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Vol. II.
No. 18.
June 5,1896.
The Kansas University WEEKLY.
The only official and authorized weekly publication at the University of Kansas.
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University
Students desiring to get instruction in Book-keeping-Shorthand, Typewriting and Penmanship can be accommodated at the Lawrence Business College with out interfering with University work. Charges reasonable.
A. G. C0NRAD, Principal.
Boating is so popular in Lawrence because she has the FINEST Rowing Course in Kansas. Call on EDWARD KEENEY at the LAWRENCE BOAT HOUSE.
SUITS 15.00.
PANTS $3.50.
B. H. WOERMAN, Manager.
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Over 70 pages for 25 cents, at any book store in the city or at Students' Supply Store. Main Building.
PERSONS DESIRING TO BE HEALED Will do well to call at Doctor Robinson's Bath House. 906 Mass. St., Down Stairs.
He heals with his HANDS while Rubbing. Open every day of the week. Prices: Boys under 12,10 cents; under 14,15cents; Adults 35 cents.
See those beautiful glass-panel photographs, which are the coming fad, at Hoadley and Hackman's under City Library. Exclusive agents for E. S. Tucker.
Tetlows "Gossamer" for the complexion, at Raymonds.
Boating is attracting a great many students to the river. Mr. Keeny will quote you low prices.
The best place to buy shoes is at The Cash Shoe Store. 823 Mass. street.
Have you sampled Raymond's new odors? Coronaria Amaryllis or Persian Boquet? Come in and try them.
The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JUNE 5, 1896.
No.18.
Editor-in-Chief:
W. W. RENO.
Associate:
L. N. FLINT.
Literary Editor:
DON BOWERSOCK.
Associates:
J. H. PATTEN. GRACE BREWSTER.
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
F. L. GLICK.
Associates:
H. W. MENKE, Snow Hall.
O. T. HESTER, Exchanges
GERTRUDE McCHEYNE. School of Fine Arts.
W. H. H. PIATT, Law.
A. A. EWART, Athletics.
C. L. FAY, Arts.
E. C. ALDER, Social.
Managing Editor.
J. H. ENGLE.
Associates:
W. M. FREELAND. H. E. STEELE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, J. E. Smith, or the secretary, C. J. Moore.
Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance.
Address all business communications to J. H. Engle, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
LAST SUNDAY's Topeka Capital contains an excellent article on the entomological collection of the University. The article was taken word for word from the last issue of the WEEKLY and printed with no mention of the source from which it was obtained and without the knowledge or consent of the original writer. Such methods are ordinarily not used by those who have a true conception of journalistic honor.
THE GREATEST need of the University viewed from the standpoint of the people of Kansas, the utilitarian standpoint, is a school of medicine.
OUR LEGAL friend says that "the WEEKLY usually devotes more space to brawn than to brain." We have never devoted to athletics more than two pages in an issue of from sixteen to twenty-six pages. This statement may be verified by anyone, and we can not account for the surprising assertion of our legal critic in any other way than by supposing him to have been "non compos mentis."
GOETHE SAYS that thought broadens but lames, while action narrows but animates. Some students in the University think too much and as a result will become old before their time or will never be much more than dreamers while other students are so active that they never have time for serious contemplation. The man of greatest value in this world is one who can think and act as occasion demands.
ONE OF the sad sights of every day life in a large city during a dull season is that of men out of work with little prospect of finding employment in the near future. They stand about, talking but little, seldom smiling and never laughing aloud. They have a thoughtful, despondent air and they look about them in a listless way as if they had no interest in the world of activity about them. They are very willing to earn their daily bread if work could be found. It is something that the average man can sympathize with these poor fellows even though he is unable to render them direct assistance.
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THE OBJECT of a University training is not to store the mind full of related facts such as can be obtained from encyclopaedias, nor is it to secure a degree, but it is to obtain an unconscious potential power which will be of great value in the battle of life. The average alumnus of any college does not remember one half that he learned during his collegiate course, yet his college training is of inestimable value to him. The mind is not the same after being impressed with inspiring ideas gathered from science, language and literature of the world.
THE Western Collegian for May has a bright and attractive cover and contains a very creditable amount of interesting reading matter. The articles especially worthy of mention are "College Orations," a plea for less high flown oratory and more thorough work in literary societies, and "The Price of a Life," a pathetic little story suggested rather than told in a very effective manner. The magazine promises to be successful as regards literary matter and judging from the sixteen pages of advertisements it is also on a sound financial basis.
Nobility of character is undoubtedly the greatest thing in the world. Positions of honor, trust, and power and all the pleasures that wealth can give, the diversions of beauty, the satisfaction of fulfilled ambition—all these, when the soul sees itself in the dark and lonely vigils of night or when it is about to free itself from its mould of clay forever, sink into insignificance when compared with a character as spotless as the driven snow. A pure character is not incompatible with the rushing, bustling everyday life which the majority of us are obliged to lead. As a rule, base thoughts, desires and schemes do not come unbidden. Our world is what we make it. If we try to live a noble life, even though we do not rise high in the world, according to the opinion of many of our friends, our life has not been in vain. Nobility of character is the greatest thing in the world.
THE EDITORIAL last week by Mr. J. E. Smith concerning the low requirements for admission to the Law School merits attention. Surely the prospective law student should be as well equipped intellectually as the prospective pharmacy student and yet the University of Kansas requires the latter to pass a more rigid examination for entrance than the former. Why is this? We ought not to conclude that those who seek entrance to the Law School are inferior intellectually to the pharmacy students or that a fair preparatory education is unnecessary to the practice of law.
A MAGAZINE devoted to the interests of the First Presbyterian Church of Kansas City, Kansas, has recently made its appearance. Its circulation is mainly among the Presbyterians of Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri.
The May number is devoted to articles upon Lawrence, Lawrence institutions, Lawrence affairs, and Lawrence people. One of the articles is upon the University of Kansas; stating its conditions, its work, the number in its faculties, the number of students in attendance, its equipments in various departments, its power and influence, moral, religious and intellectual, upon the community in which it is located, and upon the State of Kansas that so liberally supports it.
It is a paper, upon the whole, that is calculated to disseminate among Presbyterians a vast amount of correct information concerning the University.
The article is illustrated with half tone pictures of Chancellor Snow, the Main Building, Snow Hall, the Physics and Electrical Building and the Spooner Library Building.
The chief mover in this new enterprise is the Rev. H. G. Mendenhall, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Kansas City, Kansas. The zeal, enterprise and determination of this gentlemen to assist in the upbuilding of Kansas institutions, all show that he possesses a broad, catholic spirit and that he knows a good thing when he see it. E.M.
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LITERARY. DESDEMONA.
BY HAROLD W. SMITH,'97.
The study of stage careers is by no means profitless. It is commonly affirmed of actors that they never live a genuine life in a real world. Accustomed as they are to promiscuous imitations, they become incapable of seriousness and sincerity. Both their thoughts and impulses are tinged with mockery—the glamour of stage—land pervades their very being. In most actors the traits of the artist and of the man are inseparably combined; and in the lives of our best actors I believe that the artistic tendencies are dominant.
The following story told me by its hero several years after the occurrence of its actual incidents will help substantiate the preceding observation. The narrator is now an actor of established reputation and considerable fame. His sterling traits of character are unknown to me, except as they were partly revealed in the process of his own narrative. This was his story, as I recall it.
"Did you ever see my father act? Of course you have. After I had finished college work, he took me with him on his theatrical tours; partly, because he wished companionship and felt the responsibility of directing my future, and partly because he deemed travel an invaluable educator. His method was, as it had always been in my case, to allow me full swing, placing no restraint upon the exercise of my will,—seldom censuring my likes and dislikes. His incessant advice was to observe well,—and by that he meant to analyze and ponder what I saw, not merely to record sensations. And he never tired of impressing the virtue and recounting the benefits of solitude. "Society inculcates fickleness," said he: "solitude gives to character tone and a mould."
His secret hope was that the stage should have no charm for me, although he himself was devoted to his art, even to its mechanism. But, like most successful actors, for some reasons almost unaccountable, he never recommended his profession to youthful aspirants. Strange to say, at first the stage did not allure me; perhaps, because I was then living semi-professionally, tasting the routine of an actor's life without being forced to its drudgery. I
took no part; I studied no part with a view to its enactment. I confess that, at times, my father's inimitable portrayals failed to interest me. My conceptions of roles, scenes and pieces were usually identical with his own, but this ideal agreement was hardly gratifying to either of us.
Father, as you may know, appeared only in Shakespearian plays. At that time these were more popular than they now are. But, pray don't think that I give this as a reason for the exclusiveness of his repertoire. I never slight an opportunity for making this remark. My own theatrical experience warrants it. "The Three Guardsmen" in which I am ill at ease invariably meets with a warmer reception than my Hamlet.
Now, for another confession; or rather, what was once a confession, but now, my boast. I am unduly fond of Shakespeare's women. I love them all. I used to be almost childish in my devotion to them. For hours would I sit and live with them, for them, in them,—would mope with Ophelia, weep for Juliet, and fairly live a Desdemona in thought and feeling. Desdemona! Foolish, guileless girl! Ah! too late did you learn to distrust impulse; and, that even in love pure reason is the only assurance of happiness.
This of Shakespeare's characters suited me exactly. Her beauties and her blemishes alike possessed me. I believe I barely escaped monomania, so absorbed was I in the worship of this one creation. I loved not an ideal, but a fiction.
Father had not played "Othello" for two seasons. He disliked the role of Iago, at least he disliked his leading man's conception of it. Although I seldom made father confidant of my joys and sorrows, yet I did not attempt to conceal from him my whims and distempers. He became aware of my penchant for Desdemona, and I half believe that from that moment he learned to share my liking for her. I was not surprised to hear him, one day in the latter half of the theatrical season, express the intention of reviving his Othello—for a short run, anyway. Rehearsals for the play were soon in progress.
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I attended none of them because of my thorough detestation of stage business and dramatic technique. I was occasionally informed of their progress; my interest, however, remained passive. I continued to cherish my darling conception. The night of the initial performance of "Othello" was at hand. My father seemed rather pleased with the prospects. He said that he had been pleasantly surprised by the competency of his support and the adequacy of a vailable stage settings.
His company was strong and versatile. The leading man was reliable. His style was not declamatory; his dignity was superb and unstudied; he was capable of the handling most delicate scenes. True, his successes had not been pronounced, but his failures had not been unpardonable.
The leading lady was a consummate artist. Beautiful, intelligent, teachable and genial, she easily won recognition and applause. I often wonder why I did not like her at first. Her work upon the stage was flawless; her intelligence was delightfully refreshing; her face and figure were model, although her individuality was unmistakable; her temperament, not painfully even, was usually happy. And yet my admiration for the woman never bordered upon adoration. Again I say, I marvel that, at the moment of our first meeting. I was not seized with paroxysms of love.
Let me see—how far had I gotten with the story? Oh, yes! up to the first night of the reproduction.
With the approach of the theatre hour my interest in the piece so soon to be produced-became active. By idle surmise, apprehension and unnecessary solicitude, I worried myself into a state of galling impatience. New thoughts tormented me. I reasoned thus: I love Desdemona,-because I know her. Suppose she should materialize, would a walking, speaking, acting Desdemona seem less real to me? Would I not love the creature who could imitate her attributes? This thought did not enrapture me, and I neither questioned nor encouraged it. The play was over all too soon. You ask me about details? I remember few of them. I saw only Desdemona, heard only her, felt only her presence. After the last curtain fall, I staggered back to the green room. It was deserted. I could hear the broken chatter from the dressing rooms. Listen! No! Desdemona had gone. I had seen her die-had wept for her, and now I caught myself straining
for the sound of a voice. One by one the actors emerged from their rooms and left the building. I had seen again and again that form, that face. Why did I stare so when she passed out of the stage door? I had never sought her company before. Why did I follow her now? Why, I loved her. The more I frowned upon myself, the more I loved.
