't?"
In these words we picture the face of a man who has fallen, a man bowed low by the chastening rod of justice. Cardinal
Wolsey, once rich and haughty, followed by a glittering retinue of lords and ladies the intimate and counselor, Ay! a king for by his words the hand that swayed the mighty sceptre of English rule was guided
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unrestrained during the halcyon years of his ambitious career.
Call to mind another face, not handsome, but bearing the lines of power and an iron will, yet softened and beautified by an expression of nobility and sincerity, which gives to it the look almost of divinity. His dress is simply the long black gown of a monk, and this, with his firm, serious face, announces to the world the noble mission of Savonarola.
Florence, in the year 1492, was completely given over to gross excesses and base debauchery. Lasciviousness, treachery and passion walked abroad among the people unfettered. Religion, holiness and virtue had been driven forth, and even the cultured and learned were dead to faith and right. But see, a familiar face is appearing in the midst of these monstrous excesses!
Soon the blue eyes flash with fiery indignation, and now the whole being is filled with sorrow, as the unholy scenes around are discovered. A firm resolve takes possession of that noble soul, and now he speaks.
Savonarola is called to the pulpit at San Marco. His fame spreads, and soon the Duomo is crowded almost to suffocation with a breathless, eager throng, waiting to catch the words of the mighty orator. He advances, and now, filled with the spirit of prophecy, he pierces the veil of futurity and discloses to the trembling Florentines their impending doom. Now he hurls fiery denunciations upon them, and points with a prophetic hand to the sure and inevitable end of their wickedness and sin. Now, with all his burning eloquence and soul-felt earnestness he appeals to their better natures. Sobs follow that breathless silence, and the victory is won, for Florence yields at last to his entreaties.
The shades of night have fallen over
lovely Italy, and in Florence, in the midst of a mighty throng, a vast column has been reared, covered from base to apex with worldly trappings and works of immodest design. Suddenly the pile is fired, the vanities burn, shouts rend the air, the flames mount up to heaven and in characters of glowing fire proclaim to the world the accomplished work of Savonarola; tyranny banished, liberty established and the people reclaimed.
Return again to that other face. In its history we find that Wolsey early ingratiated himself into the favor of Henry VIII, and by a wonderful cunning he gained such power over his royal master, that soon he not only swayed the scepter of state, but was clothed with an ecclesiastical power which vied with that of the pope.
Did a love for his fellow men and a desire to lift and benefit suffering humanity impel him to this delirious grasp for power? No, a selfish ambition burned in his soul. His bark bounds on; he sees not the sunken reef ahead; he raises high in air his ambitious motto, "Power and Dominion." All thought of the means by which these ends are to be reached is cast aside.
Ambitious for power, but still more desirous of glory; insatiable in his acquisitions, but still more magnificent in his expense. Advance follows advance, victory follows victory, until at last unlimited possessions, power and dominion are Wolsey's. His bark has sailed her course and anchors at last in the longed-for port.
Once more it is night in Florence, and again in the Piazza Gran Duca is gathered a frenzied, anxious throng. Has this raging sea of human beings assembled to witness once more the burning of vanities? Alas, nay! but to see the burning of the funeral pyre of Savonarola. Savonarola's firm, unswerving nature was not terrified into silence by the threats of his jealous and malignant enemies.
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MILD SEPTEMBER.
At last the struggle was between pope and monk. Savonarola was overcome, cast into prison, cruelly tortured, and now dragged forth to death.
His priestly robes were torn away, and the bishop cries aloud, "I separate thee from the church militant, and from the church triumphant." With the firm, unfaltering voice of a victor, Savonarola replies: "From the church militant, but not from the church triumphant."
A moment later, and the sky above Florence is covered with a fiery crimson blush for the innocent blood of her martyred benefactor. But his spirit, now freed from its earthly fetters, soars aloft to Him who gave it, to listen to the glorious welcome words, "Well done."
But hark! from England's shore a dispairing voice calls aloud: "Mark well my fall, and that that ruined me."
The revolution of feeling is complete, and Wolsey at last is fallen. The bubble of high-flown pride and cunning which has borne him up so long breaks beneath him, and he sinks into nothingness. In a moment his riches have flown, his glittering pageant dissolves like morning dew; his ecclesiastic powers fall from him like rent garments. He stands alone, a simple, humbled man, his hopes vanished, his hopes and his glory gone forever.
And now, as the angel of death places the seal of eternal silence upon those poor lips, one despairing cry escapes him:
"Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies."
What has Wolsey left to posterity? A glittering page in history? Noble deeds and undying precepts for coming generations to follow? Not one. He lived for self alone, and was ever swayed by passion, and like the deceptive glimmer that guided him, he has faded into eternal night.
Savonarola was led by the light of a divine idea, and his life was one of enduring self-sacrifice. He toiled for the race, obeyed the dictates of conscience, and even today, tho' ages have passed away, his clear voice still rings back the encouraging words "Behold the light"—to all those who shall at any time seek unselfish ends and their undying reward.
And now, as we replace the canvas and turn from the face before us, high above his name, as guiding beacon lights for his followers, let us inscribe the undying words "reformer, martyr, benefactor of his race."
MILD SEPTEMBER.
We are in the middle of September. More dear, less beautiful than June, September has been called the heart's month. Not till the heats of summer are gone, while all its growths remain, do we know the fullness of life. Now the hands of September are stretched out and clasp the growing palm of August, and the fruit-smelling hand of October. June days are scattered all through this fruitless month. The deep blue sky and the luster of foliage are still here. They are softened by a touch of decay, whose presence is hardly yet visible, for perfection of beauty is found, not in childhood
or youth, but in the beginning of middle life; and the early autumn will bring together all that is most desirable in a climate. Whether it is the cool mornings, when it is a joy to live and breathe the delicious and invigorating air; the warm afternoon, when the gardens are all in their glow of color, and peaches, apples, pears and plums drop down from their loaded branches, or the evenings, when the ligdt wood fire dances merrily on the hearth-it is summer and winter, on their best behavior, giving friendly tokens to each other. There is a comfort old as Adam, of beginning again; a fascina-
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tion in a fresh start that comes to us in September. Teachers and pupils, discipline and disobedience forgotten, meet with a cordial greeting, both of a certainty that the coming term will be one of marked success. Merchants enter their counting-rooms in the flush of expectation that their ventures this fall will end with an unusual balance in their favor. The best sermons come to us from the pulpit. It is said that more literary work has been performed in this
month than in that of any other during the year. All this tells its own story. It is Nature who has laid her hand, fresh and cool, upon tired heads, with a benediction of courage and hope, and all are ready to appreciate the words of Longfellow:
"The morrow was a beautiful September morn; The earth was beautiful as if new born, There was that nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet." —Kansas City Journal.
LEADVILLE DEGENERATE.
[The spirit of BRET HARTE meets O. WILDE in Leadville.]
Why am I lookin' so sick an' disgusted?
I haint no objections to tellin' you why ;
You look like you'd feel for a man in affliction,
'N' I'll tell you, jes you. Yes, I am feelin' dry.
Brandy 'll do me. Thar; set on thet table.
Feet's rather tender? Only been yer a year?
I wuz one o' the crowd that fust come to these diggin's.
