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VOL. VII.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Local.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 5, 1889.
"Where's my hat?" Those plugs are beauties. Inter-fraternity meeting this poon Spring vacation commences Thursday.
So Hall will be Athenaeum's "figure head." Alas!
April fool's day was appropriately celebrated by the students.
"Robert's Rules of Order admits of two constructions." Who ever heard of the like before.?
The Trigonometry class was quizzed Wednesday.
The inter-fraternity base ball Association will hold a meeting this noon in Room No. 11.
The High School will have rhetorical exercises this afternoon.
Orophilian will banquet her Senior members Commencement week. Great scheme.
Hadley and Shellabarger are at present posing as amateur mesmerists.
Miss Josie Hutchings will give a recital in the chapel to-night.
Final examination in Zoology was held Wednesday and Thursday.
The audience at "A Paper Doll" was composed almost exclusively of students.
The Faculty held a meeting Tuesday night, and decided to grant the students Thursday, Friday and Monday of next week, for spring vacation.
The Geometry class had a written review Wednesday, and have commenced the study of the last book of plain Geometry.
A new pill-man was elected yesterday so the barbs are appeased.
James Whitcomb Riley and Bill Nye will be in the city on the 16th.
Prof. Sanderson lectured on the Physiology of the voice, Monday afternoon.
"If John steals the book, he is wicked." It took our revered Chancellor to settle this much disputed question.
Unity Club had an immense audience Monday night, to hear Prof. Blake and Mr. Smith on "Mesmerism."
Prof. Snow's weather report for March was issued Monday. It shows the month to have been of more than average warmth.
Saturday afternoon was lovely, and the boys took advantage of the fine weather to indulge in a game of ball.
Notwithstanding the fact that President Ross' decisions were in accordance with the by-laws of Athenaeum's constitution, the majority appealed his decisions and by brute force carried the day. Oh Justice, where art thou?
Lawrence has voted to build a $35,000 High School building.
The class in Cæsar finished the sixth book this week.
The campus is rapidly turning green, and soon the festive botany student will wander, trowel in hand, in quest of the Oxalis, as formerly.
Hon. T. Dwight Thatcher, of Topeka, is quite prominently mentioned for the Chancellorship.
Prof. Dyche delivered a lecture before School District No. 6, Friday, on "Elocution." In another column will be found the latest poetic production of Will H. Simpson's pen. It is a gem of great beauty.
The class in Sophomore Elocution was favored with the recital of a selection from Merchant of Venice, by Prof. Sanderson, last Monday.
Miss Lallie Buckingham entertained a number of her friends with a card party, Thursday evening. A most enjoyable time was spent with the charming hostess. Those present were: Misses Innes, Tisdale; Messrs. Earhart, Kaiser, and Flannelly.
Harvey created a great sensation when he appeared with his Senior plug, Friday.
The Washburn Glee Club is contemplating giving a concert in Lawrence, in the near future.
The I.—F. B. B. Association held a meeting Monday noon. Wallace Swank presided as chairman pro tem. Smith, Shellabarger, and Simmons were appointed a committee on general arrangements. Meeting adjourned until to-day.
Prof. Marsh's lecture before the literary societies has been postponed until next Tuesday evening.
The old store-room in the north end of the basement is being fitted up as a workshop for the class in Physics.
Prof. Blake received Saturday a 5,000 candle power Brush focusing lamp, to be used in stereoptican lectures.
The good people of West Lawrence are said to have been greatly edified a few nights ago by the spectacle of Voorhis and Hadley in exceedingly scanty attire, and wrathfully pursuing a musical tomcat that was treating them to a seremade.
Sunday at 4 p.m., at the Young Men's Christian Association, Song and praise service. Prof. El Escells' song book will be used. Students are very heartily invited to the service.
Miss Tella Chapman has been compelled to leave school on account of ill health. She expects soon to go to Syracuse, Kans., hoping to derive benefit from the change.
Mrs. J. H. Canfield very pleasantly entertained the University Sketch Club at a five o'clock tea, Monday.
Died.
To the barb faction on Wednesday evening, April 3, at 9:30, George M. Culver, aged 15 years, 186 months. He will be interred in the Beta Theta Pi cemetery, where Wooglin will watch over his sad remains. In his demise the barbs have sustrained a great loss; their leader has fallen; the crown which they had placed upon his head has been rudely thrust aside, and they feel deserted and lost. Mr. Culver fought bravely for "students Associations" and for the "dear barbs," he helped on the Times and had a big finger in the new Oratorical Association and has now gone to reap the reward of his labors at the hands of those who have so fairhfully watched over, guarded and guided him in his praise-worthy, disinterested, noble efforts. Peace to his ashes. To the sad-eyed barbs who have been so rudely deserted, we extend our heartfelt sympathy in this their hour of bereavement.
Pharmacy Phreaks.]
L. W. Snepp spent Sunday in Olathe with his family.
The juniors rose up in their barbarian wrath and smote the fraternities hip and thigh. The mandate has gone forth that a Greek, however meek, can not a pill speech speak.
It is rumored that many of the Pharmics are "Lonely bouillon"since exams.
SMART JUNIOR—White's monthly effusions in the Review.
PROF.—What is the most powerful emetic?
Hickey has finished assaying at last.
Personal.
Otis visited at his home in Atchison this week.
Miss Emma Wnite was quite sick last week.
Misses Innes, Town and Mason visited the University Friday afternoon.
Hogeboom and Edson Sundayed in Topeka.
Will Franklin has decided to remain another year with the University.
Regent Moody was in town Saturday.
Fred Kellogg and mustache were n Lawrence the first of the week.
Charley Voorhees is now one of the business managers of the Times.
Doc Himoe, of Kansas City, a well known student of former years, was in Lawreece last Saturday.
Misses Price and House visited the University Monday.
Fred Dorrance Sundayed in Topeka.
Allie Walker visited K. S. U.
Wednesday.
Lucene Barker was sick last Monday.
Miss Carrie Watson spent last Sunday in Emporia.
P. P. Campbell was seen in the city last Friday.
Fiegenbaum is taking shorthand lessons at the Business College.
Roy Hair, of Belleville, visited friends in Lawrence last Saturday and Sunday.
Orrendorf has quit school and expects to start at once for California.
Miss Merriam,preceptress at Washburn College, visited K. S. U. Saturday.
Paul Learnard of Topeka, spent Sunday in the city.
Luther Brown, of Edmodena, Cal., is visiting in Lawrence with Hall. Prof. MacBrewd..11
Prof. and Mrs. Green entertained the Faculty recently.
Prof. MacDonald has been conducting chapel the past week.
Inez Henshaw was at the University Friday afternoon.
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Prof. W. S. Jenks of Ottawa, was in Lawrence last Saturday.
Mrs. Chas. Gleed visited in the city this week.
Howard Deverell expects to visit in Olathe next week.
Nate McCague was on the hill Wednesday.
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Anna Barke and Miss Love visited the University Monday.
ed the University Chancellor Lippincott was in Toseka last night.
Sherman will spend his vacation in Rossville.
The Misses Morgan visited the University Tuesday.
Prof. A. G. Canfield conducted the Y.M.C.A.meeting last Sunday.
Kistler is the latest Sigma Nu. The Fraternity now numbers twenty-one active members.
C. A. Peabody went to Kansas City yesterday to spend a few days.
Misses Barrit, Townsey, and Patrick, of Ottawa, were shown through the University Friday.
Mrs. Carruth will lecture before the Pi Beta Psis to-morrow afternoon, at the home of Miss Sue Miles.
Prof. Ryan is going to leave us. His many friends regret his departure.
Otto Johnson attended the Tertelerian Club hop in Ottawa Tuesday.
The Inter-State Contest.
The judges selected for the Inter-State oratorical contest to be held at Gunnell, Iowa, May 2nd, are as follows: Thought and Composition, Gov. Foraker of Ohio, Pres. F. O. Chamberlain of the State University of Wisconsin, Attorney General John Y. Stone of Iowa. Delivery, Judge John T. Phillips of Kansas City, Mo, Ex-Gov. James W. Dawes of Nebraska, Hon. W. N. Horner of Illinois. So far we have heard from only five State contests. These states will be represented as follows: Kansas, A. W. Brewster, Washburn College, "Progress and its Agencies;" Illinois, F. W. Wheeler, Wesleyan University, "The Perpetual in America;" Iowa, O. R. Patrick, Parsons College, "Luther before the Diet of Worms;" Wisconsin, J. A. Blaisdell, Beloit College, "Riot and Revolution;" Ohio, E. S. Hughes, Wesleyan University, "The Philosophy of Inequality.
The secretary, Mr. Hartigan, of Doane College, Neb., writes that the contest promises to be a great success. And you can put it down right now that Kansas is going in for first place and Brewster is his name.
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THE CHAUCER CONCORDANCE.
Prof. Dunlap's Work on it.
With the appearance of the Chaucer Concordance and the new critical edition of the Texts of Chaucer, both now in process of preparation, the work of the Chancer Society will be finished. TheChaucer Concordance, edited by Wilson Greshem,will,when completed, surpass in fullness all English Concordances. It is to contain not merely references to the texts, like Mrs. Cowden Clark's Shakespeare Concordance but also a complete Chaucerian Glossary—and we might almost say—grammar. To illustrate,under "bigot" will be given not merely references to the pages and lines where the word occurs but also the meaning of the word and its grammatical construction in each of those places.
This truly stupendous labor has been divided among English scholars possessing the devoted industry and accurate knowledge necessary for so arduous an undertaking. Mr. Dunlap, the assistant in English, has
undertaken for his share, 18 pages. Chaucer's translation of Brice's "Consolations of Philosophy." The text was furnished him by the Society and is part of the forthcoming text of Chaucer already referred to. All the references and notes are to be entered upon slips of paper of a prescribed size. "Consolations of Philosophy," Mr. Dunlap's portion, is short and there is only one text of it extant (In the case of the Canterbury tales there are six texts to be collated), yet Mr. Dunlap's portion of the work will probably amount to a thousand slips.
Not long ago Mr. Howells lamented the lack of interest shown by Americans in the works of poets that as truly belong to us as to the English in the "Old Home." It might console him to learn that the patient labors of American scholars is helping toward its completion the great Chaucer Concordance.
CRONACA
Glen Miller a Roma.
Il giornalista americano che fa i gira del mondo a pieti.
From la Rifforma, March 2nd. (One of the Roman dailies.) Glen Miller, a very intelligent and prepossessing young mar, with a red mustache, was born at Millville, Ohio, March 3rd, 1863. In 1869 he removed to White Cloud in the State of Kansas.
He followed a regular course of studies in the public schools and in 1880 was admitted as alumnus into the State University of Kansas. He was given the degree of Doctor of Letters in 1884. During his life as a student he founded a journal, the University Courier, of which he continued proprieter for about two years.
From 1884 to 1888 he was employed as locomotive engineer on a railroad, traveling continually through the States of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin, without ceasing' however, to collaborate on the most important papers and on the reviews o. Kansas City, Chicago and New York.
On the seventh of November of last year he determined to realize a very difficult project, long cherished by him with special inclination, that of makin the tour of the world on foot. He remained in the United States until that date in order that, like a good American, he might before starting know the result of the presidential election.
He embarked at New York and landed at Southampton. He traveled on foot through the Isle of Wight, through Il the southern part of En-
gland; then from Havre to Paris; from Paris to Lyons, Marseilles, Toulon, Nice, Genoa, Pisa and Rome.
He will continue northward, going through Italy, Switzerland and Germany, going directly to Berlin. From Berlin he will go to Dresden, Vienna, Constantinople, Odessa, Moscow, St.Petersburg; thence to Sweden and Norway, Scotland, Ireland and England, back to London. From London he will set sail for Egypt, will cross Arabia, Persia, India, and China. From China his route will be to Japan, then to Australia, and from there as the last step, to San Francisco; from the shores of the Pacific he will return to his home, Kansas City, and to Chicago, the agricultural emporium of chief importance of the far west.
He has calculated that to put this project in execution will not take more than three years.
His whole baggage consists of a knapsack made especially for this purpose) the knapsack will hold just one change of linen. Glen Miller carries with him also a waterproof, a rubber drinking cup, a pocket compass and a map of the country through which he is passing. Neither rain nor wind nor snow nor tempest nor thunder—he says—have hindered or will hinder him from continuing his journey. According to his calculations he can make about 42 kilometers per day.
When he set Gut he knew besides English only a little German; but knowing Greek and Latin well, studying, remembering, taking notes, observing, he was able to invent a language composed of different words of very different idioms—a kind of valapuk, very peculiar and curious, but with which he succeeded in making himself understood marvelously. He is correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and of several other journals.
Once he was arrested in France as a German spy. He has often been obliged to sleep out of doors, exposed to the inclementy of the weather; he has often aroused suspicion and distrust, and on asking for snelter has had the door shut in his face.
Here are his impressions:
"I have found the English more reserved and dignified than Americans. The Isle of Wight is a very beautiful country.
"Southern France impressed me more than any other country by the politeness and the cleanliness of the inhabitants; all the people there were very pleasant to me, but I had many annoyances from that miserable prejudice that makes French eyes see in every stranger a German py.
"The police could not be content
in spite of my passport and my references; the police could not understand how an American could travel on foot.
"Without any intention of paying flattery to the country in which I am. I will say plainly that I have been treated by the Italians in a more hospitable and courteous manner than by any other people of Europe; I have not had to suffer annoyances or spiteful persecutions from the police, nor from the authorities, nor from the soldiers.
