THE UNIVERSITY COURER
NOBIS SOLUM. NON.
1884.
MAY 23.
CONTENTS
Fortnight...PAGE 321
Carmen Amæbæum...323
Across the Blues...Kern Holland 323
Isaac and Shylock...326
Epigram...327
Editorial...328
Scientific...330
Swaps...332
Views...334
Personal...335
Corridors...336
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Yet, in the prosperity of the present, we must not forget those who had the courage to pull out of the old ruts into a newer and better way, who saw the injustice of a close corporation's control of a college journal, and going forth from it, founded the students' paper, the Courier.
great changes in the faculty, and a considerable increase in the number of students. It has been a year of revival in college spirit, of enterprise in college journalism, of warfare and strife in the literary societies. It is becoming a question whether the fraternities will displace the open literary societies, as in most eastern colleges, or whether the two will continue to exist side by side, each in its own proper field. The interest in athletics is increasing,
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Vol. II. MAY 23, 1884 No. 17.
THE FORTNIGHT.
Despite the ever brightening springtide, somehow we begin to feel in the "sere and yellow leaf" of our Courier work. The college year is drawing swiftly to a close; the Courier has almost finished his second annual round. Now comes the time when the college paper editor loves to look back upon the days through which he has passed. The publication of a college paper is almost always a venture sufficiently risky to be interesting. There is always plenty of hard work for the staff, and commonly some fun mixed in. The work and fun and fighting of this year is almost ended. But at all events the stockholders can congratulate themselves that the paper has passed so fortunately through the "dangerous second year," and is now in better condition than ever before. The outlook seems bright for journalism in the University of Kansas.
No doubt there are those who will sneer and say that these men have yielded all for which they fought, thereby showing their own narrow-mindedness and bigotry. In truth they have gained all they sought They have forced their adversaries to meet them on a common plane of fair and equal representation. They have clearly proven that a faction's control of a school paper is inconsistent with the democratic spirit of American colleges. They have nobly worked out the Courier motto: "Non nobis solum.
Yet, in the prosperity of the present, we must not forget those who had the courage to pull out of the old ruts into a newer and better way, who saw the injustice of a close corporation's control of a college journal, and going forth from it, founded the students' paper, the Courier.
Perhaps we may seem to trumpet the glories of our own generation, but we believe the year of'83-'84 will be held noteworthy in student annals. We have had great changes in the faculty, and a considerable increase in the number of students. It has been a year of revival in college spirit, of enterprise in college journalism, of warfare and strife in the literary societies. It is becoming a question whether the fraternities will displace the open literary societies, as in most eastern colleges, or whether the two will continue to exist side by side, each in its own proper field. The interest in athletics is increasing,
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though very far yet from what it should be. The annual promises to be far superior to any yet issued by our students. And last, but by no means least, our representative has swept the field in the State Oratorical contest, and gained for Kansas an honorable place in the Inter-state contest. Altogether it has been a year of motion and growth. For next year the prospect seems fair, and we may well hope and expect increasing strength and prosperity.
A large audience greeted Keene at the opera house, Monday evening. Faithful to the traditions of Lawrence audiences, the spectators were not very demonstrative, but paid the actor the high compliment of preserving close attention throughout. One who has seen Keene as Richard III. cannot but feel that that is his best, and that in Macbeth he is constantly hampered by reminiscences of that part. Richard is so much more vulgar a tyrant than Macbeth that we think some injustice is done the latter. The rant which seems not out of place in Richard, sits but ill on Macbeth, who is by nature a gentleman. So far was this carried that once Keene assumed even Richard's limp and shrug.
It has been said that the rank of a book is determined not by its freedom from faults, but by the height of its beauties. Judged by a similar standard, Keene's acting is so good, especially in the scenes just before and after Duncan's murder, that criticism becomes an ungracious task, and yet is invited by the contrasts offereded between the actor's best and his worst.
The part of Lady Macbeth was fairly done. But in the sleep-walking scene Miss Hamblin fell far short of the power for which the scene offers opportunity, and which it demands. The company modeled themselves largely upon Keene, and copied his defects more successfully than his merits. The scene in which Macduff hears of the massacre of his family was more ably rendered than any other. "M."
It is to be hoped that the foolishness of presenting flowers to the various performers of the commencement week exercises will be quietly but firmly "sat upon" this year. The committee on arrangements for the last Society Contest made a good move when they suppressed it there. We understand that the seniors intend allowing none of it on Class Day. If the committies on the society entertainments, the prize contestants and the faculty will join in checking this folly we may hope to see it entirely done away with.
If this sending up flowers were any real token of the merit of the performance, it might be allowed to pass. But it is perfectly notorious that it is not; that no matter how poor the performance the speaker is sure to receive "floral offerings"'—if his friends have cash enough. This custom is nothing more than a vulgar and snobbish display, is opposed to every principle of good taste and good breeding.
As when one gets to the end of an interesting story, and is both glad and sorry to read the last page and close the volume, so it is with us, the writer of these lines. With this number our year's work on the Courier ends. At this writing it is impossible to say whether the two papers will be consolidated or not. At all events, this is the last "Fortnight," for the next issue, if ever issued, will be filled with the Commencement productions. In looking over our year's work we have some things to rejoice over, some to be sad over. We have tried to fulfill the promise of our first issue, to be fearless, independent and unprejudiced. How well we have succeeded is for our readers to judge. So now, in the words of the old romance, "Readers all, both gentle and simple, gallant knights and fair ladies, hail and farewell!" The last "Fortnight" is written.
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LITERARY.
CARMEN AM(OEB/EUM.
Whilst I was pleasing in thy sight,
Nor other youth had better right
His arms about thy neck to fling,
I was more blest than Persia's king.
Whilst thou no one desired more,
Nor placed fair Chloe me before,
Then I was more renowned by far
Than Illa, spouse to god of war.
Fair Chloe's songs now me inspire,
Accompanied with the tuneful lyre,
For whom, if Fate would let her live,
I cheerfully my life would give.
Me Calais loves with changeless heart,
From whom I fain would never part,
For whom I twice would suffer death
If Fate would only spare his breath.
What if our former love survive,
And hopes, long crushed, should now revive?
If I the fair-haired Chlee spurn,
Wilt thou to me vouchsafe return?
LYDIA.
Although he's true and dear to me,
Thou fickler far than stormy sea ;
Yet with thee gladly would I live,
And for thy life my own would give.
ACROSS THE BLUES.
The delay at Pendleton spun into a week, and each day it would mist, Oregon fashion, from early morn to evening. But at last the fateful day had come. At that sweetest hour for a nap, 4 a.m., I was called to hurry down if I wanted to take the La Grande section of the Blue Mountain stage. Imagine my surprise to find in waiting an ominous looking wagon, with eight cayuse horses attached. Two sickly
lamps revealed the driver perched on his seat, a pile of mail bags in one end and express goods in the other, and a still more ominous looking board lashed across 'midships. In dead silence I climbed in and fixed myself on that eight inch board as best I could, fully satisfied that the easy lullaby motion of the week before was now gone, perhaps forever.
The sides of the craft were so high that
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my feet barely touched the floor. With some anxiety I waited the start. Then I happened to think of my uncovered hands, and was in the act of pulling on a pair of gloves, when I heard, "All right, Joe." Then came the whiz and crack of a whiplash, and I felt the whole business start from under me as I turned a back somersault and lit forked end up among the mail bags. Joe didn't look round, so I crawled back to my perch, resolved to postpone putting on gloves until a more auspicious time. 'Twas beautiful to see how those little cayuse ponies shook the mud from their feet as they waltzed down the Umatilla reservation, and I felt the effect of their morning gambols long before we reached the base of the mountains. They were plucky little brutes, as well as pretty, and their spotted skins reminded me of my grandmother's best company quilt.