Got run out o' Missoury for shovin' the queer.
Leadville wuz lively in them days, 'n bloomin'.
Tied a man up ter a tree twicet a week;
Most every evenin' some s'loon had a shootin' bee,
'N' if we didn't plant one daily the weather wuz bleak.
But Leadville's degen'ratin', makes me feel lonesome,
Got t' have a biled shirt 'n' cane, to be dressed;
But what breaks me up wust is that sign over yander,
"Please don't shoot the pi-anist; he's doin' his best."
Blow'd the propri'tor, 'n' he tried to 'xplain it,
By tellin' how 'xpensive the feller had been;
Cost 'im a thousand' to bring 'im from It'ly,
'N' that kind o' 'pology—almighty thin!
"Don't shoot the pi-anist. Why when things wuz boomin'
Th'ad three good big fiddlers a sittin' up thar,
'N' then if a feller did feel like a-poppin' one,
'Twaz "Durn the 'xpense; fiddlers aint very rar.
But this feller's gettin' so durned pickyunish,
A tryin' to scrimp us with one stid o' three,
'N' askin' a gentleman not to shoot thet one—
Leadville aint no ways nigh what it use ter be.
"Don't shoot the pi-anist!" Why, wuts a man to shoot?
A man's got ter let out his fun in some way,
F 'twas a Dutchy 'r Frenchy—but a black 'n' tan 'Talian!
'N' he's such a good mark, aint he now, stranger, say?
"Don't shoot the pi-anist!" I tell you wut, stranger,
There's too many preachers 'n' 'xhorters for me,
Seems to me they're cuttin' off all a man's liberty—
Just a chaw o' that fine cut, sir—Don't you agree?
Aint I paid for this batt'ry, an' don't she belong to me?
Aint a man right to do wut he likes with his own?
Good bye, stranger, the whiskey here's getttin' too weak for
I'm gain' for a place that's got some kind o' tone.
Aint I paid for this batt'ry, an'don't she belong to me?
Aint a man right to do wut he likes with his own?
Good bye, stranger, the whiskey here's gettin' too weak for me;
I'm goin' for a place that's got some kind o' tone. ***
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EDITORIAL.
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
A SEMI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF
THE STUDENTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
EDITORS
P. R. BENNETT, '86. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fortnight.
AGNES EMERY, '84, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary.
D. B. BRADY, '86, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editorial.
GLEN L. MILLER, '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scientific.
PROF. L. L. DYCHE, '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scientific.
A. S. RIFFLE. '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swaps.
MARY GILMORE, '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Views.
CHAS. METCALFE, '84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Normal.
J. E. CURRY, '85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Swaps.
NETTIE BROWN, '87. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal.
W. Y. MORGAN, '85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Corridors
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THE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS.
The Courier takes pleasure in presenting its readers the portraits of the members recently added to the faculty of the University of Kansas. We have prepared these both to satisfy a curiosity among old students as to the appearance of the new professors, and as the inaugural of a number of special features we intend inserting in the second volume. As the comment of the state press on the recent changes in the University has shown a partial lack of information, and in some cases has been positively ludicrous, we give herewith short sketches of the past work of the new faculty members.
REV. J. J. LIPPINCOTT, D. D.
Dr. Lippincott, like his predecessor Dr. Marvin, leaves the chair of mathematics in a prominent Methodist institution in Pennsylvania. to accept the chancellorship of the University of Kansas.
His life's work has been devoted entirely to education. He graduated at Dickinson College about twenty-five years ago, from which place he went to Remington, N. Y., to accept the chair of mathematics in an academy. After spending a number of years there, he moved to Scranton, where he was placed at the head of the public schools. His excellent management of these schools won for him the vice presidency of the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton After a successful career in normal teaching, he resigned to accept the presidency of a private instituton at Baltimore. From here he returned to his old college home at Carlisle, to accept the professorship of mathematics in Dickinson College, a position he has held for a long term of years. At Carlisle he became prominently identified with the movement for the practical education of the Indian children. We understand that Dr. Lippincott accepted the chancellorship here only at the request of influential friends, who regarded his selection as one that would prove most valuable to the University.
EDWARD L. NICHOLS, PH. D.
Dr. Nichols, the new professor of astronomy and physics, graduated at Cornell in 1875, when but twenty-one years of age.
He immediately went to that Mecca of students, Germany, where he spent one year in Leipsic, two years in the laboratory of Baron von Helmholtz at Berlin, and one year at Goettingen, where he took the degree Ph. D. Returning to America, he was a fellow in physics in Johns Hopkins University in 1879-80. In 1881, he accepted the chair of physics and chemistry in Central University, Richmond, Ky., where he remained until called here. Notwithstanding the duplex labor of his chair, in addition, he worked up and delivered regular lectures in mineralogy and geology, and
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taught the advanced class in German. As a lecturer he is fluent, clear and copious, yet concise and pointed; as an experimenter he is exceedingly acute and aggressive. Many of his experiments have attracted attention in the scientific world. He is a frequent contributor to the Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, American Journal of Science and other scientific journals. He has lectured to public audiences in some of the largest cities of the country.
E. A. S. BAILEY, PH. D.
Prof. Bailey, of the chemical department, graduated in 1873 at Sheffield Scientific School, the renowned scientific department of Yale College. He remained to take a post graduate course of one year, also acting as an assistant instructor. In 1874 he was elected assistant professor of chemistry at Lehigh University, an institution well known for its fine technical training. In addition to his regular duties he spent much time in special investigation of ores, doing expert commercial work. He has acted as exchange editor for both the American Chemist and the American Chemical Journal, translating and editing foreign articles. In 1881 he traveled through Germany, making careful study in the finest laboratories of Europe. His design is to build up a reputation for the chemical department of Kansas University, by sending out students who shall be thoroughly able practically to apply chemistry in the arts.
ARTHUR E. CANFIELD, A. B.
Prof. Canfield—junior, we might say, to distinguish him from our older professor Canfield—graduated at Williams College in 1878. The succeeding year he went to Germany and spent one semester in Leipsic attending the lectures of professors Braum and Wuelcker, two semesters at Goettingen under professors Theodore, Wilhelm Mueller and Volmoeller, and two semesters at
Berlin under Scherer and Zupsitza; after this he went to Paris and spent a half year at the College de France, hearing professors Gaston and Paul Meyer. His vacations were spent in travel in Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. He returned to America in 1882, and after a short stay at home was called to the University of Kansas to fill the place of his cousin, Prof. Jas.H.Canfield,who was very ill.The regents last spring honored him with the assistant professorship of German. Though very unassuming, a short acquaintance with him will serve to reveal to any one not only an extreme cordiality, but also a thorough and practical culture.
PROF. W. B. BROWNELL, A. B.
Prof. Brownell, occupying the assistant professorship of English and elocution, graduated last spring at Hamilton College, N.Y.Having just left college his reputation is yet to be made, but judging from a short personal acquaintance, the strides in that direction will be rapid. During his junior year he taught in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He was also exchange editor on the Literary Monthly,a paper of which Hamilton College may well feel proud.
THE CHANGES.
