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The University Courier.
The class on Status of Woman is reading Schouler on Domestic Relations.
The class in Charities and Corrections is making a systematic study of Chas. Booth's Life and Labors of the People of London. It is considered the most scientific and extensive work of the kind ever published.
The Regents will meet April 6th. It will be an important meeting from the fact that the location of new buildings will be determined and the plans considered. Plans have been presented by several different architects. Prof. Blake's building will probably be located east, and library north of main building.
Taine, the eminent French writer and critic, who died recently, was a very eccentric man. He was very retiring which perhaps accounts for the great amount of work which he was enabled to do. He never accepted an invitation to a dinner or entertainment of any kind. But on the other hand was always very studious and industrious. Another of his peculiarities was his love for cats. His home was the habitation for great numbers of them and quite well they fared too. No less than a dozen sonnets remain dedicated to his favorite cats.
The World's Fair Commission has appropriated $750 for Prof. Dyche. If the appreciation of Prof. Dyche's work by the state is to be measured by this sum, what science and the world value must be below par in Kansas. The commission also appropriated $1,500 for the collection of building stone made by Prof. Williston and for the collection of minerals to be made by Prof. Haworth. H. R. Linville started Thursday to make a tour over the northern part of the state for Prof. Williston to complete the collection of building stone. Prof. Haworth started the same day for Leavenworth and Galena, to make arrangements for his collection of coal, zinc and lead. On Monday he will start to make a tour of the salt and gypsum regions for these minerals. This work must be pushed with the greatest possible dispatch, for the specimens must be collected, sorted and in Chicago by April 10th.
It will be but a very short time before Mc Cook athletic field will be the loafing place of the athletes and their friends.
The Seminary Notes.
The Seminary Notes, published by the department of History and Sociology, is one of the most useful periodicals published in the University. It is devoted especially to the study of historical science in the University and throughout the state of Kansas. It has received especial commendation from many prominent men of eastern institutions, such as Prof. W. R. Harper of Chicago University and Pres. C. K. Adams of Wisconsin University, Richard T. Ely and Prof. H. B. Adams of Johns Hopkins, and many others. The testimony of these eminent men is sufficient to convince every student that he should subscribe for and keep a file of the Seminary Notes.
The Seminary.
Friday's session of the Seminary was devoted to the divorce question. Miss Radford read a short paper on "Divorce Statistics of the United States." She said that it was difficult to obtain accurate information concerning divorces in the United States because there are state registrations of divorces in only eleven states.
Miss Hardy followed with a very interesting paper on the "Causes of Divorce." The largest per cent of all the divorces are obtained upon the ground of desertion. The United States has no uniform divorce law and in some states the parties may remarry at once and in others not until six months have elapsed. There are fewer divorces in the country than in the city.
Miss Tinsley then read a paper on "Some of the Remedies for Divorce." She suggested five remedies: a strong, healthy public opinion; suppression of reports of the divorce cases; uniform divorce laws; reform of marriage laws; education of the heart and mind. In explanation of this last she said that more politeness and more regard for the personal rights of