We became friends, then companions, then lovers. The future grew bright before me. I adopted my father's profession. Love coached me in my study, and my life became serenely blissful. Our every action seemed to meet with my father's sanction. "Othello" became his strong piece. Since its first production he had given it a more elaborate setting and a richer costuming. He was, however, still dissatisfied with his Iago. One day,—oh, cursed impulse! a strange desire seized me,--a gruesome longing to play Iago. An unnatural prompting, was it not? that I who so loved Desdemona should yield to the fascinating charms of her snaky destroyer. From that time I was mysterious, dreadful, almost loathsome to myself. I told her of my odd conceit, and to father I freely expressed my secret wish. Both of them looked upon the matter with a professional eye —alas! I couldn't—; both were delighted, were enthusiastic in their encouragement; all of which rather disappointed and grieved me, for I had prayed for opposition and disapproval in this latest whim of mine. Perhaps, I feared its outcome. Why should I? What had I in common with Iago? Could mere mimicry pervert my being? Mock passion leaves no trace, teaches no habit, cannot be confounded. Why, what a drivelling fool I was! living a dual role—in thought a veritable Othello, in play a miscreant. I played the part. I play it now. I killed my Desdemona and I killed my love; for me it is now beyond recall.
Oh, fickle fancy! to make the willing intellect a cheat to dupe the soul. I loved a dream. I trusted in its fulfillment and thought I loved—a woman."
To a Cyclone.
Oh Cyclone! I can never sigh for thee
It would not do, as we have never met
So only as I love humanity
Can I for thee hold pity or regret.
But do not, Gentle Cyclone, 'er believe
That I feel sad, because we're yet to meet
I tell thee frankly, I would not deceive,
I never craved to worship at thy feet .
Yet be not sad, for should you choose to come—
I fear escape I could not, though I try:
I too, would helpless fall, as others who
Have listened to thy plaintive wail and sigh.
But as thou, Cyclone, ne'er hast sighed for me.
Why should I now be sighing loud for thee? A.A.E.
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The Tornado.
All creatures fear thee, monster of the air.
And tremble at thy dull approaching tread.
Thy distant voice fills every heart with dread.
The wild beast cowers in his deepest lair.
At noon a fertile valley blossomed fair,
And in its lap a stately town lay spread.
Ere night the plain was strewn with mangled dead.
The marks of thy fierce hand were everywhere.
The works of man which fill his heart with pride Are merest toys, too fragile for thy play. The friends who walked this morning at our side Are pale in death before the close of day. The one who laughs and thinks no ills betide That very hour perchance is borne away.
Vigintennial Ode to the Class of '76.
(By E. B. Tucker, Classis Poeta.)
O June of Junes, fair month of seventy-six,
Thy balmy air once more we breath again,
Once more drink off the cup of life's fair morn
And revel in the loves and hopes of yore.
Let us forget the wrinkles and the frosts
Old Father Time has cast upon our brows
And for the nonce, in Oread's halls re-breathe
The flower-scented, dreamy summer air.
Ah me! how easily, how tenderly
Those mem'ries of the past come floating back
And twenty years seem but as yesterday.
Some trifle laid away may bring them up.
A lettered ribbon and a faded rose. Life's not a playground but a battle-field, And who the victory would win must strive Unceasingly. Though pressed with toils and cares Enshrined within our hearts will ever live The sacred mem'ries of those bygone days. Classmates—all hail—today let friendship's fire Burn clear, a greeting pass the circle round Of hearty love and fellowship for all. On this our twentieth anniversary. Long may the class of seventy-six be spared To do its work right nobly in the world, And. when at last from life we graduate. Be found at Heaven's Great Commencement Day.
And, Alma Mater, ever dear,
May blessings crown thee year by year,
Thy honors as thy nurslings multiply.
Thy praise be sounded to the sky. L.N.F.
The Hotel de Cranium: An Extravaganza.
There was a tired brain once who looked out of her cob-webby window in fear and trembling. She heard in the distance sounds she knew but too well. A Greek root and a Latin construction were approaching to take up their abode with her. She was overrun with Greek roots and Latin constructions already; they dominated everything; the poor brain could get no rest because of them.
As they entered she saw that her fears were well founded. Their looks and their luggage proclaimed that it would take no small amount
of labor and pain to get them satisfactorily lodged. They danced and pranced about the room in fiendish glee at the unfortunate brain's confusion, vehemently refusing to be placed in their proper category and go to sleep.
"Can't you keep still a moment Mr. G. root and tell me whether you are an Iota stem or a lengthened liquid? You Root family all resemble each other so much. How can I show you your room when I don't know your name and you won't register? This keeping a hotel on the classical system is a great mistake."
The Greek root, quite unabashed and unmoved by this pleading, gyrated wildly throughout the entire establishment, woke up several of his relatives who were safely asleep, and brought them out to have a share in the discussion.
Meanwhile the Latin construction clamorously demanded attention and yet refused to tell whether he was an Ablative of Source or of Accompaniment.
By this time the poor worn out brain had become hopelessly resigned to the inevitable, and sat staring vacantly out of the window. All at once something occurred that effectively aroused her interest and thrust the turmoil about her into the back-ground.
A thought was approaching, a beautiful, romantic, original thought that would result in quires of manuscript. The brain watched it, oh so anxiously. Would it come in? Or were the house and its inmates too uninviting? The thought opened the door, letting in a dim but delightful view of the outer brightness, but seeing the Greek root and the Latin construction engaged in hand-to-hand combat, shook its head and departed in search of more peaceful quarters.
Thoroughly overcome by her misfortunes the baffled brain went to bed and to sleep. Occasionally during the night a din of breaking furniture penetrated her oblivion, but she merely turned over and slept on.
A college Senior left his "mater's" wing And started forth to battle with the world. A goodly boy with downy mustache twirled— As much as could be, such a tiny thing. He fought and died of cruel hunger's sting, A monster new to this celestial boy. Then, freed from earth. he longed for heaven's joy, And flew away at heaven's door to ring; But, sad and weeping, he was turned away, For he'd rehearsed on Sunday for the Senior play.
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THE CLASS OF '96.
The Space permits the mention of only a few of the class that graduates this year although all deserve to be spoken of. The class is notable for its high scholarship and the spirit of energy it has shown. Among those who contributed to its reputation,the following may be named.
A. M. S.
R C. GOWELL.
T. W. LOVE
CLYDE BROWN.
Mr. Gowell is the genial president of the Senior class, and his high scholarship has won him a reward. Undergraduates of Kansas university will be glad to know that they will not lose him, as he has been incorporated in the faculty
But Clyde Brown, the class president in the Junior year, will be missed. The guideship will know him no more, neither will delinquents flee his approach as they were wont to do. From being the pilot of the University and the Mercury of the Disciplinary Committee he he has become one the vast army of alumni.
PETER HARVEY
P. A. CLAASSEN.
JAMES W. BARNARD
A McMURRAY.
The orators of the class are P. A. Claassen and Arthur McMurray. If the former lacks a little in force, the latter compensates for it in ten fold ratio, and if the latter be a trifle rough in expressing himself, the former may
soothe us by the gentle poetry of his language. Mr. Claassen won first place in the local oratorical contest, with his rival a close second. He is also the oracle of the German club, his nationality making him an excellent critic of the distressing combinations of sounds there engendered.
Mr. McMurray comes of a family of orators, and he does not intend to give up his studies upon receiving his diploma. Although he will teach in Nebraska for the next year or two,he expects to complete his oratorical studies later on.
A. H. M.
RUDOLPH CAUGHEY.
THE MRS. HENRY ELLIS
MISS THOBURN.
Rudolph Caughey has been prominent, ever since he entered school, in religious circles. During the past year he has held the position as the president of the University Y.M.C.A.
Miss Blanch Thoburn for a year, has occupied the same place. in the Y. W. C. A. that Mr. Caughey held in the Y. M. C. A. In fact, she has been identified with religious work throughout the college course.
[Black and white photograph of a man in a suit].
J. W. HULLINGER.
JOHN WILSON
FRED RAYMOND.
J. W. Hullinger, former principal of the Junction City schools and always one of the best and most jovial of men, is among the graduates. He is one the brightest students
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of the class and a teacher of established reputation. He was this year president of the Northwest Kansas Teachers' association, and next year will be assistant principal of the Kansas City, Kan. High School at a salary of $1.000 a year.
Fred Raymond is another of the students of whom the class of '96 is proud. His pronounced talent has been recognized outside of the University, and next year he will be found at Columbia enjoying the University scholarship he has won. He expects to take a Ph.D. degree at that University, and in all probability his name will be in the list of Fellows next Spring.
S. E. RIGGS.
JAMES H.
B. B. MAYNES
CARL WICK.
Carl Wick, he of the sinuous tongue, of the mellifluous and perennial rhetoric, is among the number whose absence will be poignantly regretted. Where will be the man to take his place and supply the storehouse of astounding phrases which he so long has drawn upon? The classic halls of Kansas University will be to quote one of his own expressions, merely "a bald and echoing interior."
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W. N. LOGAN.
LILNEER CC
There are three men in the Senior class who, on account of the greater amount of their
FRANK A. WHITZEL.
work and its possible superiority, will receive not only a Bachelor's but but also a Master's degree. They are S. E. Riggs, W. N. Logan and F. A. Whitzel.
Riggs secures his extra degree by special work in Geology and Physics. He expects to make teaching his life work, but will probably be with the American Museum at New York during the next year.
W. N. Logan is a special student of Anatomy, Psychology, and Geology. He will leave Lawrence immediately to take charge of the Institute in Cheyenne county. Afterward he will have charge of the work of the irrigation commission north of the Arkansas river. He expects to resume study at Harvard or Chicago University.
Frank Whitzel's specialty is English,at which he has worked consistently ever since he entered college,the A.M.degree being practically incidental. His future is shrouded in the blackest midnight.
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MISS THOMPSON.
Miss Agnes Thompson is one of the few Lawrence girls in the class. Her work has been in the direction of literature, classic and modern, and she will probably continue on the same line. She is already a writer of short stories of University fame, and one of the contributors to the Lotus and to the literary department of the WEEKLY.
Geo. R. Albers and C. C. Crew have distinguished themselves in the Department of Engineering and were chosen members of Sigma Xi. Members of Phi Beta Kappa not otherwise mentioned are B. B. Breese and Ward Croskey.
There are many others in the class of whom we would like to speak, but space is not allowed to us.
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THE SENIOR PLAY.
The many people who saw the Senior play given on June 3, would not think of the hours of anxious care required in its preparation. Those who went might read the posters kindly provided as adornments for the curtain, and so know the state of indecision that reigned for months within the class of '96.
The play as presented finally was an adaptation from the Spanish; the original was in a great measure retained; some unimportant details and a few distinctively Spanish characteristics, names, costumes, and the like,-being the principal omissions. Additions there were in abundance and these in most cases really added to the
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MISS ALICE ROHE.
play in interest, life, and brightnesss.
The Spanish play "Zaragüeta" deals with the vicissitudes of a student's career in Madrid; its hero, Charles, is sent to school by his indulgent aunt and uncle; in Madrid he speedily spends all his substance and pledges more; when at last his debts are too heavy and creditors too pressing, he concocts a tale of illness, declares a trip to Paris necessary, and so hopes to get money from his rich relatives wherewith to pay his debts. He comes back to them in Salamanca, and there the plot is entangled and disentangled in a most delightful manner. A love affair or two give flavour to to the play. One character, that of Zaragüeta,the money lender of Madrid,gives the play the name and much of its life; Indalecio,the hero's hungry uncle,is another of the characters that add spice to the comedy;Charles, the hero,and Maruja,the heroine, complete the list
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F. W. BREWSTER. heroine, complete the list of really interesting personages in the play.
The others, though at times amusing, are really useful only to complete the mechanism of the production.
It will readily be seen that the plot and plan of the original were followed in the main; the play, however, lost but littie interest by the localization, and gained much local brightness through the clever but good natured "hits" at students and faculty. Sharp, unkind thrusts at personal peculiarities or unavoidable defects were commendably few in number. The players themselves added such "hits" as seemed best to them.
In one or two points the adaptation showed lack of appreciation of the artistic; the theological student added no interest to the plot as localized and might well have been done away with;
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MISS MABEL HALL omitted entirely.
the open and constant use of wine, while very realistic in the Spanish play, was unnecessary, inartistic and unnatural in the localized version; the use of chocolate, and other distinctively Spanish customs might well have been altered to something American or have been
The play was translated by
members of the class, and the translation was thoroughly gone over and carefully corrected by one of the class.