Since the last issue the Courier editorial staff has undergone a partial revolution that is, the editors have revolved half way round and stopped. The editorials will henceforth be dished out by Glen Miller, one of the former local editors. His accomplice in wickedness last year, Miss Mary Gilmore, takes hold of the new department, "Views," where alumni and old students, as well as present students, will present their opinions every two weeks. Perlee R. Bennett, in the "Fortnight,' will criticise entertainments and rhetoricals, and whatever seems to need looking after, in col-
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lege, city or elsewhere. Miss Agnes Emery and Mr. D. B. Brady will hand out the dainties in the way of literary matter. Prof. L. L. Dyche will continue to tell about the new bugs and other natural history affairs, while A. S. Riffle will keep the Courier machinery well oiled in the engineering columns. Joe Curry, the inventor, will try to invent some way to criticise his exchanges, and yet keep them good-humored. Normal matters are under Mr. Metcalf's charge, with orders not to spare the rod. Miss Nettie Brown will tell you about everybody who ever saw or heard of the University, she being the personal editor. That there might be nothing so little that he couldn't find it, or so big that she couldn't hold it, W. Y. Morgan and Miss Nettie Hubbard were given local matters by the company. Now those who have been waiting to send cash for subscriptions may just remit to C. D. Dean and W. H. Johnson, business managers.
"We are seven"—no, twice seven. With your aid we will furnish a semi-monthly magazine that will both please you and be a credit to the University.
Two names will ever stand prominent and inseparable in the history of the University of Kansas, those of John Fraser and James Marvin. In little were these men personlly alike, but they worked in the same cause and effected like results. Chancellor Fraser was a man of indomitable energy, taking the lead in everything and communicating his enthusiasm to every one around him. It was he who foresaw the growth of the State University, and provided for that growth. Calling together the citizens of Lawrence for the purpose of raising a sum of money which every other one thought folly to ask, by extraordinary force of logic and eloquence he persuaded the people to advance one hundred
thousand dollars to the state toward erecting a new building. He originated and carried the plan of the present structure into execution. Without this building our University must have remained a dwarf. Chancellor Marvin succeeded him; a man of determined but quiet purpose; analyzing carefully every work that presented itself, and after consideration, selecting the best method for carrying it out in all its details. He reduced both faculty and students to harmonious bodies. Under his direction the magnificent building provided for and begun by his predecessor was completed, and the attendance of students more than trebled. He left everything he had had under his management in perfect working order. Honor to John Fraser and James Marvin.
A number of the state papers having made the charge that the professors of the University were teaching communistic doctrins, Charley Gleed, one of our graduates, has taken up the cudgel and proposes to show that the statements are entirely wrong and unwarranted. Charley has gone through the entire mill at the University, and not only knows the ground on which he stands, but is prepared to do some sharp fighting if attacked.
The attendance at the University, so far, is somewhat less than that of last year. At Baldwin, by all reports, it is considerably greater. But we console ourselves by remembering that they have our gay and festive and unregretted J. Preps. We suggest that the Biblical society of Baker debate the question, "Whether the influx of Preps. from K. S. U. tends to lower the standard of morality in this institution."
The President of the Courier Company requests us to state that P. R. Bennett was fully authorized by himself and the business managers to get out the first Courier.
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SCIENTIFIC.
There are seven preparatory medics this year. More kittens, cats, puppies and dogs wanted, at from fifteen to twenty-five cents.
Three special students in the chemical department and four in the natural history, two taking the junior and two the senior work.
About a dozen juniors in the physics class. Although the subject of physics is hard, nevertheless Doctor Nichols makes it very interesting by illustrating his lectures as far as the present apparatus will allow, by a continued series of experiments.
From the department of chemistry, just received a very handsome suite of specimens illustrating the manufacture of common salt. The material was donated by the National Solar Salt Company, of Solomon City.
Fifteen seniors are studying meteorology. The class expect to devote special attention to the study of Kansas weather, and will probably solve some of the problems which have been puzzling the brains of scientific men for years. It is rumored that the special subject which they intend to investigate is—what effect has "Snow" had upon the climate for the last sixteen or seventeen years.
Over seventy students in the Sophomore chemistry class. At present they are studying the subject of water. The doctor thoroughly illustrates his lectures by experiments and the subject is made as practical as possible as well as scientific. Until the new chemical building is finished much difficulty will be encountered in laboratory accommodations. The old laboratory is much too small for such a vast number of acid splashers and fume generators.
Doctor Bailey has added to the specimens in the chemical department over two hundred bottles of valuable material which he brought with him into the institution. Among the many interesting donations which the doctor has for illustrating his lectures we noticed several specimens of dry wood, preparations showing the various processes and materials used in tanning, and others showing the various phases of the manufacture of zinc, iron, salt, and still many others illustrating the phenomena of chemical teaching. There were also preparations of syrups, sugars, etc., and especially a suite of specimens of alcoholic liquors which have been thoroughly analyzed and tested.
The Kansas State University Scientific expedition was conducted during the summer by Doctor F. H. Snow. He was assisted by four students and all the members of his family, of which his son Willie and his daughter Mattie were the most efficient workers. The student assistants were Miss Abbie Noyes, Messrs. Will Brown, Will Stevens and the writer. Our main camp was near the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Excursions were made, however, to a distance of fifty or sixty miles through the Spanish range of mountains. The results of the summer's work are as follows: Several thousand specimens of insects, many of which are new to the University museum, and probably as many as forty species new to science. The exact number cannot be told until the doctor has thoroughly studied and classified them, which will take some months. Also about a thousand specimens of plants, many of which are new to the herbarium. Several species of mammal skins, including eight specimens representing the white and black tailed species of deer and six skins of snow-shoed rabbits. About fifty bird skins, including some interesting representatives of the crow family, humming birds, Mexican pigeons, etc.
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VIEWS.
VIEWS.
The great day came and went again. Amid friendly and hostile criticisms, amid prophecies of future greatness and future nothingness,'83 was thrust out to meet and mingle with the mad multitude who are swift in their pursuit of the almighty dollar.
Three months have passed. Another vacation draws to a close, and we remember other autumns when first our feet trod the halls of K. S. U.; when first we stood in awe before our silver-haired chancellor and dignified professors; when first we were initiated into the mysteries of "higher education."
We see the scenes of the past repeated; professors returning from a summer's recreation; old students back again ready to resume their work; and new ones who have just made their first pilgrimage to this Mecca of civilization—all cheerful, happy and eager to commence the new year's work. Some of us almost envy them. We fain would be there as of yore, to grasp the hands of those we have learned to respect and love, and I am sure all of us would like to spend at least one more year at the University.
All college men, I suppose, look back to the years spent in school as some of the happiest of their lives, and they never cease to have a warm place in their hearts for the place of their education. "The dear old University" will always be green in their memories, and after time has wrought changes many and great, should former students revisit these scenes of former days their eyes would fill and their voices choke.
EDITOR VIEWS:
The idle reader in old magazines sometimes lights on curious matters. Recently
turning over my file of the Kansas Review, I found the following from the farewell of the then editor-in-chief :
"The organization which is responsible for the Review has been made perpetual, thus securing the permanence of the publication. The constitution of this organization is too closely confined to the members of the secret societies. The non-fraternity students, a great majority of the entire body, will eventually demand a representation proportional to their numbers. —Vol. II, page 41.