"I think that the Riviera is the most beautiful country in the world, and the vision of this terrestrial paradise is always before my eyes. If I had to choose a place of residence and were it not for duties to be fulfilled and plans to be realized and business affairs in my fatherland, I would settle in Rome, the city that suits me best of any in the Old World or in the New."
Glen Miller has taken a small apartment in Victoria street, at No. 32; he is taking his meals at Hotel Campidoglio; he leaves on Monday.[Prof. A. G. Canfield has very kindly furnished us the above translation—entirely literal—of the sketch of Glen Miller, which was printed in the Italian paper la Riforma of March 3rd.]
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The Review in its last issue decides to take a hand in the Annual fight and allows "Buffoon" White to fill four pages of its valuable space with wholesale abuse of those who would not obey his Lordship's orders and help support the factional affair known as the Annual. We suppose the article in the Review forshadows what may be expected in the Annual, namely: Wholesale denunciation, as organizations, of the fraternities which refused to give it their support, and personal abuse of their members. Such is the known character of the man at the head of the affair. From his first week in the University, when he wrote his home paper a letter filled with vituperation and abuse of the five rivals of his own, then would be beloved Phi Delta Theta, he has known but one answer to an argument and that is to sling mud. At this he is an adept and his position on the Annual will give him an opportunity to give full vent to his favorite occupation, and our word for it "Buffoon Billy" will avail himself of the opportunity.
Field & Hargis are headquarters for BASE BALL SLIPPERS, LAWN TENNIS and all Sporting Goods. PIGS IN CLOVER in a few days.
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The University Voice has an excellent article on "Education in the German Universities," by Prof. W. Z. Bennett, in which the Professor says that the teachers are original thinkers but poor instructors and lecturers. They do not become acquainted with the students, and take no personal interest in them. He says: "I doubt if such a hot-bed of iniquity is to be found elsewhere in any enlightened community as the average German university. Drunkenness, gambling, lewdness, dueling, lying and even thieving are but the common indulgencies of the typical German student. Not only does the faculty entirely disregard the vicious practices which are carried on openly, but the average university professor in Germany is probably a little more unscrupulous liar, as I have reason to know, and a little bolder libertine, if the common voice can be trusted, than the average student." The conclusion is that America is the best place after all to secure an education.
A final examination is the concentrated essence of treacherous trickery and malicious meanness, the bane of the honest worker, the hope of the habitual flunker.—College Courier.
Washburn's faculty has forbidden the students to write on "Robert Elsmere's Religion." The Washburn Argo says: "It has at last been revealed that Robert Elsmere was declared contraband because it does not show up the old blue line of orthodoxy in its most attractive light. * * * * We know that there are people in Kansas whose faith is so strong that they do not believe that orthodoxy can be hurt even if both sides of the question are investigated; and that there are others who do not believe that there should be any distinction made or partiality shown in religious matters in a college which has as its object "broad culture." But these side remarks do not effect the question, at any rate it is more than probable that the time is not far distant when these outside people will throw off their liberal views and join the ranks that are marching to glory in an undeviating line." The faculty of Washburn college should remember that we are living in the X1Xth century.
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Political Science Club.
Political Science Club. Through the efforts of Prof. J. H. Canfield this Club had the pleasure last Friday evening of hearing Hom Chas. S. Gleed read his most excellent paper on"The Practical Financial Value of a College Education." In order to accommodate the many visitors who desired to hear this paper, the lecture room of Snow Hall was secured; but unfortunately these same visitors, and in too many instances the members themselves seemed to forget the courtesy they owed the speaker, that of coming on time, and came straggling in a half hour late, thus materially interrupting the speaker. However Mr. Gleed held the closest attention of his audience as he showed how ill fitted teachers, as a class, are for their profession. But few of them have broadened their views by contact with eastern minds. But few of them understand that most valuable science, the science of the human body. Their knowledge of the simplest commercial forms is as limited as their knowledge of Latin and Greek. And so it is with almost all classes of our so-called educated people.
An educated man is one who has gained full mastery of the relation of things, and can stand before men with clean hands and a clean heart. Educated men are not always those who have made the best college record, or who have acquired the longest titles. Nor are the greatest readers the best informed. Very often the reverse is true. But few remember what they read, while the minds of many are like a seive.
Our educated people know next to nothing of commercial knowledge. Political distinctions and the duties of officers are but little understood. Too often they are mere devotees of specialism and know nothing outside of their little world. What our people most need is good common sense, the summing up, the symmetry of well adjusted learning. It is not extreme development we want, but a rounded development of all the faculties. An acrobat may perform startling feats on the trapeze, yet he may be absolutely worthless in any other place.
Strange as it may seem our State demands more lawyers, doctors and ministers, more professional men, men rounded out by broad culture and not narrowed by adhering to one line of study and thought. The ignorance and stupidity of our lawyers has resulted in decisions which will take years of faithful, patient toil to correct. Precedents have been established by these unwise decisions which time alone can change. It has only been of late years that
our physicians have ceased to have one name for all diseases and one cure for all the ailments of humanity—malaria and quinine.
We need learned lawyers to interpret our laws. We need skilled physicians to advise us in health and to treat us in sickness. We need men in the pulpit who have the courage of truth and the courage to speak it. We need journalists endowed with a broad liberal education, men who have an interest in all that is truest and best in life. It is gratifying to know that many of our students are coming into journalistic prominence. The need of the scholar in politics is too much of a settled fact to demand discussion. The banker as well as the merchant must be educated in order to be able not only to make a success in business but also to benefit the community in which he lives. Nor can the farmer be omitted from the list. For in Kansas the majority of the population will always be farmsrs. They possess, to-day, great advantages over those of their fathers. Public schools have reached a high grade of excellence and public libraries have placed information within the reach of all. And it is necessary that the farmer should be educated. The machinery he necessarily has, requires intelligent use. He must be acquainted with the newest methods in farming, and must understand the principle of rotation of crops if he expects to be a successful man. Besides he must be acquainted with the markets of the world in order that he may reap the greatest benefit from his labors.
For women, an education has opened up a wonderful field in which she may find employment. The woman who has an educated mind is fortunate. And she who can add this accomplishment to natural charms is sure to be sought out by the best young men of our land, a fact which should lead every girl to acquire an education. It is a mistaken notion some people have that college graduates are failures in active life. The contrary is true. They are generally the successful men. In fact the very statement that they are failures serves to show that they are not. For what else would draw so much attention to the fact that a college man is now and then a failure unless it is the fact that such occurrences are rare? No, college men as a rule are successful, and not only influence the present but shape the future.
Mr. Gleed's lecture was very interesting and instructive, and Prof. Canfield is to be congratulated on having secured for his students so excellent a disquisition on the "Practical Financial Value of an Education"
The Greatest Event of the Season. Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley at Bowersock'a opera house, Tuesday, April 16, 1889. See what the Chicago News says:
AMUSEMEMTS.
The Greatest Event of the Season
Central Music Hall last evening was filled with people who passed the time waiting for the show to begin by making pleasant remarks concerning the intelligence of the audience and telling each other what nice people were present. What they said was true. The chairs were filled to the top seat of the top gallery with doctors, lawyers, merchants,and the all-around thinkers from Michigan, Prairie, Blue Island and other avenues of life.
The audience sought the quiet rest and recuperation of an entertainment by Mr. Edgar Wilson Nye and Mr. James Whitcomb Riley, the twin humorist-and-poet showmen. Mr. Nye brought his "fatal gift of beauty with him," but it is not likely to increase the cost of the policy of insurance on his life. Mr. Nye is long and lithe, and looks through his glasses as if he saw something in a second-story window on the next block. This little peculiarity fooled the audience and made the people down stairs think he was watching the boy who was selling his book in the balcony.
Mr. Nye was amusing. Mr. W. C. Goudy laughed until the gold in his back teeth rattled against his tonsils, and Mr. Murray Nelson's face looked like a danger-signal.
Mr. Riley rather eclipsed his humorous partner in the heartiness of the applause. Mr. Nye was all fun; Mr. Riley a mixture of grave and gay. Mr. Riley's recitation of "Good-By, Jim; Take Keer o' Yourself;" was so well received that he had to return and give another dialect poem. Mr. Riley had a great deal of ability at imitation, and among his numbers were the aesthetic educator's lecture and the western orator's diatribe against baseball. Mr. Goudy and Mr. Nelson had to be held in their chairs while these samples of their elocution were being given.
Seats on sale at Crew & Co.'s book store.
The young ladies of K. S. U. are especially invited to call at Mrs. Savage's parlors a..d examine the new stock of millinery goods.
Good Clack socks for twenty-five cents at Abe Levy's.
Abe Levy sell a good white shirt for one dollar.
The parlors of Unity Club were filled to overflowing Monday evening, April 1st, with those who wished to see for themselves some of the phenomena of hypnotism, or, as it is commonly called, magnetism. Considerable attention to the subject has latejiy been aroused in Lawrence, and those who were so fortunate as to hear Prof. Blake's lecture two weeks before were especially anxious to witness some of the usual experiments. For the enlightenment of the less fortunate the Professor opened the performance by giving a short summary of his former address, in which he maintained that the phenomena of hypnotism are due to the fact that in hypnotism the conscious nervous centers no longer act, and some of their functions are usurped by the replex centers. He then introduced the operator, Mr. Smith, for the openness and honesty of whose tests he declared himself ready to vouch.
Mr. Smith began by calling for volunteer "subjects" from the audience, but among those who presented themselves there was none who possessed the required susceptibility to mesmeric influence. Mr. Smith, however, was working at the disadvantage of limited time and a rather unimpressionable audience. He stated that he thought he could, under more favorable circumstances, do something with one of the subjects.
He then proceeded to mesmerize a number of old subjects, and upon these a number of interesting experiments well performed, the most striking of which was the throwing of a little colored boy into the catalectic state. [By the way, Mr Smith, while stating that intelligent people are the most easily hypnotised, declared that women and colored people are generally the best subjects.] In the catalectic state the boy's muscles became so rigid that he maintained a horizontal position, supported on the backs of two chairs, his head or neck, and heel being the point of support. Mr Smith was followed by Mr. French who furnished the club with some interesting exhibitions of mind-reading. These were highly satisfactory and there can be no doubt of their genuineness. In reply to a question Mr. French stated that he was unable to tell how he was guided during the experiments, but he knew he fel at times sure of the place in which an article was concealed. His ability to read thoughts does not extend be yond a sense of direction and location.
The Freshman French class finish "Athalie" this week.
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Bromelsick sells ties as cheap as any body.
Oh! go and see Bromelsick's new spring hats.
Don't buy your new hat until you see Abe Levy's stock.
Call on Bromelsick and see the last party tie, it is a dandy.
Abe Levy sells the best hats in Lawrence.
Buy your new spring hat at Abe Levy's.
Call at the new tea store 812 Massachusetts street, Red Front, for good coffees and teas.
Buy your collars and cuffs of Abe Levy.
MOAK BROS.
Billiard Parlors.
CHOICE CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
No. 714 Massachusetts St.
BOOTS AND SHOES
MADE AND REPAIRED
BY
J. F. WIEDEMAN,
Second door east of Polar's Grocery
I have the handsomest, the best selected stock of Suittings Pant Goods &c., that has ever been seen in Lawrence.
McCONNELL,
The Merchant Tailor.
A liberal discount to students.
Willis,
DALEE'S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY South Tennessee Street, First-Class Work Done.
Special Rates to Students.
MENGER'S is the Place to Buy Your Fine Shoes.
ICE CREAM AND WARM ICES Delivered in Large or Small Quantities.
ORDERS TAKEN FOR FINE CAKES OF ALL KINDS.
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MILK SHAKE AND LEMONADE.
THE ASSAM TEA
AGENCY,
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812 Massachusetts Street.
Lawrence, Kansas
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Choice Coffees,
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CHINESE AND JAPANESE GOODS.
COFFEE AND CAKE FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
FALLEY & CO.
Runs the Popular Restaurant !
Good table board $3.00 per week Students boarding there may get their dinners at the University.
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MASON'S.
For Kansas Reports, KANSAS STATUTES.
THE GEO. W. CRANE PUBLISHING CO.,
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814 Kansas Avenue, Topeka. They keep a fine stock of all the latest Text-Books at lowest prices. Special prices made to students.
GEC. W. CRANE PUBLISHING CO
MARVELOUS
MEMORY
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Any book is good in one reading,
Mind wandering curled,
Speaking without notes.
Wholly unlike artificial Systems.
Pollary condemned by Supreme Court,
Great indictments in correspondence classes.
Prospectus, with opinions of Dr. Wm. A. Hammond, the world-famed specialist in Minc Diseases. Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, the great psychiatrist L. M. Hamilton, R. D. Deillot of the Christian Advocate, Richard Proctor, the Scientist, Hon. Judge Gibbons, Judah P Benjamin, are others sent free from E 237 Fifth Ave., N.Y.
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LAWRENCE, . . . KANEIS.
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CARMEAN & HARBAUGH, Have the Popular Livery Stable OF LAWRENCE. EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS
A horse-drawn carriage.
The Finest Hacks and Call Carrages in the City. Special attention Paid t Students. Telephone No.139, 818 and 820, Vermont Street, Opposite Lawrence House
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No.8 West Ninth Street,
OVER WOODWARD'S DRUG STORE.
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Particular attention given to grinding lenses and adjusting frames.
D. C. PRUDDEN, OPTICIAN.
ALL COMPETITION BLOWN UP! WIEDEMANN LEFT KING.
Everything nice in the way of Confectionery, Fruit, Nuts, etc. Oysters in Every Style.
WM. WIEDEMAN .
E. WRIGHT,
Dentist
Has removed to first door North of the Law rence House, on Vermont Street.