It ought further to be said that the play, as it left the hands of its final translator, Miss Mabel Hall was wholly without localization, this being added by the students who acted the various roles.
The players with their parts are named below, Mr. Brewster,and Miss Rohe,hero and heroine, acted their roles admirably; Miss Moon made a very good aunt for the wretched hero;Mr. Hill and Mr. McMurray understood their parts well;Mr. Raymond as the deaf money lender from Baldwin undoubtedly carried his part the most successfully of all the actors;the other four of the ten characters played their parts well, but they were of less interest in the plot.
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One of the additions to the original was the book agent with the "Kwir Book" for sale; a very skillful way of introducing the class annual and offering it to the public.
CLASS OF CHARACTERS.
Mrs. Rogers, Charles' Aunt ... Francis Moon
Margery, Charles' cousin ... Alice Rohe
Mrs. Wood, a Mother of Freddie Joseph ... Annie Edwards
Aunt Mari, servant girl ... Agnes Thompson
Mr. Rogero, uncle of Charles ... Art McMurray
Charles, the hero, a student in trouble .. F. W. Brewster
Dr. Martin Van B, Stevens, village doctor .. W. I. Hill
P. D. Q. Humbert, a money-lender of Baldwin.
F. Raymond
Freddie Jos. Wood, a theological student .. Jas. Squires
Pete, a man of all work .. R. C. Gowell
Dave, a hack driver .. F. N. Raymond
THE SENIOR ANNUAL.
The Kwir Book, published by the class of ninety-six, bears but a slight resemblance to the Annuals in which the Seniors of days gone by stored their accumulated wisdom. Like Goethe's Faust, its position in literature is unique. It contains no history of the
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founding of the University, no elusive courses of study pursued by the eager student, no half tones of the Faculty, no statistics with regard to the size of Senior feet, interesting and instructive as such statistics may be. It is not an illustrated catalogue, but a class book, de-
JAMES H. PATTEN. voted primarily to the interest of the Senior class, but making kindly mention of the idiosyncracies of the Faculty and lower classmen. It contains a dedication in
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verse—a composite of Swinburne, Browning and William Blake, which runs trippingly as a centipede; an introduction, appropriately illustrated, a preface, containing a brief but graphic history of the class, a book of fables, and an appendix besides half tone cuts and horoscopes of each member
of the class. The covers of the book are printed
on heavy enamel paper in red, yellow, and black. The drawings were made by Mr. Sydney Prentice, our clever University artist, and Mr. Patten discharged the duties of business manager.
Last Saturday at Manhattan field was held the twenty-first annual field meet of the Intercollegiate association. The score was Yale 43; University of Pennsylvania $ 2 2 \frac {1}{2} $ ; Harvard 14; Columbia 8; Georgetown, 10; Columbian, 12. Williams, 4; Boston, 5. Cornell, 3, Washington, Princeton, 1; B. J. Wefers of Georgetown reduced the inter-collegiate record of 10 seconds for the 100 yard dash held by Carey, Ramsdell and Oram, to his own world's ameteur record of 9 4-5 sec. Burke of Boston won the 440 yard dash 50 2-5 seconds. Jarvis of Pennsylvania won the mile in 4.281-5. Winsor of Michigan won the running high jump at 6 ft. 1in., beating Fearing's intercollegiate record of 6 ft. $ \frac{1}{2} $ in. Sheldon of Yale won the running broad jump at 22 ft. $ 3 \frac{1}{4} $ in. Hollister of Harvard won the half mile in 1.564-5. But the finest event was that in which Wefers broke the world's record in the 220 yard dash, covering the distance in 21 4-5 seconds. Harvard beat Pennsylvania last week with ease, but her score here was cut into by the single cracks from small colleges.
Leland Stanford Jr. University of California, has a volunteer fire company composed of students. Its purpose is to train the men in case of any emergency, as no regular company is near the University. The monotony of proceedings around the college is often broken by false signals given at unexpected times in order to drill the men.
Last Thursday there was a student's meeting at Chicago University, at which resolutions were passed demanding student control of athletic finances and coaching. Stagg has had control of both and may possibly resign.
A recent exchange page of the University Courier of Perry University has a very extended and very laudatory notice of the Western Inter-state Oratorical Association.
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LOGALS.
Miss Virgie McCrory visited the University Monday.
Miss Edith Davis spent Friday and Saturday in Topeka.
Miss Pauline Lewelling will spend the summer in Iowa.
Miss Katharine Addison, of Salina, visited the University Monday.
Miss Ella Funston, of Carlyle, will attend the Commencement exercises.
Miss Chattie Hobson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will attend commencement next week,
Professor Templin lectured to his Phychology class Wednesday upon "Hypnotisn."
"What are you going to do, Mr. Claussen?" "Me? Oh, I will go home to Beatrice."
H. P. Butcher' 96, has been elected principal of the Olathe High School at a good salary.
Dean Foster '96, in September will go to the University of Pennsylvania where he will study medicine.
A. V. Schroder '96, will spend part of the summer in California, in order to prepare himself for business.
Mrs. R. Allison, of Paola, arrived in the city this morning in order to attend the graduating exercises.
Mr. Harold Smith is suffering from ivy poison; in consequence he will spend a few days at his home in Kansas City.
C. E. Johnson '96, will be occupied during the summer in a law office in Clinton, Indiana. He expects to teach next year.
Mr. P. E. Carr of Kingman visited the University Monday. Mr. Carr will probably enter the Engineering School next fall.
W. W. Reno, Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly, departed Thursday for Kansas City. Mr. Reno has a very renumerative position as solicitor of advertisements for the Kansas City Gazette.
Prof. Bailey has just completed a revised list of the members of the Iota chapter of Sigma Xi, which shows a total of fifty-nine members, both resident and non resident, of the society.
Fred Raymond during the summer, will, to use his own expression, "loaf as usual." He expects to perfect arrangements that will enable him to accomplish a much improved sort of loafing in the future.
Miss Virgie McCrory visited the University Monday.
Miss Edith Davis spent Friday and Saturday in Topeka.
Miss Pauline Lewelling will spend the summer in Iowa.
Miss Katharine Addison, of Salina, visited the University Monday.
Miss Ella Funston, of Carlyle, will attend the Commencement exercises.
Miss Chattie Hobson, of Cincinnati, Ohio will attend commencement next week.
Professor Templin lectured to his Phychology class Wednesday upon "Hypnotisn."
"What are you going to do, Mr. Claussen?" "Me? Oh, I will go home to Beatrice."
H. P. Butcher' 96, has been elected principal of the Olathe High School at a good salary.
Dean Foster '96, in September will go to the University of Pennsylvania where he will study medicine.
A. V. Schroder '96, will spend part of the summer in California, in order to prepare himself for business.
Mrs. R. Allison, of Paola, arrived in the city this morning in order to attend the graduating exercises.
Mr. Harold Smith is suffering from ivy poison; in consequence he will spend a few days at his home in Kansas City.
Albert Frost was in town last week.
Mr. John Collins was in Topeka Friday the 29th.
Ward McCroskey '96, made a flying business trip to Sterling last week.
Miss Caughey of Horton, spent the week in the city as the guest of the Misses Hoge.
Mr. John Whyte, of the Kansas City Times, last Monday visited friends at the University.
A. G. Goodrich '98, was called home by a telegram last Sunday. He will not return till next September.
Grant O. Harrington '87, Editor of the Hiawatha Democrat, was bereaved by the loss of his wife who died Sunday.
Mr. E. D. McKeever, formerly a University student, is one of the nominees for the State Legislature in Shawnee County.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Nichols, of Olathe, will attend the commencement exercises next week. They will be the guests, of Prof. Miller.
□ Dr. Geo. F. Weida, Pharmacy '88, once an instructor in the University, but now of Blackburn College, Ill., is visiting University friends.
Prof. H. B. Newson has purchased the John Newlin residence in the south part of the City, and with his mother and sister will occupy it about July 1.
E. E. Voights '99, after the athletic meet at Kansas City last Saturday, visited friends at Marshal, Mo., in the college at which city he was formerly a student. He returned Monday evening.
Mr. W. H. Reynolds, a graduate of the Engineering School in 1890, who is at present with the General Electrical Company at St. Louis, was at home on a week's visit, returning Tuesday.
Among the familiar faces seen on the hill this week was that of Mr. A. E. Moody, last year president of the University Y. M. C. A., who visited Rudolph Caughey Sunday and Monday.
Miss Effie June Scott has recently received permission from the Berlin Minister of Public Instructions to attend the lectures at the Berlin University. Miss Scott sits in the same audience room with Prof. Dunlap, who is also taking a pourse at the University. She is devoting a cart of her time to the study of French.
C. E. Johnson '96, will be occupied during the summer in a law office in Clinton, Indiana. He expects to teach next year.
Mr. P. E. Carr of Kingman visited the University Monday. Mr. Carr will probably enter the Engineering School next fall.
W. W. Reno, Editor-in-Chief of the WEEKLY departed Thursday for Kansas City. Mr. Reno has a very renumerative position as solicitor of advertisements for the Kansas City Gazette.
Prof. Bailey has just completed a revised list of the members of the Iota chapter of Sigma Xi, which shows a total of fifty-nine members both resident and non resident, of the society.
Fred Raymond during the summer, will, to use his own expression, "loaf as usual." He expects to perfect arrangements that will enable him to accomplish a much improved sort of loafing in the future.
Albert Frost was in town last week.
Mr. John Collins was in Topeka Friday the 29th.
Ward McCroskey '96, made a flying business trip to Sterling last week.
Miss Caughey of Horton, spent the week in the city as the guest of the Misses Hoge.
Mr. John Whyte, of the Kansas City Times last Monday visited friends at the University.
A. G. Goodrich '98, was called home by a telegram last Sunday. He will not return till next September.
Grant O. Harrington '87, Editor of the Hiawatha Democrat, was bereaved by the loss of his wife who died Sunday
Mr. E. D. McKeever, formerly a University student, is one of the nominees for the State Legislature in Shawnee County.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Nichols, of Olathe, will attend the commencement exercises next week. They will be the guests, of Prof. Miller.
Dr. Geo.F. Weida, Pharmacy '88, once an instructor in the University, but now of Blackburn College, Ill., is visiting University friends.
Prof. H. B. Newson has purchased the John Newlin residence in the south part of the City, and with his mother and sister will occupy it about July 1.
E. E. Voights '99, after the athletic meet at Kansas City last Saturday, visited friends at Marshal, Mo., in the college at which city he was formerly a student. He returned Monday evening.
Mr. W. H. Reynolds, a graduate of the Engineering School in 1890, who is at present with the General Electrical Company at St. Louis, was at home on a week's visit, returning Tuesday.
Among the familiar faces seen on the hill this week was that of Mr. A. E. Moody, last year president of the University Y.M.C.A., who visited Rudolph Caughey Sunday and Monday.
Miss Effie June Scott has recently received permission from the Berlin Minister of Public Instructions to attend the lectures at the Berlin University. Miss Scott sits in the same audience room with Prof. Dunlap, who is also taking a pourse at the University. She is devoting a cart of her time to the study of French.
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The International Law class took its final quiz last Friday.
The young ladies of the "Sunflower Minstrels" last Monday entertained a large number of their friends at the home of Miss Georgia Brown.
Mr. Dice McLaren '87, professor of Zoology and Entomology in the State University at Brookings, N. D., is now acting president of that institution.
Mr. Edward Copley and Mr. James McKnight, of Junction City, last Tuesday visited the University. Mr. Copley will enter the School of Arts in September.
George Hood, recently graduated from the high school at Clay Center, visited Mr. B. B. Breese last week. Mr. Hood will next September enter the University in the School of Engineering.
Some fifteen members of the Glee and Banjo Clubs obtained two hacks last Thursday night and till an early hour wandered through the streets and lanes of Lawrence serenading their lady friends.
A number of the high school graduates have visited the University this week. That's all right. Get acquainted but don't deceive yourselves about next fall. No matter how hard they try, we can tell the Freshmen as far as we can see them.
Dr. D. D. Wilson and Miss Gretchen Elmore, both of Nortonville, Kansas, were united in marriage last Wednesday. Miss Elmore is a former student of the University and a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity, and her many friends unite in wishing her a very happy future.