I do not wish to assume that the writer of the above was possessed of any spirit of prophecy, yet, viewed in the light of after events, it does seem rather remarkable. After waiting and hoping a long time for justice at the hands of the fraternity controlling the Review, "the non-fraternity students, a great majority of the entire body," have demanded "a representation proportional to their numbers." That representation they have obtained, and entering into combination with the more sensible portion of the secret society students—among whom I am glad to see yourself—have produced the Courier, a paper of of which every student, old or new, may justly be proud. The Review has attempted to hide many things "behind the screen of a fine editorial, a charter and most magnanimous concessions," but the Courier has seen through the screen, and has shown to what their concessions really amount. By the way, I wonder why those old volumes seem to have so much better articles than the last two? I have written to the managers to keep my name on the subscription list. I wish you the best of success with the Courier and your own department.
OLD STUDENT.
NORMAL.
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NORMAL.
That the Normal Department was undeserving of the charges brought against it by certain members of last winter's legislature, is becoming more apparent every day to those who have an opportunity of knowing.
Miss Lina Gano made a short visit to her alma mater September 14th. She will have charge of a department in the city schools of Leavenworth for the ensuing year.
The advantages of the normal department are evidently becoming apparent, also, to the public at large, especially teachers seeking to qualify themselves for high positions, for our halls are filled with normal students who come for the purpose of seeking instruction under Dr. Williams, than whom there is no better educator in the west. They evidently think that their time and money is well spent here, for they come back year after year until their course of study is completed and they in most cases bring others with them to share the advantages to be found here. Why, when they could graduate sooner, and hold a certificate after so doing, at some other institution.
The answer is only to be found in the fact that in the normal department of the University of Kansas they get more thorough instruction, and more of it, and better professional and theoretical training than elsewhere. If this were not so our halls would soon be emptied of normalites, and the "boys and girls" school lose some of its best students.
Apropos to the above, F. H. Clark,'83 is principal of the Emporia high school; J.D.McLaren, though not yet a graduate
is principal aud superintendent of the Soloman City schools; G. E. Rose,'83, is holding the same position in Armourdale; Clarence L. Smith, though not yet a graduate, is county superintendent of Wyandotte county; Miss Ella Kempthorn,'82, taught in the Beloit schools the past year; Miss Belle Parker taught in Abilene; A. S. Olin,'82, is suprintendent and principal of the Iola schools; Miss Ella Coltrane,'83, teaches in the Lawrence schools, Miss Minnie Marvin teaches in the Beloit schools; Miss Ella Keist is teaching in the Wellington schools; and so the list might be continued if we had time and space. All our graduates seem to be well provided for and to be doing well. May success attend them wherever they may be.
All new students entering the normal department will find it to their advantage to connect themselves with the normal literary society. This organization meets every Friday afternoon in room No.1. It is more adapted to the necessities of normal students than any other society in the University.
The exercises are similar to those in the other societies with the exception of class drill, to which particular attention is given.
In addition there will be a course of lectures by professors of the University, which will be in the future, as in the past one of the most attractive and instructive features of the society.
If the treasurer of the normal society chances to meet with this, he will find that the society, as well as himself, is aware that no record of its financial standing is to be had at present.
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EXCHANGE.
EXCHANGE.
Many of our exchanges have donned new dresses.
Old editor retires covered with glory. New one enters upon his duties with fear and trembling.
The Illini, a bright, spicy, well edited paper from the University of Illinois, is among our exchanges,
The Eectra, a belles lettres monthly for young people, from Louisville, Ky., is among our exchanges.
The Kansas City Review contains an article on the Florida ship canal. A question of the day.
We are pleased to note, from the State Board of Agriculture, a marked increase in the material wealth of the state.
The Monmouth Courier has put on a new dress. An improvement, we think. But you have not improved upon the old story of the book-agent.
When a certain bachelor was married, the members of the Bachelor Club broke him all up by sending him, as a wedding present, a copy of "Paradise Lost."
The Badger of the 13th contains an excellent editorial on the tendency of the age to desert the classical for the scientific department. This not only lowers the standard of education but unsettles the whole system.
—We would suggest, Mr. "Changer" of the Illini, that you treat those "conciliatory glances" with suspicion, as a can of nitroglycerine, giant powder or something of that nature may lurk beneath. "Things are not always what they seem."
Mr. Occident, but would venture one criticism on the thought contained in the article in which you deplore the lack of university spirit. While games of base ball, foot ball, etc., are necessary to develop bodily health and vigor, yet when they are carried to inter-collegiate contests the true object of university life is forgotten.
The Occident comes to us from the "land of the setting sun." We like you,
How much a man is like old shoes;
For instance: Both a soul may lose;
Both have been tanned, both are made tight
By cobblers; both get left and right;
Both need a mate to be complete,
And both are made to go on feet,
They both need heeling oft, and soled,
And both in time all turn to mold;
With shoes the first is last; with men
The first shall be last; and when
The shoes wear out they're mended new;
When men wear out they're men dead too.
They both are trod upon and both
Will tread on others nothing loth.
Both have their ties, and both incline
When polished in the world to shine;
And both peg out—and would you choose
To be a man or be his shoes?—Ex.
We congratulate the Argonaut on the successful conclusion of its first year. The Argonaut and the Courier were started at the same time as protests of a large body of students against the exclusive control of a college paper, clique or fraternity. It is one of our best exchanges and stands in the front rank of college journalism.
Our policy is peace, and we are minded to stick to it. But we inherited a large supply of plasters, bandages, etc., from our predecessor, and should any see fit to explode a shell in our sanctum sanctorum the concussion will doubtless discharge our piece. We don't want to fight, but when forced our fighting propensities are in mathematical proportion to the amount of resistance we meet.
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PERSONAL.
—Fred. R. Jones enrolls again.
—L. H. Leach, of '84, is back again.
—Fred. R. Jones enrolls again.
—L. H. Leach, of '84, is back again.
—Hattie Dunn is visiting in the East.
—Fannie Pratt is with us once more.
—Prof. Bailey was in Kansas City Monday.
—J. D. Davis is the new Phi Delta Theta.
—Katie Ridenour is seen again in her classes.
—Mamie spent Sunday at her home in Topeka.
—Ed. Cruise, '87, is the Phi Gamma Delta baby.
—Anna Murphy, '83, is teaching at Reno, Kansas.
—Miss Ella Stiner, a former student, is teaching in Bloomington.
—Ed. Blair, '87, has joined the ranks of the Phi Gamma Deltas.
—B. T. Chace is back again and has rejoined the class of'85.
—Will Little, '87, has joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. The Phi Psi's are always a little ahead.
—Charles Sheldon, a former student, passed through Lawrence the 10th, on his return from Chicago.
—Miss Libbie Meade, of Council Grove, formerly a student of the College of Beloit, Michigan, has enrolled as one of our members.
—Rev. R. G. Miller, graduate of Dickinson College and a good Phi Psi, was in the city Sunday. The boys were glad to meet him.
—The ill health of Belle Love will not permit her to graduate with her class this year. Her classmates and friends will miss her sadly.