Teeth extracted without pain by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas.
GEO. DAVIS, MERCHANT TAILOR.
KANSAS CITY - MISSOURI. LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
Students will find it to their advantage to call and look at stock and get prices.
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'atronize our Custom Steam Laundrp for nice work and low prices.
Vork called for and delivered. Telephone No. 67.
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VOL. VII.
Local.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 10, 1889.
"Hobo!"
Home again
___ those eggs!!
Did anybody mention a class tree?
Everybody leaves for home tonight-
The lists of Sophomores and Freshmen are posted.
The Phi Delts gave a hop last night.
The burning question of the hour is not "who stole the book," but "who swallowed the egg?"
The Trigonometry classes were quizzed Friday.
We hear:----
That Worden has the laugh on the crowd.
That others are now on the list.
That the Phi Psis have initiated a new man.
That Reed takes his eggs straight.
That Roberts beat a hasty retreat.
That an ice house is a bad place for initiations.
There is a base report that the Times may sink into "innocuous desuetude" before it gets ready for Vol. II. The Courier however,goes on forever. Subscribe for the Courier.
The Entre Nous dance was attended by a number of students.
The class in Psychology was quizzed Monday.
An interesting foot race took place last Saturday night on the railroad track. Reed, Watson, Snow and Short were the contestants. Material assistance in flight was lent from the rear by interested spectators.
Zoology laboratory practice was commenced last Friday. The hours are from eight until ten, with twenty minutes recess for chapel attendance. Prof. Snow wisely suggested that the twenty minutes thus spent would be highly beneficial to the class.
The Phi Psis will give a hop this evening in their parlors.
Palladium has posted programs for her next four meetings. The interest in this enterprising society is greatly on the increase.
The High School entertainment last Friday afternoon was of great interest to the many visitors present. The best talent of the school took part on the program. K. S. U. was represented by a great number of students.
The Inter-Fraternity Base Ball Association held a meeting last Friday noon. Charley Voorhees was elected chairman, and Joe Shellabarger, secretary, protem, of this meeting. It was unanimously decided to have a Fraternity league, and the schedule of games is being prepared. Games will probably be played next week.
The lake abounds with ducks at present, and lovers of hunting are taking advantage of this opportunity for sport. Hadley and Robinson succeeded in bagging twenty birds Saturday.
The Regents at their last meeting, before dividing the chair of Natural History, made Prof. Snow director of the Museum. Thus he will be virtually at the head of the department, no matter how often the chair is divided.
Tennis has been revived in good earnest, and both courts in the city were occupied Saturday. The boys are preparing for some exciting match games.
The vicinity about the new ice house seemed to be alive with human forms last Saturday night, about the magic hour of midnight. No one appeared to know what dark deed was about to be perpetrated, but all had an air of intense expectancy. Ever and anon Major Roberts would issue forth from some secluded spot, with stately tread, and would clear the switch for the on coming freight, or point out some safe retreat for the timid youth. Dusky forms would speed down the track, followed always by several dozen products of the barnyard foul, and a large amount of improper English. At one o'clock there came a yell, the door of Prof Snow's hen coop swung open and al was silent.
The foot-race between Wixon and Firestone is billed for this afternoon. The interest up on the race is intense and equals that taken in the recent pugilistic encounter between Wixon and Bassett.
Prof. Dyche and Mr. Eames are now busy mounting the Rocky Mountain sheep and the deer.
The joint meeting of Kent and Oriphilian will be held on April 12. The program is quite elaborate.
The Phi Gams, who are ever at the head in fashion, have ordered silk hats. So watch out for your dignity, Seniors.
The boys had a great game of ball last Friday afternoon. A large crowd witnessed the game.
The classes in Logic and Psychology are reviewing their past work.
Miss May Webster is now the Theta editor on the Annual in place of Miss Julia Benedict, who was obliged to resign the position.
A recent number of the Hutchinson Republican, edited by Will Little, contains several poems by Kansas authors and among them some of Prof. Carruth's are to be found.
Miss Edna Jones visited in Lansing recently.
Personal.
John Spencer Sundayed in Law-
rence.
Etta Hadley went to Olathe last Friday.
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Priestley, of Baldwin City, was at the University Monday.
Miss Watson has been enjoying a visit from her mother.
Wehe and Stanley leave for Toneka to-night.
Miss Pearl of Kansas City, visited Amy Hayes last week.
Paul Hudson, of Topeka, is visiting the Topeka Phi Pis.
Nan Love was at the University Friday noon.
Charley Voorhis is now sporting a plug hat.
C. A. Peabody returned to Lawrence Sunday, after a few days' visit in K.C.
Sherman leaves or his home in Rossville, to-night.
Prof. Marsh was in Topeka last Saturday.
S. C. Brewster is now rooming at Mrs. DaLee's.
Wallace Swank again holds down the heavy bass in the Methodist choir.
Will Stevens, the assistant-elect of the Natural History Department, was at the University Friday.
Earhart was in Atchison last Sat.
urday.
Jesse O. Worden was off duty Saturday night and spent the evening "with the boys."
E. Park Ewart, of Washburn College, visited friends in the city last week.
Ed Morris went home to Emporia Friday.
Bert Smith is preparing the plates for the coming annual.
Marshall Barber will spend the vacation in Burlington, Kans.
Esterley expects to put in the remainder of the week in the labratory.
Dr. Marvin was seen in the halls, Thursday morning.
The Misses Henshaw and Miss Johnston were among the visitors at Atheneaum Rest Friday night.
Miss Stein, of Kansas City, is visiting Miss Mame Monroe.
Charley Wright will visit in K. C. this week.
F. C. Whittelsey, of Topeka, visited friends in the city last Saturday.
C. P. Chapman will sojourn in White Cloud during spring vacation. Smelser left for Emporia last week.
Miss Emma Lovell, of Hoxie, Kansas, is visiting in Lawrence.
Tom Horton was in the city Sunday.
Frank Patterson, of Junction City, the brother of the Misses Patterson, was in Lawrence last week.
Howard Campbell is spending the spring with his sister in California.
Phil Knowlton will visit Frank Edson in Topeka this week.
Miss Eva Hoadley and Mr. Blythe
iiv Hoadley and Mr. Blythe of Erie, Penn., were at the University last week.
Billy Taylor one of our most popular boys, has been obliged to leave school on account of sickness. He
left for Seneca Saturday.
Fred Kellogg, of Topeka, was in the city Sunday and Monday.
Misses Innes, Towne, and Mason delighted K. S. U. friends with a visit last Friday.
Voorhes and Hadley will recreate in Kansas City during vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Gleed visited in the city last week.
Dr. Lippincott leads the prayer meeting at the Methodist church in Topeka, every Thursday evening.
Johnson, Fox and Otis will leave for Aitchison to-night.
Miss Mamie Monroe entertained friends last week.
Meade expects to recreate in Menoken during vacation.
Miss Josie Cook spent Sunday in Lawrence.
Snow and Kellogg are supplying the Zoology class with birds.
Miss Dunn, a former student, is visiting in Southern California.
Howard Deverell is seriously contemplating entering the high School.
The many friends of Miss Margey Brown will be pleased to know that she had a very pleasant trip east,and is much improved in health.
Fred Bowersock is spending a few days in Olathe.
L. H. Leach, '83, who delivered the valedictory to his class and who represented Kansas for the first time Inter-State Oratorical contest, is principal of the Public schools in Vancouver, the oldest town in Washington Territory.
Frank Butler spent Sunday in Lawrence.
M. S. Stockton, of Wyandotte, who visited student friends last week, returned home Friday morning.
Barlow Lippincott spent last Sun day in the city. He is now located at Kansas City.
Miss Jacobs of Emporia, is in the city, and Fred Kellogg is spending a few days in Lawrence.
Miss Carrie House, who has been visiting Gussie Price for the last two weeks, goes to Topeka, Thursday where she will visit for a few days before returning to her home in Omaha, Neb.
Frank and William Clark leave for Menoken to-night.
PROF. CANFIELD found the following letter, neatly framed, on a showcase in a Nashville, Tenn., store. It was sent by Gen. Jackson to the father of the present proprietor of the store, who would not part with it when Prof. Canfield sought to secure it. It will be found interesting by lovers of old "Hickory."
Syncoya was an old colored body servant who followed Gen. Jackson all through the war of 1812, and whom the General sent on all kinds of errands.
DEAR SIR:—Mrs. Jackson is very ill and the Doctor Recommends her to Diet on reice—be pleased to have some got for me and send it by Syncoyca. If there is none in the grocery stores some may be got perhaps from private families—pleas send me half Dozzen papers smoking tobacco. If there is rice to be had in pleas send me fifty pounds—pleas send me also one pound of good chewing tobacco and oblige your friend ANDREWJACKSON,
Mr. Josiah Nichol. Dech. 1. 1825.
P. S. send me half Dozzen one assorted.
Civilization is said to be penetrating the Law department. We understand that Prof. Green has decided that the Laws will have to stop putting their feet on the backs of the chairs. It is also said that a single plug of tobacco will not be passed down the class as before, but each will have to bring his own. And it is rumored that those who expectorate, are expected to expect behind the radiator, and not on the floor. We are now waiting for returns from the Pharmacy quarters.
Did you get a sample bottle of Palmer's "Marie Roze" at Raymond & Dick's?' Only a few left.
Buv your NEW HAT of ABE LEVY
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA PSI, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
SIGMA NU, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
SIGMA CHI, Meets on the fourth floor East of the Opera House block.
BETA THETA PI, Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
PI BETA PHI, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION; Chas. Johnson, President; W. A. Snow, Secretary, Executive Committee; J. M. Shellaburger, J. C. Fox, H. M. F. Bear.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A. M. Wilcox, Captain of the nine, Charles Voorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall.
PHILOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION; President, F. E. Reed; Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A. Snow.
COURIER COMPANY; President, J. M. Shellabarger; Secretary, J. C. Fox.
THE COURIER wishes you a pleasant vacation.
THE Hutchinson Repnblian is bound to succeed under the efficient management of Will Little, an old Courier and Review man.
THE Inter-Fraternity Base Ball League is a move in the right direction. The league of 1887 was a decided success.
We understand that Rev. Ingalls has forbidden his name to be used in connection with the Chancellorship.
THE "irrepressible" John Sullivan is rapidly forging to the front. Here he sends us three papers, the Rosedale Record, the Blue Valley Record, and the Westport Record, all of which he is proprietor and publisher. And he never forgets that he received his early training on the Courier, of which he is one of the founders. Success to you John
THE Times in its last issue displays its usual lack of veracity in its statements regarding oratorical affairs here at the University.
Yes, dear Campus, the Courier no doubt seems "fresh" to you old fogies who never publish an article except it has a faint flavor of decay lingering about it, incident to its resurrection from your otherwise vacant cranium.
We are indebted to Hon. M. Moher, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture for a copy of the "Sixth Biennial Report of the State Board of Agricultre." This volume containing as it does excellent maps of each county and carefully tabulated statements of each county's wealth and a description of its resources, besides many articles of interest to the farmer and to the scientist, is a most valuable book of reference to any one who wishes to keep informed on the rapid growth and great prosperity of the sunflower state.
June has been all winter agitating her next programme. She says we shall have music and beauty and breezes. She promises an interesting contest between the grass and the flowers. She will give an entertainment at sunrise; she will interest us at noon; at night she will give us refreshment.
The birds are to strive to excel each other in beauty, song and pretty ways; the fish in their smooth suits will run races; and the trees will hold out weights.
There is nothing selfish about June. She enjoys her sport when we take part in it. She even solicits our connivance and will return a rich reward. As a student she is neither "drone" nor "grind." She's animation.
She wants us to become animation. She would not have us dream and dream and dream in a dusty classroom every day.
She has made us a generous proposition. She has offered us a beautiful day decked with splendid foliage for a "field day." Now she is too welcome a friend to slight. Intelligent students know that. We must (?) we are glad to accept.
You, merchants whom we have been patronizing all winter, what do you think of June? Won't you contribute to her entertainment? She wants to see a hundred yard foot race for $20 and a two mile race for $30. She wants to see a standing jump, a high jump and a running jump for $5 each. She wants to see an egg race, a sack race, a wheelbarrow race, a hammer-throwing and every other kind of athletic contest all for suitable rewards. She is coming now. What will you contribute?
It is an established fact that Kansas leads the world in running. K. S. U. could gain world-wide celebrity by training her sprin-tracers. At least she could have obtained some phenomenal specimens near Snow Hall last Thursday. If you will go to the ball ground at 3 o'clock this afternoon you will see the best race ever run in Lawrence. Firestone is the champion of the Anthony team and Wixon is a greeny, but O, my!"
While talking of running, we will mention that K. U. has a standing challenge from one of her students for a two mile race. Boys, bring out your man.
We have jumpers that would be ashamed to carry off the prize if they should jump no farther than the majority of field-day champions. And some of our strong men handle fifty pound dumb-bells with ease (Feel Hickey's arms.)
Mr. President, I move you that a meeting be called and a committee be appointed to make preparations for field-day.
Base-Ball
With the approach of spring, interest in this great American game awakens. Already we hear of base ball nines being organized, and hope soon to hear of the K. S. U. nine's indulging in some necessary practice. We were successful last year, and, if our nine is selected in time and put under rigid training, our success is assured for the coming year. No delay should be allowed if we expect again this year to win victory on the diamond from the different colleges of the State. For ever since we plucked the laurels from Washburn last year, she has been regarding us with a jealous "baseball" eye.