At the meeting of the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association held last week at Fort Scott, a committee of five leading druggists of the State was appointed to cooperate with the professors of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the State University with a view to obtaining a new chemical laboratory at this school.
STRAW
The annual meeting of the Sigma Xi society for the election of officers was held Tuesday of last week. The following were elected: Pres., F. O. Marvin; Vice Pres., E. C. Franklin; Sec., A. St. C. Dunstan; Corres. Sec., E. H. S. Bailey; Treas., E. C. Murphy. Clarence McClung was elected an undergraduate member; Arthur B. Adams'86 and Hugh T. Richards 78, were elected to graduate membership.
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Exhibition of Painting.
The Art exhibition by Prof. Clarke's students will be held in the Main Building of the University, north tower, Saturday, June 6. The work can be seen to better advantage this year because the study with its lights and shades and the paraphernalia of art aboutit is better in keeping with the exhibit.
The class being a large one, space will not admit of individual mention in every case, but it may be said that each member has done faithful and efficient work, many showing marked talent along certain lines. Our interest however centers in the work of the Seniors and of Mr. W. K. Smith. The latter has been in the class only a short time and has made remarkable progress. He is without doubt a very talented pupil, and under the instruction to be obtained here has a brilliant future before him.
One of the marked features of the Senior class is the strong individuality shown in the work done.
Miss Crew has the happy faculty of putting a reality into her work, particularly in landscape painting, that makes every tree or flower stand out as nature itself. Her brush maybe said to paint with feeling so that you linger over the picture with a sense of satisfaction that is truly pleasing. Mention may also be made of a white chalk drawing done by her, uncommon from its having no outline or shadows.
Miss Riddle, while equally fine in her own way is of a totally opposite style. Her brush work is very vigorous there is a sense of power and force in her work that show future possibilities for the young artist which are certainly encouraging.
Wm. Pollock, the Indian, while lacking somewhat in the delicate and beautiful characteristics of the girls' work, shows a freedom and vigor that is remarkable.
One marked of the feature exhibitis the landscape drawings, which have been taken from the campus and there is probably no school the country that has equal facilities in its surroundings for this kind of work.
On the right side of the studio may be found Mr. Clarke's work, some of which is familiar, such as Dr. Cordley's and Mr. Robinson's portraits, also his later work, among which are prominent "The Black Cat" and "Sustana." These latter received great praise in Kansas City when on exhibition there. It will be readily seen that Prof. Clarke in spite of his
numerous duties has been working with ardor in all the spare moments at his command.
Visitors to the studio will find much to entertain particularly in the humorous sketches. There are also three old masters, two Spanish and Dutchman, all genuine and very fine.
A Glee Club.
WHAT HAS become of our Glee Club? Kansas University has sufficient available material both in instrumentalists and vocalists. Our Fine Arts Department brings out each year a number of good soloists and a great many sweet chorus singers. There seems to be lacking college enthusiasm; and, furthermore, a leader strong and spirited enough to arouse it. If our musical directors could work themselves and the talent about them up to the point of organization, a creditable glee club would be forthcoming every year.
If properly conducted, the club would prove a most effective and economical advertising scheme. It would serve the University, particularly its music department, in the same capacity that athletic contests and exhibitions have heretofore done. Throughout the state it would call for recognition as a worthy University function. Besides offering amusements to both audiences and members, it would furnish an incentive to musical study and aid in musical instruction.
Last year the University seemed to take too little interest in the club. The authorities rather frowned upon its existence and it was this lack of official favor and support more than anything else that demoralized the entire organization. It seems that the best argument for the abandonment of the glee club is that its influence is distracting. Certain students are sure to become enthusiasts who will forget regular class duties in their zeal to become apt candidates for theclub. Yet on the whole the University would be benefited by having a glee club. H.W.S.
Exhibition in Physics Building.
During commencement the physics building will be open for all visitors. Various instruments for electrical measurements, X-ray apparatus and also tools and machines from the shops including one lion lathe, a crank-shaper and the double phase alternating current generator constructed by the seniors of 196, will be on exhibition in the building. Some of the students and assistants operate the machines and explain them to the visitors.
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LECTURE BY PROF. WILCOX BEFORE THE GREEK SYMPOSIUM, MAY 28.
The Relation of Modern to Ancient Greek.
The Greek language did not cease with the classical period. The New Testament shows a later stage of the language, which then develops into a medieval Greek, out of which comes the Modern Greek. The last is a natural descendant of the first. As compared with the classical Greek, the Modern shows just such changes as languages of today show in comparison with their earlier stages. Like all modern languages the Greek of today has lost nearly all of its inflections, forms its perfect, pluperfect, future, subjunctive, imperative and infinitive by auxiliaries, has changed the meanings of a great many words, lost other words, and appropriated a great many words from other languages. These changes mean life, and show that Greek is not a "dead" language. But the better educated Greeks of today are expending a great deal of energy in attempts to work over the new language in the spirit and form of the old. The result is the production of a literary language which is influencing the spoken language, but will probably not supersede it.
Mr. Menke's Invention.
A recent invention for the better mounting of small insects, made by Mr. H. W. Menke, of the University, has obtained not a little interest among entomologists. It is a valuable one and will certainly come into universal use, adding as it does to the neatness of the mounted specimens as well as to the ease with which they are prepared and the greater security of the specimens. S.W.WILLISTON.
Y. W. C. A. House.
The Y. W. C. A. House will be located next fall at 1605 Tennessee street in what is known as the Walker house. Mrs. Hamilton will retain her position as matron and this fact together with the large house and pleasant rooms, as well as its location near the University will secure to the young women who take advantage of it a most delightful home.
Through the assistance of the Association she will have the occasional use of the parlors. The rates have been brought within reach of all students.
Table boarders will be received at reasonable rates.
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Snow Hall.
Dr. S. W. Williston will spend the summer examining the chief museums of the East. He will visit the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D.C., the American museum of New York, and those of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and others. The Doctor expects to leave Lawrence about the 21st. of June, and will attend at Yale commencement.
Prof. L. L. Dyche started for Alaska Tuesday. He will remain there during the summer collecting zoological specimens. His collecting field will be limited to the coast and immediate vicinity inland. Prof. Dyche will also ascend Mt. St. Elias. The department of zoology has been closed for the summer and the assistants in the taxidermic work have been dismissed until the reopening of the University in September.
Prof. E. Haworth will remain in Kansas throughout the vacation, continuing his work for the University Geological Survey. Some of the subjects to be investigated are coal, lead, zinc, salt, gypsum,, and oil and gas, also the general stratigraphy of the western part of the state, and the irrigation problem of the same region. Prof. Haworth will be assisted by Mr. W. N. Logan, W. R. Crane, A. Stewart, B. L. Miller, J. N. Macomb Jr., Dr. Geo. I. Adams, Dr. G. B. Grimsely and Mr. J.W. Beede of Washburn, and Mr. C. N. Gould of Winfield, Kans.
A representative of Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, visited the University last Wednesday. The University ordered twelve microscopes of the company. Heretofore the University has secured its microscopes from abroad, but of recent years the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company has so perfected its instruments that they are equal to those of foreign manufacture.
The University Science Club was in session Thursday afternoon. A number of interesting talks were given by professors and students. After the discussions officers were elected for following year and committees appointed. Mr. R. C. Gowell was elected president; Mr. P. S. Burkholder, vice president; Mr. H. W. Menke, secretary; Mr. C. A. Rohrer, treasurer.
The department of Histology received last week a request from the Kansas City Medical College to recommend a candidate for a position in the college. The position is that of instructor of Histology and the candidate receiving it will have exemption from all fees while pursuing medical studies in that college.
A fine skull of a Titanotherium has been mounted in the paleontological laboratory and is now placed in the museum. This specimen was secured in the Bad Lands of Dakota by the Kansas Geological Expedition of '94. Titanotherium lived in North America and Europe during the early Miocene, and is more nearly related to the rhinoceros than to other modern animals, yet the relations are somewhat remote. It was a herbivorous animal about the size of a small elephant, heavy limbed thick set and had a thick skin destitute of hair. The eyes were very small comparatively and the brain remarkably so,-as indicated by the brain cavity in the fossil specimen. The head had two horn like projections on the nose. These were not true horns, but mere knobbed portions of the skull covered with skin. The animals frequented wet, swampy localities, and were otherwise similar to the rhinoceros in habits.
Mr. C. E. McClung has begun microscopical study of the Foraminifera. He will continue that this summer, and attend the Columbia College of New York during the first school term next fall.
School of Fine Arts.
Miss Orton gave a concert at the Hall last Tuesday assisted by Mr. Henri Appy of Kansas City violinist. It was a fine concert making a fitting close to the graduating recitals of '96,
Prof. and Mrs. Preyer entertained the students at their residence last Tuesday evening each guest was supplied with a card inscribed with some familiar melody and had a merry time hunting up some one singing the same tune. Partners being found, refreshments were served. A certain mysterious looking drum slung aloft with numerous strings attached furnished wonder to the curious. Each who was able found a string, at a given signal all pulled and found themselves in possesion of wood whistles with which they made right vocal. The party broke up feeling that a vote of thanks should be offered their host and hostess for the ingenious mode of entertainment.
Most of the students left the city for home this week, full of plans for the vacation and with sincere hopes for a reunion in the fall.
The Junior class held a meeting last Tuesday. The unexpected invitation to the Senior play was gladly accepted.R.R.Price was chosen as the Junior representative on the Lecture Bureau.
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The Needs of the University.
The readers of the WEEKLY will recall the interesting variety of responses which appeared in these columns recently when members of the Faculty answered the question, "What is the greatest need of the University?"
This question addressed to the members of the Board of Regents has elicited these responses:
REGENT CROWELL: A realization of the fact by the people of Kansas that the University is part of our public school system, made so by our laws, and in view of the fact is entitled to the support of every good citizen without regard to either denominational or political affiliations. If our legislature would realize that such is the case we would receive generous appropriations for the building up of the University in all its departments, and could make the University of Kansas one of the greatest institutions of learning in the West.
REGENT SCOTT: "What is the greatest need of the University?" in one word, Money. With plenty of money a gymnasium, a fine arts hall an addition to Snow Hall, an observatory, 100,000 books, an increased Faculty, and all the other things that go to make up a great university, would be speedily added unto us.
REGENT SAMS: First—It should be the duty of the voters and tax-payers of our state to remove the University so far from politics, that it would be impossible for the Board governing the same, or the state administration, or the chairman of any state central committee of any political party to use it for political purposes.
Second—The bright young men and women who are graduating from our University each year are a just reward to the people of Kansas, who have in the past so generously sustained it.
Third—Let every friend of the University advertise it by speaking a good word to the taxpayers as well as to the young people who contemplate a University education.
The May number of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society contains Prof. Newson's paper on Jacobians and Cremonians. This paper is the substance of an address delivered before the society in New York City, March 25.
The University of Colorado recently held a High School day, with a special program and a great reception for 265 visitors from all the High Schools of the State.
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Prof. Wilcox will remain in Lawrence.
Mr. W. B. Brownell will continue in the city.
Prof. E. C. Franklin goes to California to spend the summer.
Prof. H. B. Newson will pass the summer in Lawrence in study.
Prof. Green does not expect to leave Lawrence, except on business.
Prof. O'Leary will be in Lawrence studying throughout the summer.
R. K. Moody has resolved "to grin and bear it" in Lawrence.
Prof. A. G. Canfield will pass his vacation at his old home in Vermont.
Prof. Templin will spend his summer at his home a few miles from the city.
Prof. W. H. Carruth will correct the proof of his new text book in Martin Luther.
Prof. and Mrs. Adams go to Ann Arbor, Michigan, principally, the Professor says, to fish.
Prof. E. M. Hopkins expects to be at home in Lawrence during the greater part of the summer.
Prof. E. Miller may take a short trip to the mountains, but will remain at home the greater part of the summer.
Miss Oliver expects to take a vacation during the summer, but when, where or of what kind, she has not yet determined.
Mr. Ralph Gowell will farm through the summer and prepare himself for his work in the Zoology Department next year.
Miss Eugenie Galloo during June will remain in Lawrence. She has not yet decided definitely where she will spend the remainder of her vacation.
