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University Reporter.
[Seco7id‘ Class Matter.']
Published by the PHI KAPPA AND DEMOS-
THEN IAN SOCIETIES.
EDITORIAL STAFF.
Neal Wilson, P. K., Editor-in-Chief.
w. L. Clay, D., *... .Miscellany.
W. S. Upshaw, P. K., Local.
G. W. Lamar, Jr., P. K., College World.
Sanders McDaniel, D., Personal.
Jno. W. Fain, P. K., Exchange.
W. A. Speer, D., Alumni.
BUSINESS MANAGERS.
J. D. Carswell, P. K. M. McG. Stewart, D.
The Reporter is issued every Sunday morn
ing during the college year, by the literary so
cieties of the University of Georgia.
Terms, One Dollar per college year of ten
months, strictly in advance.
Communications solicited from students and
alumni, and should be addressed to
THE REPORTER,
Athens, Ga.
Hello!
After a years trial of a monthly
magazine, the literary societies
have returned to The Reporter,
and we hope wisely. p
We shall not bore our readers by
a long-winded salutatory full of
promises. We make no promises at
all, but simply desire to state that
The Reporter is not intended as a
literary journal, but as a newsy col
lege weekly, and as such we shall
eudeavor to run it. If you expect
us to furnish our readers every
week with gems of literature, you
shall be disappointed. If you want
instructive and entertaining essays
and discussions upon philosophical,
scientifical, theologicabor other like
subjects, we take pleasure in in
viting you to inspect the college li-
braiy, and peruse any of its 25,000
volumes to quench your thirst for
knowledge. If, however, you have
any interest in the University of
Georgia, her students, her alumni, or
her societies, we most respectfully
ask your support of The Reporter,
which we propose to devote to their
interests. The Editors.
m »♦« —
Athens and the University must
have the Technological school by all
means. Let the citizens of Athens
and the officials of the college see
that the prize is not wrenched from
their grasp.^It would be a most valu
able prize for Athens, because, being
the only Technological school in the
South, it would soon bring 200 more
students here. But We’ll see you
later on this subject.
The University begins her eighty-
fifth session under the most favora
ble auspices, and the boys, old and
new, have gotten well into the traces
and are getting along nicely. There
are no more names on the register
than there were at this time last
year, but there is a far superior class
of men at college now than there
has been for sometime past. Taken
as a whole, the men wh6 are now at
college are intellectual;; we have
more brains this year, and fewer
goslin-voiced boys who are loose
from their mother’s apron strings
for the first time, and it is with no
small degree of pleasure that we
note this, for it speaks well for the
University.and the students are such
as will sustain the old college’s good
reputation for good men and a high
grade of scholarship.
The students will be glad to know
that we have arranged to receive fre
quent, if not regular, contributions
from the Lucy Cobb Institute.
These contributions will consist of
personals, dots and some of the many
funny things that happen within the
halls, which man dare not tread, and
will be of greatest interest to the
boys, who always devour with eager
ness snylhiug relating to the fair
inmates of the L. C. I.
We can predict that others than
students will read the Institute jot
tings with much interest, for the lit
erary department of this school is
under especially good management,
and we know some spicy, newsy
writers to be among its pupils.
THE SOCIETY MISHJTES.
In the confusion of getting out a
paper, from heading down, space for
the minutes of the societies was not
reserved, and hence were crowded
out by a profusion of other matter.
We shall publish them regularly
thereafter—that the debaters may
get thetr names in print.
The Scholarship Bin. *'
We hope the. next Legislature will
take up Mr. Russell’s bill for free
scholarship and pass it without al
teration. It looks like too big a
thing for the University, to be real
ized, but it is something which in
terests the masses of every section
of the States, and we have our
hopes for the best.
The bill, as stated elsewhere, pro
vides for two hundred and twenty-
five scholarships to be distributed
in an admirable way, that is, by the
legislators, to the poor boys of their
respective counties. There is no end
to poverty in Georgia, and there are
hundreds of bright minds struggling
to reach the Pierian spring that
they may drink deeply of its waters,
and they should be given some more
substantial encouragement than
mottoes and tales of Garfield on the
tow-path or Joe Brown and his bull
calf.