Besides, it is a good thing for K. S.U. to rank well in athletics. For next to good thorough work in class, nothing advertises an institution more than excellence in college sports. The eastern colleges are heard of oftener through their clubs, their nines, and their crews than through their curriculum.
Then let all, professors and students alike, lend encouragement to University athletics and make them a success.
"Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley entertained a large audience in Jermain Hall last evening with alternate readings from their own works, and if there is anyone who heard them who is not lame from laughter this morning, he or she has a poor appreciation of the cream of wit and humor."
See what the Albany Evening Journal says of Nye and Riley:
At Bowersock's opera house, Tuesday, April 16th. Seats on sale at Crew & Co.'s book store.
Science Club.
Science Club met as usual in Snow Hall last Friday evening. The first paper on the program was by A. L. Sloan, on the "Forth Bridge." He gave a detailed account of the construction and the manner in which it was built. All the parts of the bridge were manufactured and put together on the spot, and in size it exceeds the famous Brooklyn Bridge. The second paper of the evening was by Fred Liddeke, subject: "Arab Influence on Science." He gave a very full description showing the influence exerted on science of their own late times by the Arabian scientific scholars. He demonstrated that invention and discovery owe much of the impetus it received to the work and influence of this people. The civilization of northern Europe can look to the Moors as one of the most powerful factors in its growth.
The last paper was on the subject "The Improvement of Storage Cells," by Noyes, in which a graphic account of the manner in which friction, heat, etc., have to be overcome, was given.
Science notes were then given by the Club in general, after which the meeting adjourned.
Athenaeum.
Athenaeum Society met in their hall last Friday evening and the following program was rendered: Declamation...C. F. Humphrey Essay...Alberta Corbin Reading...H. E. Ellison Essay...J. O. Worden Oration...Harry B. Hall.
Law Department
The debate—Resolved, That imprisonment should be reformatory rather than punitive," was supported on the affirmative side by E. W. Palmer and R. D. Brown, and on the negative by C. L. Christian and D. H. Spencer. The judges decided in favor of the affirmative. Mushrush, Fullerton and Chapman were appointed a committee on music. Meeting adjourned.
Mrs. Bennett Entertains.
Mrs. Flora Bennett gave a small party last evening at the Sigma Nu hall in honor of her guest Miss Mamie Jacobs, of Emporia. About thirty of the students were present and a most enjoyable evening was spent in dancing and conversation. At ten o'clock an elegant supper was served by caterer Harris after which dancing was resumed and kept up until a late hour. Miss Jacobs will probably enter the University next fall.
When you buy your new hat, buy it at the Chicago One Price Clothing Store.
The Juniors are now studying Story on Bailmnnts.
The vacation given the collegiates does not apply to this department.
Markley is still visiting at his home at Carbondale.
Ackley and Pomeroy will visit their respective homes this week.
W. J. Wade is visiting friends at Burlingame.
Palmer, one of last year's graduates, was in town on Monday. He expects to open a law office in Guthrie, Oklahoma, on the 22nd of this month. S.P.King will also settle in the new territory.
The sidewalk from Adams street to the University is becoming defective in places. Verily wooded sidewalks are a nuisance, and Lawrence has no other kind.
A free sample of the Recamier Toilet Powder at Raymond & Dick's
That tooth brush is a "goner." Get another with a fine package of tooth soap at Raymond & Dick's.
Andy Reed's is the place to get your barbering done.
Andy Reed gives you a chance to draw the earth with every shave and hair cut.
Twenty baths for $2 at Andy Reed's.
Base Ball.
Field & Hargis are headquarters for BASE BALL SLIPPERS, LAWN TENNIS and all Sporting Goods. PIGS IN CLOVER in a few days.
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Go to Crains & Urbansky's for your shirts and neckties.
Do you wear pants? If you do, get them at the Chicago One Price Clothing House.
Crain & Urbansky have the finest line of spring suits in town.
Go and see the new line of spring hats at the Chicago One Price Clothing store.
Andy Reed is the boss barber.
Go to J. D. Smith's for Reach's Association Balls and Bats.
Smith keeps Spalding and Reach's Guides for 1889.
Smith keeps all the daily newspapers.
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Baby, verging fast to youth.—
Tell me, little one, forsooth,
if the poets speak the truth;
They declare your quiet eyes Have the hush of Paradise And the blue of azure skies;
That your merry, prattling glee Is the music of the sea, Which implores continually.
Ah! ' T is nothing we can name,
Where life goes or whence it came,—
To and fro the flickering flame.
It is joy enough to know
Flowers will bloom and grasses grow,
As the summers come and go.
Joy enough that Love is here,
And that you, O baby dear,
In our hearts have nestled near.
-Wm. H. Simpson.
Exchanges.
We welcome the University Carolinian to our table. It is a bright,newsy, outspoken monthly and is carefully edited. It is at present agitated over the question of "Exams."
The Penn. Chronicle reaches us this month with a neat new cover which adds very much to its appearance.
The Washington Jeffersonian comes out with a diagnosis of the class of '80, which we imagine will give the fighting editor plenty to do.
The son-in-law of a well-known doctor of divinity telegraphed to him of a new arrival in the family. The doctor telegraphed back the Latin word "Gaudamus,"—"let us rejoice." The telegraph operator was evidently unacquainted with Latin, for when the message reached the son-in-law it had been transformed into a familiar cuss "phrase." Virginia University Magazine.
The Occident is waging a war against the fraternities at the University of California. Either the fraternities at that institution are very poor, or it is a case of "sour grapes" with the editor.
We welcome to our table the Alamo and San Jacinto Monthly from the South Western University at Georgetown, Tex. The monthly is neat in form, and interesting in matter.
The Hesperian speaking of the K. S. U. appropriation bill, expresses itself pretty sharply at the stupid idea of economy which the Nebraska Senators have imbibed. We can sympathize with you, Hesperian. Our Legislators economized at the expense of our educational institutions and then, it is said, took home enough stationary to last them for the next ten years, purchased at the State's expense and even tried to take the chairs in which they had sat, presumably as souvenirs of their arduous labors.
There is a prep who calls paying his laundry bill, "Rendering the necessary pecuniary emolument for my proximity to divine similitude." He has evidently heard that cleanliness is next to godliness.—Hesperian.
Fraternities are now prohibited at Princeton, Oberlin, Monmouth, Carleton, Georgetown University Wheaton and University of Illinois. —Ex.
A test is to be made on the case at the Ohio State University, where students were expelled for not attending chapel. It is held under the bill of rights that no State institution can compel attendance on any religious exercises. The Legislature appointed a committee to investigate the matter.
The two Argentine Universities under the patronage of the Government, are among the best in South America and rank with Yale and Harvard in curriculum and standard of education. The public school system also is under the patronage of the Government. There are thirty colleges and normal schools for the higher education of men and women in the republic, and 2,726 public schools.Mail and Express
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FLORENCE, ITALY, Mar. 9, 89. EDITOR COURIER: I have just received the Courier of February 15th the first that has reached me since I kissed good-bye to Miss Liberty who stood on Bedloe's Island to "see me off" from America. Of course I see frequent references to the paper in the various journals of Europe, but that isn't quite as satisfactory as getting the "great religious weekly" itself. The other day at Rome the Pope asked me how matters were going in the church at home. I started for my overcoat to get the Courier, but found I had left the paper at the hotel. If you think of it I wish you would put the Pope on the subscription list (don't charge it to me, however).
But this isn't what I started out to say. I see from the Courier that the Philological Club is considering the topic of "Valapuk." This, I presume is only a fore-runner of the establishment of a Department of Valapuk in the University. I want right here to enter application for the position of professor of this valuable language. I have made a thorough study of it now for four months, and can send a tea chest full of recommendations as to my ability. Says the greatest paper in Italy of my transcendental success in this popular speech: "Quando parti, oltre l inglese, egli sapera solamente un po'
di tedesco; ma conoscendo bene il greco e il latino, stodiano, raccogliendo, observando, notando, pote imparare una lingua, composta di parole differenti, e' d' idiomi differentissimi una specie di Volapuk, specialissimo e curiosissimo, ma col quale riesce a farsi capire a meraviglia." To the testimony borne by this paper I will add that I teach this language in its purity, without any tucks, frills, ruffles or other trimmings of diction—Valapuk in its primitive simplicity. The beginner is started in such useful phrases as these: "Leave that valise alone." "No, I haven't any tobacco, spirits, dynamite or any other stuff liable to duty or confiscation." "Get out." "For the Lord's sake bring me something to eat and don't ask any more questions." "I'll not pay it." "You're a thief and I tell you so." All these needful phrases are translated into neat, compact Volapuk, capable of being unpacked and used on the slightest provocation without liability to spoil from heat, cold, or dampness. For the use of ladies separate apartments of Volapuk will be furnished, such as "Oh dear!" "I just wish I was back home." "How exquisite." "That's too lovely for any use." If, before the department is started, any students wish to take lessons by correspondence, liberal arrangements will be made. Address en route.
Leaving this subject, let me remark that I've seen quite a bit of student life on this side of the pond; and every new observation into the portion of foreign humanity confirms me more fully in my admiration for the American University, undeveloped though it be; and more particularly in the system of co-education. Of the French student and his social habits during his college career, the less said perhaps the better. Victor Hugo has tolerably fully aired the life led by the students and their grisettes; and Zola and his ilk of modern sensationalists have rolled the same morsel over in their novels for those whose taste runs to that cort of thing. The life of these students with their "college wives" is probably on as high a plan relatively as the code of morals pervading the entire land of the tricolor flag. Their French student is a thorough exquisite from the top of his silk tile to the lowest extremity of his fashionable trousers. It is an interesting sight watching these fellows with their corset fitting coats parading the tsreets of the Paris "Quartier Latin;" or rigged out in full dress disporting themselves at the famous balls where there is assuredly no stickling on etiquette. Another occasion on which they may be seen out
in full round numbers is during any political demonstration when their blood-red badges and revolutionary matters bespeak unequivocally their socialistic sentiments.
I have seen likewise a vast deal of Italian student life—in Florence, in Rome, and in Naples. Of course being of the same Latin race, the Italian collegian has many of the characteristics of his French brother. Yet there is a greater regard for the "proprieties" of life than exists among the Paris boys. While I was in Rome, a little ripple was produced on the surface of University existence by three duels between students and city editors. It seems that the Professor of history had been hissed by his pupils for certain expressions on the French revolution. The city papers criticised this "questionable conduct" of the students. Naturally any reflection upon so inalienable a right as that to hiss a professor, raised the ire of the Italian collegian. The editors were challenged; promptly accepted; fought the bristling students with swords and pistols, and came out of the carriage with about the same number of wounds as their antagonists. Fortunately, or unfortunately, no one was killed; and the question of the prerogative of every student to hiss his instructors is still open in Rome to sword debate. What a falling off there would be in attendance at K. S. U., and how many premature deaths among Lawrence press representatives, if dueling was in vogue along the Kaw.
Changing again the subject of my evening's text, let me remark that I was to-day at the grave of "Amerigo Vespucio." (I give the exact spelling as written on the stone.) Now there is nothing remarkable in seeing the grave of Amerigo Vespucio when one is every day confronted with immortal names; when one resides a hundred yards from where Savanarola was burned, within a stone's throw of Dante's birth place, and only a few steps away from one Michael Angelo's dwelling place. But having searched out Vespucio's grave,—in a hidden corner of an obscure Florence church, not even yet discovered by the guide books—naving found the last resting place of him from whom our native land was named, imagine my utter surprise at seeing upon the simple slab a Kappa Alpha Theta pin. No, not exactly either, for the Greek letters and the stars are not there. The whole emblem however, some two feet in length, is remarkably like the Theta's, the shape of the kite and the position of the bars being in accord. The slab is some three feet square, is inlaid in the floor, and contains only these words, in a circle, "Amerigo Vespucio, posteris o suis, LXXI" with the Theta badge in the center. Perhaps after all, Mrs. America was a Theta. SMITH.
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 19, 1889.
The Phi Gams give a hop tonight.
The Zoology clsss is giving attention to the description of birds.
The campus is being put in order and is assuming a lovely appearance.
The class in Sophomore Greek has commenced the reading of Plato's "Crito."
The majority of the students took advantage of the vacation and enjoyed a visit home.
Quite a number of students have been enjoying the moonlight nights on the river.
Bids to the Pi Beta Phi party,to be given in May, are out
The Inter-fraternity league has been given up, as want of time prevents the games being played.
The class in Logic and Psychology has been undergoing quizzes for the last week.
The Senior Laws met at the District Clerk's office Monday night,and were shown the books of the Clerk.
The Betas will probably give a hop this week.
Several additions to the Natural History Department have been lately received.
Sophomore elocution did not meet this week.
The Sigma Nus have issued bids for their annual party.
The students were greatly disappointed that Nye and Riley were unable to give their entertainment in this city.
The Phi Psis gave a very pleasant hop in their hall, Wednesday night.
Miss Mattie Snow very pleasantly entertained a few of her friends last Thursday evening. Those present were: Misses Love, White, Anna Barker, Webber, Lou Barker; Messrs. Peabody, Chas. Spencer, Bert Spencer, McPherson and Snow.
A couple of K. S. U. boys, very enthusiastic in the study of Zoology, were innocently shooting birds in the cemetery during vacation, when the superintendent of the grounds raised the hair on their heads by expatiating upon the immense fine they were subject to. They were only let off by the promise never never to do it again. They say they learned something anyway.
Prof. Green has issued a circular invitation to all the law alumni to be present at the commencement exercises.
The attention of the students is drawn to the young men's meeting on Sunday at 4 p.m., at the Y.M. C.A. Prof.E.E. Holms, College secretary, will have charge of the meeting.