By nine o'clock we reached the line where rain left off and snow began, and about noon crossed the first summit. Joe had spoken but seldom all morning, but after leaving Summit Station he turned to me and said: "Stranger, you aint ever staged much I know. Well, now, thar's two things we hev to look arter. The fust one is company's consideration fur the hosses, and tother is our consid' fur goin' in on time. Up the hill I looked out fur company's, and now I'll look out fur Washoe Joe's. Git up?" Pop goes the whip, and down the mountain we ride like grim death in his chariot. How tenaciously I held to that board, and how I did grit my teeth!
But I lost all hope early in the race, and as section after section of my vertebra telescoped, I felt the "sweet by and by" near, and so tried to divert my thoughts from things terrestrial. But somehow I couldn't make connection. I'd shut my eyes and start off with what I thought was a beautifully gilt edged petition, but before I could get to the clinching part the wheels would make a perpendicular drop and leave me suspended for a moment in mid air, my eyes and mouth wide open and prayer all gone. Then I'd try it over and over again, but 'twas no use; I couldn't make it go. The constant whiz of the lash kept that animated streak of patchwork on the jump, and my thoughts badly disconnected. At the last moment, as I thought, I made one grab to feel if my journal was safe, and back I went on the mail bags again, just in time for my face to catch a whole pailful of mud and snow-water that came pouring down the wheel. In my bewildered state of mind I thought it the first cold wave of Jordan, and at that supreme moment I opened my eyes for a peep at the farther shore, and discovered the road was getting smoother.
At Pelican Station a new driver took the lines, and how he ever got through the canyon will always be a mystery. But he did, and landed me safe at La Grande in time for supper, but wet as a new made Christian. Four miles from town a hard rain had come up and I had asked for a poncho. John smiled like an old Jackson County Missourian as he replied, "Mister, we don't hev ary o' them things;" so I had to take the rain; and while streams poured down my back and never stopped till they got twixt me and the board, I was sustained through it all by the recollection of that one unmistakable grin.
Happy was I the next morning to behold a buckboard and span of jacks waiting to carry me to Joseph. In all my life I had never ridden a buckboard, but I was sure this would be a picnic compared to the instrument of torture which I had endured the day before. The morning was perfect, the scenery all that heart could wish, and for twenty miles the smooth, hard road re-
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sounded to the clatter of our donkies' feet Then we left the valley and began winding over more mountains. Sometimes there was a road and sometimes none.
I remarked several times to the driver the long see-saw push of Jack's ears. Billy said he was on a new road and guessed Jack didn't like it; that it was a cut-off to the Willawa, and the day being fine, he thought he'd try it. Then Jack stopped and began one of those mournfully long and rasping whaw-he-haws. The very air trembled and vibrated as note after note rolled out and went chasing each other up the mountains and through canyons, echoing and re-echoing until I fancied lost spirits from Hades were secreted in some fastness and holding high carnival. Then we started again. I have read of Alpine horns, though never was so fortunate as to hear one, but I will wager all I have that Jack can beat the best of them. I verily believe those brutes were deeply tinctured with satanic desire to give me a benefit. For the rougher the road the harder they would go. As for the buckboard—well, that thing had life, that's all. It never would do as you wanted, and besides it had a sneaking notion of going over every precipice we came to. Then sometimes it would dodge round and get in front of the team, or else make a clean jump of a yard or more, light stiff and and wait for me to come down. Jacob wrestling with angels was nothing to my two day's efforts to keep on top of that machine.
But somehow or other we got through the cut off and Willawa canyon, and arrived at Joseph the second evening, blue in spots and badly broken up. It took several months for me to recuperate from the effects of that trip and an attack of mountain fever, but I was partly compensated for this inactivity by its enabling me to become
acquainted with the people. I found them kind hearted, but they had strange ideas of my mission. Some thought me a government agent after timber thieves, while others set me down as some sort of a detective. To the credit of the gentler sex, be it said, that I was looked upon by them as an author, artist or poet.
When the fourth of July came, and I found so large a circle of mammas and daughters, especially the latter, my pleasure knew no bounds. The celebration was held at Silver Lake, a beautiful sheet of water, situated at the base of a snow range.
Tall pine trees fringed the lake and queer gondolas floated on its surface carrying light hearted merry-makers. We had a splendid day, and the orator on that occasion being an ex-honorable from Osborn Kansas, of course the American Eagle got his deserts.
So the hour of my departure drew on apace. But I felt my hair stand on end when a young lady blushingly asked me to leave her one of my sketches or a poem. The very idea of me sketching, much less writing a poem. But I could not refuse her request, and while racking my brain for a subject I recollected one time away back when I was husking corn in the White river bottoms of Indiana, of seeing a little stanza that a neighbor boy had cut out of an almanac, lauding the virtues of Herrick's Pills. I felt that could I but hit upon some such theme I might make an immortal name and at the same time please the girl. But the more I tried to think the more confused I became. It may have been her eyes that caused my thoughts to wander so. Anyway I had to give up and ask her what I should write about. "Why, about our Fourth of course." Grasping my pencil as though an idea might slip, I opened her album and scrawled as follows:
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ISAAC AND SHYLOCK.
Come go with me to Silver Lake,
To that beautiful inland sea,
Where will congregate the wise and great,
Those future guardians of our state,
Who will tell us what to be.
The orator will scrape the skies,
And climb yon mountain's crest;
That starry banner which greets our eyes,
Its folds shall smother his dying sighs,
When borne to the land of rest.
Then ho! for the Fourth at Silver Lake,
And pic-nic under the trees,
For cocoa pies and golden cake,
For good little boys with stomach ache,
And web-foot girls to squeeze.
Hurriedly glancing over the lines I saw that it was not what it should be,and I felt
the blood mount to my hair roots as I discovered that I could not remove the leaf without disfiguring her album. So I closed the book and asked that she would not read my composition until five days hence, when I would be far out on the billowy deep.
We parted, but I felt no relief until that same old buckboard bore me away from the immediate scenes of my first effort at poetry.
KERN HOLLAND.
ISAAC AND SHYLOCK.
The Jew, as well as in the history of the world, has figured prominently in the literature.
Hypatia would be incomplete without the caustic remarks and noble bearing of Raphael, Oliver Twist without Fagin, Ivanhoe without Isaac, and the Merchant of Venice without Shylock.
Although these representatives differ somewhat in minor characteristics, yet a common impulse runs through them all—the hatred of a downtrodden and oppressed nation for their oppressors.
Knocked and buffetted about on every hand, at the same time keenly awake to their injuries, they have descended from a noble people to a cringing horde of money lovers.
Much as the ceaseless tramp of years on the paving stones, wearing away the soft places and causing them, seemingly, to gather in small knots, so the persecution of ages, picking out his finer sensibilities, has made the character of the Jew to rally around one or two strong points.
At long intervals, like mile stones, showing his descent from a noble ancestry, stand truly noble characters. Such were Rebecca, Raphael, and Daniel Deronda. As the representatives of the other and by far the larger class may be taken Shylock as Isaac, Fagin and Miriam. Shylock as depicted in the Merchant of Venice, and Isaac in Ivanhoe, are perhaps the strongest. In these we find very little that is noble, or worthy our most meager praise.
In Shylock it is hard to say which is the strongest characteristic. In the first of the play the reader would without doubt say, avarice; but when Bassanio offers him twice the sum of the bond he says, "If every ducat in six thousand ducats were in six parts and every part a ducat I would not draw them; I would have my bond." This leads the reader to the conclusion that revenge for the insults heaped upon him and upon his nation is his controlling passion.
Isaac is a cringing, detestable creature with but few redeeming features. Intellect-
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ually Shylock is far superior. He is a man possessing a vast store of general information, while Isaac knows nothing beyond the ken of money getting. Shylock was not only able to keep himself out of the grip of the law but could turn it upon others. Isaac could meet no emergencies. In this they are alike, that they both cringed before the moneyed aristocracy, but looked stern and terrible in the presence of a bankrupt debtor. Isaac shows a very great love for his daughter, which is wholly wanting in the case of Shylock. When Jessica ran off with Lorenzo, Shylock was more grieved over the loss of his ducats and diamonds than his daughter, but when Rebecca was carried away captive by Bois-Guilbert, Isaac prostrated himself in the dust, exclaiming, "Child of my sorrow, well shouldst thou be called Benoni instead of Rebecca; why should thy death bring down my gray hairs to the grave, till, in the bitterness of my heart, I curse God and die?"
