College Echoes from Lecompton, Kansas • Page 1

Vol. II. LECOMPTON, KANSAS, MAY, 1889. No. 10.

a Lane student. As an energizer and evangelist Brother Testerman has few equals. Dr. Stote a Baptist minister of Lawrence, lectured to us last month on "Charles Spurgeon." Being a native of England, and a warm personal friend and admirer of theemi ncnt divine, Dr. Stote is well qualified to mark out the character of that greatest theologian on the eastern continent.

ed next fall to accommodate the gathering book worms. We append the names of a few who entered this terra. Ella B. Johnson, Geuda Springs, Rev. A.

V. Louderback. formerly of Roanoke Academy, Fulton, Indiana, Laura Fix, Volland, A. C. Rosier, Belton, Louis Rosier and Geo.

Rider, Butler, Addio O. Ilaus, Willow Springs, Dollie Robacker, Agricola, Wm. and Ella Slemmer, Detroit, and S. C. Huber, of Chambersburg, but last year a student of Gould College.

An Important Matter. President Weller lectured at Attica for Prof. Eddy at the close of High School. He also gave an address to the graduates. A brother to A.V.

Sharpe stopped while cnroute home from western Kansas where he has been engaged dusting the small b-y's un-quenchables. Shane the Lawrence Photographer is very busy aud cannot talk much now. Go and see him for the most carefully prepared work you ever had done. It is proposed by the young people to arrange for a May party as soon as the sap works up a little farther. On with this plan; let joy be unconfined.

Ask Franklin why fore he bo frequently scans the horizon, with a field-glass, in the direction of Thomp-sonville. Is he trying to read the new Dakota constitution? The annual lecture at commencement will be given by Dr. Marvin, ex-chancellor of the State University. Those who heard him three years ago will be of the selection. Mrs.

Atkins of Holden visited Lecompton to rent property. She wishes to bring hither her family that they may grow up in the nurture and admonition of Lane Uuiversity. Work has begun on a sidewalk and driveway extending from the southwest corner of the campus to the college. The baseball grounds will be located in the rear of the college building. Prof.

Helms, a Y. M. C. A. secretary, was with us a few days during April in the interest of christian work.

At his vciy presence dry bones over come the inertia and ''get a move on them." Mr. Channel, a Topeka photographer, found abundant work about the city this month, for hi3 mysterious camera. Among the most distinguished groups are the 6chool the faculty, the societies, and the club which now numbers above thirty. President Weller on the 14th dedicated the fine church edifice recently, erected ten. miles south' west of Lawrence, under the pastoral bu-1 pervislon of Rev.

P. M. Testerman, The frcahica are trying to organize. W. F.

Ka3sebaura resides in To-peka. Lanning makes a good leader in calisthenics. Miss Delia Stitt received a visit from her father recently. S. W.

Halderman has charge of a farm northeast of Clinton. Io! lo! Lane Lane How do you like it for our college yell? Rev. Fisher, of Winfleld, is the new trustee from Arkansas Valley. Miss Jennie Lowe is an apprentice in Cutler's printing-office Lawrence. The college boys crossed bats successfully with the Gleus recently.

President Weller dedicated the new church at Republic City, on the 28th. Mr. Hubler received a call from his father who has an eye to locating here. J. A.

Clabaugh has sustained a severe attack from homorrhage of the lungs. Mi3s Annie Dudley has gone to her home la Ouray Colora do, but will return next year. W. R. Beegle represented our Y.

JVI. C. A. at the district convention in Lawrence on the 11th. Why can not the societies secure a lecturer for commencement? A night is allowed them for that pur-pose.

Dr. Hampshire '82 purchased the old instruments of the Lecompton boys, and has organized a good band at Richland. The Guyer brothers and their sister have indicated their intention of giving Lane their presence in the near future. J. A.

Copple and wife have returned from New Mexico to visit their old haunts, accompanied by a very young (New) Mexican. It occurs to us that Lecompton ought to furnish a correspondent to the Religious Telescope. Wd noni-inate Rev. J. II.

All students of Lane Uuiversity and people of Lecompton, geuerally, are invited to call at Shaue's Gallery at Lawrence, to see samples, get prices, or have Portraits taken. You have nothing to pay unless the work is better than yqu have had taken else where; for no poor work will be sold. We suggest to the people of Lecompton to begin preparing for the reception of visitors at commencement. They will judge of the school and its surroundings, by our hospitality. We ought to make It a point to see that everybody is entertained.

Some of them may be angcU too for all we know. Prof. J. P. Detweiler, '88 of Otterbeln University, conducted chapel on the 24th.

The gentleman is general traveling agent for Dr. Thompson's great book, called "Our Bishops," and comprises biographies of the twenty five U. B. bishops. He added quite a number of students to his list of agents.

J. C. Manning, our genial vocal teacher, ably assisted by Miss Nellie Franklin and Mr. Howell of Lawrence, gave the students a rare treat in the way of operatic music on the 11th. Mr.

Manning is becoming distinguished for his musical talent. He is completing a course under Prof. McDonald of the State Uuiversity and will graduate in June. Music Hall is filled with the echo of hammer and saw. Its remodeling has begun "dead sartin" and on a scale that has dealt ruin to the old partitions, plastering, windows, floors, roof, etc.

There will be 12 rooms for students on each floor a-bove the lower. On this will be placed the library, clnbroom, matron's head-quarters, reception room, and music hall. We predict The Echoes desires to commune a moment with Kansas students who attend colleges outside the circle represented in the state oratorical association. In the first place the cultivation of the powers in the direction of oratory is as essential to us as to any one else. Secondly, the present association would scarcely allow the admittance of another college.

Nobody insists on it or asks for it. The association is large enough and a greater number would make it unwieldy. Seven colleges (the number denoting perfection) next year will train their guns on the same turkey, and seven orations are all the people are willing to hear at one sitting. Now for a proposition which the Echoes has deliberately matured and which it hopes will be kindly encouraged by the colleges without, and warmly seconded by those within, the pale of the present association. Let us outsiders form an, association.

Let us demonstrate that the oratory of our commonwealth, like its productive soil, is not confined to a few well fertilized localities. True, we could not compete for national honors, but we need not do that to reach the end had in view by contests. Thereby, in addition to promoting the growth of our locutlve faculties, our colleges would become better known, and the ttudents be brought into closer relationship. We respectfully Invite the Agricultural College, Campbell Uuiversity, Mo Pherson College, Hiawatha Academy, and Garfield University to canvass these statements carefully and to join hands in materializing the plan. i that more buildings, must be erect.