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14 THE HESPERIAN and dropped the shawl, blushing very red. A woman approached and took up the shawl thnt was still "saturated" with the Browning he had quoted over it; and drawing its folds about her sylph-like shoulders, the Registrar went home to dinner. LOCALS. And the wind blew th "My heart is as Flynn(t)" Reedy. Mr. Ames is nursing a sprained ankle. Mr. Helvie '92 is back for the summer. The library building (?) is being roofed. There will be no summer school this year. Miss McClurkin, after a short illness, is at work again. N. K. Griggs of Beatrice, has moved his family to Lincoln. On account of rheumatism F. A. Wynegar has gone home for a few days. The fence on the tower of University Hall has been taken down for repairs. F. Mullen last week enjoyed a three days' visit from M. M. Kelly of New York. Messrs. Lord hnd Wynegar recently took a little spin to their home in Ulysses. H. G. Whitmore will be the next manager of our foot-ball team. Success to the team. The Delian oratorical contest will be held in University chapel on the evening of May 6th. Prof. Fossler has been elected a member of the school board. Merit is bound to be recognized. One of the large panes of glass in Prof. Bar bour's private office was blown in by the late gentle zephyrs. Prof, and Mrs. Menzendorf entertained the members of the university orchestra on the even ing of the nth. A very pleasant time is reported. L. R. Alderman has left school to delve a few months "down on the farm." He will return in September. Hold an election in your association, society, club or whatever it may be and fill up your treasury. Elliott left for Chicago last Tuesday where he will' officiate as one of the guides at the World's Fair grounds. J. W. Morrow, '95, has given up his school work for the present period. He is with the Columbia National bank. The Abbott brothers were called away to the funeral of their sister at their home, in Fremont, Wednesday afternoon, April 26th Considerable excitement was afloat last week over the choice of manager .of next fall's loot-ball team. Enthusiasm is not injurious. R. C. Bentley who received a general shaking up, or rather down, by the heels of a frisky horse last Monday evening, is again in school. It is hard to make a factional fight in election matters when there are no factions, despite the opinions of some. Merit needs but little advo cacy. Tallmadge and Weaver held parquet seats at the Paderewski entertainment in Omaha last week. Opera glasses were in great demand that evening. The Profs, have been disappointed in getting their regular quarterly allowances and will prob ably be compelled to wait till August 1 for the balance of their salaries. The editorial staff of The Hesperian had its picture taken Thursday afternoon. An aggre gation of intellectual beauty such as posed on that occasion is rarely seen in public. There is some talk among the law students of organizing a banjo club to take a place as it naturally will' with the glee club. It would be a fine thing for the University. Talk it up. The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. associations are to have an annual address by some prominent man. The address will probably be given this year on Sunday afternoon of commencement week. The lecturer has not yet been selected. The Sem. Bot. were entertained at the home of Judge Pound, Saturday evening, the 15th. The meeting was a very enthusiastic one. Several papers were read, followed by election of new members, etc. The affair was under the direc tion of Mr. Roscoe Pound. Several attempts have been made to photo graph the batallion and band. It has been said by some unkind ones that the latter has spoiled every camera and frustrated every attempt, ow ing to the persistency of the distinguished musical body to insert in the photo that bearskin. Other attempts will be made, with and without. The class of '94 has decided to give a grand banquet sometime during commencement week or earlier, to the senior class. The class of '93 has accepted this honor shown them by the juniors with a great deal of pleasure both on account of their appetites and the social benefits they will derive from the event. The juniors are to be congratulated for having inaugurated such a commendable enterprise. Did you ever notice that the shoulders of many students are not of equal height ? There . is a tendency, caused probably by the form of our recitation chairs, to lean in such a position that the right shoulder is almost constantly lower