Isaac was a coward in the presence of bodily danger. When informed that the Templar meditated evil against him he struck dumb with terror and was only saved by the kindly assistance of the Knight of Ivanhoe.
When the tables were turned against Shylock in the trial, something shows itself in his nature that we almost admire. All through the trial scene the reader can almost see Shylock whetting his knife and see it gleam as he turns it from side to side. All the time he is busy preparing for the inhuman deed. Nothing could move him, not even the almost divine pleadings of Portia. He is inexorable, he insists on the letter of the law. "My deeds be upon my head! I crave the law!" But in straining the law he brought about his own destruction. He saw his mistake and began to retreat, but soon be can go no further. When both he and his property are in the hands of the enemy, then the pathos of his nature asserts itself and he gives expression to the following: "Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that, you take my house when you take the prop that doth sustain my house; you take my life when you take the means whereby I live." With Isaac, when he was brought face to face with apparent death, it was itself different. He did nothing but beg quarter and swear that he was penniless. Shylock is much the stronger, while Isaac is the more humane.
Isaac did put in a plea for the wounded Ivanhoe, who saved his life, but when he found his plea must be backed by moneys it died upon his lips. Isaac possessed nothing that would ever have rendered him other than a Jew. Shylock, on the other hand, was capable of something better had he not been the destined victim of unfortunate circumstances. J.E.C.
EPIGRAM.
PLATO.
Dost scan thy twinkling kin, my star?
Oh! would the joyful right were mine
To be the azure vanlt afar,
With countless eyes on thee to shine.
F. A. M.
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SHARP SHAM.
Verily, Emily Faithful's list of modern shams is daily increasing. Nowhere is it more visible than in our schools. No, we forget ourselves; there are no schools now; they are all academies, and institutions, and conservatories, and colleges, and universities. Every one of these country school houses—beg pardon, we meant suburban colleges—is presided over by a "professor." Every one of these "professors" (hired to teach forty youngsters for three months) is a "superintendent—" very few are as low as "principals." But the last evolution is certainly the most nauseating. A few years ago every school wound up with an "exhibition;" now they are all having "commencement." If these are "commencements," God pity the "endings."
We have just laid down a newspaper report of one of these "commencements." This "commencement" was in a village of some six or seven hundred inhabitants. The children—no, that's not it—the "graduates" delivered their "orations," (probably written by their parents) in a "most admirable manner." The school board and their families occupied exalted positions on the "rostrum." The president of the board presented the "diplomas" in a "masterly speech." Then a resolution was adopted, beginning with "Whereas, on the education of the people rests the foundation of our government;" and ending in praising the "professor" for "the high standard to which he has brought the educational interests of the city." At the next meeting of the board he was reelected "superintendent" and his salary increased. He is now preparing for an "alumni reunion" for next year's "commencement," when he hopes to have his salary doubled.
The horrible pressure of the semi-annual examinations is beginning to be felt once more. The voice of the shrieker for grades is heard in the land, wailing, muttering and sweaing by turns. It has always seemed strange that the ninety per cent. system was not given a longer and fairer trial. Its effect on the students seemed good, and it is believed by many that in the long run it would have proved a decided success. After the fossilized class-officer system was abolished, it looked easy to ship this other fossil. But somehow it still manages to cling to its native rock. We hope an enterprising geologist with a sharp hammer will come against them right soon.
Again we must remind some of our subscribers that the business managers of this great religious semi-monthly are desirous of interviewing them.
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A RELIC OF THE CONVENT.
A case in court has just been brought against the Missouri Normal school that is fraught with considerable interest. A young lady has been summarily expelled for attending a party without permission of the faculty, and her father seeks redress in the law. In the list of the regulations of the Normal school it is provided that no student shall attend parties or receive company without special permission of the faculty. Furthermore, ladies and gentlemen are not allowed to board in the same house except by special permission. The point at issue in the court is whether a state institution has a right to dictate to students outside of school hours.
Imagine what a commotion such rules would make in our University. What stacks of applications would cover the faculty's table each morning! What a fall there would be in the receipts of the theaters and ice cream saloons! How Sunday evening gas and coal expenses would shrink! Then imagine the turn events might take. How annihilated a young Freshman would feel after engaging his lady's company for the opera to fail in getting a faculty permit; or of getting his permit and then finding that some enterprising Soph had anticipated him with the lady. Or again, what a crestfallen state of affairs if the faculty would grant permits for a dance to all the boys, and refuse them to the girls; and then fancy that dance.
There is no fear of Kansas copying from Bourbon Missouri, but still we hope the Normal faculty will lose the suit. Such regulations are relics Catholic cloisters and denominational prisons. There are a number of sectarian institutions and private convents in Kansas where such rules are promulgated; and right there will be found more silly flirting, sickening sentimentality,
miserable ogling in stolen moments and hidden recesses than is concentrated in all the "unguarded institutions" of the United States. These are the schools too, which send out representatives during the summer to solicit patronage and slander the University. All of them have tales of horror regarding the Lawrence students. One college president related a few years ago, how University girls staggered dead drunk down the main street. Many other stories of similar character have been traced to these envious burlesques of colleges.
The truth is that without one rule or regulation of any kind, the University is remarkably free from silly romance and improper practices. Our students are regarded as responsible gentlemen and ladies and act accordingly. Where they enjoy each other's company they do it without stealth, and in a proper manner. The faintest breath of slander has never tainted our institution. The students come here to study, many having earned the money which pays their college expenses. Nearly all of our boys work during vacation. With students of this character the enjoyment of each other's company is not a matter of sudden and ignorant impulses, but of recreation and amusement after study. A state institution should never be disgraced with these multifarious society rules, and we are surprised that even Missouri should have them. They should be left for that class of schools which need them.
Now that we have a well formed Athletic Association, there should be nothing, unless it be bad weather, to prevent the finest field day exercises ever given at this University. The executive committee of the Association should work the matter up at once and show the people of Lawrence and the state what the University is doing in the way of Athletics.
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SCIENTIFIC.
SCIENTIFIC.
The period of the sun spot maximum passed about three years ago, but there still continues to be a few spots, as there always is even in the minimum. Within the past week a very large spot has traversed the sun's disc from the eastern limb to about the center. This motion of the spot is due to the rotation of the sun upon his axis, which is accomplished once in about twenty-five days; but sometimes a sun spot is carried along by an immense solar hurricane, compared to which a terrestrial tornado is but a gentle breeze.
The above spot is the finest which has been noticed at the University observatory this winter. It is almost large enough for a giant to play a game of marbles in, and use for his marbles Mercury and Mars, our moon and enough of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons to make up the required number.
One of the curious features of a sun spot is that to an observer with a common telescope it appears perfectly black and still it is of dazzling brightness.
—Experiments are being made by Prof. Nichols to determine whether the heat of chemical combination of iron is affected by magnetism.A weighed quantity of iron is dissolved in some acid,such as Aqua Regia and the rise of temperaure noted.The question is whether the rise of temperature and consequently the amount of heat will be greater or less when the iron, during the action,is subjected to the inductive action of a powerful electro-magnet. Theoretically the amount of heat given off without the magnet should exceed that given off with the magnet by a quantity equivalent to the mechanical energy set free in the fall of
iron, under the attraction of magnet, from an infinite distance to that at which the action takes place. This amount of heat would require delicate measurements for its detection, unless a very powerful magnet be employed.
The result of a series of experiments has proven however, that the amount of heat set free is much greater under the influence of the magnet than otherwise.
