The University Courier.
151
W. C. Fogle attended the district Y.M.C.A. convention at Kansas City, Saturday.
The young ladies of the University will probably be pleased to know that now, as Mr. Holmes no longer has the whole financial responsibility of "Twelfth Night" on his hands, he will have some leisure time.
The following is a part of the program for the Inter-State Oratorical Contest to be held in May:
"The Greatness of Personality". . . . M. J. Jones, O.
"Cavour". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. H. Hopkins, Ill.
"Philosophy of Reform". . . . W. C. Coleman, Kan.
"Webster and the Constitution". . F. A. Heizer, Iowa.
"The Judgments of History". . . J. H. Kimball, Mo.
Professors Haworth and Williston are working hard to get their exhibit ready for the World's Fair by the appointed time. Prof. Williston has been collecting for some time and will have a very considerable display of the building stone of Kansas. This will probably be the best advertisement Kansas building material will soon get. The stone is cut into six or eight inch cubes and smoothed or dressed as ordinary building stone.
Prof. Haworth, for want of funds, began collecting only ten days ago and is making his collection with remarkable rapidity. He has received a car load of lead and zinc ores and pig lead from Galena, from Lyons 1000 pounds of rock salt and from Medicine Lodge an equal amount of gypsum; from Pittsburgh and Wier City, metallic lead and zinc. The specimens of lead and zinc ores and metals are very fine and will make a fine display.
For the building stone and metal exhibit of Kansas there is a room twenty feet square. Within this room a new floor will be placed, about fifteen inches above the floor of the building. In each corner on the south side of the building will be two square pyramids fifteen feet high, on the sides of which will be placed the lead and zinc ore specimens. A few feet from toward the north side are two octagonal pyramids fifteen feet high. These will be covered with the metallic lead and zinc. In the center of the room will be a case four feet square and
nine feet high. In it are three shelves, each shelf containing smaller shelves, arranged in pyramidal form. These shelves occupy five feet of the lower part of the case, while the upper part is solid and arranged for placing glass tubes and globes to be filled with lead and zinc. This is Prof. Haworth's plan and will be very pretty.
Just beyond this square case will be Prof. Williston's double case of building stone. This case is eleven feet long and has three shelves with large glass doors for the finer specimens. In the rear of the room is a similar case, to be used for specimens of gypsum, rock salt, lead and zinc ores. In the corner opposite will be blocks of rock salt and gypsum weighing several hundred pounds. Around the raised floor, except between the square pyramids and each octagonal and square pyramid, where there will be steps, will be a wall thirty-two inches high made of blocks of rock salt and gypsum. The blocks will be placed alternately and give a fine effect. The large case in the center of room will be raised fifteen inches by building stone, and thus give it much better effect.
Considering the shortness of the time and limited means, Professors Williston and Haworth have done exceedingly well.
The Greek Museum.
Prof. Wilcox is giving a series of talks on Ancient and Oriental art and on collections in the art museum. The three talks already given have been confined to things in the museum exclusively, and this week pretty much the same work will be gone over for the benefit of those who could not attend last week, and besides the matter included in last week's talks, the casts, plates and photographs will be noticed.
After they have been gone over this time, everything which can be removed will be taken away and new ones put in their place, and a series of talks will be given upon them.
The purpose is to enable students who are not studying Greek to understand and appreciate the objects in the museum and the things of Grecian life and manners. It seems to Prof.