Prof. F. W. Blackmar departed for Europe May 30, where he will visit the leading Universities and study sociological problems in the large cities.
Rev. Hector Cowan started Monday for the East. He will attend commencement at Princeton University and will spend the remainder of the summer in New York state with his family.
Mr. H. F. Jones will remain in Lawrence probably through June and July; after that he will exchange thunder storms and cyclones for California sandstorms and earthquakes.
What the Professors Will Do. Prof. Wilcox will remain in Lawrence.
Mr. W. B. Brownell will continue in the city.
Prof. E. C. Franklin goes to California to spend the summer.
Prof. H. B. Newson will pass the summer in Lawrence in study.
Prof. Green does not expect to leave Lawrence, except on business.
Prof. O'Leary will be in Lawrence studying throughout the summer.
R. K. Moody has resolved "to grin and bear it" in Lawrence.
Prof. A. G. Canfield will pass his vacation a his old home in Vermont.
Prof. Templin will spend his summer at his home a few miles from the city.
Prof. and Mrs. Adams go to Ann Arbor, Michigan, principally, the Professor says, to fish.
Prof. W. H. Carruth will correct the proof of his new text book in Martin Luther.
Prof. E. M. Hopkins expects to be at home in Lawrence during the greater part of the summer.
Miss Oliver expects to take a vacation during the summer, but when, where or of what kind, she has not yet determined.
Prof. E. Miller may take a short trip to the mountains, but will remain at home the greater part of the summer.
Prof. Sterling will stay at home and rest up and prepare for next year's campaign.
Mr. Martin Rice will probably study at Chicago University during the vacation.
Prof. L. I. Blake will do original work in Physics in the East, not on the ship telephone, however.
Nate says he will clean house, dig ditches and renovate things generally about the University.
Chancellor F. H. Snow has not yet made his plans for the summer, but will probaby go to the mountains.
Mr. E. F. Engel in a few weeks will depart for the East where he will visit at different points until the middle of August.
Prof. A. H. Clark will study art in Paris. Mrs. Clark will spend the summer in Kansas City, "eat three square meals a day and have a good time."
Prof. Marvin will camp during June with the Engineers, and in July will attend the "American Association for the Advancement of Science," at Buffalo, New York.
Dr. Holmes will spend the month of June in study here in the city. July will find him teaching in the summer school at Colorado Springs. And August will be his month for play.
Prof. E. H. S. Bailey intends to spend the greater portion of his vacation in Lawrence and may attend the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Buffalo, N. Y.
Mr. Arnold Emch will spend the greater part of the summer in Lawrence working upon a text book of Descriptive Geometry, which he intends to publish. Later he will go to Colorado for a short outing.
Prof. Sayre will remain here until August and then go to Montreal in order to attend the Pharmaceutical Association which meets there. Before returning he intends to make a short tour of the Eastern states.
Prof. A. S. Dunstan expects to be at Chicago University during June performing experiments on the Magnetic Theory of Light. During the remaider of the summer he will visit in the East, principally at Washington.
Two very interesting letters from Prof. Penny reached the WEEKLY just upon going to press. His friends are invited to call on the WEEKLY and read them.
Mr. Ralph Gowell will farm through the summer and prepare himself for his work in the Zoology Department next year.
Miss Eugenie Galloo during June will remain in Lawrence. She has not yet decided definitely where she will spend the remainder of her vacation.
Prof. F.W.Blackmar departed for Europe May 30, where he will visit the leading Universities and study sociological problems in the large cities.
Rev. Hector Cowan started Monday for the East. He will attend commencement at Princeton University and will spend the remainder of the summer in New York state with his family.
Mr. H. F. Jones will remain in Lawrence probably through June and July; after that he will exchange thunder storms and cyclones for California sandstorms and earthquakes.
Prof. Sterling will stay at home and rest up and prepare for next year's campaign.
Mr. Martin Rice will probably study at Chicago University during the vacation.
Prof. L. I. Blake will do original work in Physics in the East, not on the ship telephone, however.
Nate says he will clean house, dig ditches and renovate things generally about the University.
Chancellor F. H. Snow has not yet made his plans for the summer, but will probaby go to the mountains.
Mr. E. F. Engel in a few weeks will depart for the East where he will visit at different points until the middle of August.
Prof. A. H. Clark will study art in Paris Mrs. Clark will spend the summer in Kansas City, "eat three square meals a day and have a good time."
Prof. Marvin will camp during June with the Engineers, and in July will attend the "American Association for the Advancement of Science," at Buffalo, New York.
Dr. Holmes will spend the month of June in study here in the city. July will find him teaching in the summer school at Colorado Springs. And August will be his month for play.
Prof. E. H. S. Bailey intends to spend the greater portion of his vacation in Lawrence and may attend the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Buffalo, N. Y.
Mr. Arnold Emch will spend the greater part of the summer in Lawrence working upon a text book of Descriptive Geometry, which he intends to publish. Later he will go to Colorado for a short outing.
Prof. Sayre will remain here until August and then go to Montreal in order to attend the Pharmaceutical Association which meets there Before returning he intends to make a short tour of the Eastern states.
Prof. A. S. Dunstan expects to be at Chicago University during June performing experiments on the Magnetic Theory of Light. During the remaider of the summer he will visit in the East, principally at Washington.
Two very interesting letters from Prof. Penny reached the WEEKLY just upon going to press. His friends are invited to call on the WEEKLY and read them.
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The Promises of Democracy.
Prof. Blackmar's article in the June Forum, "The Promises of Democracy; have they been fulfilled?" is one of the kind of articles we need to see often in such magazines as the Forum. Prof. Blackmar's style of writing is especially popular, and what he says is not so deep and exhaustive, as it is suggestive of what we think for ourselves, even if it is sometimes a little bold. His arguments are convincing. In this article he has followed along the line of his professional study, and expresses in black and white some of the ideas he has often argued in the class-room.
"As a people we have been taught." Says Prof. Blackmar "to expect great results from a democratic form of government." we have been taught the history of Greece and Rome and other great nations that fell because they did not give the government to the people. The question now arises as to whether we have found the remedy.
In the Middle Ages they achieved pure democracy, in which every man was equal religiously, socially, politically, and the French Revolution was the result. Then they discovered that all men are not equal, "equal privileges yielded not the same to all."
The Americans declared for Independence politically. But this was not interpreted in the sense of the French Revolution, that all men are equal in natural mental and moral qualifications; although it has been so proclaimed by many of our people. In practice it has never worked so. It has never accomplished more than equality "before the law, and fair political usage." This is one of Prof. Blackmar's fundamental theories. From the first, men in this country have not been equal in political power. Even now nearly half the voters have no representation, according to their own choice," while the majority elects.
The nation is oppressed by the faults of imperfect voting methods, office seeking demagogues and their subsequent legislation, the tyranny of wealth and monopoly--worse in some respects than the tyrannies of Europe. But, "In the face of all this ****we must admit that in comparison with other nations, we have in many respects the best government on the face of the earth." We have a tremendous task to put ourselves and our nation in position for self-government, but after all Democracy is not a failure. Not less democracy, but more—if it be the right kind—is our need." Its quality depends upon the eternal vigilance of its citizens.
The Kansas University Quarterly.
With the April number of this year the Kansas University Quarterly completes its fourth volume. It has published, and will continue to publish, the results of strictly original research of members of the Faculty and of advanced students. It will also contain hereafter, a brief statement of the work in hand, and the solid advance of the University Faculty and equipment. The QUARTERLY ought to have a considerable number of subscribers among the graduates of the University, and to secure this the subscription is offered for the coming year to graduates only at $1.00, one half the regular price.
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SPOONER LIBRARY PHYSICS MAIN CHEMISTRY SNOW HALL
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FROM THE NORTH
The University of Kansas closes the present academic year with a total enrollment of 914 students. The substantial increase in attendance together with the earnestness and enthusiasm that has been manifested in all lines of collegiate work is gratifying and flattering to the instructors and authorities of the institution.
The outlook for the coming year is unusually bright. The welfare of the University depends upon and its interests are directly allied with the general condition of the inhabitants of the state. The present material prospects of the people of the state are very encouraging and indicate a large attendance in the various High schools of Kansas. It is from these schools now numbering 119 including academies that the University draws the greatest portion of its students, and hence the influences that control the attendance at those schools is directly felt at the University.
The changes in the corps of instructors for the coming year are two. Miss Effie Scott, '91, has been elected assistant in German and French, and Mr. Ralph Gowell, '96, will be assistant in zoology.
In no institution of similar standing and reputation is education offered at so little cost. Tuition is free to inhabitants of the state of Kansas. Tuition under the guise of matriculation, contingent, or annual fees, is unknown at the University. In the studies in which much material and apparatus are used for experimental purposes, such as pharmacy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and natural history the student is required to pay for the actual amount of material used or apparatus broken.
The amount of optional work allowed the student is one of the most noteworthy features of instruction of the University. In the Junior and Senior years the only restriction imposed upon the student in his choice of studies is in regard to the amount that can be taken under the department or instructor. During the Sophomore year the studies of that year are divided into two groups, the first containing the languages, the second all other courses. The student is not allowed to choose more than four terms work from either group. The Freshman work is prescribed mainly, except that freedom is allowed in the choice of languages.
All inquiries concerning the University will be gladly answered and catalogues will be sent on application to Chancellor F. H. Snow, Lawrence, Kansas.
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Elocution Recital.
The annual recital of the Department of Elocution was given in University Hall last Friday evening. There was the usual large attendance, every desirable seat on the main floor and in the gallery being taken. The stage was attractively decorated with palms, a miniature forest of which waved in the background.
The recital was simpler than those of former years, and the merit perhaps more evenly divided. Miss Jaedicke as graduate in elocution took the leading parts, but was assisted by Miss Scharf and Miss Pennell. In several instances the program was a repetition of that given at Miss Jaedicke's graduating recital, May 26; and it was probably better on that account. "The Lady of Shallot" was on the whole the best rendered, though the lighter pieces, "On the Landing" and "Fast Friends" were very creditable performances, the last being best received of all.
School of Engineering.
A power plunger pump designed by Mr. Ward at the K.U.shops, is well underway to completion. This pump has a capacity of 250 gallons per minute under 100 pounds pressure and is used to pump water from the well south of the University to the tanks on the hill. The power is supplied by electricity generated at the shop.
Repair work will be done at the shops during vacation on some of the old pumps and machines used by the students. This work will be done by Mr.Ward and his assistants.
Fred Penfield, of Kansas City, was visiting in the city over Sunday, returning Monday morning.
One of the many things needed by the students in the Electrical Engineering department is more efficient magazines. Those now in the library are good but there are so few of them. Some means should be employed to secure new ones.
The Electrical Seminary met for the last time last Friday, June 5. Prof. Blake spoke giving a summary of work done in the Physics Department during the school year just finished. Officers were elected for next year.
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Library Notes.
The Library has just received a little book that is of especial interest to Kansas. It is The Lamp of Gold, by Miss Florence L. Snow, of Neosho Falls. The sonnet is rather a new product of our prairies, but we find it can flourish there in strength and beauty.
The book contains a sequence of forty-nine sonnets. These the author has grouped under seven heads, following the idea of the sevenbranched golden candlestick, a design of which decorates cover and title page. The seven headings are called: "The Sacred Fire," "Daybreak," "Mid-morning," "Noon," "Western Windows," "Eventide," "The Perfect Light." There is a temptation to quote many of these pretty sonnets. We select the first from "Noon:"
"As when a happy mocking-bird essays To imitate amid the forest choir The rarest and most varied roundelays In very overflow of glad desire. My joyous verse attempted many a strain In likeness of the world's great minstrelsy, Nor counted any cost that might attain The skill that lies in such dear mimicry.
But while the bird, despite its borrowing, Perfects the beauty of its own sweet song. 'Twas such device that taught me how to sing And how to listen to the gifted throng.— And though I tried so much without avail, I felt the force that cannot wholly fail."
And these lines from "Daybreak."
"O blessed wonderings of the blessed time When life looks out upon the rose and gray That hold the secret of a perfect prime Folded within the promise of the day!