—Hattie Dunn is visiting in the East.
—Fannie Pratt is with us once more.
—Prof. Bailey was in Kansas City Monday.
—J. D. Davis is the new Phi Delta Theta.
—Katie Ridenour is seen again in her classes.
—Mamie spent Sunday at her home in Topeka.
—Ed. Cruise, '87, is the Phi Gamma Delta baby.
Anna Murphy, '83, is teaching at Reno, Kansas.
Miss Ella Stiner, a former student, is teaching in Bloomington.
—Ed. Blair, '87, has joined the ranks of the Phi Gamma Deltas.
—B. T. Chace is back again and has rejoined the class of'85.
Will Little, 87, has joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. The Phi Psi's are always a little ahead.
—Charles Sheldon, a former student, passed through Lawrence the 10th, on his return from Chicago.
—Miss Libbie Meade, of Council Grove formerly a student of the College of Beloit Michigan, has enrolled as one of our members.
—Rev. R. G. Miller, graduate of Dickinson College and a good Phi Psi, was in the city Sunday. The boys were glad to meet him.
The ill health of Belle Love will not permit her to graduate with her class this year. Her classmates and friends will miss her sadly.
—Percy Russell, '83, is taking bookkeeping at the Business College.
—Clara Poehler has returned to the University and joins the Sophomore class.
—Dan. Kennedy has returned to the University and enters the Freshman class.
—Lillie McMillan has returned from her visit in the East and has joined her class again.
-W. S. Whirlow, '83, was in Lawrence last week. He has just recovered from a serious illness.
—Clark Mahan,'87, wears the Phi Gamma Delta pin; also W. H. Brown and F. H. Smiley, both of '87.
—Nellie Dow, from Olathe, who has been for two years a student of the Chicago Female Seminary, has begun a four years' course here.
—Henry Tremper and Emma Poehler, former students of the Kansas State University, were united in marriage on the 12th of September.
Benj. Jacobs, of this city, and friend S.B.Winran, both students of the United States Naval Academy, visited the University last week.
Jennie Walker, we regret to say, will be unable to attend the University this year because of ill health. She will be greatly missed by her many friends.
—Matt. Long, '86, has returned to his home in El Dorado. He was unable to pursue his studies because of weak eyes. He will not come back this year.
—"Little Willie" will not brighten the University with his presence this year. He expects to attend a business college at Quincy, Ill. The K.A.T.'s are in mourning.
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—The popular artist, A. Hamilton.
—Hamilton works to please his patrons.
Francis Mettner will do good work at low prices.
—Opposite Woodward's drug store is where A. Hamilton keeps a first class photo gallery.
Those desiring instruction in Taxidermy or to purchase specimens of birds, will find it to their interest to call on A. P. Fellows.
The lives and limbs of some of our students have been endangered by the execrable condition of the side walks leading to the University.
—Prof. Dyche has offered fifteen cents a piece for cats. The Lawrence small boy threatens to flood the market; if they do we will put up a dyke against them.
The Oread hall has been nicely fitted up and only waits a carpet to make it almost perfect. Sixty dollars are now in the treasury as a permanent "carpet fund."
Last Tuesday the Normals met and after some discussion decided to "go on,' under their old constitution. The first regular meeting was held Friday in Prof. Williams' lecture room. All who are in the normal department are expected to give their support to this society.
SERENADERS'SCARE.
Three boys stood under the window blind,
Over the garden wall.
And their songs were of an entrancing kind,
Over the garden wall.
But when the young ladies their rapture proclaimed,
It startled the dog, which had been left unchained,
And then the scare was indeed unfeigned,
Over the garden wall.
Over the garden wall, the greatest dilemma of all,
Was when Johnson flew down the street you bet,
And Capt. Jenks up the tree had crept,
And Douglas had scrambled without faltering step,
Over the garden wall.
—Go to Mettner for satisfaction in photos.
—If you want a good photo try A. Hamilton.
I will give you the latest styles in photographic work. A.Hamilton.
The progress of the Y. M. C. A. is apparent to any one visiting their rooms, or attending their meetings. During the summer two additional rooms have been beautifully fitted up by the Ladies Auxiliary to the association. These are used as parlors, and are open for use to everybody. The college branch of the association are anxious to see more of the university ladies among the auxiliary workers. The Bible class will be reorganized in a few days with Professor Canfield as leader. The dates of meetings may be observed on the college bulletin
—Orophilian Literary society. This society is determined to be in the vanguard in the march of improvement now manifest in every department of the University. The zeal of its members, and the large additions to its numbers, have combined to give it a great impetus. It hopes to accomplish much this year, which will benefit its students. It solicits students to attend its literary exercises, and will cordially welcome them on each Friday at 3 P.M. in its commodious and pleasant hall. The following program was creditably rendered on last Friday: Declamations, Messrs. Chestnut, Finley and Miss Ashton. Readings, Miss Greenamyer and Mr.H.A.McLean. The question, Resolved that monopolies are detrimental to national progress, was discussed on the affirmative by Robt. Chestnut and H. F. Graham; on the negative by Messrs. Majors and Curry.
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-Ella Williams left Wednesday for Olathe, Kansas.
-W. E. Higgins is dangerously sick with typhoid fever.
Frank Walker, an old student, was up here again Monday.
Julia Watson has gone to Topeka to teach in Bethany College.
—Prof. Trueblood, of Kansas City, has organized a class in elocation here.
All students will be cordially welcomed. This is the place to prepare for the chapel rostrum and for the necessities of future life.
—Glen Miller is taking ornamental penmanship at the Business College.
Mr. Ralph Davis, of the Ohio State University, gave us a visit the other day.
—Professor in Greek History: "On what condition did Saturn obtain the rule?"
Bright Freshie: "That he should destroy his male sons." Wonders why the class laughed.
The finest assortment of tooth brushes in the city at Straffon's, 161 Massachusetts street.
Miss Lina Gano, a last year's Normal graduate, has been visiting in Lawrence for a few days.
—Cora Pierson has returned from her visit to the sea shore and has begun her work at the University.
If you want a fine cake of toilet soap examine my stock. My assortment is complete. C.W. STRAFFON.
—Rumor has it that there is a probability of a new secret society. The more the merrier.
—C. L. Smith was elected financial secretary of the Oread literary society with scarcely a dissenting vote.
—Scott Hopkins,'81, was in Lawrence last week. He stopped on his way to Columbia College, where he is pursuing his law studies.
—Straffon's Toothache Jelly gives instant relief.
The second story of the new chemical building is nearing completion.
Ten per cent. saved by buying toilet articles at South End Drug store.
Flora Hadley has returned from her visit in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Albert S. Riffle has missed all his classes for a week. That is a bad example to set before the Preps. Some of the Faculty had better keep an eye on him.
-A base ball club has been organized and we may expect more laurels in this line for our University.
—Carrie Watson has been quite ill for several days with malarial fever. She is improving rapidly.
J. W. Shultz, from Dartmouth College, has entered the University and joined the ranks of the Sophomore class.
Miss Jessie A. Austin, of 79, worthily represents our college as assistant principal of the Abilene high school.
The present number of the Courier, with the portraits of the new professors, will be especially worth preserving.