This result may be caused by the tendency of magnetic iron to form ferric salts, when under the same conditions, normal iron would form ferrous salts, or the magnet may tend to form a mixture of ferric and ferrous salts, corresponding to magnetic oxide of iron, while as in the other case, normal iron would form ferrous with perhaps a small admixture of ferric salts.
The action producing ferric salts would give off more heat than if ferrous salts were formed, just as the combustion of carbon is more intense when carbonic acid is formed than when carbonic oxide is formed.
It is not known that magnetic iron is different from normal iron in its chemical relations, but if the above explanation proves to be true this will be one of the most interesting results.
Perhaps the best and only way to prove that the products of a chemical action on magnetic iron differs from the products of a similar action on normal iron is to subject the products to a thorough chemical analysis. But there are serious objections to this process in our case, for there must always be an excess of acid, so as to insure a rapid and complete action, and ferrous salts have a tendency to change to ferric when there is an excess of acid in solution.
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Mr Paul Mays, of Switzerland, has lately printed a monograph on "Sustaining Bodies in Space by Motive Force." He says:
"The wings of a common fly vibrate at the rate of 430 strokes per second; those of the mosquito about 2000 times per second; therefore, according to the formulae which I have established, a number of common flies, weighing altogether 20 tons, and 130 tons of mosquitos require about one-horse power to sustain themselves in the air.
During the study of this question of sustaining forces in space, I came many times to what seemed to me a strange conclusion; for instance, that any piece of heavy metal must float on perfectly still water. But as it is impossible to have perfectly still water, the property is subordinate to certain conditions."
The absurdity of the first statement is apparent; for say, for instance, that it requires twice the exertion for a mosquito to rise at the rate of one foot per second than for him to remain stationary; then according to Mr. Mays, two-horse power would be sufficient to raise 130 tons at the rate of one foot per second. This is equivalent to 15,600,000 foot pounds per minute, or nearly 500 horse power.
His second statement may not be so absurd, but it is foolish nevertheless; for in any medium a heavier body will sink; even a leaden ball will sink through a rock after an infinite time, according to the theory of elasticity, which supposes that viscosity is a universal property of matter, the curve which represents the rapidity of change of form being tangent to the axis of force, and to the axis of time at infinite distances from the origin.
The greatest eastern elongation of Mercury will occur upon the 25th of this month, and the planet will be visible about ten days before and aftor this date. On
the 25th he sets about one hour and three quarters after the sun. Those who wish to behold this interesting planet will find the present an unusually favorable opportunity for the purpose. They should commence their search about three quarters of an hour after sunset, and first finding the familiar cluster of the Pleiades in the northwest, scan the sky a degree and three quarters south of the cluster, and a very slight distance west, when "The Sparkling One" will suddenly dart into view, shining with a peculiar luster on the glowing twilight sky.
—"Of what does color blindness consist,' is the oft repeated question since the tests by Profs. Bailey and Nichols are well under way.
According to Young's theory of color, there are three sets of nerves in the retina of the eye, each one sensitive in a certain degree to all wave lengths of light, but to one wave length in particular. The sensation of yellow. for instance, being caused by a wave length of light which affects the red and green nerves about equally, and the violet nerves only to a very limited extent. Thus we see that the sensation which we call yellow consists of a red and a green sensation principally. Now if a person were red color blind, that is if the red nerves were lacking, leaving only the green with a small amount of violet, and the and the person would class all yellow colors with green. But if he were green blind, he woulb class all yellow with red. In the first instance, if he were asked what color yellow was he would answer yellow, because he was taught to call it yellow, and because the word "yellow" conveys no real meaning in itself.
Color blindness is much more complicated than the above theory would seem to indicate, for it has to do with all varieties of shades and tints, and never in practice with pure colors such as are found in the spectrum.
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SWAPS.
SWAPS.
The College Transcript has a good article on Kossuth.
The Baldwin Index prints the "Art Gallery of the Skies." It also has a somewhat extended editorial on the contest.
The Alabama Monthly contains an article on Jefferson Davis. We had hoped that from college students, at least, such articles could not emanate. If the writer had thrown about him the true garb of history, well and good; but the very purpose of the sketch is to make him an example for Southern youths. "Greece and Rome furnished names which were not born to die. Germany will live in the works of Luther.
* * * And our own South will beget sons of undying fame as long as Jefferson Davis and his cause are held up before our people." What is his career, or was, perhaps, as it has been run. A partizan leadership in Congress, incompetency to maintain the contest which he had been instrumental in bringing on, and detection by the provoking prominence of "number tens" under too short petticoats, are three prominent points. To whom did Sparta point as an example for her youths, Leonidas or Aristodemus? Perhaps Jefferson Davis may "live," but will it be an enviable life? When partizanism shall have died out, and ages have sifted out all that is opposed to justice, will people look upon Jeff Davis as a benefactor of mankind? We think not. His darling scheme, by which he lives and will live, was not the embodiment of principles worthy our imitation. The introduction to the article is very well but it reminded us of sugar coated pills.
—We noticed in the St. Mary's Star an account of the oratorical contest held in that place. The winner of the Hagan gold medal was T. Francis Conroy; oration, "Effects of the Crusades."
We have received a pamphlet on the lead and zinc deposits of Cherokee County, in this state, presented by Erasmus Haworth to the Regents of this University as a thesis for the degree of Master of Science. Mr. Haworth takes up the subject quite fully, and discusses it in all its bearings. We predict a distinguished career in science for this son of the University of Kansas.
"The Qualities of a Leader" in the University Mirror can have but one possible merit—its capacity to fill up. The statements are perhaps all true, but some of the examples cited to prove, miss wide the mark. For instance, Alexander the Great is represented as a thinking man whose every action was the result of reason. Will history bear out this representation? What does history say of his action at Mount Climax and at the storming of the citadel of the Malli! His whole life in fact, was the direct result of circumstances. Napoleon perhaps, fits a little better as an example, but he too was called the man of destiny. The article terminates with a beautiful figure, couched in Longfellow's words.
The College Courier prints the oration of G. L. Mackintosh, who received second place at the contest. It is a very able production, and reads much better than the one taking first prize.
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With this issue the UNIVERSITY COURIER will, in all probability, cease its existence as such, and unite with the Kansas Review, to publish a paper known as the UNIVERSITY REVIEW. It was thought best by all parties to unite the efforts into one. Whether this be wise or not the future will tell. We do not propose to discuss it here. But, as our connection is severed with this issue, we would like to say a few words on retiring.
Our acquaintanceship, we trust, has been productive of good; we have enjoyed it, and been benefitted by it. And I would say to my successor, exercise caution. Handle the Baldwin Index carefully, for you know she is a tender scion. Beware of the Gatling gun of the Illini. Treat the Rockford Seminary with deference and respect, for she demands it. Provoke not the wrath of the Crescent. Enter not into contention with the Rambler, for the name is suggestive. Think not, in the freshness of thy youth, to gain the ear of the Advocate. Be courteous and kind. If we have wounded any one we hope time will heal the wound; if any one wounded us at any time, we buttoned our coat over it and went on our way muttering.
CLIPPINGS.
—Kenyon and Amherst excuse students, who obtain a term mark of 75 per cent. in any branch, from the usual examination on the subject at the end of the term. We think a plan similar to this would vastly improve the scholarship of the colleges and do away with the evils of "cramming" for examinations. The facts show that students who obtain a good term mark seldom have any trouble in passing their examinations. Moreover, under such a system each one would try to do his best on every lesson, and thus learn far more of the subject.
—Perhaps it is safe to say that one-half of the translations made in the classics are bohna fide. —Chaff.
Forest and Stream will next year offer a $100 cup for inter-collegiate shooting. The conditions to be announced later.
The presidential ballot at Cornell resulted as follows: Blaine 159; Edmnnds 108; Cleveland 27; Arthur 24; Tilden 21; scattering 53.