The publishers, Messrs. Way and Williams of Chicago, have spared no pains in giving these sonnets an attractive setting. They were printed at the De Vinnie press, one hundred copies on Japan paper, and five hundred copies on Marais hand-made paper. Each sonnet occupies a page, and only alternate pages are used. The binding is of dark red buckram; the title-page, designed by Mr. Edmund H. Garrett, is very tasteful and pretty. Altogether, the book is one of which Miss Snow and her friends may feel proud.
Another book of sonnets recently received is from an English pen. Mr. Eugene Lee-Hamilton has given us in these Sonnets of the Wingless Hours, some very pretty stanzas, though they were written on a bed of pain.
The sonnet of greatest interest to us in the collection is the following, to our Kansas poet:
TO FLORENCE SNOW.
For the Fly-leaf of a Book of Sonnets. I send these berries which in sweet woods yew; Small crimson crans, on which has slept the deer; Spiked red-droplet butcher's broom, the bare foot's fear; Blue berries of the whortle wet with dew;
And gummy berries of the tragic grew;
With mistletoe—each bead a waxen tear;
And ripe blue sloes that mark a frosty year;
And hips and haws, from lanes that Keats once knew.
I know not if the berries of the West
Are such as those of Europe; but I know
That Kansas breeds a flower, which, unguessed,
Can climb up prison walls, and gently grow
Through prison-bars where suffering has its nest,
And where the wingless hours crawl sad and slow.
Chas. H. Lease, of Wichita, who was a well known student last year, delivered the Decoration day address at Canton, Kansas, last week.
Miss Helen Sutliff will spend six weeks at Amherst College Summer School, pursuing a course in Library Economy.
Miss Matilda Henrichs, Phi Beta Kappa '96, who has been principal of the Humbolt High School this year, returned to her Alma Mater last week to visit friends and attend commencement.
University Chess Players Win.
There will be a summer session of the school in piano, theory and organ, beginning June 11. Information regarding the same can be obtained from Professor Preyer or Miss Lichtenwalter This will form an excellent opportunity for those desiring to enter next year in the regular course.
Friday evening, June 5, C. J. Moore defeatep S. Phillips in a game in which there was much poor playing on both sides. This gives both first and second places to the University club. Bayless and Moore will play for the first place some time next week.
Prof. Farrell expects to accompany Mr. Walker to Florence in about two weeks to study under Sigi Cortesi.
Prof. Clarke lectured before the Art Department of the Athenaeum on compositionl. He also gave an exhibit of his posters and lectured on them before the Western Authors' and Artists Club. He was made vice president of the latter. Prof. Clarke hopes to spend the summer in Europe studying the old masters and preparing lectures on them, also obtaining information regarding drawing work in the public schools in Germany, France and England. We may look for some interesting lectures upon his return.
Mr. J. W. Hullinger left town Friday for Lincoln county, where he has charge of a normal institute.
Miss Gertrude McCheyne during the summer will teach French and piano at Hays City.
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Commencement Concert.
A threatened storm reduced the size of the audience at the Commencement Concert of the Department of Music at University Hall Friday evening, but the room was comfortably filled and as the storm did not arrive after all, those who attended were wiser than those who did not. The program was somewhat long, and of the usual standard of excellence. Its general character was orchestral; there being only three vocal numbers.
Each part was opened with a well executed eight-hand overture. Miss Drake's vocal solo, the "Lorelei" was given with ease and effect, and was an excellent interpretation. Especially well received were the caprice for two pianos by Misses Spaulding and Brown, and the polonaise by Miss Reeder with orchestral accompaniment. The surprise of the evening was the solo by Miss Bowersock, Dancla, Andantino and polnaise for violin, played with a precision and fire that won merited applause. Miss Orton played her popular Valse de Concert by Wieniawski. The faculty number, a bass solo by Mr. Farrell, suite for violin and piano by Mr. Farrell, and Mr. Preyer, and the orchestral march at the close, were all delightful, except that the last, as well as the ladies' chorus preceding lost something of its effect because of the uneasiness of the audience at the approaching storm. Miss Lichtenwalter's accompaniments were a feature of the program, which is here
PART I.
1. *Rossini*—Overture “William Tell.” (two pianos). Misses Lapham, Miller, Righter and Boyles.
2. Liszt—"Lorelei." for Soprano. Miss Drake.
3. Raff—Cachonca Caprice. (two pianos) Misses Spaulding and Brown.
4. Schutt—Suite for piano and violin,— "Canzonetta con Variazioni," "Rondo a la Russe," Messrs. Preyer and Farrell.
5. Weber—Liszt—Polonaise brilliante—Miss Reeder. Orchestral parts on 2nd piano.
6. Mattei—"Patria" for bass. Mr. Farrell.
1. Mozart—Overture "Magic Flute." (two pianos)
Mrs. Cowden, Misses Wiedeman.
Skofstad and Leverton.
PART II.
3. Wieniawski- Valse de concert.
Miss Orton.
2. Dancla—Andantino and Polnaise, for violin.
Miss Rowersock
4. Wagner—Chorus—Spinning song from Flying Dutchman.—Misses Babcock, Winnek, Smith, Spaulding, Starr, Nicholson, Brantner, Leverton, Stanford and Orton.
5. Beethoven—March from "Ruins of Athens." Trio for organ, piano and violin.
Miss Lichtenwalter, Messrs. Preyer and Farrell.
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On page 381 of this issue "L. N. F." should follow "The Tornado" instead of "Classis Poeta."
The Eutopia club will hold forth at Mrs. Steele's next year. R.P.Bright will be the steward.
W. D. Ross, A. B.'93, for two years principal of the Hartford schools, returned last week for a few days' visit.
As one of the examination questions for the Juvenal class the following was given: "Write a brief sketch of Juvenal's life, in Latin.
Mr. L. D. Ellis during June will instruct in the Coffee county institute. Next year he will be superintendent of the Burlington schools.
Miss Evangaline Sinnott read last Monday an interpretation of lines 12-42 of the eight satire of Juvenal before the Latin Pro-seminarium.
Mr. Willis Henderson and Mr. Walter Douglas have been chosen delegates to the Lake Geneva Summer Bible School of the Y. M.C.A., June 19-28.
Miss Margaret Menet '96, who for the past year has been principal of the Valley Falls high school, has returned home and visited the University hill Wednesday.
W. C. Atchison '98, departs soon for Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to join his parents and spend the summer vacation with them. Mr. Atchison will next fall enter Chicago University.
Mr. C. E. Rench, formerly local editor of the WEEKLY, now railway mail clerk on the took a holiday last week and came to Lawrence to see the Senior play and visit his many friends.
On Tuesday of next week (June 9) Miss Edith Haskell will be married to Mr. A. L. Burney, and Miss May Haskell to Mr. Otes H. Holmes. The wedding will take place at the Haskell home east of the city and will be very quiet. Lawrence Journal. Miss Edith Haskell is a member of the class of '95, and Miss May a member of that of '94.
C. J. Moore '98, enjoyed a visit from a brother from Oketo, last week.
Prof. A. M. Wilcox this week gave his class in New Testament Greek some very interesting lectures on texts and manuscripts of the Bible.
The leading article for May in the American Mathematical Monthly is from the pen of Dr. Arnold Emch. The subject treated is a special complex of lines in space and its applications. The treatment is according to the latest French methods.
There is notice in our exchanges of a University version of the Bible, the work being under the lead of Paul Haupt, Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature at Johns Hopkins University.
Many students will spend their vacation in canvassing parts of the state with stereopticon views. Among them are the following: H. Hess, W. L. Meyers, J. R. Snyder, H. B. McCorkle, J. G. Hamaker, C. A. Wagner, Warren Miller, W. S. Muller, Charles Sefton, Oran Hester, John Thierstein.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity enjoyed a very pleasant spread at Weidemann's ice cream parlors Friday afternoon. The spread was given in honor of Miss Pauline Chandler of Independence, Miss Unva Duff, of Hortonville and Miss Teggart, all former active members of the chapter.
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The University WEEKLY is just a year old and is proud of its record. The history of Kansas University journalism up to a year ago is the record of factional strife, and the result was small papers whose contents were not infrequently of an unpleasantly acrid character. The Students' Journal was the result of organization on the part of a large body of students who had hitherto been unorganized. At the request of the other papers of the University and also in deference to the wishes of the Faculty and the business men of Lawrence, the Kansas University WEEKLY was formed by the coalition of all the weekly papers in the University. The present standing of the WEEKLY fully justifies the wisdom of those who originated the project. It is but fitting that public mention should be made at this time of the valuable services rendered the new paper at the beginning of the present school year by several members of the outgoing class. Mr. J.H. Patten, the first managing editor, is to be commended for his efforts in placing the paper at once upon a safe financial basis. Mr. Patten's work as president of the lecture bureau, also reflects great credit upon him. Miss Grace Brewster whose contributions to these columns have invariably been read with interest, established our literary department. Mr.J.H. Henderson whose critical work has been very valuable, has been a distinguished member of the staff during the greater part of the year.
New Books.
POEMS OF UHLAND.—Selected and edited by W. T. Hewett, Professor of German Language and Literature in Cornell University—MacWillan & Co., New York.
The preparation of a volume of selections from Uhland for the use of college students was a good idea, and the present volume is
not likely to be superseded. The quantity and variety of the selections is satisfactory, and the critical material supplies nearly all that would be desirable. If the volume has a fault it is that it is over-edited. The fact that a remote ancestor of Uhland slew a Turkish pasha at Belgrade, is as superfluous as the information that the stanza of Die Nonne (which is given) consists of five verses, though in a different way. Users of the book should be too thankful for the admirable bibliography and double indexes to complain of the fact that the notes give a monotonous and space-consuming repetition of the same matter. Typographical errors in the notes: P. 230, 'signed—d' should follow '1813'; p. 234, 'V. 2.' should be on next page, after 'V. 1.'; p. 236 (note to p. 23), 'Translated by' should be omitted, or the following blank filled up; p. 253, 'weiser' should be 'weisen'; p. 272, 'des Frau Wirthin,' should be der F. W.'; p. 296, 'Vechtland' should be 'Uechtland.' 'Thät', is not like English 'do' as stated in the note to 'Jägerlied' II. 2. It is incorrectly printed 'Thät' in the text on page 28. In the Indicative, 'do' may translate 'thät', but never in the conditional 'thät'.
W. H. CARRUTH.
AUS HERZ UND WELT—Two short stories, edited by William Bernhardt, of the Washington High school. D. C., Heath & Co., Boston.
Two specimens of current, colloquial German, good for sight reading, or filling up gaps. Despite the disclaimer of the editor, the notes are too plentiful. After a first year the student should be forced to rely on his dictionary. The editor does well to explain ja, doch, and also, but need the same thing be said six times of each? Page 74 'deities of avenge' should read d.of revenge.' W.H.CARRUTH.
HISTORY OF NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE— Saintsbury. New York, MacMillan & Co., 1896, $1.50.
Every student of English Literature is interested in Saintsbury's new history of English literature, 1780-1895. It fills the gap that has for some time existed between the close of most of the standard literary histories and the present time, and the series to which it belongs is now complete, and one of the best accessible. Several thorough and scholarly studies of English literature and related subjects are now in process of publication, but it will be years before any of them are brought down to the present time, and meanwhile the present work is invaluable. E.M.HOPKINS.
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Deutche Neuigkeiten.
Prof. Carruth hat die Absicht mit den besten Studenten seiner Classen nächsten Herbst ein deutsches Spiel zu geben. Einige Rollen werden vielleicht shon vor dem Ende dieses Jahres ausgetheilt werden, damit sie während des Sommers einstudiert werden können. Er wird vielleicht "Minna von Barnhelm" wählen. Dass dies eine gute Idee ist, werden alle zugeben, und vorgeschrittene deutsche Studenten sollten sich dafür interessiren.
Der deutsche Unterhaltungs-verein, der seit mehreren Jahren sanft eingeschlafen ist, wird nächsten Jahr von Prof. Carruth wieder organisirt werden. Er wird sich ein oder zwei Mal in der Woche versammeln, und wird, wie man hofft, den Mitgliedern sehr gute Gelegenheit zur Uebung geben.
