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THE HESPERIAN
of galvanized iron. It is to be fifty feet in
length, with a diameter of ten feet, and will
have a thirty-two horse-power boiler. Ex.
We cannot swear to the truth of the above,
but it would not be at all out of harmony
with western college spirit.
A puerile attempt is being made by the
lecture bureau and its subservient minions to
prc:ws that the student body does not know
enough to take care of itself and is in need
of a wet nurse. The statement is openly
and brazenly made that the autocratic faculty
committee of three, which now absolutely
rules the lecture bureau, can select better
representatives of the student body than can
the students themselves. Shades of. Reno
and Riggs and Steele and Templin ! Are
we to come to this ? The very men who
once cried loudest for student representation
now declaring that the students don't know
enough to attend to a little business transac
tion and must needs have a guardian com
mittee appointed ! It is indeed strange that
the student body in a reputed democratic in
stitution shall be thus subjected to paternal
ism most obnoxious and highly detrimental.
If the faculty is determined to run the lec
ture course then let it be called by its right
name, and not by the false title of a "stu
dent's course . ' ' But by far the wiser policy,
and the only one that will succeed, is to
make the entire management elective by the
student body. The students of K. U. can
be trusted to take care of their own interests
as they have amply demonstrated in the
athletic association and in the oratorical as
sociation and in every organization in which
they have entered. Then away with this
paternalistic wet nurse theory that treats our
students as babes and not as men and
women. K. U. Courier.
What we like to see is a college paper
standing up for its rights.
ALUMNI AND FORMER STUDENTS
"92. James W. McCrosky a fev weeks ago
was called home from Boston to attend the last
llness of his father. Mr. McCrosky has now
gone to Chicago to install the Westinghouse
electric plant at the Columbian Exposition.
N. M. Cain, once of the class of '95, and
who for the present year has been working
for a law firm at Schuyler, Neb., will return
to the university next year. He will enter
the senior year of the law college
G. H. Ellsworth, formerly of the class of
'90, has been appointed superintendent of
construction on the library building, taking
the place of G. P. Smith who now has
charge of the Havelock improvements. Mr.
Elsworth has had extended experience in all
kinds of construction work. The contractor
expects to resume work Monday.
JF. G. Daniels, the young Bostonian who
came here about a year ago and accepted a
position as electrician for the new electric
street railroad, has resigned and leaves this
evening. He goes to New Haven, Conn.,
to build about thirty miles of street railroad
for the same syndicate that owns the Evans
ville. Mr. Daniels is recognized as a cap
able and efficient electrician and he is a pop
ular young man in this city.
W. L. Stockton, who has been employed
for some time under Mr. Daniels, has been
appointed to the position of electrician and
he has already taken hold. Evamville
Standard.
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Married Jos. Schofield, '88, came to the
city from Geneva, Neb., a few days ago
with an "you'd like to know what I've come
for, now wouldn't you" air which exasper
ated his friends to the highest degree.
Many were the guesses that were hazarded
but all failed realization. It was not to dis
cuss some scientific subject with one of the
professors, it wasn't to attend a meeting of
the Sem. Bot., but it all came out in time.
It was a wedding. The contracting parties
were Mr. Schofield and Miss Lura Stockton,
'92. Mr. "and Mrs. Schofield have gone to
Geneva, their future home. The Hes
perian joins in congratulations.
A tired student was slowly perusing the
pages of a musty book in the library. The
subject was very dry, at least to him, and
with difficulty he resisted the inclination to
take a quiet doze. Slowly ho turnod tho
pages, wondering how under tho heavens ho
was to find anything of interest in such a
book when, behold, a little package, yellow
with age dropped from the book. What
was it? Opening it he found a few speci-