—The State college of Alabama, situated at Auburn, Ala., has followed the lead of Vanderbilt in repealing its anti-fraternity laws. Beta Theta Pi.
The New York Sun is not as respectful to judges as it should be and is very unkind to Colonel McClure, saying:
Out in Kansas last week they had an oratorical contest, and awarded the $100 prize to a young man who waltzed around the conundrum, "Watchman, What of the Night?" Now they have found that his effort was a clean-cut plagiarism from Colonel McClure, of the Quaker City. The young Demosthenes has been censured and disgraced. We are opposed to lynch law, but some severe punishment should be inflicted on the committee which awarded a prize to the eccentric vaporings of Philadelphia's editorial mugwump.
—"It is more blessed to give than to receive," as the young man said when he imprinted a kiss on his sweetheart's lips. "I think so, too," she replied, as she returned the salute; and thus two hearts were made happy by a single quotation.-Ex.
The reply of a poor fellow whose house is situated in malarious district, to the question: "Is life worth living?"--Not by a damp site.
-At Dartmouth two new prizes have been offered: one, $40, for the best essay on "Free Trade," and the other, $50, for the best one on "Protection."
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VIEWS.
VIEWS
DALLAS, Tex., April 25, 1884.
EDITOR COURIER: I consider myself entirely outside of the arena of college politics, believing it to be the peculiar prerogative of active students to discuss and settle all questions of immediate interest to themselves. I see, however, by the last number of the Courier that the project of consolidating Review and Courier is again revived, and I presume, as formerly, by ex-students. And wishing to congratulate you on the stand you have taken against consolidation, as evidenced by a recent editorial, I have taken the liberty to address you. I would not attempt to give any better reasons for non-consolidation than those you offer in the editorial just mentioned. Those are sufficient and unanswerable. The Courier, as edited by you, has been preeminently fair in the treatment of all classes. Neither fraternity nor non-fraternity can complain. You have always had in view the fact that "a man's a man for a' that,'" be he "frat'" or be he "barb;'' but at the same time you have not feared to refute senseless and contemptible bosh, whether coming from "fraternity cranks'" or anybody else. The non-society faction was never fairly represented until the inception of the Courier, but it has been ever since, and doubtless will be until that paper shall go down before its enemies or by the apathy of its so-called friends. Ten to one, consolidation would rob this "outside'" class of half of its rights; and even if it should not, you have not failed to give good and sufficient reasons for the existence of two papers, and especially for the
existence of the Courier. I venture the opinion that a union of the two papers now would not secure the real, or perhaps pretended object. Consolidate, and within two years the students will start another paper. If I mistake not the "mushroom (? ) periodical" is popular with all classes, is on a good financial basis and is gaining friends every day. Then let it live. Why not? Don't give up the ship unless it is unquestionable to the interests of all parties concerned. Re-echo the sentiment: "Long live the Courier."
C. C. DART.
In view (no pun intended) of probable consolidation, this department will very likely yield up the ghost with the present issue, and the virtuous sleep of the editor will be no longer haunted by dreams of a heartless business manager who never has enough copy, nor visions of the fellow with a grievance to air, or his E. C., the fellow who does not want his alleged frailties ventilated. Having just emerged from the clutches of both these worthies, it is pleasant to feel that the hour of deliverance is nigh, when the salvation of the Lord shall be forthcoming in the shape of a release from official care. A brief experience in so humble a way has proved an utter disenchantment of editorial life, and we shall retire with feelings of charity for none and malice toward all, except the Christian few who have averted the wrath of the B. M. aforesaid, by contributing to these columns. Selah.
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PERSONAL.
—'84, W. T. Findley, has returned home.
—Miss Franc Johnson is at home visiting.
—T. F. Doran has left school for this year.
—Alfred Yohe is at home visiting his parents.
—'83, Percy Russell, is visiting in Garden City.
—'87, H. A. McLean, is visiting at home, but will return to Commencement.
—'84, A. S. Riffle, letters the diplomas this year.
—'85, Barlow Lippincott is visiting in Kansas City.
The Coates House orchestra will attend Commencement.
—'83, J. F. Tucker, visited his University friends last week.
—Miss Alice Noble has returned home from her visit to Texas.
—'83, Miss Lizzie Wilder, was in the city last week visiting.
—'83, E. C. Little, gave the K. S. U. a very pleasant call last Friday.
—Mr. Long, of Baker University, gave the K. S. U. a call last week.
—'81, Scott Hopkins, will be unable to attend Commencement this year.
—Miss Mary Miller entertained the Seniors very pleasantly Friday night.
—Misses Carrie Morse, Hattie Black and Agnes Wright went to Baldwin last Saturday.
—W. C. Yeager has withdrawn from the K. S. U., and returned to his home in Chase County.
—'87, Clark Mahan, has withdrawn from the University and returned to his home in Abilene.
—'84,W.T.Findley,has returned home.
Miss Franc Johnson is at home visiting.
—T. F. Doran has left school for this year.
—Alfred Yohe is at home visiting his parents.
—'83, Percy Russell, is visiting in Garden City.
—'87, H. A. McLean, is visiting at home but will return to Commencement.
—'84, A. S. Riffle, letters the diplomas this year.
—'85, Barlow Lippincott is visiting in Kansas City.
The Coates House orchestra will attend Commencement.
-'83, J. F. Tucker, visited his University friends last week.
Miss Alice Noble has returned home from her visit to Texas.
-83, Miss Lizzie Wilder, was in the city last week visiting.
—'83, E. C. Little, gave the K. S. U. a very pleasant call last Friday.
Mr. Long, of Baker University, gave the K. S. U. a call last week.
—'81, Scott Hopkins, will be unable to attend Commencement this year.
—Misses Carrie Morse, Hattie Black and Agnes Wright went to Baldwin last Saturday.
Miss Mary Miller entertained the Seniors very pleasantly Friday night.
'83, W. C. Spangler went up to Topeka last Tuesday to see about the new catalogue.
'80, Miss Mina Marvin, will be in the city the last of the week to attend Commencement.
Mrs. P. C. Young, of Kansas City, has been visiting her daughter Pearl for several days.
'85, E. F. Caldwell, has returned from Kansas City, where he has been in the interest of the Cicala.
'83, Miss Annie Murphy, is at Linwood, Kansas. She will attend the Commencement exercises.
Mr. Wright, a student from Bedford, Iowa, has taken his examinations and returned home Saturday.
'83, Miss Mary McQuiston, is in San Marcial, New Mexico. She will be here to attend Commencement.
Chancellor Lippincott sent an invitation to the Ladies' Social Science Club to attend Commencement.
J. P. Jacke graduated at the Canyon City Military Academy last week, and delivered an oration on Socrates.
Misses Mattie Erb and Nellie Melville, and Mr. G. W. Metcalf will graduate in the Musical Department this year.
'86, Clara Hunsicker, thinks of bringing suit against Spangler and the Faculty for leaving her name out of the new catalogue.
Mr. McQueen, a graduate of '82, from Alleghany College, Meadville, Pa., visited the University last week, and exchanged compliments with his Phi Kappa Psi brothers,
—W. C. Yeager has withdrawn from the K. S. U., and returned to his home in Chase County.
-'87, Clark Mahan, has withdrawn from the University and returned to his home in Abilene.
—'83, W. C. Spangler went up to Topeka last Tuesday to see about the new catalogue.
—'80, Miss Mina Marvin, will be in the city the last of the week to attend Commencement.
—Mrs. P. C. Young, of Kansas City, has been visiting her daughter Pearl for several days.
—'85, E. F. Caldwell, has returned from Kansas City, where he has been in the interest of the Cicala.
—'83, Miss Annie Murphy, is at Linwood, Kansas. She will attend the Commencement exercises.
Mr. Wright, a student from Bedford, Iowa, has taken his examinations and returned home Saturday.
—'83, Miss Mary McQuiston,is in San Marcial, New Mexico. She will be here to attend Commencement.
