A PROFESSOR IN HONDURAS
WRITES OF LIFE IN CENTRAL AMERICA.
Former Member of University Faculty Making a Study of Spanish-Speaking Peoples.
The friends of Professor Alfred Schoch, who was assistant professor of French and Spanish at the University for several years, will be glad to hear of his successful work in the National Institute of Honduras, in Central America.
Professor Eugenia Galloo this week received a unique letter from Professor Shoeh, written in Spanish, telling of his work and of the native people of Tegueigalpa, the town where he lives. He also sent several interesting views of Honduras and a curious paper.on which was written his contract with the government for his position, signed by the secretary of the government and officially stamped. Evidently an appointment as professor in a Honduras institution is a matter of greatest importance.
Professor Shoch says that the National institute of Tegucigalpa has a normal department, which, is co-educational, and a School of Law and Medicine. Their five-year course leads to the degree of Bachelor, which is fully equal to the four years' course in our University. The regular school term begins January 1st and the final examinations are taken in November.
"The Institute," he writes "is located near the government palace. The climate is magnificent and never variees more than the months of May and June in Kansas. The people are goodnatured and hospitable and their kindness and attentions toward me make me forget the many comforts that I am deprived of in this far-off little town."
Professor Shoch received his appointment to this National Institute, two years ago. He has always been deeply interested in the Spanish speaking people and accepted the appointment in order to study more carefully the different classes of Spanish speaking people. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received his doctor's degree from Cornell.
A CHAPEL OF THEIR OWN.
Engineers Have Services With Their New Piano.
The Engineers last Wednesday placed a new piano in the assembly hall of the Engineering building. Last year the members of this school decided that they were musically inclined and they determined to get a piano. More than two hundred engineers are part owners of the instrument which was placed in the Engineering building this week. It is a Bell Brothers and new.
Now, when chapel exercises are going on in Fraser hall the engineers have a chapel exercise of their own at the western part of the campus.
Rexall cold tablets, 25c, for people that need them. Sold only a tMcColloch's drug store.
For the Party Dress
There is nothing newer or prettier than Cashmere De Soie. Drapes beautifully; comes in shades of light blue lavender, rose champagne, gray, white and black, 27 inches wide, sold with a guarantee to wear. A yard $1.00
A. D. WEAVER
OREAD NEWS NOTES.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Simmons of Dighton are visiting Mrs. Simmons' sister, Dot Smith, a senior in the College.
The Kansas University student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, held its weekly meeting Thursday night at the home of Professor P. F. Walker, on Ohio street. Reports were made on various articles from technical magazines, and Ray Robinson read a paper on "The U. S. Rifle Ranges." An assessment was made to cover the expense for a page in the "Jay-hawkker."
Charles Dolde, a sophomore in the College, went to his home in Leavenworth Friday, to spend the week-end.
Maurice Breidenthal, a senior in the College, was called to his home in Kansas City, Kan., Thursday evening on account of the critical illness of his father.
Amy Wolfe, a senior Fine Arts, is spending the week-end at her home in Topeka.
James P. Coleman of Clay Center has withdrawn from the University, where he was a senior. He has opened a law office at Belleville.
Mr. Christian Helwig, of Oswego, is visiting his daughter, Aline, a student in the School of Fine Arts.
Mary Sommers, a freshman in the College, is spending the week end in Osawatomie.
Earl and Elmer Padfield and Ed Ruth, of the School of Medicine at Kansas City, were in Lawrence last night on business.
Val Adams, a senior in the School of Pharmacy, went to Kansas City today.
Prof. E. Miller addressed the Y. M. C. A. meeting Thursday evening in regard to the value of the Bible. He clearly set forth the beauty of its poetry and the power of its philosophy. Though not primarily a scientific treatise, the Bible, if intelligently considered, is found to agree with modern science. Professor Miller's portrayal showed the universality of Bible truth as well as its primary importance in religious training.
Abilene wants a date with the University Glee club.
Miller at Y. M. C. A.
Bowersock Opera House Friday, January 21. America's Cleverest Colored Comedians
In the Fast, Furious and Frolic some Musical Melange
The Smart Set
His Honor, the Barber Headed by the Southland's "Sunny Boy"
S. H. DUDLEY
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Seats on sale at Woodward & Co
Prices 25c, 50c, $75 and $1
Is the best place to buy your Stationery and Supplies. Fine line of Hurd's Box Papers. Agency for Hammond Typewriters.
J. A. KEELER,
939 MASS. ST.
SCHOOLS NOT TO BLAME.
College-Trained Journalists Not the Worst, Says Colliers.
The Topeka Capital recently contained an article on newspaper writing which stated that "there is more painful reporting to the square inch in Kansas than anywhere else in the world," and discussed the reasons for so much bad writing. In the Capital's opinion, it is due in large measure to "the influx of college journalists into the business of newspaper making." The Capital says the college journalist takes his job "equipped with a large vocabulary and nothing else, and he hands the readers of his paper the only thing he has in stock."
Colliers Weekly takes exception to the Capital's views. It says :
"We cannot concede that college training exaggerates the human tendency toward excess of language. Where English composition is taught in college, the influence is unmistakably in the other direction—away from rhetoric and toward purity and exactness."
