The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-12-08

While the paper was inveighing
against the spending Of $4,000 yearly
by the 200 students for wines, bill
lizards and cigars" the advertising man
ager was running the following ad-
vertisement in the middle of the back
page:
COLUMBIA DRUG STORE
Hubbell and Bro; Proprietors
Keep a full supply of drugs, medi-
cines, and a complete assortment OF
school books, and a well assorted
lines of miscellaneous works. Good
cigars, tobaccoes, wines and whis-
kies. Students will do we'll to give
us a call and examine our stock.
Perhaps one reason why the stu
dents of those times spent $4,000 a
year for wines and other luxuries was
because board could be had at from
S1.50 to $3.50 a week, board and room
at from $500 to $500 a week. In the
University advertisement, below an
ugly picture of Academic Hall with
thunder-clouds lowering over its then
glistening dome, there was printed this
announcement:
University of the State of Nilsson.
ri, Session of 1S71-72 opens on Mon.
day, September IS, II. Instruc.
tions thorough and complete in all
Departments.
Classical, Scientific, Normal ant
Agricultural.
Price of Board in Clubs, $1.50 tt
$2.0G per week in families $500 Il
$500"
Sold Books at MissOurian Office.
From a condensed article edged il
between the advertisements some ides
of the popular books of the day ma!
be cleaned. Even this short notice
has the placid style that is character
istic of all the writing of the paper
1t follows:
NEW BOOKS
THE following new books may b,
obtained, upon short notice, at reduced
prices at the university Misouriar
office: Pink and White Tyranny,
by Mrs. H. B. Stowe; 1.-THE Silen
Partner" by Mrs. e. S. Phelps; "Littl,
Men, by Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott; 9TH,
Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin
Sesame and Lillies,' by John Ruskin
"a Terrible Temptation" by Charles
Reade."
Upon the opening of the Universit.
the following fall it was announced
in the September number of the Uni
versity Missourian that Eugene Field
'72, who had been elected managin,
editor of the monthly, had determined
not to return to school. Regret at hi
decision was expressed.
On one of the inside pages appeared
this sketch of the first days of tn,
term of 1S71-72:
''All is life and animation in ou
city once more. The streets ar,
thronged with collegians, from the lit
tie "sub-prep" up to the gray-hairet
professor. Every tain brings NOR,
boys and girls, trunks and baggag,
are piled up in promiscuous confusion
at the depot. Dads of families" ar,
securing boarding places for their son
and booksellers are looking for thei
victims.
BOasted Of 21O Students Then.
Our schools have opened with tn
most flattering prospects. Stephen
College has $50, Christian College l45
and the University 21O. Hudso,
boarding house is full and the Uni
versity Club is overfowing. If w
had three times as many cottages the.
would be filed"
The general tone Of the universit,
Missourian in it's first numbers wa
sincere. Poetry held a large shar
of the. column space. The first col
umn of the first number was devot
ed to poem of mournful tenderness
Thou Wilt Never Meet Me More.
1t was dedicated to Florence
in the manner of Keats and Shelley
Another poem spent eleven verses il
comparing the clasp of a certain girl
hand to everything beautiful on cart
or in heaven. What real poetry wa
in the v1LB verses was obviousl
bookish, acquired from the masters
AS yet there was nothing of the Mis-
souri, corn-lands, the stretches of tn
Missouri or the Mississippi rivers pu
into the poems. They were replet
with rehashed references to roses, tn
orb of light, stars, and other joist:
ridge-poles and sheathings of the LAX
poets and of the static Easternerl
Bryant, Whittier and Longfellow.
Humor Was of Orthodox Type.
The humor was cumbrous in its OF
thodox form. 1t showed the atmos
phere of the classroom where Ruskir
Scott and Darwin ruled unchallenget
With all this, there were thought.
deep thoughts that could have result
ed only from clear consecutive think
ing, that seems oldish when compare
to the literary productions" of tn