-Chancellor Lippincott sent an invitation to the Ladies' Social Science Club to attend Commencement.
—J. P. Jacke graduated at the Canyon City Military Academy last week, and delivered an oration on Socrates.
—Misses Mattie Erb and Nellie Melville, and Mr. G.W.Metcalf will graduate in the Musical Department this year.
—'86, Clara Hunsicker, thinks of bringing suit against Spangler and the Faculty for leaving her name out of the new catalogue.
Mr. McQueen, a graduate of '82, from Alleghany College, Meadville, Pa., visited the University last week, and exchanged compliments with his Phi Kappa Psi brothers,
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THE CORRIDORS.
WE WANT TO KNOW.
—If we are going to pass?
—Or had we better make it next?
- How Prof. Nicholls enjoyed the side show?
How the English History class likes lotteries.
-Why Riggs is letting his mustache grow so very long?
Where are the petitioners who did get the Sigma Chi?
- If W. T. S. N. is the laziest man in the University?
—What makes H. F. Smith so late to dinner every day?
-Why the Athletic Association don't work up a good Field Day?
—If the scheme of "Me and Dan" didn't work, and why not?
How many alumni will attend alumni day of Commencement week?
—If the cop isn't as big a man as the "son of state commissioner?"
—Why the boats are not sent for and the boat club put in training?
Who is it who "will not be engaged next Sunday evening, though?"
—Why the "me too" company has so much trouble getting a quorum?
—If Leach "saw" Preston after the meeting of the Courier company?
—Who steals the new straw hats and substitutes the ancient winter ones?
What has become of the foot ball eleven and their penitentiary suits?
Where the college yell advocates got their liquid inspiration, and their bail?
—Why the Freshmen don't occupy the rostrum as often as they did last session?
—If two circuses in one week wasn't the climax of perfect bliss for prepdom?
If the man who is fencing the path across lots over the hill hadn't better wait till after Commencement?
—Why the approach of commencement makes merchants refuse to "stand off"' the the financially embarrassed student?
—Prof. Canfield attended the circus in a body.
A new walk gives a better approach to the college building.
The subject of changing the Courier to a weekly paper is being agitated.
The base ball club vanquished the town boys by a score of twenty-six by thirteen.
—Dr. Lippincott was the only one rash enough to attend the Juniors' Historical Lectures. He only went the first day.
The Betas have furnished their hall in elegant style, and now have the finest home of any fraternity here.
The Senior class with a few friends, gathered last Friday evening at the residence of their classmate, Miss Mary Miller, to enjoy one more social reunion before they should for the last time gather as students at their alma mater. This class has aiways been known for its pleasure loving members, and this evening they nobly maintained their reputation. A most delightful time was had, and the parting brought many regrets. '84 has ever taken the lead in all affairs which bring pleasure and relief to the rather monotonous student's life. At its departure all will feel that a great loss has been experienced by the college.
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—Quiz.
—Cram.
—Exam.
Picnics.
— COURIER forever!
—Almost through.
The Cicala is printed.
—Will we have a field day?
The regents meet the first week in June.
—Glen Miller has a Prince Albert.
—Warm weather hurts the literary soies.
The Athletic Association seems to weaken.
-Victor Linley is president of the Oread Society.
—Hair, tooth and nail brushes just received at Straffon's.
-Millard & Cooper will offer a prize next year, free to all.
—Thirteen hundred commencement invitations were sent out.
We want to impress the necessity of a gymnasium upon the regentorial brain.
The largest stock of the finest straw hats in the city is to be found at Bromel-sick's.
The Coates opera house orchestra has been engaged for Class and Commencement days.
The Seniors have pa.sed a resolution declaring that Bromelsick's is the place for neck ties.
-This is the last number of the Courier for this year, but Bromelsick continues to have the best stock of hats in town.
The students will petition the regents to pass a resolution requesting Bromelsick the hatter, to establish a branch house on the campus.
The class of '85 has elected the following officers: President, F. S. Foster; vice president, B. K. Bruce; secretary, Hattie Hulick; treasurer, S.M.Cook; poet. Victor Linley.
—D. F. Bigelow has a fine assortment of toilet articles such as combs, brushes and plate glass mirrors, besides the best of perfumes and toilet soaps.
—The Sigma Chis had intended to run sub rosa till their pins had arrived, but their plans were spoiled by Mr. Pershall, who informed a reporter of their banquet and so let the Cat (Sig) out of the bag.
Last Tuesday evening the Alpha Psi chapter of Sigma Chi was established at the University of Kansas. Rev. A. S. Embree, of Olathe, and Mr. Lichty, of Nebraska University ushered the boys into the mysteries of the Greeks. The fraternity is one of the best in the United States, and has chapters in nearly all of the prominent western colleges. Alpha Psi is the thirty-sixth and is undoubtedly an excellent one. The nine charter members are well known students and stand high in studies, politics and society. They have had difficulties to contend with in having to meet the opposition of another set of petitioners from here, but showed true Greek spirit in standing firmly by their colors and at last received their reward. We prophesy a successful career for Sigma Chi in the University of Kansas. The pin is a Greek cross and looks very pretty. Their colors are blue and gold.
After the initiation they adjourned to Persall's, where that worthy caterer had a banquet prepared, well worthy of Greeks, if not of God! Again we say welcome to Sigma Chi, may she live long and prosper. The following are the charter members: R.C. Preston, C.L.Smith,C.S.Metcalfe,R.L McAlphine,Guy Shultz, Will Shultz,D.C Kennedy,H.F.Albert,and Geo Metcalfe
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STUDENT'S SORROWS.
A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS. From the Original.
ACT I.
Scene, H——'s room. Deep dark scheme of B——'s unearthed. Money required! Long consultation; finally the needful produced.Uproarious applause. Exit big four, no More. Tableau; white light; music, lively: "We'll All Be There."
ACT II.
Scene, John W—llr-f's garden. Enter conspirators to slow music: "We've Reached the Land of Corn and Beer." Argument with four glasses. L—— takes his straight; others ditto; not too straight, just straight enough. Trees begin to get dizzy, according to B—— General consternation. The discovery. All reassured by "one more." Tableau, "Everybody Rag." Music: "Landlord, Fill up the Flowing Bowl."
ACT III.
Scene, Streets of Lawrence. H——e proclaims himself the "Wakarusa Cowboy." General discussion; some cussen. Terrible wager of the four. Who can yell the longest? Harbaugh thinks the Sigma Chis are out, and rushes to the rescue. Announcement of his rank by the son of the state commissioner." Cop still firm, Tableau, "Lhe Majesty of the Taw;" red light; music, "Put Me in My Little Cell."
ACT IV.
Scene, Police court. Imposing entry of the prisoners. Touching appeal of the accused. Touching speech of the court. (Ten dollar's worth of touch.) Confession of the ring leaders. "O give me back my $7.50." Vengeance sworn on the Cop. Four souls with but a single thought ($10). Saved! Bail at last. H——y and H——e
embrace. "Don't give it away." Musie, "Ten Dollars All Around;” blue light.
ACT V.
Return of the conspirators and convicts. Welcome by the faculty. "Will never do it again." "What, never?" Well, very seldom. Injured innocents. The truth will out. All join the Good Templars Grand finale; pink and lavender lights.
The Senior Normals had a group picture of their class taken, with Prof. Williams as a center figure. The class is a good looking one, and looms.
We wish to inform you that those Wostenholm razors at Bigelow's are fine edged tools. They will remove without pain the thick and wiry beard of a Senior, and act as an anasthetic while mowing the down from the face of the Freshman.
