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SIGMA CHI ANNUAL PARTY.
Fraternal Aid Hall the Scene of Brilliant Party Last Night.
The Alpha Xi chapter of Sigma Chi gave its annual spring party in Fraternal Aid Hall last night. The emblem of the fraternity in blue and old gold lights was hung in the west end of the hall. The words "Sigma Chi" in large letters were placed in the balcony.
On the receiving line were Ruby A. Phillips, Eva Detwiler, Verna Rowe, Lucy Wright, Katherine Curry, George Ahlborn, Frank Parker, William Linton, R. W. Hissem, and Frank Russell.
The grand march was led by George H. Ahlborn and Miss Ruby A. Phillips. The music for the twenty-two dances was furnished by Newhouse's orchestra. The programs were in booklet form with six pages bound in white leather. On the front was the fraternity seal in copper.
A three-course luncheon was served in the lunch room between the eleventh and fifteenth dances. The favors were white roses.
One hundred and fifty couples were present. The out-of-town guests: Misses Gladys Hoover, Mildred James, Marion Mervine, Alice Duncan, Maud Morrison, Anna Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Quinby, Lester Scott, P. H. Atkinson, P. A. Parker, Albert Worley, Fred Michaelis, Frank Woodbury and Ralph Morrison of Kansas City; Van. S. Burch, Miss Bess Strickler and P. J. Strickler of Cherryvale; Josephine Riddle of Iola; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bockum, Mr. and Mrs. Will Stanley, Harold Sternberg and Paul J. Wall, Wichita; Dan F. Servey, Des Moines, Ia.; Geo. P. Hanson, St. Louis; Miss Jessie Armstrong, Ottawa; Glen Bramwell, Belleville; Dudley Doolittle, Cottonwood Falls; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hardy, Lincoln, Nebr.; Clare Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Joslin, Jennie Moneyberry, Helen Lindsay, Gladys West of Topeka; Clara Cowley of Columbus, Kas.; J. F. Pilford of Olathe, and Mrs. L. V. Sanders, of Galena.
Tom Stephenson and Noah Matkins left for Oklahoma City Thursday night, where they will attend the seventh division convention of Simga Nu and be present at the instillation of Sigma Nu into Oklahoma University.
OREAD NEWS NOTES.
The Phi Psis held initiation Thursday evening for Alan Park, a sophomore in the college.
Edward R. Schauffler and Howard G. Norton went to Kansas City Friday to attend a dance given by the Osiron society of Westport high school.
Miss Ella Ridenour, a junior in the college, has been compelled to return to her home in Emporia on account of illness.
Miss Louise Leonard and Miss Gertrude Copley are spending the week end in Kansas City.
Paul V. Faragher is visiting at his home in Sabetha.
Alfred N. Budd, a junior engineer, is visiting at his home in Kansas City, Mo.
Ruth Van Doren and Gale Gossett are in Kansas City to stay over Sunday.
Forest C. Walden, a sophomore engineer, is visiting in Newton.
Carroll P. Fisk is visiting in Topeka.
Floyd H. Wray, a sophomore engineer, has gone to his home near Oskaloosa. He will be out of school for the remainder of this year.
The Martin club gave a party in I. O.O.F.hall Thursday night.
Miss Frank Bray, a sophomore in the college, is entertaining her mother from Greenleaf.
Miss Amy Langworthy, '06 and Miss Siegrid Lagergren, of Leavenworth, visited at the University today.
Dr. W. L. Burdick was in Valley Falls last Wednesday on business.
Misses Grace and Florence Bedell are visiting friends in Kansas City.
Roy Bowser is visiting a few days at his home in Rosedale.
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William Moore is visiting a few days at his hame in Chapman.
Chas. Pierson returned today from his home in Kansas City, where he has been for several days on account of illness.
Lewis Sawyer, a junior law, is visiting friends in Topeka.
Robert Coughlin, '08, of Paola is visiting friends at the University.
W. G.Reuter slipped on the steps of Fraser Hall, Thursday evening and injured his ankle so that he is unable to leave his room.
