The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09
X. $. A. C. Alumni Favor Join
ing Commercial Club.
Fifth Annual Reunion at First
Christian Church.
REVIEW HISTORY OF COLLEGE
III. W. Jones, Branner School
Principal, Reads Paper.
Student Worked for Nothing
and Boarded Himself.

1t is likely that the alumni of the
Kansas State Agricultural school viii
cooperate with Scott Hopkins of the
Topeka Commercial club in becoming
an auxiliary of the club. Mr.. Hopkins
advocates that all the alumni of Kan
sas colleges follow this idea. At the
fifth annual reunion of the X. S. A c.
alumni and former students Mr. Hop
kins idea was brought up by
.. s. True, president, and did not meet
opposition.
Mr. True also said that the alumni
We're supposed to meet the first
Thursday night of every month at the
Commercial club rooms, and that in
vitations were extended to all former
students of the college and not only to
the graduates, to attend these meet
ings.
One of the features of the program
was a paper on Ancient History" by
H. W. Jones of the class of 1888, now
principal of the Branner school In
the English of the Biblical version OF
King James was Mr. Jones paper,
witty and exceptionally clever
l. D. Graham, editor of the Kansas
Farmer, acted in place of Prof. J. l..
Kaymmeyer, unable to be present
Medieval History was the subject
of the paper by Mrs. Maud Gardiner
Obrecht of the class of 1898. She told
of the transition period of the school
when what is now Lovers Lane was
the main walk. a talk on Modern
of the class of 1911. Mrs. ]. H: Whip
pie gave a reading, The Petuson
Twins Miss Mabel Spencer played
a piano solo. A quartet consisting OF
Messrs. Ferris and Ferris, Stratton
and kittelI sang
Chronicles of civilian, The Goat
Extracts from Mr.. Jones paper
which he subtitled: THE Chronicles
of William, surnamed the Goat, FOL
low:
days when the years We're lean in the
land of the Jayhawkers. that lad
1abored from the rising of the sun to
the going down of the same in the
pursuit of wealth by practicing the ART
of Geoponics, which being interpreted
for the sake of the poultry editor
meaneth farming.
'sAnd the lad got no profit in the way
of lucre filthy or fumigated- For the
grasshopper tasted of his substance and
remained to tea, also to breakfast and
dinner. And the hail came and smashed
the grasShOpper to Smithereens so that
his countenance was not presentable.
After the hail came the hot winds CON
sumed the hail Then the politician gath
cred up the hot wind and behold, he
1naketh much use of the same even unto
this day
ssNOrI1ed for Nothing, Boarded Self
And the lad looked on his wasted
fields and said: III be teetotally ding
busted if I stand for this. Behold the
lawyer, the doctor. the preacher, the poll
tician. they toll not neither do they spin,
and yet from the cut of their clothes 1t
can always be told whether they be COM
$50 he came to the hill of knowledge
and behold, he like others who went
thereto was up against it. for he worked
for nothing and boarded himself.
Now these be the generation of them
that ruled: Fairchild. king; Graham,
scribe; Shelton. geoponics; Lantz, figures;
Olive. letters and spOuting; Failyer doors
and sttngs and stenches; Willard, aiding
dc hFrcv- n
huzzers; Kellerman, anatomy. anology
and archaeology; Walters, geometric. und
zymetric figutes; Kedzie, kitchen mystery
and output: WinShip, costumes and COM
pleXions; Hood wood manipulation; Lieut..
Nivolson grand captain of the host.
Now the lad learned to drive the mule.
he-male of the species with the aid of the
curry comb, and to absorb the effervescing
cider until there was war in his depart
ment of the interior besides which the
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy was ses-
sion of the peace congress.
Those were the days that produced
board and Will WhaTey. Fred Rogers
Teddy Nichols, Walter Swingle, Charlie
NIarlatt the Coburn girls. Glen Clark
Dan Working and Rollin Russ
Those present included:
Miss Vera Winter. F. B. McKimmell,
H. X Roe, L. G. Hepworth, Glenn Hep
Ruth Ellis. Frank Daniel. Ada Kirchner,
Anna Daniel, Mrs. Charles W. McCord,
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Gibson, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. A. Mercer, James c. Hughes. Fred Van
Dorp, Mrs. Fred Van Dorp, Mrs II: H.
Riley, Mr.. and Mrs r. H. RAIDER. Miss
Edna Sims Mr.. and Mrs. J. Tonlpkins,
Miss Bessie Sims. Mrs. %. S. True. Rob
NJ. Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs Verne D.
Boutwell,, II. ". Jones. Ida l. Jones,
Virginia Meade. E. H. Wilmington. Alma
w. Kratzer. D. A. Kratzer, Harriet
REYNOLDS, Mary Reynolds, o. S. True,
Maud G. Obrecht. Mr. and Mrs. James G.
Whipple. Mrs. Marie (Fenton) kitteI Al
bert G. Kittel. Bernice D Ferris, Frank
f.. Ferris. L D. Graham, c. J. Stratton.
Mabel Spencer Artea Kennedy, Raymond
NJ Ferris and J. NJ. kessler-