One of the Kappa Alpha Thetas says they have six new members, "but you mustn't tell anybody."
Another of our alumni is coming to the front. J.H.Long,of'77.is now professor of chemistry in the Northwestern University.
—Fred Bentley, of Madison, Wisconsin, visited the University with F. C. Thompson Tuesday. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
—The readers of the Courier will be glad to hear that Prof. J. W. Gleed had "a delightfully profitable summer in Germany, Switzerland and Italy." He is now in Rome. The professor promises us a letter to add to the attractions of the Courier.
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Bring on the foot ball. Has '86 lost its enthusiasm of last spring?
The number of students enrolled up to last Monday was four hundred and thirty.
Last week while Prof. Nichols was observing the moon, through the old telescope, which had been discarded as worthless, he discovered a crater, which had never before been seen from this point.
-W. W. Clawson, a student of former years, has returned and will continue his course. He is Lawrence agent and correspondent for the Centropolis, a weekly religious paper published at Kansas City, and devoted to general news and temperance.
Wednesday morning the Deltas formed in procession to enter chapel, second door, of course, to parade their new men before the assembled students. With lieutenant Riggs at the head and sergeant Linley at the side, they stood ready to make their onslaught on the chapel door. But "crushed again," they were met by the outcome students.
THE OREADS.—The Oread literary society has entered upon another year with the most excellent prospects. The two meetings which have already been held, have been of great interest and profit. The exercises reflected great credit not only upon the performers but upon the society which has raised them to such a superior standard. The training given by this society will be of lasting benefit to those wise enough to make use of its privileges. A large number of new students have been elected to membership and signified their intention to join.
The following officers were elected to hold their positions for one year: Financial secretary, C. L. Smith; treasurer, N. A. Swickard; executive committee, Fannie Pratt, H. E. Riggs, M. J. Keys.
-All of the popular handkerchief odors in bulk, at Straffon's South End Drug store.
—What has become of the oratorical association project which was agitated so vigorously last spring?
Frank Thompson's gentle Prattle was heard in the corridors last week, proclaiming that he had come down to see the boys.
The cover of the Courier was designed by Albert Riffle, our engineer editor, and has attracted much attention from the neatness of the design.
Next week will be the first of chapel rhetoricals. No longer will an invitation from the rostrum be needed to fill the front seats. The Seniors will first be turned loose upon an unprotected audience.
--During vacation Orophilian Hall received a much needed renovation. The carpet was taken up and the floor thoroughly cleaned Everything is now back in order and ready for use.
The fraternities have been getting in their work of selecting from the new students those whom they think worthy of being initiated into the mysteries. Beta Theta Pi is still biding her time, and Wooglin has no new disciples. The I. C. Sorosis has placed the dart on Miss Lida Griffith, a sister of Miss Mary. Phi Kappa Psi has honored with the shield W. L. Little and D. J. Dunn, freshman, and Wm. Mulvane, senior prep. Kappa Alpha Theta has as yet presented no new members to the Greek world; however rumor asserts that the Thetas are running several sub rosa members. Phi Gamma Delta has taken the lead, having selected six congenial souls from the Freshman class. The fortunate members of '87 are, E. G. Blair, C. R. Mahan, W. H. Brown, F. H. Smiley, Ed. Cruise, and J. R. Curdy. Phi Delta Theta has given the shield and dagger to J. D. Davis of '86, S. M. Cook of '85, and Mr. Graham of '83.
LOCAL.
—Prof. Canfield wishes the Freshman history class to understand that his salary is more than five hundred dollars.
—Rev. McEwen, the Baptist minister made the University a pleasant call last Monday.
Buy Warren's pen and pencil tablet.
Mammoth stock of pocket-books at Straffon's.
—'Tis said that after the "feed" Tuesday night the regents and faculty sung "We won't go home till morning."
—Smoke Long Jack at Straffon's. It's immense.
—Miss Jennie Sutliff arrived at home Sunday night from her visit in Minneapolis.
-Duncan has the bulge on prices, and don't you forget it.
We desire to place the Courier in the hands of every old student, and to that end will devote special attention in our local and personal columns to former students. Each issue will also have a letter from some alumnus under the head of "Views."
--Buy classics and mathematics of Duncan.
—King Bee, best 5c cigar in the city at Straffon's.
If a sufficient number of students can be obtained to form a class in Spanish, one will be introduced into the civil engineering course next session, in the place of French.
The University lunch boxes will carry your lunch up the hill and keep it as warm as the three Hebrew children. For sale at A.B.Warren & Co.'s.
—Send home this number of the Courier to your parents. Extra copies can be procured of the business managers.
Special prices on albums and scrap books next week at A. B. Warren & Co.'s.
—Best meal in the city at Klock & Falley's.
—George Metcalf will shortly enter the University. He will succeed the Hon. Prof. Sterling as a member of the Amphion quartette.
Tuesday evening a reception and banquet was tendered the faculty, regents and dignitaries and functionaries of the city by ex-Governor Robinson. The evening was pleasantly spent in conversation and speech-making, and resulted in bringing closely together those who are interested in the welfare of our University.
Students, go to Klock & Falley's new resturant.
Dixon's pencils, Sanford's inks and finest stationery way down at Duncan's.
-To students who can spare two hours each evening, four nights out of the week, we would say, you cannot spend the time better than by attending the evening sessions at the Lawrence Business College. You can pursue a regular business course, receive instruction in short-hand, telegraphy, plain and ornamental penmanship or a good English course.
-By using a single box of hand-painted note paper from A. B. Warren & Co.'s an obscure prep made a solid mash on a Senior.
Wednesday morning Chancellor Lippincott, at the request of the regents, delivered his inaugural address before a large audience of students and citizens. He took for his subject the relations of the University and the common schools, presenting it in a new and practical light. The regents and faculty and prominent citizens occupied the rostrum. Short addresses were then given by Gov. Glick, Judge Usher and Hon. Geo. R. Peck.
—Try D. A. Blackman's system of voice culture. "No likee, no takee."
Old and new students welcomed at Bromelsick's Shirt Depot.
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—A certain Senior's washer-woman says she will give any one half her bill to collect it. Some thought that this grave and reverend Senior sold his books to pay this bill, but the latest reports indicate that it was to play pool on. For further information apply to B-n.
All styles pocket cutlery at Straffon's.
—For a stylish tie call at Newmark's.
—D. A. Blackman's system of voice culture is second to none.
According to the provisions of the constitution, the Courier company met the second Friday of the month in their annual session. The amendments to the constitution, proposed last spring, were unanimously ratified. Hereafter the business managers will receive eighty per cent. of the net profits. The size of the paper was changed to the present form. The departments were changed as follows: the "Topics" was dropped and its scope given to the new department, "The Fortnight", which is also to criticise literary and dramatic productions at the University and in the city. The Miscellany department was turned over to the "Exchange." The "Views" was established to contain communications from students and alumni. Another editor was added to the "Scientific" department, and assigned to the civil engineers. The editorial staff for the ensuing year was elected and will be found elsewhere. L. H. Leach was elected president of the company, C. L. Smith secretary and Geo. M. Walker treasurer.
—Finest New York Counts at Klocks & Falley's.