The passage of this bill would
prove a paying investment for the
State. It would put a collegiate ed
ucation in the reach of every de
serving young man in the State, and
it would be superfluous to go into a
detail of the endless benefits which
would result from this state of af
fairs. It is true that tuition at the
University of Georgia is already
free, but this does the poorer classes
takes
Sen |
of boys no good whatever; i
some money even to live heif.
ator Brown understood this Chen he
established the Chas. MDonuld
Brown Scholarship, but this hardly
begins t<7 answer the demands as
shown by eighty applieatic
scholarships.
Then, the measure would mild up
the University, and give thjState a
college that she might lie pond of,
though at present that is simethiug
which it seems is desired oily by- a
very diminutive few, for here is
get a
the col-
1S
for ten
m
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nothing harder to do than
few hundred dollars to plae
lege building in even a passible con
dition.
A CatecliisiM.
THE INFORMATION OF THE FRhSH
AND VERDANT NEW BOYS.
What is that thing ?
That is not a thing, that is a
What are the uses of girls ?
CoUrge World
f in
is re-
h un-
Harvard Freshman will,
ported, number three or
dred.
The catalogue of Yale shows the
atteudance of 804 against (828 stu
dents last year.
Amherst loses five of last year’s
nine. The faculty heads the base
ball subscription list with $200.
In the United States 14,000 de
grees were conferred last year.
Cornell has a permanent “mock
congress,” which is said to be more
interesting than the literacy sooie
ties. |
Before the Declaration of Ameri
can Independence there wire only
nine>col!eges in the cologKft-. Now
there are more than three 'hundred.
< liiK» '85.
WIIAT HAS BECOME OF THE CONGRESS
MEN AND SENATORS OF THE CLASS
of ’85.
Charles E. Jones, “ the poet,’’ has
gone to Johns Hopkins. Langdon,
“ the dude,’’ went with him.
“ Homer’’ Adams will go to West
Point.
E. Muse, (“ Mitch.”) would learn
of Sir William Blaekstone.
Kitchens and Cloud have positions
on the Georgia Midland survey.
“ Dick” Turner has tfeen a read
ing clerk in the Georgia “ bore.’’
Clever Joe Burdett is studying
Esculapius.
“ Bell Ringer” Cobb is reading
Theology, etc.
Joe Gross is practicing law at
Warrenton.
“ Dutch” Barrett has been pro
moted to Superintendent of the Sib
ley High School, Augusta.
We will hear of some more of the
faded" flowers next week.
The Eastern fraternities once
claimed the South, but the Western
and Southern fraternities now own
it.
Q-
A.
girl.
Q-
A. Their uses are very few.—
Their principal use is to make dry-
goods clerks take down and price
everything in the store. On one or
two occasions since the creation of
man, girls have been known to cook
and sweep, but that was long before
the present state of civilization was
reached.
Q. Can girls be captured ?
A. We believe that the teat has
been accomplished.
Q. How can it be done?
A- A buggy ride, a couple of
presents, a little judicious tally, and
the enemy is yours.
Q. Should these creatures be
avoided?
A. As you would the penult of a
mule. They are dangerous aud lia
ble to explode without warning.—
Many, a bright mind has been di
verted from text books and irretriev
ably ruined by their blighting in
fluence. Look upon Jim Mell and
Heman Charlton, and take warning,
Q. What is that strange animal
that 1 see standing upon the street
corner? a 1|.. ||
A. That is a species of homo im
becilibus which was originally found
running wild in the Sandwich Is
lands, and which were introduced
into this country many years ago by
Robinson, the circus man. They
have become quite tame of late
years, and are known to the common
people as policemen.
Q. What are their uses?
A. They have none. They were
once used, however, to frighten bad
boys and naughty Freshmen.
Q. What is that peculiar looking
biped yonder?
A. That is a real live apparatus
which is known to the world by a
large variety of names.
Q. What are some of them?
A. Dude, sport, dandy, daisy,
b a-d man, and a sy nonyme for don
key, are most used.
Q. Are there many such speci
mens to be found in this section?
A. Oh, yes, the woods are full of
them.
Q. Will you name a few of the
most perfect specimens?
A. Cobb Jackson, John Grant,
Marion Davis, Frank Smith, Theo
dore Powei-3 and Charlie Poe, among
many others.
Phi Delta Theta holds her next
Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, be
ginning Oct. 18th* 1886. Phi Delta
Theta has 54 active Chapters, and
an active membership of 776.