We are glad to note an old schoolmate's success in the following from the Kansas Educationlist: "The growth of the Solomon schools is unprecedented; enumeration 287; enrollment 315. The schools were graded last Fall by J. D. McLaren and under his management the five teachers are doing good work. By means of a school exhibition during the holidays sufficient funds were procured to purchase an Estey chapel organ. The proceeds of the spelling school on March 4, paid for a life membership in the State Temperance Union. The avails of a drama on March 14, purchased an Encyclopedia. The attendance and final examination standing of each pupil will be recorded in a large Work Register, made expressly for these schools, by Hamilton, Woodruff & Co., of Topeka. On Arbor day 274 trees were planted. Twenty-six pupils will graduate from common school course at commencement exercises, May 23, in Solomon opera house."
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Lead pencils 15 cents per dozen at Straffon's.
—Herb. Bullene, of '88, now wears the Phi Psi shield.
—Rob. Rankin is off on a visit to the Indian Territory.
Already old students are flocking in to visit old haunts,
The Courier hasn't consolidated, and don't you forget it.
Several of the Seniors have serious doubts of graduating.
—H. F. Graham is the new speaker of the Orophilian Society.
—A great many alumni have written, promising to attend commencement.
—Foot ball has been taking a back seat lately. Why is this thusly?
The Freshman is rushing to get his botanical collection completed.
—Prof. Brownell lectured before the Normal Literary Society last Friday.
The base ball club vanquished the Ottawas by a score of fifteen to seven,
-A fine lot of hair and clothes brushes just opened at Straffon's "South End Drug Store."
—M. J. Keys casts the vote of Ottawa county in the Democratic state convention.
—"Henry made his big speech on Thursday, with cuffs and collars from Bromelsick's on.
- We wonder where Spangler got the idea that the Chancellor's office was his own private property.
The new catalogue is out, showing five hundred and twenty-one students. The enrollment would be larger, but the subpreps are not included,
The Senior Law class was examined last week for admittance to the bar. Eight doung lawyers were turned loose on an innocent public.
—Ask Dean if you are behind on your subscription. If he says you are, pay up. Don't leave your washing or newspaper bills unsettled.
The new signs, "keep off the grass' are meant for jokes. Some foolish people thought they were in earnest, and tried to find the grass-in vain.
In the joint meeting of Courier and Review companies, Spangler wept hot tears at the thought of giving up the Review name. Poor name, poor Henry, poor weep!.
The campus is being considerably improved, under the direction of Dr. Courtney, assisted by a few select students who skip their classes to engineer such a needful work.
Invitations are out for a marriage on the second of June, at Beloit, Kansas. Who do you suppose it is? Why our old friends Richard Foster, of '82 and Alla M. Barnes of '83. Did you ever! We congratulate.
The class of '88 organized last week, with B. P. Blair as president. Their colors are pink and blue, and are very pretty. Motto, that never failing source of trouble is not yet selected,
—Examinations are held this year on a new plan. The first hour classes suffer on Monday; the second hour on Tuesday; the third hour on Wednesday, and the fourth hour on Thursday. This gives each plenty of time.
Here is a joak on Prof Robinson. One very warm day last week the professor was returning home from his task of impressing Latin on the K. S. U. brain, and had struggled through the sun and heat a good part of the distance, when he remembered that he had left his buggy on the heights of Oread. Hac Fabula docet, that even the wisest are sometimes left.
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-Ed Little comes down to see that friend every Sunday.
—Hurrah for the base ball club! It got there in good shape.
The June number of the Courier will be of unusual interest.
-A fine picture of '84 ornaments (?) the front of the Cicala.
—Keys' side whiskers are wonderful and fair to look upon. So are Rockwell's.
The Senior boat ride was postponed. Their diplomas cost ten dollars this year.
Four little aligators now occupy a case in Prof, Snow's department and attract the visitor.
—Prof. Brownell has his hands full, hearing the numerous speakers for Commencement week.
The petitioners who did not get Sigma Chi are said to be trying Delta Tau Delta, Poor Delta Tau!
Dead broke, bank busted and credit exhausted how many are in that fix? Don't all speak at once.
Powell got hold of the wrong man when he tackled Albert. He hasn't played ball all spring in vain.
The Courier hasn't croaked, turned up its toes or consolidated, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
The programs of the literary societies have consisted principally of debates lately, they being the easiest gotten up.
—Lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said, in spite of Leach, Dean, Johnson and Fate, we never will consolidate.
—The Seniors are going boat riding. How will common boats support such an array of beauty (?) brains (?) and cheek?
We are happy to state that our former Fortnight editor is no longer a member of the Courier company. For this and all other blessings let us be duly thankful.
At a meeting of the Courier company Monday consolidation would have been defeated if the consolidaters had not filibustered and broke the quorum.
A young lady Sophomore who is now pursuing the festive study of Zoology, has discovered a snake new to science—the "hose-supporter," she thus dignifies the garter snake; and yet some said it was not a modest class.
—The panic of last week never reached the University. Several of the students lost heavily. Dean lost an old hat; Preston lost his presence of mind, and Leach lost his temper. Courier stock remained firm, consolidated was below par.
One morning last week two snakes in one of the glass boxes in the Zoo room were made happy by a breakfast on two toads. The next morning the larger snake waited in vain for a repetition of the treat but finally took in the other. So is the museum being reduced by ravages.
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
C. W. STRAFFON, Prescription Druggist.
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
THE LARGEST BOOK STORE IN KANSAS.
ATTENTION STUDENTS!
GO TO THE CHALLENGE STORE
IN HOUSE'S NEW BLOCK Is Where KlocK & Falley
For Bargains in Notions! 76 Massachusetts Street.
Are keeping A FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT Confectionery and Oysters in every style. 167 Massachusetts St.
THE HOTEL
LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLEGE,
[ ESTABLISHED 1869.]
Institute of Penmanship, Short-Hand, Telegraphy and English Training School.
Winter Term Opens January 3rd.
COURSE OF STUDY.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.—Book-keeping (by Single and Double entry) Commercial Arithmetic, Rapid Calculations, Actual Business Practice, Commercial Law, Business Penmanship, Letter Writing, Spelling and Grammar.
For Journal and information, address
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
BOOR & McILRAVY, Principals and Proprietors
STUDENTS TRY
BOYER
[Successor to the Chicago Photo Co.]
FOR WORK.
Guarantees work equal to the best made in the city.
Special rates given to students. Lamon's old stand.
125 Massachusetts Street,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
HARRIS & SIMONS. Manufacturers of Finest Candies
OYSTERS OF EVERY VARIETY.
OYSTERS OF EVERY VARIETY SUPPERS SERVED IN THE BEST STYLE. 194 Massachusetts Street.
MERCHANT TAILORS. For First Class Work and latest styles go to KUNKEL & ROCKLUND, Over Steinberg's Dry Goods Store.
C. Z. KELSO, 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.
点
GEO. B. EDGAR,
U. S. Claim Agent and Notary Public, Mc Cullough Block LAWRENCE, - KANSAS.
PERSHALL'S RESTAURANT And Dining Room.
What are You Looking For?
IF FOR FINE SHOES AND SLIPPERS,
HUME'S is the place to get them. PRICES CORRECT.
JOHN HUME.
Kunkel & Rocklund, the Champion Tailors.
STUDENTS,
Buy Your Groceries OF ENDSLEY JONES.
C. L. EDWARDS,
DEALER IN
Hard and Soft Coals. OFFICE 143 MASSACHUSETTS ST.
WM.E.YEAGER FLORIST,
No. 28 New Hampshire Street.
TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN
By the use of VITALIZED AIR.
J.E. GEROULD,
DENTIST.
OVER TWENTY-ONE
YEARS EXPERIENCE.
All-
Work
War-
rant-
ed.
No. 618 Main Street.
KANSAS CITY, MO.
JOSEPH GILLOTT'S STEEL PENS SOLD BY ALL DEALERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION-1878.
NATIONAL SCHOOL SUPPLY BUREAU.
BELOIT, Wis., July 31, 1883. National School Supply Bureau :
Last April, being then in charge of a large public school, but desiring a position in some good academy or college. I placed my name with your Bureau. During the first part of the present month I received notice from you of a vacancy. Putting myself in communication with the party concerned I received the appointment. I am well satisfied with the management of the Bureau, and feel sure that it fills a useful and necessary place in our school economy. You are at liberty to use my name if you wish.
