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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 ■O 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.