The Law Department attended Judge Usher's funeral yesterday, in a body.
The Senior Laws are protesting against having to pay for their own commencement music.
Mrs. Prof. Marsh gave a delightful lunch last Thursday to some of her lady friends. It seems unnecessary to say that all present enjoyed themselves to the utmost, the only disturbing thought was that they were to have so few more occasions of meeting their charming hostess. Those present were Misses Mary Miller, Kate Merrill, Annie McKinnon, Gertrude and Millie Crotty, Marcella Howland, Lallie Buckingham, Effie Scott, Helen Simpson, Edith and Mary Manley, Mattie Snow and Harriet Rice.
Prof. Canfield has placed in the library this week, the history of the famous Hartford Convention, written by the Secretary, Theodore Dwight. This convention, composed of men opposed to the war of 1812, placed the seal of secrecy upon its proceedings and sealed the secretary's records, thus laying itself open to the accusation of its enemies that it was secretly plotting the destruction of the Government. No answer was made to these accusations for a number of years, until the secretary, Mr. Dwight, placed the books, containing the complete records of the convention, still sealed, in the hands of the State authorities of Massachusetts. The publication of the work has failed to reveal any plot against the government. And the publication of Mr. Dwigt's history clearly explains the action of the convention. This work was issued in 1833, and has long been out of print; but Professor Canfield has had a purchasing agent in New York on the lock-out for it for over a year, and at last has secured it. All students of American History, in or out of the University will be glad to know that we possess one of the four volumes now known to exist, of this famous treatise.
"The Lost Cause Regained," by Pollard, was secured at the same time, and can now be found in the library.
The death of Judge J. P. Usher at Philadelphia, last Monday morning, takes away from Lawrence one of its most true and tried citizens, one who has always stood high in the esteem of his fellowmen, and whose death is mourned by the whole community. Judge Usher was Secretary of the Interior in President Lincoln's cabinet, and has been actively before the public during the greater part of his life. For several years previous to his death he was attorney for the Union Pacific R. R. The Ushe Guards, named in his honor,attended the funeral yesterday, in a body.
Personal.
Chancellor Lippincott was in Atchison Monday.
Fred Morris spent the vacation in Kansas City.
Miss Josie Berry was in Waterville last week.
Wright took in Nye and Riley at Kansas City Saturday night.
Miss Kate Wilder, of Abilene, is visiting old K. S. U. friends this week.
Prof. Marsh was in Chicago the early part of the week.
C. E. Street spent Saturday in Kansas City.
H. J. Withington, of Humboldt, was visiting in the city Tuesday.
Herb Hadley spent the holidays in Topeka.
A. L. Wilmoth was in the Capital City last Saturday.
Miss Emma Bartell spent her vacation in Junction City.
Hi Montgomery returned Monday from a visit at his home in Oregon, Mo.
Tella Chapman has gone to Seneca, Kan., on account of ill health.
J. Frank Craig and V. L. Kellogg were in Emporia and Topeka last week.
J. A. Mushrush was in Topeka last week. While there he visited Washburn friends.
Miss Carrie House visited friends in Topeka last week.
Voorhis, Schilling and Davis played ball in Ottawa Saturday afternoon.
C. A. Peabody spent his vacation on the hill-top.
Edson and Shellaburger rode down horseback from Topeka Monday afternoon.
Miss Lillie McMillian was at the University Tuesday morning.
Miss Manie Jacobs returned to her home in Emporia Sunday, after a short visit with Topeka friends.
Miss Franc Eddy spent the vacation in Topeka.
Frank Butler has returned to the University for the rest of the term.
Miss Emma Dunn spent several days in Kansas City last week.
Ettie Hadley now plays the Mandolin.
Hyram Adams has returned from Ottawa, where he spent the Arbor day vacation.
Messrs. McIntosh and Spinning, of Highland University, delegates to the Y. M. C. A.convention, were shown through the University Saturday.
Mr. Mills, of Washburn, an enthusiastic worker in the Y. M. C. A., visited Lawrence during the convention held here last week.
Miss Grabe returned Monday from her trip to Beatrice, Neb., her home. H. T. Smith was elected president of the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. last Saturday. W. E. Higgins is acting in the capacity of secreary. Maude Spinger got back Monday from a visit at her home in White Cloud.
A. L. Burney spent his vacation at Harrisonville, Mo.
C. B. Voorhis spent Sunday with Ottawa friends.
Hattie McCague is expecting a visit from her cousin, Maude Finney, in the near future.
Prof. and Mrs. Green will entertain the Senior Laws next Tuesday evening.
Frank Reed was in Kansas City recently.
No 3o
Miss Franklin and Mr. Manning gave a delightful concert at Lecompton Thursday night.
Miss Etta Hadley returned from a short visit to Olathe Thursday.
Fred Dorrance was in Topeka Sunday.
Ned Slosson returned Wednesday from Seneca, where he enjoyed the recess visiting his friends.
Albert Fullerton and sister, Miss Jean, spent their vacation in Atchison.
George Mushrush has been lately detained from his classes by sickness.
Mr. Hyden, of Baker University was at K. S. U. Wednesday.
Fred Bowersock spent Sunday in Olathe.
Miss Kate Wilder was among Tuesday's visitors.
Paul Hudson of Topeka, attended the Phi Psi hop.
Miss Bertha Mullen returned Monday from her home in Garnett.
Miss Nellie Griffith went to Topeka last Monday for a two weeks visit.
Meade expects to spend Sunday at his home in Menoken.
Henry Gillispie, a former K. S. U. boy, has completed a course in Pharmacy in Philadelphia with the highest honors, and is now visiting friends in Lawrence. Mr. Gillispie is a member of Sigma Nu.
Edson visited Bethany College during vacation.
E. L. Ackley left last Saturday for a week's visit at his home in Ottawa county.
Miss Emma Dunn enjoyed a visit with relatives in Wyandotte during the Arbor day vacation.
Ask George Cook about the pansies.
Will Spencer has accepted a position in Topeka.
Miss Evelyn Harrison entertained a few friends with a plantation party ast week.
Mr. Nissen has had a hair-cut.
Charley Voorhis was detained home by sickness Wednesday.
Miss Constance Carruth was seen at the University Wednesday.
Miss Alice Penfield will visit in the city soon.
Ask Frank Edson if "Mamma's home yet."
Wixon has deserted the University for the remainder of this year. He expects to return for the final examination, however.
Will Little, of the Hutchinson Republican, passed through Lawrence Tuesday on his way East.
Alfred Fidler, law class of '88, has resigned his position as stenographer with Riggs & Nevison, and has gone to Oklahoma.
Prof. Green and Howard Pears are contemplating issuing a law catalogue and have sent out circulars to graduates asking for the necessary information.
Miss Amy Hays reports a very pleasant vacation spent at her home at Paola.
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PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA Pst, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
SIGANANU, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
SIGACHI, Meets on the fourth floor East of the Opera House block.
BETA THETA PI, Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPAMA MA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
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UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall.
PHILOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 30 every other Friday at 8 p.m.
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The Courier is glad to notice the interest manifested in lawn tennis and would suggest a tennis tournament.
Those interesting articles in the Troy Chief over the signature "Cadmus" are written by Glen Miller who is now "doing" the world on the income from the fortune which he recently made in the real estate business in Wichita.
The action of the "powers that be" in dismissing Mr. Worden as guide cannot be too severely deprecated nor too harshly criticised if he was dismissed on account of the part he took in the recent initiation. If he did his work well while on duty, the simple fact that he engaged in one of the many college pranks which tend to break university life of its monotony should not be allowed to influence these same "powers" against him. If vengeance is to be wreaked upon any one let all suffer alike, the initiators as well as the initiated.
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead;" is a pretty good motto to follow. The individual who spends
his time finding out what other people are likely to think or say before he sets about doing anything, rarely accomplishes much. Remember that it is impossible to please everybody and if you undertake to do so you will simply demonstrate to the world your incapacity to have a fixed determination, and follow it out to the end. The best rule to abide by is to mind your own business and let other people mind theirs. You will always find plenty of ill-bred individuals who will thrust their opinions and their criticisms upon you unasked, and who insist on making rasping comments every time you do anything which you consider in your own mind to be for the best. Such people exist the world's over, and they cause more irritation and hard-feeling in society than any other class. The only thing to do is to let them severely alone. To show that you feel their criticisms only spurs them on to greater activity, and you will find in the end, if you stop to avenge or even notice such efforts, you will be in "hot water," as the phrase is continually. Suppose you have a certain laudable end in view. You take certain measures, and follow out a certain line of action to accomplish that object. Whatever this end may be you will always find people on every hand ready to criticise, or ridicule, or detract. Now what good does it ever do to continually try to please these people. If your work is honorable, and your aim worthy what difference does it make what others say or think. In the end, if you persist in going straight ahead in what you believe to be right, admiration and respect if not entire sympathy, will be yours. Whatever you do, don't waver hither and thither, a reed swayed by the wind of public opinion. Stand up like a man, show that you have a will, a mind of your own, and know how to exercise it. Don't hesitate to declare yourself for or against a measure, according as your best judgement prompts you. You will undoubtedly make mistakes, everybody does. But don't sit on the fence waiting for somebody to pull you off. You might just as well remember that whatever you do you will have enemies and detractors. So, if you have any self-respect, or wish to have your opinions weigh something, be positive, be independent. Form your opinions deliberately, and once formed, stick to them till you see a good logical reason for abandoning them, and then do so gracefully, and without ado. If you do this you will respect yourself, others will respect you, and you will have the reputation of being a "solid
man" instead of a hesitating, uncertain individual, trimming his sails to every breeze, bending and squirming from one side to the other with the elasticity of an angle worm. It lies in the power of every one to decide which he shall be, the former, or the latter.
Our Public School System.
There is a common belief that we owe our common school system to Nathan Dane and Manassah Cutler. An edition of Jefferson's works, however, which has lately come to our notice, seems to show that this belief is unfounded and that the honor of a public school system belongs not to Massachusetts but to Virginia, not to Nathan Done and Manassah Cutler, but to Thomas Jefferson.
In this edition is given a plan for a public school building which Jefferson drafted for the State of Virginia, but which this state refused to adopt. After his failure in his own state he endeavored to engraft his system upon the constitution of Tennessee just then assuming statehood. Here he again failed. However, nothing daunted, when the Northwest Territory was organized he again presented his plan and urged its adoption for the new territory. While the Northwest Ordinance was yet under consideration he was sent to Europe on official business. During his absence the plan which he had submitted to the committee on territories of which he was a member, was taken up by the other members of the committee, partially changed and incorporated into the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. So that to Jefferson really belongs the honor of originating the great system of public education.
In another column will be found an article by "Nedrow," on the dignity of labor, in which he arrives at the conclusion that "to do work is to endanger the social recognition of a student." This is evidently a wrong conclusion, and can not be logically drawn. We have known students who have worked their way through the University, who have received as much social recognition as the man who never did as much work as the blacking of his own boots required. No one was more highly respected than Walter Davis, and he worked for every cent of his money. Will Brown is another one of the boys who made their own way through the University, and yet he was never hindered by any social distinctions. Social recognition in the University, we are happy to say, is not placed upon so narrow a basis. The young man who works his way
through college is, other things being equal, generally more highly respected in social circles than the man who spends his time in ease and luxury. The cultivated and refined mind can readily gain access to good society, regardless of the fact that its owner must toil for support. This is true now at K.S.U. and we trust it will never be otherwise.
Last Monday evening Prof. A. G. Canfield lectured before the Unity Club on "Boulanger and the French Republic." The lecture of more than an hour in length, was full of information and interest. The professor soon disposed of Boulanger and gave most of his time to a very careful study of the political conditions of France which make possible such a mushroom growth as Boulanger. He showed that while the French people are excitable and apparently fickle there has been a steady advancement on political lines ever since their first attempts at free government a hundred years ago. The many influences which to-day retard this development were carefully traced by the professor. Boulanger has few moral and intellectual qualities to recommend him, and his record as a military man is not particularly brilliant. He has a certain dash and effrontery which have brought him into notice but which can make him at best the hero of an hour. This lecture was one of the best of the Unity Club's course, and those who were fortunate enough to hear it were well repaid for their time.
Prof. Marsh's Lecture.
The postponed address of Prof. Marsh before the literary societies was given on Tuesday evening, April 9th, in the chapel. The audience of students was largely reinforced by people from the city who were interested to hear Prof. Marsh and know his opinion on the prospects of poetry in America. Prof. Marsh's subject was: "Will poetry revive?" Not a few voices, he said, have been heard lately to declare that the age of poetry is gone forever. Professor Charles Elliott Norton had written a letter to him, that Matthew Arnold was probably the last of the poets, and that there was no sign that the coming generation or two, at least, would produce another. Prof. Goldwin Smith and Prof. Edward Dowden were also quoted as having expressed a similar opinion.
What are the grounds for such an opinion? Two great facts are pointed to—the supremacy of science and the scientific method, and, for America at least, the power of democracy to restrain individuality and to level
distinction. These facts are admitted. But Prof. Marsh was unwilling to conclude from them the future impossibility of poetry. Poetry, Sir Philip Sidney said, is a high and fruitful knowledge—the highest and most fruitful. Science is knowledge, too, but does not include poetry and can not take its place. It proceeds in an opposite way. It takes things apart, resolves phenomena into successions, subs for causes and processes. Poetry sees things whole. Science asks how things came to be as they are. Poetry takes them as they are, novels their true form, and interprets them. Science has absorbed lately, and will continue to absorb more than once it did, the finest minds. But the human spirit will not be satisfied with one kind of knowledge. It will continue to desire and to seek both.