-A discount to all students who buy their furnishing goods at Newmarks.
Ask Riggs about the Sigma Chis.
Read the last paragraph in the editorial columns.
—The I. C.'s say they have ten new members, and you can tell it all you please.
—And yet another has joined the ranks of the Phi Gamma Delta. Curdy is the latest.
—"Hutch." manipulates the Herald now, and takes intense interest in the Courier. We believe if F. D. were to go through K. S. U. again he would forget his old love and devote his strength to speeding the Courier on its way.
—If you want a neat fitting glove, call at Newmark's.
The Betas were out on a tear Wednesday night. Even our grave and reverend presidentbut we refrain.
-It is reported that the Kappa Kappa Gamma will enter K. S. U. this year. Several well known young ladies are said to be interested.
Oysters in all styles at Klock & Falley's.
Duncan is still on top with all University text books.
The voice of the " spiker " is heard in the land.
My voice culture students will meet once a week to apply the principle to music, and study quality of tone. Gratis.
D. A. BLACKMAN.
—Wonder if the barbs will behold the edifying spectacle of a hatchet-burying this year.
STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY Will find the largest stock of BOOTS AND SHOES
to select from in the city, including all leading styles, at prices that will pay you to visit the Family Shoe Store before buying elsewhere. MASON'S
Go to FAMOUS Boot and Shoe Store.
A. B. WARREN & CO.,
THE
STATIONERS,
LAWRENCE.
D. F. BIGELOW.
DEALER IN Drugs, Medicines, Toilet Articles AND PERFUMERY. 133 Mass. St., LAWRENCE, KAN. Prescriptions filled at all hours.
WM.E.YEAGER FLORIST,
No.28 New Hampshire Street.
THORNE'S BANK
LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLGE,
[ ESTABLISHED 1869.]
Institute of Penmanship, Short-Hand, Telegraphy and English Training School.
Fall Term Opens September 5th.
COURSE OF STUDY.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. Book-keeping (by Single and Double entry) Commercial Arithmetic, Rapid Calculations, Actual Business Practice, Com commercial Law, Business Penmanship, Letter Writing, Spelling and Grammar.
For Journal and information, address
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
BOOR & McILRAVY. Principals and Proprietors.
WM. WIEDEMANN
MANUFACTURES
PURE ICE CREAM
OF THE FINEST FLAVORS AND QUALITY. Parties and Picnics supplied on short notice. Come and give us a call.
MOAK BROS.
TEMPERANCE
BILLIARD PARLORS, 66 Massachusetts St.
MERCHANT TAILORS. For First Class Work and latest Stylet go to KUNKEL & ROCKLUND, Over Steinberg's Dry Goods Store.
GRANT & PIATT, DEALERS IN Staple and Fancy Groceries.
GOODS ALWAYS FRESH.
Special Attention paid to Students' Clubs.
If in need of anything in our line you can get BARGAINS at 118 Massachusetts Street.
CITY SCHOOL BOOKS AT Kansa's Paper Store.
JOHN DALEY,
Merchant Tailor, Winthrop St., opposite Opera House. A full line of Cloths constantly on hand. A perfect fit every time.
PERSHALL'S RESTAURANT And Dining Room.
MILLARD & COOPER, Billiard Parlors 60 Massachusetts St.
J. J. JARMAIN,
Official butcher to the University Dining Clubs, is now to be found at
STAR MEAT MARKET,
Corner Massachusetts and Adams Street.
Kunkel & Rocklund, the Champion Tailors.
Now is Your Chance.
We are once more on deck with a
MAMMOTH NEW STOCK OF
CLOTHING
AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
New York Clothing House,
Cor. Massachusetts and Warren Sts.
Scotford's Portraits
The best Photographic productions in the city. 715 Main St., KANSAS CITY.
Eldridge House Barber Shop.
Thomas M. Moore,
SOLE PROPRIETOR.
JIM R. JOHNSON, Foreman.
SMITH'S NEWS DEPOT.
IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC
CIGARS.
All the Finest Brands.
STATIONERY, NOVELTIES, &c.
Eldridge House Block.
JOHN PUNTON, M. D.
Office in connection with B. F. Biglow's Drug Store, No.133 Mass. St.
CHAS. CHADWICK.
Insurance Agent,
77 Massachusetts Street.
STEELE & BELL, L. S. STEELE PETER BELL. Attorneys, Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Agents. Office on Henry, west of Mass. St.
J. D. PATTERSON, DENTIST. Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
S. C. RUSSELL,
Attorney at Law.
77 Massachusetts Street.
PAT HAMLIN
Furnishes Fine Rigs at Student's Prices. Stable just East of Post Office.
W. H. LAMON,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
125 Massachusetts Street.
G. PETERSON,
SHOEMAKER.
Repairing Neatly Done.
Second door back of McCurdy Block.
SAM WALKER
Will furnish Rigs at reasonable rates. Stable on North Massachusetts St.
JOHN CHARLTON
Fire and Tornado Insurance. Office over Leis' Drug Store.
V. G. MILLER,
Physician and Surgeon. Office over A. Marks' Jewelry Store.
R. MORRIS, M. D.
Office on Henry St., west of Mass. St.
DR. F. H. WILSON,
DENTIST.
First Class Work and Moderate Charges.
135 Massachusetts St., LAWRENCE, KAN,
.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
A. Owl.
DEPARTMENTS:
Collegiate, Preparatory, Musical, Law, Normal, Medicine, Civil Engineering.
FACULTY:
JOSHUA E. LIPPINCOTT, A. M., D. D., President, Mental and Moral Philosophy.
FRANK H. SNOW, A.M., Ph.D. Natural History.
DAVID H. ROBINSON, A. M., Latin Language and Literature.
EPHRAIM MILLER, A. M., S., Mathematics.
E. H. S. BAILEY, L., Ph. D., Chemistry, Mineralogy and Metallurgy.
JAMES H. CANFIELD, A.M. History and Political Science. KATE STEPHENS,A.M. Greek Language and Literature.
FRANK O. MARVIN, A. M., Civil Engineering and Drawing.
EDWARD L. NICHOLS, Ph. D., Physics, Astronomy.
For General Information, address
P. J. WILLIAMS, A. M., D. D., Dean of Normal Department.
LEVERETT W. SPRING, A. B., English Literature, Rhetoric, Belles Lettres and Logic.
WILLIAM A. CARRUTH, A. B., German and French Languages and Literature.
ARTHUR E. CANFIELD, A. B., Instructor in German and French. M. W. STERLING, A. B., Instructor in Latin and Greek.
L. L. DYCHE Assistant in Natural History.
W. B. BROWNELL, A. B., Elocution and English.
RICHARD A. LEHMAN, Instructor in Music.
J. W. GREEN, Dean of Law Department. MARCUS SUMMERFIELD Instructor, Law Department.
W. C. SPANGLER, Clerk.
C. A. PEASE & SON,
Dealers in all kinds of
Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Oysters. Sole agents for Booth's Oysters. 140 Mass. Street.
PASSON & COHN,
DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS
Boots and Shoes.
REMOVED
TO MRS. BARNES' NEW BUILDING 124 Mass. Street,
Thanking customers for past favors, we would be pleased to see them and many others in our new quarters, where we are enabled to treat them better than ever before.