Prof. Carruth gab am Donnerstag, den 28 Mai, den Studenten der Classe in "Wilhelm Tell," einen ausgezeichneten Vortrag über "Das Land Tells." Viele anderen Studenten waren auch zugegen, und hatten, nach dem Urtheil aller, eine Stunde äusserst angenehmer Unterhaltung. Die Classe vollendete Tell in derselben Woche.
Fräulein Effie J. Scott wird nächsten September ihre Arbeit in der Universität beginnen. Die deutchen Classen dürfen von nun an nicht so gross sein, welches den Studenten gewiss sehr angenehm sein wird.
Der deutsche Verein hat letzten Freitag Abend ein grosses Fest bei Wiedemann genossen. Alle Mitglieder waren zugegen und haben, was jeder von ihnen bestätigen wird,eine ausgezeichnete schönezeit gehabt.
Ein Originelles Fruehlings-gedicht.
Jetzt ist her Winter schon vorbei,
Mit allem Schnee und Eis:
Die warme Sonn' mit threm Pfeil,
Hat weg.gejagt den Greis.
Das Voeglein singt sein Lied so suess
Im Walde still und knehl;
Des Baechleins Wellen fiessen sanft
Durchs gruene Grass zur Muehl.
Die holden Blumen bluehn im Feld,
Sind all' so schoen und rein;
Das Veilehen hebt sein Haupt so blau,
Den Wanderer zu erfreun
So moecht' ich jetzt im Walde sein
Wo sanfte Winde wehn
Und an des Baches ufer gruen
Unterm blauen Himmel geh.
— Von einem Studenten.
ATHLETICS.
THE KANSAS CITY FIELD DAY.
Jayhawkers Do up the Kansas City Y. M.C. A. boys in Good Shape.
Donnelly and Girard the inimitable Rainmakers are not a circumstance to the University track team of '96. Their realistic hurricane scene is a tame affair compared with the tornado our track team can scare up on short notice—and all above ground. One peculiar feature of the game work of our rainmakers is that the elements respond even before the dynamicitic operations are begun. It used to be that Sherman would have to bear the earth in a frantic endeavor to cover the 100 yard dash in ten seconds, or Sanderson puncture the clouds on a practice vault, to bring up a storm, but now all that is necessary is to fix a date for the track team to show and the rain never fails. After two postponements the annual field day events were run off in a drizzling rain, and upon the occasion of the track team's visit to Kansas City on Decoration Day, a hard rain all but prevented the meet's taking place. However, the storm seemed to be favorable, as the 'Varsity
boys won a decisive victory over the Kansas City Athletes, but it does play "thunder" with the gate receipts!
The various events were decidedly interesting, and considering the condition of the track, the records were splendid. The dashes were all exciting,and in them the Kansas City boys excelled, Kirk winning the three in very clever style. The finish on the quarter dash between Kirk and Hamaker was the prettiest of the day. Baldridge took the mile run neatly, setting the pace and winning as he pleased. In the hurdles and jumps, the 'Varsity had things all their own way, scoring nine points in both the standing broad and high jumps. Outland made a good record on the 12 pound hammer but Mosse was too much for Foster on the shot put. Sanderson and Sherman led in the individual scores, but the team worked well together for every available point, and we hope to again have the privilege of meeting the Kansas City Athletes.
The events started promptly at 10:30 a.m. with the 100 yard dash. It was a pretty race and a close finish, Kirk of the Y.M.C.
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A. winning in 10 2-5 seconds, remarkably good time in a drizzling rain and on a heavy track. Sherman was second and Hill third.
The next event, putting the 16-pound shot was won by Mosse, Y. M. C. A., putting it 36 feet, 6 inches; Foster second 32 feet, 11 inches; Sanderson, third 30 feet, 8 inches.
The standing broad jump was won by Rench, 9 feet 8 inches; Sanderson, second, 9 feet $7\frac{1}{2}$ inches; Sherman 9 feet 7 inches.
The 220 yard dash, the most exciting finish of the day, was won by Kirk, Y. M. C. A. Time, 23 seconds; Sherman, second; and Voights, third.
The throwing of the 12-pound hammer was won by Outland, 109 feet, 8 inches. Sanderson, second, 98 feet 6 inches, Pierce, Y. M. C. A., third, 96 feet.
In the running high jump Kansas won first second and third places. Sanderson, Rench and Sherman each being tied, 4 feet and 10 inches. Sanderson afterward cleared 5 feet 6 inches.
The 440 yard dash started with five contestants, and was a close and exciting race, Kirk, won 57 seconds with Hamaker second, Foster third.
The 120 yard hurdle race had four entries. Sherman knocked down the eighth hurdle when he was in the lead, which disqualified him for a place. McMurray, won in 19 3-5 seconds; Cook, Y. M. C. A., second, and George, Y. M. C. A., third.
The running broad jump was won by Sanderson, 19 feet $5\frac{1}{2}$ inches; Voights, second, 18 feet 1 inch; Moss, Y. M. C. A. third, 16 feet $6\frac{3}{4}$ inches.
The 220-yard hurdle race was won by McMurray, in 29 4-5 seconds; Sherman, second, and E. Anschutz, Y. M. C. A. third.
In the one mile run Baldridge secured first place, going the distance in 5:10 4-5, with E. Anschutz, Y. M. C. A., second, and Hamaker third.
The pole vaulting was the last event of the day's sport and was won by Sanderson, who cleared 9 feet; Cook, Y. M. C. A. was second, 8 feet 6 inches.
The final score figuring in points of five, three and one, for the three places stood, University 75. Y. M. C. A. 33.
The Judges were Prof. Rothwell, William Jewell College, Mr A. M. Allen, of Kansas City, and Dean Green of the University. Dr. Riley of the Y. M. C. A. was time keeper, Coach Cowan starter, and Will Walker, scorer.
A. winning in 10 2-5 seconds, remarkably good time in a drizzling rain and on a heavy track. Sherman was second and Hill third.
The next event, putting the 16-pound shot was won by Mosse, Y. M. C. A., putting it 36 feet, 6 inches; Foster second 32 feet, 11 inches; Sanderson, third 30 feet, 8 inches.
The standing broad jump was won by Rench, 9 feet 8 inches; Sanderson, second, 9 feet $ 7 \frac{1}{2} $ inches; Sherman 9 feet 7 inches.
The 220 yard dash, the most exciting finish of the day, was won by Kirk, Y. M. C. A. Time, 23 seconds; Sherman, second; and Voights, third.
The throwing of the 12-pound hammer was won by Outland, 109 feet, 8 inches. Sanderson, second, 98 feet 6 inches, Pierce, Y.M.C. A., third, 96 feet.
In the running high jump Kansas won first second and third places. Sanderson, Rench and Sherman each being tied, 4 feet and 10 inches. Sanderson afterward cleared 5 feet 6 inches.
The 440 yard dash started with five contestants, and' was a close and exciting race, Kirk, won 57 seconds with Hamaker second, Foster third.
The 120 yard hurdle race had four entries. Sherman knocked down the eighth hurdle when he was in the lead, which disqualified him for a place. McMurray, won in 193-5 seconds; Cook, Y.M.C.A., second, and George, Y. M.C.A., third.
The running broad jump was won by Sanderson, 19 feet $5 \frac{1}{2}$ inches; Voights, second, 18 feet 1 inch; Moss, Y. M. C. A. third, 16 feet $6 \frac{3}{4}$ inches.
The 220-yard hurdle race was won by McMurray, in 294-5 seconds; Sherman, second, and E. Anschutz, Y. M. C. A. third.
In the one mile run Baldridge secured first place, going the distance in 5:104-5, with E. Anschutz, Y.M.C.A., second, and Hamaker third.
The pole vaulting was the last event of the day's sport and was won by Sanderson, who cleared 9 feet; Cook, Y. M. C. A. was second, 8 feet 6 inches.
The final score figuring in points of five, three and one, for the three places stood, University 75. Y.M.C.A.33.
The Judges were Prof. Rothwell, William Jewell College, Mr A.M.Allen, of Kansas City, and Dean Green of the University. Dr. Riley of the Y. M.C.A.was time keeper Coach Cowan starter, and Will Walker, scorer.
The first visit of the University track team may be said to be successful. The attendance was disappointing, owing to the inclementy of the weather. The field and track events can be made popular in Kansas City, and no efforts should be spared to further the interest in this line of sport.
Base Ball Team of '96.
Decoration Day was an unfortunate one for the atheletic interests. Rain spoiled the track sports at Kansas City and prevented the last base-ball game of the season. Ottawa was scheduled to meet the Jayhawkers, but did not get closer to McCook field than the Santa Fe depot. Manager Todd sent the boys home on the same train they arrived on.
The base-ball season has not been as lively as heretofore. This was due largely to the excessive rain fall during the month of May, which required the cancelling of several dates. Then the class games absorbed a great deal of the base-ball enthusiasm, and really interfered with the showing of the 'Varsity team.
There were three games played on McCook field, each resulting in a victory for the home team.
There were three games played on McCook field each resulting in a victory for the home team. The first with the Haskell Institute was an easy and uninteresting one, owing to the weakness of the Indian team. The Ottawa team was clearly out classed. The victory over the Hawkins team from Ft. Leavenworth was a well earned one, and one of the prettiest exhibitions ever seen on McCook field.. A second game with the Ottawa and Indian teams had to be canceled.
The team made two trips away from home, one to Ft. Leavenworth where they were defeated in a good game, the other to Ottawa, which game was called in the second inning on account of rain.
The team of'96, was a strong aggregation of players, and with team practice would have been worthy of some excellent work. Wagner and Outland make a strong battery. Mitchell can play a first base for any amateur team. Todd is an old infielder, while Blackshire and Burdict are both capable. Sherman is a reliable fielder and a scientific player. Foster, Griggs and Snyder all fielded in the various games. Foster did well toward the end of the season. Griggs is a good fielder and with experience will make a capital player.
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JACK P. BLANKER
C. W. ARMOR.
Capt. Foot Ball Team
J. H. G.
HENRY WAGNER Capt. Base Ball Team
The Season's Class Games.
Possibly there has been no innovation in the realm of local athletics that has met with such genuine and hearty approval as the class base ball games of the season. The class games have many features about them that might recommend them to a permanent place on the athletic schedule of University affairs.
The class games were inaugurated for the purpose of arousing interest in the great national game, and to furnish timber for the representative 'Varsity team. They have outdone the expectations of the originators, for while they have undoubtedly created a considerable enthusiasm in base ball, the number and excellence of the class gratis games have detracted from the attendance of the 'Varsity games. This could be remedied in the future by keeping the 'Varsity team men out of the class games.
The Prep. Medics-Specials proved to be a combination hard to beat, and in an interesting game with the Junior Laws won the distinction of class champions.
Right here we wish to say a word for the originator of the class games. Prof. Adams proposed the idea of the games and has been largely responsible for their success. No man in the University has worked harder during the past year for the upholding of the athletics of the University than Mr. Adams, and for assuming this responsibility he has been compensated with abuse. Prof. Adams has labored diligently, faithfully and fairly for the Athletic Association in its relation to the University, and we deplore the fact that even one member of the student body, whoever he may be, should have the poor taste to criticise his excellence and gratutious services.
That Faculty—Senior Game.
The Faculty base ball game was the ice cream soda for the Seniors of'96.
It used to be that the Faculty were invincible to the Senior Class teams, but that day has gone by. It may be that the Faculty have lost heart in the popular cry for "young blood" in all departments of life, and think their cause a hopeless one, or it may be that the professors are getting too old—to play base ball.
In any event it looks like a clean case of ingratitude that these Seniors, as a parting salute to the kind and patient instructors, who have for four yesrs guided their foot-steps in the ways of truth and knowledge, should see fit to humiliate the Faculty as they did the other day.
We wish the Managing Editor would give us the space to elaborate more fully on the pros and cons of the games—the effort was certainly deserving of it. Chancellor Snow did not play in the game. He came upon the field in the third inning to announce that word from Topeka stated every indication was for a cyclone. The Seniors could not be reconciled to the prophecy, but insisted on a game of at least five innings, when the score stood 19 to 3 against the Faculty.