More threatening is this tendency of the democratic spirit to do away with distinction, to reduce to a dead level. The tyranny of public opinion in a democracy has often been pointed out. It is hard for new and strange views of truth to find expression. Opinion is impatient of unfamiliar truth. So America has produced no poet of first rank. It has developed a vast energy but not inspired by high ideas. Aspiration it has of a certain sort, but vague and indefinite, for mere size, bulk, magnitude. Its enthusiasm is chaotic, turbid. It wants elevation, direction. Walt Whitman is recognized very generally by foreigners as the representative American poet. He has expressed what he felt in him and saw in those around him. He shows the American to be capable of powerful original expression, but his example emphasizes the need of direction, elevation and distinction.
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Buy your spring hats of Misses Orme & Engle.
The best and cheapest spring goods at Orme & Engle's.
Prof. Robt. Hay, of Junction city, Geologist for the State Board of Agriculture, called on Prof. Snow Wednesday.
Stet on's latest styles in soft hats just received, at Abe Levy's.
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New Spring underwear, at Abe Levy's.
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Labor is so Dignifying.
Perhaps some one noticed the lack of ushers at Prof. Marsh's lecture last Tuesday evening. This was probably owing to an oversight on the part of the two literary societies. Students and visitors straggled around and finally seated themselves.
But there was one thing, Mr. Editor, which occurred to my mind during the evening, before the lecture, rather forcibly. That was the unwillingness of the students of the two literary societies to supply the deficiency by volunteering to usher, themselves.
Athenaeum and Orophilian members crowded up to the doors and then turned around, and with wise, very wise expressions, said, "somebody ought to usher, boys."
I proposed to a "wise-looking' fraternity man, and then to a barb that we usher, ourselves. "Well,—Well, I'd rather not." "I don't be believe I want to usher to-night."
One of these men will, in the course of time, be a smooth-faced public man; the other will be a politician also. One of them will, when he preaches his democracy to the public, dwell on the dignity of labor.
He will exhort, and plead, and eulogize on that popular subject, yet he would "rather not" practice the nobility of labor for a few minutes in case of an emergency in the State University of Kansas. I have no doubt he thought that it would be unbecoming for a fraternity man; and I've no doubt that the ambitious non-fraternity man thought neither fraternity nor fair sex would think much the better of him for putting himself on such questionable level. In fact as I interpret this it means that some things are nice to talk about, but not to do. That to do work is to endanger the social recognition of a student.
Well, I guess this is right. I think,—I am thoroughly satisfied, that the dignity of labor is all bosh. I like the idea that a man who does not work is a gentleman. I think a man who works is out of place when he appears at college or tries to pass himself off as a gentleman. I believe in a studied reserve, in a scrupulous exclusiveness. There is danger of contamination from such vermin. I know the theory is the other way, but I'm talking facts. The ancient Greeks shunned labor and—well you know the rest. I believe in a "survival of the fittest" and no "fit" person needs to stoop to work. Good day, Mr. Editor.
J. RACSO NEDROW.
Exchanges.
The Pennsylvania has a new board of editors.
Crain & Urbansky have the finest line of spring suits in town.
The Howard Advocate classes the girls of the Annex as a slow set.
The record for the 100 yard dash was recently broken by Kettleman, of Yale. Time, nine and three fourth seconds.
Prof. Norton of Harvard has been been urging the wealthy citizens of Cambridge to subscribe $150,000 to purchase the Greek town of Castre and unearth the ancient Delphic temple of Apollo.
There once was a gallant young Mr.,
Who loved his girl so that he kr.
She said "I want you
To stop that P.D.O
To stop that P. D. Q.,
I can love you only as a sr."
-Virginia University Magazine.
The barbarian host at the K. S. U. is to-day without a leader. Their great chief has left them and joined himself unto the Greeks. George M. Culver is a Beta Theta Pt. Less than a month ago we asked Mr. Culve to prepare an article for us on 'The evil effects of the Fraternity system,' which he very readily promised to do. We doubt not that in the preparation of this article he became lost. It is sad to see how nearly all the apparently bright, promising young men of K. S. U. drift into one or another of these mastrels of college life. — Washburn Reporter.
Die Freshles spieleen bull vollig wohl,
Die Sophs, gewinnen jedes game;
Die Juniors konner
Die Juniors können nicht spielen ball zu all,
Aber die Seniors bekommen da just the same.
The following are the correct times made by the University men in the Olympic Field day. One hundred yards, scratch, winner W. A. Magee, 10 4-5 seconds. One hundred and twenty yards, hurdle, H. C. Moffitt, eight yards behind scratch, time 19 2-5 seconds. One hundred and twenty yards, fourth heat, winner, W. A. Magee, 12 2-5 seconds; fifth heat, winner, Mays, 12 3-5 seconds; run-off, win er, Mays, 12 1-4 seconds. W. A. Magee came in 59 1-5 seconds in the 440 yards. In the running long jump, Moffitt,'89, and McNear,'90, both broke the American college record of 21 feet 5 inches the former jumping 22 feet one inch, the latter 21 feet 9 1-2 inches. W. A. Magee made 21 feet 10 1-2 inches.—[Occident.
The Virginia University Magazine for March contains its usual amount of good things, notable among which is a poem entitled "Levona," and an article entitled "Amelia Rives' Last Novel," in
The Pandora, the annual published at the University of Georgia will not be published this year owing to the lack of time on the part of the editors. They must be industrious people down there.
New Books,
"On Horseback and Mexican Notes," by Charles Dudley Warner. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, $1.25
The name of the author is, in itself, a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of this book. In his pleasing, urrrative style he takes the Professor and the Friend of Humanity on a horseback tour over south-western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina. They enjoy the scenery, become acquainted with the people, study the queer manners and strange customs of this out of the way part of the world, test the cuisine of the region—eat corn bread, bacon, and "honey on pie"—and enjoy the delightful sense of leisure which seems to pervade the South. The shiftless "white trash," the droll humor of the colored people, the strange admixture of religion and politics are all described in an immutable manner. Then the resorts of the region are visited, and Mt.Mitchell and other places of note. The reader grows acquainted with the people and the scenery and enjoys the time spent with the author in his descriptions.
The "Mexican Notes," written in the same pleasant narrative style, can best be illustrated by a couple of selection. "To me Mexico is one of the most interesting countries I have seen, and so novel on every hand that I enjoyed in a way that which is disagreeable almost as much as that which is pleasing. It is novel, and yet, now and again, strangely familiar; for in its life it is a patchwork sort of country, with a degraded civilization, constantly suggesting, in a second-hand way, a half dozen other countries and people. Mexico—for it is not there that the life, except a certain sort of artificial society life, is more advantageously to be studied—and in these papers I propose to touch upon general life and manners and aspects of nature that came under my observation, with the intention of replying to some of the questions that a returning traveler is commonly asked about the psendo-republic" In speaking o
the government the author says: "In his first term Diaz took an enlightened view of the needs of Mexico and its external relations. * It is universally believed in Mexico that Zonzalis in his term of four years saved out of his salary between twelve and eighteen millions of dollars which is now well invested. These leaders are astute diplomatis, as wary and as supple as the Turks. Whoever makes a treaty with them is likely to be confused by the result. Whoever invests money in Mexico, either in public works, or in private enterprise, does so at his risk. Any basis of confidence is wanting in business. The Mexicans do not trust each other. They always seem surprised when a foreigner does as he said he would do. The moral condition is something like that of Egypt. The atmosphere of Egypt is one of universal lying. We who are accustomed to do business on universal faith—the presumption being that a man is honest until the contrary is proven—cannot understand a social state where the contrary is the assumption.
One can readily grant to Diaz patriotic intentions, and the desire to have Mexico take an honorable place in the world; but justice is not had priceless in the courts, the officials are all serving their own interests, and official corruption is universal. And yet travel is now safe, public order is maintained, and there is marked progress in education. Still, whatever the government is, there is no public, no public opinion, no general comprehension of political action, no really representative government or representative election. There are few newspapers, the people are not informed, and the mass of them are indifferent, so long as they are personally not disturbed. In only one case (the action of the Congress in regard to the English debt-action promoted by a determined demonstration of the students in the city) has there been any sign of the independence of the legislature. Mexico remains, in effect, a personal government with no political public."
The pretty towns, charming landscapes and great resources of the country are described with just enough of humor to make the book entertaining and the style pleasing.
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Did you see those nobby suits the pharmacists have? They were procured of Crains & Urbanskey.
Go to the Boston Square Dealing Clothing House for your Spring suit.
Crains & Urbanskay will not be undersold.
Abe Levy sells the best nats in Lawrence.
Call on Bromelsick and see the last party tie, it is a dandy.
Buy your new spring hat at Abe Levy's.
Phi Gams sport new hats furnished by the popular hatter, Abe Levy.
Ask Abe Levy to show his new hats.
If you wear pants buy them of the Boston Square Dealing Clothing House.
Go to Abe Levy's for Summer underwear.
Abe Levy sells fast black socks.
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Don't buy your new hat until you see Abe Levy's stock.
Oh! go and see Bromelsick's new spring hat.
Buy your collars and cuffs of Abe Levy.
Bromelsick sells ties as cheap as any body.
FALLEY & CO.
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
VOL. VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 26, 1889.
Local.
Can't we h ve a tennis match with Washburn when her ball club comes down.
Brewster, or Washburne, and Reed, of K. S. T., leave for Grinnell, Iowa on Tuesday next.
The sparkling humor of Mr. Grubb will be recognized on the first page, he has charge of those columns this week.
The faculty at their last meeting added certain optional studies to the courses in Greek, French and National history. K. S. U. do move.
Chancellor Lippincott left yesterday for Chicago. He goes to secure new members for our already excellent body of professors. K. S. U. do move.
Mrs. Prof. Green entertained the "Senior Laws" Tuesday in a very enjoyable manner. Prof. Green did wonders in "mind reading."
Mr. S. C. Brewster, weared by the stream of wrath incessantly flowing in upon him as business manager, has retired from that lucrative position, and Mr. H. S. Hadley has taken his place at the wheel of fortune. We commend him to the generosity of our me chants.
Regent Spangler is making a tour of inspection of the Eastern colleges and universities. in the interest of K.S.U.K.S.U.do move.
We understand that Mr. Reed will respond to the toast, "Kansas" at the banquet after the contest. Mr. Brewster will, well he will just naturally "get there," and K. S. U. wants him to feel as if she were patting him on the back and holding his success as her own.
Dr. Tiffany of Kansas City has been conducting some interesting optical experiments at the University during the past week. These experiments were to determine the influence of literary work on the eyes; whether the color of the eyes has any relation to the strength or weakness thereof; if the shape of of the foci is any criterion, etc. He
Miss Mamie and Inez Henshaw entertained a few friends Monday evening with progressive euchre and dancing. Those present were: Miss French and Filley, of Chicago; Johnson, Hair, McKay and price. Messrs. Peabody, Pickering, Armstrong. Fullerton, Birner, Wright, Manly and Wilkinson.
informs us that literary pursuits do not appear to effect the eyes to any serious extent; that he finds that eyes of hazel cofor are the weakest and those of positive colors—very light or very dark—the strongest. Some of the experiments were highly interesting. Professor Blake was found to have the best eyesight of any of the faculty, Will Curry could see a petticoat around a corner; Jim Challis could see a ten-cent piece in a man's inside pocket. Reed put on a pair of solid brass specs and declared he could see "Hobo" everywhere; Miss Lou Barker was found to have a peculiar affection of the right eye, which was due to the habit of closing it whenever she saw a Phi Psi; Will White made a searching examination for a pair of glasses which could magnify the "Times" subscription list, but failed to find them. Mr. C. E. Street, however, gave evidence of the most acute vision. He adjusted a pair of mercury-backed glasses and made solemn oath he could plainly see the man who stole the historic book.
Dress Goods.
Ladies we have some extra bargain in wool dress goods 25c, 35c,
and 50c. We have some great bargains in silks. We will guarantee our prices on all goods to be the lowest at all times. L. O. McINTYRE.
Go and see Bromelsick's new stock of party shirts.
Bromelsick keeps the most delicate tinted flannel shirts, as well as darker ones.
Go to J. D. Smith's for your newspapers.
Bromelsick can fit you out with a hat of the latest style.
A little quinine now and then is just the thing for all young men—and women. In bulk capsules, pills or suspended in syrup quite tasteless at Raymond & Dick's.
If you want a new hat procure it of Bromelsick.
Smith keeps the Reach Association League Ball.
Choice cigars and tobacco at Smith's news depot.
Andy Reed is the boss barber.
The almanac says that spring fever has taken hold of the boys and that it is time to take sarsaparilla. Raymond & Dick can supply the need. Go to Smith's for your base ball supplies.
Will Curry goes to Topeka tomorrow.
No 31
Personal.
Earnest Rankin was in town Sunday.
Will White went to Kansas City Saturday.
Mr. Kroh, of Topeka, spent Sunday in Lawrence.
Miss May Webster is visting Miss Ella Ropes, of Topeka.
Will Spencer is with a surveying corps in Oklahoma.
F. E. Reed visited his home at Newton, Kan., this week.
Miss Nellie Dow of Olathe is vising friends in the city.
Mr. Morgan, of Strong City attended the Phi Gam hop.
Herb Bullene, of Kansas City spent last week in Lawrence.
Dick Short enjoyed a visit Sunday from his brother, of Kansas City.
Fred Bowersack spent Sunday in Olathe. [This local is kept standing.