Respectfully, EDWARD O. FISKE. Headmaster Markham Acad., Milwaukee, Wis. For application-form and circular, address : National School Supply Bureau, Chicago, Ill. N. B. We want all kinds of Teachers for Schools and Families. Good pay to Agents and Private Correspondents.
STUDENTS, REMEMBER
Latest Styles of Boots and Shoes
AT BOYD'S,
House's New Block.
CHAS. CHADWICK.
Insurance Agent,
77 Massachusetts Street.
STEELE & BELL,
Attorneys, Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Agents. Office on Henry, west of Mass. St.
{ L. 8. STEELE .
{ PETER BELL
A. A. RUSS.
A. A. RUSS,
DENTIST,
Over Field & Co.'s Book Store.
Massachusetts St., LAWRENCE.
DR. S. B. ANDERSON.
Office over Field and Evans' Store Patronage Solicited. Massachusetts Street.
JOHN PUNTON, M. D., Lawrence.
Lawrence, Kan.
Office in connection with Dr. F. D. Morse, over Woodward's Drug Store.
S. J. HAMPSHIRE, B. S. M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon, Lawrence, Kansas Office with Dr. Miller.
PAT HAMLIN
Furnishes Fine Rigs at Student's Prices. Sta just bleEast of Post Office.
H. MARTIN,
DEALER IN
Imported and Domestic Cigars, 94 Mass. St., LAWRENCE, KAN.
MILLARD & COOPER, Billiard Parlors
60 Massachusetts St.
HENRY FUEL, Boot and Shoe Maker.
Repairing neatly done. Custom work made to order.
Two doors West of the National Bank.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
1807
DEPARTMENTS:
Collegiate, Preparatory, Musical, Law, Normal, Medicine, Civil Engineerin
FACULTY:
JOSHUA A. LIPPINCOTT, A.M., D.D., President Mental and Moral Philosophy.
FRANK H. SNOW, A.M., Ph.D. NaturalHistory.
DAVID H. ROBINSON, A. M., Latin Language and Literature.
EPHRAIM MILLER, A. M., S., Mathematics.
E. H. S. BAILEY, 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,JA.M., Civil Engineering and Drawing.
EDWARD L. NICHOLS, Ph. D., Physics, Astronomy.
For General information dadress,
[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.M., German and French Languages and Literature.
ARTHUR G. CANFIELD, A. M., 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 SUMERFIELD Instructor Law Department.
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W. C. SPANGLE Clerk.
J. HOUSE, The Popular Clothier!
Grand array of attractions in Men's, Youths', Boys', and Children's Clothing. New styles for Spring & Summer now ready for you. Absolute perfection in fabric, fit and durability, guaranteed. You may be sure of the latest and best! You may count on the lowest prices. Come right now and get a quadruple bargain.
1st bargain, Best Style; 2nd bargain, Finest Fabric; 3rd bargain, Perfect Fit; 4th bargain, Lowest Prices.
J. HOUSE, 79 Mass. St.
82 MASSACHUSETTS STREET IS WHERE-
A. G. MENGER
--- SELLS ---
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Therefore he invites every one to give him a call and take a look at his stock.
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.
Hamilton! Hamilton!
Is Headquarters for anything in the line of Photography. STUDENTS, call and I will guarantee satisfaction. HAMILTON, - - opposite "Round Corner" Drug Store.
WM. WIEDEMANN,
Manufacturer of Home-Made Candies.
And Dealer in Fine Confectionery, Fruits, Nuts, &c
PURE ICE CREAM MADE TO ORDER.
STUDENTS ATTENTION!
CHARTREED IN 1882
A. WEBER MERCHANT TAILOR!
No. 75 Massachusetts St.
The Recognized Head Center of Fashion!
Has the largest, finest and best selected stock of Spring Goods in the city.
ESTABLISHED IN 1878.
If you want the latest and most perfect fit call on
WEBER.
FULTON & TRUEBLOOD'S School of Elocution and Oratory
KANSAS CITY, MO.
COURSES OF STUDY.—Elocution, Rhetoric, Shakespeare, Normal Methods, Oratory and Orators.
SESSIONS.—Fall Term opens October 10th; closes December 22nd. Winter Term opens January 2nd; closes March 16th. Spring Term opens March 20th; closes June 1st. Commencement, June 20th.
THE SUMMER TERM, designed especially for college students and teachers, opens June 5th, and continues seven weeks.
CLASSES IN LAWRENCE.—In continuation of the elocutionary work in Lawrence for the past three months, new classes will be formed January 24th, for a term of thirty lessons, two lessons per week. Apply at Y. M. C. A. rooms Wednesdays and Thursdays of each week.
For catalogue giving full information as to methods, terms, etc., address
FULTON & TRUEBLOOD,
11th and Main Sts., Kansas City, Mo.
L. BULLENE & CO.
Are now making a SPECIAL SALE of
Silks and Dress Goods! At Lower Prices than have ever been known in Lawrence.
During the next 20 days they will sell Black Silks, 22 inches wide, wear guaranteed, former price $1.25, now 98 cents.
Black Silks, 24 inches wide, satin finish, wear guaranteed, worth $1.75 will sell at $1.38.
Black Silks,worth $1.60,will sell at $1.28.
Black Silks,worth $2.25, will sell at $1.83.
Black Silks, worth $2 50,will sell at $2.17.
Black Silks, regularly $3.00, will sell at $2.44
Black Rhadames,worth $1.75, will sell at $1.25.
Black Rhadames,worth $2.00,will sell at $1.65.
Handsome lines Summer Silks at 35c, 44c, 60c, 75c and 90c.
We will sell at Cost our entire line of BLACK CASHMERES. L. BULLENE & CO.
MOAK BROS. TEMPERANCE
Billiard Parlors,
66 Massachusetts Street.
PIANOS & ORGANS.
BASILLIER ORIGINAL CORE ENGINE
W. W. LAPHAM.
717 MAIN ST.,
The Best Goods!
Decker Bros..
Mathushek,
Story & Camp.
Pianos.
Western Agent for
Send for Catalogue.
Kansas Citv.
MISSOURI,
The Lowest Prices!
Estey,
Story & Camp,
Organs.
Dentaphone for the Deaf.
Story & Camp.)
Western Agent for the Dentaphone for the Deaf.
Send for Catalogue.
METTNER,
-THE PHOTOGRAPHER- 79 Massachusetts Street. THE STUDENT'S POPULAR ARTIST.
W. M. CULBERTSON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Hard Coal, Soft Coal,
PIEDMONT SMITHING COAL,
Office 110 MassachusettsSt.
A WHITCOMB,
FLORIST.
Corner Warren and Tennessee Streets LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
PALMER & GRIFFIN Dealers in Coal and Wood, Office 1st door south of M. E. Church.
Turkish Bath!
Reduced Rates to Students.
Opposite Lawrence House.
1883. FALL. 1883.
TEMPLE OF FASHION
THE FINEST SUITS IN KANSAS
ARE MADE BY
McCONNELL
THE TAILOR.
63 Massachusetts Street.
THE POPULAR BARBERS JOHNSON & MURPHY,
Opposite Mason's Shoe Store.
[Established 1870.]
CONOVER BROTHERS,
618 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.
WHY THIS RUSH INTO OUR STORE?
A
BECAUSE
The people say our establishment is one of the handsomest and best lighted in the West.
BECAUSE
Our Assortment is the largest.
Our Styles the latest.
Our Fabrics the best.
Our Prices the lowest.
BECAUSE
We pay particular attention to the cut, make and trimming of every garment that enters our house.
BECAUSE
By strictly square dealing and liberality we are deserving their patronage.
For Clothing and Furnishing
Always go to
STEINBERG, THE KING CLOTHIER.