THE SCORE IS AS FOLLOWS:
Faculty AB A BH PO A E
Newson, 1 f. 3 0 0 1 0 2
McClung, 3 b. 2 0 0 0 2 1
Cowan, p. 3 1 1 3 3 3
Canfield, 2 b. 3 1 2 2 2 0
Adams, c f. 2 1 1 0 0 0
Jones, s.s. 2 0 1 0 2 0
Snow, r.f. 1 0 0 0 0 0
Ward, 1 b. 1 0 0 6 0 1
Dunstan, c. 2 0 0 3 0 1
Total. 19 3 5 15 9 8
Seniors AB A BH PO A E
Hill, p. 4 8 1 0 8 0
Griffth, 1 b. 5 3 1 3 0 0
Ludium, s.s. 5 1 0 0 0 0
Wagoner, 2 b. 4 2 1 3 2 0
McMurray, 3 b. 4 3 0 0 0 1
Squires, c. 4 2 3 8 2 0
Crew, 1 f. 4 1 1 0 0 0
*Daniels, c.f. 2 2 0 0 0 0
Patten, r.f. 4 2 1 0 0 0
Total. 36 19 8 14 12 1
*Daniels one hit by batted ball.
SCORE.
Faculty. 0 0 0 2 1 3
Seniors. 3 10 2 1 3 19
Summary: Earned runs, Faculty 3. Seniors 3; 2 base hits
Canfield; home runs Ludium; Double plays, Canfield to
Cowan to Ward; stolen bases, Adams, McMurray, Wagoner;
struck out, by Cowan 3. McClung 1. Hill 8; bases on balls, off,
Cowan 2, McClung 1, Hill 4. Time of game 3 hours and 40
minutes. Umpire, Outland score Miller.
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EXCHANGES.
From The University (of Pa ) Courier.
As is well known, the Faculty of the University of Chicago has some very advanced rules on various subjects, and these are the means sometimes of bringing the Faculty into conflict with the students. One of these rules is that every student must exercise in the gymnasium for three quarters of an hour on four days of the week—compulsory physical culture. Some of the students rebelled at this; the self-supporting students in particular, giving the very weighty reason that they have no time to attend "gymn" classes. But the Faeulty is resolved that the rule must be binding on all alike, and they have suspended several of the students who have disregarded it. What the outcome will be is doubtful.
The Corporation and Board of Overseers at Harvard have rescinded the rule requiring two years of resident study at Harvard of every candidate for the degree for Doctor of Philosophy, or Doctor of Science. Hereafter the period of residence required will be one year. This action is in response to a recommendation made to the Governing Boards of American Universities by the Convention of Graduate Students, which met in Houston Hall the first of the year. In making this change, there will be no lessening of the requirements for degrees, but the design is to stimulate intermigration between different Universities, so that a graduate student can pass one year at one, and then one at another. Thus, he can gain the benefit of the different lines of thought and receive a broader education. This action of Harvard will be welcomed.
The University of Virginia will hold a summer session of its Law Scool this year. Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, will deliver a series of lectures, and other prominent men will be invited to lecture also.
Another disturbing question has arisen in college circles. Are female students of colleges entitled to the same privileges as men or not? The Athletic Association of the University of California has refused to allow the "co-eds" playing upon the basket ball teams to wear the big "C" upon their sweaters. The girls charge unfair discrimination.
The first annual track and field meeting of the Southern Inter-collegiate Atheletic Association will be held on the campus of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, May fifteenth, 1896. It will be under the supervision of the Atheletic Association of Vanderbilt. This Southern association comprises thirteen of the largest and best universities of the South, and great interest is being taken in this initial meeting. It is expected soon to increase the membership above the unlucky number.
The magnificent new site of Columbia University was decided on last Saturday morning. It is called Morningside Heights, and is said to be the most ideal situation of any University in the world. It is located at the northern end of Manhattan Island, on the highest point of the island, midway between Riverside and Morningside Parks, overlooking the Hudson on the West. The land and buildings on it at the time of purchase cost $2,000,000. Twelve new buildings have been projected at a cost of $4,- 000,000. Five of them are now in course of erection. The library building will be a magnificent structure, its estimated cost alone being $1,000,000, there being now 200,000 volumes to fill it. Many prominent men were present at the exercises, and all were ungrudging in their enthusiasm over Columia's outlook for the future. President Seth Low was referred to as one of the great leaders in University development in this country. He has certainly done a wonderful work during the years of his administration.
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The class rings have at last been taken out of pawn and will here-after ornament the horny hands of our Seniors as they drive the plow across the Kansas plains, or bask in the shade of the sunflowers. Student's Herald.
An-X says that the M. S. U. Independent is not so good as some of the other exchanges, but "we think, however, that it could be greatly improved by writing longer essays and giving less space to the local department!" Thus does opinion vary among college papers. The M. S. U. Independent is very nearly, if not quite, our best exchange. The young ladies of the Southwest University publish the An-X.
The same page contains the following begining with next fall, each class entering the Yale Medical School will be required to complete a four years' course before graduation instead of three, as has been the case. This is a condition toward which the leading professional schools all over the country are working. There are very few leading Medical or Law Schools that have not already taken this step or have it in contemplation.
The University of Cincinnatti Glee Club arranged to go with the base-ball team to Oxford, Ohio, to give an entertainment at the Western Female College, and then alas, the authorities of the latter institution said nay. "The best laid schemes o'mice an' men gang aft a-gley." But they are not discouraged concerning the happy idea of combining the trips of the Glee Club and the foot-ball team next fall.
The Rocky Mountain Collegian for May contains an article by an earnest writer on "Our Social Condition." He urges the practical application of our doctrines of equality among our fellow men regardless of the mere externals of wealth, fashion, etc. "Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell, fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them."
All the college papers are saying "look out for our commencement edition,"but the only one to reach us as yet is the one from Missouri Univesity. Among the items of interest, we note the graduation of the first lady law student, the enrollment up to 657 this year and an enterprising suggeston that a weekly be published instead of a bi-weekly, the same to be sent to every paper and every High-School in the State. The five illustrations have been a feature of the paper and this number contains cuts of forty-two persons editors, winners of scholarships and graduates, and lastly the following, "F.M.Patterson of Yale renown, has been secured as coach for next year. The game with Yale has been accepted. "The foot-ball sky is clear."
At Michigan University there has been held a most successful May Festival by the Choral Union, the Comedy Club has given "A Scrap of Paper;" and the base-ball team is still moving on toward the western championship.
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The defeat which Yale administered to Harvard in the debate at New Haven was a very bitter one to Harvard. It was the first time she has ever been defeated in debate, and it is the only direct competition she has with Yale this year. The result, while a surprise, seems to have been well earned. The audience agreed that Yale excelled both in form and in thought. The great interest which Yale has manifested in debate this year, the hard work she has been doing, the many clubs which have been formed for this purpose, the many competitions which have taken place have made her victory a deserved one. On the other hand, Harvard has shown a spirit of listlessness and over-confidence ever since her victory over Princeton. The result will probably be a new interest in debate at both Universities. The subject was, Resolved, "That a general Court of Arbitration should be established by the United States and Great Britain." Yale had the negative, her strong point being that the plan proposed by Harvard was not practical.
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A MOSQUITO.
And low upon a Senior's head He settled down to drill. And bored away for half an hour Until he broke his bill—Ex.
Get one of those souvenirs of the University buildings in colors on celluloid to take home with you. For sale by Stewart in the Mainbuilding.
HE WAS A FRESHMAN.
A boy stood on the burning deck So far as we could learn. Stood here in perfect safety as He was too green to burn.—Ex.
For the holiday outing Piccadura cigars, Borsaline, Florida Water and a bath sponge. Curline for the ladies-keeps hair in spite of wind and weather. B.W.WOODWARD.
Professor of Mathematics: Discuss the double Theta function.
Student: Do you refer to east-side Phidelity?
See those Glass Panel Photographs made by Tucker. Only at Hoadley & Hackman's. Under City Library.
"Who can tell what a Senior thinks,
Who can follow the gossamer links
By which the mighty brain feels its way.
Up from the realms of the dark prep. school,
Throbbingly, reelingly, never quite cool,
Into the light of day."
See those celluoid souvenirs of the Univerbuildings in colors made by A. G. Alrich and for sale by Stewart in the Main Building.
Students find Raymond's Drug store very prompt and accommodating in filling mail orders. We often "busy out"in other lines. Remember the place, when you get home and your market can't supply your needs.
Freshman Year—“Comedy of Errors.”
Sophomore Year—“Much Ado About Nothing.”
Junior Year—“As You Like It.”
Senior Year—"All's Well that Ends Well."—Ex.
When your thirst oppresses you, stop at Raymond's "Spring" for Mead, Cherry Tonic, or Red Messina Orange.
We rise by things that are under our feet. By what we have mastered of good and gain, By the pride deposed and passion slain, And the vanquished ills we hourly meet."
Everett & Hults have opened a fresh stock of staple and fancy groceries at the corner of Mass. and Adams Streets. They invite students and others to note their prices and quality of goods. They sell as cheap as the same class of goods can be found in any other store in the city.
We keep constantly on hand a full line of all the leading toilet preperations for ladies' use. Barber Bros., Druggists.
The Freshman says: "I know it." Sophomore says: "Just so." The Juntors say: "Cant prove it." And the Senior says: "Dont know."
-Ex.
The Lawrence Memorial Album contains 70 pages of illustrations from photographs by E. S. Tucker, with historical and descriptive notes Examine one at Student's Supply Store, Main Building, or any book store in the City. Price 25 cts.
"For me, one hope in life I trace," A Senior said; "Tis this: That I may sometime find the place Where ignorance is bliss."—Ex.
La Mode at 841 Mass is offering splendid inducements which should appeal to the ladies of the University. New invoice just received. Styles the latest, quality the best, prices suited to the times, andtreatment the most courteous.
Paper by the pound and cut to any size at J. S. Boughton's 1027 Mass. St.
The Conscientious Freshmen work To get their lessons tough;
The Juniors flunk, the Sophomores shirk,
The Seniors ah! they bluff.—Ex.
The finest line of tailor's samples in the City can be seen at Weber's. Suits, $16.00 and upwards. The best of work guaranteed.
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Four Epitaphs. Deep wisdom—swelled head— Brain fever—he's dead A. SENIOR.
A. Weber, the tailor, has moved his establishment to 733 Mass. St. up stairs.
False fair one-hope fled-
Heart broken-he's dead-
A JUNIOR.
For base-ball and athletic goods go to Smith's News Depot. Went skating-'tis said Floor hit him-he's dead-
A SOPHOMORE.
Secure one of those celluloid souvenirs of the K. U. buildings printed in colors before they are gone as the supply is limited. For sale by Stewart in Main Building.
Milk famine—not fed— Starvation—he's dead—
A FRESHMAN.
The following were some of the rules of Harvard College during the middle of the Seventeenth Century.
1. —No freshman shall speak to a senior with his hat on, or have it on in a senior's chamber or in his own if a senior be there.
2. All freshmen shall be obliged to go on any errand, for any of their seniors, except in study hours.
3. — No freshman, when going on an errand, shall tell who or what he is going for unless he is asked.
"What a falling off is there."
Buy your stationery supplies at J. S. Boughton's 3rd. door North of Watkins Bank.
Gold Box Chewing Gum at Raymond's.
Geo. Beattie, house painter and paper hanger. 938 Mass. Street.
Take one of those celluloid souvernirs of the K. U. buildings home to your friends. For sale by Stewart.
The German Boarding Club, which during the past year has so greatly benefitted its members intellectually, as well as providing excellent material for the upbuilding of their inner selves will continue next fall. All places will be filled before the opening of school, consequently, students wishing to enter should make application immediately to L. P. Heil, 1324 Vermont St.
The latest work of Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald of Leipzig, Electrochemie, has been received at the Library.
"Headache stop" at Raymond's, 1oc.
Some way or another, Griffin has an immense coal trade among the students.
Griffin, the ice man sells coal.
Students buy their canes at Smith's News Depot.
Finest quality tennis shoes at Faxon's.
For shoes go to The Cash Shoe Store. 823 Mass. street.
White Kid Slippers—$1.00 a pair at Faxon's.
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Griffin's telephone is No.88.Talk to him about your coal supply.
K. S. U. Bouquet triple extract, is the most lasting, delicate and refreshing perfume on the market. For sale only at Barber Bros. Drug Store.
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