S. M. Simmons and Will Rutter spent their vacation at Spring Hill.
E. S. Earlhart was admitted to the bar at Atchison last week and plead his first case.
Dwight Potter, who has been ill with the meesles for some time, is again able to attend classes.
Mrs. Carlie (Cookins) Tenny, of Kansas City, an old K. S. U. student, is visiting Lawrence friends.
Miss Lillie McMillan goes to Kansas City to-night to attend a party given by Miss Mattie Slavens.
Howard A. Pears, of the law class of '88, will enter the collegiate department next year to finish his course.
Will Taylor is at a sanitarium in St. Joe, undergoing treatment for the injury he received on Pan-Hellenic night.
S. C. Wescott, of Baxter Springs, was initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity last Saturday evening. Wescott is a "Junior Law."
Visitors on the Hill were Misses Emma White and Delia Humphrey, of Junction City; Miss Julia Benedict, and Prof. Quarles, of Baker; Miss Floyd, of Paola.
Mrs. Prof. Marsh left Tuesday afternoon for Ithica, New York, where
she will remain about a month and then go to Newport, R. I., where she will be joined by Prof. Marsh. After a short visit in that city they will sail on the Red Star steamer "Noordland" for Antwerp, and will spend the summer in Holland.
The marriage of Miss Sue Miles to Mr. Charles Kinsey, of Cincinnati took place at the brides home on Wednesday last at high noon, Dr. Lippincott officiating. The affair was very quiet, only relatives and intimate friends being invited. The bride is an old K. S. U. girl and the groom a gentleman of wealth and position, and to both THE COURIER extends hearty congratulations and wishes much happiness.
Exchanges.
The Comp D'Etat is engaged in demolishing the present evil system of examination.
A Vassar girl being asked by her teacher what kind of a noun kiss was, replied with a blush, that it was both proper and common.
In the inter-collegiate lawn tennis contests, up to date, Yale and Harvard have each won first places, but Yale leads in as much as she has three second places to Harvard's one. Trinity is third Columbia fourth, Amherst fifth.—University.
The inter-state oratorical contest will be held May 2d. This contest is looked forward to by the Washburnites with special interest, since they furnish the orator from Kansas. Washburn also sends a delegate "upon whom there are no flies or particles of dust." We will give a report of their success in our next issue.—Washburn Argo.
Michigan has a fixed tax rate of one-twentieth of a mill per dollar upon the taxable property of the State, for the support of her University; Wisconsin a tax of one-eighth of a mill, which makes $75,000 a year; Nebraska has a rate tax which yields $60,000 annually,
A school of journalism is to be established at the University of Pennsylvania. English composition and literary style will be taught the first year; during the second year the course will be more especially adapted to meet the wants of those who intend to pursue journalism. An attache of a well known newspaper office in Philadelphia will give instructions in routine work of an
office. Editorial and reportorial work will be some of the specialties taught.
The following is from the St. Paul Daily Globe, containing the Minnesota State Oratorical Contest, held April 9th.—
"Soares, second !" and then the University men know no bounds in their joy, for they had second place as well. "Winter, third," and Macalester put in her yell, not quite so lusty to be sure, but still thoroughly audible. And then the rah! rah! rah! started again as the audience dispersed. The points were, Dickinson 15, Soares 16 and Winter $17\frac{1}{2}$. The Phi Kappa Psi's were jubilant, for the first two men were members of their fraternity, and they carried them out flowers and all. As the crowd poured out into the street the ground shook and the motors stopped and the theater people homeward bound turned pale in terror as the cry broke the air.
"The judges not only did very satisfactory work, but as is uncommon to such occasions, did it quickly, and the noise quieted when the president stepped out with the slip in his hand : "Dickinson, First," a storm of applause and then the unquenchable rah ! rahi rah ! rah ! ski—u—ma—min—so—lal—whoop! nearly lifted the roof as the university boys lungs sent it three times pealing through the church.
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The University Times, of March 22d, contains a lengthy editorial on "contests." It is amusing to read the Times' confessson that contests have fallen into disrepute by order of the faculty. Was there no cause for it? Yes, Washburn students "pull together" and doubtless you could do the same, if you would cease your bickering, and go to work. Say, Times isn't it rather egotistical for you to call Washburn "an ant" or "a mole hill" as compared with your own institution?
— Washburn Argo.
Andy Reed gives with every shave or hair-cut a ticket which entftles the owner a chance at drawing a silverheaded cane, a gold wath or a diamond ring.
We are now cutting lots of goods off for customers at low prices—our stock of dry goods and carpets is too large—we must unload—if you want bargains in dry goods and car. pets visit L. O. McIntiRES.
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Dumb bells and Indian clubs of weight at Smith's.
A clean bath is a luxury. Twenty for $2 at Andy Reeds.
Straw Hats Latest Style, at ABE LEVY'S.
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UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY.
PHI GAMMA DELTA fraternity, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
PHI DELTA THETA, Meets on second floor of Opera House block.
PHI KAPPA Pai, Meets on third floor of Opera House block.
SIGANU NG, Meets in the Eldridge House block, third floor.
SIGA CHI, Meets on the fourth floor East of the Opera House block.
BETA THETA PI, Meets on fourth floor of the Opera House block.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, Meets every Saturday afternoon at the homes of members.
KAPPA ALPHA THETA, Meets every Saturday afternoon in the Eldridge House block.
PI BETA PHI, Meets every Saturday afternoon in homes of members.
ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION: L. T. Smith, President; C. P. Chapman, Secretary. Executive Committee: E. M. Munford, Chas. Voorhis, Fred. Didkee.
BASE BALL ASSOCIATION; Manager, Prof. A. M. Wilcox, Captain of the nine, Charles Voorhis.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE CLUB, Meets in Snow Hall.
PHILOLOGICAL CLUB, Meets in room No. 36 every other Friday at 8 p.m.
TENNIS ASSOCIATION; President, F. E. Reed Secretary, F. H. Kellogg; Treasurer, W. A Snow.
COURIER COMPANY; President, J. M. Shella oarger; Secretary, J. C. Fox.
Now for a field day.
Before our next issue the interstate contest at Grinnell will be a hing of the past. Kansas has a strong man and has her face set hard toward first place.
We are glad to notice the reform that is gradually gaining ground in K. S. U. in the matter of final examinations. The tendency to depend more and more on the class grade is becoming stronger, and before many years we hope to see it the prevailing policy.
THE COURIER is glad to note that its numerous appeals for a Field Day have at last been heeded, and that a committee has been appointed to prepare a programme and make the necessary arrangements. Let the committee push this matter vigorously and success will crown its efforts.
At the end of this term the German students who make a class grade of 90 will be excused from final examinations, those who make 80 will be given a short test. Those
below 80 will be examined severely. The class in advanced composition under Prof. Marsh will also be graded almost entirely on the daily work.' This is as it should be. Thorough work in class should be required, and to secure this frequent quizzes may be necessary, but long, tiresome examinations should be forever abolished.
We venture the assertion that a great majority of failures in the University are due to wasted time. There is a time for all things, a time for social enjoyment, a time for exercise and a time to get right down to business. And yet there are some students, or rather, some individuals who call themselves students, who never seem able to divide their work so as to accomplish anything. They spend their energies on trifling matters and then complain that they are cramped for time to get their lessons. It is not the mere recitations themselves from which we derive the only benefit in the University; it is the habit of application, the ability to put our minds on some regular line of work. The formation of steady, business-like habits and methods of work in college
In the selection of a new Chancellor we trust that our regents will avoid the Scylla of personal influence on the one hand, and the Charybdis of political influence on the other. No man should be chosen simply because he is a favorite of the politicians, nor should he be rejected simply because his political views are not in harmony with the party in power in this state. Neither personal nor religious views should have any influence in the selection of a man to fill this important place. He should be a man eminently fitted for hat position by actual worth. Nots only must he be a learned man, one thoroughly informed in college needs and college work, but he must also possess great executive ability. In other words, he must not only be a master in the college world, but he must also fully understand the business world. For our institution has grown to such proportions that it requires a man of more than ordinary executive ability to conduct its affairs properly. We trust that no old, worn-out, political hack will be thrust upon us, as some of the newspapers of this state seem intent on doing. We have in our own faculty better men, men who would honor the position, one of whom has ably shown his great executive ability and his power as an educator. Let our regents "honor those to whom honor is due" regardless of prejudice.
counts for more than we may think in preparing a young man for a successful career. What is the use, we ask, of a young man coming here if his intention is not to benefit himself by regular and conscientious work? What possible good can come from spending all the way from $200 to $500 a year in hard cash if it is going to bring no substantial return? It makes no difference whether the student is wealthy or whether he works his way through, the responsibility rests on each alike to make the best of his opportunities — it is a duty each owes to himself and to society at large. The University is not a picnic ground, but a place of business, and should be regarded as such. He is short-sighted indeed who cannot look far enough ahead to see the immense disadvantage he will labor under through life if he allows the time in which he should be preparing himself for active business to slip away unimproved.
A Suggestion.
Every year sees important additions to our reading room facilities in the form of new periodicals, quarterlies, and monthly magazines, as well as publications of special or scientific interest.
The new student coming from his home, where perhaps two or three of our standard months are subscribed for, and which he probably reads from cover to cover, becomes easily bewildered in such a maze of magazine reading as he finds at the University. He finds it impossible to follow any system in the reading of magazines where the publications are so many, and the time for reading so short.
Go into the reading room any time and watch the magazine readers; you will find that nine out of ten pick up one magazine after the other, run over the leaves, look at the illustration, and perhaps read an article or two, and that is all. No system is followed, and in most cases the best and most useful articles are neglected by the average student, or else carelessly and cursorily read.
The habit which is thus so easily engendered, of slip-shod and aimless method in magazine reading, is detrimental to the student in many ways and to a degree lessens his taste for solid reading matter. Not only this, but the habit of a careless and hurried general reading, weakens the memory and the attention.
of the day, considerable magazine reading is absolutely necessary.
What we have to suggest is, that one of our professors undertake the task of recommending to the students some sort of course or system, which can be followed in magazine reading; some method by which the limited time we have to spend on the reading of periodicals can be economically and advantageously distributed. If any professor will take it upon himself to help us out in this, so that we can get the best ideas of the best minds, as set forth in the best magazines, without dissipating our energies over the whole wide field of periodical literature we will be glad to publish his plan in THE COURIER.
In modern times, the newest ideas on all great questions, are to be found in the magazines. A man no longer waits till he is ready to write a book to set his views before the public. And for the intelligent man who wants to keep posted on topics
In Matamoras.
"It us nothing, only a Mexican." The speaker was a French Jewess who kept a little millinery shop in the town of Matamoras. She handed me a glass of eau sucre as she spoke, looking with contemptuous pity at the American whose nerve had been shaken by an accident to a mere Mexican.
My mother and I had been in the quaint old town and had stepped aside for a moment into the sunshiny market place, a brick-paved square surrounded with open booths. There was an unnatural air of alertness about the place which ought to have warned us that something unusual had taken place. The idlers in the square had drawn together a.d were gazing all in one direction. Before we could retrace our steps into the street we found ourselves in the midst of an excited crowd. The interest of the crowd seemed centered upon a point at the upper end of the square. Suddenly the throng parted as if for royalty to pass. The presence which makes a beggar royal was near at hand. Make way for King Death! Along the open space they were leading a man with the crimson life blood streaming from his breast. Close behind followed his murderer, held by two policemen. Hatred and anger had faded from his face and the humanity seemed to have left it at the same time. Only terror remained, the sharp terror of the hunted animal. In that awful look one might measure the distance between innocence and guilt. I believe I pitied the murderer rather than his victim.
What became of the two I never learned; as the Jewess said, they were only Mexicans, slayer and slain.
Prize Essay on Child Labor.
Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler has given $100 to be awarded by the
American Economic Association as a prize for the best essay on the subject of "Child Labor." The money devoted to the establishment of this prize was received by Mrs. Chauler for some exquisite sonnets on this subject, which will soon appear in Harper's Monthly. These sonnets have been pronounced even superior to Mrs. Browning's "Cry of the Children."
Any person is eligible to competition. While the experience of foreign countries will not be excluded, it is expected that competitors will deal principally with American conditions. It is desired to know the growth of child labor, its present proportions, the evils connected with it, and the remedy for these evils.
The article must not exceed 25,000 words, and must be in the hands of the Secretary of the Association not later than Dec. 2, 1889. Each essay must be written in type-written, signed by a fictitious name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name assumed as well as the address of the author.
Address the Secretary, Richard T. Ely, Secretary of American Economic Association, Baltimore, Md.
Femes Covert
1.
Be it remembered by beaux interested
That a woman when covert is not now divested.
Of her property rights, by a law much detested
In the Common Law School.
She retains to herself the whole of her riches.
Personally, Realty, everything which is Her separate estate, whenever she hitches.
2.
She can act as a trader like a feme sole,
Sue and be sued along in the role
Of dis-covert woman upsetting the whole
Of the old common law.
She may contract and convey without th' assent
Of her paramour lord, tho' he vainly lament
Her legalized folly and deeply resent
Her uncontrolled "jaw."
3.
So beware how you wed a wealthy highflyer,
For the statue edacts that you get nothing by her,
Except, if you please, a wee little crier,
To keep you up nights.
Then beaus who to weelock do fondly aspire,
Restrain, let me beg you, your ardent desire,
For your wife at your hands will surely require
Her property rights.
—Virginia University Magustus
The Colby Echo is again welcomed after a long vacation of eight weeks. During that time it has lost none of its brightness.
Nebraska will be represented in the Inter-State Oratorical Contest next Tuesday enening, by A. V. House, of Doane College, whose oration is entitled "Home Rule for Ireland."