A Communication.
To the Editor of the Kansas:
to the Editor of the Kansan:
Although consciousness that I received undue prominence in the last number of your paper, I am ready to appear again. Unfortunately Professor Boodin allowed himself to be interviewed, and he made the sad mistake that you cautioned us against in the previous issue of the Kansan. He has set up former conditions at Harvard as if they held good now. But permit me to state that I have just returned from Harvard, where I boarded at Memorial hall except for parts of two weeks at Christmas when I was compelled to go to Randall. At Memorial I used most of the time the 'regular' system; but after Christmas, the a la carte. For 'regulars' the average cost for the past fall has been $5.04 per week as a minimum, not including meats. The actual average for most students was nearer six dollars. The system was so bad this year that the Hall nearly broke up. So many had left by Christmas time that the system was changed, and when I came away the university was still subsidizing board to get the new plan started.
Now for the a la carte at Memorial—I used that for several weeks, you remember. Breakfast was for me the cheapest meal. Let me show what could be obtained for fifteen or twenty cents: an orange, five cents; cereal, five cents; coffee, five cents; one good packed-egg, six cents; butter, one cent per piece. Idealistically this may be considered as a five or six course breakfast; but really, though defined as an optimist, I never looked at it that way. For lunch, soup was eight cents; meats, from twelve cups up; vegetables, five cents a piece; other things in proportion. These are the actual prices I paid a month ago.
Next let me say a word about Randall. I believe I obtained a meal there cheaper than twelve cents; and I had but two at that price. I believe I may say without the least hesitation, that the man who can now live at Randall hall on two dollars a week must eat crackers and cheese in his own room part of the time.
Now please compare with these statements that absurd bill of fare from the University of Missouri. For breakfast, a choice of four kinds of fruit; cereals; four kinds of meat, besides eggs in various styles; etc. For dinner, two or three kinds of meat; five kinds of vegetables; two or rthree kinds of desserts; besides cranberries, celery and other things. And so on, and all for $1.50 a week. Really did not that list appeal to your sense of humor? Just think, too, that only 430 students board at this club in spite of the marvelous price and fare.
But now suppose board were extortionate here, as you claim, what good are you going to accomplish by forever harping on that string? Can you do anything besides arouse discontent? May you not harm the University, and if you give credence to such stories, are you not likely to do so? It is that, that troubles me - this lack of patriotism. In the very last issue of the Kansan you stated in another connection that our faculty and students here are more "segregated," more apart, than is the case at any of the large universities of the country. That is not true. I have been a student at Michigan, Yale and Harvard, and I know of no university president in such close contact with his students as is Chancellor Strong, and I do not know of any real university where students and faculty are so intimate. FRANK E. BRVANT.
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Try the salted almonds at Wiedemann's.
Cold Cure tablets, mentholated cough syrup at Raymond's Drug Store. Quick relief, sure work, 25 and 50 cents.
Friday and Saturday are fruit salad days at Wiedemann's.
We will do those little jobs of repairing that the others can't do.-Gustafson, the college jeweler.
Fountain Pen Store.
A place where any of the best makes of fountain pens may be had is at Fred Boyle's, at 725 Mass. St. We carry the Sterling Waterman, Post, Parker and Bolles, in complete assortments of points and bands. And we pnt our personal guarantee behind each pen sold. Boyles, 725 Mass.
Fresh marshmallows, 20 c. a pound at Wiedemann's.
The College Jeweler can furnish you the swellest 14 K. frat jewelry and save you money.
IN OTHER COLLEGES.
Students at Spokane College Washington. are building a gym. by their own efforts. The college could not afford the building so the students are working on in relays of four men.
Thirteen hundred numbers of the yellow extra of the University Missourian were sold within two hours.
The track training table has started at Minnesota with twenty-five men in the squad.
The Minnesota athletic treasurer has a balance on hand of $27,000. The money is to be used in putting steel and concrete grandstands on the athletic field and in making other improvements. Basketball is now self-supporting at that institution.
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