Owing to the overflow of the water plant and the probable contamination of the water furnished by the city it is recommended that only boiled water be used for drinking purposes until after the flood has subsided and the water system has been cleaned.
Health Notice.
DR. CHAMBERS, University Physician.
For Rent—Modern room, suitable for one or two boys, at 1218 Tenm. Bell 2101.
WILL MEET IN LAWRENCE
Kansas Medical Society Here Two Days in February.
The northeast section of the Kansas Medical society will meet at Lawrence February 10. The meeting will last for t two days. This section contains about eighteen counties in the northeast part of the state and meets twice each year, February and October, with the annual state meeting coming in May thus giving this section three meetings a year.
The University physicians who are members of the County Medical society, will entertain the members of the first afternoon on the hill by a program in Snow hall and by showing them the University grounds and buildings. The evening will be spent at the Eldridge house, where dinner will be served and talks will follow.
The program has not been made out as yet, but speakers from Topeka, Leavenworth, Holton, Oskaloosa and Kansas City will be present. Drs. Naismith, Sudler and Shores of the University will also give talks on subjects not yet chosen.
Phi Delt Party.
The Phi Delta Theta fraternity gave its biennial formal party at Fraternal Aid hall last night. Including the active chapter, two hundred and sixty people were present. The music was funished by Harry Kelly's orchestra of Kansas Cty.
The guests were received by the senior members of the fraternity. The grand march was led by Fred P. Cowles of Kansas City and Miss Alwina Wilhelmi of Lawrence. A three-course luncheon was served in four intermissions.
The out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Berger, Kansas City; Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Topeka; Misses Marie Lagerstrom, Henrietta Alexander, Jennie Monypenny, Rose Mitchell and Alice Willard of Topeka; Florence Pfeiffer, Marian Mervine and Gay Shepherd, Kansas City; Florence Ballard and Euda Nation, of Hutchinson; Edwin Harwi of Atchison, and Miss Dinsmore of Emporia. Hyden Eaton, Ted Cooke, Clifford Leonard, Harry Nixon, Fred Cowles, Curt McCoy, Frank Ellis, Frank Bangs, Marlin Poindexter, William Peet, Cady Daniels, Frank Loueks of Kansas City; Brock Pemberton, Price Holmes and Clarence Hardcastle of Emporia; Rolan dWest and Dr. Leo Haughey of Topeka.
Another Accident on Icy Walk.
Tuesday night, as Guy Finney, a sophomore in the Medical School, was walking on Massachusetts street, near the court house, he fell and broke his leg. a few inches above the ankle. Drs. Sudler and Schorer, of the medical faculty, who are attending him say that it will be some time before he will be able to walk.
No Vespers Tomorrow.
On account of the shortage of the coal supply at the University, it will be impossible to hold the regular vesper services at the University tomorrow afternoon.
WILL TELL OF MARS.
Professor Lowell Will Give His Theories of That Planet.
Is Mars inhabited? This is a question which has furnished material for discussion by astronomers and scientists for a number of years besides being an inexhaustible source of material for the writer of fantastic fiction and the cartoonist. Next month, on the 14th and -15th, Professor Percival Lowell of Flagstaff, Arizona, a noted astronomer and the first man to believe that our nearest neighbor in the solar system was inhabited by human beings, will be in Lawrence and will deliver two lectures at the University.
Professor Lowell believes that Mars is inhabited by human beings, moreover of a degree of intelligence high enough to be capable of building canals, alongside of which the Panamal canal would look like an irrigating ditch.
There has been considerable discussion lately as to whether it would be possible for human beings to exist in the atmosphere of Mars, which is very thin. Professor Lowell believes, however, that there is enough water vapor in the atmosphere of that planet to support the existence of organic life.
Professor Lowell has devoted his entire life to the study of astronomy and has spent a large part of his fortune in erecting an observatory at Flagstaff and in buying astronomical apparatus for it. He is a brother of President Lowell of Harvard. His lectures will be given with a view to interesting the entire student body as well as those particularly interested in astronomy.
The work of Prof. L. L. Dyche as state fish and game warden, was heartily endorsed by the stock breeders of Kansas at their recent convention in Topeka. The following resolution was passed :
Endorse Professor Dyche.
"Resolved, That it is the sense of this association that the office of fish and game warden be kept out of politics, that Prof. L. L. Dyche, the present incumbent, may develop it."
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Arthur Brisbane, editorial writer for the Hearst papers, will speak in chapel next Wednesday morning. This will take the place of the refular long chapel exercises on Friday.
On account of the shortage of the coal supply no vesper services will be held Sunday afternoon.
Lost—A Vassar college seal pin; finder please return to registrar's office. Reward. Florence Barnard, 1231 La. st.
The sweetest creation in a Taleum powder is the Violet Dule. It's made in Boston and is sold at MeColloch's drug store.
The Phi Delts had a group picture made by Squires Saturday.
Violet Dule violet water, 75c; an article that will and must please the most fastidious. Sold at MeColloch's drug store.
“Ysbrand” pictures were made by Squires.
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