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Kent Club vs. Orophilian.
Kent Club vs. Orophilian.
Last Friday evening was the occasion of that much-postponed and long-awaited contest between Orophilian Literary Society and the Kent Club of the law department. The evening was propitious, the skies were clear and it was expected that such a crowd would turn out as to necessitate the use of the University chapel. Orophilian Hall, however, proved large enough to accommodate the audience assembled, so, at 8 o'clock, President W. W. Brown, of Orophilian, called the meeting to order in the society room.
The first in the order of exeises was a duet by the Misses Johnston, and ——, and they bruoght out all the music there was in Orophilian's old piano, and received hearty applause.
The next on the programme was a paper by C. M. Enns; subject, "A Russian School Boy's Literature." The poems, strokes, fables and songs which serve ro entertain the Russian children were described, and a number of interesting examples given, among them the Russian national hymn. Music was then rendered by Orophilian quartette, after which came the main feature of the evening, the debate. The subject to be discussed between the two societies, was, "Resolved, That our present system of municipal government is a failure." The speakers were arranged as follows: C. E. Street and H. E. Copper sustaining the affirmative for Orophilian and Cyrus Crane and A. C. Mitchell representing the Kent Club on the negative. Mr. Street opened by defining "failure." Then on the basis of the denifition he gave, he proceeded to demonstrate in how many ways our present municipal systems have failed to accomplish good results. He maintained among other things that forms of municipal government in the United States vary so much that there can be said to be no particular system. He gave instances of the corrupt workings of city governmeets, and argued that the rapid accumulation of municipal indebtedness is going to ruin the country unless steps are taken to materially change the present forms of the city governmenss
Mr. Mitchell of the Kent Club then took the floor for the negative. He disposed of the arguments of the affirmative in a vary able speech. Said the affirmative would overturn our present municipal government, but could offer nothing to take its place. He said that if a city government was expected to keep mankind out of their wicked ways it must fail, as would any government. That could only be accomplished by the education of the masses. Our municipal governments, he said,
were based exactly upon the same principle as our state and national governments, on the principle of representation, and to decry the principle of one was to decry that of the other. Mr. Mitchell alao said that his opponent, while giving the increased indebtedness of our cities, did not give the increased value of property, which overbalacced that indebtedness. In reply to the affirmative's argument that the interests of the mayor and those of the council in the appointment of city officials often clashed, to the detriment of good government, he said that the interests of the United States Senate and those of the President often conflicted in the matter of appointments, but that nobody thinks of abolishing the Senate or the office of President on that account. His argument was strong and convincing the chairman then announced that Mr. Crane was unable to be present.
H. E. Copper then very ably answered the statatements of tee negative. The program was cut short on account of lack of time. The lights went out and before the crowd had reached the foot of the hill the minipulator of the K. S. U. dynamo put out the electric lights and the people groped their way home in the dark.
The Senior class reception Friday evening in the parlors of Beta Thete Pi, at which the Seniors received each other, is said to have been a most enjoyable occasion. The evening, at least furnished a varied enough program to suit the most fastidious. For when the noble Seniors sought to don their boquets, lo! they were not. Some naughty junior had spirited them away. And soon afterwards the Seniors discovered, to their great consternation, that one of their waiters had been deceived into taking the provisions for refreshing the inner man into the wrong hall. Hardly had the strains of music from the Mandolin Club had time to "soothe the savage breast" when the gas flickered and went out, and "soft eyes that looked love to eyes which spoke again," wasted their power on the blackness of night.
"Ah! then there was hurrying to and fro And gathering tears and tremblings of distress,
And there were sudden partings such as as press
The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs,
And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago
Blushed at the praise of their own love- liness.
If ever more should meet those mutual eyes.
Which nee' might be repeated, who could guess
Since upon night so weet such uwful mean could ris."
Then there was gathering in hot haste, and the "most potent, grave, and reverend Seniors," armed with canes, base ball bats, brooms, and their own peculiar weapon, the horn, descended like an avalanche upon the unwary under classmen who were gazing at the festivities from afar off with longing eyes. And straightway between the noble Seniors and the lower classmen there arose a great strife and the sound thereof waxed great and resounded throughout the length and breadth of the opera house, and the Seniors waxed exceeding wroth that the lower classmen did not flee before the overpowering majesty of their presence. And this great strife might have continued to this day had not a truce been agreed upon for the purpose of a mutual exchange of prisoners. Whereupon the lower-classmen, seeing that the Seniors were sore discomfited and that their apparel was greatly disarranged, and having no desire from the first to disturb the Senior reception and hearing that the ladies were bathed in tears at the sad thought of what might befall their noble protectors, having disarmed the potent Seniors, they departed, bearing the weapons away in triumph, with much shouting and song.
The Seniors then returned to their hall, sadder, but wiser, and boasted of their brave, herculean efforts. And the Senior maiden, forgetful of the excited state of mind of the Senior lads, did swallow it all as gospel and many and various and marvelous were the stories which she related of the affair.
The music,songs and dancing were enjoyed until a late hour, and the Seniors all voted the first reception a great success. Refreshments were prepared by Mr. March of the Delmonico, and were served in the hall. The following is the
MENU.
Radishes
Cold Tongue Cold Sliced Ham
Cold Turkey.
Chicken Salad. Salmon Salad.
Parker House Rolls. French Rolls.
Vanilla. Chocolate.
Rex Ephilaeum
CAKES.
Chocolate. Cocoanut.
Marcaroons Figs. Lady Fingers.
Bananas, Apples, Oranges.
Iced Tea, Chocolate,
Coffee.
TOASTS.
Asa Dutton Kennedy.
Edwin E. Squires, "Glad to see you!"
Anna S. McKinnon, A. Senior,
"Four years in ——
George L. Dick,
"In the World,' or Four Years in ditto."
Catherine Merrill, "Thank You."
The new exchange editor of the Heiperian appears with all the ventosity of his predecessor, less of his wit and more of his egotism. The exchange column devoted, as that of the Hesperian, to fault-finding and useless criticism of minute in other papers, is of little value. It is of course pleasant to be reminded that the proper way of conducting the universe is as it is done at the University of Nebraska, but it would be more agreeable to read it in a paper other than the organ of that institution. Far more to be commended are the chestnuts of the "somnolent, sedentary scizzor slinger" than exchange column thus filled with the conceit of an effusive caviller. For though the former reprints what to his brethren of the exchange column is the stalest matter, it yet may be fresh and interesting to the local reader; but the latter merely displays himself in print. There is, however, a mean between these extremes. The exchange departments in the main containing general college news of interest and importance to its local readers, and when occasion demands, criticism of exchanges and discussion of subjects of exchanges and discussion of subjects of inter-collegiate interest addressed to the editors of other papers, is certainly much nearer the point where it is of greatest value to all concerned.
-Coup D'Etat.
A Song of Home.
Her song, so simple, void of art,
The prima donna fancied lost;
No one could know what pain it cost
To sing as if from care apart,
And carol blithely from the heart.
Long used to devious, mazy score,
And complex harmonies of sound,—
The cold, too cultured audience found
No rapture in this brief encore,
A little song of woods and shore.
Yet one sad soul, in humble dress,
A toll tired, care-worn serving girl,
Unused to fashion's dizzy whirl,
Drank in the ballad's tenderness,
And quick forgot her day's distress.
Her face shown with that peace and rest Which from some painter's canvas clears
gleams.
As when of home on alien dreams—
She stands again where seas look west,
A mother's hand in hers close-pressed.
Across the footlight's feverish glare
The singer saw the girl's sweet smile;
It stayed near by, a comfort, while
The toneful trumpets' brazen blaze
Caught up the theme and held it there.
Within an atti: room, last night
One red, red rose, against the pane
With autumn's sunsets seemed afame
And in her tresses, golden-bright,
The wanderer placed it with delight.
It was a common, wayside rose,
A tiny, wind-closed, fragile thing---
*I love you, little flower, you bring*
That song again to me; grief goes;
God cares for me, He cares and knows.
-William H. Simpson.
Dartmouth has the credit of publishing the first college publication, Yale the second, and Union the third.
Maine follows the example of Massachusetts in the matter of free textbooks for the public schools.
An Appeal for Rest.
Callow dude, with buggy breeches,
Sporting in a spotted vest.
With a gaudy neckle, which is
With a gaudy necktie, which is Ugly, cease and give us rest.
Fierce crew captain, stern as Gorgon,
Urgling us to do our best.
Prihte stop thy vocal organ
From its moving. Give us rear
Grind, who always know your lesson,
Never caring how you're dressed,
I must get a Smith & Wesson
Pistol, if I'd give you rest.
Calm professor, seldom smiling.
With your never-ending "test",
And your lectures, time beguiling,
Rest, rest, rest; oh, give us rest!
(The poet is a-rested.)
Base Ball.
We gladly welcome to our exchange table, Vol. I, No. 1, of the Buchtelite, published at Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio. Judging from the first number, we would say that the Buchtelite will step to the front rank of college journals, and make its influence felt.
Field & Hargis are headquarters fo: BASE BALL SLIPPERS,
LAWN TENNIS and all Sporting Goods. PIGS IN CLOVER in a few days.
Do you wear pants? If you do, get them at the Chicago One Price Clothing House.
THE ASSAM TEA
AGENCY,
ROBT. E. RIALE, Prop'r,
Fine Teas Choice Coffees,
Pure Spices AND Baking Powders. CHINESE AND JAPANESE GOODS.
Willis,
DALEE 'S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY South Tennessee Street, First-Class Work Done. Special Rates to Students.
Special Rates to Students.
I have the handsomest, the best selected stock of Suitings Pant Goods &c., that has ever bee seen in Lawrence.
McCONNELL,
The Merchant Tailor.
A liberal discount to students.
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Don't buy your new hat until you see Abe Levy's stock.
Oh! go and see Bromelsick's new spring hats.
Buy your collars and cuffs of Abe Levy.
Bromelsick sells ties as cheap as any body.
FALLEY & CO.
Runs the Popular Restaurant !
Good table board $3.00 per week.
Students boarding there may get their dinners at the University.
STUDENTS
Will find a large assortment of Seasonable Goods IN THE BOOT AND SHOE LINE AT THE POPULAR FAMILY SHOE STORE,
MASON'S.
H. W. HAYNE,
PRACTICAL
Watchmaker
and Engraver.
823 MASSACHUSETTS STEET.
For Kansas Reports,
KANSAS STATUTES.
and all Books for practice under the Kansas Code, address
THE GEO. W. CRANE PUBLISHING CO., 814 Kansas Avenue, Topeka.
They keep a fine stock of all the latest Text-Books at lowest prices.
Special prices made to students.
GEC. W. CRANE PUBLISHING CO
MARVELOUS MEMORY DISCOVERY.
Any book learned in one reading.
Mind wandering curd.
Spiking without purpose.
Wholly unlike artifical Systems.
Polemideum. Supreme Court.
Great impatience. Supreme Court.
Prospectus, with opinions of Dr. Wm. A. Hammond, the world-famed specialist in Mind Psychologist, J. M. Buckley, D. D. Editor of the Christian Adocate, Richard Proctor, the Scientist, Rons, Judge Gibbons, Judah P Benjamin, and Others, sent post faxed to 327 917 Ave. N, Y
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The Leading Photographer,
719 Massachusetts Street
LAWRENCE...KANJ/S.
BOOTS AND SHOES MADE AND REPAIRED BY J. F. WIEDEMAN,
Second door east of Polar, s Grocery.
ORDERS TAKEN
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FINE CAKES
OF
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ICE CREAM AND WARM ICES Delivered in Large or Small Quantities.
THE DELMONICO IS THE POPULAR RESTAURANT & ICE CREAM PARLOR. Everything the Best.
COFFEE AND CAKE FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Indiana Cash Grocery and Crockery House.
No. 714 Massachusetts St.
MILK SHAKE
AND
LEMONADE.
A horse and carriage in motion.
CARMEAN & HARBAUGH, Have the Popular Livery Stable OF LAWRENCE. EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS
Call at the new tea store S12 Massachusetts street, Red Front, for good coffees and teas.
The Finest Hacks and Call Carages in the City. Special attention Paid t Students.
Telephone No.139. 818 and 820, Vermont Street, Opposite Lawrence House
NO. 828 and 830 MASSACHUSETTS STREET.
CHOICE CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
OVER WOODWARD'S DRUG STORE.
C. A. KING
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Dental Rooms
MOAK BROS Billiard Parlors.
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Everything nice in the way of Confectionery, Fruit, Nuts, etc. Oysters in Every Style.
Dentist Has removed to first door North of the Law rence House, on Vermont Street. Teeth extracted without pain by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas.
E. WRIGHT,
GEO. DAVIS,
Students will find it to their advantage to call and look at stock and get prices.
Office No. 921 Massachusetts Street,
UP STAIRS.
Look out for something startling soon. We are carrying such a stock of goods, and they are so cheap, that we will have to unload at some price. Those that buy of us show their wisdom. It is not those who buy on credit. You can always set it down that when you buy of anyone else in our line that you are paying them a premium to have them carry you. Remember. we back up any promise we make you.
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WILDER BROTHERS, SHIRT MAKERS,
AND GENTS' FURNISHERS,
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Students and everybody will do well to call on us and be fitted out in Shirts and Underwear that have been made to order for parties and not taken. You can buy the finest goods for one-third the regular price.
Patronize our Custom Steam Laundrp for nice work and low prices.
Work called for and delivered. Telephone No. 67.
MENGER'S is the Place to Buy Your Fine Shoes.
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