CONGRESS RESTAURANT
We Manufacture fine Cream Candies, also keep Fruits and Confectionery. Oysters in season.
WILSON & NELSON. 73 Massachusetts St.
PALMER & GRIFFIN Dealers in Coal and Wood,
Office 1st door south of M. E. Church.
HENRY FUEL,
Boot and Shoe Maker. Repairing neatly done. Custom work made to order. Two doors West of the National Bank.
STUDENTS,
Buy Your Groceries OF ENDSLEY JONES.
C. L. EDWARDS, DEALER IN
Hard and Soft Coals. OFFICE 143 MASSACHUSETTS ST.
FLORIST. Corner Warren and Tennessee Streets,
A. WHITCOMB,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
MRS. GIBBS & DAUGHTERS Invite old and new friends to inspect their fine stock of
MILLINERY GOODS,
OVER NEWMARK'S STORE.
Mrs. Gibbs is an experienced trimmer.
TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN By the use of VITALIZED AIR.
By the use of VITAL... J.E. GEROULD, DENT ST. OVER TWENTY-ONE YEARS EXPERIENCE. All Work Warrant-ed. No. 618 Main Street KANSAS CITY, MO.
No. 618 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, MO.
C. WICKS & CO.
Will make low figures to all who wish to buy Groceries and Provisions, Flour, Feed, &c.
84 Massachusetts Street.
GEO. INNES & CO.
Have received and are now showing
Novelties in every Department.
ALL THE NEW MATERIALS
INDRESS GOODS
NEW SHADES IN
Silks and Velvets!
FIVE PIECES OF OUR
ONE DOLLAR BLACK SILK, the "Incomparable."
Cardinal Plush for PLAQUES now in stock.
We are prepared in every department with the greatest variety, choicest styles, and lowest prices, to be found in the West.
GEO. INNES & CO.
P. ULRICKSON,
STOVES.
Gas and Steam Fitting, Tinware. Job Work done promptly. 137 Massachusetts Street.
STUDENTS,REMEMBER!
Latest Styles of Boots and Shoes AT BOYD'S,
House's New Block.
Reduced Rates to Students.
Turkish Bath!
Opposite Lawrence House.
W. CRUM, Dealer in
STOVES, TINWARE
Gas, Steam and Water Fitting, Roofing Guttering, Heavy Sheet Iron Work, Hose, Gas Pipe, Brass Goods, &c. Job Work promptly done.
180 Massachusetts Street. LAWRENCE, KAN.
What Are You Looking For?
If for Fine SHOES OR RUBBER GOODS,
HUME'S is the place to get them!
First Class Goods at BOTTOM PRICES.
Remember the Place, .125 Mass. Street.
A FAMOUS HUNT.
Mrs. Absalom Jones went hunting one day— Not over the prairies and hills, far away For chickens, or quail, or for any such game But down the street called Massachusetts she came, To find, for herself and her fair daughters eight, New dresses, before the season was late And the best styles all gone. That morn, Mr. Jones ad in sorrow exclaimed in his most doleful tones :
"The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Nine women in the house to clothe, And dry goods awful dear."
As down the long street Mrs. Jones slowly passed, She saw just before her a concourse so vast That it filled all the street; and looking o'er head This legend in letters of gold plainly read ; "Dry goods cheap for cash, The very latest crash, This is our song, all day long 'Dry goods cheap for cash.'"
Mrs. Jones at first wondered, then turned to the door And with the throng entered Geo. A. Hunt's mammoth store. Of the bargains she found there it would take long to tell, Though on their beauty and goodness we gladly would dwell. Mrs. Jones's long hunting is now safely o'er; Mr. Jones o'er her dry goods' billls worries no more. Now for bargains in dry-goods go see Geo. A. Hunt, Eighty-one Massachusetts Street, at the "White Front."
UNIVERSITY TEXT BOOKS AT LOWEST PRICES.
Everything needed by Students in the
Book and Stationery Line. Artist Materials, Picture Frames, Fine Stationery,
J. S. CREW & CO'S. The Largest Book Store in Kansas.
THE FINEST DISPLAY
Ever Shown in Lawrence
LADIES' CLOAKS AND WRAPS,
CAN NOW BE SEEN AT
BULLENE'S.
Cloaks,
Dolmans,
Paletots,
Russian Circles,
Sicillian Circles,
Valdimeres,
New Markets,
Langtrys,
Havelocks,
Jerseys,
Jackets,
At prices ranging from $3.00 to $135.00 each. Also a large line of Children's Garments.
L. BULLENE & CO.
STUDENTS ATTENTION!
You will always find the newest and largest assortment of Millinery and Fancy Goods At MISSES A. & C. MUGLER, No. 113 Massachusetts Street.
Piano
PIANOS & ORGANS.
W. W. LAPHAM.
717 MAIN ST.,
Kansas City,
MISSOURI,
The Best Goods! The Lowest Prices!
Decker Bros..
Mathushek,
Story & Camp.
Pianos.
Estey,
Story & Camp,
Organs.
Western Agent for the Dentaphone for the Deaf.
Send for Catalogue.
METTNER,
-THE PHOTOGRAPHER- 79 Massachusetts Street.
THE STUDENT'S POPULAR ARTIST.
J. HOUSE, The Popular Clothier
GRAND DISPLAY OF FINE CLOTHING.
Durable Goods, Fashionable Ties, Low Prices.
Our aim is to make you a permanent patron. and this end we can best attain by guaranteeing and giving general satisfaction. By all means inspect our handsome stock. You are always welcome.
HOUSE,
W. M. CULBERTSON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Hard Coal, Soft Coal, PIEDMONT SMITHING COAL, Office 110 Massachusetts St.
THE POPULAR CLOTHIER.
1883. FALL. 1883.
TEMPLE OF FASHION
ARE MADE BY
THE FINEST SUITS IN KANSAS
McCONNELL
THE TAILOR.
63 Massachusetts Street.
THE POPULAR BARBERS HARRIS & MURPHY,
Opposite Mason's Shoe Store.
[Established 1870]
CONOVER BROTHERS.
613 Main St. KANSAS CITY.
MANUFACTURERS OF FIRST CLASS
UPRIGHT and SQUARE PIANOS.
Publishers of Music and Music Books. Jobbers in Musical Merchandise.
General Agents for "Steinway & Sons" and "J. & C. Fischer" Pianos. "Geo Woods & Co." "Burdett," and "Shoninger" Organs.
235 E. 21st St., NEW YORK.
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Wm. M. Rowe, the practical Jeweler.
AN INVITATION
Is extended to the public generally-exacting, economical and critical buyers included-to call and inspect our
LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT OF
Fine Ready-Made Clothing
FOR FALL AND WINTER,
which is equal to the best made to order garments in style, materials, make, finish, and in fit, but price about one-third off.
We are fully aware that the Clothing of to-day must have style, quality and economy, to sell it. Because we know this so well, is why we venture to carry the largest stock of Clothing in the State of Kansas, and why we have just completed the handsomest, most commodious Clothing Palace in the West to keep it in.
Careful examination solicited by
Steinberg, the King Clothier.
87 Massachusetts St.,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.